The Black Alchemist
By: C.C.
*Hey, everyone! I'm back with a new fanfic! This is the first one that I've written that has anything to do with FMA, so I hope you like it!
Chapter 1:
Ed's POV:
Whoa, what happened? Why does my head hurt? Well, I guess I could just talk to the colonel and get some pain meds-wait, where am I? Why does my arm feel so weird?
I looked around the room to see that it was most definitely not the room that I fell asleep in. Now there were a few questions that I needed to answer. One, where am I? Two, where was Al? Three, who put us here? Four, how did they move me without me noticing?
Then, there was my arm, and- whoa! My arm, it's normal! Looking down at my arm, I saw that the automail was gone, completely gone! All that I had now was flesh and bone. Wait, if my arm was normal, maybe my leg was, too!
Excited, I threw off my blankets and looked at my legs, and there wasn't a scrap of metal in sight. I no longer had to deal with automail!
"YESS!" I said, jumping out of bed with excitement.
I finally had my body back! I don't know how or who did it, but I had it back! Now, maybe Al had his back as well! Oh, it would be amazing if he was finally out of that Suit of Armor for a body! Now I just had to find him.
I peered around the corner, and I only saw one person, a girl with long, flowing, green hair, and a suit that looked like she just jumped off of an alien ship. All I could see at the moment was her backside, so that's all I could make out for the time being.
She turned her head to the left, and I had a visual on her profile. She had pale skin, a blank expression, and honey colored eyes. I couldn't see what she was looking at, but soon, she turned completely around and in my direction.
As she turned, I jerked my head around and hid behind the wall.
"Don't spy on me, Lelouch," she said with a surprisingly expressionless tone-wait, who's Lelouch?
"Who the Heck is Lelouch?" I asked, turning to face her.
She looked at me with surprise and put one hand on her hip. "Apparently, not you," she replied. "Who are you?"
"That's funny, I was about to ask you the same thing," I said with a slight smile on my face.
"Hmph. I asked you first," she said with an expressionless tone.
Oh, I could tell this was gonna be fun. "I'm Ed, now who are you, where am I, and where's my brother?"
She looked at me, somewhat confused. "Why are you here?" she asked, narrowing her eyes, though she didn't answer my question.
"Well," I started, "if I knew the answer to that, I wouldn't be asking you all sorts of questions, now would I?"
She took a moment of silence, as if she were deep in thought. "No, I guess you wouldn't," she said, crossing her arms.
"So, where am I?"
She looked at me as if I were being examined, then turned her head. "This is the home of Lelouch and Nunnally Lamprouge. Lelouch, I have no idea where he is, but his younger sister, Nunnally, should be sleeping in her room. Now, why you're here and where you came from, I have absolutely idea, but I do know that if Lelouch left you here just to screw with me, I'm going to kill him when he comes home, especially since he left me a shrimp."
She did not just say that.
Trying to keep my anger under control, I clenched my fists and decided to ask more questions. "Do you know if my brother's here?"
She turned back to look at me. "I didn't even know that you were here until I caught you spying on me, which I can't figure out why you were doing that in the first place," she said, leaning against the wall.
I guess that made since, but now that lead to the problem that I had no idea where Al was. Great, now I have to go looking for him, but where would I even start if I don't even know where the heck I am?
Alright, so I'm here with this clueless, green-haired girl, who calls me a shrimp, has no idea how I got here, and I mysteriously got my body back without even doing a thing. Whoa, this was quite a mystery.
"So, what are you gonna do?" asked the green haired girl, sitting down on the couch with her legs crossed.
"Well, I need to find my brother. Thing is, I have no idea about anything at the moment. I have my body back, I can't find my brother, I'm in an unknown place, and I have no idea how I got here."
She narrowed her eyes again at my statement. "You got your body back? What's that suppose to mean?" she asked, looking at me as if I were insane.
"Well, I use to have an automail arm and leg, but when I woke up, they were gone. I had my flesh and bone body back, and I have no idea how. It made me wonder if my brother were back to normal as well," I said, showing her my arm.
"And exactly, who is your brother?"
I looked up from my arm to her, then put my arm down. "Al, short for Alphonse. We're the Elric brothers. I'm sure you've heard of us."
"I'm afraid not," she said, not even looking at me anymore. She just looked forward.
She's never heard of us?
"You've never heard of the Elric brothers, one of them being the Fullmetal Alchemist, the youngest State Alchemist in history?" I asked, stunned.
She just looked at me with that same look, a look that said that I was insane, but at the same time was as hard as a rock. She was stiff, inside and out, from her facial expression to the tone in her voice.
"Honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about. You're not making any sense to me. Lelouch has everything to do with the government, making me always well informed of what's going on. You'd be surprised of the things he's got access to from his positions in power."
Who was this guy, and this obiously wasn't my government, seeing that she has no idea what an Alchemist is. Where the heck am I?
"Alright, I guess I'm gonna have to show you what an Alchemist is, then," I said, clapping my hands together, but when I started trying to use my Alchemy, nothing happened. Everything was unchanged. "What the heck?"
"I guess you just dreamed about this Alchemy," she said, still not looking at me.
"Did you do something to make it to where I couldn't do Alchemy?" I demanded.
"Now, think about it for a moment. How am I suppose to make it to where you can't do something when I don't even know what you're talking about? I did nothing to you. I barely even know you."
Man, she was really ticking me off with her arrogance, and she can be really smart aleck for an expressionless person! She's really blunt, too. I kinda feel sorry for this Lelouch guy.
"You still haven't told me who you are," I said, still trying not to be mad at her.
She kept silent for a moment, then sighed as she leaned back more. "My name is C.C."
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Nunnally's POV:
Whoa, why does my head hurt? Why did I feel so weird? Wait, what?
The first thing I noticed after my headache was something major, something I haven't been able to do in years. I could see, and actually see, with my eyes wide open, but just by looking around, I could tell that this wasn't my room. It had too much stuff in it, and Lelouch made sure that there wasn't a lot in my room because of my blindness.
I pushed myself off of the pillow and looked around the unfamiliar room, and the first thing I noticed was Lelouch dressed up in an outfit that I don't remember having been described to me. He had a red-hooded cape with a black buckled shirt and pants to match it. His hands weren't bare, but they had white gloves to cover them.
I rubbed my eyes and looked over at my brother as I started to sit up more. "Lelouch?"
He looked up from the ground, where he had his sight set on before, and smiled. "Good morning, Nunnally," he said with a smile on his face, pleasantness in his eyes and expression.
"What's going on, Lelouch? Where are we?" I asked, throwing my legs over the side of the bed. Wait, what?
When I looked over at my legs, I saw something unnatural, unusual, something that scared me at the first sight. My legs were metal.
"WHAT THE HECK?" I yelled, not being able to stop staring at my metallic legs.
"Nunnally, what's wrong?" asked Lelouch, running over to me.
"My legs, they're metal!" I said, getting scared.
How did this happen? When did this happen? Where the heck am I? Why is Lelouch dressed so weird?
While all of these questions and so many more were running through my head, Lelouch looked at me with a confused look on his face. "What?"
"My legs!" I said, but that's when I also noticed my arms. They were metal as well, completely metallic, with bolts and hinges and all of the above. "WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?"
"Whoa, Nunnally, calm down," said Lelouch, sitting next to me with a caring look on his face. "Did you have a weird dream or something?"
"What? No, I don't even remember my dream. I just went to bed like I always do, and woke up like this!"
"I thought I heard yelling in here. What's wrong?" asked a blond haired woman with a blue military uniform on, and her blond hair was pulled back in a bun. Her eyes said 'I'm here to do my job' serious, and so did the tone in her voice and the expression on her face.
"Lieutenant Riza, I think that something's wrong with Nunnally," said Lelouch, looking over at her, then back at me.
"Check the binding symbol in the armor. There might be something wrong with that," she suggested. Wait, binding symbol?
At this, I finally knew that I was completely made of armor. My body was armor, with no flesh or blood or any other normal, human body parts. I was a suit of armor.
There's no way any of this could be real.
There's no way that I was armor.
There's no way that this was Lelouch.
This had to be a dream, and as long as remembered that, I would be alright.
Lelouch took the helmet off that was the head for my metallic body. It felt weird, but when he held my helmet/head, I saw the mark that he was talking about.
"What's that?" I asked.
He smiled, but kept looking at the symbol. "That is the symbol that keeps your soul bound to this suit of armor. You've never seen it?"
"No," I said since I wasn't able to shake my head.
He placed the helmet back on the rest of the armor, and then looked over at Riza. "The symbol looks fine. I'm not sure what could be wring with her."
"Should I go and get the Colonel?" she asked with the same expression on her face.
"I'm not sure. Nunnally, exactly what's wrong?" he asked, looking at me.
"Well, I didn't wake up in my room, I'm able to see, I'm able to walk, and I have a metallic body!" I said, unintentionally freaking out.
"You're able to see and walk?" asked Riza, confused.
"You've always been able to do that, right?" asked Lelouch with the same expression.
Was he going crazy? Wait, this was a dream, this was only a dream. I can put up with this since it was only a dream.
"No. I've been blind and crippled since the incident with our mother," I replied, trying not to freak.
They both looked at me, confused.
"What? Nunnally, that's the day that you lost your body," said Lelouch.
What? Am I mixing what really happened with my own imagination?
I remembered the day that my mother died as if it only happened yesterday, though it's not something I like to remember. I do miss my Mom, though.
No matter what, though, I had to remember that this was only a dream.
"Nunnally, what's the last thing you remember before you went to sleep?" asked Lelouch with a concerned look on his face, worry in his eyes.
"I remember hanging out with Sayoko in the living room, listening to the news. The School Festival had just occurred, and all that everyone, even the news, was talking about was the Special Zone that our sister, Euphie, wants to establish for the Japanese people."
They all looked at me as if I were completely insane.
"Riza, go get the Colonel. I think we might need him," said Lelouch, looking even more concerned than before.
With that command, Riza, concern on her face as well, went out of the room to get the Colonel, whoever that would be.
*Well, that's the first chapter-Hope you liked it XD please Review!
*Expect slow updates; idk how often I'll be able to update, but what'll help decide that is how big of a response I get because my stuff with more reviews and hits get updated quicker because they have more fans waiting. That's how my update systems workXD ~C.C.