The last Alchemists

1 There was a normal day like everyday, I thought, when I got up and opened my shop, my alchemy shop. What, alchemy shop?! Yes, this is not a writing fault. This shop I opened ten years ago when I was five. Naturally the government could prison me for that and I know which danger there is. Probably you ask yourself why I don't give my store another name if the police could arrest me. Well, the reason why I don't make this is that I love it to be an alchemist and not to deceive anyone, because my abilities are real. Also I didn't call my alchemy shop Alchemy Shop. I called it AL(`s) CHEMY SHOP so I don't break the law and can't be arrested by the police, but the real reason why I haven't been prisoned yet could also be the dark side street where my store is located and so hardly can be found. Now I was in the backroom of that lonely store again where I tried to create things when I heard the bell that I fixed above the door. Finally, I thought, finally I have got my first customer for five years when I rushed into the shop and shouted with a voice you could hear all over the world, "WELCOME!!!". But what I saw was not a customer like I imagined in that moment before, there was a little girl. At first I thought she must have lost her parents and is now searching for them. So I asked without having a sense for sensibility whether she lost her parents and she punished me only with the answer "Shut up" with a voice sharper than a blade, "I am not here to do a request, because you are an alchemist and to create something for me or what anything else you thought when I came to this poorly store". I was a bit afraid of that girl who came here to my shop and spoke so rude with me. But when I looked a little more detailed on her body I realized we had to be at the same age. That blond haired girl who was wearing a blue jacket and a black skirt and had such blue cold sharp eyes that could kill you by one contact with them although she was pretty small for her age. "No, this is not exactly right", she continued,"I have a request, but this is not to buy anything, my request is to come with me". To come with her? What is the meaning of that? While I had a thought of that the girl was watching around in my shop and looked at the things I created which were found in the shelves. It wasn't difficult to see her, because the room was not bigger than an average living room. So I said, "I will not come with you, you can't simply come to someone and say he shall come with if you command, that is too rude and I hate-"; the girl was now standing in front of me and she said with that sharp and cold voice like before, "Don't you want to be the best alchemist in this world, don't you want to have a family, don't you want to earn money and don't you want to know what happened to your parent's ten years ago when you started your business and since that moment only one thing sold, don't you want to know the truth, the truth why you was born?" I was shocked when I heard this. How could she know about my parents and what I have done the last ten years? Was she watching at me all the time? Is she an agent of the government and here to arrest me? I was speechless and did not know what could I answer on this surprising turn. So many thoughts circled in my brain. I thought I would die. No, I wanted to die. All these years I was hiding myself so far I could. And now is this the end? I didn't know what I should thought, what I should say. At that moment came Mirai into the shop. The single reason why I noticed that within my shock was the bell that is still hanging above the door. Mirai seemed also a bit irritated by this little girl who was still in front of me, but probably she supposed that wouldn't be a stern situation. Now I'm save, I thought, that girl won't do anything if someone else is here, that should be a foolish assumption like I would recognize in another time. "Come to the black skyscraper tonight if you want to know more than I can tell you here right now". With these words she left the store while she didn't pay any attention on Mirai who only arrived a few seconds ago, went through the door and the last what I heard was the bell which fall on the floor that lasted for me more than a few seconds. 2 "What shall we do, I don't want to hide anymore", while he drunk the last last drop of his precious gin. "But we have no choice since the government want us to see dead", answered his friend sitting in the left corner near the door in an old armchair that could be from a yunk yard. "Where are the twins? There should be back for hours, I hope they aren't snapped, I don't want to have more trouble". "Don't worry", replied the woman on the window watching at two man who were robbing a bank at the moment, "They won't die or be scrapped, because I trained them, they are too good". "Yes, I know, but If the government really got them we can't help", said the boss of that little gang and threw the empty bottle on the wall in right of the friend. At that moment the two twins opened the door and came into the room. "Oh boss, don't be so angry all the time", he said and sat on the bed beside the window where the woman was still standing, "We got all the stuff you requested for and please don't drink so much alcohol, it is very expensive" giving him his gin after she closed the door and was sitting on her brother's side. "He was angry, because he thought you were killed by the police or sometthing else", said the friend laughing also still sitting in this old white armchair. "Okay, this very funny Jeff, but we need a plan to destroy this foolish government finally", said the boss who started drinking again,"We can't live forever in this little room and talking so without any concerns". "Why not, I enjoy the moments like this one", sayed the big sister a little bit loudly, "Maybe this is not the best life we can have, but what can we do against that government who destroyed our lifes?". "What do you know from the live before you and your brother were born, you don't know nothing about that, nothing about the war we had, nothing about the pain we had, nothing about the people we lost, nothing about our past", answered the boss and looked into the round of that five people that the destiny brought together and always hated that thing you maybe call government wether he was not so angry like before. He is almost angry, sometimes more and sometimes less. His fury could be endless and is also used to continue the fight against his big enemy, that anger he will never lose, that anger he could born with, that anger which could destroy the earth. "How can we know if you never tell us about you, I know we made the decision never look back to the past and not to tell something about us, but I don't want to see all of you dead, because we fight for this future that will never happen-", she was stopped in her short speech where she had got tears and her voice became louder louder so that she probably didn't notice and was finally stopped. Stopped by a hit on her jaw from that woman who was on the window a moment before and now looking on the face of that girl with that green eyes and brown long hair who could start to shout or cry again, that girl who was still sitting on that old red bed torwards the door with her brother on her side, he looks very similiar to his sister. Naturally, the are siblings, there are only a few differnces between them wether they are twins. For example he has instead of long short hair, but the coulour of their hair and eyes are the same. Another difference between them are their personalities. While she is very strong and a kind of leader who always wants to know what is the best thing to do is her brother rather a relaxed guy who worries about his older sister and is sometimes even afraid of her way ruling the things around them. "All of us know these things and we also knew we could die when we decided to defeat the government and to change our future where we have got no place, we have always known these things. So don't tell us about decisions we made and still know like never to talk about our past if we don't want to". "And don't forget", said that blond man in the corner who always smiles and was sitting in the armchair, "We won't betray each other, also if someone says the opposite", looking to the boss. "The most important thing, because we know-", the boss was now standing up from the brown chair right of the door he sat on and while he was walking to the window with the gin filled glass in his left hand, "-is that we are the most powerfull in this world, we are the last hope, we are the only one who can defeat the government, we are magicians". 3 Two men were running out of a bank followed by the police. It looks like they stole money from there, threatened people and run away. But why they did such a crime and brake the law? Are they poor? Can't they buy medicine or food? Have they lost their jobs so that their families starve, because they didn't find another work or did they that, because they were bored and had no better idea than robbing a bank to feel young again? Who are this two men who the woman was watching before? It seems one of them is about thirty and the other one about twentyfive. They look are bit similiar. Are they brothers? It could be. The older one has got short black hair, he is strong and handsome while the younger one has got short brown hair, he is a bit weak and skinny, but both get enough food. Both of them are black clothed and wear coats. Also it doesn't seems they are crinimals. They have never stolen anything in their whole live until this omnius act. They got an appartment, enough food, part time jobs and a great future. So why they did that? Were they threatened to get money to save their family from dead? Had they got any debts? Wasn't that a good live for them and they wanted to get more than they have already had? The truth is that they escaped from a research institute of the government a year ago and wanted to live in peace without any scientists or laboratories. Their parents had them to give away and so they grew up into laboratories. Actually it wasn't a bad live. They got food, a bed, they could go out, also it was only a fixed area and sometimes they were some investigations on them. Now you mabe ask yourself why they had to go in a research institute? Had they got a disease you can't heal and now they want to live their rest of their life in freedom? Or aren't they normal? Now they were running away from this government and the things they hated. Here is the real story. The brothers wanted to withdraw money to wash their clothes in a laundry. But an agent of the government saw the older brother on the street one week before. So he instructed the bank to trigger alarm when they would be in the bank again. And in the bags are only their dirty clothes. Impossible, you think? Normally yes, but don't underestimate the governments influence on this planet. In this moment they were still running away. Normally they would be scrapped, you think. Yes, if they were normal, but they aren't. There were a reason why the government wanted them in the laboraties. It wasn't, because they had an incurable disease or something you would think of. The police surrounded them from all sides. No way to escape? Not for the brothers. Suddenly, you won't be believe it, but you they were flying in the air. Not really, they were hovering. This isn't a trick or something you could imagine in a normal world. The older brother was using his ablitity. He can move things alone by his imagination. The younger can also do something amazingly, he reads your mind and memories when he touches you and projects them into real films or pictures you can see like a televison series or a movie in the cinema. How can that be? Can be that really true? Yes, it's true. They aren't like you and me. They are human with incredible abilites. They can do the impossible. There's one reason why they can. They are Esper. 4 "What was that?", said Mirai and took me out of my shock while she went to the backroom to take the purchases she bought ino the fridge, "Did she buy something?". "No", I answered. "What did she here then?", she took a ladder out of the storage room, went with it out of the store and I followed her, "If you don't sell something soon we won't have money to live". "I know, but I selled something". "What did you sell? Do you mean that thing five years ago? Yes, you got a lot of money thus we have got enough money even up till today, but someday we won't have anything, what will you do after that?", she climbed on the ladder and turned the sign around which was above the door of the shop. "What are you doing?". "I hide that sign so we don't get any trouble, because everyone will find that you are an alchemist only they read your sign before", she answered. "After that it's no surprise I don't sell something". "You don't sell something, because I hide that sign, you don't, bacause no one needs an alchemist anymore", Mirai went off the ladder, back into the store and took it back into the storage room while she asked, "So, what did that little girl here?". I didn't know wether I should tell her. I didn't know I should tell her about that little that surprised me with her rudeness and her knowledge about me and my parents. Should I really tell her? "I know when you lie", she said so I have got no choice to tell her about that things that happened a moment before she came in and that litlle girl left. "Do you really believe her? It could be a joke. Do you really believe a litlle girl would come to you and tell you all about the things you always wanted to know?". I know Mirai could be right and the probability is not so high that this little girl would know. But what is if she does, what is if she really knows what happened to my parents, what is if she knows? What shall I do, I thought, I know Mirai for ten years when I started my business. It was a rainy day. I looked out of the window in hope there would be a customer one day, but so like everyday there were no one, nothing I could sell, no one I could help, no one except of me and that lonely store, I was alone. Only on that day was a difference when I looked out of that window like I have usually done. There was someone one else. Yes, there was someone who watched into that window where I haven never seen anyone before. It was a face. A face of a little girl. So fast I could I took an umbrella out of the storage and went out of the store where the little girl was still standing looking into the window. "What are you doing here?", were my first words, today it was a bit rude of me when I think about that question, "Are you alone?", I continued, "Where are you parents?", I ran to that girl and held the umbrella over her head, "I have got no one", she answered, "Is there are place you can go to?". "No, I haven't got anyone or anything, nothing, only me, I am alone". Somewhere I heard that things before. Who also said this? Who was this one? I didn't know what I should do as usual when I saw this girl who had got nothing. This girl who was alone. This girl with the long silver hair. This girl with the black eyes that seemed they have never seen the sunlight beefore. That little girl with black shoes, white socks and a dark blue dress. That little girl I could do nothing for. That little girl who I could have seen somewhere else. Somehow I felt we were different, but also a bit same. Yes, she was like me, I remembered. Also I had no one. I know this feeling. It's this feeling I always had. I was alone. "Don't you want to come in and live here in this shop with me a short time so long you don't know where you should go?", this was the question that should determine the ten following years. "Is this okay?", was her answer, "Yes, it's okay", I said. Suddenly she embraced me, "What is your name?". "Mirai", she smiled after she had said that. What a beautiful name, I thought. A little bit stereotyped, is my opinoin of this phenomenon nowadays. A little girl is standing in a rainy day in a dark side street and meets someone who is also alone. After that they live together and become a kind of family. The following years she lived in my shop. Someday she began to learn the things of the books which my parents wanted to teach me when I would be old enough, naturally not that stuff about alchemy I had to learn. After that she beacame like a mother. She cooked, she bought food and clothes and held me on learning, because I was sometimes a bit too slothfull to learn anything. But I was happy. Also Mirai was strict and punished me with her words when I did something wrong I was happy. Happy about that girl that I met, happy about having someone, happy about not being alone. "I will go", I said to Mirai, "I know it could be a joke or a trap from the government to scrap me, but what is if she really knows, I will-, no, I have to go". She was looking at me like she would kill me every moment. Neverless I will go no matter what Mirai will say. "Okay", she replied, "I can't do anything when you are willed to go, but I will come with you, someone has to look after you if you die", she said with a smile on her face while she was holding my bag to give it to me, "Don't worry, this was a joke, I won't let you die and I won't leave you, Hiroto".