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Chapter 1 The Eighth Deadly Sin
Pride; deserving to be respected. Wrath; a feel of hatred. Gluttony; very hungry. Greed; a selfish desire to have more. Lust; a strong desire for something. Envy; jeaslousy. And sloth; being lazy. Those are the seven deadly sins. But now a new one is created. Lethal; causing death. The eight deadly sin was created.
A new homonculus appears. A girl, who humans call Bailey. She was known as a State Alchemist.
She was the first of the eight to preform alchemy. Father one day, came across a thought. If one homunculus became a State Alchemist, they could learn more of the "Human Sacrifices". But none knew alchemy, until one day Lethal came.
A failed human transmutation happened, but the human who preformed the transmutation had died after getting a toll from Truth. It was a man, who's daughter died.
Pride and Wrath found her one day, after hearing what happened, and brought her to Father. They tested her on humans, in which she immediately killed all of them.
After finding out her power, they named her Lethal, as her homunculus name, and Bailey for her human name. Her job was to watch what all the state alchemists did, especially the ones that preformed a failed human transmutation.
Her other job was to kill alchemists that got in the way of Father's plan, who weren't sacrifices. She began immediately.
"Bailey Bohana, you are now an official State Alchemist," King Bradley announced. Bailey grinned at the excitement, and now she could begin her job.
She walked into a room where every State Alchemist who passed would go to after the Führer announced that they passed.
She opened the door, in which a desk and a chair had been. "Ah, well if it isn't Roy Mustang," she greeted him. He sat in the chair that was next to the desk. "I'm not surprised about this. I knew I would become a State Alchemist at some point." She walked to an empty seat in front of her. She sat down, and stroke her long, black hair, which was in her face. Then she straightened her long black dress. Her tattoo was on her right hand, which had been covered with long, black gloves. Her lavender eyes looked straight at him.
"So, you're a fan of black. The Führer should have called you the Black Lover Alchemist," Mustang stated after handing her the certificate that had her real name.
She didn't laugh at the joke, but instead she read the certificate. "Huh. So I'm the Dark Thunder Alchemist," she repeated after she thought that in her head. Her alchemy was one of the darkest, so that must have explained why they named her that.
She looked at his face, which was straight. "I'm surprised the Führer actually let a woman become a State Alchemist. Anyway here is your watch." Mustang handed over the watch which had been in a drawer. "Protect it because this will be your only one."
"What happens if I lose it, and ask for another one?" She asked as she crossed her arms.
"We would just tell you to leave," he explained. "If someone were to disguise themselves to look just like a State Alchemist, and act like one, we still wouldn't give away another watch. Even if it was a real State Alchemist."
'That makes sense,' she thought in her head. It was a smart idea, and she would probably never guess that.
After talking and explaining about being a State Alchemist, Bailey was allowed to leave. She had two choices. Begin her task, or return to Father, and then begin her task. If she did return to Father, he might have more information. But if she didn't go back, she would do her task and come back later, at least with something complete.
So she decided to return to Father. She didn't know if she was allowed to kill someone, just in case Father didn't want her to kill. She began to walk off, swinging her watch in a circle, going towards the place Father had been at.
"So this is a what all those alchemists carry around." Envy searched the watch, looking at every detail on it. He sat on a pipe, against the wall, looking at the watch. "So what's inside of it?" He began to open the watch, but couldn't. He pulled on it harder, but he still could't do it. "How hard is this thing anyway?"
"Only alchemy works on it." Lethal snatched the watch from him. She opened it by using alchemy and showed him. "See!"
He looked inside and a clock appeared, showing the time. He threw it to her. "Its a piece of garbage."
"Well, it happens to be my way of showing humans that I'm an alchemist. Even though it is trash, I'm still going to keep it." She stroke her hair again, which had been in front of her face again.
Father came in. "Lethal, I have a task for you."
"Finally!" She sighed and walked over to him. "So, what is it? Do I get to kill someone?" She grinned.
"No." Lethal stood there in disappointment. "I want you to find one of the sacrifices, and begin learning about one of them."
"Hmm. Then if that is what you want, I will start with the Little Alchemist, Edward Elric. He's been around Central, so I might be able to find him. And his brother Alphonse Elric is with him, so that gives you two sacrifices." She walked away, pulling her gloves in more, to cover the tattoo.
She began to search in Central, looking for one of them.
She walked trough crowds of people, and noticed a big suit of armor running to a boy. The suit of armor had been a boy, which Bailey discovered from his voice.
"Brother!" He yelled. "Brother!" The other boy he had been running to, turned towards him. He had a long red cloak on, with black pants and shirt.
"Al, where have you been?" The boy's blonde, braided hair swung to the side and then swung back the other direction.
The name Al rung in her head. 'Did he mean Alphonse?' she thought. 'Is that Alphonse Elri-' She was interrupted by a man running up to the two boys.
She could hear the man that recognized one of the boys, then other people overheared and all ran towards him. They began to awe when the blonde haired boy showed them his watch. It looked just like Bailey's. The same print of her's appeared on the watch. Then she got suspicious.
After all the excitement, she walked closer, listening to the crowds conversation. Then she heard "Elric," and then she realized something.
"Found you," she mumbled softly, only she could hear it from all the yelling the crowd was doing. "Along with your brother."
She jumped through the crowd, squeezing through people in her way. She went through the last one, and fell forward, but no one noticed as she quickly jumped up.
"Huh," the boy turned towards her. He starred at the girl and noticed the watch she had been holding. "Are you-"
"The Dark Thunder Alchemist. Yes, what a surprise to see another one of me show up here," she finished his sentence. "I'm Bailey Buhana. I just became a State Alchemist yesterday. And I'm the first woman to ever become one."
"You seem young, compared to when I first became a State Alchemist," he stated. Bailey was only a fifteen year old girl, now the youngest State Alchemist, and first woman to ever become one. "Anyway, I'm-"
"Edward Elric," she interrupted. "Everyone knows you." That was her way of not giving out her secret. Luckily everyone knew him, or else he would become suspicious.
"You're good at interrupting people. Maybe the Führer should have called you the Interrupting Alchemist. It fits your personality," he laughed silently, but Bailey wasn't offended.
"Well, you're pretty short for a State Alchemist." Then she laughed silently.
"You little-" Edward clenched his fist, but didn't do anything. If it had been a man, he would have punched him in the face.
"Anyway, I didn't come here to make fun of you. I needed more information on being a State Alchemist," she lied. Maybe she could get more information out of him. She had to anyway, or else she would go back with nothing.
"Let's go somewhere else then." He began to walk through the crowd, with Alphonse following him. Bailey began to walk to him, walking out of the crowd, which had turned into people leaving.
They went somewhere else, where very few people were, so no one would interrupt, and crowd them.
Edward began to explain more about being a State Alchemist, which Bailey already knew. So she decided to change the topic.
"So what concerned you to become a State Alchemist?" Bailey asked, trying to look normal.
"l usually don't get asked this, but I might as well tell you. It's not really a secret," he explained.
'Not a secret, eh,' she thought to herself.
"It was after I lost my arm and leg," he pointed at them. "Mustang came by and scolded me, but then he asked if I wanted to become a State Alchemist, since I knew alchemy."
"What about the failed transmutation? Did that do anything to you?" She blurted out, not thinking before she spoke.
"Wait a minute. How did you know I preformed a human transmutation?" He then became suspicious.
"All the State Alchemists know. Did you not know that?" she tried to convince him. Just them, a crowd came by again and surrounded all three of them. "It seems like your busy. I'll leave you alone." She walked through the crowd, and left him there.
Edward turned to Alphonse. "Al, I don't trust her," he whispered.
"Why? Maybe she heard from someone. At least give her a chance. She's new, and we just met her. We don't know what she is like," Alphonse told him.
"Maybe. But I'm still not going to trust her yet." Edward starred at Bailey, who was walking away.
'So you don't trust me then. Soon, you will never trust me, as long as you don't find out.' she thought.
Edward and Alphonse walked out of the crowd, going in the opposite direction.
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Upcoming chapter, Three Alchemists, One Homunculus.
"Father. I have found him. No information was given, but I think now he doesn't trust me. We need to find a way to know more without giving my true identity," Lethal told Father.
"Find a way," he commanded. "As long as I know something, that can help."