Eternity walked backwards through the snow, smiling at her best friend Aria. They had met in eighth grade at an anime convention, and since then had become very close.
"I told you that you'd love New York!" She squealed. "I didn't get to see it so close to Christmas before. It's so pretty!" She waved her hands excitedly. Aria laughed. Ever since Eternity had come to New York for Thanksgiving one year, she had been trying to convince her friend to come too. Now they were both fifteen and borrowing Eternity's aunt's apartment while she was away on business, and traveling everywhere in New York. After riding the subway to Times Square, they were walking to the house nearby. But a few wrong turns later, they were in a completely unrecognizable area of the city. Aria began to get nervous.
"Where are we?" She asked, a little wary. She had heard of the areas of New York that were dangerous and didn't like the thought of being lost at all.
"We can ask that person up there, with the blonde hair, where we are and how to get back." Eternity assured her. She tapped the person's shoulder. "Excuse me--" She froze as the person turned around. Aria gasped, immediately thinking that the person was holding a knife, or a gun. She rushed up just in time for Eternity to collapse in a dead faint, and it was her turn to see the face that had so shocked her friend. Aria's eyes widened at the face while the person looked at her in confusion. Before Aria knew it, she was out like a light also. She barely heard the boy's voice as she fell into darkness.
"Al! Come here!"
When Eternity opened her eyes, she had no idea for a moment what happened or where she was. But as her cobalt blue eyes studied the plain white ceiling, it all came back to her. Just a hallucination, just a hallucination...She thought fervently. But when she tried to sit up, she felt a hand on her arm.
"Aria, what happened? I had the wierdest dream..." She started, her voice coming out muddled from the sleep.
"Aria? Is that the other girl's name?" A familiar voice asked. She turned to see the boy that she thought she had seen before, but tried to convince herself that it was all a hallucination. She nodded numbly, her eyes wide. "I'm Edward Elric. You might know me..." He looked at her in confusion as she continued to stare. "What?"
"You're...you're..." She stuttered, unable to find the words to talk to this boy. "You're the Fullmetal Alchemist. The person that attempted to forego the laws of alchemy..." It was Ed's turn for his eyes to widen. "You're not supposed to be real! Fullmetal Alchemist is a fiction show..." She trailed off.
"Brother? Is she awake?" Another voice that Eternity recognized as Al's called.
"Yeah...and she already knows more about us than we thought." He called back.