OP x FMA fanfic … … I guess this begins before the crew meets Brooke (SPOILER!!).

And Ed's 19, (SPOILER!!) he just came back from the other side of the gate, and decided to stay!! YAY!!

The manga and the anime (and of course the movie) is mixed! I just like both Ling and Russell, I can't really decide who to not use! Oh, and Ling isn't Greed, and Greed is ded. (Sorry! I had to kill SOMEONE!) Hughes is still ded, mostly because if I let him live it will be WAY too idealistic. Alfonse doesn't die, and he came back with the Elric brothers 'Cause I LOVE HIM!! … and there REALLY should be more things that proves his existence.

Let's pretend that Amestris (Originally stranded between Aerugo, Creta, Drachma, Ishval and the Great Desert which further leads to Xing) does not have the desert, and that there is actually a fast way from a port of Xing to Youswell without going into Ishval. Just cause that makes it SO MUCH easier for me. God, so many differences!!

Anyways, Here we go!!

Disclaimer: I will say this only once in this story... I do not, NOT NNNOOOTTT own The Full Metal Alchemist nor do I own the One Piece in any form.

Sunny Go was sailing by the peaceful sea, which, by far, looked like an emerald sheet spread out. On the deck were people relaxing, for times of calm did not come easily on the unpredictable conditions of the oceans of the Grand Line. A black haired boy with a straw hat was lazing on the figurehead of the ship which oddly looked like a lion with petals. Behind him on the large, grass-laid deck, were two young ladies, laid back on lounging chairs enjoying the sun. Occasionally the ship's cook would swivel over to the young ladies from his kitchen-lair and offer newly made treats.

"I'm boooooooooooooooored…."

The boy who was presently rolling about on the small space of the lion's head was Luffy D. Monkey, the newly arising star of the pirate world, a 300 million beli rookie with the dream of becoming the Pirate King.

"There's nothing to do … Zoro doesn't play … Usopp and Chopper are swimming … feh. How long is this supposed to take?! It's been 5 days since this boat ever went through a storm and almost a full week without any sea-creatures trying to eat us!! Oi Nami!! Are you SURE this is the way to … where are we going again?" Luffy exclaimed, deprived of whatever excitements from his adventure-stricken mind.

"We're supposed to be arriving at a place called Xing," replied the red-haired navigator "in about … two to three days from now, if we don't go off course. I'm pretty sure that we won't be meeting more storms; we're closing in to what's supposed to be this huge island that's big enough to be a continent. It has several countries in it… like this country called Aerugo … or Creta … I wonder what they specialize in? Robin, do you know anything about where we're supposed to go? I never really saw this i…continent before I actually looked it up."

"Yes, actually." Answered the black – haired researcher, "This is supposed to be the only continent in all seas. I read that Xing is professioned in what seems to be spiritual 'control' and has a unique kind of animal called 'Panda'… it's supposed to be a bear with two colors."

The previously uninterested "Cool!! I want to see a panda!! Maybe we could keep one? Like a green and blue one!!"

"Creata is most developed in mining," Robin continued, amused by the reaction her captain was showing. "the mines provide everything, or so the author claimed, and Aurego is supposed to excel in craftsmanship. The two countries are actually quite friendly with each other; one sells the goods while the other buys it, crafts it, and resells it to the providers instead of money. I'm guessing that there are no currencies in these countries…Drachma, well, is supposed to be like the Mr. Doctor's island, it snows every day and the people there are very violent because of that. Well, the continent is supposed to be using this other currency called cenz."

Sanji, who was retrieving the finished dessert plates added to the discussion. "Well, I hope the beli's we have would be enough for our stay. We need more ingredients. The idiots attacked the fridge when I wasn't looking. I swear you guys are developing new sneaking skills."

"The currency when the book was written was 20 cenz to 70 beli, but since it's been over about 8 years, I think it has changed. Hopefully it's turned less…expensive." Robin continued on, "… I've also read about another country in the middle of the countries. It's called Amestris, but the details to it are quite vague. It's supposed to be a country where there are people like wizards called 'alchemists', and quite developed in the prosthetics department."

"Ah! I've heard of this 'Amestris'," Exclaimed Sanji. "One of the idiot cooks was from the country. He used to take pride in his country being able to do things similar to magic. Apparently, anyone who has the brains can practice 'Alchemy'! "

"What's 'alchemy'?" asked the captain, interest suddenly bloomed about this 'magic'.

"I'm not sure myself, but it's supposed to be some sort of a study of changing materials, like grass into bread. Skilled ones could also make gold out of lead, I heard" Supplied the blonde.

"Gold?!" Exclaimed Luffy and Nami.

Luffy turned back to his sea-gazing after hearing such surprising information. Robin, Sanji, and Nami were discussing about other scrap information that didn't interest him, and he tuned them out, silently looking around in hopes of finding even a glimpse of this 'continent'. He couldn't wait to see the 'miracle' already, and he was getting giddy. When the cook called out to him to gather the rest of the crew from other parts of the ship for dinner, he had almost obliged to do as ordered and stuff himself with the already-mouth-watering dishes the cook came up with.

Almost.

Luffy was about to slide off the Sunny Go's head when he saw a brownish (red?) figure floating over on a huge piece of plank.

"Oi Sanji! There's a red thing floating towards us!! I think it's alive!" Luffy called out to his nakama.

Sanji, as he was returning to the kitchen, made a U turn and came over to look over the side of the boat. "What are you talking about, Luff-Gyah! It's not a 'thing', it's a person!! We've got to get him out of there!"

Yeah, it's kinda short- but I don't care. R and R people!! This is my first long-term story! Be gentle! u

PS.

By the way, people reviewd (OMG REVIEWED!!) to me that Chopper ate the devil's fruit and thus cannot swim. I know that, but I don't know what we call that round balloon-tube where people ride so that they don't sink-- I think I saw Chopper ride one ... or were those shoulder ... tubes? anyways... I saw Chopper with one in the manga! nyah!

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