"Please, please forgive me, but I won't be home again. Maybe someday you'll have woke up, and, barely conscious, you'll say to no one: "Isn't something missing?"."

~ Evanescence (Missing)


Chapter two:

Mice


"A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body."


"Humankind cannot gain without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange."


A witch that was the size of a child and who seemed to be a child, looked down at the boy whom she had knocked unconscious. Some witches that knew soul protect could use a spell to see souls, she had used it on the boy after she had saw him kill a human. She was shocked by the sight of his soul, it was swirled like ice cream, the colors of red and purple were the colors of his soul, one trying to dominate the other; the red was putting up the best fight. The witch used a sleeping charm to make sure that the keishin egg boy stayed asleep. She used a levitation charm to carry the boy with her. She then traveled to the Witches Realm to find her sisters who looked exactly like her.

The witches' form was concealed under a large black cloak embellished with several vertical white stripes around the exterior and white lining that extends from around the nose downwards until reaching the ground. What was shown of their faces were their seemingly closed eyes, buck teeth and short pink hair that frames their face that had whiskers drawn on their cheeks. Their hats reinforced the mousey theme of their family, featuring two curved extensions from the brim forming the ears and rounded eyes, while the peak acts as the mouse's nose.

When she got home, she was immediately scolded by her sisters in their "chii-ing" language.

"What are you doing?!" asked one of her sisters, "If Mabaa finds out that you brought a keishin egg this powerful to the Witche's Realm, we're all done for?! What were you thinking?! This could ruin the Mizune family for eternity!"

"I was thinking that we could purify his soul! That's what I was thinking! After all I'm the oldest now, since Medusa had kill our eldest sister!" she stated.

All of the sisters were taken aback. They all talked about the topic, flinching when the keishin egg would rollover in his sleep. They all then came to the same conclusion. The keishin egg had too much power, he could become a full fledged keishin in a week, he needed to be purified to prevent it from happening. Though they couldn't help but be a bit nervous because usually they would be in the sixth form, but with the eldest sister gone, they are forced to do it in their fifth form, though they might not be as powerful as they were with their sixth sister.

"I can't believe we're actually doing this..." one Mizune said nervously.

"I just hope it goes well." said another.

"As do I..." said the eldest.

The five Mizunes transformed into one form and began using the spell, but there was a mishap... he was at risk of losing his memories... but the Mizunes knew that the memories were just a small sacrifice for the lives of others. After the spell had done it's job, the witches went back to normal and began to wait for the boy to wake up...


Soon the boy tossed and turned his sleep. The Mizunes watched closely, all of them wondering what the result of their spell was. The boy sat up and yawned, he opened his gold eyes and scanned his surroundings.

"W-...where am I?" he asked, then he paused for a moment, his eyes went wide, "Wait...who am I?! I-...I can't remember anything!" the boy looked like he was about to have a panic attack. When he noticed the witches he immediately got nervous and hid behind his bangs.

The Mizune's frowned, they failed to save his memories, he had lost them all. They knew that the boy wouldn't be able to understand their "chii-ing" language, so the eldest used a spell to make him understand them.

"You said you can't remember anything," the eldest asked, "Are you sure?" The boy looked at her and her sisters with very unsure eyes. "Try, try to remember."

He closed his eyes and thought, "...A-...Actually... I-...I do recall one thing..."

"What is it?" asked one of the sisters.

"I-...I remember being called 'FullMetal Alchemist'." he mumbled.

"That must be his name." said one of the witches.

They all glanced at FullMetal. The Mizunes had him stay where he was as they went into another room to talk over what they were going to do with him. The talk was long, they had to go through a lot of analysis of what little that they knew about the boy.

For one thing, he was very nervous, like a scared, little Chihuahua. He seemed to be shy and have a wide vocabulary. His molten gold eyes certainly wasn't that of a monster, but a scared child. He seemed very obedient, and was very polite. If anything he shouldn't be all that hard to take care of.

The Mizunes had came to a conclusion. A conclusion that they were very excited for.

"This so exciting!" one of the sisters exclaimed.

"Finally a chance at this," another grinned, "It may not be the same as having our own the traditional way, but its something!"

They all went back to the room that FullMetal was in, and saw that he was waiting patiently for them. He was simply sitting still, his golden eyes fell upon them with pure curiosity.

"Since we don't know where you're from, would you like to be apart of our family? Our son maybe?" the eldest Mizune asked.


Truth sat in the white void where he resides, the gate that belonged to it's favorite Alchemist was behind it. The gate belonged to Edward Elric. It turned and looked at the gate longingly. It remembered being forced to send Ed to another world because Dante sacrificed herself to do so. It hoped that the State Alchemist was okay. It may be cruel and seemingly merciless, but it was lonely. It was lonely life, waiting for that rare moment when you get visited by an Alchemist. Usually the Alchemist will die, or you'll never see them again...

Edward was different though... he visited more often. Always determined, willful and loyal... sending him to another world saddened the deity...

But it made sure that it sent him to a good world... a world that was to it's liking... a world that was being in balance by a fellow god that it knew on a personal level... Death... Lord Death's domain... but Truth couldn't bring it's self to tell Death about Ed...

Out of longing and hope, Truth looked into Death's world, where the Elric was currently residing... and the Truth was shocked... it felt as though it's whole life was crashing down on it's head.

"No!" it thought, "NO! PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A JOKE!"

It listened closely to the chatter that was going about in the language of that world. And to it's dismay... it was no joke.

It watched at the mice witches of Death's world, summoned clothes for it's favorite Alchemist to wear, since his other ones were dirty... then the Alchemist asked the witches a question...

"D-...do you think, m-my memories will ever come back?"

If Truth could... it would cry... but it couldn't...it was a god, therefore it couldn't cry...

"What happened to you Mister Al-Chem-Ist?" it thought, "How...how could you lose something like that? What about your brother? The war you fought... Is your whole story lost to you?..."

It watched as the witches allowed him to refer to them as his mothers, but then there was some hope given to the Truth...

"FullMetal, come here, we have some shoes for you to try on!" exclaimed one of the witches.

Truth smiled a small smile, "You remember your state name! Then there's hope for you and your friends, Mister Al-Chem-Ist!..." then it remembered the search that was going on in it's world... "I just hope that your memory returns before your brother and your friends find you..."

It stopped looking into Death's realm and back to it's own. It wished that it hadn't done that, but it was relived to know that it made a good choice... it looked to where its second favorite Alchemist was... that second favorite was Alphonse Elric...