AN: Not sure how this relates to FMA? Read the footnote first.*

IronClaw Alchemist -1- Prologue

"Whatever that bastard told you isn't going to happen!"

"Now, now Daisuke. That's no way to talk about your father," Charles stated, almost in a mocking tone. I would have retorted in defence of my brother, but his attention turned to me quite threateningly. "Why don't you come with me?"

Dai quickly stepped in between us defensively to block Charles' path, but he was a persistent man and we knew it. We both had good reason not to like him too; him and my father. He's a whole different story. Practically Charles' boss if you will; the founder of the lab; head scientist; my worst nightmare.

Subconsciously, I latched onto Dai's shirt and hid behind him in fear. If my father was willing to harm me, who knew what this guy would do.

"Come on Riku, we could be friends," Charles persuaded. "This doesn't have to be hard."

"I said, it's not going to happen!"

Charles sighed and stepped towards Dai casually. "I didn't want to do it this way, but if you..." He paused to punch Dai in the stomach, and held him there for a moment. "...insist."

I released his shirt and backed up as Charles let my brother drop to his knees, gasping for the air that had been knocked out of him. Sure I wanted to help my brother, but Charles' attention was on me at the moment... He'd understand.

"Leave her alone, use me instead," Dai pleaded.

He quickly grabbed onto Charles' pant leg, stopping him for the time being, but his moment of victory was cut off when Charles kicked Dai's grasp off of him.

"You're too old," Charles replied indifferently.

He continued walking towards me, putting my back against the wall like an animal. Somehow I knew this wasn't going to be the last time I felt this way.

"Nii-san..."

"Don't worry. When we're done with you, you won't need him to protect you," Charles stated, his lust for torture evident in his eyes.

I froze in fear as he reached into his pocket, drawing out a sharp needle containing a clear liquid. No matter how many times, or how hard I ordered my body to move, my fear overpowered it; stopping the signal from reaching my legs. It was no use.

"Just close your eyes and it'll be over in no time."

I closed my eyes as told- might as well make the process go faster... I wasn't getting out of this one anyways. The last thing I remembered before falling into darkness was the cool liquid slowly seeping into my neck. I had to admit...the numbness felt good...

Alrighty, just a little additional info about this story. I originally posted it on quizilla and stopped posting when 'the supper-new-not-so-amazing-quizilla' came around. It was also in 3rd person before, but I changed it so mistakes might be caused by that.

*Probably the most important thing to state about this story: this is one of those 'add your own character to an anime' stories. It's going to start off away from the series, in a sense that it doesn't happen in either of the anime or manga, but it still has the original characters of the FMA series. Then, I'll drag in pieces of the anime, and I'm going to add a few things from the manga, so beware of spoilers later on.