Sorry if this chapter sucks. I'm really tired and my thoughts keep trailing to peanut butter.(i dont know why though) Oh and this fic isn't going to be one of those "and they lived happily ever after" fics. It's far from it. It can get really dark and depressing. If you don't like that style then I'd advise you not to read any further. If you hate that kind then you can flame about the ending all you want. Flames don't hurt me at all.(except for at Easter... my hair caught on fire last year and this year my grandpa dropped a lit candle on my foot. I HAD to wear sandals that day! but I digress...) Reviews, the good and the bad, keep me motivated to finish the story. They let me know what I can improve on and that people are actually reading the fic. I had the ending done already. I finished it during school, or the thoughts on paper at least. I needed to fill in events but for the most part the story was well planned out. My friend read it and hated it so she thought she was funny by throwing it out in the dumpster. So now I have to rewrite it by memory but it will be the same, give or take a few things. One more thing! If some things change abruptly it's because I'm winging it on this story and only have the ending that I just thought of. And I still think that this fanfic is effin awesome! Well it is in my mind at least.


Pride stood near an old house on the outskirts of town, staring out in the horizon. He was thinking, which he didn't do too often. Unlike his alchemist counterpart, Pride rarely talked to anyone about anything that wasn't of the utmost importance.Soon, Pride noticed a girl in her late teens who looked,from what he could tell, 18 or so. Pride's eyes widened as memories flooded into his head. They all contained the girl and a boy who looked somewhat like him. In every memory that he experienced, the girl and boy were laughing and they obviously enjoyed each other's company. 'What was that? Were those my memories? If they weren't, whose were they? Was that me or is this me?' These were some of the thoughts running through Pride's head. Then he heard another voice in the back of his head.(This part is totally irrelevant to the story but it makes for a good read. Come to think of it, I might make it relevant to the story after all.)

'You're alive and yet your not. You exist and yet you don't. You can feel and yet you can't. Your life is nothing but a lie, an illusion.'

'What was that? That makes no sense. But then again, it sort of does. What am I thinking? It's nothing, just the wind is all.' Pride shook the thoughts out of his mind as quickly as they arrived. When he came back to reality, he noticed that the girl was still there. 'That girl...I must know more about her. I need to know why she triggered such thoughts in my mind.' Pride started to follow the strange girl, being careful not to be caught following her.

Back to Sidney

Sidney was lost in her thoughts again, oblivious to her current surroundings. She was thinking of ways she could discover the truth about Ed, Al, and Roy's disappearances. ' Okay. So I guess the first thing I have to do is talk to the people who last saw them. I'm guessing that it was probably someone in the military. I better head over to Central HQ and ask a few people about it.' Sidney started to get the eerie feeling that she was being watched. 'Someone's following me. I can tell. I can just feel it.' She turned around only to see...nothing. ' I guess I'm just being paranoid. Just ignore the feeling, Sidney.' she told herself.The feeling didn't go away and she swore she heard faint footsteps behind her. Everytime she stopped, the footsteps stopped. When she began walking again, the footsteps started up again. 'Just keep walking. Ignore the feeling. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot.' She told herself. When Sidney started to walk again, she swore she heard a twig snap behind her. Sidney became scared and she felt really uneasy about this. ' You know what? Central HQ is ten blocks away. I think I'm just going to go home...' Sidney ran home out of fear and locked her doors and windows when she entered her house.

"You're fine. You're just overreacting is all." Sidney sighed. She decided to go to her room and continue planning out how she was going to go about finding out about Ed, Al, and Roy.

While Sidney was lost in her notebook full of plans, she didn't notice that her once closed bedroom window was now wide open.


Sorry people. I have to go but don't worry. I'm planning to finish this entire fic before I go to D.C. and I leave for that on April 25th. Hope ya like it so far! I can't believe it's so short though...