Times Length: fma: intro

"Um.... do I know you?" I asked. the colonel's eyebrow turned upward when I asked that.
"Huh I guess it has been awhile." He said, motioning for me to sit down.
"Wait! You couldn't be...." I suddenly remembered someone like him in my past.
"So you finally do remember. Good to see you." He sat down and I did the same.

The colonel had walked into the room after my mom had died. He knew I was her daughter and that I was half Ishbalan. He took care of me while the war went on along with another man who only vivited me when no one was around.

"I see you chose to travel with the Elrics."

"Yeah, they kinda remind me of him."

"Did he ever return after the war was over?"

"I wouldn't know. I left Ishbal before it was over."
"Really? Well..... had Edward ever spoken of him?"
"Yes and I wonder what he was like before I met him. Apparently he left their mom. i still wonder about that." I turned to look out the window ans saw Edward and Alphonse talking with a girl with blonde hair pulled up into a half bun.
"Don't wory. That's Hawkeye. They know her. Anyway's, don't worry about what he did to them. Either leave them or not. Have you heard anything from him in the past years?"
"No, he dissapered."
"I see. Well what are you going to do in Central?"
"Become a state alchemist, hopefully."
"Oh well the next test is in eight months so study hard."
"Thanks." I got up to leave the room when the colonel called to me on last time.
"Oh and Hantai."
"Yes." I said turning around.
"Did he ever tell you his name?"
"Yes, Hoenheim. Edward looks strangly a lot like him too."
"Well, lets just not mention that name around Edward ok?"
"Ok." I left the colonel's office and walked out to meet Edward and Alphonse.
"Hantai, what did you guys talk about?" Alphonse ran up to meet me.
"Stuff. You know, like if I was going to take the exam or not."
"Oh ok."
"Al, Ann, we need to find a place to stay the night before it gets too dark." Edward said while walking up to us. I didn't seem to notice that the sky was getting darker.
"Do you think Hughes will take us in?" Alphonse asked.
"Yeah, maybe, I don't really know. We could go ask him."
"Lets go."
Edward and Alphonse left and I followed. Iwondered what type a man this 'Hughes' was. Hopefully not like Armstrong.

"So Ann, I heard some of your conversation with Mustang."

"Really." I looked at Edward.

"Yeah. You two seemed to have known eachother."

"Yeah."

"So what else did you talk about?"

"Ways to call you short." I said non-chalantly.

Edwards face fummed red and he was soon chraging at me and yelling.

"What!? You just called me short again didn't you?" He slammed me on the head.

"Yes, and what gives youthe idea that you can hit me on the head?"
"You called me short!" Edward hit me again.
"So what. Don't hit me!" We were causing a commotion to uprise but we didn't care. Alphonse ran over to us.
"Both of you stop it."
"I don't think you're fit to be who you are." Edward screamed.
"And what is that huh." Edward closed his mouth when I said that. "Yeah you can't say it in public can you!" I screamed then ran off, into a dark alley.

There I fell to the ground and began to sob. The sky turned grey and soon a rain drop turned up on my head. I used my alchemy to make a rock sheild over my head. Then a voice came from the darker side of the alley.

"Are you a state alchemist?"

I squezed my eyes to try and see who was there.

"Either way you're an alchemist and must be penalized." A figure walked out of the shadows and I could see who it was clearer.
The man had red eyes and dark skin. Ishbalan. But upon his right arm was an odd tatoo. He raised it and out his hand on my head.