This is the prelude to my Roy Mustang romance! Hopefully, this turns out much better than my last FullMetal Alchemist attempt...it should because that last one sucked horribly!

I know that everyone probably uses the same cliche Human Transmutation crap, but I needed it to make the rest of the story work. If you guys don't like the first chapter, which will be updated later today, I'll just stop writing the story and scrap FullMetal Alchemist all together.

Please review.

She walked through the empty halls of her old home, her blue eyes scanning the ghostly walls.

It was strange being in this place after being away for so long. Three years to the day, in fact. Three gruelling years.

Silence enveloped her as she continued to walk through the corridors, making her way to the single door at the end of the hall. The one that led to the person she remembered so much compared to the empty place she once called home.

The fourteen year old girl pushed on the sliding glass door, the sound of her buckled boots being muffled by the soft green grass. However, she didn't focus on the colors around her. After all, in such a place with such memories, all she saw was black and white.

Her feet continued to move, only stopping when she came to the single tombstone up on top of the hill behind the house. Her eyes scanned the words on the marble slab, being unable to make out the name through her tears, but she still knew it.

Seth Flye

Her little brother. The only one she had left since their parents abandoned them when the boy was just an infant.

"It's taboo, I know, but I need you to keep going, Little Brother. I've spent the last three years training, and now I think I've figured out why everyone else who's tried this has failed. They didn't give up the right thing." She knelt down and used the back of her hand to wipe the tears from her eyes, strands of her long auburn hair pulling loose from her ponytail and falling into her face.

"Forgive me." The bag she wore on her back, she emptied onto the ground before her.

"Just in case this goes wrong, I need to be close to you. To defeat the monster I very well may create." Yes, she had read up every single detail on this science before she had come to this conclusion that this very well may be the only thing to keep her together.

"I'm doing this for my own selfish reasons. Again, forgive me." She allowed her eyes to fall on the transmutation circle wrapped around her wrist and smiled bitterly.

"Maybe God will give me a break, huh, Little Brother?" She clapped her hands together and took a deep breath.

"After all, I'm sure that giving up a piece of my soul should be enough. If not- I'll join you soon." She placed her hands onto the ground in front of her and was engulfed in the bright light of her alchemy, soon coming face to face with a large gate.

Her eyes were wide, as she felt a ripping pain deep within her body. She let out a scream, feeling sweat rolling down her temple as she soon saw a small part of her leave.

A small child, a reflection of her younger years, was what she saw as soon as the pain ended. The small child, representing a small piece of her soul. A valuable thing. With the parting of the piece of soul, went several years of her life as well as part of her personality.

The teenage girl panted and soon lost herself to the warm darkness surrounding her.