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Chapter 1: The Call
Roy Mustang sat in his office, milling over the mounds of paperwork Liza Hawkeye had placed on his desk just for him. How he detested all of this, it was a paper filled nightmare. Liza sat not too far off from him, reading over her own stack of papers, there was no sound in the office, till a mound of papers seemed to spring to life and vibrate and ring. Mustang sighed pushing the papers aside and finding his phone.
"Mustang here. I see…how long ago did this occur? Body count so far? Who..was on the train? Both of them? Only one of them is found to be alive. I see, I'll send personnel right away." Roy ended his conversation, sounding a bit shaken by whatever facts the other end had told him.
"Sir?" Hawkeye questioned looking up.
"There has been an accident, involving a train bridge blowing up in the northern area. Body count is low so far, the only disturbing fact is the both Elric brothers were on that train, the few cars that were lost, only one is found and alive, Alphonse. FullMetal hasn't been recovered yet from the wreckage, or the river." Roy said slowly, the idea disturbed him greatly that Ed, who wouldn't seem to give up on life just disappeared.
"Who are you sending?" Liza asked, slowly taking in Edward's disappearance.
"You, Havok, Armstrong and I will go." Roy replied, regaining his rock like composure.
The trip to the accident site took only a few hours which were spent in silence, as they arrived at the scene, the smell of fire and bodies was very evident. The cold clear day held an icy grip over them as they walked silently to the officer in charge.
He was a short man, dark blonde hair, deep blue eyes and somewhat dark skinned, he turned and saluted Roy.
"I'm Officer Luke Devont , pleased to see you got here safe sir." He said relaxing after Roy had acknowledged him.
"Where is the remaining Elric brother?" Mustang asked first. Officer Devont pointed to an area where people were gathered, the suit of armour wasn't too hard to find, being as he over shadowed most of the people over there.
"Hawkeye and the others will assist you in anyway possible, I have to speak with Alphonse." Mustang said nodding to the group behind him and walking off toward Al.
For a suit of armour being as facial expressions were next to impossible, he looked worried, they way he stood and the soft look in his glowing eyes.
"Alphonse, what happened?" Roy inquired, getting right to the point. Al weaved his way through the small crowd of frightened people and looked at Mustang before taking a breath to explain.
"We had found a lead on the philosophers stone around this area, in a small villiage where stories of the stone had first started and began to spread. We figured they may know something about the process of how it was made. He and I had been riding on the training for about 2 hours, when we began to cross the bridge" Al gestured to the bridge which was now giving off a plume of black smoke. "Brother was beginning to get hungry, so I volunteered to go and grab something from the food car for him, He'd been reading a book for awhile and was writing down notes the whole time. I didn't want to pull him away from his work so I got it for him, when I had gotten to the food car the whole place shook and it felt like the train suddenly lurched backwards, then forwards really fast. A man was running past yelling that the bridge had been blown up and we'd lost the back 3 cars. Brother and I were on the second to last car… I got worried and ran toward the back, I didn't want to believe it. But I found out that it was true. They stopped the train and had us come off and do a head count and try to find the others…alive or dead. They have found most of the people. A lot of them are dead, but they can't find brother. I've asked everyone, they said they start looking in the river for the rest. I don't know anything other than that." Al finished his story, his voice shaking. He sounded scared and fearful of what happened to the only brother he had.
Mustang took in the story, thinking carefully. Questions of who had blown up the bridge and why circled his head. He sighed and nodded to Al.
"Do not worry…we will find your brother alive. We'll aid in the search in anyway we can." Roy said, trying to give comfort, though he wasn't so sure about his statement of finding FullMetal alive. The weather was cold and the river had a thin crust of ice around the edges and it was fast flowing.
" I'll help look for him too, he's my brother and I want to find him." Al said firmly. Mustang smiled and nodded, hoping with all his heart that Ed was still alive.
A/N: this is the first chapter! What do ya think? Please review would much like it:D whee.
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