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Edward Elric is researching a way to get his body back when an unexpected thing happens. Someone activates the powers of a philosopher's stone on him and ends up dragging him away from where he was into another dimension. There he meets strange people who can mostly use great, magical like powers on their own. The only problem is that he ends up meeting the worst of these people. This person is Lina Inverse, a sorceress of the mighty Dragon Slave, who has somehow made a rather bad mistake. She had never wanted to bring Edward Elric to where she was, but revive the souls of some lost friends. Now the only thing keeping them from arguing with each other is their search for a philosopher's stone or its equivalent form.

Edward Elric, a short young man with blond hair and blue eyes, woke with a splitting head. He was a State Alchemist for the country of Amestris, given the name Full Metal Alchemist, by his country's military for the auto-mail arm and leg attached to his body. He had received them after taboo practices of alchemy to revive his dead mother and save his brother from death as well. Unfortunately, now as he touched his head and felt the grass beneath his trousers he realized two things. One, his metal arm was gone, and, two, he had no idea where he was. He had been living a complicated life in Central City, the capital of his coutnry, but now the library he had been studying in had vanished along with his books.

Had someone opened the gate to another world? He could only wonder this as a girl with fiery red hair ran by him with a huge satchel of goods on her back. She was giving off a mirthful smile that awed Edward. Where exactly was he and who was she? Edward did not want to jump into anything too suddenly, but he felt he had to ask someone. So he stood up and ran directly in front of her and stopped.

"My name's Edward Elric! Where the heck am I! Who are you! What year is it is! And... Have you ever heard of alchemy!" Edward hated to sound demanding, but he needed answers fast and she was the first person he had yet to see. He was not sure if his alchemy could work where he was, but he could only hope that this was still the same world he lived in.

Edward's eyebrows furrowed as he said, "I have no idea where that is..." before he stomped his foot down on the ground and shouted while waving his arms, "But I don't care about this loot you have!" He noticed the girl had a sword on her and was holding it in her hand, but Edward felt he had enough self-defense/martial arts training in the military to take care of that. What he didn't know is what else she could do.

"I don't have a clue about this place, but I'm certainly not an idiot." Edward answered as he shrugged his shoulders. He now had a very strong feeling though he was not in Amestris anymore. The northern province of his world, where the Fort Briggs stood, was cold and merciless place. The girl's attitude surely fit those soldiers' descriptions, but she wore nothing like a State Alchemists' navy blue uniform and lapel.

He felt slightly irritant over being compared to someone he did not know. Especially since the girl, who had yet to introduce himself, had called this Gourry guy dumb. Surely, she could understand his situation better than this.

"I have no idea what you just did, nor do I know why you have such a name, but you do know how to get rid of annoying people." Edward noted as he walked over to her and watched the bandits start to run in terror. "If I had my alchemy I suppose I could do the same thing, but just wait here a second."

He started into a run and dashed off towards one of the bandits who was lagging behind. As he reached him he jumped into there air and punched him in the back of the head. The bandit sailed forward three feet before slamming into the ground as Edward landed on his back in a crouched position. "Serves you right for running away." he told the bandit.

Edward stood up and grinned, yet noticed Lina was taking something from the bandit. His face became very serious as he reached out his hand and grabbed the hand holding the pouch. "It's not good to steal." he told her sternly.

"Fine, but don't come crying to me if other people get the wrong idea like I did." Edward's eyebrows furrowed and his his eyes turned into glaring red color as a big frown covered his face. He stuffed his hands into his pockets and muttered, "Just lead me to Atlas City. I still have no clue where I am."

Edward cocked his head towards the east and said, "I don't believe in magic, but if you say this world has it I might as well find out how it works in Atlas. Did you also say there's food there?" His mouth began to water at the thought of food. He could go out for a giant ham right now since the last thing he remembered when he had been at Central City's library was it being near dinner time.