(this story is going to be told in mostly 3rd person POV but I will occasionally change it to 1st, depending on the chapter and character.)
Summary: Zoah Rockbell, Winry Rockbell's younger sister by 10 months, is very close to the Elric brothers. However, a few days prior to the Elric brothers' mother's passing, Zoah went missing. Edward, Alphonse, Winry, and Pinako were devastated to have such tragedies happen so soon together. When their Mother died, Ed and Al agreed to revive their mother by using the taboo, which is the human transmutation, but before they could do that, they searched about the human transmutation and improved their alchemy skills by training with an alchemy teacher, Izumi Curtis. in order to revive their mother. These preparations took four years and after the four years of training, they had gathered everything they, thought, they needed and prepared to do the transmutation. However, everything went wrong... Al lost his body and Ed lost his left leg and his right arm. Al is now a suit of armor while Ed has an automail arm and leg. What will happen when Ed and Al are finally reunited with their childhood friend, Zoah? How will they react when they find out about what's happened to her?
Winry and Zoah were playing outside with Edward and Alphonse Elric. Edward and Alphonse were showing the two girls the alchemy they've so far learned from the books. Zoah was beyond amazed but Winry didn't seem too interested. Winry left to go inside and read while Zoah, Edward, and Alphonse continued to play together. Alphonse decided to leave, since he didn't want Winry to be alone, and went into the Rockbell household.
Edward grinned at Zoah.
"Hey, Zoah! Wanna go down to the river?"
"Is it okay if we go by ourselves?"
"Yeah! Al and I go all the time!"
Zoah then grinned and nodded.
"Yeah! Let's go, Ed!"
Ed and Zoah stood from where they were and held hands, running to where the river was. The duo reached the river and sat down on the riverbank, hugging their knees to their chests. Zoah smiled softly, her long, thick blonde hair pulled back in a high ponytail. Suddenly, she was pinned onto her back but she laughed, seeing one of her best friends atop her.
"Eddie, don't you da- ahahahah! No-! Stop! Stop it! Hehehe haha!"
Ed was currently tickling the blonde haired girl, grinning.
"Nope! Not unless you say the magic word!"
Zoah giggled.
"Pretty please, Eddie!?"
Ed gave in with a grin.
"Alright, fine!"
Ed got off of her and smiled, helping her up. Zoah smiled but it soon faded with she saw a figure in the distance.
"Hey... Ed... I think we should go..."
"Huh? Why?"
With a trembling hand, Zoah pointed to the figure. Ed's eyes widened and he nodded, grabbing her hand. The duo then began running but.. all too quickly, Ed was thrown away from Zoah. Zoah was lifted into the arms of the now noticeably hooded figure, and within seconds, she was gone from his sight, the person having taken her.
"NO!" Ed screamed, tears forming.
Ed ran home, trying his hardest not to cry. Once he made it home, he ran into the Rockbell household.
"WE HAVE TO FIND HER!"
"Ed, sweetie, what are you talking about?" Trisha, Ed's mother, asked in a soft voice.
"THEY TOOK HER!"
"Honey, who's they?"
"I DON'T KNOW!"
Ed fell to the floor, gripping his pants in his fists. He refused to let the tears fall. He didn't want anyone to see him cry.
"This hooded figure! We were at the river, playing around, when she spotted him! We tried running but they somehow caught up with us and took her!"
Trisha frowned deeply.
"Ed, honey... I'm so sorry to say this, but..."
She looked up at Pinako and Winry, both who were wide-eyed. Al was beside his brother, tears silently falling down the younger boy's cheeks as he tried to comfort his big brother.
"Someone kidnapped Zoah?" asked Pinako.
Trisha looked down.
"I'm afraid so, Pinako... I wish there was a way we could have-"
"IF I NEVER TOOK HER TO THE RIVER, SHE WOULD STILL BE HERE NOW! THIS IS ALL MY FAULT!" Ed screamed.
He quieted down, however, his sad tone breaking his mother's heart.
"It's my fault... it's all my fault... I shouldn't have brought her to the river... I'm such a horrible frie-"
"Edward, stop!" Winry interrupted him.
"It's not your fault! You didn't know that she was going to be taken!"
"SHUT UP!"
Edward then ran out of the house, Alphonse following and shortly after Trisha as well. By the time Trisha and Al got to the house, Ed was already curled up on his bed, silently crying. The guilt was too much for the poor boy to handle.
~Four Years Later~
Ed and Al were in a large room, a bowl of water with other things.
"Water, 35 liters. Carbon, 20 kilograms. Ammonia, 4 liters. Lime, 1.5 kilograms. Phosphorus, 800 grams. Salt, 250 grams. Saltpeter, 100 grams. Sulfur, 80 grams. Fluorine, 7.5. Iron, 5. And Silicon, 3 grams, with trace amounts of 15 other elements... We can do this, Al!"
Al nodded with a smile. "Yeah!"
Ed grinned and the both of them clapped their hands together before slapping them onto the floor with the drawn in transmutation circle. There was a bright blue light for a second before it suddenly turned into a dark and light purple. Al began screaming in pain as he suddenly disappeared, nowhere to be seen. Ed also screamed in pain, his left leg right above the knee gone.
"NO, GIVE HIM BACK! YOU HAVE TO GIVE HIM BACK! HE'S MY LITTLE BROTHER!" Ed screamed in agony.
The light died out and a suit of armor fell onto the floor. Ed cried as he made his way to the suit of armor, drawing a seal in his blood.
"GIVE MY BROTHER BACK, DAMMIT!"
Ed clapped his hands and slapped them back onto the transmutation circle but due to blood loss, not long after he passed out. However, before he did... the thing in front of him surely was not his mother. It was a horrifying creature. The suit of armor looked around the room before noticing the unconscious boy on the floor.
"BROTHER!" the armor shouted.
The suit of armor ran to the golden-haired boy and lifted him into it's arms. The suit of armor ran from the house and to the Rockbell household, where the suit of armor knocked, afterward looking down at the unconscious boy. The door opened and revealed Pinako, who's eyes widened in horror at the sight. After several questions later, Pinako went to treat Ed's wounds. The suit of armor was revealed to be none other than Alphonse Elric, his soul bound to the suit of armor by the blood seal that Ed made.
Here's the prologue! Thank you so much for reading and I'll try to post the next chapter soon!
