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Hi! I'm Phoenix from the Sun, I am a Phoenix! is my first Full Metal Alchemist Fiction! Before reading this fiction, it'll need some explaining. This is EXTREMELY OOC, I apologize for that! Also it can get a little tedious since it goes back in time quite a bit.
I am a Phoenix! is about Roy Mustang's development from child to man. In this fic I made up Roy's age… he's 26! And since Ishbal happened ten years ago… he'd only be 16!
It shows how his adolescence ends early and it is time for him to grow up, and in the present day he is dying of tuberculosis.
It shows that in an attempt to make everything right, your life must make sacrifice.
A phoenix is a bird of fire, and is also the metaphor that inspired the story. One who is a phoenix is one who experienced a time of complete devastation, but has risen above it into a better person than they ever were before.
This is rated M for violence, sex, language, rape, and words against God (there's a whole scene of God bashing!). Also it contains tuberculosis, a disease that not many of us are comfortable with.
There are some OCs (original characters I have made up!) In this there are around ten of them so beware!
Please don't flame me, this is like I said completely OOC (especially Roy)
If there are no problems please enjoy I am a Phoenix!
Phoenix from the Sun
I am a Phoenix!
Chapter 1: The Mission to Hell!
He slowly paced outside of the office he had been summoned. Fuhrer Bradley needed him to fulfill a wish, a mission that nobody else could do, but him. He was in the higher ranks and was a talented alchemist, everything that the mission called for.
Back and forth, he walked with a half burnt away cigarette in his lips the smoke filling the room around him. Finally the moment happened, his prey had arrived; she had appeared.
"About time you arrived, Riza!" he scolded with a slight laugh before inhaling another puff of smoke.
She scoffed her brown eyes narrowing, "Roy?" she asked, "Do you make your goal in life making mine hell?"
Roy laughed as he inhaled the fumes of tobacco into his lungs, his obsidian eyes closing. Deep in his heart, secretly, he loved her more than life itself! The feelings he had for her was held in the most passionate depths of his soul that no matter how hard he tried, the Ishbal Massacre veteran would never be able to succumb to those feelings.
The Fuhrer opened the door and looked straight at the two of them with his lone eye.
"Lieutenant Hawkeye, Colonel Mustang! I'm glad to see you've arrived safely!" he exclaimed
Roy slowly walked toward him, "Fuhrer Bradley, sir, what is the problem?" he took a deep breath, "What is our mission?"
"I'm sending you two to the city of Laronya, perhaps you've heard of it?" explained Bradley.
"L-Laronya?" asked Roy a slight sound of fear in his voice, "Isn't that where they kept the AWOL soldiers during Ishbal?"
"I want you two to enter the city and fill out paperwork about the soldiers," Bradley continued, "I want you to decide which prisoners should return and which should carry out their sentence until execution!"
Riza looked over at Roy, his body was slowly convulsing in fear or sorrow; she wasn't sure which one.
"Colonel, may I see you in my office?" Bradley asked beckoning him.
Roy walked slowly into the spacious room, his body still shaking in fear.
"Laronya?" he asked, "Why Laronya?"
"Roy, this is a chance of a lifetime," answered Bradley, "you could become the next Brigadier General and Riza could become a Captain!"
"Laronya?" asked Roy breathing heavily.
Roy stood up and ambled to the window. Outside he saw what his life had become; he was a Colonel in one of the most feared militaries in all the land. But still memories of Ishbal made him uneasy, all the blood that was shed; the lives that were ended all came flying back to him.
"I know you almost went AWOL yourself," answered Bradley "after having to commit those terrible deeds!"
Tears came to Roy's eyes, "God help me!"
"Whatever Gran did to you, it's over now!" continued Bradley touching Roy's shoulder, "I don't want my new Brigadier General to be depressed!"
Roy managed to smile, "Thank you, sir!"
"You have your mission, Colonel," concluded Bradley, "Godspeed!"
Laronya…
"We're here, sir!" exclaimed the driver, "Welcome to the city of Laronya!"
As the driver opened the door to let both Riza and Roy out of the car, Roy decided to look around. What he saw made him gasp in horror; it was the prison that had made Laronya notorious!
"Colonel?" asked Riza, "Is there something wrong?"
Roy shook his head, "No, Lieutenant," he took a deep breath, "just a little dizzy!"
Roy walked up the steps of the Laronya AWOL Prison Camp, the large gothic towers impaling every bit of dignity he could muster.
"Colonel, ever since we came here you've been acting strange," Riza pleaded, "you can tell me what's going on!"
Roy stopped dead in his tracks, "Let's put it this way Hawkeye, this place has sentimental meaning to me!"
Sentimental? What the hell was Roy talking about?
Just then a short blond man appeared in the doorway, "Colonel Mustang, Lieutenant Colonel Winslet at your service!"
Roy looked away from the man as he took a deep breath. Riza desperately wanted to know what was going on. She wanted to comfort him, touch his silky porcelain flesh in soothing ways, but the feeling were held back , Roy Mustang was her superior!
"You're scheduled to interview a Major Ryan Vino!" explained Winslet.
Roy's head jolted quickly staring straight at Winslet his eyes were filled with fear or sorrow, again no one could tell.
"V-Vino?" he asked, "Ryan Vino?"
"Yes, sir!" answered Winslet, "Ryan Vino!"
Riza could hear Roy start to choke on his own breath, the young Colonel looking like he was about to faint.
"Roy, what the hell is going on!" she asked her voice low yet curt, "Who the hell is Ryan Vino!"
Roy swallowed hard, "Vino and I were in Ishbal together, old war buddies, of a sort," he rubbed the sweat off of his forehead, "the Twilight Alchemist!"
Riza gasped, she had heard Bradley and Gran talk about the infamous Twilight Alchemist, and apparently he was amazing. The rumors had said that Ryan Vino was born a "natural alchemist" born with the ability not to use a circle.
"Follow me I will take you to him!" explained Winslet.
In that moment Roy whispered something in Riza's ear as he walked by, he said: "Help me, Riza!"
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