A/N: this is my fan-fiction that features my OC. Sure, there are going to be characters from the series popping up, but it's OC-centric.
I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist – I don't think I'm that creative to come up with a story line like that.
It was a typical hot, sunny day in East City. The wind was blowing hard enough to cool some of the unlucky ones working outside, but other than that, it seemed pretty normal for the city. Meanwhile, a young Xingese girl wearing a black trench coat long past her knees started to enter the city. She had no problem wearing the open coat, revealing a dark blue v-neck t-shirt with a simple white trim along the edges. On the right side of the V, the white trim extended down towards her waist and made a little jacket out of the shirt. She wore black shorts and sandals and kept her hair down. She stopped for a moment and fixed her sandals. "God, I think I need to buy new ones once I get some money," she grumbled in Xingese. Suddenly a puff of dust rose from behind her and the girl turned around.
A voice murmured, "It's so damn hot here…"
"At least we're out of the desert," the Xingese girl noted. "But maybe if you took off your coat, then this wouldn't be a problem in the first place."
The voice scoffed, "Look who's talking! You're wearing a fucking black trench coat."
She groaned, "Look Megumi, just shut up. I don't want to deal with all the glares… I swear, all Amestrians think I'm crazy because it looks like I'm talking to myself!"
"That's because you are crazy, Ayame!" Ayame growled, grabbing something in the air. A person covered in a beige colored cloak appeared and Ayame was holding on to that person's arm. Megumi took off her hood, revealing her short brown hair tied in a tiny ponytail. The wind picked up again, jingling the small bells dangling from the base of the ponytail. Two bird feathers swayed to the right as she sighed deeply, "The feels a hell lot better."
Ayame turned around quickly, "Keep yourself covered until we find brother's hiding spot," she withdrew a piece of paper from her pocket with Xingese text sprawled all over. Muttering to herself in Amestrian, Ayame said," West Apartment A, room 326… Key in flower pot." She then stuffed the paper back in her pocket and addressed Megumi in Xingese, "Besides, only I am supposed to be here legally. If any one from the State Military sees you… Well…" Ayame gulped, "Let's make sure that doesn't happen."
"Right, that's why we made sure I could do this technique and not get detected before leaving," Megumi said as Ayame kept moving forward. Suddenly, silence grew between the two girls as Ayame was getting closer towards civilization and people. She kept on her mind the reason she was in Amestris. While the boarder patrol people believe that she's a traveler who goes to Amestris with her family, Ayame and Megumi knew that the Mikimoto family could not even get their asses to Amestris unless the Chang family were to be escorted first. The main reason why Ayame was here was mainly to become a State Alchemist. She fell to the pull of alchemy when she was young and her brother was studying it. She dreamed of the day when she would learn more from the people of Amestris and travel out of Xing, but while the Chang family holds a huge foot on the growth of the Mikimoto family, Ayame knew that her dream would never succeed. She would never admit this kind of deal to Megumi, who was busy learning Alkahestry.
Learning Alkahestry was hard for Ayame, but a breeze for Megumi. Ayame rather fight one on one against someone than let chi control how she would move. Their older brother saw how much she loved alchemy and together, they worked to better their skills. Alchemy was good until her brother saw more into it and caused something that made Ayame ashamed that he had to be her brother.
Another reason why she was here was because of her brother. She had a thing against him; the two of them wanted to over thrown the Chang family and bring the Mikimoto family back to it's rightful place, but they were opposing sides. While blood shed was in her brother's eyes, Ayame found that negotiation would be better. Ayame's brother wanted the Philosopher's Stone so that the strongest man of the Mikimoto family's ancestry would be brought back to life and rule over the Chang family. But there was something else that he wanted the Stone for. And that, Ayame had no control over.
The final reason was to avoid an assignment. Ayame's brother left for Amestris because he didn't want to "babysit" the Chang Family Princess, May. The thought of it was terrible, and once he was gone, Ayame was next. After her, Megumi. So, in order to save their souls, they all decided to leave. None of them wanted to babysit May, no matter what it costed.
In each situation that Ayame thought about, there were consequences. In the first stage, Ayame faced discrimination by her gender and race. Being a Xingese female could be a factor where she might fail the examination or not be able to take the test. At first glance, Ayame is more of a strong man than a woman, but that's when people were comparing her to the suck ups back home. The one thing that separates Ayame from the men—alchemy. And Ayame had a gift that no one else knew until now.
In the second stage, finding her brother will be hard. They haven't spoken since he left home two years ago. Ayame freaked when she saw what happened to both Megumi and herself, and while her brother fixed Ayame; she wanted Megumi to be fixed as well.
In the third, someone from either the Mikimoto or Chang families might come to find them. It's the main reason (other than her illegal entrance) why Megumi is invisible—she needs to hide. The families need at least one of the Mikimoto Family Head's children to watch over May. Tatsuya wouldn't be found, but Ayame and Megumi would be easily found together.
The girls were always together. It would seem fitting since the two are twin sisters. While they are twins, Megumi and Ayame were complete opposites. The only thing that really made them twins was their facial qualities, but after an accident, they ended up different once again.
Megumi is the quieter one of the twins, which makes sense that she would be hiding underneath a cloak and sneaking off into Amestris with Ayame, the loud mouth and determined one of the twins. Megumi would rather not get into any action, but if comes down to it, she'll fight back. Ayame will kick anyone's ass any day.
Ironically, Megumi is the one who swears the most compared to Ayame. Her older sister believes that since Megumi is quiet all the time and listens to Ayame and Tatsuya swearing, it's become second nature. She does know words that would replace her cussing, but rather get it out than think about it and censor herself.
"Do you even know where you're going?" Megumi whispered softly so that no one would hear her.
Ayame nodded proudly, but inside, she had no freaking idea how to get around East City. Amestris was a weird country for her—the whole country was this big circle that named big cities after the polar directions. Ayame joked, while they were in the desert that a three year old could point out where West, South, East, North, and Central Cities were on a map of Amestris. Even a three-year-old Xingese could do that. "Don't worry about it," she murmured.
She walked up to a lady who was selling flowers at the flower store. She smiled, "Welcome, how may I help you?"
Speaking perfect Amestrian, "I'm kind of lost. I'm supposed to meet my older brother at these apartment buildings," She stared down at the piece of paper, "Uhh… let's see.. West Side Apartments?"
"Oh, wow, you have quite a ways to go," the lady smiled, "If you take this street past the Eastern Command building and turn at the third street, you'll find those buildings. Would you like to buy any flowers?" Ayame stared at all of the flower arrangements. I can't con this woman... she's too nice. I gotta start somewhere insanely low—like some vendor. But, I gotta make the gold first.
Ayame shook her head, "No, my brother is allergic. While he thinks I'm a pain, I think it would be a lot worst if I brought flowers."
The saleslady laughed, "Okay, well have a good day then." She turned and headed back into the back of the store.
Megumi whispered, "Why didn't you con her?"
Ayame sighed as she left the shop, "I can't. I don't have the materials for the perfect con."
On their way to East City, Ayame had made herself known to be a great Con Artist. She often used fake gold to get what she wanted. The vendor would be excited to get gold, but then after she was far away, it would turn into coal and he would be ripped off. One of the greatest heists she wanted to do was to duplicate the pocket watches of the State Alchemists and sell them for a good enough profit. However, what they would turn into was a different story, and Ayame questioned if she really just wanted to leave them as pocket watches. She thought of making the emblem disappear, but she needed to be a little bolder.
After following the directions faithfully, the Mikimoto twins arrived at an old building with a rusted sign saying "West Side Apartments, building A." Megumi was happy to finally be resting up in some place instead of being in barns and under trees like they had been for the last couple of weeks leading up to this day. As the stairs squeaked, Megumi feared that people would know that someone was following Ayame. As much as she could, she skipped steps until she crashed through one and grabbed for the back of Ayame's trench coat. She turned around violently, "God, do you have to be ruining everything?" She asked in Amestrian so that no one in their apartments would suspect a Xingese out here. Ayame grabbed her sister's leg and pulled it through, then after looking through the hole and seeing how far they were from the ground, Ayame put her hands together and touched the wood. Instantly, the hole was covered. Just to test it out, Ayame put her foot where Megumi was stuck, and didn't fall in.
"Thanks," Megumi murmured in her best Amestrian. Ayame sighed deeply, not saying anything else to her sister. When the twins had decided to go to Amestris, Ayame tried to learn as much as the language as possible. Megumi decided to pick up whatever Ayame knew how to speak and run with it. It is not like Megumi doesn't understand Amestrian; it is just that Megumi speaks it with a heavy Xingese accent. Ayame had planned this trip for a long time and was already fluent before they left. There was no accent in her voice and she really made people think that she's from here.
When the twins reached the floor and the front door of their apartment, the flowerpot was knocked over and broken into millions of pieces. The key was nowhere to be found, and the twins found themselves locked out of their own home. Megumi growled as she reappeared behind her sister. "Why does Tatsuya have to make it so damn hard for us? I mean, already he's cursed us with the truth shit that you alchemists talk about." She paused for a moment and then muttered, "I used to be pretty."
"Megumi…" Ayame groaned feeling annoyed that she would start ranting until Ayame used her alchemy and shut up her sister. Not listening to her sister, she jiggled the doorknob. It loosened, but fell to the ground. "The apartment better not be torn up."
Picking up the doorknob, Ayame opened the door to find that the room was fairly clean, but dusty. There wasn't any indication that her brother left anything other than a note telling the landlord to take this missing money and saying that this should be enough for the year. As the two girls looked at the note, a gruff man was standing in their doorway. Megumi jumped, for fear that he would turn them into the Military and the twins would be separated. "What are you two girls doing here in Taylor's apartment?"
Taylor. That must've been Tatsuya's name when he came here. Ayame reached into her pocket and felt the lightweight dollars. "We are his sisters."
"Sisters?" The man asked, "He never said anything about sisters."
Ayame sighed. She hoped for this to be all easy, but it looked like it was going to be hard to tell the man that they will own the apartment and they will be taking it over for Taylor. "He doesn't like to talk about us. We're both younger than him and Taylor would rather be an only child than be babysitting us."
The gruff man stroked his beard, "Now that you think about it, he always did complain how his family was annoying… and he was always implying that he worked alone. I wanted to help him on an experiment, but when he looked at me, he said that I wasn't the perfect type." Ayame's eyes widened. What the hell was Tatsuya thinking of doing? He wasn't going to… her mind blanked. No.
"We probably need to pay rent, right?" Ayame asked, pulling out the dollars in her pocket.
The man nodded his hands, "Taylor fixed a lot of things in this old building. I owe him a great gratitude. The apartment is yours. I was just checking out to see who was up here."
Ayame smiled, "Thank you sir."
"What are your names?"
Ayame quickly answered back, "Aya and Meg."
A/N: I promise that someone from FMA will appear in the third chapter. :)
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