Chapter #1
Ayce A. Auric
There are many reasons as to why cities and towns are abandoned. Poverty, war, famine and even natural disasters can be the reasons these communities have been condemned to history. The small town of Bouvet was the setting of unspeakable horror. During the Ishvalen war, 540 residents were massacred by the Military as punishment for the Ishvalen Resistance. According to one of the two survivors, the men where herded into barns where they were shot in the legs and left with starved dogs to be eaten alive. The women and children, who had been held in the chapel, were killed when their desperate attempt to escape was met by a line of Armed forces. The village was razed to the ground shortly after.
A lone Ishvalen man named Saru Auric, escaped with his five year old sister to an abandoned mine. With pure white hair, dark skin and ruby red eyes, he had the whole 'Ishvalen' look. His sister got her looks from their father, a man with Saffron red hair, light olive skin and honey gold eyes.
The 24 year old man managed to survive there for two years, that is, until he died while fending off a large transport convoy of Military scientists. Over those two years, Saru's sister learned how to use the "Red Sand Style" or "R.S.S". R.S.S is a form of Alchemy that controls the elements of Sand. Sand is mainly oxygen and silicon. It is mostly silicon-dioxide with some influences of silicates which are rock compounds with other metals like calcium and iron making up the positive ions in the mineral. Ayce A. Auric, known as "Triple A" by the Military, has partially mastered the R.S.S. Yet, despite this power passed down throughout her 'mixed' Ishvalen history, the only thing she wanted to do was bring her big brother back.
After her brother died, she found a Chimera that escaped from the convoy. It looked like a mix of cats and some sort of poisonous reptile. His appearance is mainly that of a white Siberian cat with abnormally long ears and emerald green eyes. The only thing that gives his Chimera part away are his abnormally long fangs that drip with poison, his poisoned caked claws, and the silver scales around the back of his legs, neck and tail; not to mention the orange third eye on his forehead, but that's normally closed. She named him Kin – short for Kinship.
She took a whole year to gain the knowledge of the act, and on a night of the full moon on her 8th birthday, she prepared to bring her brother back to life.
Ayce's POV
Something has gone wrong.
I place my hands on the specially made transmutation circle. The ingredients to create a human; Water, 35 liters, Carbon, 20 kilograms, Ammonia, 4 liters, Lime, 1.5 kilograms,Phosphorous, 800 grams, Salt, 250 grams, Saltpeter, 100 grams, Sulfur, 80 grams, Fluorine, 7.5 grams Iron, 5 grams, Silicon, 3 grams, And trace amounts of 15 other elements. I smile at the thought of hearing my bothers laugh again.
As soon as I set my hands on the transmutation circle, I wanted to back out. I'm not a coward, but I've learned to follow my instincts when using alchemy, and this was one of my moments where I wanted to turn tail and run. That dark, flashing energy consumed my body, making me yelp in surprise. Equivalent Exchange is something that is required. It depends on your act, but in the end, something must be given in return. There are no 'good' outcomes once you begin. Of course, the outcomes are different for every person, so one never knows what could happen once it starts.
After a few seconds, my body and power over alchemy seemed to change. I could feel something inside.. changing, making me think the transmutation was successful. Those thoughts would create nightmares, and would haunt my mind forever.
The energy turned into a spiraling wind, making my knee-length red hair go wild in its torrent. The remains within the bowl started to bubble and swirl. Something was being created, becoming human. I looked at the remains with a hint of delight on my face, that uneasy feeling was still in place, but it was working! The transmutation marked as a Taboo or Forbidden, was working! I leaned in slightly, excited to see my brothers face. But then.. something changed.
Sparks mixed into the tunneling air, and struck the bowl repeatedly. I looked up at the sky in awe. Clouds were forming around me- misting the circle over. A flash of blood-red light made me flinch, and turn my gaze back to my soon-to-be brother. The light became blinding, making me want to shield my eyes. But my hands wouldn't budge. What's wrong? I thought frantically. Did I miscalculate something? I began to panic, my instincts where jumping into overload, shouting 'Run, RUN!'. A huge eye appeared in the center of the circle, and shadow-like hands surrounded my body, dragging me toward the remains.
"NO! STOP IT!" I scream. No one hears me; I mean, who would? I'm in the middle of this God forsaken desert! Everything turns white.. Am I dead? I turn around sharply and see a Gate.
The Gate is a pair of doors resembling large stone tablets engraved with a mural, floating in the endless white expanse. A white person sits cross legged, a shadowy outline is the only thing that separates it from the rest of the white abyss.
"You have broken the law; and have sinned. Tell me, do you know the meaning of equivalent exchange?" It asks. I stare at it blankly before the most intelligent question pops into my mind.
"Who the heck are you?" It's arms fly upward and a smile appears on it's face.
"Oh! I'm so very happy you asked!" It's tone is filled with mocking and joy, how creepy. "I'm what you could call God. Or perhaps Truth, perhaps all, and perhaps one." I hold my hand up, and give the white boy a look; making him tilt his head slightly in question.
"For future references, don't say 'Perhaps' so much.. I tuned out after the second one.. Continue." He points a white finger at me, with a wide grin on his face.
"But I am also, you." I point to myself.
"Did you just call me a Man?" The creature face-palms as the gate begins to creek open.
"You have trespassed on God's domain, and you will pay the price of your sins." Oh wow, he completely ignored me! Slowly the gate opens, which reveals a dimension of.. information? A shadowy void with several shadow-like ethereal hands protruding from it as a single large purple eye within stares down at me. I grab my head in attempt to quiet the pain, my brain going into overload to gather all the information. I glare at the violet eye as unimaginable information shoots through my already splitting head, only to realize my left arm is being torn from my body.
The gate throws me out, and back in the presence of the white figure. " This.. I need this!" With this information I could bring my brother back to me!
"Had enough?" I shake my head.
"No! Just let me see the information one more time! I was so close to learning the secret!" It shakes it's head.
"Not with the toll you have offered..." I turn to it and growl;
"I offered my brother body, I offered my left arm.. Take my right eye, and make it so it's yours! You can judge the world oh how I live! Please!" Selfishness was what runs through my mind. Greed. But no, I want to see my brother again! I bang against the the gates massive doors in an attempt to get through.
"Oh-oh-oh! You want me to give you the eye of a homunculus?" I nod, what the heck is a homun-whatever? Who cares!
"Oh well then... Alright. I'll take your right eye then!" The doors reopen, and I scream. That's right, I scream and scream all my worth as my right eye is torn out by the black hands. Not what I had planned, but I guess it works? Inside, pure knowledge about the world, the universe, alchemy and everything else is forced into my mind once again as I begin to break down both physically and mentally with those black hands tearing at me to make me a part of the flow within the Gate.
"You will be my eye in the world of Amestris, Hmm?..." The hands cover my head, sending me into the peaceful debts of my own thoughts.
Waking up, I found myself staring at a misted flat-stone. In the center is a bloodied, misshaped creature. It's head is on back-wards, ribs sprout out of what could be called it's chest. It's internal organs are puddling around the body along with its blood. Slowly, it raises it's hand; croaking something.
"A...ce.. Ake... gar..." It's sentence ends with a gurgle of it choking on it's own blood. I felt my eyes widen to an almost impossible size, my pupils shrinking into almost nothing in fear. This... no this can't be my brother! His pure white hair and ruby red eyes! This creature has no hair.. and it's eyes are white voids!
"What happened!" A sharp, demanding jolt tears through my stomach sending out a tingling sensation throughout my body, like when your foot falls asleep and you start to walk around only to feel those needle-like pricking. Looking down, I stare at the constant bleeding nub that was once my left arm, and I scream again.
"Kin.. KIN!" I scream on the top of my lungs. On que the house-cat sized animal appears next to me. "F..find help Kin.. I can't feel anything any-" I faint.
I wake up an two hours later in the back of a truck, heading West.