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Lily was awoken when the train rocked back and forth, pulling into a stop. She yawned and stretched out her arms above her head, she rubbed the sleep from her eyes as the other passengers were startled by the train stopping. She looked outside the window and saw they were in a train station, hundreds of people moving about to get on or leaving a train.

"Welcome to Central, we hope you enjoy your ride, please come back again."said a voice over the intercom.

Lily stood up, grabbing her bag, and following the line of passengers out of the train. She jumped down from the train and onto the platform. She smiled as she looked around the train station, it was a lot bigger then her's back at home, it was Central after all. She began to move between the crowd, making sure she didn't hit anyone on the way to the main building. After asking some of the locals, Lily finally found the baggage claim, to get her bags and get out this crazy mad house called a train station. She walked up to the front desk where two women, one busy helping out another person, dressed in the same clothing. The petite woman was busy looking over a few documents before she notice Lily.

"May I help you, miss?"she asked

"Yes, I would like to pick up the bags of Lily Marshall, please."Lily said

"What train?"

"Uh...from Raislen."she answered

"A moment please."the woman picked up a small phone on the counter and waited it to ring.

"Could you wait over there?"she pointed to sitting area,"Someone will come around soon enough."

Lily nodded and walked away, she leaned her back against a stone pillar, waiting. Soon enough, a man with the same type of uniforms like the woman she meet before handed her suitcases before walking off to get the rest to the other passengers. Lily picked them by the handle and walked out of the train station and outside, the sun's rays shining down on her. She dropped her suitcases a moment as she reached into her pocket and pulled out the box that held the key to her new house. She took out the silvery key, starring at it.

"It would be helpful if you told me where the house was, Viktor."she said out loud

She looked down at the box, when she was going to put the key away, she saw a small piece of paper sticking out of the bottom. She pulled on until it was release and there in her hand was directions to her house from the train station, written in Viktor's handwriting.

"Great, now I feel stupid."she said, groaning at her own stupidity.

After getting through others, she finally hailed a cab, the driver helped her put her bags in the back and got in, telling the driver where she was heading to. Lily leaned back in her seat and glanced outside at the grand city of Central past by her. Many buildings around, bigger then anything she can imaged, a few shops and stores scattered around the area, and a few apartments too. It was sure different then Raislen. The only really big buildings there was their church and their school. Even if she was here a few years ago, it seem to change a great deal.

"We are here, miss."called the cab driver

Lily nodded and got out of the car and outside. She glanced up at the building in front of her, it was huge! This couldn't be where this is living, or could it? She didn't know how much 'strings' Viktor pulled. She pulled out the slipped of paper from her pocket and looked closer at the directions. She flipped the paper over and was surprised to see more writing on the back.

'Relax, it's just an apartment building.'

It would seem weird to a normal person to see all their answers on a slip of paper, like it read their mind, but this is Viktor we are talking about. Amy shook her head, smiling at how Viktor seemed to know what she was going to do. She was pulled out of her thoughts when the cab driver asked her to pay for the trip, she reached into her bag and gave the man the correct change and a tip. He thanked her and went off to get other customers, leaving her outside of her new house. She picked up the handles of her suitcases and walked up to the door that lead her inside. She placed the key in and turn the door and walked in. Lily looked over the first room she saw. It was big, a lot then she expected. There was a kitchen off to the side, a couple of doors off to the side that probably lead to the bedroom, bathroom, and another unnamed room. She placed the suitcases down on the floor, shutting the door and walked in further.

The living room, as you would call it, had a couch in the middle and a love seat off to the side which a small book case and end table were at either side. The kitchen had a small table, along with a few chairs. The empty space left could be used up when some of her stuff from home came here, this was just temporary. Lily walked towards the bedroom door, walking in, she saw a small bed, a dresser, and a desk in front of the window in the room. She placed the suitcases by the dresser, waiting to be unpacked. Lily yawned loudly, water leaked of her eyes out by intensity of the yawn itself.

"I must be more tired then I realized,"she said, she glanced at the bed,"Well, now is a good time to break this baby in."

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She stood in the middle of what looked to be in between of a battlefield and a village. It looked strangely familiar, even half of the buildings were nearly destroyed. There was no signs of life for miles it seemed. She walked forward, careful not to trip on the fallen debris on the ground. Her feet made no sound as they landed on the stone ground. She felt a cold chill go down her spine as she neared the center of town, where almost everything, down to the last plant was destroyed or on fire. She stopped dead cold as she saw a dark figure, it's back turn from her, a long sword covered in blood at it's side. She gasped as she saw the figure's latest victim. A body of a young woman laid on the ground, her dark hair spilled over her pale face, hiding some of her face, but she knew who she was. The woman laid in a pool of her own blood, the unnamed figure didn't care if the blood went on it's feet.

"No...Mary..."she whispered softly.

The figure notice her presence once she spoke. It turn it's head slowly, soon facing her. Blood red eyes looked into her diamond blue ones...

"This is your fate, you will never change it."
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Lily bolted straight in her bed, her hand clutching the bed sheet to her rapid beating chest. She glanced around wildly, making sure she was where she was suppose to be, expect for the that...place. She nearly jumped out of bed when she heard someone knocking on her front door. She stood on the floor on shaky legs and pulled on her pants she had taken off before her sleep. She ran a hand through her hair and walked towards the front door, she stumped her foot on the end of the couch on the way. She pulled the door open and stood face to face with a woman, no older then her, at the other end. She had a short mousy brown hair, dark green eyes hidden black rimmed glasses, and she was at least a few inch's shorter then Lily.

"Uh...may I help you?"asked Lily, straightening up her messy hair the best she could.

"Oh, hi, I'm Sheska, your new neighbor."she said, waving.

"Neighbor? I didn't know any one else was living here or would welcome me. I'm Lillian Anne Marshall, but you can just call me Lily for short."she said

There was silence between the two, Lily was the first one to speak.

"You can come in for some tea, I guess. You know, so I can get to know something about the people I'm living with."she afford

"Sure, I would love to."Sheska said, smiling.
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"So, Sheska, what kind of job do you have?"asked Lily as she prepared tea over the stove.

"I'm sort of unemployed really,"she answered from the table.

"Oh? What was it before that happen?"

"I was a librarian at the Central Library before it burn down."

"I heard about that, they said it was a gas leak. Sorry for your lose. Well that was kind of cool. Here you go,"Lily handed her cup of tea before sitting across from her

with her own cup.

"You said your last name is Marshall, right? By any chance are you related to the famed 'Earth Alchemist' Viktor Marshall?"asked Sheska

Lily laughed,"You will be surprise how many people ask me that. But no, we are not related, not even by blood. He was the one that took me in when my mom died in an accident. Sadly, I never knew her or what she looked like, but Viktor tells me that I look just like her. Viktor is the one who taught me all he knows about Alchemy and I want to follow in his foot steps and become a State Alchemist."

"Your taking the Alchemy Exams next week? Do you think your ready for that?"the brown woman asked

"Maybe, but I have a good feeling that I'm going to pass, but if I don't I will try next time until I get it."Lily said

Sheska looked around the kitchen until she spotted something out of the ordinary, a button.

"What's that?"she pointed at it.

"Oh, that, well, it's just a simple button that a friend gave to me."she said, trying to reach for it.

Sheska got to it first and held it in her hand. She nearly fell back into her seat what she saw on it.

"'The Roy Mustang Fan Club'!"she exclaimed

Lily sighed, taking the button from her, she looked at the cartoon drawing of Roy Mustang with little hearts all around his head, a smile on his face. She quickly place it in her pocket.

"Yes, 'The Roy Mustang Fan Club'. It's something my friends made up when we were young."she explained

"But why a fan club of...him?"

"Exactly, I have no idea either. Nothing about him is remotely interesting, he isn't cute at all!"Lily said

"You must have weird friends, Lily."

"Yeah, tell me about it. If they meet him face to face, they would probably explode with excitement."she muttered

Sheska laughed into her cup, almost choking on it's contents. Lily laughed along with her.

"Hey, Sheska,"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for welcoming me into the neighborhood." Lily smiled.

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Author Notes: It's not much of a chapter like the others, but I'm just getting Lily into the big city. Boy, her dream was weird as all hell. Town in ruins, people dead, Mary dead, and a warning of some sorts. But, that's just the tip of the iceburg, loves! And yes, beautifly92, this is a Roy/Lily story, at least it will be. This isn't going to be love at first sight, too cheesy and used up. Next chapter has Lily in the Exams, yahoo! Will she make it? Or will she fail and wait for the next time? You have to wait 'till next chapter to see.

Happy Valentine Day!