Title: The Flame Alchemist
Characters: Roy Mustang
Rating: PG
Written For: Drabbles100
The air was filled with heat, and its heaviness choked even its creator. The heat in the air spiraled outward, rapidly becoming more than just heat as flames engulfed and consumed body after body after body. Still not used to the stench of roasting flesh, the young alchemist stumbled backwards and turned.
But no matter where he turned, he could see the flames, smell the burning death, and hear the screams of the dying; and he'd been the one who'd extinguished those lives. He only wished, now, that he could extinguish the flames - his flames - that killed them.
He tries to tell himself that's what war is, that this is what he signed up for, but he knows he's wrong. Genocide has never been right or easily shrugged off, and because he had wanted to make a name for himself by following in his father's footsteps, he had committed a crime he didn't think he'd ever be able to forget.
But, he had gotten what he wanted, and before long everyone would know him as one of the dogs who had helped in the destruction of an entire race.
The Flame Alchemist.