Author's Note:
Here we go. This is my first fanfic. I don't got much to say yet besides: I don't own fma or the characters in it (really wish that I did. Heheh) So, please read my story. Short chapters, I know, but I had to; it is so much more suspenseful (I'M not lazy, noooooooo, of course not XP ) Yah, that's bout it. Enjoy. And remember to review. Tanks, everybody.
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Chapter One
A Light in the Storm
Edward Elric, State alchemist, and equal in rank to a major in the military. You can have all the titles you want, but they won't keep you clean and dry in a ferocious storm, Edward thought bitterly. He huddled closer to his briefcase, and wrapped his arms around his knees. The small alchemist shuddered with cold, trying to shrug off the weight of the rain, and with it his responsibilities. He failed miserably with both. Edward shivered again, and cursed; there was nothing he could do. He wasn't allowed to use alchemy unless the situation was life threatening, and he couldn't leave his post at the mouth of the valley until the military was sure that the inhabitants poised no threat.
Ed coughed, the long, rasping cough of someone too long exposed to harsh weather without protection. he rolled his shoulders inward and tried once again not to think about being cold and filthy and wet. At least his body was starting to warm up; his fingers and toes didn't burn with cold anymore, and his face no longer felt like tiny needles were pricking him with every burst of freezing wind. He figured that it was his body heat once again joining the battle that he thought his small body had lost long ago. Edward closed his eyes and sighed. A tiny puff of misty breath escaped his lips, only to be blown instantly away by the raging wind of the wild storm. Edward felt a strong drowsiness slowly creeping over him. His body felt entirely to heavy. Funny, he thought, I haven't eaten anything in the two days since my military rations ran out. Without thinking he yawned, a gesture that should have wakened him as the stinging and icy wind that ripped down his throat and into his lungs. It had almost no effect now.
Edward couldn't even feel his eyelids slowly closing, his brain penetrated with the numbness that had taken over his body. All that he felt was a silent, sopophoric weight seemingly dragging him endlessly downward. His body seemed as heavy as marble, sinking slowly into the depths, A solitary, huddled figure engulfed by the hungry storm. A small light, snuffed with ice, a sinister disease already seeping through his veins.
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Hahahahaha-he are gonna kill me 4 how many times I called him SMALL! Heehee (small)
So, there you go. Please review. I need tips. And don't hurt me about Ed, use your brains; if I killed him off this early in the story (the first uber short ;D chapter.Hahah- short- hahah) would I have much of a story then? I mean, what's a story without Edward in it XD (drools) ya, so, don't you worry your heads about him. Unless, of course, you don't review. I won't post until somebody does, and if it takes too long I shall have to kill him off at the end of the story. I could make it fit perfectly with the plotline, easily. So REVIEW!!!!!!
Much lurv, AllE K.