My walk home was calm and peaceful. It was already about 10 in the evening when me and my new found friend Cassie had parted ways. I really did not know if I could trust him completely yet, but if he could help me find out more about the mastery of my great grandfather that would be great. Plus he said he could help me leave this world that feels so alien to me despite growing up in this hell, but the only issue was that I had to learn alchemy in return, he did say he would help me with it, but still what if I'm not capable? What if it does not work in this world what so ever?

I do know one thing I'm sure as hell gonna try, I mean what do I have to lose really nothing. He told me before we parted ways to meet him tomorrow in the same spot by my little brother's grave around mid day so I guess I'll have to get up around ten again. he also told me to take a look at my great grand father's notes tonight, but to be careful not to let my parents see what i'm up to and I'd have to agree with him on that for they'd have my head.

I stood at the front door to my house scared of what they'd say when they saw my new outfit. "Oh, they going to laugh at me in these things, and I'll probably get yelled at for being out so late." I thought to myself. I reluctantly opened the door to my shitty home shaking inside already, and sheepishly said. "I-I'm back!"

"Sofia Rose! where the hell have you been! You where suppose to be back hours ago!" said my mother coming down the steps with her eyes staring me down."I had to umm go to the store for my grandmother,and also I was really busy helping her clean up the attic." I said defending myself.

She stared at me from up to down."What the hell are you wearing you look absolutely ridiculous in those clothes!" she screamed. "EWW, she is wearing old man clothes, and they smell of dust and mildew!" said my rude older sister Monica. "W-well" I said shaking already embarrassed. "I had no choice this girl from school ripped up my only clothes that I h-had. and I had to u- use an outfit that I found i-in grandme's attic. These were the only things that would fit m-me!"

"They look absolutely atrocious on you, what where they great granddaddy's old clothes?"said Monica laughing. "Because if so I think they suit you just fine! Don't you think mother?" my mom turned her head in her direction and smirked. " yes." she proclaimed. "Yes they do suit the defiant little freak! Atrocious clothes for an atrocious girl I always say!" They then both howled with laughter.

"It's not funny!" I said trying not to cry. "of course it is you little imp." Mom laughed. "And since we don't have the money for a new outfit for you those will have to do!" she said laughing even harder. "B-b-but" I tried to say " I-I can't go to school in these they were made for a guy to wear over a hundred years a-ago!" I said starting to cry. " Well, I guess thats TO BAD." Mother said grinning in my face. "Shoulda took better care of your clothes Sofia! Now your gonna have to walk around in freaky old man clothes! It's just to much!" Said Monica laughing so hard she had to gasp for air a couple of times.

"M-my old clothes were worn out any way they where bound to g-get ruined soon or a later, I WAS wearing them for over two and a half years! they had holes all through them way couldn't you get me some prettier clothes like Monica!What if they just weren't wearable anymore then what were you going to put me in then!" I said screaming at them. "Well we don't have to worry about that now! Do we? You got perfectly fine clothes there now don't ya!" Said my mother antagonizing me. " better take care of this outfit cause it is the only one your getting for awhile!" said my rude ignorant mother. Then they started laughing at me again.

"Stop it! Stop laughing at me! and calling me names! PLEASE! I said bawling my eyes out. IT's not fair SHE GETS EVERYTHING SHE WANTS, AND I GET NOTHING! WHY DO YOU LOVE HER MORE THEN ME!? I AM YOUR DAUGHTER TOO AN't I" I said going frantic now. "ya, if I can even call you such! She looks more like a gross poor boy off the streets! And she never listens or tries to take care of herself!" said my mother.

"And she smells like it too!" said Monica. "she's also very stupid and useless! AND crazy!"

"NO, I'm not that bad and I get better grades then you!" I said defending myself.

"plus she sure as hell is deformed, and ugly to boot too!" said a deep voice that sent chills down my spine. "DEFORMED?! Just b-because I'm not perfect LIKE HER!?" I said pissed off

It was my father. He was there in the doorway to the living room scowling at me, with his ugly hair pulled back in a shitty ponytail and his crooked spectacles hiding his cruel stare! " You should LEARN TO SHUT YOUR DAMN UNGRATEFUL MOUTH YOU INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE DEMON!" he screamed while slamming me in the wall by my throat.

"Aggh!" I want gasping for air. it felt as though he was going to snap my neck! " your no daughter to me anymore! Your nothing more then a useless little piece of shit to me! We feed you,clothe you and give you shelter even after what you did to your little brother!We forgave for that but what do you do?" He said getting close to my face.

"you act like a spoiled ungrateful little brat and treat your family like shit and you even denounced your faith in the holy word of god! And practice unholy magic and are into satanic books! your lucky i don't send you away to have you exercised of all your demons WITCH! And you won't talk to my wife and daughter like that again UNDERSTOOD!" he said gripping my throat tighter now.

" I nodded giving in. He then let go leaving me coughing and gagging on my hands and knees. "NOW!" he said throwing a bible at my head go up to your room and read this and clear your soul of the evil inside you!" he said walking out. "sometimes I wonder if you people really are even related to me!" I said horsely and in pain and ran up the steps crying leaving the stupid cult demon book on the damn floor, and slammed my god damn door!

You see this is what I hadn't told you my father was a paster of the local church and thought of me as a witch, just because I didn't partake in his beliefs. the only reason he kept me there was because he had to by law since I was his blood. he once told me that as soon as I hit 18 and graduate high school my ass was on the streets!

"Ya, I'm the demon! I said taking out my beautiful Nuriko doll. "they act more like demons then I do, I hate religion! It's for simple minded monkeys that believe in a false GOD! It's a wonder to me why they just never gave me up for adoption!" I said angry and scared at the same time. I looked into the mirror! What I saw made me burst into tears, I was ugly,pale, and malnourished come to think of it I hadn't eaten a thing since lunch yesterday at school.

What was even worse I had bags under my eyes do to the fact i hadn't slept real well in the past few days and they were covered in my eyeliner and mascara from all this crying. Plus I hadn't the time to get a bath in a couple of days for they were over working me on top of it all! and the clothes made me look even worse!

"they don't love me!" I said tearing up more." In fact everyone hates me! Maybe that Cassie kid is right maybe I don't belong here! I'm pretty sure they wouldn't even miss me a tiny bit if I were to disappear to another world." I looked at myself and punched the mirror shattering it into pieces leaving my left hand bloody and I went to bed Crying myself to sleep, not even bothering to look at my great grandfather's books.

...

The next day I awoke at dawn weak and shaky. I got up from my bed and got a shower warming my face in the warm rushing water. I washed my hair and my face, letting the warm water calm me. "I got to get outta here before it kills me!" I had suddenly thought to myself. "I'm scared, but I know that it's not safe here. I have to leave this house. I don't know where i'll go but I'm outta here for good!"

When I got out of the shower I got ready. I put on my new and only outfit that made me feel like even more of a freak . put on my makeup. and started packing what few things I had left in my possession.

"It looks as though they had cleaned my room out of all but my bed and dresser even my tv is gone! And all of my games books and didn't even leave me my decorations or my one and only stuffed animal! They must really hate me or they wouldn't have done this!" I thought sadly to myself.

The only things they didn't take that I own is my toothbrush, my air brush a red ribbon that I tie at the end of my braid, A couple of books I had manged to grab yesterday, My 2ds,and the games to play on it with, my Nuriko doll, a water bottle ,a notebook I drew in, a flash light, a pocket knife, my school books, a couple pairs of underwear, and all the things I took from my grandmother's attic. basically mostly everything I grabbed yesterday.

I packed what little I had leaving the school shit behind And snuck out the back. As soon as I was outside I begun to run. I tripped quit a few times but made it far enough away to call it safe. I was hungry and cold I shivered despite having two coats on. I was now again at my brother's grave. I sat there breathless. "I'm never Fucking going back there. they'd have to kill me first!" I said out loud to myself.

I had decided I may as well look at the books that had belonged to my great grandfather to pass the time while I waited for noon, so I sat there and looked through the books and was terrified to learn that my suspicions were indeed correct! "He really was my great grand father! The Fullmetal alchemist Edward Elric was my great grand father! Its all here his entire story everything! BUT how is the question HOW!?" I thought to myself in shock.

...

I must of dozed off. for one minute I was reading how my great grandfather and his brother were being held up by chimeras, and the next second Cassie was in my face stating "Ohh, boy! You don't look so well there girly. Glad to see that you started reading that book!"

"Huh?"I said coughing. I looked up at him in a daze."Oh hey there Cassie, I must of dozed off there!" I said trying to stand up, but ended up falling into Cassie instead." oh no! That isn't good. This won't do, you look like you caught a cold and look very weak and malnourished! Have you been eating much or anything at all!?" He said irritated.

"last time I ate was lunch at school and that was over a day ago." I said weakly he set my down gently."Save your breath You need to conserve your strength! I can't be having you die now! That's it I'll have to take you back to my place, so we can get you back up and running so we can teach you alchemy! Don't worry It won't be a bother to me! Nope, cause I know your going to pay me back when you get us home to Amestris!" he said as I passed out.

...

The next thing I knew I woke up in a bed with a bowl of hot chicken noodle soup with a side of saltine crackers sitting next to me on a night stand. My things were just a few inches nearist to my pillow. and my Nuriko doll was tucked in bed beside me. My hair was once again lose and my coats were folded neatly at the foot of my bed.

"Well it's about time you got up." said cassie sitting in a chair next to my bed."for alittle there I thought you weren't going to wake up! you have been out for over a day! Better eat that there you need to regain your strength, we have already waisted more then enough time already! Sheesh!" He said looking to the side annoyed crossing his arms and his legs.

"D-did you Take care of me?" I said sitting straight up. "Ya,so your point." he replied. "Now eat girl eat!"He said. So I did grateful as hell, though it wasn't enough I needed more. I held out my dish saying. "Got anymore, I'm staved!" He fell out of the chair " What are you kidding me, You sure as hell have one hell of and appetite for a small little thing." he said getting up. "What the hell, do you want?"He groaned as he treaded to the kitchen. " I don't know as long as it sn't white milk or peas anything'll do" I said hungrily.

"Ok, will some cookies and apples do, or do you need more?!" he said looking at what he had, but by the time I got filled up enough there were 3 empty ramen cups. four apple cores, a hot pocket, a empty bowl of ice cream, cookie crumbs everywhere, and two bottles of iced tea drank. "Well thats much better!" I said to myself getting right out of bed. "But man do I need to pee!" I ran to the bath room.

"Is it just me or is she better already, Holy Damn! She sure has an appetite." He muttered to himself. "What did your parents do? starve you!? you act as though you haven't eaten this good in your life!"he said. "I really haven't. My parents hate me! they think I'm evil, and they made me do chores on top of it! That is why I ran away!" I said.

"Well thats stupid! Them I mean of course!" said Cassie. "So, are you ready to learn alchemy yet?" he asked. "Uh, I guess so, but I am not so sure I inherited the ability, plus according to my great grandpa. In his diary I mean he said alchemy doesn't work on this side of the gate!" I said worried that I might fail at his request, and after all he has done or me too. -_-

"I already Know that!" Said Cassie crossing his arms and leaning up against the wall. "But that doesn't mean I still can't get you to understand it."

"Well there is this one thing we could try." I said flipping through his diary, and got to the page and held it out to show him."But it has to be done at a specific time, and we would need special ingredients, which are very hard to come by and a lot of these look as though they belong in the world of fiction." I said sadly. "oh, Really?" he said not convinced that it may be an impossibility.

"Look!" I said shoving it in his face. " It says here that you need a the tongue of extremely rare but poisonous snake, a angles tear, a Phoenix's feather, The wing of a fairy of space and time, A rare type of flower I never even heard of called the ether flower, and of course a vile of dragon's blood. Where in hell are we gonna get this shit?!" I asked pushing it farther into his face.

"Relax there girly." He said pushing the book aside. " Behold this!" he said pulling out a box of strange bottles and viles. "Looks to me we have everything we need right here." He said grinning. "W-WH-WHAT THE HELL! HOW?! HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU?" I said flabbergast."It's called preparing a head of time I mean you never know!" he said smirking."but these things can't be actually be the.." I said in disbelief. "Oh trust me they ARE the real things, I did go to he trouble to attain them myself, now didn't I?" He said leaning into me.

"plus it can only be done once every one hundred years on the night of the Blood moon eclipse! So even if this stuff is legit it won't do any good for us to even try." I said showing him."which Is in a week from today, so I think we are set." he stated calmly. "A-a-a WEEK! Are you so sure?! I-I could never learn alchemy in a week!? Are you fucking kidding me!?" I said dropping to the floor.

"like I said you really don't need to learn it, you just need to understand it." He said nonchalantly."Besides I'll walk you right through it so you will have nothing to worry about. it will work I mean you do have his blood running through your veins don't you?" he said poking me. "I guess so" I said still worried. " And also you and I both know that you are miserable here." He said rolling his eyes. "And at this you would do anything to leave this place behind you forever. Even if it seems like an impossibility right now don't mean it is in theory impossible, Right?"

"I guess so, All right I'll give it a try, but this better not be some horrible joke on me that your in on with the kids from school!"I said looking him straight in the eye. "How insulting! I could care less for those insignificant little pieces of human filth! For all I care they can all burn to death like the garbage they are!" He said with anger in his voice. " alright then, just making sure I mean this all does seem a bit out there.

"Ok, ok enough chit- chat get your clothes on and bring that book too! we got to teach you alchemy before the big day or we will both be trapped here forever! Come on! Come on times of the essence!" he said clapping his hands in my face.

So I got ready, and grabbed my things off the bed and went to follow him but then I stopped."arrg. Whats the problem now?" he asked. " umm, Its just I wanted to thank you, you know for helping me when I was sick and for feeding and well taking care of me! You see no one has done anything that kind for me in a long time! And I'd also like to thank you for being well you know what never mind." I said with gratitude. "Ah no need to thank me we did make an agreement did we not Sofia?" he said looking back at me."After all the deal was that you help me get home and I help you in anyway possible until that is fa filled, silly girl." he said.

"Now come on! we don't got a lot of time to be messing around! Lets go!" he said. "uhh, ok. I said following after him, now feeling hopeful for the future.