"Finally!" Edward Elric exclaimed after a long, let alone uncomfortable, train ride to Ginshale. He flexed his shoulders and then turned to talk to his brother, Alphonse. "Alright, now how do we get to this girl's place, anyway?"
Alphonse made no reply at first. "Umm...I'm not quite sure, brother."
Edward sighed and scratched the back of his head in an irritated manor. "Fine, let's see if someone else knows."
After asking a handful of townspeople, the Elric brothers finally go some definite directions to the Lightning Shard Alchemist's house.
"Alright, let's go over these instructions again," Alphonse said. "Just to make sure that we have them memorized."
"Through the square," Edward recited, "turn left, keep going straight until we get to the bar at corner, turn right, and go halfway up Windshire Peak. Easy."
"Okay, now that we know we have the directions memorized, let's go." Edward and Alphonse nodded in agreement and started walking through the town to meet the State Alchemist.
"Olivia! I'm going up the mountain to do some stuff! I'll be back in a few hours!" A brunette came bounding down the stairs of a small cottage, pulling her hair back in a tight ponytail as she did.
"Alright," the girl's sister replied quietly. "Dinner will be ready by the time you come back, so…umm…bring an appetite."
"Will do!" the elder girl yelled back, slamming the door behind her.
"A-And stop slamming the door, please. You might break it!" No one was there to hear the young child. She sighed. 'She may be a State Alchemist and seven years older than me, but she acts like she's a little kid,' the girl thought as she hummed a tune to herself. 'Well, I suppose it could be worse.' The girl washed her hands and began to clean some dishes that were piled in a pile next to the sink, thinking about her sister the whole time she did.
About an hour or so later, there was a knock at her door. The girl dried her hands and pondered to herself. "Wonder who that could be. We never get visitors around here..."
She opened the front door to find herself looking at a boy with blonde hair pulled back in a tight braid and a tall suit of armor.
"May...may I help you?" the girl asked timidly. She brushed a dark strand of hair out of her face.
"We're looking for Shina Fekir. Does she live here?" the boy inquired.
"Yes...she does. Wh-Who are you?"
"My name is Edward Elric. This big guy over here is Alphonse. We're the Elric brothers."
"We were sent here by Colonel Roy Mustang," the suit of armor, or Alphonse, as she had just heard, explained. "We were assigned to meet Shina here."
"Oh, well it's nice to meet you," the girl said, bowing politely. "My name is Olivia Fekir, Shina's sister. She's…She's out on the peak right now, but I'll tell her to come down." Olivia smiled and opened the door all the way. "But please, come in. It'll take my sister a while to…umm…get back to the house."
The brothers hesitated at first, but with the insistence of Olivia, came in and sat down at a small table for four.
"I-I'll be right back," the young girl said, running out the back door. A few minutes later, Edward covered his ears at the sound of a loud bell being ringed and cursed.
"Damn it! What is that?" he complained. Olivia ran back into the house and looked at Edward covering his ears.
"O-Oh, I'm sorry!" she apologized as she rubbed the back of her neck in embarrassment. "It's a bell…It can be heard all through Windshire Peak, a-and I ring it whenever I need to tell my sister to come down from the mountain early…I'm really sorry if it hurt your ears."
"It's okay...I guess," the Fullmetal Alchemist grumbled.
Olivia smiled slightly and did her best to make the brothers feel at home, waiting for her sister to come down from the crest of Windshire Peak.