The Alkali Alchemist
Alchemy the study of chemistry, and how they are composed, with training an alchemist can identify, dismantle and recreate with all the same materials. Shortly after the Elric brothers, there was an alchemist who would save the world, the alkali alchemist!
Arthur Pennington was an average boy; He was an average student and a completely average at sports. Until one day his older brother David brought home a book on alchemy. David quickly learned he didn't have the skill.
Then, one night, Arthur snuck into his brother's room and took the alchemy book and read it cover to and by morning he was making small toys and dolls. Later that week he went back to library and took out another book on alchemy. By the following week he was mastering elements like water, fire, and even metal.
Then there came a knock at his door, his father answered the door and a soldier walked in. The soldier wore the crisp blue uniform assigned to the military, he was not particularly old soldier he looked about mid thirties, but by the badges on his uniform he appeared to have a pretty high rank among the officers.
"I am here about your son" he said.
"Ummm….which one?" said his father.
"Arthur," replied the stern faced soldier.
Arthur stepped up from behind a chair which he was hiding, he was so nervous he thought he would faint. It was at this point that Arthur noticed the silver pocket watch which meant that this person was a nationally certified alchemist.
"R-right h-here, s-sir," said Arthur
"I am brigadier general Roy Mustang, and I must have a word with you," he said.
Roy Mustang! The flame alchemist, Arthur remembered reading about him. He was very powerful. He just happened to be the alchemist that Arthur looked up to.
"Tell your family to leave the room" Mustang ordered
Arthur looked concernedly at his parents and then they left the room. He felt naked without his family there to protect him. What was the flame alchemist going to ask him? This is all so confusing, he thought, what could I know that some other two-bit alchemist didn't.
Mustang raised his signature gloved hand and snapped his fingersthe wall be hind Arthur began to blaze. Mustang calmly turned around and left the house.
Arthur didn't know what to do, he knew that he had to save his family but he couldn't move he was frozen in fear, why would the man he looked up too burn down his house?
Think, he forced himself, think, I know I can do this, I know I can… I got it!
Arthur quickly drew up three circles, one to trap the smoke so it wouldn't go away. The second one was for using the moisture in the air and the well of the house to put out the fire and the third was to rebuild the damaged parts of the house. I've got to work fast, he said to himself.
After he did all that Arthur passed out from exhaustion
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Roy Mustang was watching the house from just outside his car. He got in and sighed. Whew, that was close he thought.
"Did he pass the test?" said a lieutenant colonel sitting beside him
"with flying colors," said Roy as the car pulled away