A Certain Archer and an Alchemist

Memories Once Lost

Rangiku was travelling through the streets asking anyone she saw for information. Yet time and time again she received the same answer. She was starting to get somewhat frustrated and it was showing on her expression. "Geeze I wish someone could actually tell me about what that priest did instead of some: It's because he's the will of our sun god Leto!

mumbo jumbo," Rangiku suddenly spotted a large suit of armor and a child in a red cape. Next thing she knew she saw a burst of blue light and from where there used to be nothing but broken parts was now replaced by a fully functioning radio. "I those guys know what the priest did?"

Archer was back on top of his perch overlooking the city of Liore thinking about the events that have transpired. "Damnit! I swear I remember seeing something like that before, but where!?," flashbacks of what the priest had done with the creation of that crystallized flower. Suddenly he remembered something.

Rangiku was approaching the man in steel and the kid in red with a slight smile on her face. The pair noticed her coming by and looked in her direction with a confused face wondering if she was coming to them. Rangiku stopped a few feet in front of the pair and introduced herself. "Hi, my name's Rangiku. Um,I was wondering if you two could tell me how the priest made a flower out of nothing? Was it magic?" as Rangiku said this she leaned closer ever so slightly revealing even more of her cleavage and smiled intently awaiting an answer she wanted other than the : It's because he's the will of our sun god Leto! : crap she was pair introduced themselves with a slight blush on each of their cheeks. Even on the man in steel's was visible through his helmet! "Well um hello. I'm Edward Elric and this is my brother Alphonse Elric. About what the priest did though. Well uh, all we have to say is that it was no magic. It's something called alchemy." Rangiku got tilted her head to the right slightly with a confused expression visible on her face. " Alchemy? What's that. It sounds like a term scientists would use." The now named pair looked at each other and decided to explain. "Well, alchemists like me and Al are practically scientists. It's just that we focus on one law. Equivalent exchange. That's how all alchemy works. To put it simply. Equivalent exchange is pretty much taking something and making something else of the same value out of it. So if I took some dirt here and made it into a statue its size would depend on the amount of material I used in the transmutation. Pretty much what the priest did." Rangiku was nodding her head during this entire process. "Oh, I get it. Well,Um thanks guys. Oh and your little brother sure knows a lot about alchemy Alphonse," Rangiku walked away waving her hand. A noticeable expression appeared on Ed's face. "DID SHE JUST CALL ME SHORT!"

Rangiku walked away quickly wondering to herself why Alphonse didn't have any spirit energy travelling to the rest of his body but concentrated into a single point along his neck and why Edward didn't have any flowing to his right arm and left leg. She was wondering out of pure suspicion but decided that getting the information back to Archer was more important.

Archer remembered walking through a large city filled with life. He saw many people gathering and living out their lives to the fullest. Suddenly all the city's life disappeared and he was willed by the Counter-Force to an unknown location. He remembered a man in white robes with blonde hair and a beard. Alongside this man though was someone who seemed exactly identical but with an expression of dread.

Rangiku appeared out of nowhere in front of Archer. She grabbed his hand not giving Archer a second to react and sped far away.

After the pair arrived at their destination Archer asked Rangiku "So I assume you have something on the priest?" Rangiku shut the doors and windows. She spread out her spiritual senses to try and detect any souls in the vicinity to make sure no one would hear what they were talking about. As soon as she was certain no one was nearby she spilled the beans. "Okay. Well I ran into these two kids who did something similar to what the priest did." Archer replied "Is that so. Would you care to explain?"

"Well I was going to until you rudely interrupted me," Rangiku turned her face away from Archer, crossed her arms under her bust and pouted. "Fine. They called themselves Edward and Alphonse Elric. They told me about this thing called alchemy. Essentially what the priest did to create that flower. They said how alchemy is rooted into the law of equivalent exchange. Taking something and using it to make something else of the same value. They did this with some parts to make a brand new radio." Rangiku looked up at Archer trying to see if any of the information would warrant a reaction from him. Not to her surprise she was left with the same old 'Archer' expression.

"Wait. If you're telling me this alchemy relies on equivalent exchange…..then how did the priest make that flower out of nothing?" said Archer with a questioning look on his face.

"That's what I'm trying to figure out. As well as why the brothers didn't have any spiritual energy flowing to some parts of their bodies for one of them and the other only had it all concentrated into a single point." Rangiku stated with her left hand under her chin being supported by her right hand in a thinking pose.

A Certain Archer and an Alchemist

There's the third chapter everyone. Sorry it took so long but my computer's amd drivers had some issues. So when I tried updating them they froze and gave me a blue screen. So I had to reinstall windows 10 which took 2 days and re-write this chapter as well as trying to do my homework from school. But as usual please favorite and review. Until next time!