"How could you do this to me? Did I not give you everything you wanted?" a girl screams.
A gun shot rings through me head, a thud, and a girl had been killed. And that was my sister.
"And now it is time for you Stone," he says as I am lifted from the ground where I had been sitting. I was blindfolded and couldn't see how my sister died or where she stood, but I know that I am alone now. My arms aren't tied together, but I won't dare move them. I know from experience that if I do, I will be beaten. The man throws me on the ground and my head hits the pavement. I can't breath and my head is spinning. And this man, I don't even know who he is. I've never met him personally, but I do know that he is the cause for all of the awful things that have happened to me in my lifetime.
I feel someone sit me up and take the blind off. I squint my eyes as the Sun blinds me. Soon. Though, a shadow creeps over my body allowing me to see the man I have never seen. The man is tall, about six foot, and has short hair the color of the sun. He is muscular and has a gun in his hand.
"Do you know who I am?" he asks in a semi-deep voice. If I wasn't about to kill him, I would go so far as to say a romantic deep voice. I would only guess he was in his late twenties or at least thirty at most.
"No," I say quickly.
"Then let me make it clear that I am your savior. The one that will care for you and keep you out of harms way."
"Then where is my sister?" I ask.
He looks sad for a moment and says, "She was shot by a traitor of mine, but he has been taken care of. I won't let anything harm you, I promise."
He apparently forgot that I know a lot of alchemy. In fact, where I come from people say I'm like the some man named Hohenheim, but I ignore it because no one can prove that he ever existed. But this man before me is careless because I drew a transmutation circle when I hit my head, and my hand can easily reach it. I placed it under a weed grown in between the concrete where he couldn't see it.
"Alright Vale," I say since I don't know his real name, "you may not know how powerful I am, but it would be foolish of me to think you didn't know the one thing that is dear to me, which just happened to be my sister, and try to use her against me. And it would be foolish of you to not think that I don't plan to kill you for do so."
"Then I suppose you don't believe me," he says with an unhappy face. "Then there is no sense in dragging this on. You either cooperate with me or I will have to punish you. Fair enough?" he asks with a sick smile on his face.
"Yeah, but I like to think one thing. And that is-"
I jump over to my right side and activate my transmutation circle. A bright light appears and then an electric current goes through the ground and shocks Vale and his men. A shot is fired and misses me by only a few inches. I get up and swiftly dance away, mocking these men in any way possible. but something catches my eye. I look through the dust and see a body lying on the ground motionless. I stop and realize that it is my sister. But my attack was only going to work long enough for me to escape, not long enough for me to get her out as well.
"Get her now!" Vale shouts at his men. They run towards me, but I quickly draw another circle. This time I make the earth split. As I watch the men fall to their death, I fell sorry for them and make a ridge to catch them so they won't die and leave their families to fend for themselves. I'm just that kind of person who can't stand to watch people die. However, Vale will be an exception.
I look back to my sister and see she is still there. I run to her and feel for her pulse. There isn't much of one, but I think I can help her. I look her over and see that her beautiful dress that our mother gave her just before our family died is covered in blood. I notice there is more than just one bullet wound, too. I don't know if I can save her now, but I have to try. I look to see if Vale is still around. I don't see him or anyone else, so I glance around to see if I can find anything I can use to stop the bleeding. I get up, but feel someone grab my ankle.
"St-one," someone whispers. I look down and see my sister just barely alive trying to tell me something. I kneel down and brush her hair out of her eyes.
"Hey sis, I will save you. I promise," I say trying to make her feel better. But I can tell I am too late.
"You need to find a man by the name of Maes Hughes. He works in Central Command. He can help y-" She coughs violently, and blood drips from her mouth.
"Sis, you need to be still or I can't hel-"
"I won't make it and you know that. Look for a man by the name of Mustang." She coughs once more and I can tell she is upon her last breathe. "They know people like you. One is a boy called full…"
Her grip on my leg is gone and her pulse fades. I pull her into my arms and I cry. She is all I have had for twelve years. Now I have to let her go.
"Sis, please wake up. Please!" I scream. I cry and cry, but I can do nothing to save her. I would attempt the biggest taboo, but I know the cost of human transmutation. I lost my family to it. All except for sis. I just wanted to bring back my sweet puppy, but I was only three. I didn't understand that one consequence. Normally something is taken from your body, but it took my family instead.
I get up and look around. There are no people around. The ground is concrete other than a little area near a wall to my right and the whole in the ground I created. There are concrete walls all around me for as far as I can see, but it is mainly a bare landscape. I can see the sun and a few clouds, and it seems as though that there might be a city near by due to the reflection off of the clouds, but I can't really tell. I decide to bury my sister in the grassy area. I use alchemy to make a grave and I wrap her in my dress and my jacket because I have nothing else. I am grateful that I have a tank top and a pair of Capri on under the dress or I wouldn't have anything to wrap her in. And I have my favorite combat boots on that she gave me…
I bury her and I stare at the grave for a while. I cry because I couldn't do anything to have saved her, but I must follow out her will. I look up to the sky to see what time it is. The sun is rising from the east so I assume that it is between seven and nine in the morning.
"Hey, miss, are you okay?" I hear a squeaky male voice shout. I look behind me to see that a young boy, maybe fourteen or fifteen with blond hair in a braid and a red jacket, climbing over the wall and coming towards me. "Please just stay right there," he says as he runs to me quickly.
"Please let him help me," I say under my breath. I fall to my knees from exhaustion. "Please..."
"Hey, hey! Are you OK? What happened?" he asks.
I look at him and ask, "Can you tell me where I am?"
"You are only about five miles from Central. Can I ask who you are and what happened?"
"I don't know what to tell you, really. It's too long of a story." I glance back at my sister's grave and then back to him. "I suppose alchemy's greatest taboo for bringing back the dead is for more than one reason."
He gives me a strange look and says, "What do you mean? Are you an alchemist?"
"Are you?"
"I asked you first," he says in protest.
"You are an alchemist which makes you 'a dog of the military'. Your watch kinda gave it away," I say as I glance from his waist to his shocked face. "And, yes, I am an alchemist. But I will not tell you anymore until I know that I can trust you."
"Hey, you can trust me. Besides," he says with a laugh, "the people of Central and of the East love me. I'm Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist."
"Wait Fullmetal? Sister, is it…" I look at him and then at her grave as I remember what her last words were.
"Did I say something?" Edward asks as he taps my shoulder.
I turn around and ask, "Do you know a Maes Hughes or a Mustang?"
"Well yeah, it's hard not to."
"Can you please take me to them. I will tell you everything I can as we go."
"Alright, come on."
Edward helps me stand, but I immediately fall. He catches me around my waist and puts my arm around his neck to help support me as we start to walk to town. It is prettier out here. There are trees and grass everywhere. Flowers too.
"So, what is your name?" Edward asks me.
"To tell you the truth, I don't remember. I was kidnapped when I was three and been I have been missing for so long that all anyone had ever called me was Stone."
"What the hell does that mean?" he asks with a confused expression.
"Well, I don't really know." He has a surprised look on his face, but I continue. "The people who have been after me for so long always say that I am the most important part of something so old that many people think it a myth. It isn't a great life, and now she is dead…"
"That was your sister? I'm so sorry. I know how it feels to only have that one person left. I have a younger brother. My mother is dead and my father is gone. I became a state alchemist to help take care of us."
"When did she die?" I ask.
"When I was nine. Al, my brother, was only eight."
It became quiet and a sad mood came over us. "She was eighteen and I am only fourteen. A big age difference, but we still loved each other. How old are you?" I ask.
Edward chuckles and says, "What do you think I am?"
"Fourteen?"
"I'm fifteen. So, what can I call you?" Edward says, quickly changing the subject.
"Anything you like."
He thinks for a moment. "How about Eliza?"
"Hmm… I suppose for now it will work."
"What was her name? Your sister."
"I don't know. Like I said, I haven't heard my name or hers in so long that I just can't remember hardly anything other than alchemy."
"Well, then this might be hard for us to help you."
We walk the rest of the way in silence. I take in all the beautiful scenery even while we are in the city. As we get further into the city, I start to walk on my own so I am not too much of a burden to him. The buildings are tall and there are people everywhere. And in the center of the city, a building that Edward calls Central Command stands there. We walk in and the first person to rush towards us is a boy in a suit of armor.
"What happened?" the boy asks.
"I saved someone," Edward says with a smile.
"I bet that you are Edward's younger brother Al, right?" I ask interrupting their conversation.
"Wait, how did you know he was my brother?" Edward asks me. "I never mentioned that he was in a suit of armor."
"You didn't have to. I noticed your expression when I mentioned alchemy's greatest taboo and that I am an alchemist. Your arm and leg helped as well. Just be glad you didn't attempt it when you were three," I say as I look down to the ground. "Oh, and I may not remember my own life, but I can easily tell things about other people."
"So then you already knew that Al was-" Edward cuts off quickly and puts his arm around me. "You were young. I'm sure-"
"You're sure about what?" I say in an angry temper. "Instead of losing something like and arm or leg, I lost my whole family. You don't know what that is like. And I hope you never do."
"I'm sorry," Al says quietly.
I look up at him, since he is taller than me, and see that even without an actual face that he is a little sad. "Yeah, I'm sorry too for you. Anyhow, let's just find Mustang and Hughes. I need to talk to them."
"Well, come on then," Edward says.
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