Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of the characters from it.
AN: I know this may seem a little weird, since they never name the person who created alchemy, I'm going to make them up. Okay? There will also be little numbers in some places, those mean that there's something that should be pointed out. These little notes will be put at the end of the chapter.
Transmuted Love
Prologue
The Cline family is calmly enjoying their dinner, when Mr.Cline stands up abruptly. "What's the matter daddy?" asked Alice the youngest of thethree children.
"There just has to be a way to do it," he mumbled to himself.
"Way to do what dad?" the twins Jen and Jake asked together.
"There has to be a way to fix things and bring your mother back to life." Mr.Cline said softly as he went to his room locking the door behind him.
"Mommy said not to be sad about it," said Alice sadly her blonde hair hiding her eyes.
"How would you remember that, you were only 2 when it happened!" Jake said harshly.
"Jake, she's 5 now! We're 11, and frankly you aren't acting like it!" Jen snapped.
"How long will daddy stay in his room?" asked Alice her red eyes threatening to tear as if this was the first time she spoke.
"With dad Alice, who knows, who knows." said Jake solemnly.
"Jake! Jen! Wake up! Wake up!" Alice yelled jumping joyfully on the bed.
"Alice? Go back to sleep, it's early," Jake said groggily.
"But today is Jake and Jen day member?" Alicehinted anxiously as Jen got up to look at the calendar.
"Jake! She means it's our birthday! Get up you lazy bum!" Jen exclaimed as she pushed her brother off the bed.
"It sure is," a familiar voice replied.
"Daddy…? Daddy, daddy, daddy!" Aliceshouted as she hugged her father.
"Dad? I thought you were going to stay in your room." Jen said curiously.
"Are you kidding? Miss this? Not for the world, but only for special days like this. Is that fair?" their dad said cheerfully.
The three children looked at each other as if reading each other's thoughts, "Fair," they allagreed together.
This continues for a few years, that is, until Alice's 7th birthday. For on this day a new science is created, but a great tragedy begins.
"What do you want to do today Alice?" asked Jen curiously.
"I would like the privilege of a private discussion with daddy," she said calmly.
Her father at first didn't say anything trying to overcome the shock at her larger than expected vocabulary, "Alright Alice, what would you like to discuss?" he asked as calmly as possible.
"You'll see." she said plainly as she led her father outside, she takes to the top of a tall hill with many wild flowers. She leaves his side and plays on the hill for a while.
Sometime later she noticed him just watching her and she walked up to him. "Daddy, what do you do in your room that's so much better from being out here?" she asked curiously.
"It's not that I like being in there better, but I find purpose in it," he said straightly.
Alice looked at him strangely, seeing this he walked into the house for a moment and came back with a silver-gray square. He gave it to her as he spoke "This is called lead Alice. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a way to turn it into something else without melting it?" she nodded at her fathers words in agreement.
Alice examined the lead a moment when it suddenly glowed brightly, when the light dimmed the lead was now a bright yellowish color. "What happened to the lead daddy?" Alice asked in awe.
"It's looks like it turned into gold, how did you do it Alice?" her father asked urgently.
"I just thought about what you said really hard, did I do something bad?" Alice asked nervously.
"No Alice, not at all. This is exactly what I've been trying to do!" he said reassuringly.
"What is this then daddy, does it mean you won't lock yourself up again?" Alice asked anxiously.
"Yes, that's what this means and I think we'll called it alchemy," he said after thinking a moment.
"Why alchemy daddy?" she asked confusedly.
"Because Alice Kimberly, I couldn't have found this without you," he said as he hugged her tightly.
For the next year Alice, Jake, Jen and their father study to learn more about alchemy. They figured out that it only works with equivalent exchange, the different uses of transmutation circles and what different things can be transmuted into. Their father soon mysteriously becomes very ill and dies shortly after Alice turns eight. Three years later they were close to knowing the true cause of their father's death when Jake dies after 'falling' off a cliff.The three years following Jake's death Jen dies mysteriously, Alice now being 14 decides to try the first human transmutation after some hard studying.
On the night of her mother's death a year later she says to herself "Alchemy started this, and alchemy will end it." So just like Ed and Al the human transmutation didn't work, with some key differences. For one thing Alice tried to bring back her mom, dad, Jake and Jen, second being that Alice became a phantom between life and death, unable to touch any living thing. Only a necklace with an ocean green jewel she found amongst her father's things allowed her, her flesh disguise.
For a while Alice tried to act like she was alive and nothing was wrong, but as she saw her friends die she decided to just forget about pretending. She also found that Jen died trying to create a Philosophers stone after finding Jen's diary, so Alice refused to try and find or create one. She looks back on her father's parting words "Life is like a watch, everybody has one and when someone's watch stops, their life ends." She now wonders, has my watch stopped or not?
Sometime later Alice starts to hear rumors about alchemy being a new branch in the military, so she decides to try out. At first she just wanted to do it for fun, but she figured being a state alchemist would be a great way to pass the time. Needless to say that she passed with flying colors. Though somehow the tops at central found out her little secret. However they saw her as too much of an asset to just send her away, so they just put her at a high enough rank to keep her busy and give themselves an excuse to keep her locked up. She has the authority to go through anyone and everyone's personal files, seeing as how it's her job to do so. None of the fileswere that interesting, she had beendoingthis for so many years.
Alice decided to change her name every decade or so to avoid suspicion. One day she got fed up and decided to escape for a little while, her time may have been short, but it was just enough time to meet a young Edward Elric.
AN: I know this may seem confusing, but thisshould clear things up, the kids had lasted a few months without their father ever setting foot outside his room. So it wasn't just a few days.
Well that's all for now, review if want but I'll do this as long as I'm internally motivated.
See you later!