Chapter one:

The Failed Circle

What happened? Was Edward's first thought when he woke up. He tried to stand up, but quickly grabbed his head with his hands and growled, clenching his teeth and eyes. His head was aching painfully, so much that the only fact of thinking was a torture. When the pain banished a bit, he opened his eyes, only to find himself with a blurred and spinning sight.

"Argh!" He exclaimed while lying on his back, above the dirt, with his arms and legs extended.

When his sight was normal again, Edward supported himself on his elbows and looked around the place, trying to discover where he and Alphonse where. He suddenly stopped and clenched his teeth again, quickly looking around more furiously. He stopped when he repaired on the figure at his side.

"Alphonse!"

Edward crawled until he reached the big and empty armor.

"Alphonse! Are you okay?" he asked worriedly.

The armor only turned his head to Edward, producing metal clenching sounds, and looked at him with his red glowing eyes. "I should be the one asking you that."

Edward stood up slowly and then helped his brother to stand up, even when it was obviously he didn't needed help. When they both were standing straight on their feet again, they looked around, studying the unknown place around them. Everything seemed to be made out of rock except for the deep brown wooden tiles on the building's roofs.

"Where are we?" Alphonse asked muttering.

Edward tried to identify the place, in vain.

"I don't know." He muttered loud enough for Alphonse to hear him.

The place looked clean, big and peaceful, although it seemed out of technology.

Edward sighed and sat on the floor again, closing his eyes and growling. He tried to remember how they ended there, but it only gaze him a headache. He groaned in annoyance and opened his eyes, frowning. He looked up at Al. "Can you remember how we got here?"

Alphonse, who was staring at the skyline, looked down at Edward.

"I can" He simply said.

Edward smirked at him. "That's great-"

He was cut by Alphonse. "But I don't know how we got here."

Edward opened his eyes widely and looked down.

"I can only remember that I was walking with those quimeras, and then..." Alphonse stopped a few seconds before continue. "I don't know how to explain it. I was being pulled."

Edward suddenly remembered everything and gasped.

Alphonse glanced at the skyline again. "What happened?"

Edward looked down. "It was that man. The gold-toothed doctor"

"Huh?" Alphonse asked confused.

Ed looked up at him and scratched his head with his metallic arm. "Yeah, I forgot it. You weren't with me." He began. "Well, there was a doctor with a golden tooth. It was the one who inserted the Philosopher's stone inside the Fhurer." He added dryly.

Alphonse gasped but quickly told Edward to continue.

"He made a transmutation circle, but he maybe drew it wrong or incomplete. That's why we're here." Edward concluded.

They both were in the same positions for a few minutes: Edward sitting on the floor and Alphonse standing and staring down at his brother, both thinking about everything that happened. Edward's theory could be, of course, right, but there were a lot of details. What if it wasn't a mistake and they were supposed to end here? No. No, they were supposed to be with "father"...

"It's pricey, but... I really do like it." They heard behind them. They turned their heads and watched a trio of kids: Two guys and a girl. One of the guys was apparently bald, wearing bright yellow and orange clothes and a hat. The other ones were wearing blue and white clothes. One of them, the other guy, had his hair tied on a little ponytail, and the girl had her hair on a long braid and had hair loopies. The girl had on her shoulder a really weird specimen of animal that seemed like a lemur.

They guys wearing blue were standing while the one wearing orange clothes was sitting on the floor. The guy with the ponytail was stroking his chin, looking at a green purse.

"Then you should get it, you deserve something nice." The girl said to him.

Is HE really trying to buy a purse? Edward thought.

"I do! Don't I?" the ponytail guy said, looking at the hair loopies' girl. He then looked at the green purse again. "But no..." He said rolling his eyes and head dramatically. "It's too expensive, I shouldn't"

Edward stood up and walked closer to Alphonse.

"Niisan" He heard Alphonse muttering. "Should we ask them where are we?"

Edward looked at his brother for a few moments.

"Alright, then don't" He could still hear their voices.

"I think we should." Alphonse insisted. When they both looked back at the store where the trio were, they opened their eyes widely when they saw they were gone. Alphonse looked down but Edward kept watching the store and a smirk appeared on his lips when the ponytail guy appeared again.

"You know what? I'm gonna get it." He said smiling at the purse.

Edward and Alphonse walked towards them but when they were about to reach them, they began to walk away... with the purse.

I can't believe that guy actually bought a purse. That's not manly.

They followed the group, getting weird looks from everyone, but not a single look of any kind from them.

"Al, why do we have to ask them? There's a lot of people in this town, we could just-" But he was cut but Alphonse again.

"I have a feeling, niisan. I feel that we have to go with them."

They kept following them for a while until they stopped. They were about to reach them until some other man approached to them before.

"Ptss! You kids like earthbending?"earthbending? Ed thought curiously. I've never heard of that. "You like throwing rocks? Then check out Master Yu's earthbending academy." The man smiled at them and gave them a piece of parchment and then walked away from them.

"Look!" The little guy wearing orange said. "There's a coupon on the back." he said turning around the paper. "The first lesson is free."

"Who knows? This master Yu could be the earthbending master you've been looking for!" The hair loopie's girl said.

Earthbending teacher? What is earthbending.

"Did you hear them?" Edward muttered to Alphonse. "What is this earthbedning they're talking about?"

Alphonse only shrugged and walked to them.

"Hey!" He said to them, waving one of his armored arms.

The trio looked up from the coupon and gave a jump backwards when they saw Al. Edward quickly walked to his side and looked at them expressionless.

"We need help." He simply said to them.

The ponytail guy walked to them and pointed at Alphonse. "You're not from the Fire Nation, don't you?"

The girl walked to the boy and grabbed him by his shoulders. "Calm down, Sokka, don't rush."

"What's the Fire Nation?" Edward asked curiously to the guy apparently called Sokka. The three of the guys looked at him as if he was some kind of a mad guy.

"You are kidding me, right?" Sokka asked.

Alphonse looked down and them and sighed. "We're not kidding." He said. "We are not from here."

The guy dressed in orange walked to them and looked at Edward, then looked at Alphonse. "Where are you from then?"

"We are from Amestris." Edward answered.

The trio opened their eyes widely and looked at each other. After a few seconds Sokka looked at Edward frowning. "I've never heard of Amestris." He muttered. "I hope you're not trying to make fun of us."

Edward lifted his hands and shook his head with vehemence. "No, we are not trying to make fun of you! We are lost!" He almost yelled. "We don't know how we ended up here!" He added.

Alphonse positioned himself in front of his brother, looking down at Sokka. "My brother and I were wondering where are we." he said, gently as always with everyone.

The trio looked at each other and the guy with the bright orange and yellow clothes took a step forward, smiling. "Welcome to the Earth kingdom!"

The Elric siblings looked at each other and shook their heads, turning their glance at the trio again. "Still don't know." Edward said.

The guy's smile dropped along with his jaw and looked at them awes trucked.

"You're really not from one of the four nations, don't you?" He asked whispering, kind of worried.

Alphonse shook his head. "We don't even know what the four nations are."

"We are not supposed to be here." Edward added. "We are not from here or the so called 'four nations'"

The girl with hair loopies took a step to Sokka. "I think we should help them." He said firmly.

"Are you kidding, Katara?" Sokka said whispering to her. "Are we going to take some strangers with us? What if they're trying to capture us or something? It wouldn't be the first time."

The other guy approached to them. "Katara is right, Sokka."

Sokka hit his forehead with his right palm and looked down at the guy as if he was crazy. "Aang! Can you be on my side just once?"

"This is not about sides, Sokka, It is about doing what is right... They really need help, we can't just leave them wandering around." He said to Sokka. Aang seemed to be wise and hearing him talking about serious things made Edward think about an old man giving tips to his grandchildren. His voice was high and sometimes really pitched, making you get confused, don't really knowing if his voice was for a girl or a really, really young kid. He was pleading to Sokka, but the seriousness was overflowing.

Alphonse and Edward began to feel uncomfortable because of bothering them so much to the point of arguing. They were looking at each other, then at the ground, then at the sky, then at the stores, then at the group in front of them and then at each other again and again and again. The group was still arguing when Alphonse took another step towards them. "Don't worry, we'll find someone else to help us. Thanks!" He turned around and Edward did the same, both walking away from them until the voice of a girl stopped them.

"Wait!"

They turned their heads and stared at the girl, whose name was, apparently, Katara, who was walking towards them along with the guy wearing yellow, whose name was Aang. "You can go with us."

"Yeah!" Aang said smiling. "We'll be your guides while you can't find your way back home."

Ed smiled at them and nodded. "Hai"

After that there was an awkward silence. Sokka was frowning, away from them and arguing with the lemur. Katara, aware of how awkward the things were getting, was the first one to talk. "You haven't told us your names!" She said smiling at them.

Edward's eyes opened widely. Of course, because of arguing and all of them screaming their names all the time, he and Alphonse ended up remembering their names without even have a formal meeting. He quickly changed his expression for a smirk and pointed at himself with his metallic thumb. "I'm Edward Elric." He then pointed at Alphonse with his index finger. "And he's my-"He was cut again by Alphonse.

"I'm his brother Alphonse Elric." He said leaning at her a bit.

Katara giggled at them. "I guess you're the eldest" she said to Alphonse.

Edward clenched his teeth and frowned deeply. "I AM the eldest" He said doing emphasis on 'I am' pointing at him again.

The girl stopped giggling and looked at the fullmetal alchemist with seriousness and a bit of anger. "Well, sorry, I didn't think you were the eldest! It was just a question."

Al saw the danger getting closer and took a few steps towards his brother. "Niisan…"

Edward took a few steps towards Katara until they were nose to nose. "Are you calling me short?" He said trying to suppress his anger.

She smirked and crossed her arms. "Yes." She simply said.

Alphonse grabbed his brother by the shoulders and pulled him away. "Calm down!" He yelled to Edward. He then turned his glance to Katara. "I'm sorry. Please, excuse my brother. He's really sensitive about this subject."

She just shrugged.

Edward let himself being pulled by Alphonse growling.

Aang, who watched everything trying to suppress his laughter, walked closer to them. "I'm Aang, by the way." He said waving his hand at them. He then pointed at katara with his thumb. "She's Katara…" He then pointed back at him to the ponytail guy who was still frowning at them. "…and he's Sokka."

Katara took a step closer to Aang. "Now it's my turn to excuse MY brother. Sometimes he can be a jerk"

Aang smiled at her and then looked at the siblings again, still smiling. Will he stop smiling anytime? "I'm going to get our transport and we can start traveling together!" He said cheerily. "But before that, we attend some duties here." He added.

Alphonse nodded vehemently. "Arigato! Arigato!"

HAPPY TOPHWARD EVERYONE! :D

Here's the first chapter of my first Tophward... and first Crossover I ever written.

As you can see:

-I'll be using the word niisan instead of brother.

-Toph won't appear until the next chapter.

-I'll be using, with the Elric brothers, words like Hai instead of yes, Arigato instead of thanks, and maybe even baka instead of Idiot. I don't know, I really like using Japanese words xD But if you don't want me to do that and you really prefer to read those words in English, don't doubt to tell me.

And that's all! I hope you have enjoyed it! Please, R&R!

Bye Bye! :D