Edward Elric groggily opened his eyes after what felt like a very long siesta. He'd been sleeping on his back with his coat as a pillow, he yawned and stared at the ceiling. Well, what was supposed to be the ceiling. He was supposed to be on his bed, in his room at central, so why was he staring at blue skies with a few cirrus clouds? After a few minutes he was certain that he wasn't still half asleep but still need to solve the mystery of the missing ceiling.

Chanty must have done something. Edward thought. Oh boy, he's gonna get it!

Only one problem, when he sat up he was greeted with an open field.

Where am I?

Confused Ed looked around. To his right Chanticleer, The Dawn alchemist lay curled up around his younger brother, Brody, both still asleep a few feet away from him. To his left the twins, Luke and Lucus had somehow managed to tangle themselves up with one another, making themselves look like two balls of yarn after a playful kitten got hold of them. The way Luke's arm was bent did not look comfortable at all. A few more feet away from the tangle twins lay Chanty's girlfriend, Annie the Macaw. And beyond her lay their latest friend, Einon, who could spit up precious jewels jut by talking. All of them were asleep.

"All of you! Wake up! Where are we!? AL! You there, Al?"

"Brother, calm down. I'm right here." Al emerged from grove of trees not to far behind Edward.

"Al! Do you know where we are?"

"Not a clue."

"Will you two hush? A lady needs her beauty sleep ya know."

"Annie! Wake up."

The talking/yelling was getting Chanty, Brody and Einon to stir and the twins woke up. They got one look at each other and how close they'd been sleeping and jumped away from one another with a speed only a cartoon could achieve.

"What are you doing so close to me!?!?" the two yelled at the same time.

"I love you as my brother but don't ever snuzzle me like that when I'm sleeping!"

"Me snuzzle? I outgrew the snuzzling stuff years ago. You're the one that got close to me!"

"Over my dead body I did!"

"Oh shut up both of you." Brody yawned and stretched. The stretch I might add was rather quick so he bopped his brother in the chin. "Sorry."

"Sure ya are."

"Will you all pay attention!" Ed barked.

"Hey, where are we?" Einon asked looking around. He picked up the rose quartz that fell from his mouth and put it in his pocket.

Edward sunk to the ground. "That's what I've been trying you! Where are we and how did we get here?"

"If they weren't with us I'd blame the twins for pulling a prank." Al said. "Maybe if we start looking around we'll find some kind of familiar landmark that will tell us which way to go in order to get home."

Everyone was in mutual agreement to get going but which way to go first? On one hand there was an open field, not much to see that way besides grass and it stretched for two miles at the least. On the other hand there was a forest where you could risk getting lost. The motion for the forest won with the thought that if they did feel as though they were going in circles just climb a tree, get your bearings and continue.

"I'd still like to know how we got here. How could someone have gotten the eight of us here without waking us up?" Brody asked.

"Hey, Al." Ed turned around to face his brother. "You don't need sleep so no one could've snuck anything past you, how'd you get here?"

"It was really strange," Al explained. One minute I was sitting on my bed at Central, you were asleep on your bed, the room was dark then, POOF! I was sitting on the ground, the twins were behind me, Annie behind them, Einon behind her, you in front of me and Chanty and Brody behind you. I walked around a ways to see if I could find anything, about that time you called for me."

"But that's impossible. There's no way someone can be transported from one destination to another in less than a blink of an eye." The Fullmetal argued.

"I'm just saying it as I saw it, I have no idea how it happened."

The quest for answers continued for twenty minutes before everyone (excluding Chanticleer and Brody) was being driven mad by the twins telling stupid knock-knock jokes.

"Will the two of you just shut up!" Annie screamed at them.

"Ok ok! We may be stupid but we ain't deaf."

"Mew?"

"KITTY!" Al flipped and with extensive effort looked for the source of the mew-ing. He pulled back some grass and heard it again, louder, like it was right by his head. Al turned and jumped.

It looked like a very furry worm on the grass near his hand, but it had a cat's head.

"Mew."

"Oh it's so cute!" Annie giggled.

"What is it? Besides weird."

To the surprise of everyone else Luke and Lucus were laughing.

"What's so funny?" The Dawn asked, getting a better look at the bizarre critter.

"It's a cat-apillar!"

"Mew!"

"But unless that's a chimera of some kind there's no way it can be real." Ed declared, baffled.

"What do you mean it can't be real? It's right in front of you." Brody said.

"I don't know about you guys, but I've got a feeling that the weirdest is yet to come." Lucus said after they'd gotten over his laugh from the cat-apillar.

"Where'd you get that line from? A bumper sticker?" Luke teased.

"No, seriously. I think this isn't the last of weird things we're gonna find…or have find us."

"You are dead serious aren't you?" Luke raised an eyebrow.

"You bet, brotha."

"Not good." Chanty said.

"What's not good, hon." Annie asked him, a little worried with the look he had.

"Although it's very rare whenever Lucus can get his mind back to reality and has a 'feeling' about something he tends to be right. So if he says we're likely to run into more things even crazier than a cat-apillar you'd better keep your eyes peeled."

"Oh come on. How could he possibly pick up a 'vibe from the universe' so to say as to know what-"

A strange rumble cut him off…a strange rumble that was getting louder.

"If anything bad happens to us," Einon began. "I motion to blame Ed for opening his fat yap."

Me – Heehee. This is going to be so much fun!

Chibi me- what do ya plan on doing? Huh! Huh!

Me – You'll find out. But true to Lucus's gut feeling there will be more bizarre encounter with other bizarre creatures. I thought some of the puns in this book series were hilarious so I figured I'd just make a fanfic out of it. (rubs hands together in an evil fashion) this is going to be great!

p.s. If you don't know who any of the characters are except the Elric brothers read my previous stories, that will fill you in