Hey Everyone! Yup I revised the prologue after two years since publishing it and i am going to do the rest later on. hopefully i can get it all done by the end of next month and keep writing new chapters along as well. Well, i hope you all enjoy this newly revised and edited version of the prologue. I added more stuff to it, more detail to some extent. Well review and let me know what you think :)

I DO NOT OWN FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST. Only Artemis :)

Prologue

"Brother, where are you taking me? Where's mom and dad and everyone else?" a very young Artemis questions worriedly as she was being carried by her older brother, who was running as fast as he could, like he was getting away from something. Artemis starts panicking. She looks at her big brothers face and saw terror in his eyes; as if he saw millions of people get killed. She turns her head side-to-side trying to see where they where but she couldn't tell as her brother was running too fast. Then they came to a stop. Her brother places her down on the ground slowly as he tries to catch his breath. Artemis gets up and tugs on her brothers' shirt. He looks up and stares blankly at her with his blood red irises.

"Artemis, something bad has happened. You're still to young to grasp with what I'm about to tell you." He takes a deep breath again and sighs loudly. "The military attacked our village and killed mom and dad and everyone else." Even though Artemis was just 4 years old, she understood everything her brother told her. Tears start forming in the corners of her eyes.

"Listen to me carefully Artemis. You need to do me a favor. Can you do that for me?" he asks as Artemis starts wiping away the tears that were falling down. She nods her head slowly.

"You need to go to that town there and find a new family. I can't leave you with the tribe anymore because the military might go after them again and I don't want to risk losing you too." He looks at Artemis and notices that she moves her head up and down firmly and wasn't crying anymore. He smiles as he kisses his kid sisters forehead.

"Go now. I got to go back to the tribe and see how they're holding up. You're going to do me that favor right?"

"Yes brother I promise." Artemis gives him thumbs up. He smirks giving her thumbs up as well. He gets up from where he was kneeling, turns around and starts to run into the pitch black forest, leaving Artemis by herself on the large green hill with the memories of her family and former home.

As Artemis starts walking into the small rural town named "Resembool" it begins to rain dreadfully on her. Scared and alone, she runs to the nearest shelter that is near her. A plain white two-story house with its lights on was the closest home where she can take shelter for the night; if the people are kind enough to invite her in. She quickly scurries to the front entrance and softly knocks on the door.

Artemis waits patiently in the rain, hoping that someone opens the door. She starts to sneeze, feeling her nose running she wipes it with her beige tunic till a short blonde hair boy with golden eyes, opens the door to her wiping her nose. "Who are you?" he asks rudely as he lets the door go, revealing inside of the house. It felt so warm. She wanted to go inside but couldn't, not until they invited her in.

"Edward, who's at the door?" asks a sweet, genuinely nice, feminine voice coming from inside.

The blond boy, apparently named Edward, gives her a coy look and answers "Some girl mom. Should I let her come in?" he questions, knowing how miserable she must've looked.

Edward backs away as a woman whose hair is in a ponytail that's off to the side, wearing a purple dress with a white apron heads over to the door and sees Artemis soaking wet. "Edward! Why didn't you bring her in?" the lady inquires sternly as she gently grabs Artemis by the hand, bringing her inside the warm house.

"Come in, please. You must be freezing."

"Mom, remember you said to not let anyone that we don't know into the house?" Edward defends himself, closing the white door once his mother and the new stranger enter in.

The mom leaves Artemis by herself with Edward for a moment while she went to search for a towel to dry Artemis's hair. While she was doing so she replies to her son, "Yes Edward and you're right but if it's a poor girl that's out in the rain, we should make exceptions." She walks over to Artemis and starts to dry her hair and body.

"Oh really? How often does that ever happen?"

The mom rolls her eyes and shakes her head at him. She finishes drying Artemis up when something caught her attention. She notices Artemis's eyes, being taken by surprise by the red irises. "Oh, you're Ishbalan. How did you get all the way out here?" she questions Artemis.

Artemis looks up at her and begins to cry unexpectedly. "My village was invaded by the military and my brother brought me here because he didn't want me exposed to any of the violence. He told me that I should find a new family but I didn't want to. I promised him that I would do that favor for him." She then wipes the tears from her eyes, picking her head up at the mother who was actually paying attention to her story.

She smiles softly and hugs Artemis. Caught off guard Artemis just stands there, not knowing what to do. She then hugs her back, trying hard to hold back the tears. "No need to worry. We'll take you in my dear. We have lots of space here. Here let me show you your new room."

Artemis follows the woman up the stairs to a room with a bed, a window and a dresser near the window. She gazes in awe as she stares at the room, smiling. She turns around and sees the mom and Edward standing by the door, admiring the look on her face. "Thank you so much miss, it's more than I could've asked for!" she runs to the woman and hugs her.

"Don't worry about it... Oh, I'm sorry I didn't quite get your name?"

Artemis looks up and answers with a smile, "My name is Artemis and I'm 4 years old."

"Oh ok then. Well I'm Trisha," Trisha introduces herself. She looks down at her son and places her hand on his head. "And this is my son Edward who I'm guessing you already met." She looks back at Artemis. "I have another son but he's sound asleep in his room. You'll meet him in the morning at breakfast."

Trisha walks over to the wooden chest of drawers and picks out a dry set of pajamas that seemed to be a little too big for Artemis. "Hmm, I'm sorry dear, but I don't have any pajamas that seen to fit you." She looks over to the room across from Artemis's and come up with an idea.

"Wait here dear. I think maybe Alphonse's clothes may fit you for now, until we buy you some new ones." Trisha takes off to the other room, leaving Artemis and Edward by themselves.

Artemis ignores Edward, who was doing the same to her and walks over to the window and looks up at the stars. Edward notices what she was doing and decides to join her as well. He stares at Artemis from behind, acknowledging her straight dark brown hair and her red irises reflecting off the moonlight. He never met and Ishbalan before, and was fascinated by her presence.

Artemis feels a set of eyes beating down on her as she moves her attention to Edward staring at her. "May I help you with something?"

Ed snaps back to reality and shakes his head, "No. I just never met an Ishbalan before."

"Well I never met an Amestrian before. So that makes the two of us never meeting each other's races before then, huh?" she places her head down to rest on her hands that are on the windowsill.

Before Ed was about to say something his mother walks in with a pair of his brother's old pajamas from when he was younger. Ed pokes Artemis on the shoulder making her turn her body around to see for herself. It was a yellow shirt with yellow pants to match. Artemis couldn't hold her excitement and gratitude in much longer. She runs and hugs Trisha for all that she is doing.

"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much Trisha. It really means a lot to me that you're going through the trouble of letting me stay here for the night."

Trisha was surprised by what Artemis exclaimed, "The night? Who said you were staying the night?" She moves Artemis in front of her so she could see her pretty little face.

Confused, Artemis tilts her head to the side, "I'm sorry?"

Trisha smiles happily. "You can stay here as long as you like dearest. You're apart of this family now. And please, call me mom when you are ready to do so." She cups Artemis's face and kisses her forehead.

"Now, you best be getting some shut eye. It's already very late." Trisha walks over to the door, holding onto Ed's hand at the same time. She stops and turns around to face Artemis one last time, smiling, "Goodnight Artemis."

Artemis starts to feel warm inside, hugging onto the pajamas tightly. "Goodnight." Once she said so, Trisha closes the door to her newly furnished room. She changes into her new clothes and walks over to the bed to lay down on it. She looks out the window one more time and thinks to herself before she fell asleep, 'Brother, wherever you are, we will see each other soon. I know we will. This family is very nice to me. I love you big brother.'