A Different Story

Chapter 5: Human Transmutation

  It was about five days since her father's death and she missed him. She had been studying alchemy in order to resurrect her father. She knew her father wouldn't have let her do it but he wasn't here now. She needed to bring him back. She had retrieved the ingredients for it, and she was ready. She had drawn the transmutation circle. Everything was ready. She clapped her hands and placed them on the circle. It glowed blue, but then everything darkened and it became black and shadowy.

    "This doesn't seem right!" Riza cried out in fear. She saw something that looked like an eye open in the middle like a portal. Tiny black hands grabbed her. Riza struggled and tried to pull away, but the opposing force was too strong and she was pulled into a black whirlwind. Then she suddenly was dropped into a white empty place. She saw a huge door and some person. The person was almost completely white. "Who are you?" Riza asked curiously. The white figure looked up at her.

"Why hello. You ask my name? I am God. I am Truth. I am the Universe. I am the world. But I am also, you." Truth explained in a very creepy tone. Riza's eyes widened.

"But, how?" Riza asked, bewildered. Truth laughed.

     "Well when you think about it, if I am everything, they I must be you." Truth cackled. Riza shook her head.

"No! You can't be me!" Riza yelled in confusion. Truth smiled.

"But I am." Truth replied simply. Riza glared at him.

"YOU'RE LYING!" Riza shouted in anger and confusion.

    "But I'm not, I am you, I am everything." Truth stated, annoyance edging its voice."Anyway, you dared to knock on the door. Now the door has opened." Truth stated. Riza turned around. The giant door opened and the same tiny black arms grabbed her and pulled her in. Her head started throbbing painfully. She felt as if her head would burst. All the information of the world was being poured into her brain all at once.

   She wanted it to stop. She only wanted to see her father again. It was all she had wanted. This wasn't at all what she had wanted. She silently prayed for the pain to end. It suddenly stopped, and she was went spiraling into the whiteness where Truth was. He looked at her expectantly. "Well, how was it? It's what you wanted, wasn't it?" Truth laughed.

"No! I never wanted any of this! I only wanted to see my father again!" Riza cried helplessly.

   "Well, no matter." Truth dismissed the topic. Suddenly, she couldn't see in her left eye. Then she couldn't feel her left leg. She felt excruciating pain in her left leg. She looked at it and saw it fading and crumbling.

"What's going on?" Riza cried in fear. Truth smiled.

  "Payment for what I showed you, and for you committing human transmutation." Truth laughed. Riza fell back into the black whirlwind and fell into the living room where she had committed the taboo. She lost the sight in her left eye, she lost her leg, and worst of all, she failed to bring her father back. She opened her good eye and in front of her stood Roy.

  "Roy! I thought you went back to the military." Riza managed to choke out. Roy looked a mixture of concerned, pitiful, and worst of all, angry.

"Well good thing I didn't!" He yelled. "I could have lost you! You idiot!" Roy shouted. He slapped her and cried. Riza felt guilt form in her stomach.

"I'm sorry..." Riza wailed. Roy hugged her close.

"Come on, we need to get you some help." Roy muttered. And picked her up to go find help.