This is my second FanFic so far. I was palying HSM 3: Dance in Wii, and thought, "What would happen if Envy was Troy?"

Envy is spending New Year's Eve away from home and makes an unlikely friend. Chaos ensues.

Disclaimer: If I owned FMA or HSM, I wouldn't be writing FanFic.

Chapter 1: The Start of Something New

(Setting: A nightclub in Central. It's New Year's Eve. The room is filled with people, Military, non-military and one lone homunculus sitting in the corner.)

Envy sat in a corner. Why did he come here again?

Oh, yeah. To get away from the others. They were planning some confrontation with the State Alchemists again. Normally, he was all over these things, but this time, he wasn't as interested. So why was he here? He heard there was a party. A perfect place to just sit and think and get lost in the crowd. Sure there were military people here. He even saw the Fullmetal pipsqueak across the room talking to Colonel Pyromaniac, but he didn't want to fight tonight. Tonight was a night to sit and watch.

Two people stepped down from a platform where a karaoke machine and two microphones were standing. The DJ came on over the loudspeaker, "Thanks for being such good sports, guys! And now who's next for our karaoke contest?" A searchlight swept over the crowd and landed on a girl with short curly brown hair and bright green eyes in the corner. The DJ called enthusiastically to her, "Come on girl, let's see your hidden talent!"

The girl's eyes widened in horror, "No, really I'm fine."

The DJ grinned, "Sorry, honey, come on up! Let's help her, people!"

Envy smiled as he saw the girl being pushed and nudged toward the front platform. The DJ spoke again, "And now for victim number two." The spotlight swept around the room again and then Envy's slit pupils contracted to thin lines as the bright spotlight shone on him. The DJ called, "You there, the one who looks like a palm tree!" Envy resented that comment immensely. "Come on up!"

"You really don't want me to, buddy," Envy called back up to him.

The DJ grinned, "Now I do. Come on people, let's encourage him!"

People around him started cheering and a few started chanting, "Palm tree, palm tree, palm tree!" Envy made a mental note to beat them to a pulp later.

As he got closer to the platform, he saw hid new singing partner for the first time. She was short. Shorter than the Fullmetal pipsqueak, even. She couldn't have been over 5'4". She was wearing a bright blue v-neck sweater with a hood, a denim skirt with pink apples and black knee-high boots. Her curly hair came down just to her jaw, accenting her angular face. She gave him an encouraging smile as he stepped onto the platform.

He thanked the powers that be that he had opted out of his usual skirt and tank top outfit for two reasons. One, it was freezing outside, it has actually started snowing. And two, he was feeling self-conscious enough on the platform in jeans and a black hoodie, he didn't need people staring at the red ouroboros on his left thigh.

The DJ addressed his victims on the platform, "You know, someday, you'll thank me for this."

"Hardly," said Envy, as he heard the girl next to him say the same thing.

"Whatever."

The karaoke machine screen glowed blue as the words faded in. Luckily, Envy knew the song well enough to get the opening notes right.

"Living in my own world, didn't understand, that anything can happen, when you take a chance." He stepped back from his microphone, but surprisingly, the girl picked up with perfect timing.

"I never believed in, what I couldn't see, I never opened my heart,"

"Oh," Envy interjected quickly.

"To all the possibilities. Oh,"

They sang together, "I know that something has changed, Never felt this way, And right here tonight, This could be the start, Of something new, It feels so right, To be here with you, And now looking in your eyes, I feel in my heart, The start of something new."

Envy couldn't believe it, he was actually having fun! He started shifting his weight back and forth to the music between the two verses, then the words came on again, "Now who'd of ever thought that, We'd both be here tonight?"

The girl started singing again in a voice that wasn't quite high enough to be soprano, but a little higher than an alto, "And the world looks so much brighter, With you by my side!" She reached out towards him and he, not knowing what to do, high-fived her, and she laughed.

Now they were both dancing as the refrain came around again, "I know that something has changed, Never felt this way, And right here tonight, This could be the start, Of something new, It feels so right, To be here with you, And now looking in your eyes, I feel in my heart, The start of something new."

Envy took the microphone out of its stand and swished his long hair dramatically, "I never knew that it could happen, Till it happened to me!"

The girl was now smiling at him, revealing a set of braces with turquoise little-plastic-thingies on the brackets, "I didn't know it before, But now it's easy to see,"

"It's the start, Of something new, It feels so right, To be here with you, And now looking in your eyes, I feel in my heart, That it's the start, Of something new, It feels so right, To be here with you, And now looking in your eyes, I feel in my heart, the start of something new."

"The start of something new," He sang, looking at her.

"The start of something new," She sang, and looked into his violet eyes

"The start of something new."

The crowd went wild. The girl looked at the homunculus nervously, "I'm Roxanne," she said, holding out her hand.

"I'm-erm-Envy," he said, taking her hand. Why was he so stupid? Why didn't he use a fake name?

"Um, do you want some coffee?"

"Yeah, sure anything to get away from this mob," Envy agreed. The duo made their way through the crowd, patting them on the back, and even a couple of wolf-whistles, but whatever. The palm-tree cheering faction had started again, but this time it didn't bother Envy.

They sat down at a table in the corner, sipping their coffee. Hers was French vanilla with cream and sugar, his was extra-bold black.

"So, how long have you been singing? You have an amazing voice!" Envy asked Roxanne.

"A couple years, but mostly just in the shower and at family gatherings and stuff," she sipped her coffee, "what about you? You're not too shabby yourself."

"Eh, my…family isn't really musically inclined." Except for Lust, he thought, she used to play a mean Beethoven on the piano at their house. He then thought of Gluttony, who had tried to eat the piano and was burping up keys all month. Apparently, he didn't digest ivory very well.

All of a sudden, the crowd was shouting, "Five…Four…Three…Two…ONE!!! Happy New Year!!"

"Oh, wow, it's midnight already? I need to find my ride in this mob," she gestured to the crowd still shouting and watching Colonel Pyro putting on a mini fireworks show and setting off the sprinkler above him.

"Wait," Envy said, touching her elbow as she stood up, "can I have your number?"

"Oh," she said, flustered, "yeah sure, here."

They traded phones and as he saved the contacts, he said, "You know, that's the most fun I've had in a while," but when he looked up, she was gone.

Later, back at the house where the homunculi were living, Lust looked up from the paperback she was reading. "You're home late," she said, "where were you?"

"Out," Envy said evasively.

"Whatever, just remember that tomorrow we start our plan to beat the State Alchemists once and for all."

"Yeah, sure, whatever."

"What got into you?"

"Nothing," he said, "Happy New Year." That night, as he lay in bed and thought about the day, he couldn't stop thinking about Roxanne. He'd probably never see her again, and that made him sad. He shook his head, he needed to focus. Tomorrow, they were going to infiltrate Central headquarters. And with that thought, he fell asleep.

Aww, Sweet Dreams, Envy!! I'll put up the next chapter soon!!!
~~Brigette Janine 3