Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters except for Karin and Katelyn.
No POV:
Karin stopped her tracks while Katelyn catches her breath, she was tired from all that running in the desert. "Are you okay, Katelyn?" Rin asked her. "Yeah." Katelyn replied. But then they had Ed coming. "Ugh... I hate deserts." Ed said while groaning.
"It nothing but sand!" Ed complained. You see Al, Ed, Katelyn and Rin were going to Lior. And Ed made them walk in the dessert. Well honestly, we didn't have a choice. He scared off another cab driver. Then, he started complaining. It was hot and the wind was blowing and sand followed. Rin's My boots were itchy probably because of the amount of sand in them at the time.
Rin's My cloak's hood kept acting like a parachute trying to stop me. And all sweaty.
Al kept sinking the whole time. Then Ed plopped on the ground with a sigh." If there was some grass I could turn it into bread, I'm starving."
Rin sighed at his whining, 15 year old and still acts like a child. Rin and Katelyn then noticed something.
"Umm, Ed? Where's Al?!" Katelyn asked.
"Huh? Hey Al. Where'd you go?"Ed called out."Al!...HEY!"
"Down here!" A glove/metal hand came out from the sand and grabbed onto Ed's foot, causing him to shriek. Rin covered her mouth, trying to hold in her laughter.
"I sunk again"
"Reason number 2 why I hate the desert".
" I don't understand why you keep falling in". Ed scolded Al. "I get full!" "Full of what?!" Ed kicked Al, with the result of that, Al's top swung open and out came sand that knocked over Edward. Leaving Rin in the middle watching them.
"GET BACK HERE!"
What are you going to do?!"
"NOTHING!"
"Then why are you chasing me?!"
"STOP AND YOU'LL FIND OUT!"
"I promise I won't get buried again!"
"NO UNLESS IT'S BY ME!"
"Ed"
~Edward and Karin are 15, Alphonse, and Katelyn is 14~
The girls stared at the boys and sweat-dropped.
~Chapter 1: Those Who Challenge the Sun~
Rin's POV
We finally reached the city of Liore. There were so many statues placed everywhere,but it still looks like a very nice town...well, besides the disgusting smell in the air. Seriously, where the hell is it coming from?! Anyway, Edward kept slouching over the whole way and muttering under his breath.
"You okay, brother?" Al asked.
"It's your fault for not stopping when I said."
"You wouldn't stop either if someone was chasing you." Al countered.
"Shut up, I'm too tired to fight." Edward said, making me roll my eyes at him. "Water I can almost here it" Edward suddenly stopped and turned to the corner finding a water fountain...no wait...a wine fountain?
"What a second? I can hear it! AL! RIN! KATELYN! LOOK!"
Edward said, dropping his suitcase and running towards the fountain.
"ED! WAIT! THAT'S NOT-!" Ignoring me, Edward kept running towards the fountain, repeatedly saying 'water' the whole way there until he stopped and grabbed onto the edge of the fountain. Me, Katelyn and Al ran over to him.
"What's wrong?" Katelyn asked him.
Edward scooped up a cup of wine, as both brothers began to examine it.
"Is is blood?" Al asked him.
"Nah. More like Blood red wine."
"That's what I've been trying to tell you, Baka..."I said, before Ed got picked up by the hood of his coat.
"Hey!" The old man said. "Get away from there! You know that's off limits to kids!"
'Oh boy'
~Time skip~
"Ha! Ha! Ha! You're out of town-ers! That explains it! You'll have to forgive me, I thought you were trying to sneak a little nif!" Edward was sipping on some orange soda while I was drinking grape soda.
"A fountain stock full of wine, that's pretty ritsy. This town must be loaded" Edward said.
"Yeah, we do alright here. Oh! I almost forgot! Time for a little soul food."
The bartender flicked a switch to the radio as beautiful music began to play. Ed, Al, Katelyn and I looked around to see everyone turning their radios on. Ed looked just as astonished as I did...that was until a man began to speak.
"Children of God who live upon this land. Pray in faith that ye may be saved..."
"Well, that's freakish." Edward said.
"It some kind of religious broadcast." Al added, the bartender looked offended.
"Your buddies wearing a suit of armor, the girl is wearing a cloak with a short sleeve shirt and you're wearing gloves in the the desert and you call us freaks?"
Edward just ignores the man as he continues to sip on his soda.
"What's your guys deal anyway? You street performers?"
A irk formed on head Ed head as he spit out his soda into his straw, causing the soda to splash out. I almost choked on ice and Al pat my back. I stare at him with a deadpanned expression.
"I don't think so pops! Do I look like a clown to you?!"
"Well, you must have a reason...to travel out this far..."
"We're just trying to track something down that's all, who's this guy? On your airwaves?" Edward asked.
"Why that's Sir Cornello."
"Sir Cornello?"I asked
"Doesn't ring a bell." Edward says.
"You're kidding me! You've never heard of the great profit Cornello?!"
"Well, what's so great about him?" I asked.
"He perform miracles for one thing I have never anything like it!"
"This town was a godforsaken dust bomb dust bomb for Cornello come here came here and transmitted into the Desert Paradise!"
" Cornello can't even forgive sins.
" Yeah! Were be on the the sun goes good side because of him he gave us blessing blessing!"
Edward covers his ears and getting tired of hearing them talk about this cornello person.
"Uh, I just remember we have to be somewhere. You guys ready to go?"
"Yeah okay".Al said. Katelyn and I stood up from our seats while Al stood up. His head bump into the ceiling of the mini bar which cause the radio to fall off and smashed into pieces.
"Oops."
" now you've done it, do you spell wearing a big tin suit?"
" Don't bust a lung, Grandpa. We can fix it." Edward said.
" it's in a thousand pieces!"
" I'm sorry...let me and Katelyn try." Al said.
"Sure." I said to him.
Al begun to draw a circle around the radio. The bartender look very confused while ed just smirked.
"The drawing. What's it for?"
"You'll see in just a second, it's called a Transmutation Circle." Ed said to the keeper.
Al and Katelyn stood up and put their hands over the circle in an 'X' shape. Sparks flew in from their hands and down to the radio. Smoke surrounded the circle which caused everyone me and ed to cover their eyes. When the smoke cleared the radio looks good as new.
" it's really a land of Profits! Your two buddies can work miracles like Cornello." the bartender said.
"Oh! It's nothing like that." Edward replied, while Al walked over to us with the radio in this hands.
"It's science. We're alchemists."
"We're the Elric Brothers, and this is our partner Glass and Rockbell. Not to brag or anything but we're pretty well-known" Edward said
"Elrics?Rockbell? Not familiar."
" we don't have any any Alchemist in these parts."
" I fix things for a living thought, let me know if you need a job."
" they don't need any work. That's Edward Elric and Karin Glass. The Fullmetal Alchemist and Aqua Alchemist. They say they are a real child prodigies." the woman said, making ed glare at her slightly.
" they also say that the Aqua alchemist alchemy it incredible. And I also heard that she ability to control water." the man said.
The citizens begin to gather around Katelyn and Al. Instead of me and Ed.
" I see, you got the name from Fullmetal because cuz you wearing that armor."
" hey, do you to think you can come to my daughter's birthday party?"
" how can the State let's such a young beautiful girl join the military?
Al and Katelyn protest at this.
"Um, I'm not the Fullmetal Alchemist, he is." Al said. "And I'm not Aqua Alchemist. She is." Katekyn said, which made everyone looked towards Ed and I. I already know where this was going.
" you mean that little shorties there?" Someone said, which caused Ed to growl as he grabbed two men by the color of their shirts and spin them around in circles.
"SHORTY?! CAN A SHORTY DO THIS?! WHAT ELSE YOU WANT TO CALL ME A HALF-PIPE BEAN SPROUT MIDGET?! I'M STILL GROWING YOU BACK WATER DESERT IDIOTS!" Edward shouted.
"Edward calm down" I said.
"I see there is plenty of excitement around here today."I looked over to see a girl, around 17 year old with brown and pink hair walk over towards us with a bag of food in her arms.
"Ah, Rose."
"Don't mind me, I wouldn't want to spoil all the fun."She said.
"That's okay." Al said politely, as he bowed." My name is Alphonse Elric, nice to meet you."
"I'm Katelyn Rockbell." Katelyn said to her.
"And I'm Edward, Al's older brother. Also known as the Fullmetal Alchemist."
"Older brother? But shouldn't that be the other way around?" Rose said, making Edward angry again while Al tries to calm him down. Rose then looks over at me which made me pull at my hood slightly.
"What about you? What's your name?" She asks politely.
"I'm Karin Glass. I'm also known as the Aqua Alchemist. It's nice to meet you."I said just smiled at me.
"How kind of 's nice to meet you too."
"Hey Rose, have finished your shopping for today's offering?"
"Yeah."
"Well then, maybe you can take them to the temple with you. They say they're looking for something. I bet Father Cornello can help out. You know have them ask for God's grace."
Al just waved his hands, telling them that they don't need to but Rose told him it was alright and offered a place to stay. Al tried to say no, but then Edward spoke.
"As a matter of fact, we'd love to take you up on that! Wouldn't we guys?"
Al looked at Ed in stock.
"We would? You mean you want to?"
"Mmm Hmm."
Ed, Al and I all followed Rose as she took us to the hotel. I looked over a bit and noticed the two cloaked figures walking away from the mini bar. I looked back over the boys as Ed began to speak.
"Hey Al, Rin. Remember that woman at the shop? She knew us, have we met her before?"
"You shouldn't worry." Rose said. " I'm sure Cornello will help you find what your looking for."
Edward and I smiled. Rose was really kind.
"And besides, if you show him your faithful, I bet he can make you taller. Maybe even help you two look more like a couple."
Edward grew angry,and I blushed red and mumbles under my breath, as Edward began to chase after her.
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! I'M NOT SHORT! YOU COME A DESERT OF GIANTS OR SOMETHING!"
"Brother,please."
"YOU WANT SOME OF THIS TOO?!
~Time skip~
Ed's POV:
I sat near the window while Rin stand next to me as we looked down to see Rose standing in front of a tombstone. I heard Al walk in behind us he began to speak.
"Katelyn and I spoke to Rose. That grave belongs to her boyfriend." Al said to us. " He was all she had. Her parents died when she was a little girl. She's convinced that Cornello can bring him back to life." Katelyn said too.
" Poor Rose..." Rin said.
"And he's leading her on, letting her think he can do it." I Responded.
"Maybe he can." Al added, making me to turn to him. "What if Cornello really is a holy man? Those scriptures. Maybe there is something out there. Something we can't explain."
I glared at him before turning back to look out out the window.
"Don't count on it."
When I looked back, I saw Cornello and one of his lackeys standing behind Rose.
~Time skip~
Al, Rin, Kate, and I watched Cornello turn a glass of water into wine while the crowd cheered. He then turned a regular lump of wood into one of the those sun god statues. This guy got to be pulling at my hair right now. It's alchemy, nothing more.
"What do you think?" I asked.
"Well, it looks pretty obvious. He's using alchemy." Al said.
"I agree, that's alchemy, plain and simple." Rin said.
"Yeah, but still. Something's wrong here, it's not equal-" Katelyn said but was interrupted.
"Hey guys!" Rose said."how are you liking your first miracle gathering? He's amazing isn't he?"
" Well, he's an amazing actor, I'll give him that." I said. "But those aren't miracles he's swindling you."
"Ed, we don't know that. We just know he's using alchemy and is ignoring the laws."
"What laws?" Rose asked. I hopped off my suitcase and walked forward to get a closer look.
"This isn't witchcraft, it's science and you don't make things out thin air. In chemistry, a reaction has to be balanced. So does alchemy." I said.
"It's an equation, Rose. Your output had to be of equal mass with the materials you started with. The base elements have to be similar too." Rin said. "For example, the radio Al fixed."
"That's right. I couldn't make it bigger, or shrink or something." Al said.
" it's a founding principle. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost, but that holy bastard is totally disregarding the law." I said.
"Because he's working miracles!" Rose shouted. A young girl walked up to Cornello with a dead bird in her hands. Cornello just smiled at her and placed his hands over the bird. The bird suddenly got up and flew from her hands.
'What do you say now, Ed? I'll bet you can't do that with alchemy." Rose said."it's a true miracle. It has to be.
~Time skip~
Rin's POV:
Ed decided to be mr. Smart-ass today and try to get Rose to understand that Cornello is a fraud... Which of course he is, but even so, just because we don't believe in any kind of God doesn't give us the right to intervene in others beliefs.
It seemed like every word he said was just making Rose angrier and angrier. There was so much hatred in her eyes.
I sighed and stare at audiences and I snort as I said "Ed can be a jerk sometimes."
Ed's POV:
*Bam*
A loud gunshot was heard, making me and Rose, Rin turn toward it. Al's head came flying in and landing at my feet. I looked over to where his metal body is as I watched it collapse onto the floor.
"Brother Cray! What are you doing?! Rose shouted.
"These four are enemies of God. This is his will Rose, not mine." He said.
"I don't think so, mister." I heard Al say. The bastard turned around to see him standing up in front of him, noticing that his body wasn't in the suit. He began to back up while aiming the gun at him. I picked up Al's helmet and threw at it at his head, knocking him out instantly.
" I got it! I got it!" Al shouted, catching his head.
"Strike?" I shouted in victory. Rose screamed in horror.
"He doesn't have a head." She shouted.
"Yep! That's Al!" I said with a Rin walked toward me and stand next to me.
"Please don't be scared, Rose. This is just how I am." Al said, bending down for her to see.
"Y-you're not there!"
"It's true. I don't have a body, but I'm here. This is my punishment for setting foot on. Holy ground where mortals are forbidden.
I looked down with guilty and shame. Rin grab my left hand and tight the grip, to know it well be okay.
"We made a mistake, Rose. And we're paying for it."
Rose backed away slowly, before running off screaming.
"Rose, wait!"
"Rose!" Rin shouted, before turning to look at us. "Come on!"
I looked at Al and nodded at him as we followed Rin.
(I decided to divide episode one to two part.)