Some time ago in the desert city of Liore, there was a family. A mother, a father, a boy of ten, and twin girls of three months.
One day, since the daughters were too young to go out into the desert. The parents and boy went out into the desert. They were never seen again.
Nine years later, the odentical twins were in the orphanage they had known for the fullest length of theirmemories when a man came to Liore. His name was Cornello, a prophet for the sun god Leto, and he adopted both of the twins.
Five years passed after that, I'm Magen, one of the twins. Then there's my sister Sara. She's crabby, likes hitting people, hates lying (but that's because she sucks at it) and closer to me than anyone in Amestris could ever be. My personality is, at worst, lazy. I can pass for one of thosepeople that just don't give a crap. On the outside, thatis. Inside, well, guess that enigma's for you to find out by reading the rest of this story, isn't it? Plus, I tend to have a mischevious side.
Sara and I have brown hair, blue eyes like the sky betwen sunset/sunrise and full-on day. We have medium-dark skin, since we are from Liore after all. we're both 5 foot 6 inches and skinny. The difference between us is I had my hair over my left eye (I had a scar from falling, but if you'd ask me I'd say it was from a street fight.) and keep it past my shoulder blades.
Father Cornello may have adopted my sister and I. He may have let us in his library, and allowed us to read all his books. He may have us by his sides at his speeches about the sun god Leto. But he could't even act like a real father to Sara and me. Left us alone half of the time, sometimes I would've rather been back in that orphanage. Othertimes, like when it came to food, not so much. Guess his lying abilities rubbed off on me, though, becauseI'm rather grand at it.
While in his library while he was at his 'meetings' with a couple of weird people, Sara and I found some books on an interesting thing: alchemy. This was when we were like ten, so it was aroundwhen we werelike 'Hey, we're alchemists!'. Then we went ahead and made little things like toys,because we didn'thave any. We hadto coverup the transmutation marks up with furniture. Strange thing is, Father cornello never askedwhy we kept moving the furniture around... He probably knew.
When we were reading his books, we foundout about something called a Philosopher's Stone. Allowed someone two skirt the laws of equivalent exchange. Allowed to create something out of nothing. So my devioustwin and I started talking, and pretty soon we peiced it together. Father Cornello was more than a fake father, he was a fake prophet, and his beautiful creations that were 'blessings from Leto' were actually justcreations of alchemy using a Philosopher's Stone. The old man was a fake. Funny how that was part of my motivation for my goal: To learn as much as humanly possible about alchemy.
So, that's why, three years later when we were 14, after one of his many speeches where we were present and at his sides, we were fighting.
We were talking about how to bust Cornello. For his lies.
A.N. So it's kind of short, more of a prologue than a chapter, to introduce Magen and Sara. Don't worry, it gets better ^^' And please comment, and tell me if there's any ways to make it better, I want to be good since i'm kind of new here! ^^'