The Legend of an Alchemist

Chapter 1: A Wolves Curse

Link, with Midna on his back, stalked, in the night air, the unsuspecting moblin that had terrorized a village. Link was, of course, enraged to find the children of the village scared out of there wits after the moblin stormed threw the town, ax in hand, and stolen many goods and royalty. That is why Link was in his wolf form now, getting revenge for the terrified people of the town. Midna said to continue on the journey, and not worry about one measly moblin. But, we all know that the kind-hearted Link would not stand for something like that.

As Link approached the moblin from behind, he could hear the heavy breathing coming from the monster as well as the pounding from this own heart. He was about ten feet from the creature, then he crouched, aimed, and pounced at the creature with a mighty bark. But before he could reach the monster it turn and revealed a evil face of a Poe with a scythe in his hands. "Link!" Midna screamed, but it was to late. The mighty hero Link was knocked to the ground, spear in his chest, blood pouring out.

Midna shook with fright as she tried desperately to pry the fainted body of her before the poe could hurt her as well. The Poe was upon her and raised it's scythe above it's head, ready to strike. "NO!" Midna shielded her face with her hands as the scythe started to reach her.

But suddenly, a flash of blue was sent across the ground and stopped in front of the poe then it shot a hand made of rock out of the ground and stopped the scythe in mid swing. "What?" Midna stared at the hand that just saved her life with amazement. "Hey!" a voice in the distance called. The poe and Midna turned in the direction of the voice. "Didn't your mother ever teach you to not to mess with people who are smaller than you?" Out of the darkness came a boy with golden hair and eyes, he clapped his hands together and the blue light appeared again as the boy pressed his hand to his arm and created a sword out of steel. "So you might want to fight with me!"

"Ha!" The poe wheezed. "if what you say is true, then your to small as well."

The boy's eye twitched. "You'll pay for that!" And the boy charged.

Earlier that Day…

"Damn map, this is stupid…" Edward glared at the map in his hands with annoyance. They, him and his brother, were supposes to be investigation an old temple in the forest, but they couldn't figure out the map. "Brother," Alphonse was really getting tired of waltzing around the forest not knowing if they were getting closer or further from the temple. "Maybe we should find someone to help us."

"WHO? THERE'S NO ONE HERE!" Edward was getting very impatient and wanted to get this over with. Suddenly he noticed something. He immediately crouched and wiped away leaves from the ground. "Brother," Al crouched beside him. " What are you doing?"

'Look!" Ed pointed along the ground. "An old path!"

Edward rushed along the narrow path, his brother stumbling behind him. "Wait up!" But Ed kept on charging taking no notice of his brother. Edward suddenly stopped short. In front of him was a vine covered temple, with a triangle symbol over the door.

Excitement rushed over Ed as he marveled over the enormous temple with glee. He had finally found it. But the only problem was- "How do we get in?" Alphonse questioned. "I guess we could try the door."

"Brother," Al sighed. "This is a temple that has been here for centuries, no one has entered it for centuries, and why do you think that is? No one was ever able to open the door. That's probably why someone called the military to investigate it, because they couldn't get in. So why in the world do you think the door would be unlocked-"

"Al, the door's already open."

"….well….that's strange." They walked in and looked around, it wasn't very festive, that's for sure. There seemed to be nothing in there except two statues at the front. "Aw," Ed whined. "I was hoping for- wait! What's that?"

Ed pointed to the middle of the temple, there was, what looked like, a sort of small statue. But as they got closer, they saw that it was a sword sticking out of a rock that had the same symbol as the sign on the front door. "A sword, how cliché." Ed snickered. There was ancient writing on the floor that said that the temple was rebuilt after decaying to the point of crumbling, but the sword always stayed in the small condition. He was about to reach out and touch the sword when Alphonse cried out. "Oh no! I forgot my pack outside, I'll be right back, Brother." Al walked outside and Edward turned back to the sword. It had a royal blue handle. And the same golden triangle was printed on it. what does this symbol mean? Ed thought a he lowered his hand on the hilt. Suddenly a glow came from the symbol on the sword. Edward jumped back as the whole sword started to glow. He could here cries from Alphonse outside. Suddenly, he heard a clock dinging, the walls of the temple began to shake the whole temple started to glow. Edward felt his vision going blurry, he fell over, and remembered no more.

Edward's eyes shot open and jumped up and looked around. where did the temple go? He was standing in a grass fill courtyard, it had decaying rocks that formed an outline of a rectangle. The temple? What happened? He looked back at the sword, but the sword was no longer there. All that stood there was the stone that it was in. What? Then he jumped with realization. "AL!" He called, and ran to where the entrance of the temple was. "AL! AL? ARE YOU HERE? ALPHONSE!" But all that stood there was the two statues that seemed, almost, younger looking? Where am I? He looked up at the sky, it was night time and the stars and moon were out. Alphonse, where am I?

Edward wandered away from the temple, rubbing his arms to fight the cold air. He quietly called for Alphonse, hoping that anyone would answer. Suddenly, he heard a cry. "LINK!" Edward ran towards the voice, not caring who it was. There was a path and on the path was an evil creature looming over a small girl trying to pry herself off of a wolf with a deep wound in it's chest. The creature raised his weapon to strike. Seeing the terror in the girl's eye he knew he had to stop him. He clapped his hands and placed his palms to the ground. The serge of blue alchemic light was sent threw the ground and created a hard of stone to stop the weapon.

"Hey!" Ed called out. The monster and the girl turned to him. "Didn't your mother ever teach you to not to mess with people who are smaller than you?" Ed pressed his palms together and created a sword out of his Automail arm. "So you might want to fight with me!"

"Ha!" The monster wheezed. "if what you say is true, then your to small as well."

Edward's eye twitched with anger. No one called him small and got away with it. "You'll pay for that!" Edward raised his arm and charged towards the creature with a battle cry. The creature tried to pry the rock hand off his weapon, but when he finally got it out, it was to late. Edward stabbed the creature in the heart and stepped back a it fell to the ground. In a few seconds a red glowy thing, as Edward described it, emerged out of the creature's chest. "Ew.." said Edward with distaste. "Take it out!" cried the girl. Ed turned to her. "What?"

"Take out the soul, or it will come back to life!" Edward looked back a the monster. that red thing? Ed leaned over the monster and grasped the soul. "Ew! It's all wet and gooey!" Ed whined, he started pulling it out and the monster shrieked as it gave in and let the soul be taken. Edward yelped as an involuntary spasm came over him and forced him to raised the soul over his head. As he held it there a voice said. "duh duh duh DUH! You got a Poe soul! Collect them when you defeat a Poe." The voice faded away and the spasm ended. Silence filled the woods. What the hell was that?

"Hey, Kid! Give me a hand, will you?" Edward turned back to the girl. She was trying to pry the wolf off her. "Oh, right." Edward lifted the wolf off her. She panted "Please, could you help me?" She gestured to the wolf. "Alright," Edward rolled up his sleeves. "If you tell me your name." the girl gave him a confused look and Edward noticed that she wasn't human. "What are you?"

"I'm Midna, and he's Link. What I am is not important. Now would you help me out!" she said. Well sense you asked so nicely. Edward leaned over the wolf and inspected the wound. It was a deep gash that needed treatment. He took of his coat and set it on the ground. With a flash of blue he created a bandage. Midna stared in amazement. "How do you do that?" Edward answered as he wrapped the bandage around the wound. "It's Alchemy, science. The science of understanding, deconstructing, and reconstructing matter into something knew."

Midna still didn't get it, but Ed told her no more. After Edward had bandaged up Link he stood up. "You'll have to get him to a animal doctor, but that should keep him from bleeding to death." He turned to leave. "Wait!" Midna cried. "Don't leave! I can't carry him into a doctor. Do I look human to you? They'll throw me out!" Edward kept walking. I have to find out were I am. "You want to know where you are, don't you?" Edward froze and turned back to her. She smiled. "I can tell you don't know, I can tell you." Ed gasped. How did she know that?

She floated over to him, Edward stepped back with shock. "If you help me, I'll help you get back to were your from." She patted him on the head disrespectfully. I have to get to Al, but I have to help her? He looked down at the wolf. Al would have like to meet that dog. If I get to help an animal, and get home, I guess I could help. He turned back to Midna. "Deal."