Okay who else hates it when autocorrect turns Ling into long? Cause I was getting ready to kill My iPad for that very reason, as well as it doesn't like me putting a capital on Ed WHY AUTOCORRECT? WHY CANT YOU WORK WITH ME NOT AGAINST? Aaaaanyway, on with the story, and I am sorry this took a long time, first I was away on camp then floods came and I couldn't get home form camp then I realised I sprained my ankle on camp so I spent the weekend resting and then I found it hard to get inspiration but at least it came eventually. I know this took a long time but it's a bit longer than normal, as in it's like 4 and a bit a4 pages and around 3000 words, so I hope that makes up for it. Hope you enjoy.

Kristina's POV
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I watched as Ed put his coat over Winry as the military officials showed up. She was still sniffling, but thankfully the tears had stopped and her breathing was no longer laboured. Ed picked up the gun and handed it to the officer that came to his side. "Here you go officer." He spoke as the man took it from his outstretched hand. "Take her somewhere she'll be safe." He said towards the MPs he then stood up which made her grab his automail wrist. "I'm sorry Winry, when this is over we'll explain everything." He walked off and pulled his hand out of hers.

I knelt down to Winry, "don't worry, he'll be safe." I smiled at her. "We'll all come back to you, I'll make sure of it." I stood up and ran slightly to catch up to Ed. When he came into view I saw him protecting Al from Scar.

"Brother, Kristy, where's Winry?" Al shouted

"She's safe, no thanks to me though, i made her cry again." He said sadness in his voice. I WOULD make a smart remark about listening to us next time, buuuut, I think he's learnt his lesson.

"She doesn't like to see you fight like that."

"And as soon as she's out of the picture you guys kick ass, now let's get back to that."

"Kristys right, she's gone now. Let's end this."

Just as I was getting ready to make this idiot fall on his face or ass, both work besides I need to release some anger or jealousy, but they kinda have the same effect. I heard a loud voice echoing through the wear house. (Did I forget to mention were in a wear house? Oh well now you know.) "Oh! I found you." A giant . . . Thing? Jumped behind scar. "Ishvalan." He spoke, his tung hanging out of his mouth.

"Well that's appealing." I said under my breath. Then again, that shape seems oddly familiar and not in a good way.

"You again?!" Well Scars met him before.

"Look at his tattoo." Al pointed out, mind you I can't see something like a tattoo, what is he like Scar? I've heard he has tattoos up his arm.

"He's a homunculus!" Ed shouted, I felt my blood run cold through my body and my chest tighten as the form became completely clear . . . Gluttony. I found it harder to get oxygen into my lungs as I remembered his menacing face. I wanted to join the others in attacking him, but I couldn't move. "Kristy, what's wrong?" Ed asked when he noticed I wasn't helping.

"He-he." I couldn't manage to form the words. "Kat." I said, and he seemed to understand.

"You bastard." He muttered under his breath before continuing to fight the blob of fat. After getting past my state of shock, I felt anger boil through my body and my fingers heat
up. "Get out of the way." I said not to loud but enough for people to look towards me, and I am sure my eyes were bright green by this point, showing my anger. I felt them all shuffle out of the way and I put my middle finger and thumb together to form a matrix before clicking them together to shoot fire towards what I saw as a demon. I could smell the burning flesh, just like that night, but knew better than to expect he was dead.

Just as his form became whole again Ling jumped out of the sewers. "It's Ling!" Ed shouted.

Ling landed on gluttony before stuffing something in his mouth. "Go! Move it!" He ordered, the others seemed to move back in a hurry so I followed, soon enough a 'bang' was heard and I could feel the bits of the homunculus over the floor, but soon it begun reforming. "Get me some strong cable!" Ling ordered, great were listening, okay then again for once he sounds like he has a plan that doesn't involve food or immortality.

"Right." Ed said, turning a railing of train tracks into cable . . . Wait I never noticed train tracks before, damn I'm relying on people too much, now I'm not noticing the simple things.

I turned my attention back on the problem at hand and Ling was tying the cable around gluttony's mangled form. "Your regenerating abilities are working against you. Your flesh won't stop expanding. That will keep you tied up nice and tight!" Ling yelled.

"Good thinking." I smirked at him, giving him a thumbs up.

A car drove by us and at that point a gun shot could be heard and Scar growled in pain, so I'm gonna take a wild guess and say the bullet hit him, and whoever shot it is helping us. I noticed the car pull up and I recognised the person as Riza. "Put him in, were getting out of here!" She demanded, Wait is that glasses?

"Hey Riza since when did you wear glasses?" I asked slightly quiet just incase she was supposed to be staying hidden, I mean, she's apart of the military you never know. Ed didn't seem to pick that up.

"Hold on a minute lieut-"

"Shh." She cut him off, before speeding away.

"Wait what's going on?"

"Al. The MPs are all watching act like we don't know her."

"They are getting away! After them!" I heard a voice shout. Well if I didn't know any better I would say were wanted fugitives . . . We aren't, are we?

"The Colonel may be a creep and a jerk, but he is trustworthy." Ed said before tuning to Scar. "We have something to do." He ran at Scar before punching him in the face, Scar tried to retaliate and punch him as well, but Ed just dodged. "We have to get him Al, you to Kristy." I heard two claps sound through the air. As I touched my fingers, Ed continued to speak. "You killed the Rockbells and Nina among many others." He shouted anger evident in his voice.

"Your going to answer for your crimes." Al yelled, but before we could attack a girl appeared and kicked Als armour and he fell over. She went over to Ed and kicked him in the face sending him down to the ground. She began to run over to me but I jumped over her and ran to Ed helping him up.

I could feel her glare at me before she went over to Scars side. "Are these three giving you trouble servant?" She said before pointing to Ed. "This is the servant of the man who saved my life. You better leave him alone, puny little boy." I couldn't help but give a little chuckle.

"Wait a minute WHO ARE YOU CALLING PUNY?!?" Ed yelled.

"I think it's you." I said to him, still laughing slightly.

A bunch of MPs surrounded us as Al stood up. "Get away girl, it's dangerous." One of them said. Well I dont know if I'm the only one that heard, but I'm pretty sure she said she was on his side.

"They've got us outnumbered." The girl growled as she pulled out a bunch of kunais. Yep she's defiantly not on our side, wait a minute she seems familure. "It's time for us to retreat." She said before throwing the knives into something behind us. She then started drawing an odd transmutation circle in the ground and stuck some knives around it, whatever transmutation she used created dust and smoke to surround us, although the only thing it affected for me was my breathing, I can imagine no one else can see.

I could hear Ed coughing. "What kind of alchemy was that?"

"She did it from far away." Al recalled.

I could hear Ed groan. "I can't see, SCAR!"

"He's gone Ed, I can't hear him anywhere." Which was the truth, they got away in a hurry and I can't tell where they went.

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"Look what I found Ed." Al said before turning around and showing some sought of animal in his hand.

"We're a little busy to be adopting panda bears Al." Ed healed while pointing at what I now know as a panda.

"I didn't even know we could get pandas here." I said to myself.

"I couldn't leave her alone in the mess back there." Al defended himself.

"How do you know it's a girl? Or are you just saying that as a generic thing?"

Both boys I've me an odd look before continuing. "Look Al you can't keep picking up stays first cats, now this. Just how many animals do you have stiffed in that armour of yours, get rid of it." Ed demanded. Well that a little rude.

"What a heartless thing to say!" Hs yelled at him before looking down at the panda and pulling to close. "Look at how sweet and general she is." I suddenly figure moved and appear to start to gnaw on Als hand. "It's alright, your safe now." The panda squeaked before seeming to try and get away.

"Al, I think you might be scaring it." I said.

"Here you can stay in here." He said before placing the panda in his armour. Wait how many animals does he have in there? Isn't is going to cause pain to them when he fights? Shouldn't we be finding the owner? Oh my gosh Al, I thought as I followed the boys.

Chloe's POV (ooh didn't see that coming did you?)
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My siblings and me were waiting for everyone to come back, mind you it was quite boring here. "What do you think their doing?" I asked no one in particular.

"Getting into trouble, that's what Kristy always did." Rachel said, still showing a large amount of hostility towards Kristy still, but something seemed to have changed since she went for that walk in Xing, it seems to be more of a forced hate towards her.

My thoughts were interrupted by Rachel helping from being hit in the shoulder by Dax. "Give her a break, she's lost more than any of us will, I wonder how she hasn't completely lost it."

"Well she always was the tough one as a child, I mean no matter how much she was pushed around." I gave a sideward glance at Rachel. "She managed to get back up again."

We realised that they should be back soon so we went down to the reception desk to wait for them. And speak of the devil, they all came walking through the door, before we could greet them the receptionist began speaking. "Miss Rockbell perfect timing, there is a phone call for you."

Winry's POV
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A phone call? I walked over to the phone before picking it up. "Hello?"

"I'm sorry about this, and I know you have a lot going on and I tried handling it myself honestly. But I can't take this anymore, your customers are so needy." I heard Garfiel mutter on the other line.

Through the crowds of noises I heard a voice. "You there miss Winry?"

"Texan?" I mumbled as I recognised the voice.

"Please come back to the shop soon, you do a much better job at working on my leg than mr Garfiel. We need you here." The boy begged. Other people began shouting out that they needed me as well.

"How am I going to work on all these peo- wait a minute." I mumbled to myself. "Mr Garfiel do you mind if I bring a friend to help me out?"

"Fine, fine, just please get down here as soon as you can."

"Just hold on, I won't be much longer." I smiled before hanging up. I walked back into the room and found Dax. "Hey Dax, you know how you told me that you wanted a bit more experience in automail?"

"Yes." He said unsure while looking at me.

"I have a job I need you to help me with." I smiled at him.

Time skip

I sat in the train with Dax beside me, waving goodbye to the group of friends. "Thank you for stopping me back there." I whispered to the brothers and Kristy. They smiled at me, as if a silent 'it's fine'. "I'd forgotten there was so many people depending on me." I said almost to myself.

"Thanks for taking Dax with you, not only will we get rid of him but he'll be getting practice on what he loves." Chloe smirked at her brother showing that she was joking. I turned to the 16 year old to see him sticking his tongue out, is it just a boy thing to act younger than you are?

"It's fine." I smiled. "It'll be nice to have some company, and I'll need the help with all the automail that I'll need to work on. Oh and Al I'll send you some good polishing oil soon." I smiled at him.

"Great."

"No dying okay." I said, after becoming much more serious.

"Right." Ed answered. I smiled at them as we said our farewells, and we left.

Kristys POV (yeah I know lot of POV changes, there will be a lot of time skips soon to)
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We walked out of the train station in silence until a car drove by and stopped. "Colonel?" Ed said.

"Get in the car." Flame head ordered, hey I just realised, we haven't seen flame head for a bit.

Time skip

The four of us walked over to a house and we came to a man, Roy saluted before speaking. "We came to you because someone is badly injured and we need a doctor."

"You got yourself into trouble again, just can't help it can you?" Said the man, who I believe was called Dr Knox.

"I know you have a family and I wouldn't want to endanger them." Roy said giving a small pause before continuing. "If you'd rather not get involved, I'd understand." He finished, but seemed to be saying please help"

"Wait here." He ordered. "I'll go felt my instruments."

"Are you sure, we don't want to have your family in any danger. They should be top priority." I said the last part quieter, mainly telling myself that I should have done more.

"My wife and I split up after the war." He replied before walking in.

Time skip (I warned you~)

"Look I'm sor-" Ed started but Ling quickly cut him off.

"No, don't apologise." He said, they both turned to the door of the room that Lan Fan was operated in. "I was the one who suggested it, remember? We both had something to gain out of it so it made sense. When I went in the search for immortality . . . I knew I must be ready to make certain sacrifices. I wasn't ready for this, but Lan Fan was. She made the decision that I was too weak to make.

Time skip

We went to visit Lan Fan, but when we walked in she was still asleep. Concentrating on her figure, it just didn't seem right anymore, but that was to be expected since she now was down an arm.

"She's awake!" Al stated, she wasn't moving much so I assumed she opened her eyes.

"Is there anything we can do for you?" Ed asked.

"That old trick of yours worked pretty well, but I'm useless without my arm. I'm going to need a replacement."

I smiled. "Well, we know two great engineers that we could introduce you to." I could feel her smile and her posture seem to relax slightly.

I walked outside into the hall with the others, before doctor Knox took note of the big ball of fat. "Eh, what do we have here?"

"That's gluttony." I ground out with hatred.

"A homunculus." Ling finished.

"He and his friends seem to have friends within the senior staff." Mustang stated.

"Some? It's dear deeper than that." Ling trailed off, his voice seeming to show anger. We all gave him a question look, some even making a 'huh?' In response for him to elaborate. "Your leader is a homunculus." As that was said everyone gasped, but he continued. "Under his eye patch is the oroborus tattoo. He was working along side gluttony."

The room was filled with 'no ways' or 'our ruler is a homunculus?' But all I could think of was whether or not he was the reason Lan Fans arm was missing. "Is that why Lan Fan . . ." I trailed off, but I didn't need to finish, cause Ling gave a small nod of his head. "Those homunculus are going to pay." I growled under my breath.

"Bradley isn't the same as gluttony." Ling stated, wether or not that was a good thing is another story, or really another question.

"Wait, if the Fuhrer is a homunculus, then how does he have a son?" Al questioned.

"No, he's adopted. No direct blood line between them." Knox stated.

"Whether monster or human, either way, these new developments make it easier to remove him from power. First let's get some info from him. Then, I'll take his stone to help my men." Roy said looking at gluttony.

"Hey! Lan Fan lost her arm to get him, he's ours! Were raking him to Xing!" Ling shouted towards flame head.

"Hold it! He could help us get our bodies back!" Ed shouted, and they all continued to argue over who gets it.

"Guys come on, cut it out!" I said trying to get everyone to stop shouting.

"Well good luck mustang, I'm going home." Knox stated before beginning to walk off.

"Mustang?" Gluttony said, before getting up and speaking in a VERY pissed off tone.

"Mustang must pay for what he did to lust." He said.

"Hey, that bitch deserved it!" I shouted back at him, probably not the smartest thing on my behalf cause his stomach seemed to open as he broke free of his bindings. I froze on the spot not being able to move, just as a blast seemed to come from his stomach, heading straight for mustang, as well as me beside him.

Thank you so much everyone for the 4.32k reads, I cannot believe that I have that many people liking my story, but please silent readers vote or comment to tell me what you think of the story, I now feel really bad for faking so long, and leaving it on a CLIFFY! oh and if you have the time can you comment what you think your favourite part of each chapter is, or like this chapter onwards you don't have to go back to the start or anything but yeah. Thank you for readin hope you enjoyed my little alchemists! oh and remember to request questions or dares for the characters or me.

~suni out~