Enlightenment

Prologue

Life was pretty normal for Al, he was completely bored of school and longing for the summer holidays, where he would be free of that prison forever. Alphonse was in his final year, and all his classes had slowly devolved into a daily grind of revision. However, Al's mind could not be inhibited by the syllabus of secondary school, his imagination overflowed with ideas of myths and fantasies, magical monsters and relics of great power, and his exercise book, which should have been full of dreary, depressing notes, was a canvas for doodles and depictions alike, telling tales of heroes slaying dragons or clashes of good and evil on an epic scale. Little did he know, his imagination was one step closer to reality than he thought...