Roy Mustang sat at his desk tired and exhausted. Why had this happened to him? His only sister died and now he has to take care of his fifteen year old twin nieces. Those two, they never really liked me, Mustang thought, so why did I have to take custody of them. A soft knock came from the door and Hawkeye said
"Colonel, the Elrich brothers are here to see you. Should I send them in?"
"Yes, that's fine." Mustang replied exhaustedly. The door opened suddenly and the brothers walked in, Ed looked pissed and Al walked cautiously behind him. Then the older brother spoke.
"Listen I don't want to put up with any crap at the moment so I know we failed in the search but we still managed to get Al's body back."
"Fine, whatever just tell me what you want so you can go." Mustang spoke, and Ed noticed he didn't seem his normal self.
"Well Al and I don't really have enough money for a hotel room so we were wondering if we could crash at your place for a few days." Edward replied scratching the back of his neck.
"Sure. Fine. Whatever." Roy replied yawning loudly.
"Not trying to be nosey or anything Colonel but you seem to be more exhausted than usual." Al said.
"Well-" that was all Mustang was able to say when the door opened and a young girl with short black hair walked in.
"Hello Uncle Roy." The girl said. The Elrich brothers just looked at the girl in utter surprise.
"Raven, where's your sister." Mustang asked.
"None of your damn business you son of a bitch." Raven replied.
Mustang stood up suddenly and slammed his hands down on the desk with an angered look on his face. "You watch your mouth, I'm your legal guardian and so far I've been giving you and your sister brakes. But not anymore, from now on you're going to respect me do you understand me."
The girl got a god awful expression on her face and said "No, you may be our legal guardian but there is no way that we will listen to you. What are you going to do anyway? Nothing, that's what you're going to do, but if you absolutely have to do something you can shove your finger up your ass!"
A hand was coming straight for Raven's face when another young girl who looked just like Raven but with red hair stepped in the way. "Uncle Roy, how's it going? Gracia made us some dinner and gave me some recipes. I will be doing the cooking from now, I'm sorry Uncle but you can't cook at all." She then turned to Raven and said "Do you have something to say to our Uncle who was kind enough to take us in?"
"Nope." Raven said.
"Apologize or I'll be the one slapping you." The other girl spoke.
"Fine whatever." She turned to Roy "Sorry, but since Rose did a stupid thing and made me mad I think you should know that Rose got kicked out of school for slapping a teacher."
"You what!'' Roy screamed at Rose.
"Well with all do respect I think the guy was coming onto me. I mean he asked me to stay after class, something about how you can't cuss anyone you want out, so he started yelling and got up in my face so I slapped him.''
"Then what?'' Roy asked.
"We left then and I could hear him yelling 'that's it young lady your out of this school.' So I sat there."
"You two are going to put me in a hospital one of these days." Roy said rubbing his forehead.
"Hopefully soon." Raven muttered.
"Raven be nice." Rose said.
"Oh you mean as nice as you really are to people who irritate you." Raven interjected.
"Anyway," Mustang said "Raven, Rose meet Edward and Alphonse Elrich they will be staying with us. Oh and Ed's a state alchemist as well."
"Hi I'm Edward and this is my younger brother Al, I'm the Full Metal Alchemist."
"Never heard of you, and shouldn't you be called the pipsqueak alchemist." Raven and Rose both said together in perfect unison.
"Who are you calling a runt so tiny he can only be seen by a magnifying glass?" Edward started yelling.
"Well because that was what we were going to call you next I guess, YOU." The two again said in perfect unison.
"Raven, Rose be nice."
"Well can the short one sleep in the mouse hole?"
"We have a mouse hole?"
"Yes, but you don't have to worry there aren't any mice anymore." Rose said.
"What happened to the mice?"
"Let's just say that the-"
"Rose got hungry." Raven said sarcastically and strangely that made everyone laugh. But how long can happiness last in a story about sadness.
RAVEN POV
I sat alone at the window in Uncle Roy's living room, staring out at the rain. I could hear laughter from the dinning room where everyone else sat. They seemed to be enjoying themselves for the time being. Just then I heard Uncle Roy's laughter raging out from the dinning room, god I hated him. I saw Rose sitting there smiling I looked away and let out a sad sigh.
"Why don't you come over and join us?" Al suggested.
"No thanks. If you don't mind I'd rather be alone" I replied then returning to stare out the window at the pouring rain.
Rose turned towards me sighed and said "Raven, get it through your head you have to socialize or you'll never be good with people you pansy."
"Just shut up Rose you god damn ditz." I yelled back, it was then that I saw a chair hurtling towards me. I dodged it and looked up at Rose and said "What the hell is wrong with you? I remember back when we were so close, we stuck together and never said anything mean to each other or caused physical pain." I ran out of the door then, not sure where I was headed.
I could hear them calling out my name, but it was Rose who followed me. I was running through the streets of Central, it was quiet we were the only ones out in streets. I heard rock shifting and then I saw the light of a transmutation. At first I thought it was Rose but then I saw Ed with his hand pressed to the ground.
I readied myself to yell, but then I saw them. Seventeen men came out of the alley, they wore the faces of the men I saw that day. The day the sky was ablaze with the crimson stain of innocence. Red and Black. Something that is red is the fire that took our parents. Something that is black is the shadow that had filled my heart.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here." The man in the middle said.
"It looks like those little brats we killed last month, how did you survive." A bald little man on the side said.
"It seems that this job lasted longer than we thought, I was sure you were dead along with your Mommy and Daddy." The leader said.
"Rose."
"Raven."
"It's time." We said together. Rose came up and took her place at my side. We each took the bandages that covered our arms off, and the transmutation circle glowed. The stones in our bracelets corresponded and the power mixed together.
"It's time to pay for what you have done. It's time for your darkness to leave what you have tainted. It's time for you to give back what you have taken." We said in perfect unison, and the power was born in our conjoined hands and was released. In a beautiful flash of red and black the power subsided and they were all dead. All except for one.
I approached with caution and said "Why did you have to kill us."
He looked at me through blood and hatred and simply said "You dirty Bitch." He lunged at me with a knife in his hands, before I could react, flames struck him down. I watched as the man that used to be in front of me simply turned to ash.
I turned to Rose but she simply shrugged her shoulders. I felt a hand on my shoulder I looked up to see Uncle Roy. "Let go of me," I sighed and stepped away.
"Show some more respect, he saved your life!" Rose shouted.
"Why is it every time I say something not nice to him you freak out. I mean for Christ's sake he stole you from me." I yelled back.
"How is that?" Rose yelled.
"We were always so close until he showed up, then we started to grow apart. We were supposed to be together at the funeral. I waited for you, but you decided to leave me alone to be with Uncle Roy."
"He lost his sister and brother-in-law. He lost more than us. Do you even know why those guys were trying to kill us! No I didn't think so."
"Girls I promise you that I won't let anything hurt you. So, I will do everything in my power to find out why they were trying to kill you." Uncle Roy said in a somber tone.
"Thanks Uncle Roy." Rose said and hugged him. My heart dropped and everything inside of me shattered. The seal had been broken and not even Rose could stop me, I looked at Rose and something in her eyes should have mattered but at that point the power was too much that I couldn't contain.
My tattoo and stone glowed brightly, the pain was so unbearable that it made me scream. The blackness again surrounded me and the power busted free.
ROY POV
"Rose what's happening to her." I asked.
"Her true power has been freed; she'll be in an uncontrollable state unless a guy hugs her." Rose shouted back.
"What would happen if she didn't get snapped out of it?"
"We're not sure, but we think she'll destroy everything including herself." Rose shouted back.
I sighed out loud, "How do you know all of this."
"Well you see believe it or not this has happened before. Dad snapped her out of it once, I tried it once and she threw me into a tree." Rose said.
I started to move towards her, but Rose stopped me. "Are you crazy she'll kill you!"
"What other choice do we have? Listen you two are all I have left so I'll try. Besides she doesn't hate me she's just upset because you've been fighting and she blames me for it." I again moved forward and tried to get close.
"Leave me alone." Raven shouted. I looked at her, she was on her knees with her hands pressed against her head. "Just go away." She said her voice weak.
"Raven listen to me. I know you don't like me but I'm your Uncle and you need help. I never tried to steal your sister away, I'm glad she likes me and I want you to like me too." Then without thinking I threw myself at her and grabbed on to her. I held on tight and she calmed down instantly.
"Uncle Roy," she muttered I prepared to get slapped but instead she just said "Thank you."
"That's what I'm here for." I replied.
"Raven!" Rose yelled and Raven broke free and ran into her sister's arms and passed out.
"Is she okay?'' I asked.
Rose nodded and clutched her sister as if she were her life line. "I'll never let that happen to you again. I promise." was what Rose promised her unconscious sister.
That was when Ed and Al woke up but I was focused on Rose she looked almost as faint as her sister. Then she collapsed, she wasn't sleeping but I knew she wouldn't be in any shape to walk home so I had Ed and Al carry Raven home while I carried Rose. She was going to say that she could walk but shut up when she realized I wouldn't be buying into that. By the time we got home they were both sleeping.
ROSE POV
When I awoke, I was back in the room Uncle Roy had given me when Raven and I had moved here. Raven! I jumped out of bed and ended up doing a face plant into the floor. My whole body ached and my throat felt soar. I just lay there on the floor and everything about yesterday came flooding back to me.
I remembered that I saw Raven look into my eyes and see the flash of me knowing something she didn't register in her eyes before she lost control. That's when I got up and thought about what I was going to tell her if she remembered.
That's when Uncle Roy and Raven walked in and were wondering why I was on the floor. So, I said that I rolled out of bed and woke up on the floor.
"So how about breakfast." Uncle Roy asked.
I shrugged and said "I don't care but Raven and I will need to buy some new gloves since we don't need the excuse we got injured in the fire as away to cover our arms."
"Rose, I've decided, I need to ask you what was it that you know that I don't." Raven asked. My sister seemed surprisingly calm to be standing next to Uncle Roy.
I looked up at them both and one thought came to mind 'They're in on this together.'
"So, I asked can't I at least get to get dressed before I'm bombarded with all of your unreasonable questions?" I asked trying to find a way to buy time so I can get out of the house.
"Fine." Uncle Roy said.
Then crushing all hopes of running Raven spoke "Don't let her, she'll get dressed then leave out the window."
"How do you know that?" Uncle Roy said to Raven.
"Well it would seem that there are many things that we all need to discuss that none of us will be able to understand just by second guessing so get dressed but I will know if you still plan to leave." Raven said.
"Damnet. Well I guess neither of you are going to bail me out and let me go out the window peacefully."
"Nope." I guess they finally found something they agreed on.
"So what's making you two get along anyway."
"Let's just say that those damn Elrichs, mostly Al, got involved when I woke up, remembered everything, and was about to strangle him." Raven said in response to my question.