So here is chapter 1! Please enjoy. R&R

Originally my character's name was Vyra. Well, I changed it to Anna because my friend said it was hard to pronounce. How is it hard to pronounce? RAWR! Anyhoo, don't hate her regardless. She is mah child! XD

Disclaimer: FullMetal Alchemist does not belong to me, it is owned by Hiromu Arakawa

'The streets are really dark. Well, that IS expected during a storm as bad as this one.' Anna thought. 'At least there aren't any lighting strikes this time like that last storm. The damage took a month to fix. Ugh...That was torture.'

Shaking her head, Anna stood up slowly from her seat under the bay window in her small personal library. She ran her hand through her hair and walked toward the messy desk in the center of the room.

"I might as well finish that report. Arr...I really hate working..." Anna complained loudly. She picked up a small stack of papers written in many colours of pen. She glared at the notes she had taken. It took her a whole two months just to compile them. She put her notes back down on the desk and grabbed a pen from a small jar on a shelf just above it. She stared at the pen she chose for a moment. She blinked.

"...I have a rainbow colour pen?"

"Where is he? He said he would be here at nine." Colonel Stark announced, aggravated. He walked over to the window in his office and looked out. His eyebrow quirked up at what he saw. There was a man standing at the gates of the military office complex, apparently trying to persuade the guards to let him in. He seemed to be rather adamant about getting in.

"What's his problem?" Stark asked himself. He turned to look at his desk. His eye twitched at the messy state it was in. He sighed and sat in his chair, getting out a pen to write with. He grabbed the nearest paper and started to work. But before he could even get his name down on the paper, the door slammed open.

The person coming in the room was very... colourful. She was wearing a bright yellow jumper dress that went to her knees with two pockets near the bottom, neon yellow shoes decorated with small red ribbons and a red beret over her cinnamon coloured hair. Her teal green eyes were masked by the light reflected off her emerald green framed glasses. She had a dark blue messenger bag hanging off her right shoulder and she was carrying a thick purple notebook in her arms.

"Hey colonel! What are you up to?" Anna asked happily. She smiled brightly at Colonel Stark, who had a deadpan expression. He seemed to wish he wasn't working that day. He stared at her for a minute or so before saying something.

"Why are you here?" Stark questioned. "And whatever the reason, make it quick. I'm waiting for someone."

"Jee, get all snippy why don't you..." She mumbled and rolled her eyes. "Anyway, there's something I need you to look at. It's VERY important." Stark stared at the girl in front of him. 'Knowing her, it's probably just some "cool" thing she saw that she wants to talk about. Why does she think we don't take her seriously?' He shakes his head and asks what it is.

"Anyway, I found something interesting at site 22. I thought you might want to know." She stated. "I found a strange stone that feels like it has been sitting at the bottom of a body of water for quite a while, but there wasn't any water near it. The nearest source of water is 5 kilometres away." She walked over to Stark's desk and dropped a file on top of the mess of papers. "This file contains the notes from my experiments and tests on the stone. I need you to fill out a research form on it so I can officially study the stone with the military resources. I'm a little low on money right now."

"And this requires a lot of money? I don't see how you just can't push your authority on the people over at the resource center." Stark replied. "You've done it often enough that they sort of expect it now during your little 'projects'."

"Well I know that, but I can't do it all the time or I could get my research licence suspended." Anna huffed and crossed her arms. Stark gave her a look.

"Jeez. Fine, I'll go ask for more research money...But you have to give me the completed research form next time, okay?"

Stark nodded. Anna, with a smile on her face, walked out the door.

And while things were progressing seemingly normal at the Yelite military compound, in Central, things weren't going well at all.

"Drachma? We have to go to DRACHMA?"

This exclamation could be heard all over the Central compound. As people heard it, they caught what was going on pretty quickly. In the small lounge Vato Falman, Kain Feury, and Jean Havoc sighed when they heard it. The Colonel must be giving someone a mission far away from Central. From the yell heard earlier, they're going to Drachma, the country north of Amestris. Now Drachma wasn't so bad, in the middle of summer in the southern region of the northern country. But in the winter...Well, that's another matter entirely. It's freezing cold and covered in blindingly bright snow. And right now it was the middle of winter in Drachma.