(i do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of its affiliates. There are three characters in this story that are not in the original story line, these two i do own the rights to as i created them. On one last note before you read this story please keep in mind that i wrote it originally three year ago, Although i did not complete it. Feel free to review on this but please do not give me any suggestions for what to post in the next chapter until i let you know that i have come to the end of the pre-written story line.
thank you very much for your patience, and now the first chapter..)
Chapter 1:
Evelyn sighed deeply as her younger sister rambled on about a new subject in school she was being forced to study against her will.
"It's not even science. Not really, more like fairy tale magic." Alichia took a large bite of her bacon egg and cheese biscuit and nodded her head at her own analogy," it's the same concept as a fairy circle. There is no way they could ever get one to work. And why do we the students have to be drug into it huh? It's just stupid."
"Are you done?" Evie, a name her sister had called her since she could talk, sighed again. Ali, a name Evie gave her as children, took a deep sigh and shook her head.
"I just don't understand why it would be REQUIRED when I am an art major. I'm not even taking a science class this year." the sisters looked out of their dorm window and across the college grounds.
"Just give it a try sis, they said it was only required this semester." Evie muttered. Ali sighed in a melodramatic way and stretched. She mumbled something along the lines of "this is stupid" and lay down on her bed.
"Hey Ev, you got a smoke?" She asked after a while.
"We have four left. You wanna go to the store?" Evie stated
"Nah, I just want one." Ali rolled over and flipped open her new text book. The two settled down into the usual after class traditions. Evie flipped open her matching text book after she finished her literature homework.
"What page you on?" Ali asked after a bit.
"I just started looking it over." Evie muttered as she flipped another page.
"I'm reading this thing called 'Human Transmutation: The Ultimate Taboo." Ali rambled.
"I just finished skimming that." Evie nodded.
"Let's do it." Ali smiled.
"What?"
"It won't work anyway, let's just draw out the circle for it and see what happens." The younger sibling smiled evilly. Evie thought for a moment before speaking.
"Alchemy isn't a fun thing to try out when you're bored." She stated softly.
"I'll go to the store for smokes after." Ali smiled.
"Dammit. Ok I'm in." Evie sighed.
The room was getting cold but the sisters didn't care. Ali carefully drew the outer circle as Evie filled in the Latin words that where printed in the book.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Evie asked as they finished the last few lines.
"The book says we have to let the energy flow between us and the circle, ow!" Evie turned to see her sister sucking her finger. She wanted to laugh but she was holding her own palm that seemed to just gape open suddenly.
"Ali I don't think we should-"
"One two three go!" Ali slammed her hands down on the edges of the circle. Evie followed behind quickly. A bright green-blue light filled the room and circled around them. It died suddenly and the sisters sat staring at each other.
"Well I think we need a celebratory smoke because I'm right again." Ali stated as she stood up. Evie turned to follow when she felt a hand clutch onto her leg. She looked down to see tiny black tentacles with hands circling around multiple parts of her body.
"Uhh sis," She said, but it was too late. The same tentacles where capturing her sister in their grasp. She felt the tug then. They both where being pulled backwards towards the circle they had just activated. She turned and saw a large gaping eye right before she passed out.
The first thing the sisters noticed was the smell of fresh cut grass, the stale smoke smell that hung around their dorm room was gone and replaced with a slightly cool breeze.
And speaking of smokes…
"Hey Ev,"
"Yeah."
"You ok?"
"Yeah."
"OK. And Ev?"
"Yes."
"You got a smoke?"
"No." Evie sat up then and rubbed her head. They were on some sort of open grassy area with a large white building behind them. Ali sat up beside her and stretched.
"Hey Ev?"
"What?"
"Where are we exactly, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore 'cause this doesn't look like school."
"I don't know. Let's ask that guy with a cigarette… OMG that guy has smokes!" Evie pointed to a tall blonde with a bad haircut and a strange blue uniform on. A smoke hung proudly from his mouth. The two approached him after a quick check to make sure they were clean. The guy didn't seem to notice them until they were directly in front of him.
"Hey you two, what are you doing here where are your visitor badges?" He asked sternly.
"What are you doing here and where is your visitor badge?" Ali asked back with an evil glint in her eye.
"I work here." He stated.
"Cool we solved that mystery. I think that earns us a smoke off of you um..." She looked to her older sister who was face-palming herself.
"Forgive my sister, I'm Evelyn, this is Alichia and we are lost and in desperate need for nicotine." She explained.
"Call me Havoc." The man said with a smile as he dug into his shirt pocket for the pack he had in it. After a few seconds all three of them had a lit cigarette in their mouths.
"You know you're pretty cool but I still have no clue where we are." Ali stated suddenly.
"Yeah I forgot to ask." Evie agreed.
"You're in Amestria." Havoc said with a shrug.
"Huh?" The sisters stated at the same time.
"You two aren't from around here are you?" Havoc stated.
"Well." Evie began.
"Not exactly, it's a long story. See we were drawing pretty circles and then there were these hands and this weird eye thing and this white room and..."
"Ali your rambling," Evie interrupted, "wait a minute, white room?" she asked after a thought.
"Yeah and this guy was there. Well, not really there more like an outline and there was this weird looking door and the hands grabbed me and pulled me through and-"
"You better stop there." Havoc stated. The two looked at him suddenly," Maybe I should take you to see colonel Mustang."
"A Colonel. Cool." Ali stated.
"You're going to get us killed." Evie sighed.
"Awww come on sis don't you trust me?" Ali asked.
"Is that a rhetorical question?" Evie asked. Ali shrugged and turned to follow Havoc, leaving Evie to catch up.
An hour later they were standing outside of a large office. Havoc had told them to wait until he came for them so that's what they were doing; Ali was beginning to grow bored.
"Can I just lift the vase to get a closer look?" She asked in what she hoped was a very innocent way.
"No." Evie said as she flipped through a magazine that seemed to be nothing but alchemy. Ali just shrugged and ran her finger over the intricate swirls on the vase.
"No touching the priceless looking things sister." Evie sighed.
"You're no fun." She pouted as she slid down the wall to sit on her butt.
"MUSTANG THIS IS BULL SHIT!" The two turned to see a short blonde stampeding down the hall towards the office. A large suit of armor followed behind him timidly, if armor could be timid. The guy didn't give the sisters the time of day as he slammed open the doors and marched into the office. Evie looked at Ali, Ali looked at Evie, and they both had the same thought at the same time.
"What the hell was that about?" Ali asked as the large doors closed behind the armored guy.
"I was just about to ask the same question..." Evie stated as she stood.
"Well if that kid can go in then I can Dammit" Ali stood as well and marched over to the doors. Before Evie could object she had threw them open and was marching in. With a sigh Evelyn followed her sister into the unknown for the second time that day.
The office housed one very long table filled with people doing paperwork and filing and one very large desk with a very sleepy looking man sitting behind it. The boy from before was standing in front of the desk and shouting out obscenities the sisters had never heard before. The guy in the armor stood behind him and would shift uncomfortably every few seconds.
"We get one good damn lead on the stone and all of a sudden it just disappears out of thin air! What happened in the last fucking twenty-four hours that would make it just vanish huh? Answer me Mustang!" He shouted.
"So, the sleepy guy in blue is the colonel huh? I would have thought it was that chick over there that's packing heat." Ali whispered softly to her sister.
"Full Metal calm down your hysterical," The man sighed and ran a hand through his black hair," The stone was apparently on one of your deadly sin friends and they just did their vanishing act." He shrugged and rested his chin on his interlaced fingers.
"You and I both know the homunculi didn't do this." The boy growled," I know you had to feel it to. That static charge of alchemy in the air! The homunculi can't perform alchemy." Ali blinked in surprise when she noticed his weird hair antenna twitch towards the colonel.
"Maybe we should go." Evie said slowly.
"Hey you short guy!" Ali called loudly. Everyone in the room stopped at the sound of her voice. The hair antenna flicked over to her before the guy turned her way. His face was as red as his coat and his hands where in fist at his sides.
"Who's so short they can fit into a peanut!" he ordered loudly.
"Now brother she didn't say that." The armored guy said in a weird hollow voice. It was too late though, the guy swung at her with his right arm. She ducked under and slammed her fist up into his elbow on the same arm. Tears sprung to her eyes as her fingers broke on something as hard as metal. She fell backwards and clutched her hand to her chest.
"Hey what the hell!" She yelled but Evie was already punching him across the face.
"You hit my sister!" She yelled.
"Actually sis I hit him. What is your arm made out of steel?" Ali asked.
"Yes it is." The armored guy stuttered.
"Who are these people?!" the blonde demanded.
"A couple of sisters I found out in the parade yard that I found interesting, especially the short one." Havoc stated.
"I'm not short I'm fun sized!" Ali declared angrily.
"Two of a kind." The blonde lady laughed softly.
"Who are you?!" The blonde guy demanded.
"Who are you?" Ali said slyly.
"My name is Edward Elric I am the full metal alchemist." He said with a sneer. Evie blinked. Ali blinked. Edwards sneer slipped as he realized they hadn't reacted.
"Um ok and." Ali said.
"AND? You're talking to a state alchemist!" He said loudly.
"Alchemy is fake." Ali stated.
The room went quiet as her words sunk in. the uniformed officers looked towards the colonel behind the desk. He in turn looked at the blonde lady who was looking at Edward. He was twitching his hair antenna and his eye at the same time and appeared to just barely be remaining calm.
"What did you say?" He asked.
"Alchemy is fake. Really I thought my school had lost it but you think you can seriously draw a stupid design and make something happen. It's fake." Ali sighed as if explaining it was a pain.
"Have you lived under a rock the last hundred years?" He asked," Alchemy is a very real science." He twitched again.
"Uh huh and dumbo really can fly." She sighed. The room grew quiet again.
"Who's dumbo?" Havoc asked. Ali's mouth hung open in disbelief. She turned to her sister who had the same expression.
"Is today my birthday or something? Ha, ha sis April fools I get it." She stated to Evie. Evie in turn shrugged to her younger sibling.
"I don't think so, considering its mid-summer." She stated to Ali.
"Um actually it's closer to fall." the armored guy stated.
"And who might you be?" Evie asked.
"Oh uh I am Alphonse Elric." He stated and shifted a bit.
"Let me guess another 'State Alchemist'" Ali said with a chuckle.
"Um no." Alphonse said," But I am an alchemist." Ali laughed loudly.
"Ok both of you are crazy. Dude that's no way to do your little brother, the blondes' gotten everything confused!" She said as she wiped away a nonexistent tear. The Colonel coughed loudly and everyone turned to him.
"Havoc, You and the two sisters stay here. Everyone else out, that means you Elric brothers." He demanded. There was a moment when no one moved and then the room slowly cleared. Edward was the last one to leave. He shot the Colonel a death glare as he closed the door.
"Okay, Now that the riff raff is gone we can sort this all out. Why don't you two girls take a seat?" He stated with a bored sigh. Evelyn sat in one of the two chairs in front of the desk but Alichia grumbled and sat on the big couch along the right wall.
"SO, Havoc says you two where just lying on the parade grounds when he found you."
"That's right sir. They were asking me where they were and for a smoke." Havoc said as he saluted him.
"Sit down Havoc." Havoc sat at his superiors command in the seat next to Evie.
"Um Mr. Colonel Sir, it's a long story." Evie began. He nodded at her to continue," Well you see we were in our dorm room at the college where we go to school. There is this new class that we are required to take called alchemical science. My sister," She waved her hand towards Ali," Was complaining about it not being real so we kinda picked a random transmutation circle and tried it out. She cut her finger and I cut my palm right before we activated it."
"Sis."
"At first we thought it didn't work but then there was these hands and,"
"Sis."
"This big Eye was there and,"
"SIS"
"We were being dragged towards it and,"
"EVIE!" She turned quickly to her sister who was cradling her black green bruised hand," I think I broke it."
"How did you break your hand?" She asked.
"I hit the Blondie in the arm." Ali huffed.
"We will look at that later." The Colonel smiled and turned to Evie, "And what else do you remember?"
"Well sir that's the thing. That's all I remember, after the eye I just woke up here." Evie said.
"Liar." Ali muttered.
"Am not!" Evie Shouted.
"You're leaving parts out." Her little sibling complained.
"And what am I leaving out?" she asked.
"The white room in the eye and the guy that was there but wasn't there and the door and the hands and-"
"Hold on there was no room in the eye. It was just the eye." Evie stated.
"You really don't remember the weird outline guy?" Ali asked. Evie sighed and rubbed her eyes, then her shoulder. Her eyes grew wide as she realized she still wore her messenger bag. She reached inside and pulled out a thick black leather bound book.
"Professor Curta is going to kill me." She stated as she held up her alchemical science book up for the room to see. The colonel raised one eyebrow at the Inscription on the front. It was a human transmutation circle.
"Is this the text book for your required class?" He asked.
"Yeah." Evie said as she handed it to him. He flipped it open and scanned a few pages. Evie held her breath just like she did when a teacher looked over her work. The Colonel handed the book over to Havoc who looked through it quickly and handed it back to her.
"You said that you drew a diagram out of this book?" He asked.
"Yeah well the one on the front I think." Ali said suddenly as she walked up.
"Yes." Evie confirmed.
"This is a very dangerous array." He began.
The door slammed open loudly and everyone looked up to see a brunette older officer with glasses march in. the Elric brothers followed him closely.
"Roy I've heard from the boys that we have a couple of strangers in our midst." He said loudly as he adjusted his glasses. The colonel flinched and nodded towards the girls.
"Evie and Ali meet Maes Hughes." He said.
"Hi." The girls said together. Hughes nodded at them sternly and looked at Roy.
"You know since they have no place to stay they have to come with me." He stated firmly.
"Are we in trouble?" Evie asked.
"Not yet you're not." Hughes turned towards them then and Ali noticed two pieces of paper in his hand.
"Um sis I think that's…"
"Gracia and Elicia. My wife and daughter! We will be more than happy to have you two stay with us while you're in Central." He literally gushed as he held the pictures in the sister's faces. They turned to Roy at the same time, eyes pleading for help. He just sighed and smiled.
"He's a little eccentric when it comes to his family but he is a good man. You two will be safe in his home." He nodded to Maes who smiled as he nodded back.
"Ali, I would like to talk to you later though about what you remember, will you come by at oh say three tomorrow?" He asked.
"Well I um," Ali began.
"I will make sure she's here Roy don't you worry. You should come by for dinner sometime. I'm sure Gracia would love for you to try her cooking. The boys seem to just love it." Hughes interrupted with a sloppy smile.
"I would love to but you know me Maes, Always busy." Edward laughed at this comment and the sisters turned to him quickly.
"What's so funny?" Ali demanded.
"Roy Mustang busy, I thought I'd never see the day." He said with a smile, then he seemed to realize who he was talking to because he turned away quickly and faced Roy," I'll be here to turn in my report tomorrow." with that the Elric brothers left. Alphonse waved goodbye as he closed the door.