Full Metal Alchemist

Another Chimera

Chapter one

Iris was a little girl of only seven years old she had a good life, a mother and a father who took very good care of her she loved her family and had a good life they lived out in a heavily forested area. Iris's father taught her a little Alchemy or tried to any way she couldn't really do it but she tried like heck. Iris had short blond hair in two pigtails on either side of her head she wore a white tank top dress that reached a little below her knees and white sandals her skin was kind of a cream color and her eyes were dark blue.

Iris didn't understand it but she didn't look like either of her parents they told her she looked like her grandmother who had died a long time ago and Iris didn't remember her.

Iris didn't pay much attention to that though being seven she didn't have a care in the world and just loved to explore and discover things about herself and the world itself.

This day how ever was different Iris wanted to know more about the strange mark on her left shoulder she had one on the right shoulder there but she had drawn it there to match the other when she was younger Iris walked into the kitchen that morning and sat at the table she didn't eat her breakfast for she wasn't hungry.

"Is something wrong Iris?" her father asked curiously Iris shook her head"No I was just wondering what was with the odd mark on my shoulder" "Its Marker dear you drew it there when you were younger" her mother said with a small laugh

"Not that one the other one, the one that I copied it from" Iris asked Her mother suddenly dropped the glass plate she had been cleaning in the sink and it shattered on the floor at the same time her father choked on his coffee. There was a long silence as Iris helped her mother pick up the pieces and throw them away"Iris….there are just some things you are better off not knowing" Her father said sighing

"Is the mark on my shoulder one of them?"

"Yes it is just a birth mark but what it means is what you don't need to know anything about alright?" Her father asked Iris nodded "Alright Daddy I won't ask again"

"Good girl" he said standing up "I'm going to work I'll be home as soon as I can"

"Alright be careful" Iris' mother said kissing him on the cheek

"Bye daddy I love you" Iris said as he picked her up and kissed her cheek then he set her down and walked to the door just before he opened it there was a knock which seemed to surprise them all

"A visitor? We aren't expecting any one are we dear?" Iris mother asked her husband shook her head and opened the door there stood two people a man and a woman

"Hello how may I help you two?" Iris father asked Iris couldn't help but notice him stiffen and her mother grab her by the shoulders

"We're here for the girl" the boy said Iris felt her heart race as she took a step back "I'm sorry Iris isn't up for an adoption you must have the wrong house I know she's cute but if you want one you'll have to look some where else or make your own" Her father joked the Iris noticed they had the same mark as she did on her shoulder who were these people? And were they just like her? So many questions flooded Iris' mind at once that she almost missed what the man who had come to the door said next

"Sorry to break this to you but its not optional she is to come with us or your wife will have to see something she probably doesn't" the man said Iris ran to her daddy although she knew she wasn't supposed to she understood what he mean she grabbed her father by the leg and peered out from behind it "Stop! Please don't hurt my mommy and daddy" Iris begged the woman smiled

"That's a very interesting mark you have on your shoulders there were you born with it?" she asked Iris didn't under stand what was going on or how the woman knew"No I'm sorry I saw them on another little girl in town once and I drew them on my arms because I thought they were neat" Iris said she didn't know why she had lied but she had and some how she felt her family would be safer that way.

"Nice try kid but it's a little obvious only one is marker" The boy said Iris' father turned her around and pushed her back towards her mother Iris looked back as her mother took her and led her to another room quickly and closed the door."Mommy what's going to happen to daddy?" Iris asked scared "I don't know just get in the corner and hide alright?" her mother said Iris went into the corner and hid in a trunk she waited what felt like twenty minutes then she heard the door open "Its alright they're gone" her father said Iris came out of the trunk her father was covered in bruises"Who were they?" Iris' mother asked

"Two of the sins they want Iris"

"Why do they want me?" Iris asked scared now her father sighed "Listen to me Iris if you see anyone like those two no matter what I want you to turn and run alright? Run to the safest place in the area they are going to be coming for you tomorrow your mother and I are going to stay here and you're going to run" her father said seriously Iris's eyes grew wide she was a little scared

"Wha-what?"

"We can't do that she's only a little girl she won't survive out there on her own" Iris's mother said worriedly her father nodded

"What other options do we have? If one of us leaves with her they'll follow and kill us any way she has to go" he said Iris began to cry and she hugged her father

"Daddy please don't make me go I want to be with you and mommy"