State Alchemist Mustang
Chapter Five - Trouble
Five years later, A now sixteen-year-old Raven emerged from her room. It was only 0500 and her parents were still sleeping. She had on her military pants and shirt and her now long black hair was clipped up very similar to her mother's. She opened her parents door and peeked in.
"Anyone awake?" She whispered to herself hoping not to get an answer. She received silence in return. They were sound asleep in bed. She smiled.
She slowly and quietly entered her parents room and walked over to her father's bed side table and opened the drawer. It made a squeak noise and her father mumbled in his sleep and rolled over to face her. Raven cringed but when her dad didn't open his eyes, she breathed a sigh of relief and reached into the drawer. She searched around in the dark and finally her hand fell onto something cold and metal like. She grabbed it and pulled it out. It was Roy Mustang's state alchemy watch. Smiling with victory, she exited the room, forgetting to close the drawer.
She headed downstairs where she found an old picture of her sister Robin and removed it from it's frame. She walked into the kitchen and grabbed a few things then headed outside to the patio where she removed a red marker from her pocket. She pulled out a photo from her other pocket that she took in her dorm at the military campus.
"Daddy never said I couldn't try. I mean, I've seen him use alchemy, even if he didn't want me to see. So I can't be all that hard." Rave said to herself as she gathered all the ingredients she needed. She looks at her circle and the bowl in the middle and does one last list check. She held the brown book in her hand and flipped back to the bag about human alchemy. The book she was looking though was the book she stole from her father's library upstairs. It only gave her the basic instructions.
"According to the new book on alchemy I read at the military library, the watch increases the alchemy strength, so that means I have a better chance of bringing Robin back." Raven wiped the tears away and looked down at an old Black Hayate who was sitting next to her. She placed the book next to the dog and reread the instructions. She started to have second thoughts but then shook them from her head and began to work the alchemy magic.
She clapped her hands then slammed them to the floor on the circle. Bright lights began to swirl around her, the contents of the circle began to swirl and black Hayate got scarred. Even in his old body, he managed to run back into the house barking. Raven ignored the dog and concentrated on bringing her sister back. Inside the house, Black Hayate made his way up to Roy and Riza's room where he then proceeded to climb onto the bed and bark crazily.
"What now mutt?" Roy moaned and rolled to face Riza who just woke up.
"Black Hayate go lay down." Riza ordered, but the dog continued to bark and moved about the bed, upsetting both Riza and Roy.
"Black Hayate!" They yelled, the dog still determined.
Back outside, Raven felt a strong pull and she began to back up. It was too late. She was being dragged into the circle and nothing could stop it.
"Help! Daddy! Mom! Black Hayate!" Raven yelled as the miss used alchemy began to drag her inside the circle. Upstairs, Roy and Riza just began to settle back in, even with Black Hayate barking. Riza turned to face the window and saw against the black open sky, a glitter of a bright yellow and purple.
"Roy. Roy! What is that outside?" Riza shook Roy and he sat up, just as they heard the screams of Raven's cry for help. They looked at each other and relised the light was alchemy.
"Raven!" They yelled together and ran out of their rooms. Roy looked in her draw but found no watch.
"She took my watch Riza. She's in danger." They ran outside and found Raven pulling away from the bright light.
"Riza stay here." Roy held Riza back as he ran outside and grabbed Raven's arm, pulling her out. The lights disappeared and Roy fell backwards, crashing into the side of their house, Raven in his lap.
"Roy! Raven!" Riza ran over to them and fell to her knees.
"I'm sorry..." Raven began. "I just missed my sister." She added just as she blacked out.
(FYI-The Mustangs lived in a house out in the middle of no where. So when the alchemy was taking place, there was no one around to se or hear. Kind of like the Elric's house back in Resenbol.)