Ladies and Gentlemen, I present a character to annoy and to be partnered with the Fullmetal Alchemist and his brother Alphonse. This is going to be before the death of Lieutenant Colonel Hughes. So, have fun and R&R…please?

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Fullmetal Alchemist, and other characters and the story. BUT, I do own the Paper Alchemist, Kumakichi Kentaro.

Begin Chapter 1

"This is total crap," he said resting his head on his auto-mail arm. "Al, why does Mustang want us backing Central anyway?"

"I don't know big brother, but he did say it was important," responded a large suit of armor.

"Well, it better be. After all, we're getting closer to finding it." The train slammed to a stop, causing the big brother to fall onto Al. "Agh! What the hell is going on, dammit!"

"Just shut up, and stay down. Nobody will get hurt that way." The man was an ex-military soldier and looked to be strong because of his rippling muscles he was proud of showing. The young man got up off of Al and brushed himself off. "Hey!" yelled the muscular man. "I said stay down, shrimp!"

"Shrimp! Who are you calling a pint-sized little snot nosed midget pipsqueak?" he jumped up in a fury.

"Uh, Ed, he didn't say that," Al said waving his hands in an innocent manner.

"I said stay down!" the muscular man said as he slung his heavy arm straight down for Ed. Unfortunately for the muscled man, he missed and ended up with Ed's shoe in his face.

"Whoa," said one of the men with a gun in his hand, "he knocked Captain Blake Everard out."

"Who knew that midget could do that," said another henchman.

"I'm not a midget, a pipsqueak, a shrimp, gnome, troll, or undersized brat!"

"But big brother…" It was useless. Once Ed was insulted about his height, he never let it down.

When they got to Central a tall muscular man, two shorter officers, and a young man were there to greet them. One of the shorter officers was a young lady with blonde hair and a no-nonsense aura. The other was a smug officer with a transmutation circle on the back of his glove. The young man was an older teenager with a bored look on him. They waited and jumped back from the collapsing bodies that almost landed on them.

"Looks like you had an interesting ride Fullmetal," said one of the shorter officers with an arrogant smile on his face.

"Hello Alphonse, Edward," greeted the young lady with a bow.

"Hello Lieutenant Hawkeye," Al replied.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Ed said waving his hand in dismissal.

"Edward Elric!" said the larger officer with pink diamonds around his head. "You have returned to Central at last!" he practically picked up Ed and squeezed him so tightly that, if Hawkeye didn't stop him soon, would have his brains on the floor.

"Armstrong if your not careful, you'll end up killing Edward," said Hawkeye.

"I'm just so happy that the Elric brothers are back in Central again," he added with a tear.

"Fullmetal Alchemist," said the young man who was waiting in the back.

"Hey Mustang, who is this guy?" Ed asked as he walked closer to the young man in question. He was taller, and had a worn look on his face. He had long brown hair and a dangling earring in his left ear. He wore a T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans and a necklace with a transmutation circle on it.

"Ed, this is Kumakichi Kentaro. He is going to be your new partner," Mustang said.

"What!" both of the boys said in unison.

"Why did you pick me to be with this lawn gnome?" Kumakichi said.

"Lawn gnome?" Ed replied angrily. "Don't call me shorty, gnome, imp, or a midget!"

"And why the hell not you pint-sized brat?"

"That's it!" Ed shouted. Al grabbed a hold of him to keep him from attacking Kumakichi. "Let go of me Al, let me at him!"

"Jeez, you're such a feisty little short stop aren't you?"

"That's enough you two!" Hawkeye interrupted.

"I don't want you to be arguing and end up dead because of your feud," added Mustang.

"Well," Ed said, calming down. "Is he a dog of the military like me?"

"Watch," Mustang turned to him. "Show him, Paper Alchemist."

"Paper?" asked Ed. Kumakichi pulled out a couple of sheets of paper from his back pocket and touched the transmutation circle around his neck. It glowed and he flicked the paper in his hand and tossed it at the train. Suspended in air, the paper turned into knives, although they were made of paper instead of metal. He smiled and he moved his hand towards Al, and the knives followed suit. He moved his hand up, then down. The paper knives did the same. He tilted his head and moved his hand swiftly towards the ground next to Captain Everard and the other two men. The knives stuck into the ground about a half an inch around the captives. Captain Everard turned whiter than the paper next to his nose.

"How is that Fullmetal?" Kumakichi asked. Ed looked at the ground and then back at Kumakichi. "Well?" he egged on.

"Heh," Ed replied. "Very impressive, but now they're stuck in the ground."

"No," he withdrew the knives and held them at Ed's throat. "They aren't."

"Oh yeah?" Ed clapped his hands and raked the left on the back of the right and sliced the knives with the sword-like arm he created. "What now Kumakichi?"

"This," he said as he raised his hand and made the shards into more, tinier knives. "As long as it's there, I can use it."

"Dammit." He knew Kumakichi was right.

"Both of you, stop it now! That's an order!" Mustang yelled.

"Yes, sir," Kumakichi made the paper shards into several sheets and pocketed them. Ed then transmuted his arm back to the auto-mail it was. He moved to attention when his arm creaked badly. "You ok, Ed?" asked Kumakichi.

"I don't know." He moved his arm and it creaked and moved slightly. "I may need to go back to Winry."

"Winry?"

"My auto-mail mechanic. She and her granny fixes me up and gave me my auto-mail."

"Good," Mustang interrupted. "Kumakichi, I want to go to Risembool to have his arm fixed."

"Yes sir," he said rolling his eyes. Ed, Al, and Kumakichi got on the train back to Risembool and started on the journey that may be longer then the both wanted.

When they arrived at Risembool, they went down the road to the Rockbell household to stumble on an old lady in the middle of the street. She fell onto the road and Kumakichi leaned over to help.

"Why thank you young man. I have never had such kindness from people lately," she thanked him.

"Don't worry about it. Hey Ed, how long till we get to the Rockbell's?"

"It's the house up ahead." Al said.

"Ok, where are you going ma'am?" he asked the old lady.

"I'm going to the Rockbell house myself. My leg has been shortened in an accident in the next town."

"Well, I'll help you there, ma'am."

"Well, if it isn't Kumakichi, the punk from Central." Kumakichi looked up to see whom it was. It was Captain Everard, from the train.

"What the hell? You were in Central, how the hell did you get here?" Ed asked half-dazed.

"Huh? Oh, you're talking about my brother Blake. I'm First Lieutenant Mike Everard, his little brother. He got his one phone call and told me to kick your asses," he finished, cracking his knuckles.

"Ed, hold this lady for a second. I've got this," Kumakichi said.

"Ok, no skin off my back," replied Ed. Kumakichi pulled out the paper and touched his necklace. He tossed the paper and it became a set of handcuffs that latched onto the Lieutenant's wrists.

"What the-?" he felt another set catching his feet. He went to break them and he couldn't. "Agh! What the hell is this?"

"Paper. Why, can't a strong man like you break paper?" The Lieutenant tried and tried but he couldn't break them. He fell to the floor and tried some more. He gave up and tried to get Kumakichi.

"Animum tuum terreo," said the old lady. The lieutenant looked at the lady and started to scream in terror.

"She's the devil! Get her away from me!" he begged. Kumakichi and Ed looked at each other and then at the lady. Who was this old hag?

End Chapter 1

Ok, who is she? Find out in chapter two. The Latin, means "I scare your spirit." So that's why he reacted the way he did…yeah anyway. Please read and review.