First fanfic ever! Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do! If you guys have any questions, comments, or ideas, just let me know. PLEASE REVIEW! I wanna know if I should keep going with this story or not.
P.S. – I do not own anything. Not the characters, not FMA or FMAB (Although I wish I did ) or even pancakes. (Ahh, what I would give for some pancakes right about now.)
As she looked back over her shoulder, she heard them getting closer.
"Gotta… keep… going…" she repeated to herself as she ran. Her blood was pounding in her ears, and she felt the brisk night air against her bare skin and regretted not grabbing something warmer during her escape. She could hear the pounding steps getting closer, and dived into the next alleyway she found.
"Get her! We have to bring her back to Lab 5! We can't let her escape!" the soldiers cried, just running past her little hiding spot.
She breathed a sigh of relief and examined her surroundings. She was in dark alleyway, hidden away between some trash cans right outside of a door to an inn. She could hear the laughter inside and smelled the precious scent of meat.
"What I wouldn't give for some food right about now…" She hadn't eaten in over a week, and was ready to collapse from hunger and exhaustion. Her eyes began to droop and she fought to keep them open. Eventually she gave up the fight and submitted to the darkness. As she drifted off, she had the dream again.
"Ready, nii-san?"
"Yeah, but are you sure about this Allison?"
"We are doing this for father…don't turn back on me now."
They placed their hands on the ground, and the floor began to glow. Next thing Allison knew, her brother was gone, and so was her left hand. She screamed, staring at her missing extremity that was spurting blood. She heard ragged breathing over towards the center of the room, and she let her gaze drift over there.
As for what she saw, there were no words.
She sobbed, crawling over towards her brother's now empty clothes, "Nii-san! Nii-san! Please don't leave me here! I need you! You promised me that you'd always be here for me! NII-SAN!"
The dream ended with a blinding flash of light. She woke with a start, staring up into the face of an angel. Well, at least something close to an angel. He had blond hair and strikingly gold eyes. She could see his hair, tied back into a long braid, not in the usual style guys wore it these days.
"Hey Al, do you think she's dead?"
"Look brother! She's waking up!"
The angel turned back to her and held out his hand. "Need a hand?"
"Thanks," she said as she attempted to stand up. All of a sudden, a rush of vertigo overtook her and she nearly collapsed that is until gentle, yet strong hands caught her.
"Hey, are you alright?" the golden boy looked down at her, with general concern in his eyes as he held her.
"I'm alright," she told him as she straightened up, "I'm just a bit hungry… I haven't eaten in at least a week. Where are we anyway?"
"I have some food right here," he drew something out of his pockets and handed it to her. It was a loaf of bread. "I gotta keep some food on me somewhere, or else I'd collapse from hunger too. We state alchemists don't get much time to eat you know." He laughed good-naturedly. "You're only a couple blocks down from Central Command."
Her eyes widened and she dropped the bread. This boy was a state alchemist? Then that means he was with the military… she had to get away from him before he realized who she was.
Interrupting her thoughts, he asked, "So, what's your name anyway? Why are you sleeping behind trash cans? Are you on the run from someone? Are you homeless?"
"I'm Allison. I… I… am on the run from some… people," Allison confided in him, although not telling him the entire truth. "But I came here… looking for a place to stay."
"Brother, I'm sure she could come back with us to Central Command." She looked over to the where the voice came from, directly behind the boy. It was a body of armor that had spoken. Probably one of those guards from Lab 5 who came to take her back. She quickly backed against the wall and her voice became hysterical.
"S-stay away from me! I won't go back, I won't! You can't make me!" She clapped her hands together, almost as if she were praying, and placed them on the ground. All of a sudden, she had a spear in the palm of her hands and she rushed the suit of armor.
The boy cried out. "Al, watch out! Allison, what the hell are you doing?"
Al dodged to the left, but was too slow. The shaft of the spear was deeply embedded into one of the chinks in the armor. To her surprise, the armor pulled out the spear and threw it to the ground. Damn it, she must've missed. The golden boy grabbed her arm and pinned it behind her back.
"What the hell was that for? Why did you attack my brother?" he asked her, a note of suspicion in his voice.
She squirmed around, but his grip was a strong as steel. "Y-your brother?"
"Yes, that is Alphonse Elric, my brother. I'm Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist." All of a sudden, he gasped. He took a closer look at the hand he had pinned behind her back. It was automail. "You- you have an automail hand? What happened? Why did you attack my brother?" Suddenly, everything clicked into place. The automail hand, her reasons for hiding, and her alchemy without the use of a transmutation circle all made sense now.
"You-," Edward stared at her with a haunted look, "-you attempted human transmutation, didn't you?"
She looked up once more into Edward Elric's troubled golden eyes, and collapsed.
What will Edward and Alphonse do? Will they turn her in, or will their own memories influence their decision? (Hehehe sry bout the cliff hanger)
So, was it any good? Should I continue, or shall this end up being a doomed one-shot? Any ideas, comments, or questions, just PM me or even better, REVIEW please! (Winry and I might give you a cookie if you do! )