Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ Hagane no Renkinjutsushi ❯ Death of a Mother ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Rikdo Osaka's Notes: This Fullmetal Alchemist fan fiction story is a fan-made fiction written by me so it's not meant for profit. It's set in an alternative universe exploring what might be different if Edward Elric was a female named Sara Elric. This series will have spin off storys like crossovers as well as people from our world ending up in this alternative universe of Fullmetal Alchemist.

<center><br>Hagane no Renkinjutsushi</br></center>
<center>Written by</center>
<center>Rikdo Osaka</center>

<center><br>Chapter 1:</br></center>
<center>The Death of a Mother</center>

<br>A 8 year old golden haired girl and her 7 year old brother were looking though their father's study trying to find something that would interest them. All they found in the room was a book titled "The Basics of Alchemy" which sounded like interesting book for them to read. The girl grabbed the book before siting down on the floor and begin to read the book with her brother reading it with her as well.</br>

<br>"Do you understand any of this, Sara?" the young boy asked, not really getting anything in the book at all.</br>

<br>"Well, Al, if we take the time and read this book then i'm sure we will get it." said Sara trying to understand the basic factions of the transmutation circles and the physical principle of Equivalent Exchange.</br>

<br>"It saids here that something of equal value must be lost in order to get something out of it. What does that mean?" asked a very confused Alphonse, he didn't really understand any of what he read in the book yet but he could see that his sister did.</br>

<br>"It's a very simple explanation," she said pointing to the picture of a radio." It's an equation. Your output has to be of equal mass and materials to what you started with and the base elements have to be similar too. Like the radio in this book, you couldn't make it bigger, or a tree, or something along those lines."</br>

<br>Alphonse noded understanding what she had just told him until an idea popped into his head, "I know! Why don't we make a present for Winry when fully learn Alchemy!"</br>

<br>"Sure. That would be cool!" she said, laughing a bit before returing to reading the book.</br>

<br>[Meanwhile...]</br>

<br>Their mother was at the market place putting the bread in the large paper grocery bag that contained the rest of her purchases. She walked up to the counter and rang the service bell, the woman behind turned around to face Mrs. Elric.</br>

<br>"Hi there Trisha, how are the kids?" asked the woman as Trisha handed her the money.</br>

<br>"They are doing alright, they just can't help with staying out of trouble but they are good kids " Trisha giggled a bit making the woman smile.</br>

<br>"You have been raising them well without a father," said the woman giving her some change back. "Still waiting for Hohenheim to return to you?"</br>

<br>"Yeah..." said Trisha sighing sadly.</br>

<br>"I'm sure he'll come back to you... he does have two kids to come back to.." said the woman trying to cheer her up and it worked since she smiled after.</br>

<br>"Thanks." was all she said before leaving the place with her bag of groceries.</br>

<br>[Back with Sara and Al.....]</br>

<br>Sara and Al were walking down a path until they made it to a two story house that had a sign post that read "Rockbell's Automail Mechanic Services" on it. The two siblings looked at each other and nodded before walking up to the door before knocking on the door then stood there. They waited until someone awsnered the door and saw that it was a man and woman in their late 30s.</br>

<br>"Oh hi you two, what brings you here today?" asked the man.</br>

<br>"Oh, we're here to play with Winry. We want to show her something we learned!" Al awsnered, while Sara simply nodding her head.</br>

<br>"Alright, come on in." said Winry's father, letting the two siblings into their house. "Winry! Your friends are here to see you!"</br>

<br>It wasn't long until their daughter, Winry Rockbell, came downstairs with her favorite puppy, Den, following behind her. When she saw the two there, she smiled and started to hug the two making Alphonse the only one that was blushing.</br>

</br>"Did you two come to play?" asked Winry, as Sara and Alphonse looked at each other with a smile on their faces before looking back at Winry.</br>

<br>"We came here to give you a present and we were wondering if we could use your room for it." Sara said, as Winry gave her a confused look on her face while her parents knew what she ment by that.</br>

<br>"Sure. Go ahead and be sure to use something that can be cleaned away with water." Winry's mom said while Sara nodded.</br>

<br>"Don't worry, Mrs. Rockwell, we have something that's washable." Sara giggled, before facing her brother and Winry. "Come on, let's go and do this!"</br>

<br>Mrs. Rockbell couldn't help but smile at the two children as they went upshairs to Winry's room. She couldn't believe that they learm the art of Alchemy so fast at that age. Then again, mastering the basics wasn't that hard for them to learn and it gives them to something to do.</br>

<br>[In Winry's room.....]</br>

<br>Winry was standing there with her dog in her arms watching the two drawing something on the ground with a chalk. She didn't understand what they were doing but she was getting bored just watching them doing that.</br>

<br>"Hey, i'm getting bored.." Winry whined.</br>

<br>"We're almost done, Winry." Al said, as they put in the finishing touches on the transmutation circle. When they finished, Al noticed an error and corrected his mistake by thoroughly erasing the original marking before replacing it with the correct one. Sara and Al got out their money bags which had sand in it and carefully droped the sand in the middle of the circle.</br>

<br>"We're done! What do you think, Winry?" Sara asked, getting down on her knees as did her brother.</br>

<br>"You call that a present? That's just a drawing.. what's the real present?" Winry replyed, not really liking their present.</br>

<br>"That's not the present, it's just an outline for one. You ready, Al?" asked her brother who nodded back.</br>

<br>They placed their hands on the transmutation circle resulting in a flurry of electric blue sparks surrounding the circle. Winry watched as the sand began to take shape before her very eyes, and soon her expression turn into terror when she saw the demon like sand form. Sara and Al stopped at what they were doing since they were done and went to Winry's side to try to her calm down.</br>

<br>[Later that day....]</br>

<br>Ms. Eric was siting on a chair inside the Rockbell resident, while children were waiting for her outside, watching the Rockbells trying to calm their daughter down. She looked at the girl and remembered having the same reaction when first she saw alchemy.</br>

<br>"Sweety, they weren't trying to scare you, they want out of their way to make that for you." Mrs. Rockbell said, when a short old lady entered the room with the doll that Sara and Al made for Winry.</br>

<br>"That's right, i must say that those two will made great alchemists someday, i mean look at this craftmenship." Granny Rockbell said, holding up a well made doll. "I know they learned the basics but at such a young is so unheard of."<>

<br>"I know.. i didn't think they would be interested in alchemy." Ms. Eric said, thinking about it.</br>

<br>"Here you go and be sure to thank them." Granny Rockbell said, giving the doll to Winry who smiled looking at the doll.</br>

<br>[Outside the Rockbell Residents....]</br>

<br>Sara and Al were laying outside the house as Den kept on barking at them for scaring poor Winry. They heard footsteps and looked to see that it was her mother and their best friend Winry, with the dool they made, standing there.</br>

<br>"Hey, thanks for making me that doll!" Winry said with a smile before going back to the house.</br>

<br>"Does that mean we're not in trouble?" asked Sara, as her mother nodded.</br>

<br>"Come on you two, let's go home." said Mrs. Elric walking down the dirt path again followed by her children.</br>

<br>[A mouth later....]</br>

<br>It was a nice bight sunny day and the two kids were playing outside while their mother was doing the washing dirty clothes. Al and Sara have been very busy trying to learn more about alchemy to even visit Winry while her parents were in the Ishbal war working as doctors. The mother finished what she was doing and watched her two children playing in front of her.<br>

<br>"Do you think we should go visit Winry today?" Al asked, resting on the grass.</br>

<br>"Huh?" was all Sara could say.</br>

<br>"I mean since her parents are away and all she has is Granny Rockbell... I thought we could visit her since we haven't been seeing her in awhile." Al explained, making Sara smile and patted her brother on the back.</br>

<br>"Well, it looks like my brother has gotten bitten by the love bug." Sara giggled making her brother blush.</br>

<br>"It's not that, i just think we should just go and play with her." Al said, as Sara nodded in agreement.</br>

<br>"Mom, can we visit Winry's place?" Sara asked, getting a nod from her mother.</br>

<br>"Sure. Just be back before dinner, ok?" Ms. Elric told them.</br>

<br>[Later that day at the Rockbell...]</br>

<br>They entered the house of the Rockbell and saw Winry siting down on a chair with her head face down on the table crying. It wasn't until Granny Rockwell show up and told them the reason for Winey's crying which shocked the both of them.</br>

<br>"W-what d-do you mean?" Sara stuttered, not letting the words come out right.</br>

<br>"My parents are dead! OK!" Winry yelled at them.</br>

<br>"B-But how?" Alphonse asked, he couldn't believe that her parents died.</br>

<br>"T-There was an attack on where they were stationed... that's all the letter said." Winry cried, as Al walked up to her.</br>

<br>"Winry, our dad is gone too and we do just fine..." Al was cut off by Winry hiting the table with her fists.</br>

<br>"Don't be stupid, Al! Your dad just ran off! Mine would never come back!" Winry yelled in anger making Al back away.</br>

<br>"Alphonse, i think we should leave..." Sara said clearly also tearing about the news. "I think Winry needs time alone right now with her grandma.."</br>

<br>"Yeah.... Bye, Winry and bye, Granny Rockbell." Alphonse waved at the two before leaving the house.</br>

<br>[The Path to the Elric Resident...]</br>

<br>"Poor Winry, i feel sorry for her." Al said as he walked beside his sister who was deep in thought. "What's the matter?</br>

<br>"Something about the letter troubles me..." Sara awsnered, watching the path they walking on.</br>

<br>"You think the State is keeping something from them about Mrs. and Mr Rockbell, right?" Al asked, as Sara nodded and looked at him.</br>

<br>"Yeah... i think so." Sara said.</br>

<br>They soon made it to the house and saw their mother hanging their other clothes to dry out in the sun. Al and Sara ran up to her and started to hug their mother like they would never see her ever again.</br>

<br>"What's wrong you two? Did something happened?" their mother asked but got no reply from them as they cryed. Mrs. Elric stood there before she started to hug the two back trying to cheer them up.</br>

<br>[Two years later....]</br>

<br>Both Sara [10] and Al [9] were having a race to see who would get to the house fisrt as they carried a basket full of food. The winner to made it to their house was none other then her brother Alphonse. Sara high five him and used her free hand to opened and entered the room only to see their mother laying on the ground. The two were shocked and ran up to their mother's side and tryed to wake her up which was no use.</br>

<br>"Al, call the doctor now!" Sara ordered, Al did as he was told while she stayed at her mom's side.</br>

<br>[Later that day...]</br>

<br>Sara and Al were sitting besides their mother with Winry waiting for the doctor to come out to tell them about their mother. A few mintures passed and the door opened and the three looked towards the door hopping for some good news. But what they saw on the doctor's face told them that he wasn't going to tell them any good news about their mother.</br>

<br>"I'm sorry to say this but your mother isn't going to last long." the doctor told them getting shocked looks on the three three children.</br>

<br>"Y-You m-mean she's going to d-die?" asked Sara, she couldn't believe what she was hearing.</br>

<br>"Y-Yeah, it looks like she had for years not telling anyone about it." the doctor explained. "My guess worrying for Hohenheim and trying to take care of you."</br>

<br>Sara's face turned to rage once she heard her father's name but she calmed down a bit and said, "Can we see her?"</br>

<br>"Yeah.." said the doctor letting the three entered the room.</br>

<br>Al and Sara saw that Granny Rockwell siting down on a chair was standing by their mother's bed. They can see that the doctor was right, they saw that their mother wasn't going to last long in this world.</br>

<br>"Mom. what are we going to do without you?" Al said, as his tears fell to the ground.</br>

<br>"I...I'm.. sure you.. live on... your on... your both smart and strong... just like your father." their mom said weaky.<br>

<br>"But..." Sara said but she was cut off by her mother.<br>

<br>"There's money in the your father's study .... that will last you for awhile.. I want you to use it to ... buy food or whatever you want." said their mother. "There's .. other thing i want you.. to do for .. me."</br>

</br>"What?" Al asked.<br>

</br>"I want you to transmute ... flowers for me.... your father used to make for me." These were the last words that they were going to hear from her as she slowly closed her eyes never to open them again.</br>

<br>[At the Graveyard...]</br>

<br>Everyone in Resembool went to the wake of Sara and Al's mother giving their support to her children who couldn't stop crying. As time passed, everyone left leaving the two children alone by their mother's grave.</br>

<br>"Sara, how are we going to..." said Al as Sara stood there looking at their mother grave.</br>

<br>"We're not, Al, we're going to bring her back." Sara muttered.</br>

<br>"What? But how?" Al asked her sister who looked back at him.</br>

<br>"Let's go back home and i'll show you." was all she said before running down the path to their room as her brother followed.</br>

<br>Notes: Well, there's the first chapter of my FMA alternative universe series and hoped you liked it as much as i enjoyed writing it. I'll fix this chapter when i get freedback back on it.</br>