Disclaimer: I do not own Edward Elric, the creaters of Full Metal Alchemist do, and also I do not own Pokemon, Central, and anything else you may recognize to not be mine.

I Will Always Be Here

By Cheyenne Flisher

Chapter 1

School was great, I loved it! I had so many friends and my classes weren't too hard, just the right kind of hard. I was your average girl. Everything was normal, well that is until I met Edward Elric.

Edward Elric is one of the most peculiar boys I've ever met. His outfit consists of black boots, black leather pants, a black t-shirt or tank top, a red coat that goes down to his knees and white gloves. His hair was blond, and braided in the back, with bangs that went up from the middle and down the side of his face with one little hair sticking up where the bangs met. The strangest thing about him was he had gold eyes. This shouldn't be possible, I wonder if he wears colored contacts.

I had just a couple of classes with Ed, Math and P.E. In P.E. no matter the temperature or weather he would always wear a sweatshirt and sweatpants with his gloves, is he hiding something like an embarrassing tattoo? But he was a wonderful athlete. When he threw something with his right arm, it went so fast I swear I would hear a sonic boom! Maybe he was hiding a bionic arm! One thing he does is when he really gets competitive he claps his hands together as if he were going to pray then would take his left hand and run it over his right arm but then clench his fists and look really frustrated. I would always giggle and he would give me the glare of death, which made me laugh harder.

For some reason I was drawn to him. Maybe it was because I thought he was cute, or maybe it was because he was always so quiet and cold. I wanted to get through to him, break his shell. Usually I didn't care, but it was different for him. I kept trying to talk to him in class but he always just shrugged me off or ignored me and it frustrated me. There had to be some way to get through to him.

One day when I was walking home through the park I heard someone singing. I had stayed late after school and it was starting to get dark so I was curious and wanted to know who was still here singing. I followed the voice and peered around the corner of a building to find Edward sitting by himself singing. He hadn't noticed me yet so I waited till he was done singing to say anything.

"Wow, you have a beautiful voice!" I said. He turned towards me and gave me another of his death glares. I guess I wasn't supposed to hear him singing.

"What are you doing here, Terra?" He asked. He didn't sound very happy.

"I had to stay late after school and I usually walk through this park on my way home. You know It's getting cold and dark, shouldn't you be heading home to?"

"This is my home." He replied sadly.

"Wait so, you don't have a home? Well why don't you stay with me I'm sure my parents wouldn't mind, they're pretty care free." I offered. I grabbed his hand and started dragging him along; I was surprised when he didn't put up a fight and just started walking with me. The walk was pretty quiet, I still couldn't seem to talk to him but I had to be making a breakthrough.

My mom let him stay after I explained his situation. She said he could sleep on the couch so I led him downstairs to where he would be sleeping. We went over and sat on the couch and I turned on the TV.

"What would you like to watch? Lets see what we got here." I started flipping through channels hoping I'd find something he liked. "If you see anything you want to watch just tell me. Oh Pokemon! Haha want to watch that?" I joked trying to lighten the mood.

"You know what, I've never told anyone this but I used to watch and play Pokemon all the time." He said like he was ashamed of it.

"Really? Me to! You know a lot of people loved Pokemon, and a lot of people still do." Great! I found something we have in common, maybe now I can get through to him. I smiled at him but then realized he was crying. "What's wrong?"

"Can you keep a secret?" I nodded. "Well when I was really young my dad left our family, right after my brother, Al, was born. We managed to live a happy life without him because Al and I didn't understand he was never coming back. But when I was 10 my mother and Al got really sick. There was nothing the doctors could do and they both died. I went to live with a distant relative I had never even met, but a month after I moved in she died to." He said. I wrapped my arms around him sympathetically.
"Oh, Ed! I'm so sorry. That's horrible!"

"After she died I just ran. I didn't want to get close to anyone so I would go from place to place. I was afraid I was going to lose every person I ever got close to." I felt his tears on my shoulder. I had no idea what to say so I just rubbed his back comfortingly. Then suddenly he disappeared. I looked all over the place and I couldn't find him. When I asked my mom she just said what boy. How did I lose him!

When I went to school the next day I asked my friends if they had seen Edward Elric, and surprise surprise, no one remembered him. How could someone just disappear off the face of the Earth? When I went to bed all I could think about was how much I wanted to find Edward. I started to cry and closed my eyes trying to stop myself. When I opened my eyes I found myself on the edge of a strange town. The sign too my left said "Welcome to Central" What kind of town name is that, and where am I? Then I see someone sitting by the sign, none other than Edward Elric.

"Ed! I found you!" I ran up to him and gave him a hug, and then I pulled back and started asking, "Where are we? How did I get here? Do you have any idea what's going on?"

"There's something about my life I didn't tell you Terra." He replied.