A/N--A request from kisa-kisa-fishie. I hope you like it^^
Edward's hands shook with fear as he clasped them firmly together. His feet stood slightly parted their weight heavy on the ground. The room wreaked of blood and sin. Intricate patterns woven to form a scientific plea lay etched in stone, their forms mocked him from below. Corpses, eyes wretched still with surprise and agony, rested in a pile within the center of the holy markings. The bodies existed now only as fair material in this forbidden trade.
The young alchemist took in a deep breath as he pressed his hands to the cold unyielding marble. He watched as the symbols on the ground lit up with a chilled golden fire. Cool, with a taste like iron and a fury like hell. The light spread all around him and then began to consume him. His own body was glowing with his final sacrifice. Flashes filled the building, every inch was devoured by light, before the magic dimmed once more into oblivion. A marvelous sight that no one would behold.
In another place at another time, as one story ends, another begins...
Boredom brimmed the edges of usually bright brown eyes. Same lessons, same life. A subtle sense of condemnation settled over Light. It was a familiar chilling feeling of despair. A feeling of pure melancholy. He wallowed in it. Nothing would ever change.
He gazed out the window as he had many times before. His class lecture a dull hum in the back of his mind. He watched and even beyond the boundary walls there was nothing but consistency. Nothing new. Light's attention began to drift, as it often did from one place to another and back again. Then there was something of interest. Something faintly black caught his eye. He watched as the object floated toward the ground, and an unnatural curiosity consumed him.
Light amused himself with pondering it's nature. He wondered were it had come from, what it was, he even considered that a small bird may have met an untimely end. A request in the form of his name interrupted the musings. The interjection didn't faze Light and he rose from his seat, to the occasion, and relayed his answer smoothly.
The rest of Light's evening however, would not be so simple. That day a string of events would start him on a twisted path that would shape his destiny, and as everyone knows, one can never predict where such a path might lead.
A/N-Please note- this isn't an official chapter it's just the intro..real chapters will be longer. Consider it the prologue.
Okay so this was a request and I tried to get it done a lot sooner than I did. Unfortunately I was trying to make something very complex but condense it into two or three (fanfic style) chapters. Can you say 'fail'? So I tried again and I fear this little request may turn into something very long. I'm currently in the middle of chapter one but I've already got the layout for six other chapters....so ^^; I guess we'll see how this goes. I'm very busy though so please forgive me for (possibly large) time gaps between chapters. Just know that I will finish it..it just may take a while.
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