Amber Shadow

It was a beautiful sunrise that Ed and Al were watching, they stared at it for some while before Ed saw something.

"Hey Al."

"Yes brother?"

"Who's that?" Ed asked as he pointed to a little girl, no older than seven years old.

"I'm not sure brother"

They watched the little girl walking past them slowly, with a basket full of roses and a pink dress on. When she was passing she dropped one of her roses, Ed picked it up and said.

"Excuse me, but I think you dropped this." He smiled at her and handed her the rose, she looked up at the two of them, all you could see was one of her eyes, her hair covered the other one. She looked at them for a second before she dropped her basket and began to hug Ed. Al watched the little girl's basket spill everywhere, then he looked over and saw her hugging Ed.

"WHOA!" Ed yelled

"What's she doing????" he asked Al

As she looked up at them, her hair fell out of the way of her face and they got a good look at her for the first time. They both gasped, she looked exactly like their mother, her hair colour was the same as Al's and her eyes looked like Ed's.

She got off of Ed and looked at him.

"Oh I'm so sorry!" she began "I mistook you for someone else…" her voice drifted off.

"Who are you?" Ed asked politely as if nothing happened.

"My name is Amber, I come to town every morning to … well I'll show you!" she smiled and began walking off.

"HEY WAIT UP!" Ed and Al Yelled. They walked for five minutes but it felt like and hour because one it was hot and two no one was talking so it was weirdly quiet. The girl who once wouldn't stop talking to them was now deathly quiet, Amber said

"Were here" then turned to the left and stopped in front of two graves. It took Ed a bit to realize where he was, then he saw Al bowing and asked,

"What are you doing Al?"

"Paying my respects"

"To…?"

"Her Parents". Ed looked over and saw Amber bowing to 2 graves and quickly changed his stance from relaxed to respectful.

"Hi mom, Hi dad!" she smiled "I brought you some roses" She began to place pink roses on the graves. When she finished she stood up and said:

"Well I guess I should tell you my story" She began.

"It all happened when I was three, my parents, siblings and I went to bed one night and the next thing I knew I smelt smoke and got out of bed. I looked around to where the smell was coming from… It came from my dad's room, my mom had already died… I...I couldn't get to him because he always locked his door…" her eyes began to water "and my older siblings were sleeping on the couch that night… the whole downstairs was in flames… I had to climb out a window to get free but it was a long way down and when I fell I broke my leg, I tried to get help but…but we owned a farm and the nabours were a half a mile away…"by now tears were rolling down her face " I just had to sit on the ground and watch my house with my family in it go up into flames." She dropped her basket once again and began to cry. Both of the boys were startled by her story because they used to live on a farm before their house burnt down and they only had a dad. All of a sudden she screamed

"I WANT MY OLDER BROTHERS!!!!!" Ed got on his knees in front of her, then he grabbed her into a hug. Surprised and still in tears she hugged him back.

Ed told her quietly "it's Alright I know what you're going through… our mom died when we were little for a while we only had a dad until he died in a house fire…"

"I know someone that will let you stay at her house, if you want."

"Oh thank you… you don't want to know where I've been living. Ed walked back to town with Amber sleeping in his arms,

"she's soooooo cute…but she reminds me of someone."

"Brother"

"yes Al?"

"Are you sure that teacher will take her in?" Al Asked worriedly

"Positive Al…Don't you remember how she defended Rath?"

"Right" He answered quietly.

Well that wuz mi first chap. PLEASE REVIEW!!! KyoxTohru