Yet another thing I have wanted to do for a while. Regarding my other story "I'd Rather be Alone" I will have the nect chapter up soon enough but I accidentally deleted the document so I had to start all over again and it wasn't fun so yeah... just enjoy this story now...
It was a sunny day in magnolia, birds were singing, and everything seemed peaceful... until a crash was heard. The residents of Magnolia sighed, Fairy Tail was at it again. Yet they wouldn't have it any other way, it became something of everyday life that people had become accustomed to. Then everything froze, like a glitch in a game. When the people could move again they listened, something seemed off. Then they realized... the noise from fairy tails guild hall had vanished. There was no sound coming from the enormous building. The townspeople slowly walked up to the guild hall and knocked, when they were answered with silence they opened the door. No one was there, no Natsu to pick fights. No Cana to drink the barrels of beer, even Grays missing clothes were no where to be seen in the guild hall. Magnolia's guild had simply... disappeared.
The fullmetal alchemist was definitely not happy, all he was going to do was make his report and leave. He didn't want to get caught up in any of the Colonel's insane tasks. Unfortunately knowing his luck, he should have guessed that it wasn't going to happen. When he was giving his report a loud crash was heard, causing the building to tremor like there was an earthquake. Mustang wasted no time telling Ed to go into central to see what happened. He debated on whether or not he should bring Al, judging by the sound... The crash happened rather far away, yet it still managed to shake the building. Ed knew that Al would insist on coming, so Ed decided it would be best to just let him come so they could avoid arguing. "Come on Al, we gotta get there before whatever caused that gigantic crash gets away," stated Ed.
"Right, if whatever caused it gets away who knows what other damage it could cause," replied Al.
"Mustang would probably blame it on me too," Ed mumbled, as they walked out of central command. They watched as people rushed around in a panic. Trying to figure out what happened. They walked for a while until they saw people in a large crowd.
"What're we gonna do Brother? There are so many people!" exclaimed Al.
"I'm in the military Al, it comes with its advantages" explained Ed, who then shouted "Step aside! State Alchemist coming through!" the crowd quickly parted so Ed and Al could walk up to the gigantic hole. The hole wasn't round shaped, it was almost as if there was once a building where the hole now was. The two brothers walked up to the edge and looked down. Needless to say they were... surprised.
"Brother there are people in there? What're we gonna do? Call the authorities? No, we can't! We are the authorities!" exclaimed Al, in a panic.
"I don't know, this isn't the thing state alchemists usually have to deal with!" replied Ed. As the brothers panicked more, the people in the hole began to move, which brought the brothers to an immediate halt. The people weren't dead. It was a blonde haired girl who had woken first.
"Where am I?" was the only thing that could be heard, as the towns people had gone silent. Ed and Al wanted the people in the hole to think they were alone. To create a false sense of security. The girl's voice echoed in the hole with a worried tone. "What happened to everyone? How did we get here?" Ed watched as she looked at all the people around her with a horrified expression. The girl whispered something and grabbed a key. She made a motion and nothing happened. She looked confused, staring at the key like it was broken. Then the other people in the hole began to move, they all slowly opened their eyes. Ed noticed one that was particularly alert, his eyes were darting all around the hole as if checking to make sure everyone was there. He had pink hair (what? pink? There's no way that's natural,) and was wearing some… interesting clothes. Genie like pants and a vest along with a white scarf.
"They all seem to know each other," whispered Al, who was also paying attention to the pink haired boy. Ed noticed that when the pink haired boy had noticed the blonde haired girl from before he visibly relaxed, and the more people he saw… the more relaxed he was.
He jumped up on his feet and shouted "Happy! I have some fish for you!" some rocks began to move and a blue creature emerged from the rocks.
"Where!" The creature exclaimed.
"Here little buddy," said the pink haired one, throwing him the fish that was stored in a little nap sack. The creature (called Happy?) grabbed it and began to gnaw on it.
"Thanks Natsu, but can you explain why we're in a hole?" asked Happy.
"No, we just woke up here... A moment ago we were getting ready to go on a job and now we're here... I checked and everyone seems to be here." replied Natsu. (What weird names)
"Natsu! Master isn't waking up!" called the blonde haired one. Ed looked down and saw a old man who must've been only two feet. Which meant that Ed was taller than someone older than him, although he decided to throw a party later.
Natsu got a serious expression on his face as he rushed over to where the old man was. He kneeled down and gently shook the old man, "Come on Gramps, you gotta wake up" Ed and Al watched as more people woke up and gathered around the old man. Then Ed realized what the blond girl had originally called the old man, despite what Natsu had called him a few seconds later. She had called him Master... we're these people slaves... maybe people learning from him. Ed hoped for the second one, then again... If they were slaves why weren't they running? This was their chance.
Ed's thoughts screeched to a halt when other people in the pit began waking up. They looked around and when they saw the old man they panicked and ran to his side. It went like that until a red head (was it dyed? Never seen hair that red before) woke up and looked around, "Erza! You're awake!" exclaimed the blonde girl.
"Lucy?" questioned Erza. "What's going on?"
"It's the Master! He's not waking up," Lucy stepped aside in order to let Erza asses the old man.
"Give us some room," Erza's commanding voice rang out. Ed was listening very closely and when he heard Erza's voice he was immediately reminded of Hawkeye. Same commanding tone and damn near identical voices. He watched as Erza shook the old man, "Master wake up right now," the other people in the hole heavily sighed at Erza's command.
"I don't think he can hear you," Lucy said, but Erza would not give up and kept ordering their Master to get up.
"Excuse me… Erza? Do you think I could take it from here?" questioned a sweet voice. Ed searched the hole and eventually found the source, it was coming from a white haired girl (what was up with these people's hair colors) wearing a dress. Although he had heard her sweet voice, he could sense an almost demonic aura coming from her. Ed then watched as the other people in the hole parted like flies, so Ed guessed they sensed it as well.
"Go ahead Mira, you'll probably have a better chance than me," stated Erza, stepping aside and allowing Mira to get closer to the old man. Although he was far away, even Ed could see that the old man had begun to sweat.
"Oh Master," Mira said cheerfully. Ed simply watched and tried not to laugh as the supposedly sleeping old man comically tried to inch away. Once the old man was sure he was far enough to have a chance, he broke out in to a roll just to get away from Mira. Unfortunately for him he was stopped by Erza.
"Just where do you think you're going Master?" Erza questioned, the old man sighed and opened his eyes.
"It was worth a shot…" he mumbled.
"What do you mean worth a shot? We're stuck somewhere and we have no clue where that somewhere is!" exclaimed Lucy.
"Well… when you put it like that…" said Makarov.
"Okay, so first we should probably figure out where we are" stated a dark blue haired boy.
"How about you put on some clothes before that, Gray" stated a brown haired girl who was off to the side.
Gray looked down and saw only boxers, "Damn it!" he exclaimed. "When did that happen? Has anyone seen my clothes?"
"I found them Gray-sama!" called a bright blue haired girl, twirling over to him. What was with these people's hair colors! It was unnatural!
"Thanks Juvia," said Gray, grabbing his clothes and putting them back on.
"First we need to figure out if our magic works or not," stated Lucy. "I tried using my keys earlier but they didn't work,"
"Magic?" whispered Ed. "Are they talking about Alchemy?"
Unfortunately for Ed, he didn't know that there were four dragon slayers inside the hole… magic or not, their senses were still heightened.
"Who's up there?" called Natsu, looking up. Ed jerked back, but Natsu had seem a tiny bit of his bright blond hair.
"Did you see something Natsu?" questioned the old man.
"Yeah, I think there are people watching us from up there," stated Natsu.
"If it help any, I thought I heard an unfamiliar voice whispering about magic a few seconds ago," mentioned a little blue haired girl that Ed barely managed to see as he somewhat stealthily peered over the edge.
"Either way, if your keys aren't working then it's safe to assume that magic isn't working. Lucky for us, when we ended up in Edolas, Jellal entrusted Lucy with extra pills and Lucy entrusted them to me," stated the old man, pulling out a vile of what appeared to be small red pills. Ed watched as they were handed out and people popped them in their mouths.
"So, we can test it out now?" questioned Natsu.
"Have patience my child, the most efficient way would be for Laki to try and make a ladder so we can get out of this strange hole," explained the old man.
Ed turned to his brother and whispered as quietly as he could, "Go get backup, these people seem dangerous. It looks like they just took some sort of drug," Al nodded in response and as quietly as he could in a suit of armor, headed towards Central Command.
Ed had only looked away for a second but when he turned back he saw a flash of light, and then he heard cheers coming from the hole.
"One at a time!" yelled the old man. Ed simply stared at the hole as he listened to the sound of fighting going on.
This went on for several minutes until Erza's commanding voice rang out, "All of you, single file line!" Of course, Ed couldn't exactly see what was going on because he was trying not to be seen by them, but judging on the quiet he guessed they had listened.
Much to Ed's disbelief, people started to climb out of the hole. Ed had checked several times and there was just no way for them to be doing that. That didn't seem to stop them as the large group kept climbing out until it appeared that there was no one else left in the hole. The old man then squeezed his way through to the front of the group and made eye contact with the man.
"Young man, would you happen to know where exactly we are?" he questioned, Ed simply gawked.
"U-um you're in Central," Ed clumsily replied.
"Central where?" questioned the old man, looking up at Ed expectantly.
"Ya know… Central… in Amestris?" Ed explained, but no look of recognition ever came on to the old man's face.
"It would appear something along the lines of an anima has brought us to another world… yet we have not been turned in to a lacrima," muttered the old man. Ed had never been this confused, almost everything they said was like foreign language.
"Hey gramps," stated Natsu. "I think he's the one that was watching us earlier," Ed began to sweat. How could he possibly know that? Ed was sure that he hadn't been seen.
"Yeah, and he smells of metal" said a black haired man with piercings all along his face.
"His voice sounds familiar too," added the blue haired little girl.
"Is what these children are stating true?" questioned the old man.
"How exactly do they know what my voice sounds like?" questioned Ed, but unfortunately he never got an answer because the Colonel bastard had to show up at the most inconvenient time.
"Fullmetal! I'll take this from here," commanded Mustang. Ed sighed, Mustang was going to blow this entire thing out of proportion. As far as Ed could tell, these people really didn't know where they were and as of the current moment had no ill intentions.
"Colonel wait!" said Ed, but it fell on deaf ears.
Mustang approached the group, still ignoring Ed's cries of protest. "I am Colonel Roy Mustang with the Amestrian Government, I need you to come with me,"
Lucy, recalling the incident in Edolas wasn't just going to follow a government official, "Why? We haven't done anything wrong!"
"That hole behind you begs to differ," replied Mustang.
"We didn't make that hole! We don't even know how we got here!" protested Lucy, stomping her foot in anger. She turned around to take a look at the hole and gasped. "Guys…"
Lucy's tone caused the rest of the group to whip around. Everything was silent until Erza spoke, "It's shaped like the guild hall,"
"So you did cause this?" questioned Mustang,
"Of course not!" exclaimed the little blue haired girl.
"Until I am given proof that you did not cause this destruction, I am afraid that I will have to arrest you for it" said Mustang.
"Mustang! Stop this!" exclaimed Ed, but the Colonel simply wouldn't listen.
"We have done nothing wrong young man, I do not take kindly to people accusing my children of things they have not done," said the old man, glaring up at Mustang.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," threatened Mustang.
"Colonel stop! We don't know what they're capable of! I saw them taking some sort of red pill earlier, who knows what they can do!" Ed exclaimed, but for some reason Mustang was still refusing to listen.
"If the easy way is us coming peacefully, we'll choose the hard way thanks," stated Natsu, sending a harsh glare towards the Colonel.
Mustang sighed and grabbed one of his spark gloves, "If you're foreigners, then I bet you've never heard of this!" he exclaimed. With a quick snap of his fingers, a beam of fire shot towards the group. Ed couldn't believe that Mustang would attack them like that, but it's not as if he could stop him. Ed looked away and waited for the screams but was quite surprised when he heard none. All that he could hear was a weird slurping sound and then a stunned silence. He slowly opened his eyes to find that Natsu was standing at the front of the group with a dangerous look in his eyes and Mustang's fire was nowhere to be seen… there wasn't even a scorch mark on the ground.
Mustang was left staring at Natsu in shock, after a second more of silence Ed heard Natsu say something very quietly with a dangerous edge, "I'm all fired up,"
