I am Weakness

Those Who Challenged The Sun

At the time I was about to be sixteen and my partners and I were heading to Liore. There was the Resonance Alchemist, Yuki Mustang who also happened to be my Commanding Officer's daughter. She was famous for her bracelet, with a snap with that thing on she could change a sound's frequency from a whistle and turn it into a weapon. I never understood how she used it, she can explain the technicalities of it far better than I ever could. She was a couple of months younger than me, black haired, had these really nice brown eyes, sleek automail for her right arm with a transmutation circle carved into it. She was nice, a really good friend to have. There was Alphonse Elric, he wasn't part of the military at all but he still stuck around with us to keep his brother in check. He was the youngest Elric out of three, he was a good alchemist, an excellent fighter, and he was a brave kid. I really admired him. Then there was Edward, the Fullmetal Alchemist, although no believed he was the Fullmetal Alchemist when they saw him.

How come?

He was... Shorter than his younger brother. You see Al was in a large suit of armor and when people know the Fullmetal Alchemist they envisioned what Al looked like. Gigantic, in a suit of armor, etc. Regardless, Ed was a talented State Alchemist, the second child out of the three Elrics, he was smart, good at what he did, and he could always make things lively. He had this long blonde hair that he'd keep in a braid, these almost golden eyes, and most of the time he would wear this red jacket with the Nicholas Flamel insignia on it. I met Yuki before my career even began and I met the three Elric right when Ed's career began and their oldest sister, Joslyn began training to be a soldier. Now the reason why we were heading to Liore was that we caught wind of a priest there who was running The Church of Leto who was creating miracles. We believed that he had something we've been searching for since the beginning. The Philosopher's Stone.

Liore was a town in the middle of the desert, probably why it didn't get a huge number of visitors, at least that's what we believed. I mean, putting a town in a climate where the heat was lethal by day and then at night where the cold was equally as lethal didn't sound appealing to me. Our way to this desert town would have been more enjoyable if it wasn't for the fact that Ed scared off our ride by going on one of his famous short tangents. As I walked along the sandy terrain I wiped some sweat from my brow and let out an almost strangled and tired groan.

Shortly after I heard an equally tired groan come from Ed who trudged behind Yuki and I, not even removing his gloves or coat. But that alone would only do so much for him. "I hate deserts! There's nothing but sand!" He groaned before allowing himself to plop onto the sand. My eyebrows knotted together as Yuki and I stopped with my arms crossing over my chest. "If there was some grass I could make some bread, I'm starving."

A huff came from my chest now looking around the empty area with my eyes squinted from the bright light illuminating from the yellow sand. "Well, we might have been able to get some food if you didn't..." I started but trailed off upon noticing that it was only the three of us. Al was nowhere to be seen. My eyes widen a little as my eyes darted from left to right. "Where's Al?"

Ed lifted his head now getting on his hands and knees to look for his brother. Calling for Al loudly along with Yuki who began to briskly walk around us. "Al? Where'd ya go? Al?" Ed called out.

"Alphonse!" Yuki exclaimed.

From below I heard an echoing and young voice cry out, "Down here!" Then two large metal hands reached from the ground and grab onto Yuki and Ed's ankles. Both of them let out a cry in fright which only resulted in a small snort of a laugh to come from my throat uncontrollably. "I sunk again..."

When recovering Ed let out an annoyed grunt and looked back to the hand wrapped around his ankle. "Reason number two I hate the desert!"

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