Hello this is my first crack at making a FMA story. Sorry no FMA Brotherhood here. As well I own nothing in this story except its orginality and the OCs. Please be nice and don't flame.


Prologue:

I never wanted this, any of it. I was never one to seek adventure, or to follow my dreams and fulfill the desires of my heart. I was too much of a coward for anything like that. I was too weak, too simple, and much too naïve. So then, who would have ever imagined that it would turn out like this?

My life?

In shambles.

My past?

Too bleak to try and remember fully.

My Future?

Well, its will be pretty much non-existent by tomorrow morning. Though, I'm getting far too ahead of myself, let me start at the beginning. My beginning was her beginning and likewise our new beginning, but at the same time it was…

Our ending…

Her ending…

And the beginning of my ending too.


Chapter one: The beginning

"This is it this is the answer to all of our problems!"

"Are you sure about this June?"

"Of course I am! I wouldn't be letting you do this with me if I wasn't."

"O-ok"

The older girl grinned crookedly in assurance at her timid baby sister.

"I promise everything will be alright. Alright?"

The younger sister smiled softly at her big sister.

"I trust you" The younger brunette nodded as she began to help with finishing the last preparations on their masterpiece that was now painted on their living room floor.

Well, she thought it was a masterpiece, her big sister not so much.

Then again she was the best artist in their little family, so what did her big sister know about art anyways?

The little girl giggled and began humming as she carefully painted the complicated runes around the array of circles, and the funny little symbols that followed in after them.

Her favorite part was the picture of the sun that she had drawn all by herself. It was so pretty! The little girl giggled again as she continued.

"Hey, what's so funny over there?"

"Nothing" The little girl laughed mischievously as her older sibling sighed in pretend annoyance and tossed her hands up into the air.

"Now, now, how are we supposed to get any work done if you keep giggling and painting pretty little fairies and rainbows all night?" She chastised lightly as she pointed with her own dripping paintbrush towards her now pouting sister.

"Hey! I do NOT like that stupid stuff! That stuff is dumb and for little kids" She whined as she huffed and turned away from her older sister's teasing.

"Ya ya, like you still wouldn't like that stuff, and you're still a little kid just so you know." The teenager grinned like a Cheshire cat as she watched her sister fume.

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are."

"No I'm not!"

"Um, ya you kind of are."

"No I'm not, I'm eight now!" The little girl cried as she stomped her foot on the ground, holding her hands on her tiny hips.

"Yes and I'm seventeen. Who do you think is more adult here?" The oldest grinned slyly.

"Well, It certainly isn't you" The larger of the siblings twitched in controlled annoyance before her grin quickly grew.

"Hmm, I guess you right August, you just were just born an old woman then" August's triumph smirk fell just as quickly as it came before she began glaring at her clever older sibling.

"You can be so mean sometimes June"

"With pleasure" June winked slyly before becoming serious all over again.

"Are we all set than?" August nodded as worry began to seep into her delicate little features again.

She stood and moved towards her big sister, being careful not to smudge any of their artwork. The siblings kneeled down together on the cold wooden floor of their home as they stared at their creation.

June smirked excitedly as she slowly clasped her hands together. A spark of hopeful fire could be seen burning brightly in her deep emerald colored eyes. Before she could place her anxious hands onto the wood floor she felt her sister's small, warm, little hands grip her own.

June looked up, slightly frustrated with her worried little sister before instantly softening at the petrified look on her dearest baby sister's face.

"Big sister…I'm scared. What if this doesn't work? Then what? What will happen to us?" June's facial features suddenly turned stony as she seemed to stare off for a moment before smiling down at her little sister.

"Don't worry about it." She smiled wider as she ruffed August's chestnut colored mane, making it even wilder than before, if that were even possible. August groaned miserably as she tried in vain to comb out her wild mane of waving locks.

"Have a little faith in you big sister will you?" June winked as August huffed and gave up on her hair.

"I hate it when you do that, but fine…I trust you June-bug" June snorted down at her little sister in amusement.

"And I hate it when you call me that my little August-Rush". The younger girl growled slightly but reluctantly let go of her older sibling's hands.

June then calmly closed her eyes as she clapped once more with more vigor while her younger sister copied faithfully. The sound echoed oddly in the empty house and against August's eardrums as she gulped.

Softly both siblings placed their hands atop the strange symbol ridden circle and then atop one another as a soft light penetrated the room. The light grew harsher and both sisters could hear the howling gust of strong winds, though they were well aware they were indoors, and the crackling of electricity as an unregistered power crackled in the air.

August clenched her teeth in fear as June smiled softly praying to any God out there that this would be the answer they had been looking for. The light grew brighter, the wind blew harder, and the room seemed to spin wildly out of control before drowning out the frames of the kneeling children in a fantastically bright inferno.

The window panes on the rickety old home shook violently as an impossibly bright light shone through the glass frames and then shattered them as a loud gust of wind drowned out the screams of the two people inside.

Suddenly, all went dead silent.

Nothing stirred and the bright light and strange winds had disappeared as soon as they had come, leaving nothing but an old abandoned rickety house with a few shattered windows.


The wind rustling through the trees would be the first thing anyone would have heard as a storm began to make its way over the quiet forest on the outskirts of Dublith. The scurrying of various animals and the hiss of the wind told all who had dared entered the forest at this time to turn back now. Deep in that same foreboding forest a large mansion stood, unperturbed by the noisy wind and draped in shadows. Dante sat by one of the many large windows as she watched the storm brew overhead. She sat there as she listened to the howling wind just outside her manor ravage the forest surrounding her home.

"Hmm, what is this then?" The kind looking, old woman, questioned as she leaned forward in her chair slightly before slowly opening her aging squinted eyes.

A few seconds later the wind suddenly stopped completely and everything went dead silent as the forest seemed to be holding its breath for something.

The forest creatures ceased their racket and the thunder paused as Dante watched patiently though intensely as she waited for the source of the reaction to makes itself known. She wasn't disappointed.

Only a few seconds passed before a soundless explosion rocketed across the forest and a bright blue pillar of light shot up into the thundering heavens and split the sky. Bolts of oddly colored lighting shot through the stormy sky as the clouds above began to roar like a wounded and enraged beast. As soon as the spectacular light show began it was over, leaving the only sound to be heard for miles was the pounding of rain as it cascaded from the silenced heavens.

Dante observed this for a few more moments before turning to the two shadowed figures behind. The old woman slowly smiled and the shorter squatter of the two figures shuddered before hiding behind his more impressively shapely companion with a low fearful whine. The smile grew slightly as her squinted eyes opened fully to revile a sinister glare that could chill the hearts of the dead.

"Lust, Gluttony" She addressed them and they both moved closer and kneeled before the old woman, who in truth was far older than she seemed.

"I want you both to investigate the source of that strange pillar of light and report anything you find to me immediately." Lust slowly raised her head as she watched her master blankly though inwardly wary.

"Master, was that pillar of light some form of alchemy?" The female sin's velvet voice poured out from her mouth as she spoke, no emotions seemed to prevent in her voice or manners. Dante chuckled softly as she turned back towards the window.

"That was a very stupid question indeed. Of course it was why on earth would I send you two to investigate if it wasn't? Now…" Dante mused as she placed a wheatear hand over a small crack in her elaborate window frame and in a small spark of alchemy it disappeared. She turned slightly to eye the two of her servants from over her shoulder as she continued to smile an innocent old woman's smile.

"I would hurry if I were you two now, my patience is short." The two shadowed sins nodded obediently as they merged into the shadows and quickly slipped out of the mansion in haste. Dante continued to smile as she felt her loyal minions vanished into the dead of night within the forest before her placid smile twisted into a sinister sneer as she resumed her sitting place near the window.

"What a lovely predicament, and to think that those foolish alchemist would learn from their mistakes the first time".

Dante, the master of the homunculi, and a self-proclaimed immortal, simply stared smugly as she slowly brought a saucer of cooled lemon tea to her lips, already knowing just what kind of transmutation had just transpired.


Wetness was the first sensation that little August felt as she slowly opened her burning eyes to the pouring clouds above. At first the child could do nothing but lie in the grass as the cold rain continued to pelt her small form. August sighed in relief as the cold droplets made contact with her skin, and cooling the burning sensation she could have sworn she had felt scorching her body just minutes before. After another couple of seconds the young girl looked around for her sister and found her laying a few small stone throws away from her.

"June wake up! June where are we and what's going on! June I'm scared, please get up!"

The little child begged as a flood of questions came rushing out her small mouth while she shook her older sister none to gently by the shoulders. June growled from her possession on the damp forest floor before wearily opening her shinning green eyes and attempting to sit up.

"W-what the…" She slurred out as August tackled her to the ground once more, shouting out obscure things and blabbering about where they were.

"Maybe we got knocked out by that light and kidnapped by some drug dealers for ransom!"

"August-"

"Maybe we were enchanted by evil wood pixies and they took us out here to become one of them and join their evil race of children snaring pixies forever!"

"Aug…"

"Oh, maybe this is all some crazy inception shit and this forest that we think is a forest isn't really a forest at all but a dream we are dreaming at home, and home could be another dream too, which could have another dream in another dream, and then again and again and again until we all figure out that we are all living in a parallel universe controlled by robots! Then maybe we would- Ah!"

The little child screeched as she spun around in circles frantically before falling comically on her face after tripping over her sister's oh so conveniently out stretched foot.

"August shut up" June spoke gravely as she stood and looked around, in shocked and awe. The little girl growled as she lifted herself out of the dirt and she too began to look around through the rain in awe.

"I-I-I did it…" June finally spoke disrupting the silence as she stared blankly at the forest before looking down at the ground beneath their feet. August too looked down at their feet and gasped.

"Big sister look at that, it's the same transmu-whateveryoucall circle we made at home. Suddenly the teenage June smiled to the sky and without warning scooped her baby sister into her arms and swung her around like a rag doll.

"We did it August, this is it! This is our new home…" June kept laughing as she crushed her baby sister to her chest. August whined as she felt her face turning blue.

"Ah A-air!"

"Oh right" June chuckled as she quickly released her death grip on the oxygen deprived child in her arms. August groaned as she leaned back in her sister's arms and began gasping for air like a fish out of water.

"*Gasp*what do you mean June? *Gasp* what is going on?" August whimpered as she regained her breath.

The oldest sibling sighed as she fell to her knees and gently placed August back on the ground. August blinked in confusion as her big sister looked her firmly in her eyes and then before she knew it, June was hugging her again. Little August clutched her big sister's shoulders as she buried her face in the soft dark ebony hair the cascaded down to the teenager's waist.

"August, I was able to send us to a very special place, a place that won't haunt us, and a place that we can finally forge our own lives in. We are in a country called Amestris now." August reeled back in shock as gaped at her big sister, believing all of this to be all some mean joke. June chuckled softly at the flabbergasted look on her little sister's face.

"W-what, isn't that the funny place in all those funny Japanese books you like to read?! How is this even possible big sister!?" August cried frantically as she waved her arms about. June pinched the bridge of her nose before pulling her frantic little sister into an embrace.

"Calm down already!" She snapped as August continued to rant for a few more minutes before suddenly stopping and sagging against her big sister's bony shoulder. June felt a wetness there that had nothing to do with the rain and she sighed as she stroked her small sibling's equally chestnut hair. August hiccupped as she dried her eyes with her little fists.

"We're not going home anymore are we big sister?" June tightened her hold on her trembling baby sister. "Yes August, we don't have to go back there anymore. We never have to see that terrible old man ever again." August sniffed slightly.

"Do you think he will be sad?" June snorted loudly.

"He…that man…no August, I don't think so. It's just you and me from now on baby sis." August wisely clamped her mouth shut as she felt her sister baling up her fists behind her back.

"Ok June, but…um, what are we going to do? Where are we going to go?"

"Well judging by the forest we are in, we can be in a number of places, hopefully we're someplace near Resembool or Dublith. So let's start walking due north and we should we a path or something ok?" June smiled down at her baby sister as she felt her sister's hand take a hold of her own. August smirked confidently at her older sibling as she nodded vigorously.

"Alright big sis, let's do this!" her smirked widened as she took off laughing maniacally through the clearing all the while clutching her eldest sister's larger hand. June laughed as well at her sister's antics before they both darted off into the unknown woods, leaving behind a still smoking and charred clearing, as well as two shadowed figures that had stood there all the while, blended in with the trees.

One of the figures slowly stepped out from behind the trees and stepped into the clearing as they observed the damaged clearing. The second shorter figure came stumbling out after them.

"Oh please Lust couldn't I just have had a quick bite. The little one looked so tasty!" Gluttony whined as he sucked on his finger disappointedly.

"No Gluttony, we have to report of those two children to our Master. She might consider them important seeing as they did all of this damage." The lustful sin smirked as she kept her arms crossed over her breasts.

"Come Gluttony" She called softly after her stubby companion as she began to saunter away. Gluttony stared blankly around at the massive amount of destruction done to the still smoldering clearing before he heard his stomach let out a pitiful growl.

"B-but LLLust I'm still hungry" The insatiably hungry sin whined as he stumbled after his favorite person in the world to go report back to their master.


End. Whew...so hope you enjoy and constructive critizim is welcome as well as reviews.