"Hey Kuraihono, come here."

"What Howaitoaisu." I grumbled.

"Hey I got something here I want you to try out."

"What is it? "

"It's called a transmutation circle, it will make a homunculus."

"Why?

"Because it's cool."

"Fine I'll help you out."

We put our hands on the circle. Suddenly electricity arced on top. Then something went wrong.

Black mist rose from the edges. Then an eye opened in the middle. Little hands grabbed me but not Howaitoaisu. He had backed away. I was pulled into the eye.

"Hello."

I was surrounded by light. There was a person, pure white but with a fuzzy black outline. "Where am I? Who are you?"

"I am the truth. You are at the Gate Of Truth. You will be sent to another world inhabited by

alchemists. I will give you the truth for your speech, your lamia half, and most of your age."

"What? No! "

"Too late." The Truth said with a chuckle.

I was pulled into the gate behind him. I saw things that he couldn't describe. I fell

onto cold floor.

"No brother!" I heard yelling

"He's my little brother give him back!" I saw flashing lights and blacked

out.

"He came through the gate."

"Poor little guy."

"Did we make him?"

"No we made that monster in there. We didn't make him."

I heard voices talking. I wondered who they were talking about. I groaned as he sat

up. They noticed this.

The short old lady said, "Oh he's up. I'll go get him some soup."

The little blond guy next to him said, "Hey how are you doing?" I just shrugged. I tried

to say something but nothing came out. I saw some paper on the table beside him and pointed at it. The man in the armor gave it to him along with a pen. I wrote on it. I turned it around with wide eyes. It said WHY CAN'T I TALK ANYMORE?

"He lost his voice in the gate nii-san." The man in the armor said in a voice like a small child, and

how is that little kid his big brother.

"So you saw the truth too?"

YES

"How are you feeling?"

LIKE CRAP. I LOVED TALKING

"Why did you do human transmutation?"

AN EXPERIMENT IN MY WORLD WE AREN'T VERY GOOD AT ALCHEMY, YOU?

"Our mom. We wanted our mom back."

MY MOM DIED WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE. SHE WAS MURDERED ALONG WITH MY FATHER

"Our age? But you are our age."

MY VOICE WASN'T THE ONLY THING THAT WAS TAKEN FROM ME. MOST OF MY AGE WAS TAKEN AWAY TOO

a few days later

"Be quite Den don't bark at our guests."

Roy Mustang burst through the door. He rushed over to Ed and picked him by his shirt. "What did

you do? What did you create?" He yelled. Kuraihono rushed over from the dark corner and punched him in the gut.

Mustang turned but Kuraihono had already jumped back by the end table.

WHO ARE YOU WHAT DO YOU WANT

"How did you lose your voice?" Mustang asked

INTERESTING NAME

"Haha I am Roy Mustang the flame alchemist. I heard there were genius alchemists here.

WELL HERE WE ARE I'M NOT REALLY A GENIUS BUT THEY ARE

"I've come to tell them that they could become a state alchemist. That is all goodbye. Hawkeye

we're leaving."

Later that year

"Al, Kury, let's go we will be late."

"•Stop calling me that.•"

"Before I could just look away but now that you have telepathy you're much more annoying."

"•I still have my pad and pencil for talking to normal people.•"

"Hey do it again." Al asked

"•You are really fascinated with my alchemy aren't you.•" I clapped his hands together

electricity arced to a spot in the air. A steel sword formed in that spot in the air. It clattered to the ground. I hunched over, panting.

"Yes it's all very impressive," Ed said," but we are going to be late for Central."

They got on the train for Central. While they were on the train I went to sleep. When I

woke up there was a person yelling at him. I rubbed my eyes as I sat up.

"PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!"

I clapped my hands and my seat created a spike that stabbed the terrorist in the legs. The

other terrorists that were at the end of the car ran at him. I clapped my hands and got two small knives out of the air. I rushed at them and I slit their throats. Before they fell I was already in the next car.

When I got off the train mustang was waiting for them. I threw the broken bloody of Bald at his feet.

"Impressive, you will be staying at Shou Tucker's house. You will be able to

learn lots from his notes. He is a state alchemist." Roy said.

"Okay just lead the way." Ed said.

They were led to a very big house. My eyes widened. They walked

past the gate and Ed was tackled by a giant dog. I immediately ran over and scratched him behind his ears.

"Just get this this thing off of me." Ed said.

"•Nah•"

Tucker welcomed us in. His house was a mess. We didn't care. We just

went to study. We took a few breaks and played with Nina and Alexander, the big dog. Then came the day for the test. The written test was the worst. My hand hurt and my brain felt like mush. The interview was pretty easy. I just used my pad of paper and a pencil. Then came the test where we show what we can do. They were all amazed at Ed. I hope that I don't give them a heart attack. When I clapped my hands and a stone statue of the fuhrer was made out of the air. Some passed out but I was not informed of any heart attacks. After everything was finished I was pulled away by a guy who asked if he could show me something cool.

SURE

"Well, recently our team has made extreme advances in chimeras," he

pulled out a syringe and stabbed it in my neck. "and we would like you to help." he said as he injected a sedative into me. He caught me as I fell.

When I woke up, my back felt cramped. I heard people calling my name.

I slunk into the shadows as I was in an alley.

"Hey let's go check down this alley Al!" wait, Al?

I heard armor clanking down the alley. Ed and Al walked into the alley and

saw me.

"Kuraihono!"

They ran up and hugged me. Al looked at my head.

"Kuraihono, what are those?" he asked.

He was pointing at the top of my head. I put my hands up on top of my head

and felt fuzzy ears. I felt my butt and pulled out a furry tail.

Al let out a squeal. "You're a cat now!"

"•No, sorry. I think I'm a wolf•"

"Awwww."

I patted him on the back consolingly. Edward handed me papers.

"•What are these?•" I asked

"These are the papers showing that you are a state alchemist."

I read the papers, "•Was this even remotely funny before I got turned into a

chimera?•"

"Nope." Ed said with a smile.

"•So I am now the Lone Wolf Alchemist?•" I said shivering,"•Can we get inside

it's cold outside?•"

"No, it isn't. It's a little hot." Ed said. He was obviously confused.

I felt sleepy. My legs felt weak and I collapsed. Ed caught me and put his

flesh hand to my forehead.

"Al! We need to get him to the Hughes' house, quick! He's burning up!" he

handed me to Al. I closed my eyes and fell asleep. When I woke up, I was laying down on the couch in the Hughes' living room. Someone was rubbing my ears.

I opened my eyes with a groan. I looked around and saw a big pan and

Elicia was rubbing my ears. "Look cat-man's awake!"

"I told you, he's a wolf-person not a cat man." Al said rushing in.

I couldn't move. I felt so weak and my mouth was dry. "•Fever?•" I asked.

"Yeah, you have a high fever. How do you feel?"

"•Terrible, but weirdly her rubbing my ears feels good.•".

"I'm going to go get you some water." He brought some water in and I took a

sip. "Why couldn't you drink more?"

"•Well, we don't want me to throw up...•" I said right before I leaned over and

retched into the pan. I laid back down and tried to fall back to sleep.

"Wolfie?" asked Elicia, "Are you going to eat me up?" I smiled.

The following day was painful. I drifted in and out of consciousness. When I

woke the next day, I felt tired, but I didn't seem to have a fever anymore. I rested a few days before I started to get up. I sparred a little before I was ready to go to work.

"•Hey.•"

"Yes Kuraihono?" Edward asked.

"•I think the fever was caused by the transmutation.•"

"I've been thinking that too. What other side effects would there be?"

We arrived at Mustang's office soon. He was sitting at his desk working on

paperwork. I was wearing a hood with my ears down to hide them and my tail was shoved in my pants. It was uncomfortable, but I should get used to it eventually.

"Hello beansprout, armor, mute."

"You callin' me short you little…" Ed said before Al cut him off

"Whatever," Alphonce said, "You said you had a mission for us."

"Yes, down in the south there have been kidnappings and then the people

have turned up either dead or shaken. All chimeras." We all looked at each other.

"Okay."

We went on an boringly uneventful train ride. When we got to the first place

we were going to we asked around in the small village for one of the living chimeras.

"You want that freak?"

"He's a monster stay away from him."

They were all hostile and really didn't like him. We eventually got the

location out of one of the villagers. We didn't torture him, but we did threaten to. When we got to his house I knocked on the door. A woman opened it up and glared at us

"What do you want?" she asked us.

"Can we see Ouroboro?" Al asked.

"I won't let you touch my son." she said spreading her arms in the doorway.

"We aren't here to hurt him, we just want to talk." said Ed sounding annoyed.

"That's what they all say."

"Kury." Ed glared at me. I glared at him but lowered my hood. She gasped

when she saw my ears. She hurried us inside.

"Ouroboro, there is someone here for you." she called.

"I know I smelt them coming in." he yelled back.

I sniffed the air. "•There's a snake upstairs.•"

Ed looked scared. "A snake?"

Ouroboro slithered down the stairs. From the waist below he had a snake

tail. It was pure black. Halfway down the stairs he slipped and fell. I went over to help him up.

"Sorry, haven't gotten used to the new mode of transportation." he said as I

helped him up. "So why do you want me?"

"•We want know what happened.•"

"Woah, what was that?"

"•I'm mute but I developed telepathy.•"

"Weird, well, I was shopping and when I exited the store a man said he

wanted to talk to me. He punched me in the head when I got to close. When I woke up I was lying down on a transmutation circle. There was a snake coiled around my legs. When I tried to get up I found out that I was chained to the ground. The transmutation circle was activated and I felt my legs fuse together. I felt my new tail elongate until it was as long as it is now. I passed out from the pain. When I woke up in an alley I called out to a person that was walking by. He yelled 'Monster!' and scrambled away from me. A few people noticed and backed away too. A crowd formed quickly. Most were yelling 'Monster!' but a few came into the alley and beat me. Eventually my mom found out and helped me. Here I am."

"Do you know where he took you?" Ed asked.

"I think I do, follow me. Stay here dude in the armor, the only way to get in is a tunnel and

you are to big."

"Okay." Al said sadly.

He led us to a big warehouse. When we walked up to the door he pushed us

in and locked the door. I heard Ouroboro yelling outside.

"I brought them here, now change me back!"

"Okay," the man said over the loudspeaker, "Just slither a bit to the left."

"Okay." a few seconds later we heard some gunshots and heard Ouroboro

screaming in pain.

Gas spread through the room. Ed passed out first, but me being a chimera, I

was able to hold on to consciousness a bit longer. But I eventually succumbed to the gas.

"...hono Kuraihono!" I woke up suddenly. I was chained to a wall and behind

me was a giant transmutation circle and Ed chained next to man who kidnapped me was yelling at me. "Ah good, you are awake. I want you to be awake for this. I will fuse Kuraihono with a cicada and you, Ed, with a king cobra. It will be interesting to see what comes out. Especially you Kuraihono. A double chimera. I think my employer will be interested in the end result.

"What? Your employer? What do you mean?" Ed asked.

"You'll see. If you survive."

He brought in a bucket of cicadas. I don't understand why he needed a

bucket of them, but whatever. He shoved my feet in it and it felt really weird. He brought in a sleeping king cobra and draped it around Ed's shoulders. Ed tried to shake it off but realized that was a really bad idea and stopped. The transmutation crackled and I felt the cicadas fuse with my body and my back hurt. I looked at Ed and he was writhing in pain.

"This hurts more than the automail you little…" Ed was saying.

"Now now," the man said punching Ed in the mouth,"No talking."

When it was all over I looked at my legs but they were unchanged. My wings

buzzed nervously. I'm not even surprised I have wings now. I looked at Ed. He had patches of snake scales on them and when he moaned in pain I saw fangs in his mouth.

"You seemed to have survived, I shall bring you to my employer." he took off

our chains and caught us. He dragged us to an office. On the way I barfed on his shoes. I don't think he was happy about that. When I looked up at his employer I barfed again. I had looked in the eyepatched face of the fuhrer.

"Fuhrer Bradley? What are you doing here?" Edward asked him.

"I am overseeing the advance of alchemy." he replied smiling.

"You monster!" Ed said standing and tried to punch him, but he collapsed.

"You're the monster now." said Bradley kicking him.

My wings spread out and hit the man holding me. I finally got a good look at

them. They looked like cicada wings. That was really it. But I burned through my adrenaline too fast. I collapsed on the floor next to Ed. I started coughing up blood. That's never good.

"It seems that the wolf-cicada chimera has negatively reacted extremely to the

transmutation." the man, who must me an alchemist, said.

"Dispose of him." Bradley said. I was thrown down a shute. I came out into a

trash can. I scared a woman who then looked into the can.

"Are you okay?" she asked. I responded by throwing up in the can.

"Oh my gosh! There's blood in there! I need to get you to the hospital." she

hoisted me out of the can. She felt my wings. "I will have to be careful about those." she shifted her hands on my back. I coughed blood on her. She just ran faster. There was pain all over my body. Every muscle and bone ached. There was a piercing pain in my gut. When we got to the hospital the doctors were surprised by my wings, wolf tail, and wolf ears, but when the girl told them my symptoms they rushed me to the ER. They put a gas mask on my face and I didn't fight this time and quickly fell asleep.

When I woke up, I seem to be doing that a lot lately haven't I, I felt a lot better. There was a nurse standing there.

"Oh, you're awake." she said. I feigned writing on my hand. "Oh, they

noticed that your vocal cords were messed up during the surgery and they fixed them. Try talking"

"Airahayedsftgher." I tried to say "hey" but it didn't work.

"There is a person here to see you, would you like him to come in?" she

asked.

"Yecgjiyfgbj." I gave up and just nodded.

Al came in running and hugged me. I was crushed and my pain intensified. "•Ow, dude I just woke up from surgery.•"

"Oh, sorry. What happened?" he asked. I told him the story. I showed him

my new wings. "Woah. I'm just glad you are okay."

"•That's debatable right now. I got my voice back though."

"Really! That's amazing!

•Yeah but it doesn't work well I'll have to practice.• Hdnsydgfjfi •See?•"

"I'll leave you now someone else wants to see you." he said leaving the room.

A woman walked in. "Hello." I was confused. I haven't seen her before. "I'm

not surprised you don't recognize me. You were delirious and really sick when I met you. I was the woman who saved you from that trash bin."

"•That was you? Thank you thank you thank you.•"

"Interesting, telepathy. Well, I was just helping a fellow chimera." she replied

smiling.

"•Fellow?•" I asked.

"I shouldn't have said that." she said.

"•I will, ignore that now. What's your name?"

"My name is Uschi. It means little she bear."

"•So you're a bear chimera?" I asked.

"Yeah that alchemist is a little jerk."

"•Yeah I got really sick after both transmutations.•"

She looked confused, "I didn't get sick."

"•Oh, it must be… no I can't talk about that to you.•"

"No you can talk to me about it. It's okay." she said comfortingly.

"•No, I haven't even talked to my adoptive brothers about it.•"

"Well you should talk to them about it."

"•It's complicated.•"

"It couldn't be too complicated."

"•Well...•"

"Ill leave you here and let your brother in." she said leaving the room.

"She said you wanted to tell me something." Al said walking in.

"•Fine, even before I was turned into a chimera I wasn't fully human. I

haven't tried this in a while so It might not be as good as before.•" I held out my hand and concentrated. A tiny spark of blue appeared on my fingertips and I immediately found myself sitting at the Gate. "•What am I doing here Truth?•"

"You can't do that anymore Kuraihono, you know that." he said in his usual

smile. I had thought that but now knew it was true.

"•What will you take this time Truth?•"

"What would make you say that?"

"•Isn't that your job?•"

"I will ignore that last comment and take your bone marrow, but, I will fully give your voice back. Those surgeons didn't do a good job."

"•I need that!•"

"Then you should have thought before you tried to use your old power."

"•Just get this over with.•"

"Gladly. Say hi to the Elric brothers for me."

I felt something come out of me. The Truth's appearance didn't change. I

woke up in my hospital bed with Al shaking me and the nurse trying to pull him off.

"Ow!""

"Oh! Sorry." He said. "What happened? How did you get your voice right?"

"Just had a chat with an old friend, Truth says hi."

"Truth? What did he take?"

"He took my bone marrow. I will most likely die in a week. I've been through so much, it doesn't bother me anymore. I'm sorry, but I can't keep going."

"No! You, you can't!"

"I have to. I just, I want to take the monsters who did this to me down."

"I can help with that." Uschi said walking in.

"Uschi?"

"They left you for dead, but after your first transmutation, I snuck you out. I left you in an alley near where the Elric brothers were searching for you."

"Why did you get me out?"

"After my transmutation, they tested me. I found out the Fuhrer was behind all of it. I broke out and wanted to recruit more chimeras to kill the Fuhrer." My wolf ears twitched. I looked around them and saw the nurse on the phone. The others couldn't hear her but I did.

"Fuhrer, the wolf-cicada chimera survived. Him and two others…" She trailed off when I threw a knife that I made with my bed into her heart.

"Run!" I yelled. Uschi turned into a bear person. She punched the window and it broke. her and Al both jumped out as Al picked me up. Luckily, we were only on the first floor, so there was less than a foot fall. We, well they, ran and the bouncing up and down gave me stabs of pain, so I gave in to sleep.

I woke up in a warehouse. Al was on guard and Uschi was sleeping in a corner. "I really need to stop falling unconscious don't I Al?" Al started and Uschi turned over in her sleep.

"Oh, it's just you." He said. "The fuhrer will be giving a speech tomorrow."

"Then he shall die tomorrow."

We made preparations. The next day we went out and mingled in the crowd. I propped myself up on a wall. I tired easily. Fuhrer Bradley walked up to the stage and the crowd went silent.

"Everyone! We have made a breakthrough in chimeran sciences and have made a successful human chimera. We have made some in the past, but they have escaped. This man here ," he gestured to the side. There was a man I'm a hood that I had not seen before, "is a successful snake human chimera."

The crowd gasped as he pulled off the man's hood. Standing there was, with snake fangs and scales, was the fullmetal alchemist. My adopted brother.