The Mercury Alchemist

Chapter 1 ~ The Gate

'Alchemy... is a science where one understand the structure of matter, breaks it down, then rebuilds it. With it... we can create anything with just one transmutation. Something of equal value must be present. But what if... it was used for something else...?'

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OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeSXTeTfuWE

-Me-

"Catherine Cairo are you paying attention!?" my teachers yells, slamming her ruler on my desk. I nearly fell from both shock and fear. I slowly looked up only to see a very pissed off teacher. I instantly stood up doing quick apologizes, "I'm sorry! It'll never happen again!" She just sighed and continued the discussion which just happened to be science. My name is Catherine Cairo, I'm a scholar at this prestigious science academy for both middle & highschool. For awhile now, I've been daydreaming in class without me knowing and it's been a real problem. Tomorrow is my 12th birthday, so that might probably be my reason why my mind isn't in class lately. 'That does make sense,' I thought as I sat back down in my seat and starting listening in what our teacher was discussing. "Alright I want all of you to look on page 210 and start reading until the bell rings," our teacher instructs, writing it on the chalk board so we won't forget.

All of us gave a groan and did as we were told. I took out my science book from my backpack and started flipping through the pages till I reached it. I wasn't shocked at what I was reading, it had information about alchemy and homonculi. Two weeks we've been learning about it so we kinda got used to it. Before we all got a huge surprise when we opened our books. All of us are anime otaku's so one thing popped into our heads, 'FMA!' It's very strange on what I was learning, I bet the others felt the same way. BBBRRRIIINNNGGG!!!! That was the final school bell for the day. All of us instantly started putting our notebook and text book into our backpacks. "Now remember class! Tomorrow is the field trip!" we hear our teacher annouce. I wasn't in a hurry to leave while the others started bolting out of the room. "Oi Cat! You coming!?" one my friends ask from the door, noticing that I was still in the room.

Shaking my head 'no', my friend just left instantly leaving only me and the teacher. I flung my bag over my shoulders and headed for the door. When I passed my sensei, an eerie feeling went through my body making me stop to look at her. "Something wrong?" she asks me with a kind, yet creepy smile. I just shook my head no and exited the room. 'That women... she's oddly familiar.... Er! Don't be stupid Cat you've known her for 2 years!' I thought trying to shake the odd familiarity feeling away. I kepted passing by other students who were either chatting or getting things from their locker. I just wanted to get back home before... "Cat!!!!!!" and that gave me a signal that it was too late. Before I could make a run for it, a pair of arms wrapped around my neck. "Gah! Alice get off of me!" I yelled trying to push away the hyper girl. She pouted and finally got off of me.

"Geez... you don't have to be so mean...."  

"You're the one that always glomps me!!!!"  

"Any way I just wanted to great you an early happy birthday!"  

"Oh yeah it's tomorrow."  

"Man... too bad it had to be on the field trip! Agh! I gotta run! See ya!"

And with that she bolts right past me like lightening. I gazed to where she ran off to and sighed, that girl has always been hyper but today was on a whole other level. Turning away, I noticed something laying on the floor infront of me. I picked it up to see it was a box. 'This might belong to Alice.... Oh well I'll give it to her tomorrow,' I thought putting the box into my pocket. When I left the school, everyone who was leaving as well started to stared at me with wonder in their eyes. Stuffing my hands in my pockets, I gave them a face saying 'Saying anything and you die' which made them backing away. My inner self was saying, 'I just wanna be your friend.' Too late for friends, they started it with the rumors. When I first came to this school I was in a grumpy mood since I'm not a morning person. Since then I was feared by students.