Warnings: Mild violence, Mild Cursing

Disclaimer: The characters Alfonse Elric and Edward Elric are NOT mine. The merchant Kouse Iiemigoto IS mine. I am in no way making money off of this manga/anime or this FanFic that I am writing. All credit for Alfonse and Edward Elric go to the creator/designer and cast of the anime/mange Fullmetal Alchemist.

spoilers: There aren't any unless you've never seen this anime at all. XD

Edward and Alfonse Elric were walking beside a river bank and listening to the relaxing riverflow. As they walked in silence they were wondering about a recent encounter they had had with an akward looking merchant. Ed turned to Al. "Hey Al, what do you think that old bat meant by-" at this he said the next words he put his hands up and shook them and put on an old woman's tone. "You haven't seen the last of me AHAHAHAHAHA!!!??" He finished his question and put his hands back behind his head.

"I'm not sure Brother." Al answered, his voice echoing through his suit of armor. He stated the obvious as always "Probably just that she'll meet up with us again."

"How? It's not like that creepy old hag knows where we-" His sentence was cut off by a beautiful young woman punching him straight in the face. Edward spiraled backwards and he hit the ground hard.

He got big headed, as always, and sat up quickly rubbing his head. "Who the hell are you and why'd you hit me?!"

"Are you always this egotistical?" The young woman said in a smooth tone. Then she let her blue bangs fall in her face and as she brought her head back up it wasn't the young lady's face. It was an old woman... The MERCHANT! Her hair was scraggly and faded, not the shiny blue-black that the young girl's was. Her face was covered in wrinkles and one eye was bigger than the other. "I'm the old bat." She said in a witch-like voice.

Ed scrammbled back still on the ground, "What?! But but but... you were..." His eyes were wide as the merchant put her bangs back in her face. Her hair got shiny and straight again and she turned back into a young woman with a young woman's voice. "Beautiful?" She said patting the bottom of her hair. And that's what she was. Beautiful. "Enough Chit-Chat." She said impatientlly. "Let's get to what I'm here for..." She said words in an ancient lost language and an electric sphere appeared in her hands. "Die Edward Elric..." She said it so calmly.

Ed jumped just in time to miss the deathly strike. "What the hell lady?"

"I am Kouse Iiemigoto... tell me what Hell's like..." She did the same thing as before. She just missed him again.

"What do you want with me?!" He shouted, still in the air, before coming down and landing on his feet, running as she came at him.

"I want you dead!" She ran at him and threw a punch, He caught it and flipped around, kicking her in the face and getting her in a headlock.

"I don't know why you hate me, lady, but you'll regret it." He then gasped as the lady turned to mud. "What?! Where the hell'd she go?!"

"BROTHER!!!" Alphonse yelled one second too late at his brother. Kouse had gotten to him from behind and now talked to him with his ear lobe in her mouth. He might've liked it, if not under the circumstances. Ed groaned as blood poored from his mouth in a gush and then stopped. "A...Alphonse..." Al ran over to his brother. Kouse had stabbed him in the back. Ed dropped to his kness and said, "Alphonse... I... I'm scare-" but the end of his word wasn't heard, instead he screamed as a bright light shot down from the clouds, which were now black, and landed on Ed. He screamed harder as the shape of a cross, which held even more light, shot up to the sky from his stomach, ripping through his shirt.

He lay in his brother's arms, unconscious. Kouse came up behind Al and layed a hand, lovingly, on his shoulder.