Disclaimer: I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or Harry Potter.

(This is a replacement for my older crappier version of this fanfiction. It is set around halfway through the series.)

A short red coated, blonde-haired, teen was fighting a group of bandits in the middle of a desert with his metal arm. Then a huge suit of armor ran over and charged through the group.

The names of them are Edward Elric, and Alphonse Elric. They are two brothers who did an alchemic taboo, human transmutation.

Now one of them is an alchemist who works for the military. The other has only a soul and a suit of armor left for him.

Ed was left without his right arm and left leg.

Now they are in the desert lost and fighting bandits.

Ed claps his hands creating a long sword on his metal arm. A bandit runs forward only to be bested by a kick delivered by his auto-mail leg. Another comes from behind and is stabbed by the auto-mail sword.

Edward is one of two alchemists who are able to do alchemy without a transmutation circle. Transmutation circles are the secret to alchemy; Alphonse has to use these to perform alchemy. They are usually drawn by chalk, and on rare occasions blood. On the scruff of his armor's neck area there is a blood seal, it keeps his soul attached to his armor.

Alphonse connects a right hook into a bandit's face. He tosses another bandit from atop his horse. A bandit with a scimitar runs from behind and hits Alphonse's armor. A large metallic ring fills the air. Just as Ed claps his hands and touches the ground. A huge stone fist lodges into the bandit who attacked Alphonse.

All of the bandits lay flat on the ground unconscious.

"Ed, next time wait for them to start the fight!" Alphonse yelled at Edward.

"I swear one of them said I was short, conniving thieves," Ed mumbles, he claps his hand sheathing the auto-mail sword on his right arm, "Well, we could use their horses."

Just as he said it the horses ran off.

"DAMN HORSES GET BACK HERE AND FACE ME!" Ed yells with rage filled in his voice.

"They are just animals big brother," Alphonse said with a tone of embarrassment in his voice.

"Well let's find our way out!" Ed said pointing in a direction then pointing in another, "Which way did we come from?"

"That's why we shouldn't have made enemies of the bandits big brother," Alphonse said wisely.

"Damn," Ed muttered, "Well let's flip a coin! Heads we go that way tails we go the opposite way!"

"Let's just go forward," Al said looking at Ed as he tried to fish out a coin from his pocket.

"Okay Al, we'll go your way this time," Ed said as they set onward.

They walked for quite some time until Edward fell to the ground from exhaustion as Alphonse sank into the sand a few feet behind him, "Al how many times do I have to pull you out of the sand?"

"Just one more time big brother!" Al yelled at him.

Ed grabbed Al's arm and started pulling extremely hard. He pulled Alphonse from the sand but went tumbling down a hill. They both yelled as they rolled.

Ed flew off a hill into the air as Alphonse crashed through one. They both landed in front of a forest, Edward muttered, "What the hell?"

"It's a forest Ed," Alphonse said as he got up and emptied the sand in his armor.

"Beats the desert!" Ed exclaimed happily.

"But Ed, it's a forest this makes no sense!" Alphonse scolded Ed as he ran in.

They both ran in, Alphonse turned around revealing that there was no desert behind him, "Brother the deserts gone."

Ed paid no attention as he ran to a small pond, he immediately drank deeply from the pond.

"Ed you can get sick drinking water from a pond without cleansing it!" Alphonse scolded Ed again.

"Who cares I was dieing of dehydration there!" Ed said as he got up, "A guy needs to drink you know."

"I can't feel thirst like you can," Alphonse said.

They both paused for a bit before moving on. They walked for another four or five minutes before hearing loud noises from behind a bush, "Al, come on we'll catch it by surprise!"

Alphonse sighed and walked over to the bush with Ed. Ed jumped through the bush and hit the thing that made the loud noise in the head it replied, "Hey you little buffoon! I was just tracking a wild boar that stole some of my pumpkins!"

"DON'T CALL ME SO SHORT A MOUSE COULD STEP ON ME YOU GREAT BIG FOREST GIANT!" Ed yelled in reaction to the comment.

"I said none o' that!" the large bearded man he hit replied.

"Please forgive my brother he is kind of sensitive about his stature," Alphonse apologized, "My name is Alphonse Elric, he is Edward Elric."

"The name's Hagrid, what brings you two to the forbidden forest? You students?" Hagrid asked.

"We gave up on school a long time ago," Ed said, "A waste of time."

"So are you wizards?" asked Hagrid.

"No such thing as wizards," Ed replied nonchalantly.

"Then your muggles, I'm going to have to report you to the ministry!" Hagrid exclaimed with shock.

"Your government? We can't get arrested Al!" Ed started to run off and Al started following quickly.

"Ed what did we even do!" Al yelled as he followed Ed.

"I don't know all but that freaky forest giant is following us!" Ed yelled pointing back.

Hagrid was following a few yards behind them and gaining on them. He had an enraged look on his face as his beard hair kept flying up into his face.

"Al let's go up this tree!" Ed yelled he leaped up the tree but Al didn't follow Al ran in a different direction.

Hagrid looked up at Ed as he climbed quickly onto a very thick branch high on the tree. Hagrid started to climb up the tree as well, "Damn it Al where the hell did you go?"

Ed jumped from the tree with his left leg stuck out first and he kick Hagrid in the face and bounced off of him to another nearby tree. Then he slid down and transmuted a stone cage around Hagrid when he hit the floor.

Then Ed ran through the forest yelling for Al. He walked into a clearing, when he heard some rustling from the forest. Hagrid was back this time twigs and leaves were sticking out from his beard. Ed turned around; Hagrid saw that Ed was holding a steel cable. The cable was tied to a tree above. Ed ran forward and used alchemy to tie it around Hagrid quickly.

He transmuted the cable so it drew Hagrid up the tree; "I bested the giant, with just a few common minerals found underground."

A man with a long white beard walked out from a castle from far away he muttered some words and pointed a stick to his throat in a loud voice he yelled, "Edward, we have your brother in the castle just let Hagrid down and we will talk!"

Edward looked over to Hagrid and untied him, "I'll take my luck with gramps over here."

More will be revealed in chapter 2.