Fullmetal+Alchemist

**Fullmetal Alchemist**

 * **c 2008**
 * **Author: Hiromu Arakawa**
 * **AR Reading Level**
 * **AR Points**
 * **Pages 192**

Summary: When they were eleven and ten, Edward and Alphonse Elric committed the greatest taboo an alchemist can make: human transmutation. Fueled by their desire to resurrect their dead mother, Ed and Al ignored all of the warnings from their alchemy books. By doing this, Ed was stripped of his left leg and Al his entire body. In order to save his brother from death, Ed merged Al’s soul with a nearby suit of armor to keep him alive. Seeing as this is another form of human transmutation, Ed sacrificed his right arm in the process. After three years and two auto mail (or mechanical limb) surgeries, Edward Elric traveled to the capital of their country, Central, to become a State Alchemist. After passing his exam, Ed became famous in the military for being the youngest person to achieve this feat. State Alchemists are skilled alchemists that promise to assist the military in international disputes in exchange for a high pay and the rank of “Major” in the military.