Chapter 1

Okie dokie now this little story I have, is dedicated to one of my best friends, Rae-Rae, and to all of the people who read this... but mostly for Rae-Rae. ENJOY PEOPLE!

Diclaimer: I unfortunately, do NOT own Fullmetal Alchemist. Hiromu Arakawa is the genius who made up amazing Edward and awesome Alphonse. I do own the OC's that play a MAJOR part in this story though... (Al has his body and they are single FYI)

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Edward woke up one morning feeling drousy and a little cranky, because a loud knocking sound was... well, loud. Alphonse was standing at the doorway and came clonking in, with his suit of armor.

"Ed, you're still asleep? It's like nine thirty already! And, you were sleeping with your stomach out again weren't you?" Al crossed his arms, a concerned tone in his voice.

"Nine thirty??? Geez Al, couldn't you have let me sleep? Uggghh..." Ed grunted, rolled over, and closed his golden eyes. His blonde braid was messed up and his bed wasn't any better. He tried to relax, but Al's voice kept cutting into his thoughts. He got his pillow and put it over his head.

"You know, Ed, I really think you should go to bed sooner, so you'll be up in the morning and not cranky all the time." Al remarked, throwing off the blanket and sheet and tearing the pillow from Ed's grasp.

"What?! I'm not cranky all the time!" He said, sitting up and crossing his arms and legs. "I just can't sleep at night!" He grabbed the pillow and chunked it at Al's armor head, knocking it off. Al's real head looked angry.

"Hey! What'd you do that for?!? Well, whatever. I'm going to get some breakfast." Al slipped out of the armor he used to be, and walked out the door, down the hallway and down the stairs. Ed got up, got dressed in his old clothed that still suprisingly fit him from just the year before and followed his younger brother down the stairs of Pinako Rockbell's home. Winry was still sleeping in her bed, Granny was sitting with a patient outside who had to have his prosthetic leg switched, and Den was sleeping.

"Would you consider wanting to upgrade to an auto-mail prosthetic?" Pinako asked, after exhaleing a puff of smoke from her pipe and examining the leg. "Auto-mail is better, has less complications, and is a lot more durable than a regular leg." She sat down on her stool and looked pleading, but not to the guy.

"Ha ha... You're joking right? Sure, they're convenient, but I heard that the post-surgery pain is horrible and the rehab process is difficult." He stood up and tested his leg. "I'm not so sure I could endure that."

"For a grown man, you seem such a baby. I know a little squirt who endured auto-mail grafting of both his right arm and left leg at the same time." Pinako sighed, and stood up, only coming up to his abdomen. She looked up at the man to see eye to eye.

"I'm not that brave. See ya." And with that, he took his hat and coat and walked down the street. Pinako sighed. No one wanted auto-mail.

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Winry woke up, dazed. The sun was right in her eyes. She squinted, what time was it? "AHHHH!!!" She looked at the clock. 'Huh. nine forty-five? It's not so late after all...' She got up, got dressed, and headed down stairs. Ed was sitting on the couch, eating lots and lots and lots of eggs, toast, bacon, and cereal. There was no milk in his cereal. "Ed! If you don't drink your milk, you won't grow tall! Look, Grandma's almost taller than you!" Ed looked over at her with a glare that could catch anything on fire. Winry didn't seem to notice it.

"I am not going to drink that opaque, horrifying, disgusting white liquid squirted from a cow! Why should you make me?!? AARRGGHH!" He griped rather loudly with his mouth full and slammed his hands on the TV Tray his food was on, causing some bacon and eggs to spill. Den was over there in a flash, and the food was gone in an instant. Ed leaned over to reach down for the bacon and eggs that spilled, but found nothing. "Where did they go?" He asked himself, searching for them. Meanwhile, Den was enjoying a little breakfast.

Al, ignoring Ed's pushes to make him move so he could look for the spilt food, looked over out the window and something caught his eye. Was it? No, it couldn't be... His eyes widened to dinner plates as he realised who it was. "ED!! RUN!! HE'S HERE!!! AAHHHH!!!" Al screamed as he headed through the back door, leaving a very confused Ed in a trail of dust that appeared out of nowhere.

"Wha...?" Ed looked over towards the door where Winry was letting the man in. His eyes were even bigger than Al's as he screamed and tried to run, but failed. The man grabbed him by the collar of his black tank top and pulled him into a bone crushing bear hug.

"Oh Edward Elric, I've missed you so much! You went and got your brother's body back and didn't get your arm and leg back! OH WHAT BROTHERLY LOVE!!!!!" Armstrong cried, eyes full of tears and those pink sparkley things by his face. He dropped Ed, who was writhing in pain and was twitching severely, and took off his shirt and flexed his overly sized muscles. "Alphonse Elric, where are you? I've got to see you!" He looked all over and went outside. Mustang and Havoc came in the door also.

Ed looked up painfully to see Roy's smug face looking down at him. "Oh, Colonel.," He said in a fake cheery tone, then suddenly went dark. "What the hell are you doing here?" Ed's face shrunk and scrunched up.

"Well, Fullmetal, I just wanted to check on you, see how your life was going." Roy looked around, there was pushed over chairs, from when Al escaped, dog slober on the floor, and a little 16 year old bent up in unusual ways on the ground in front of him.

"Oh sure, you come to check on me?" What's the occcasion? You were fired so you have no place to go and you have lost all the will to use Alchemy so you came to worship me for being the greatest Alchemist ever?" Ed sped really fast, a gleam of hope and suspiciousness in his eyes.

"No." Was all that was heard as Roy snapped his fingers and Ed burst into a bomb. He looked down at the little pile of ashes and walked away. Havoc bent down to Ed. "Really, he was just looking for a date again, he heard there were beautiful women here, so I came along... uh, more like dragged." He stood up and walked to the couch.

Al was up the tallest tree he could find, clutching the tree with all his might and hiding amonst the leaves and branches. He was trying to be as high up and small as possible to keep away from the danger below him. "ALPHONSE! COME DOWN HERE SO I CAN SEE YOU!!!!" Came the roar of Armstrong, looking up about 100 feet at a really small dot. "...neevverrrr..!!!" Came the faint reply.

Ed walked outside, after miracuously returning to normal form after been crushed, burnt and hit on the head with a wrench, Winry got angry at him for his auto-mail being damaged a little. He looked at the scene that was happening. Roy and Havoc ((Sorry, but it feels weird typing his name 'Jean')) were there too, with wide eyes. The scene: Armstong yelled at Al, Al yelled back, hardly audible, Armstrong put his glove things on, Al screamed, the tree fell, Al ran for his life and Armstong was chasing him, arms wide, shirt still off and the little pink things around his head.

Armstrong finally ran out of breath and sat down, while Al was still freaking out and running in a circle, screaming his lungs out, "OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODARMSTRONG'SGUNNAGETMEANDKILLMEANDILLDIEAVIRRRRRGGGIIIIINNNN!!" T.T ((thats the face he's making...)) and the three men wre ingaged in a conversation about women and Ed was right in the middle of this, how they were all saying that he should get one. Armstrong was saying how the beauty in girls was passed down in the Armstong family for generations, Roy was saying to get a girl with a mini skirt, and Havoc was saying that Ed should just ask someone, then he looked at Winry, who has talking to someone about getting auto-mail. "How about her?" He asked.

Ed was appaled. His eyes were giant and his mouth has wide open. "Her?!? WINRY?!?!?! You think I should ask WINRY out?!?" He made his arms into a big 'x'. "NO WAY!!!" But on the inside, he blushed... All the men laughed. Ed was angry, Al was still freaking out, then he suddenly stopped and walked over to them. "Hey, whatcha guys talking about?" Like it never happened.

Ed looked over to Al and saw that he was done freaking out and wasn't tired at all. 'Freak...' He thought. He walked away from the three men and the teen and just kept walking. He didn't know where he was going, but he was going somewhere.

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Keelah was walking down the dirt path into the plains, looking down to the ground. Her light brown/ dark blonde hair that was down to her middle/upper back was in a ponytail, like it always was, was being blown by the gentle breeze. Her black shoes were always tied, but were getting a little brown because of the dirt. Her jeans here a little faded, and her shirt was... just a plain tee shirt. She was usually wound up with energy, playing football with the guys, cheating by using Alchemy with out a circle, and all the girls looking at her strange because she has a tomboy, but today, she just felt, tired. Tired of the milatary pushing her around, tired of the war, tired of everybody thinking she was a good girl. Tired of it all.

She kept walking, right until she bumped into someone, and the force knocked them both to the ground. "Sorry!" They both apologized. Her black wire framed glasses were knocked off, and someone handed them to her. "Thanks..." She accepted them, and got up without using the hand that was handed to her to help her get up. "I can get up myself, thank you!" She said defensely, brushing off her hands. She finally looked at the person who bumped into her and saw that it was a boy, around her age, 15, maybe 16, had blonde hair that was in a braid, had auto-mail, and golden eyes. Those eyes caught her. She stared deep into them with her blue ones. He looked away and asked for her name.

"My name's Keelah Kimer, and who are you to be asking?" She crossed her arms and stared into those golden eyes again. "I'm Edward Elric, and I was just being polite and asking who you were!" He narrowed his eyes a little, they shifted to her pockets to where a gold chain was coming out of one of them. His eyes widened. "You're a State Alchemist too?" He asked, pulling out his own gold pocketwatch with the President's crest and hexagram on it.

"Yeah, I am, and aren't you the Fullmetal Alchemist? I've heard lots of stories about you!" Keelah said, suddenly realizing who it was. She secretly had a crush on him, but he couldn't know that!!! "I'm the Bomb Alchemist, and we have something in common." She pulled up right pant leg to reveal a beat up auto-mail leg. Ed was suprised, his eyes a little wider. "What happened?" He asked.

"Well, I... I... uh... I know it's wrong, but I... I transmuted my... my little brother." She stared grimly at the ground, tears welling in her eyes. "But... I'm okay, I already know about you, you don't need to tell me!" She smiled, and wiped away the tears.

"So that means..." Ed started, but Keelah knew what he was going to say, so he demonstrated by clapping his hands together and making a small toy horse. She clapp her hands together and the horse exploded. Ed was amazed. He only knew two other people besides himself who could do that. Al and Teacher. "Wow... I didn't know that anyone else knew how to do that. My brother can do that too..." He started.

About a few hours later, they were laying in the grass, talking about things and they already knew alot about each other and stuff.

"Hey, Keelah." Ed said, and she answered.

"Yeah?"

"Do you have a place to stay after you left the Northern Command and your family?"

"Nope." Was her simple reply.

"Well, we have extra places to stay at Winry's house, and if you come, you can meet her and Al and everybody... Just a suggestion..."

"OH REALLY?!?!? THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!! I haven't had a place to sleep in days!!" She squealed, then hugged, more like glomped Ed. He was hesitant about her hugging him, but then he hugged her back, not noticing that he was blushing.

Keelah realized what she was doing and jumped off of him. "Oh I'm sorry, let's go." She said hurridly, trying to hide her massive red face. Ed ran and caught up to her, leading her to the Rockbell home. They entered the door, and greeted everyone.

"Hey, guys, someone's here to stay for a while!" Ed called out, and everyone except Winry went to the living room. She was busy with making auto-mail. Armstrong, Havoc, and Roy were about to leave, so they met first, taking it the wrong way, thinking that Keelah was Ed's girlfriend.

"OH EDWARD ELRIC!! YOU FINALLY WENT OUT AND GOT YOURSELF SOMEONE! I'M SO PROUD! Even though she's not as beautiful as the women who's beauty has been--" Havoc hit him in the face, making the pink things and Keelah, who was being crushed by Armstong, fall down on the floor. "Sorry, about that, why don't you dump him and come with me? No worries about the age difference, it's okay." He started, but Roy shoved him over onto the floor. "You fool, she's too good for you, she should come with me! You would look great in a mini skirt." He told her.

Edward, who had been sitting there, enduring all that was happening, finally snapped when Roy talked to her. "OH NO! SHE'S NOT GOING TO GO WITH YOU!!!" He yelled, dragging Keelah off, who had been saying hi the whole time, and looking a little embarrassed.

The three military dudes left, leaving Granny, Al, and Winry. Ed took Keelah to the couch, sat her down and introduced her to Al, who was very nice and polite as usual. "Hi Keelah, sorry about them, they're freaks. You seem really nice, and you have an auto-mail arm. That's cool! OOOOH! A PENNY!!!" He shook her hand and ran off to get the penny as Ed and Keelah proceeded to talk to Granny.

"Hello, I'm Pinako Rockbell, and you are Keelah Kimer right?" Keelah nodded. "Well Keelah, you'll fit in right with the family, just be sure to take care of Ed when you two get old together, and make sure no one steps on him." Ed got really angry. "WE ARE NOT GETTING MARRIED! WE ARE NOT GOING OUT!! ONLY FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He exasperated.

Winry came in the door and saw only two things. Edward and a girl. Together. She was mad. "EDWARD! Who is this?" She asked, grimacing.

Ed had a sweat drop on his head. "Oh, this is just a friend, Keelah! She likes auto-mail too! She also has an auto-mail leg! Please don't hurt me!!" The last part of his sentence was rushed but Winry didn't hear anything after "she likes auto-mail too!" and was over at Keelah's leg in a flash. "SO! You like auto-mail too?!? Whatkindisthis?Didyoumakeit?Howdoesitwork?I'veneverseenanythinglikethisit'ssosimpleandit'swonderful!!" Winry was speaking so fast that no one could understand her except Keelah, who was speaking that fast about the auto-mail and blah blah blah...

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A/N: Hooray!!! 1st chappie of my new story!!! HOORAY!!! There is gunna be another OC and stuff, and Al has a short attention span... lol Well I hope you like this chapter! You all thought Winry was gunna hate Keelah, but NO! They will probably be the best of friends! It's 2:28 AM and I'm tired. Good night. REVIEW!