"Landon, This Hector and Maria Gonzalez, They will be you Foster Parents now" Mary the kind CPS lady tells after we arrive at a house, she me while gesturing to the nervous latin couple standing in front of the house
I look at them and aproach them putting my hand out to shake them
"Nice to meet you both!" I guess they are bit of shocked by my actions as I guess from seeing a fourteen year old shaking hands or the fact that I greet them head on, but they both snap out of it and shake my hand, Both of them look clean, no signs of needles or alchool on them, I got the vibe that they are kinda of religious if Maria cross necklace is to go bye
Roy Mustang Perception Skills and Charisma of dealing with people really going to help me here
After that I get a tour of the house, just a regular american dream house, not enourmous but confortable, it got even some white fences around the backyard, the tour end on my room, it's a good room with a single bed on the middle, a wardrobe and small table with chair on it and a bathroom interconnect
'A huge upgraded from the miniscule room that I forced to sleep on it ' I think while analyzing my room, I put down my backpack on the desk and
After that we go to the living room and after Hector and Maria sign some documents, Mary say her goodbyes, leaving us on a awkward mood
"It's okay to you guys if I take a bath?" I ask them after all it's their house and we are all strangers right now
"Of course! I will bring you some Towels" Maria say immedialty after snapping out of the awkward mood
"Ok Thank you!" I tell her and climb the stairs back to my room and start to organize the little stuff I have
3 Shirts, 1 Hoodie, 2 Jeans, 6 socks and 2 sneakers, It don't even fill 3 % of the wardrobe but I still put on it
Knock! Knock!
"Come in" I say while enjoy the fact that Maria is respectful enough to knock before entering
"Here are the towels!" Maria say showing the towels that she is carrying on landry basket
"Thank you Maria!" I thank her while taking the basket from her hands
"Dinner is gonna be ready in one hour, after you finish taking a bath meets us on the dinning room okay? Oh-After you done put you dirty clothes on the basket and bring down, Today is kis laundry day" She ask me a bit nervous but I only give her a thumb up, before grabing a towel and enter the bathroom
I take off my shirt only to get shocked when I look at myself
"Huh! I got some muscles!" I say examinating myself on the mirror, I look much more lean and muscular than before I guess having Mirakuru pumping through my veins does help getting some muscles, I am still small thanks for being fourteen but I wonder how it would affect that as I age, no one on Arrow was injected with Mirakuru as teenager
'To go from being underfed to atletic only take one aplication' I think in amusemeant that if the bodybuilders influence would kill to have some of the Mirakuru.
I remove the rest of m clothes and take a deep breath, getting stuck on that dirty closet and then the sweating that Mirakuru caused made me want to scrub my soul off, I clean myself throughly
I think I washed my hair three times with the shampoo
After a few minutes of just enjo to be under the hot water, I turn of the shower and dry myself, the vapor fogged up the mirror, I wipe it off and look at myself, more specific, my face
'Yeah..I am truly Landon Kirby now' I say while examinating my new young face, I was hispanic on my last life and if I am not mistaken Landon actor was Iranian-American, going to love meeting a Karen now!' I think in amusemeant and stop my narcissist session
I exit the bathroom and return to my room and quickly put on a new budle of clothes and make my way down to the dining room, I can smell the the dinner from the stair
Growl!
My stoamach make sure to remind me that it's been hours since a eated, I enter the dining room, it's a american kitchen with a table across the kitchen, Hector is seated on the table scrolling on his phone while Maria is finishing the dinner
I sit on a nearby chair of the table, causing Hector to look up, I give him a nod while sitting , He return to scroll on his phone while we stay in silent
After a few minutes Maria brings a big pan full of pasta with minced meat, by the smell alone I already know its good, Hector put a large portion for himself before passing the pan to me, I do the same and pass to Maria
"Sooo Landon what is you favorite subject on school?" Maria ask me, trying to start a small talk, poor woman is relly trying
"Chemistry and PE are my favorite ones" I say because I can't exactly say it's Alchemy and that I want to see if I can outrun a car
"Really! that's good not many kid you age like chemistry" Hector comments and I nod at that
'But also not many teenagers the brain of someone who can change matter with his mind and a Transmutation Circle! Speaking of it I will need to reserach a bit later to brush up on a few subjects, If any Alchemist had access to all the information that exist on the Internet they would be going nuts' I think to myself while enjoying my dinner and having small talk with Hector and Maria
After we finished dinner, I helped Maria with the dishes before excusing me back to my room, I enter my room immediatly locking the door behind me
I grab my backup and take off my notebook and sit on my bed with it
Time to study Alchemy!
Alchemy is the study of Matter and how to change it, This process of change is called Transmutation and it's divide by three stages
Comprehension - To change something I first need to understand it, the material, size, weight and more important the molecular structure.
After Comprehending comes the next stage
Deconstruction - On this stage using energy to break down the physical form of the mateiral to a more malleable stage for to be used on the next stage.
The Energy used to Desconstruct is theorized to be a mix of internal energy (Chi, KI, Chakra, etc.) and Natural Energy, on FMAB is stated to be the energy released from plate tectonics on the earth crust
After Deconstruction and the material is on a more mallable stage, come the next stage
Reconstruction - Continuing the flow of energy so as to reform the material into a new shape that it's desired.
But for doing all of this I need to respect a very fucking important rule
Equivalent Exchange Rule
"In order to obtain or create something, something of equal value must be lost or destroyed" Roy memories hammered that on my mind
Alchemy isn't a magic system while looking like one, it's more close to fucken up science than anything
Equivalent Exchange is separated into two parts:
The Law of Conservation of Mass: which states that energy and matter can neither be created from nothing nor destroyed to the point of elemental nonexistence. In other words, to create an object with the mass of one kilogram, at least one kilogram of material is necessary; destroying an object with the mass of one kilogram would reduce it to a set of parts, the sum of which would have the mass of one kilogram.
If I used 1kg for Iron to create a Iron Dagger, the dagger would weigth 1 kg
The Law of Natural Providence: which states that an object or material made of a particular substance or element can only be transmuted into another object with the same basic makeup and properties of that initial material. As an example, an object or material made mostly of Iron can only be transmuted into another object with the attributes of Iron.
This is what dictates Alchemy
But If I don't follow this the consequences are fucking horrible, Alchemy is a it's basicly a transaction, you pay with something and bit of energy and get what you want, If I don't pay the proper 'price' something will have to get subtracted to even out they paymeant
It could be my eyes, organs, even my whole body depending on what I want to transmutate
Also a meeting with Eldritch nightmare inducing form of God
I shake my head at that, I don't think that fucker exists on this verse but I am not going to risk it
To use Alchemy is needed a Transmutation Circle, as it serve to balance and act as a conduit or the energy and power necessary to Transmutation, Thanks to Roy memories I already got some knowlodge on Introductory Alchemy but only 20% and he focus more on Alchemy on materials in a gaseous state, I don't have Roy fire alchemist style but I will get as more I unlock of the percentage of Roy template
So for now I will use what I learn a start small
I drop my notebook on my bed and rip off a page of it , i jump of my bed and put the page on the ground and start to analyze the Transmutation Circle that I draw on it, checking any mistake on the drawing
"Well it looks like everything is on order, time to face the music!" I say after analyzing the circle
I grab a small nail that I got from the Closet and put on the center of the circle, and bring my hands on the both sides of the paper, focusing my energy towards the circle and immedialty the circle start to glow blue, followed by blue spark as I feel part of my energy leaves my body, like I just took a small run but I refocus on the nail on the paper, I had already calculate it's mass, size, shape and start to focus on it
Slowly the nail become to change, It's form become a liquid smudge for a second before reshaping it self, losing it's rust and solidifying on a small cube
The circle glows start to dim until it's gone but is replaced by the red glow of the burn paper as the paper burns away in seconds until only the small cube of Iron laying on the ground
I grab it and start to analyze it
"Solid, not brittle and pure iron and with the angular artifacts on it's surface, still very fucking much a success, specially for my first Transmutation" I say while eyeing the cube with smile on my face
{In Progress:
-[Roy Mustang - 20%--> 23%]}
My system screen appears as my Roy template progress 3%, still a long way until 100%, Roy on the anime saw the Truth and thus was able to use Alchemy without needing Transmutation Circle, but also lost his eyes in decorrence, I probabl going to get that but I sure as shit hope nort to get blind
"System, would I also get blind like Roy when I unlock more of Roy template?" I ask my system
{No User! No Gacha can't be used to hurt you, any debilitity that any Character that you draw will not affect you in anyway!}
"Ok thanks!" I can't help but sigh in relief as I for more that not needing Transmutation Circle, getting blind wouldn't be something I would want to be
I grab my notebook and start to inscribe my findings on it
"Transmutation Succesfully!
Material: Steel Nail (5 Grams)
Matter Composition: Lower Grade Steel:
Iron (Fe): ~98–99%
Carbon (C): ~0.05–0.25%
Manganese (Mn): ~0.3–0.6%
Phosphorus (P): ≤0.05%
Sulfur (S): ≤0.05%
Final Form: Steel Cube (5 Grams)"
I finish writing and take out another page with another Transmutation Circle
"The night is still young! Let's see if I can change it back!"
End of Chapter
Finished one more chapter for your guys, I am loving to write about this FMAB is my favorite anime and the first anime that I watched
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