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Chapter 1 - Nowhere

Darkness... dull quiet empty darkness. Nothing In sight, just plain boring emptyness. The girl wondered many things. How did she get here. Where is here and most importantly, who is she. If she concentrated she could here a voice.

"...e...k..l...b..."

The voice sounded so far away. it was impossible to understand what it said.

Pathetic. you can't even bother trying. Well I can't have that can I.

That voice... it was so fammilier.

Well I can see you still have some sense...Ellie.That was it. Her name was Elizabeth. But who was she. Pain erupted through the girls head, then bright light.

Ellie lay down in the white void. The last thing she remembered was sitting in the school library.

Sitting at a table, Ellie read through the last few pages of 'Larton's guide to the human immune system' her amber eyes skimming through at the large amount of text. She had an overactive brain, meaning that she could process her thoughts thousands of times faster than the average person and she could remember every detail perfectly. It was a gift... or so she was told. She always read books in hope that someday her mental capacity was reached, that she could forget something. Or the number one thing. So she could sleep. As it were, Ellie was sevearly underweight, as most of her bodyweight was used as an energy source by her brain, meaning she was always awake.

"well well well if it isn't the book worm."

Ellie looked up at a smirking Samantha. She had black hair with red highlights and piercing blue eyes.

"Sorry Sam, the picture books are in that direction. Then again, they might be to advanced for you."

Sam snickered at that. Sam was Ellie's best (and only) friend. Everyone else treated her like a fragile doll, like even the slightest nudge would break her. Everyone but Sam. She treated Ellie normally. Well, Sam kinda normal.

"What you reading anyway."

Ellie snapped her book shut, having just finnished it, before turning back to Sam.

"Stuff about the human body. I start university next month and I dont want them thinking I can't do anything by myself."

Sam nodded. She knew why Ellie realy read stuff like this, they had been best friends ever since they met at the hospital all those years ago. Ellie was still recovering from the train accident that killed her parents. well physically recovering, Ellie's mental health was going to hell. She refused to talk or eat. The staff were about to give up until one night, while on her rounds, a nurse discovered that a patient with a shattered leg had somehow managed to sneak into Ellies room. The nurse would normally take the girl back to her room, infact she was supposed to do so, but then she had noticed that Ellie was actually talking to her. The nurse reported this back and it was then arranged so that they would share a room. Ever since then Ellies mental state had Iimproved. Ellie stood up and walked towards the shelf putting her book back. She then walked over to the fiction section and started looking for a certain book.

"What are you looking for now?"

Ellie pointed to one of the books on the top shelf.

"There, the new resident evil book. it's based on the first game... damn you libraries built for giants."

Ellie whispered that last bit to herself as her fingers just brushed the bottom of the book. Ellie ignored Sam's laughter and tried to stand on her toes. She almost got it but fell into the bookcase before landing on her back.

"Gravity, though art a heartless b..."

That's all managed to say before the bookcase toppled over. The last thing Ellie heard was Sam shout her name before her vision went black.Ellie tightened her fists as she remembered. Was this death, was this hell. She turned and saw a giant gate. On it was an image of ygdrasil with unknown writing on its branches. Just as she tried to get a closer look the gates opened, revealing a black void in contrast to all the white. hundreds of black arms shot out and grabbed her, pulling her through the gate. Ellie screamed as she felt herself being broken down. This was the end.

"...ie..."

Ellie heard a distant familiar voice from the void.

"Ellie..."

It was Sam, the voice gave her a new strength as she pushed through the arms towards the voice.

"Ellie, where are you..."

Ellie could see Sam now, she looked different but there was no mistake.

"Sam!!!"

Sam reached out her arms as she was being dragged back through a gate. As Ellie got close, Sam started to scream as her left arm was deconstructed. with one last push, Ellie lunged forward towards Sam, grabbing her only arm now, before they were both pulled through the gate, but not before seeing a blur of red for a split second.

Pain shot through Ellie as she landed on her arm, a sickening snap was heard as her arm broke, and her elbow digging into her ribs cracking a few. Sitting up she saw Sam, laying against the wall and clutching her bleeding stump.

"Sam.."

Sam turned as she heard Ellie's voice. Her eyes wide, before she slumped over, unconscious and loosing blood fast.

A/N: I know its a short chapter but this is just the start. no this wont be an Ed/OC. the reason being... well you just have to read on to find out. this story takes place years before the events of fullmetal alchemist. but follows the 2009 anime. ill also be throwing in my own theories about alchemy. Just remember this.

One last thing. please review. I would prefer your brutal honest oppinion as im hoping on actually currently working on becoming a published author and any criticism will help me.

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