i do not own any of the characters that are in anyway related to full metal alchemist. But, Yuri and his mother ARE mine so you try and take them...glare..
lol. on with the fic.
Alone - Prolouge
The wind was blowing hard today. In the distance it looked like it might even rain, and people were still rushing about in the streets. It was a hard life living in Central City. I mean, it was bad enough with all the military wandering about the streets and alchemists left and right, but to have rain appear when Yuri was trying to collect his groceries as an erand for his mum...that was just rude! She had been too busy with her new work at the Central Library, stacking the endless amounts of books to do it herself. She had said to him once, that "working in that library was like an endless abyss. There was no end to the in's and out's of a job at that slave factory."
Yuri's mother was working overtime helping out a new recruit called sheska. She seemed really interested in working there and wanted to know the best method of getting through the day, while still having time to read the books in the library. Why someone would want to sit and read books all day, Yuri didn't know. He couldn't even bring himself to read something he found on his parents floor one day. It was entitled something along the lines of "A beginners guide to Alchemy". He had thought about learning alchemy when he was a child...but it seemed like too much work for someone of his particular age.
The trip had been a long and tiring one. Yuri had expected there to be just the one shop with all of the things on the list, but instead he needed to go further towards the edge of town in order to find the last few infredients. The Flourine was one of the annoying items on the list. He had to go all the way back home in order to get a conainer to hold it in. How was he supposed to know that the flourine on the list was a gas? And becuase he didn't have enough money, he had to go and find and mine some limestone rock himself! The object listed on the list were some very strange ones, and Yuri wondered what kind of food his mum would be cooking for him tonight.
"Mum must be going crazy in her old age buying items like this..." he thought to himself as Central Library came into view. He was still having trouble believing that he had needed to pass his house over 4 times on the one trip. It shouldn't be physically possible!
"Oiii! Al!"
The screaming voice gave Yuri the fright of his life. As he watched, a man in a suit of silver armour ran out of the library. After glaring at him for a few seconds, the armour ran off in the direction of the city gates. Behind him, came another person. He wore a red cloak and a black pair of trousers and jacket, with a white shirt underneath. He was also quite small. And it wasn't just a normal kind of small either. He looked a lot like an older boy . Yuri was wondered who the heck they were when he noticed the silver draping out of the boys pocket.
...a state alchemist...
Yuri jumped again as the boy ran quickly over to him.
"Hey, did you see where my younger brother went?"
Younger Brother? Yuri wondered what the alchemist was talking about, but pointed in the direction that the man in the armour ran off in.
"Thank you!", he yelled running down the street, waving.
Yuri was about to think to himself again when he heard another cry coming from the front of the central library.
"Hey! Yuri! Where have you been? I've been waiting for you!". His mums smile and eyes put him in a good mood. Even after her sister had died. They were unseprably close...and yet she hasn't alked about her since the accident. He looked down the road, to find that the boy had dissapeared from sight while he wasn't looking. Turning to his mother, he smiled back.
"Sorry! So Sorry!". He ran up to her quickly with the reserve energy he had left after al the shopping.
"come on", she spoke, slowly. "Lets go home".
After nodding, Yuri and his mother began walking down the road towards home. She had even took a few of the grocery bags to help him speed up his pace...but it wasn't that that made his body slow down. It was the thought of the strange two people who had came running out of the library.
Walking along, his mother looked at her son, who seemed to be in a world of his own.
"Is something on your mind?" she asked politely.
"well", he began, "i was just wondering who the two people were that had ran out of the library? They were an odd pair." His head dropped slightly, as he spoke. " And i noticed that one of them was a state alchemist..."
She giggled at him. Yuri looked up at her wondering what was so funny.
"Those were the Elric Brothers. Ed and Al. They are genius alchemists."
Yuri turned away to look towards there home, which was just in front of them.
"Alchemy...isn't that what Elie was studying?"
Yuri's mother turned away from him. She had a cold look on her face.
"...Lets go in shall we? How about Macaroni for supper, huh?". Yuri could tell that she was trying to avoid something. She had been acting wierd ever since that letter had arrived through the door a few months ago. She was keeping something from him...
But, there was no point in dwelling on the concept just now. Besides, he was hungry after all of that walking! But the names of those two alchemists still lingered in his head...
...the elric brothers...
