ALL ERAS MUST END

My name is Eric Lee Elric. I'm not exactly sure why I'm writing in this book now, when so many things have happened already. It strikes me that it may be a little late to start. But maybe it's too late to write as well. But it's better that I write at all so that someday, someone will pick this up and know what happened. Let me describe what it looks like now... when I look up I see grey, it's grey, black and bleak. Raine, Raine Havoc and I are hiding underneath an abandoned train. It doesn't look like it's moved in years, it's rusting, old and decrepit. The sky is like the prelude to a storm, only the storm is perpetual. I've known no other sky than the one I see now or rather, I recall no other sky than this one. Raine is sleeping next to me, and she should rest while she can... who knows when we'll have to get up and run again.

A little about me now... I already told you my name is Eric Lee Elric; my father's name is Edward Elric, and his father before him was Edward Elric as well. My father was the Halfmetal Alchemist, my grandfather the Fullmetal Alchemist. I have two famous grandfathers, but I never saw my paternal grandfather, and my maternal grandfather, Roy Mustang, died a bit after I was born. Well, he's not exactly my grandfather, his sister is my dad's mom. So I guess he's a great-uncle or something along those lines. I remember my father a little... He's a bit of a war hero... Something about guarding some Rivantian princess and fighting with Falconans. I don't really get it, and I never got the chance to ask, it was before I was born

My father was taken away when I was little; something about the military instating some rule that every second born child was to be taken to some facility. My father hid me; my mother and sister, Aria, died in a trainwreck, and I'm technically the younger twin anyway. It turns out that they took almost everyone we knew; my father, my grandfather even though he's not a second child, his brother Alphonse... Uncle Leroy disappeared somewhere around that time period too. Even Raine's grandpa, Jean Havoc, was taken away.

I heard they're killed, I'm not sure why they do it. Raine and I, we don't know who to go to for help, we don't know where to turn.

So we just run, and we hope that none of the soldiers will catch us until someone can help us. Whoever that is. We pose as regular people, but even that doesn't last long... I don't know how much longer we can go, I mean, we're just kids!

But we don't want to die either.

Raine and I are... going to try to find people to help us, try to figure out why they're killing us in the first place, but we just don't know how... If anyone finds this... I hope someone finds this... please help us...

We don't know how much longer we can keep running from the military. We keep going and going and they keep finding us, and we continue to escape. Why isn't anyone helping us? What about the allies that Dad used to talk about? Rivant? Falcona? Why can't they help us? We're on our way, as soon as Raine wakes up, to talk to someone named... Joaquin Mustang. It may be a coincedence, the name Mustang, but I don't know. This could be a trap to finally get us at last, but we've no other place to go, and Raine is getting weaker. I can't let her go too...

Dad used to say that the military was a great one before the Fuhrer Bradley, and it was a great one when Great-Uncle Roy Mustang took over as Fuhrer as well, but then... something changed. Dad always used to say that all eras must end.

Is this the beginning of a horrible new one?