Prologue:
Memories Stay Forever In Our Hearts
- By Unknown
Light shined through the white curtained windows of Edward Elric's room. Found on the bed was a peacefully sleeping blonde whose hair was medium height, and was usually worn in a braid. The blankets were tangled around the young blonde who was shifting in his sleep. The room was lightly decorated on the count of Edward's wondering ways. Edward would never stay in one place to long. There was a dresser half filled with clothing, an empty closet except for one or two pairs of boots and some hangers, two to three oversized chairs, and a night stand with a phone between two chairs. The phone started to ring, annoying the sleeping blonde. He opened one of his amber colored eyes as the phone rang.
The height challenged youth sighed as the phone rang. The one time he got Alphonse to go to Winry's for a while, he got a phone call in the early morning. He thought that he wasn't going to have any worries during his day off. He looked at his clock; it read 8: 45 A.M. Edward groaned miserably. He knew that it wasn't going to be his day. He got up from his comfortable position on his bed to lazily walk to the continuous ringing of the phone. He picked up and mumbled into the phone. "Who the hell is this?" Of course if Alphonse were there, Ed wouldn't have been woken up at eight in the morning to give a rude answer on the phone.
His mood got worse when he heard the smooth voice of the infamous Colonel Mustang. "Well Hello Edward. Not a morning person I see." Edward sat down in the chair that sat next to the phone. Edward growled at the other person on the line. "Why the hell are you calling me on my day off, Colonel?" Edward could have sworn he heard the man chuckle as he told him the dreadful news.
"I'd like you to come into the office. We need your help into investigating a laboratory that maybe be doing illegal transmutations. " Roy said casually as the blonde growled on the other line. Mustang could have sworn it was along the lines as, 'That damn Colonel, always makes me do his dirty work.' Edward growled a quick "Fine." Then hung up. Edward made a habit-forming sigh and went to take a shower before he'd go to the office.
Edward sighed as the warm water hit his face and he closed his eyes. ' Why does it always have to be me?' Edward thought as he washed his long blonde hair, careful of the joints of the automail that made his right hand. Edward wondered over the thought of the reasoning of why he was the one being called to look into the illegal lab. Edward turned off the water and took one of the fluffy white towels from one of the dull brass towel hangers in the bathroom. Edward quickly dried himself off and wrapped a towel around his waist. He went back into his room and took out his normal clothing. Black tang top, black long sleeves, black leather pants, a pair of blue boxers, and black boots with red trimmings on the soles. He dressed quickly and then went back over to the dresser.
On top of the dresser was a silver watch with a creatively carved lion on the front, the symbol of a state alchemist. Edward got out his belt, put it through the belt loops of the pants and fasten it. Then he attached the watch to his belt and put the watch part in his pocket.
He yawned widely as he entered the living room and headed toward the closet near the front door. He opened the closet and took out his red coat with the black symbol of his teacher. He lazily put it on and headed out the front door carefully closing and locking the door. He walked down the apartment stairs and out of the door. Then slowly started to walk to Central headquarters, where the gleeful colonel was waiting for the already moody Edward.
Edward stomped into the Colonel's office. Edward would never walk into Roy Mustang's office, unless of course Roy was choking on something, then Edward would take his good old time. Edward already had a sullen look on his face when the Colonel greeted him. "What do you want?" Edward demanded as he sat in front of the Colonel's desk in a comfortable oversized red chair. Roy smirked at Edward and handed him the file.
"Well it seems that this laboratory is in charge of 'Gender Changes' or the ever so famous 'Human Transmutation'. So far this laboratory has been very successful. They can change a man into a woman and a woman into a man. The problem is that they are now trying to go into bring back the dead." Edward frowned as the Colonel continued. " We are afraid that innocent people will get hurt. I need you to go into that lab and shut it down. As a reward, I'll give you a tip that I heard about the 'stone'. Yes, I have realized that you're quite fine on finding them on your own. " Edward glared at the Colonel. "Fine, I'll do it. But don't blame me if there is a lot of damage." Edward said as he got up.
"Oh and Colonel shit. Thank you for waking me up in eight in the freaking morning for this! " Roy smirked. "Whatever you say, but I still think you're too short to be making comments on how early you wake up. " Edward growled and turned Roy's desk and paper work into several spikes that, fortunately for Roy, missed him. Edward left with the map to the lab and file.
Roy chuckled and Riza Hawkeye rolled her eyes at the mess of the office that the spikes had left as she entered the office.
It was nightfall when Edward went to the laboratory. There were no guards at the front gate or anyone around at all. 'Good, maybe all I'll have to do is destroy all the work.' Edward thought as he sneaked into the lab. He used the back venting system, to get into the building. Ignoring his inter voice that said, "Aren't you glad your short!" He slipped out of the vents into an empty hallway. He looked both ways and ran down the dark hallway. He saw several doors. He went into the first on to find nothing but paper.
He looked at a couple of notes that described the chemicals needed to make a sex change, depending on the sex. 'Really, that bastard could have found a better person for this!' Edward thought as he accidentally bumped into a table and knocked over a lamp. He heard several yells of people, and ran through a door. The fallen lamp had started a fire that spread quickly through the papers.
Edward didn't notice at first that the room had a strange transmutation Circle on the floor, nor the several Chemicals. He saw someone running up to him with what looked like a gun pointed at him. He clapped his hands. The last thing he heard was someone scream "No!" Followed by a flash of white light and then complete darkness.
End of Prologue...