Me: Hey, I'm back with an update!
Ed: Oh god help us.
Mustang: I thought you didn't believe in god Fullmetal?
Ed: just shut the hell up Roy!
Me:sweatdrop:
Mustang: Hey, when do I get to make my appearance in the story?
Ed: Who says you're going to be in it?
Mustang: Quit acting like such a child Fullmetal
Ed:runs off:
Mustang: Sooo… Am I going to be made fuhrer in this story?
Me: Sorry, I would but… I'll have to find a way to take bullets out of my body and still live if I do that. Now, why did I let you in here Roy?
Mustang:sigh: The disclaimer yeah, yeah. The weird named authoress does not own The Outsiders, or Fullmetal Alchemist, alchemy or anything.
Me: And if you haven't figured it out by now… Sarah Trenman is Schiezka's altar. I'm planning on adding a few more altars in… just to make Edward's life a living hell, but other then that I'm not really sure where this story is going to go, as for reviews and other stuff Thankyou very much for reviewing and look at the end of the story for review of reviews (:
Chapter 3: First use of Alchemy
For the past two months I've been reading the alchemy books over and over. I don't know why I was but it was addictive. There was also some very interesting things in one of the books. I hadn't really had the nerve to actually try alchemy out until now. I thought I was crazy when I went to go buy some chalk at the general store; I was being insane, completely out of it. On my way there I… let's say encountered some problems. It wasn't with money, well kind of, but also with soc's. Damn those soc's, all I was doing was going to get chalk, just my luck huh?
I'm now face to face with 3 soc's. They aren't that big, kind of scrawny actually. I could take them, I kept on saying to myself.
"Hey greaser. What you doing walking without your other greasy pals?" I tried to ignore them and walk on but they stood in front of me. Before I knew it I was being mugged of all my money. I was lying on the ground with one of them on top of me when the one with my wallet started to say something.
"No wonder you greasers can't afford anything, just look at how much money you have!" He took the money out of my wallet and put it in his pants pocket. What was he mugging me for, I didn't have squat, and he already had enough money. What would he need mine for?
"I know you have more money then that." He said after throwing my wallet back down at me and stepping on it. It was true, I did have more money, but I was hiding it in my shoe incase something like this ever happened. I was told to do so ever since some socs mugged Johnny. They needed some money for beer so they mugged the first greaser they saw.
Once they thought I didn't have anything else they took off. I just hoped I had enough money to buy some chalk now.
When I got home with my newly bought chalk, I headed towards mine and Soda's room. I sat the chalk down at my desk in the corner and got a piece of it out.
I didn't think I could have drawn a more perfect circle. I knew that Darry was going to kill me if he knew I drew some circles on the desk but I think it's worth it. Paper wasn't big enough. I broke a pencil and set the pieces in the center of the transmutation circle. I placed my hands on the circle thinking hard and…
I saw a golden flash of light and suddenly, before my very eyes the broken pencil was fixed. I kept thinking to myself…
It works…
It works…
It works!
I never thought I could dream of a more happier thing when I started to think why no one had ever accomplished it before. Maybe people have? And they thought that if they revealed it to the world then power hungry people would use it for the wrong things. Wait then why would they publish books about it?
I looked at the date and where one of the alchemy books were published and read aloud:
"published in Central City……… August 10th, 1782"
"published in Dublith……… February 28th, 1464"
"published in Central City (another one)……… November 1st, 1870"
"published in Munich, Germany……… May 30th, 1920"
hmmm, there's only one that has a legitimate location. I've never heard of Dublith, Central City, and these other places before. Just Munich, Germany. If I recall that's the only book that talked about alchemy more different then the other ones. But why does it say that these books are published in non-existent places? It was eating me alive.
Then all of a sudden the door swung open. It was Darry. He walked over to me and looked around.
"Are you finished with your homework yet Ponyboy?"
"uhh y-" I couldn't finish Darry had already started telling me off for drawing on my desk. He told me to go get a sponge and to clean it off before it stayed. I did so obediently.
Before I wiped it off, I was going to try it one more time. I broke the pencil, this time in multiple pieces placed them on the center of the circle, and activated the circle. It worked again! I picked up the pencil studying it more closely this time. You couldn't even see where I had broken the pencil. Alchemy sure was amazing first hand. Maybe I should tell someone. No, they wouldn't believe me. I don't think Sodapop would even. Maybe, maybe Johnny would. It's been a while since I thought about him. I wish there was someway he could see this, he'd get a kick out of it. Wait a minute, maybe I could…… It's worth a try.
ED & AL
"FINALLY! LAND!" ED yelled delighted as him and his younger brother got off the ship that had just landed in New York City. He had his suitcase in hand as he ran down the ramp that connected the ship to the port.
"BROTHER!" Al screamed after his brother, not only because people were giving them weird stares, but because Ed was about to run into someone. Sure enough Edward ran straight into a really big, mean looking guy, who was also very tall. He turned around to face Ed.
"Watch it shorty." He said in a low and gruntled voice. Ed got ticked off at this comment, not to watch it but the part where he called Ed short.
Ed was trying his best not to yell at him like he usually did at people when they called him short. People usually didn't call him short in this world so he was usually controlling of his short temper. He also had to control his temper since Alphonse didn't have the strength to hold Edward back whenever he decided he would get revenge for someone calling him the s word. Ed cooled down and then started to tell the man off.
"Why don't you try walking fast so someone doesn't run into you?" The man got a little upset at this.
"Then by all means go ahead of me." He motioned for Ed to walk in front. Ed did so, but then tripped. Alphonse ran toward his brother and grabbed him in the knick of time.
"Brother, you could have fallen in. Then we wouldn't be able to get you out because of your automail and the fact that you can't swim." Ed just kept a steady glare ahead of him like Al never said anything.
"Come on Al, let's find a hotel."
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ONE MONTH LATER
"So next stop is Columbus-"
"What state?"
"LET ME FINISH!"
"Sorry brother."
"Columbus, Ohio. Where else, we are currently IN Ohio"
"What's there?"
"Stuff."
"What kind of stuff?"
"Good stuff."
"What's good stuff?"
"What else? A store! The brochure says it has everything modern, so I say we check the store out and see what kind of modern stuff they have"
"Just don't break anything when we get there brother. I don't want a repeat of what happened in Philadelphia."
"Fine."
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It was a month since I last thought of it. I'm not sure if I'll succeed but I don't care I still have to try. I've been studying really hard too. I wonder if anyone has actually succeeded with it before. Maybe this is why there is no alchemy? Are people too afraid to reveal to their community that there's a way, a way to bring back someone you loved? All those stories about people that were dead coming back to life I believe a little bit more now. I believe it's possible to bring the dead back to life. But I won't be certain until I actually try it. I need to practice incase I screw up. I couldn't afford it. Hopefully if I practice more and study further into the books, I can figure out what is equal to Johnny's life. I don't want to lose my own life if I fail to bring Johnny's back.
I'm planning on performing the human transmutation in the basement. It's the perfect place, no one has been down there in months, maybe even years. Darry keeps it locked because when Soda was little he found a dead cat down there and started having nightmares about dead things coming up from the basement. Mom and dad had to keep it closed and locked during night. Though, dad always went down there because it was his workshop. I'd have to do it when Soda, and Darry wasn't home, so they don't get suspicious. The first night they're both gone next month will be my chance.
"Whatcha doing?" Sodapop asked as he came up behind me.
"nothing." I lied as I tried to conceal notes, circles, and other things about alchemy from Soda. Soda gave me a disbelieving stare. I sighed, and showed Soda the transmutation circles. He leaned forward to look at them closer.
"Just drawing, nothing more."
"Homework?"
"No, just for fun."
"Okay… I'm heading out with Steve, see ya soon?"
"Yeah, okay. See ya." Sodapop left me to my studies. I stretched and yawned. Boy was I tired, it wasn't late at night but it wasn't early either. I decided I should turn in.
I rolled over on my side, 9:44.
I looked back at the clock: 9:58.
9:10
There's no way I'm going to get to sleep. Maybe I should review the body compounds…
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Me: Okay now it's time to review, uh the reviews
Ahem :clears throat: Onward!
Ed: Freak!
Me:glares at Ed: Don't forget who's the hostage here!
Ed: Jerk!
Me: Okay, let's get started:
EvilPlotBunnyAKABella- So far, I have no idea where the story is going and I'm not sure what's going to happen myself.
Ed: She just doesn't know what you're talking about.
Me:pours glass of milk: Don't make me use this! Actually, I'm not really sure what you're talking about. If you mean like what I think you mean, there isn't going to be any pairings. But later on there might be a weird pairing.
Ed: I don't want to be paired up with that nasty, white, bad tasting, liquid!
Mustang:snickers:
Me: Well, please review cause it always makes me happy.