Hey guys!
It's a Fullmetal Alchemist story this time. Yay!
This was inspired by the story Always Here by Eternal She-Wolf . Thanks for the great story! :)
This is AU (obviously) where Alphonse was the one to be a state alchemist and Ed had been taken by the Gate.
Hope you enjoy! :D
Alphonse Elric and his older brother had done it. They had committed the greatest taboo.
They had done a Human Transmutation. They tried to bring their mother back to life.
Of course, they paid for it. Alphonse had even lost his entire body. His brother lost his left leg. After seeing Alphonse disappear, his brother had sacrificed himself to bring him back.
Realizing what his brother had done, Alphonse vowed to get him back. It wouldn't be like with his mother. His brother wasn't dead, just stolen from him.
And he was going to get him back.
Alphonse had heard of the legendary Philosopher's Stone, a powerful transmutation amplifier that he was sure he could use to get his brother back.
His research material was limited. None of the civilian libraries had any information on the Philosopher's Stone, but he knew the military libraries did. So he decided to become a State Alchemist. Even though he was only twelve, he knew he could do it. He wasn't as good as his brother at alchemy, but he was also considered a prodigy.
He took the test and passed, and was put under the command of Colonel Roy Mustang, the Flame Alchemist.
All of Roy's subordinates (and Major Hughes and Major Armstrong too) grew fond of him. They all worried about him when he went on missions, took care of him (well, tried to, anyway) when he was in Central, and most of all, put up with his constant talk of his brother.
They all asked about him, curious about who Alphonse would work so hard for. After a while, they all felt as if they all knew Al's brother like he was there with them. They knew that he looked a little like Al; his hair was the same color, but he wore it long, his eyes were the same color, and he was shorter than Al ("He doesn't like to be reminded about that.") They knew that he didn't like to take orders from anyone ("Except Mom."), and that he hated milk ("'So you're here again, punk' he would always say, glaring."). They never got tired of hearing about him, and Alphonse never ran out of things to say. Whenever Alphonse would start to tell about his brother, they would all listen as they worked.
What Alphonse didn't know, though, was that all of them, at one point or another, had seen more than one Elric brother walking down the street, researching in the library, or lounging in Alphonse's apartment.
They weren't sure if it's real or not, or if they had just had an overdose of "Brother Stories."
They had all seen it, or him, rather. The brother that was supposed to be gone.
They had all seen the ghost of Edward Elric.
So that's the prologue! What'd you think?
Please R&R!