Chapter 1: Danger in Central
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN I FAILED!" The blonde alchemist shouted in rage. Edward Elric had just been in a battle with another state alcehmist. The battle was actually a test to see if he could do a certain mission.
"I'm sorry Fullmetal, but you were supposed to use alchemy. Not once in that battle did I see alchemy. At leased not used by you," Colonel Roy Mustang explained. Angerly, Ed punched the wall and walked out of the colonel's office.
"Faliure my ass," Ed thought. "I'll show him who's the failure." As he finished his thought of him kicking Roy's ass, his younger brother appeared before him. Ed stumbled backwards in shock, but didn't fall.
"...Jumpy?" Al asked, putting a hand on Ed's shoulder.
"Uh.. Sorry. I was lost in thought," he replied, trying not to studder.
"So tell me... Did Roy Mustang let you do the mission... Or..." Al dicided not to go on. The word 'failure' might piss Ed off.
"No. the colonel is such an ass. I bet half the alchemists who took the test didn't use alchemy either. I don't think he wants me to become expierienced because he just wants me to make an ass of my self. Or to have a reason to harrass me!" He wanted to punch Roy in the face so hard that it would wake up his dentist. He was craving to do that. It was as if he would die if he didn't punch him.
"Don't worry," Al sighed. "Maybe there will be another mission for you to do."
"It's not the mission, Al," Ed started. "It's the fact that Roy doesn't want me to do anything because he wants to say I skrew up. It's like he wants me to skrew up or something... Well, anyway, let's get out of this place. I have to stop by Winry's." With that said, the two Elric brothers paced down a flight of stairs. They told the furher they had to go visit a friends. After a short explanation, Ed and Al walked out the doors and headed down the sidewalk.
"Hey mommy," a little boy said. "Look at that bwonde kid. He is so short that I bet no one would wet him dwive a car." Ed could what he said perfectly. His face turned red in anger and he turned around to the boy that called him short.
"DON'T CALL ME SMALL! I'M STILL GROWING YOU LITTLE TWIT! I'M TWO TIMES TALLER THAN YOU SO I WOULDN'T BE TALKING!" The boy immidiatley started crying when Edward shouted this. The mother walked about to him and slapped him on the head.
"DON'T YELL AT A LITTLE BOY WHO IS TWO TIMES YOUNGER THAN YOU, ALSO!" She shouted. The mother picked up her son and continued walking the opposite direction of the two brothers. Al sweatdropped and rubbed the back of his metal head in embarrassment.
"Let's get out of here so I won't explode again," Edward growled. Al nodded and the two boys continued walking. "Jeez. Why do I have to be so short?"
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"HE'S COMING!" A voice shrieked in horror.
"RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!" Another screamed.
A crowd of people stormed down the street. Followed behind them was a guy about 22 years hold. He had blonde, spikey hair. Very spikey. He wore a red, torn up cape that seemed to be wrapped very loosly wround his mouth, down to his shoulders. He had metal shoulder armor that had five spikes on it. He had a blue shirt with baggy blue pants. There were a few strapps on his shirt and pants. He had brown boots. Here are the scary things about him that kinda made him look non-human... His sword was very long and wide with bandages all around it. On his hands were gloves with claws on them. On his left arm was a metal wrist wrap with strapps that stetched about to his arm. (It's kind of hard to explain.) The wierdest thing is a devil wing on his right part of his back that allowed him to fly a certain height.
"That's right! Keep running and screaming all you want! But keep this in mind... You will all be killed!" The phycotic man shouted. He swung his large, impressive sword at the people. A lightning yellow shot out at them, killing at least 20 of them and injurying at least 70 people.
"You will all pay for what you have done to my allys! I will burn you !#$ing military people to the center of the earth!" The man screamed, swinging his sword twice more. The same ammount of people were killed and wounded as his first swing... Even if they were wounded the man was going to kill them anyway...
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"Al! Come on!" Ed shouted to his younger brother. "You can play with that hairball later!"
"But brother," Al said, turning around. " It's so cute. I wanna play with it a little more!"
"When are you going to get over your obsession with cats?" Ed sighed, smacking his forward. "You are too old to be doing this, Al." Unfortunatley, Alphonse wasn't listening to a word he just said.
"Look, brother! It's playing with the pocket watch!" Al exclaimed. Ed immidiatley turned his attention to Al and the cat. The pockey watch that Ed had was silver and it shows that he is a state alchemist.
"POCKET WATCH!" He quickly snatched it away from Al. "Al, how did you get this!"
"I was about to tell you that you dropped it, but you were yelling at the little boy at the time. So I kind of forgot to tell you."
"Well don't give it to the f-" A noise distracted him. The cat quickley dashed off as it sensed a strong danger approaching this section of the town. As the two brother stood up, they saw that many others noticed the distraction, too. Some even started fleeing. Others just stood and watched.
Suddenly a crowd of people dashed up the street, screaming. There was a lightning yellow blast from behind. Ed's eyes widened in horror as he saw many people dying.
"RUN! HE'S COMING!" Someone from the crowd shouted. Again, the man blasted another attack.
"Brother! What should we do?" Al asked.
"...Hide!" He replied, a little paniced. He grabbed his brother by the arm and yanked him into an ally. As the crowd of people dashed down the street, the two brothers hid in the dark ally. They waited until the the swordman flew by.
"Brother, are you sure this is safe enough?" Alphonse asked. As a response, Ed just shushed him.
Silence.
Everything in town seemed deserted. Many building were destroyed. There were dead bodies and injured people scattered on the ground. A small fire had started, but it didn't spread. Blood and body parts were also scattered. They knew that if they got in a fight then they would automaticly lose.
"I think that it is safe now, Al," the blonde alchemist said. They both decided to come out of hiding. They managed to avoid being hit by falling pieces of a building.
"I think we should help these people to safty before that mad man comes back," Ed suggested. As they were about to go and help the wounded people, a lightning yellow attack blasted down the street, aimed right for the two brothers. Luckily, Ed used alchemy to create a steel barrior to sheild them from the forceful attack. It was shattered thought when the attack past by.
"Looks like I missed a few people," the man said. "Don't worry. I won't miss this time." He charged right at the two brothers, only striking Edward though. He was knocked hard against a building. Grunting in pain, Ed managed to climb to his feet and use alchemy to turn his right metal arm into a blade.
"Haha! Whatgood would that do? Look at your weapon compared to mine! You have no chance of winning, you twit!" the man yelled, charging at Ed. "OMNISLASH!" This attack was a three-hit attack. Ed manged to avoid to of the three slashes, but on the third slash he was too slow to avoid. His left metal leg was destroyed. Luckily no pain was felt... At least not too much pain.
"BROTHER!" Al suddenly screamed.
"Al!" Ed screamed back. "You should be long gone by now! Don't you have any brains! GET OUT OF HERE WHILE YOU STILL CAN!"
"Well, Al... Now you will expirience what it is like to lose a loved one just like I did!" With that said, the man jolted around and charged at Ed. He was only to be stopped by the pain of two bullets in his back. When he turned around he saw Al with a gun that he recently transmuted... And the man collapsed.
