My first Fanfic ever...so I'm pretty nervous! Please review whether it be good comments (hopefully Please!) or constructive criticism (hopefully not). Hope you like the 1st chapter of the story. :)

In case you are wondering (because I don't touch on this in the first chapter Faye does not look like her sister. They share the color green eyes but she has long dirty blonde hair and is a bit paler and more feminine.)

Btw I know...and don't kill me...but Envy isn't in the chapter because this is just the beginning. I need to give some background and form a plot so that it'll be how I pictured it later on. (which hopefully will be to people's liking)

"L-Lt. Colonel Hughes died two and a half weeks ago." Sheska's voice trembled as she began her tale. I put on reassuring hand on her shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze, showing her she had my attention and support. Then as she opened her mouth to continue, she burst into tears…Again. I mentally groaned, but only gave Sheska an encouraging smile.

After another five minutes of holding Sheska in my arms as she pulled herself together, I was beginning to wonder if I should have just stayed where I was and gone to Xing. I could be doing valuable research right now on the links between alchemy and alchehistory I thought, before mentally slapping myself. My sister needed me right now and even if what she was about to say was some delusional fairytale I still needed to be there.

(FLASHBACK)

"Hey Faye you got a letter!", Mr. Zhu's voice breaking into my spacing out.

"Oh ok. Thanks." I mumbled as I propped myself up better on my desk. The mounds of books on my desk tittering as I shifted my weight. A letter plopped down in front of me and I heard the familiar sound of Mr. Zhu's feet scuttling out of sight. I could tell just from the clean, neat handwriting it was from my younger sister Sheska. My interest piqued, I started opening the letter. She hadn't written me since she got rehired by the government. I smiled remembering her last letter and all that it had contained: the Elric brothers, the philosopher's stone, her getting her job back, and mainly Lt. Colonel Hughes. She had sounded really attached to him despite the remarks she made about his obsession with his child and him working her like a dog. Chuckling to myself I pulled the letter out of the envelope and unfolded it

My heart seemed to be sounding in my ears and my breathe seemed caught in my throat. The letter I had just finished still lay in my trembling hands. I jerked from my seat and ran into the next room where Mr. Zhu sat with his own pile of research.

"I'm going back to Central. I don't know when I'll be back. I'm sorry." My words slurring as the came out of my mouth at rapid speed. Mr. Zhu simply looked at my face and nodded. I went back to my hotel and packed a suitcase. Before I knew it I was on the train to Central. One thing just kept replaying itself in my mind. The last line of Sheska's letter

Lt. Colonel Hughes was murdered. I need you.

(END OF FLASHBACK)

"O-Oh-kay. I think I'm ready now. I'm d-done crying." Sheska looked back up at me as a final tear slide down her cheek.

"I'm here." I spoke gently as I repositioned myself so that we faced each other.

"Okay. Lt. Colonel Hughes died two and a half weeks ago," she began again. "He was murdered, and by order of the higher-ups no one was supposed to look into it." I nodded. She had said as much in her letter.

"B-But I did. And a few others. I had to know, to bring justice to Mr. Hughes!" Her voice sounding as if it was pleading with me to understand. I nodded and she continued, her voice dropping to a whisper. "It is horrible."

I moved closer to her in order to hear better. Worry started to bubble inside of me. This wasn't good, not at all. I braced myself for her next words.

Her voice dropped even lower until it was almost inaudible, almost. "It was a homunculus."

I froze.

A couple seconds passed and she looked at me, inspecting my reaction. Oh my god…this can't be right. Maybe I heard her wrong. You didn't hear her wrong my own self hissed back. How did Sheska even know about them. They..those things..were part of the darkest alchemy.

The incredulous, frightened look on my face must have been obvious because Sheska sighed and she looked at me with an authoritative look. She gripped my shoulders with both hands and gently shook me until my eyes met hers.

"Listen to me. I'll start at the beginning, from when I met the Elrics."

Review please! THanks! If people let me know they like it then I will be siked and write more chapters really quick.