CHAPTER 2
A few days had past, and I had yet to leave the old abandoned library. I had decided just the other day to actually start reading some of the books.
I looked down at the book I was reading.
"In order to gain, something of equal value must be lost. That is the law of equivalent exchange." The book emphasized that so much, in every book, something to that extent was said.
"Then why haven't I gained anything?" I looked down at my hands, then a thought came to mind.
I got up and grabbed a few pieces of broken glass that had been laying around. I also grabbed a few metal clippings and set them with the glass on the floor. Finding a piece of chalk, I took it and drew a transmutation circle on the floor. I then took the glass and metal clippings and laid them on top of the circle. I then laid both of my hands on the circle, concentrating as hard as I could.
…
Nothing.
Sigh
"Well, this was a waste of time," I said to myself, sitting back up.
I knew this would happen, I knew that I wouldn't be able to channel my energy properly to perform alchemy.
"Well, I think that it's time that I get going anyway," with that, I got up.
I was about to leave, when I thought of something. I grabbed a few select books and put them in my bag, tearing out certain pages from other books in the room and sticking them in my back pocket. I also grabbed the box of chalk and put that in my side pocket on my pant leg. I always did loving having my cargo pants.
"What the?" I had found the door, but found it to be bolted shut.
The thing that really got me though, was the fact that it looked like it hadn't been opened in years. I looked around and noticed that there were about five to six little windows in the room.
I got up on a table and opened one of them. Looking outside, I found that the coast was clear. So, I threw my bag up through the small window, I then pulled myself up and started crawling threw the window.
Suddenly, I heard footsteps from down below and hurried quickly out the window.
"DAMMIT!" I heard a voice cry out and then a book was thrown through the window that I had just come out of, causing the glass to fly everywhere, along with a few pieces embedding themselves in my arm.
I gritted my teeth so as not to cry out in pain. I then got up to run only to run into someone.
"Ah!" I cried, falling to the ground.
"OW! WHAT THE HECK! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" I heard someone yell.
I looked up to find a kid with long blond hair in a braid and gold eyes, he was also very short. I also came to realize that he was a state alchemist, due to his official alchemist watch. Once the two of us made eye contact though, he gasped.
Crap, not again! I thought to myself as I got up to run.
"HEY WAIT!" he called out, but I just ignored him. "WAIT!"
Don't think so shorty
Realizing that I wasn't going to stop, he got up and started running after me.
Crap he's fast I thought as he started gaining on me.
Unfortunately, while he was running after me and shouting, he managed to get the attention of some other military personnel.
"Hey, isn't that that girl that we were chasing a few days ago?" one man asked another.
"Yeah, it is," his friend said.
"AFTER HER!" came the final one.
CRAP
I ran faster, turning into one of the alleyways, trying to lose them. I kept running, turn after turn trying to ditch them. I saw a few soldiers up ahead, so I took a sharp turn to the left. After a few more turns, I was stuck. That's right, a dead end.
Crap, why do these things always have to happen to me?
I slammed my fists against the wall in frustration. I turned around upon hearing something behind me, only to find that short blond kid along with all of those other soldiers.
Facing them, I put both of my hands on the wall, my fingertips brushing against each other as I did this. Mr. Shorty then started to walk towards me with his hand extended towards me.
"Listen, I just wanna talk okay?" he said as he and the others started to advance closer.
I leaned up against the wall even more.
I don't wanna be here. I just wanna be left alone. Anywhere but here.
All of a sudden, I felt a surge of power go through my body, then a light and the next thing I knew I was falling. I had preformed alchemy, the wall was gone or more like there was now a large hole in it. Unfortunately for me, that wall was the one thing that had blocked me from Central's river, and now, that's where I was headed.
"Ah!" I cried as I reached my hand out to grab something, anything, but I came up empty handed.
I could feel the cold water as it hit my skin, my hair and clothes becoming wet as I went under. I could even taste the water as it entered my mouth.
I don't understand. How is it possible? I had no transmutation circle.How? How did I…do it…?
As I questioned myself, my vision became blurry and it was getting harder and harder to breathe. After that, everything went black, no light, no nothing. It felt like I was floating on air and nothing else seemed to matter. I then saw a light above me, a figure staring down at me. It was that of a young boy, a young boy with a pair of red eyes, a pair identical to my own. He reached his hand out toward me.
"…Big sister…" his words seemed to float from his mouth and echo around me quietly.
Little brother that was the thought that echoed through my mind as I tried to reach out to him.
I felt pain and sorrow shoot through me as I was unable to reach him. Soon after, he started to disappear into the darkness.
No, don't go…don't leave me…not again… I called out within my mind, my words not reaching him as his figure disappeared completely.
A tear rolled down my cheek as my world once again went dark.
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