This is the clock upon the wall
This is the story of us all
This is the first sound of a newborn child,
Before he starts to crawl
This is the war that's never won
This is the mother waiting by the phone,
Praying for her son.
Chapter One: Story of Us
"Sir?" asked a slightly worried brown eyed woman, though she was very good at not showing it. The raven haired man did not look up from his desk, staring hard and long at the paper work he had left.
But it was not the paper he was seeing, more as the deep thoughts that had taken over.
"Sir?" she asked again, louder this time. "Hm?" Mustang answered softly. "Is something wrong sir?" Riza asked, her voice monotone but she was earnestly concerned. Had her superior fallen sick? "No everything is fine, Lieutenant." his reply came, but he sounded distant, as if in another world or dimension.
Or perhaps a different time.
Hawkeye nodded and went back to doing her own paperwork from her side of the room. She stopped in mid writing to stare out the window, only to see a baby bird fly for the first time from a nearby tree. A small smile curled her lips, a rare smile.
Roy caught glimpse of it, and smiled along.
Wherever the Elric brothers were, the two blondies(although one of the two didn't have hair) wondered around aimlessly not uttering a word. Letting silence take over. Which was something that was eating away at Alphonse's well being. "Nii-san?" the younger brother blurted out.
"What do you want?" Edward snapped, rather harshly.
"Where are we?" his little brother asked, not being effected one bit from Edward's harsh way of answering.
After growing up with the rude blond, you learn to live with the fact that Edward wasn't exactly the most pleasant and most polite person in the world.
"HELL IF I KNOW!" his brother suddenly exploded.
"So…We're lost?"
"NO! I'm sure we're headed the right way!"
"Are you sure? I think we've been going in circles…"
"OI! I KNOW WE'RE GOING!"
"But you just said that you didn't know-"
"SHUT IT!"
"… We are lost…"
"I'm starving old man!" a whiny voice broke through a forest. The old man sighed and rolled his wise orbs, turning to face the young prince. "Young Lord, we can not keep stopping." was his response, and kept on walking. Ling stopped walking, crossing his arms over his chest and refusing to take another step. Lan Fan stopped walking also, and looked over at her young prince with worried orbs behind her mask.
"Fuu, the Young Lord stopped walking…" Lan Fan called over, the old man already yards away.
"Ignore him! He'll come on his own." the old man yelled over his shoulder.
"But…"
"Just come along Lan Fan."
"We're suppose to be watching over him, aren't we?"
"We're watching him, just from a few yards away."
"O-okay…"
The dark haired girl gave the prince one last look and ran off to catch up to her grandfather. Pouting, Ling refused to move.
He needed food and he needed it NOW. Not tomorrow, not later, NOW.
He 'hmphed' and turned his head away from his so called bodyguards and made himself comfy on the ground, they would have to come look for him and hopefully with some food, because without any food, he was not going to move. He was being stubborn and he realized that, but the starvation was eating away at his empty stomach.
Was he exaggerating?
Perhaps.
"I'm bored. I'm going to die of boredom." an annoyed greenette growled. A sigh left the perfect lips of a young homunculus. "You can't always be on a killing spree." she mumbled, turning back to her magazine.(She was bored too) The greenette grunted and lay on his stomach, watching human children pass by laughing and giggling.
"Why did we have to come to a stupid park?"
"I did not force you to come."
"Ugh. I had nothing else to do!"
"Oi, you just answered your own question!"
"…."
"…."
"So bored…"
"Envy, I warn you, I will have Gluttony eat you."
"Pfft. Where is that walking buffet any ways?"
"Eating."
"HE CAN GO AHEAD AND EAT HUMANS AND I CAN'T KILL JUST ONE?"
"Quiet. And he went to get a hamburger, so calm down."
Envy grunted and went back to studying the grass from under his nose, this was too peaceful, especially for a sadistic homunculus like himself. He should be off killing some worthless human, not sitting here under a tree with Lust at some dumb old park. This was so extremely boring!
The shape-shifter rolled over on his back to stare at the clouds, birds flew by chirping their never ending song.
"I'm bored."
"I'm going to kill you."
A soft sigh left the blue eyed girl's softly colored pink lips. Pinako, who was in the same room glanced over at her beloved granddaughter.
"Is something the matter Winry?" she asked.
Winry replied, "No, it's just.. Doesn't today seem a little too peaceful?"
"There is no such thing as too peaceful, silly child."
"Do you think Ed is gonna swing by soon?"
"Well knowing him… You never know."
"Hmph, the stupid shorty. Always getting himself into trouble."
"More money for us!"
"Granny! Well.. You do have a point."
Winry looked out the window with a distant expression. She really hoped her childhood friend, wherever he was, wasn't getting into any trouble. She just wanted him to be safe, though the money he gave was pretty good. And they needed it to get bread on the table. A small smile made it's way to her face.
That hotheaded mess, he really had to be more careful, one of these days he could seriously hurt. If he got seriously injured, as in died, he wouldn't be able to give them money and Winry wouldn't be able to make any more automail for him.
The thought horrified the blue eyed teen.
"Curiosity seriously killed the cat… Ow, in this case it just left the cat seriously injured and sore…" mumbled a voice through a crowd of people.
The red-eyed brunette often found herself talking to no one in particular, usually just herself. Which earned her a few odd stares, but she usually didn't notice. And if she did, so what? She didn't really care much of what people thought of her.
One of these days though… Her curiosity was going to be her death, not that it hasn't caused her enough trouble. The Ishvalan girl stopped walking when she managed to slip through the crowds of people who had gathered outside to look at the outside stores.
It was much like a flea market.
She stared hard at a tree, half-expecting it to start talking. The strange girl wasn't sure why the tree had taken her attention, but it had and now she was trying to figure out why.
Then she heard it.
"Chirp. Chirp."
Up on the top branches there was a small nest of baby birds, all chirping enthusiastically, as if all excited. One by one, they jumped out and began to fly after their mother.
Soon after they wouldn't need their mother, they would have to face for themselves. Mommy wasn't going to be around anymore, they might go through tough times, but they would have to do it alone.
But they would make it.
Just like their mother.
With a shake of her head, her dark curls bouncing in the wind, Mizuki slung her backpack over her shoulder, pulled down her red hood even lower, and began to walk through the forest. Wondering just what might lay ahead.
"Doo, doo, doo, hm, hm, hm, la, la, la, la…" she sang randomly, trying to come up with new noises that would leave her lips.
Okay, this is my first story on the site and honestly I'm a bit nervous ^^" I just really hope people give it a chance, because I have so many great plans for it :) It will include pretty much everyone in FMA including Mizuki Kawaki who is my made up character ^W^ It's somewhat of a love triangle and later on I will probably ask the readers, you, who you think should end up with Mizuki :D The following will be part of the love 'triangle'
1.) Ling Yao (Cuz I love him to death!)
2.) Zolf Kimblee (Cuz I think he's pretty kewl too :D)
3.) Greed (He's awesome ^^)
4.) Edward Elric (hey, you can't really have a FMA story without him in it xD)
5.) Envy (MY SECOND FAV CHARACTER :D)
Hehehe ^W^ So plz keep on reading! Oh and btw this is sort of a combanation of Brotherhood and the 2003 anime. Only because, some characters are in one anime and not the other T_T Now this is the list of people;
Zolf Kimblee- Okay first off I'm spelling his first name with a 'z' cuz I think it looks awesomer and i love the letter 'z' for some reason XD and I shall(no one actually says this...) use the Kimblee from the 2003 anime becuz he looks... kewler to me ^W^
Wrath- From the 2003 anime 'cuz I'm like his twin sister! XD
Pride- From Brotherhood again 'cuz I like him a bit more ^W^ So there will be no Bradely, well there will be but he won't be a homunculus
Sloth- From the 2003 anime :)
Envy- Well, there is no change for him but... Well SPOIL ALERT for those of you watching the 2003 anime... 'Cuz he's well... somewhat related to sumthing(LOL) so... yeah. Let's just say his real name is "William".