The Flowing Sand Alchemist
Chapter Three
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Oh almost forgot Jasmin is only called Suna from Ed's perspective I know its a bit confusing but you get used to it eventually ;P
The train ride was uneventful Jasmin had come to the decision that she will follow Edward discretely and to accomplish this she went to the last car of the train where there was no one and proceeded to do a bit of cosmetic alchemy she learned from a friend who always thought looks were better than skill, that girls philosophy who would hit a woman that was the prettiest in the world. She failed her WA exam but went on to make a killing in the cosmetic markets. Jasmin created the circle out sand than applied a second coating of sand over the circle then applied the third and final coating to the circle. Rummaging around in her pack Jasmin found a small jar of red ink then after a few more seconds rummaging around she found an even smaller jar of black ink. Poring three drops of black ink onto specific parts of the circle then pouring half the jar of red ink into the exact center of the circle Jasmin placed her hands onto the edges of the absolute center of the circle activating it once activated Jasmin felt her hair tingle. Taking a small amount in her hand she watched as it turned from her usual straight flowing lustrous midnight black to a frazzled bright fire red with curls. Then Jasmin's eyes started to tingle as well closing them on impulse but she did not rub them for fear it might mess up the transmutation once the tingling stopped Jasmin opened her eyes and pulled out a small compact from her pack and looked at her new midnight black irises smiling to herself she cleaned up the sand with a bit of alchemy and replaced all of the unused ink back into their respective bottles.
"That's better now Edward won't recognize me." Jasmin giggled slightly and decided to act more free with her emotions while wearing the disguise. Putting everything away Jasmin stood up and noticed that she dropped her WA watch. Picking it up she became interested in what Trisha chose her nickname to be, so Jasmin popped open the clasp holding it together and looked at the engraving on the inside of the watch.
"The flowing sand alchemist, not bad I guess that is what I'll go by when I am out of this disguise." Jasmin shrugged and attached the watch chain to the strap of her pack and placed it inside one of the many side pockets. Walking back to her seat she was surprised to see Edward just entering the car before the one she transmuted her hair and eyes in.
"Excuse me miss but have you seen a woman pass by really dark hair and blue eyes?" Edward asked Jasmin who only giggled at how convincing her disguise was working, but the giggle only made Edward give her a confused look.
"Sorry it's just that you must have missed her as she just walked through that door right before you came in." Jasmin pointed at the door that Edward had just entered and that made him sweat drop.
"She must have jumped from the train. What am I going to do now?" Edward said with a sigh then he looked back up at Jasmin who had just stepped closer.
"Well you can just keep doing what you were doing before, what was that anyways?" Jasmin asked trying to act like she didn't already know.
"I was going to study the alchemy of the west to see what I can find out about it." Edward said in a bored tone.
"That was what I was doing!" Jasmin said giving a small jump of happiness.
"Really?" Edward said unconvinced.
"Yep I am a traveling alchemist hoping to find a way to combine all forms of alchemy into one great art so no one can be at a disadvantage."
"Disadvantage?" Edward said confused
"Yeah like how Amestris alchemy has little to no ability for medicinal use but Xingese alkehistory has a lot of medicinal use but limited military use. If one were to combine the two then they would compensate each other for what they lack then what about other types of alchemy would they point out even more flaws with this design and would it be possible to attach them to my ever growing alchemical understanding." Edward looked at Jasmin dumbfounded.
"So you came to this conclusion by yourself?" Edward asked as he tried to put together the implications that were possible with this girl's alchemy.
"No, my father was the real inspiration he always tried to keep everything working seamlessly he had a knack for finding a way for things to work together he was the one who figured out that different alchemical studies could be combined I just followed his direction." Jasmin held out her rose quartz watch and let Edward open it to see the picture on the inside. Smiling Edward gave Jasmin back her watch.
"Well why don't you come with me then, I'm used to traveling with a partner anyways." Jasmin gave a cry of joy as she hugged Edward who became flabbergasted by the assault.
"By the way if I am to be travling with you I guess we should introduce ourselves first." Edward said as he stepped out of Jasmin's embrace.
"My name is Suna it is nice to meet you Edward Elric." Her already knowing him came to no surprise to Edward as he was the nation's most famous state alchemist.
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The train pulled into the large town steam billowing out of its top Ed slowly stepped off his suitcase thrown over his shoulder smiling at all of the new sights he was seeing then he turned back to see Suna walk out her bag slung over her back. Ed motioned her to follow him to which he led them to a small hotel where Ed dropped off his suitcase then motioned for Suna to do the same.
"Sorry I find that I don't worry as much if I keep everything with me at all times." She smiled but remained to be stubborn about leaving her bag to the point that Ed just raised his hands in defeat.
"Let's go ask around for someone that knows Alchemy." Ed said getting up and walking out the door Suna in tow. After around two days of searching they finally found an alchemist within a walk-able distance from the city. Upon arriving to the small but well-kept cottage Ed motioned Suna over.
"Ok we don't know if this person will act kindly to strangers so be on guard." Suna just gave Ed a slight smile as she walked forward and knocked on the door.
"Excuse me is anyone home I want to talk to the alchemist here about a broken watch." Ed just looked at Suna as he sweat dropped from her brashness to which she just stuck her tongue out at him.
"Give me a second I'll be right out." Said a voice from within the cottage the voice was defiantly male but Suna heard other voices whispering within the cottage.
"Get down into the cellar we don't want the bad people taking you too now do we?" Ed heard small footsteps running down stairs when a thin man unlocked and opened the door.
"Hello my name is Suna it's nice to meet you." Suna held out her hand as Ed simply looked surprised that Suna's ruse worked shaking his head he also held out his hand to the man.
"Hello my name is Edward Elric but please just call me Ed." The man just stared at Ed and then leaned out his doorway before pulling the two inside.
"Wha." Ed exclaimed before the man covered Ed's mouth.
"It's not safe to be open about who you are Mr. Elric, many in this country would take you as a hostage to use as leverage against Amestris." Ed only muttered something about a bastered general.
"Why do you hide in your own home?" Suna asked the man who only sighed before explaining what has happened to the alchemists of Creta.
"It all started several months ago our government heard about how the Amestrian government tried to kill all of their people using alchemy, soon there were the public callings to the capital where alchemists were either pressed into service of the government or killed on the spot as traitors. Then came the hunters they posed as normal people asking for alchemists to help them and then they forced the alchemists to go to the capital for the same treatment as with the public callings. Now it is forbidden to do alchemy without a government seal and those who are caught doing so are executed on the spot." The thin man was visibly shaking from just telling Ed and Suna.
"Do you think we should help?" Suna whispered to Ed who thought about the circumstances and only shook his head.
"We can't get involved in an internal dispute with a countries government it would only make it worse for both its citizens and Amestris." Ed made to many valid points for Suna to argue but she knew what was going to happen and decided to provoke him for a bit of fun.
"So you want to go to the capital and see if they would let us look at their libraries?" Suna asked while batting her eyelashes at Ed.
"Sure why not." Standing a bit to quickly with a slight blush on his face Ed asked the man if there was a train to the capital.
"There is only one but I wouldn't go there it's too dangerouse the capital has started to take even touring alchemists and force them into service!" Ed only smiled when the thin man said this.
"That just makes it more interesting."
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Truth watched the timeline change to this new event and smiled.
"She might be worth a bit of extra effort don't want to make this too easy now do we." Truth said to its-self as it went over and summoned Jasmin's gate and added a new feature.
"Now great Flowing sand alchemist let's see what you do."
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Jasmin sighed as Edward read yet another book completely absorbed into it; it has been three weeks since they got to the capital of Creta and while at first she didn't mind the constant book hunting and alchemy theory sessions. She got bored of them quite quickly because she already knew all of this and even knew exactly what Edward was going to do next, he was going to get up and knock over the huge book stack on the table next to him, in 3, 2, 1, CRASH. Getting up to make sure he was ok once she gave the façade of concern she went back to being bored then she decided she would pester Edward into getting her an Ice-cream in the shop across the street thinking of doing something that wasn't part of her memories of the future.
"Edward. I'm bored can't we do something else for the rest of the day as a break from all of this." Jasmin waved her hand towards the many stacks of books throughout the area around the two of them. Sighing Edward got up and closed the book he was reading careful to be sure he left a bookmark in it.
"Sure why not I have kept you locked up in this library all week."
"More like three weeks." Jasmin muttered under her breath.
"So where would you like to go?" Edward was stretching as he said all of this trying to get feeling back into his limbs.
"Could we go to the ice-cream shop across the street?" Jasmin asked her eyes glittering with excitement of something she didn't already know, Edward thought the glittering eyes meant she really liked ice-cream and shrugged as he put on his jacket and then gestured for Jasmin to go first.
"Well come on Suna lets go get a treat for all the work we accomplished so far." Jasmin only smiled at him excited about the unknown outcome. As they walked out of the library and onto the streets Edward noticed a person about to be hit by a car reacting on pure instinct Edward clapped his hand and placed them on the ground after a small burst of alchemical sparks and energy the road underneath the car turned into a thick viscose liquid immobilizing the vehicle almost instantly saving the person in the process. Smiling as he walked over to go check on the person Edward noticed that there was an armed group of soldiers running towards them.
"Halt Alchemist!"
Hello I am so sorry for taking so long to put this up there have been a lot of things going on right now and I don't know how often I will be able to update but I wont leave this story anytime soon so please bare with me also I am pleading for reviews now as I don't know how you people like my story please don't leave a girl alone and review for me.