This story is dedicated to Daddy's Little Cannibal, she will be missed. This story is a tribute to her and her amazing writing skills. I was going to post this eventually, but I kept dragging my heels, and Daddy's Little Cannibal gave me a reason to finally do so.

Our story starts on a Friday afternoon, I was talking to my friend, who shall be known as Oryx from this point onwards, about how I shall become a werewolf and we would both live on clouds. Then, there was a flash like lightning in an autumn storm, and was lying on a cold floor.

I got up and looked around. I was in a palace made entirely out of ice. I ran to a wall and put my hand on it. It wasn't cold, but it was definitely ice. Yet it was not completely transparent, I could see a vague reflection in it; a halo of brown serving as my hair framing a pink blotch of a face with two blue points near the middle. I stood there pondering this…Then lost the Game! I whirled around, looking for Oryx so she could lose the Game too. But I couldn't see her anywhere.

I started to panic like a Peanut gone hyper on sugar; I was on the verge of running off into the cavernous castle in an attempt to find her, when I remembered what we were talking about just minutes ago, living in a castle on a cloud… I shot up and ran to a window. Looking out, I saw white fluffy cloud, spread out before me. With clear blue reigning above.

I started to plan everything I was going to do, throw parties, make shapes with clouds. But then, the thought hitting me like a rampaging FanGirl, I knew that I would have no fun at all without Oryx. When the subject of moving around came into our conversation we decided on teleporting, or Porting, as we called it. I imagined myself next to Oryx, I felt a slight tug. When I opened my eyes I was standing in an Ice Palace a few metres away from her.

"Tampo Kachi!" she yelled.

"Tampo Kachi!" I replied, looking around. "So you got a castle too then." She nodded. "I wonder if this means I'll become a Werewolf. Oh well, it'll happen if it happens. I'm gonna go back to mine and see what I can do with it!" I said cheerily. "Bye! See you soon!" I squealed like a chipmunk on crack, and Ported back to my castle.

When I got there the first thing I did was cover the floors with carpet and tiles. Better than ice, not as slippy, this was a good thing as I have a frequent habit of tripping over things that aren't there as well as a good deal of things that are. I climbed to the top of the second or third highest tower in the castle, decided to claim it as my own, and leant on the window sill, discovering as I did that I could see Oryx's castle. Oryx was looking out a window; I waved, as did she.

"How's it going Frog?" she called.

"All is well! I lost The Game!" I answered, finally making good on my wish, and thus fulfilling a life long goal.

"Same here!" I turned around to inspect my room. It was big, painted a deep blue, with a double bed, also a deep blue. There was a smaller bed off to the side under the window that I was kneeling on to see out. I jumped down, walked over to the armchair; also blue, sat down, and turned on the TV. Oryx was near the end of the news report.

"And in other news, tomorrows forecast is cloudy, with a chance of meatballs" she said in an official tone. I laughed happily and fell off the chair, and my cliff.

After climbing up my cliff I went over to my bookshelf to see if it had any info on the castles. I saw a book titled, 'What is going on, and what to do, if you find yourself in an Ice Castle in an alternate dimension that you can bend to your will.' smirking, I pulled it off the shelf and flicked through it.

"Ooh, I get it" I said quietly to myself, then Ported over to Oryx's Castle. On arrival I found her sitting in the most outrageously purple room I had ever seen. I walked up to where she was sitting in her purple chair reading her purple book with her dark brown hair falling over her face and said, "We are in our own universe and dimension" She looked up from her book, 'How to stalk the Nine Divines' and watched me for a moment with wide brown eyes and said,

"Awesome," I nodded.

"I'm going to go plan a moving in party now, I'll summon you when It's ready, 'K?" She nodded and started taking notes from her book. I ported back to my castle and started to decorate the big Party Hall I discovered. I decorated the hall with a combination of Blue, Purple, and Red paint, Llama posters, and other party supplies.

Once it was decorated and I had the food and music ready, I worked on the invitations. I sent them to, among others, Tortallian characters, Maximum Ride characters, Nightmare Before Christmas characters, The Avatar characters, and most of the FullMetal Alchemist characters. Once they arrived I Summoned Oryx to the castle and the partying began.

"Hey Frog!" Oryx said when she arrived, "Look what I just invented!" She showed me a purple IPod with no visible headphone port or speakers.

"Awesomeness, how does it work?" I asked while leading her into the Party Hall.

"Well" Oryx answered, "It just transmits directly into your brain. No ear killing sound. Not to mention that you now can't annoy everyone around you by playing terrible music really loud."

"Cool! Can I have one?"

"Sure! I made one for you; it has a personalized playlist I thought would suit too." She said, while handing me a black IPod.

"Thanks Oryx!" I said, before running around in circles and screaming hysterically like a FanGirl. Then I saw something that made me stop and go silent; FMA characters. "Oryx look!" I said pointing. "It's Ed and Al!" I grabbed an apple Pie and handed an Orange striped cat to Oryx, then dragged her behind me to where the Elrics were standing. Walking past the Rock Dwarf band, Avalanche, playing on their drums, bells, and harps. "Hi, I'm Frog and this is my friend Oryx." I said to Ed when we got to them, I turned to gesture to

Oryx but found her deep in conversation with Al.

"Nice to meet you," Ed said politely. Obviously deciding that he need not introduce himself and his brother to me as I was the hostess. "Cool party."

"Thanks," I said, "would you like some pie?" I offered the pie in my hand to

him. We shared the pie and struck up a conversation. We were discussing the finer points of pie baking when there was a sound like thunder mixed with breaking waves. FanGirls poured into the castle, tackling characters left and right. I raised my arms, in a Merlin like gesture, and a crack split the air, the FanGirls spontaneously combusted.

There was silence for a few seconds, then the band struck up again, and the party went back to something resembling normal. Those suffering from fan caused injuries were tended my Minions, who vanished after tending each wound.

Then I noticed that the Elrics had remained un-hugged, so, not wanting them to feel left out, I jumped on Al, as he was the most huggable of the pair. Oryx shook her head disapprovingly, then shrugged and joined me. I left Al to her and went to tell Ed that he is awesomely cool.

Oryx stoped hugging Al, heals him, and dragged him away to make small talk. I watched them go. Excusing myself, I left Ed for a moment to go and check that the party was going well, and pray to the Nine Divines that it stayed well. The party was a casual affair, eating some food, dancing a little. Everything looked good so I went back to Ed. I poked his Automail,

"You know this is the coolest thing ever, right?"

Meanwhile

"So I got this new oboe and I practised for two hours this-afternoon." Oryx was telling Al, who looked quite interested.

"Really? Me and Brother never learnt any musical instruments, is it fun?"

Back at the party

"—was one of the most terrifying nights of our lives! Al almost dying in not cool! His being stuck in that armour is not cool!" Ed yelled at me, Oryx appeared and banished Ed to an Anti-magic and Alchemy cage.

"Thank you Oryx." I said, and then went to talk to Jack Skellington while Ed calmed down. After a half-hour discussion with Jack about Halloween decorations for the castle, during which Oryx vanished back to her conversation with Al, I let Ed out of his cage, which also vanished.

"I still say your Automail is the coolest thing in the world.

Meanwhile At the rest of the party

Winry is being questioned by The Doctor from The Nightmare Before Christmas about Automail techniques, Mustang is dancing with Riza, and the other officers are talking and eating. The Tortallian characters, the ones from only the Alanna, Immortals, and Beka Cooper books, are enjoying the party also. Numair is chatting to Daine and Alanna, George is conversing with Jonathan while the wolves sleep in a corner.

Those from the Maximum ride 'verse are getting into celebrating. Max and Fang are dancing, Gazzy is setting off fireworks, and Nudge and Angel are admiring the mini Ice Palace in the middle of the food table. Iroh is drinking tea at the tea table, Azula and co. are sitting in a gloomy corner with Ozai, Aang is dancing an old Fire Nation dance with Katara, Zuko is testing to see if the walls of the Palace melt like ice. Toph is trying to teach Iggy to feel the vibrations in the ground.

With Al and Oryx

"'A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.' - Herm Albright." Oryx said Al smiled at her.

"'Even in the darkest of suffering, a man can sleep. But for the person that inflicts the suffering, his mind cannot rest, Ever.'" They continued to throw random quotes at each other. Until…

"Al do you ever wish you were out of that armour?" Oryx asked.

"Sometimes, it's hard, not having a real body." He cut himself off. Oryx nodded and clapped her hands; black smoke rose up in a circle around Al. When it cleared the armour was lying on the floor. Where it had been sitting was, as Oryx puts it, Perfection personified. Long blonde hair pulled back with a small black tie at the base of his hair. Al turned to look at her with large shining hazel eyes.

PARTY!

"I feel a disturbance in the force! Yatte Kimasu!" I yelled and ran off to where Al and Oryx were now swapping stories about animals. "What did you do!" I screamed when I saw Al in his human body. "The canon!" I fell to the floor and had a small hysterical fit.

"Calm down Frog." Oryx said calmly.

"NO!" I screamed, whacking the floor with my head.

"I can only do it 'cause this is our dimension universe thing. I don't think it's permanent." She looked sadly at Al, "Can't you give him this? You know better than I do what this means to him, and Ed." Oryx hasn't seen all the anime and I myself haven't seen the movie. I look up so see Al petting the cat that Oryx brought when she met him.

"Ok then, what about Ed's Automail? Can we fix that too?" Al gasped, I looked over at him. "What?"

"Brother doesn't know I've got my body back! We have to go tell him!" He grabbed mine and Oryx's hands and dragged us downstairs. "Nii-san! I'm back! I have a body again!" he raced into the Hall and Ed looked up in shock from his game of cards and tea with Iroh. When he saw Al his eyes got really big, he got up and ran up to where Al was standing in the doorway and tackled him in a hug.

"What happened?" He demanded, looking at us.

"Well this is our dimension" I explained, "so we control and can change whatever is in it. So we could fix you too, if you wanted us too." He looked shocked for a second, and then shook his head slowly.

"Brother! What are you doing?" Al shouted.

"I want to do it myself, it's my burden. The only thing I wanted to do was get your body back Al. Now that I have I can retire from the military" he walked over to where Mustang was standing at the punch bowl and said something to him, Mustang looked shocked. Ed pulled his watch out of his pocket and tried to give it to Mustang but he wouldn't take it. We crept up behind them to hear what they saying.

"Keep it, a parting gift." Mustang said, and walked off. Ed turned around.

"But Brother" Al said, "You can't get into the State library unless you're a State Alchemist"

"I don't need the library anymore; we can go back to our lives now"

"Um, I'm not so sure about that," I said, they all turned to face me.

"Well this is our dimension right?" They nodded, "So we make the laws, but your home," I pointed to Ed and Al, "is in a dimension where this couldn't happen logically."

"So what you're saying is that Al having his body should only last while he's in this dimension?" Ed said to me, I nodded.

"What can we do about it?" I asked Ed, Al and Oryx had wandered over to the dance floor.

"No idea" I had an idea.

"Stay here" I ran up the stairs and into the room I had found Al and Oryx in, I grabbed the armour and dragged it back to the Party Hall.

"Maybe this has something to do with it" I said, handing the armour to Ed.

"It's likely, let's check the blood seal." we pulled the helmet off the armour and saw it, the seal, blood red.

During the previous events the other guests at the party have gone home vanishing back to their own dimensions as they stepped out the door.

Seeing the blood seal was a shock, "But his soul's in a body now," Ed said, "It should have vanished." I pulled a knife out of my pocket,

"Al's soul is definitely in his body now, at least most of it is." I cut through the armour around the seal, pulling it out and giving it to Ed. "You should be able to find a way to help him. You are the youngest State Alchemist ever. You can use my library." He smiled.

"Thanks."

And so it began.

"Well," I said, clapping my hands, "now that we have that sorted out, who wants to help me clean up?" Oryx and Al were fast asleep in a corner and Ed was moving the Armour into a cupboard in the front Hall. I walked up to Ed,

"Poke" I poked him, he span around.

"What'd you do that for?" he asked.

"You, Shorty, have just been chosen to help me clean up!" I said, as if giving out a prize. I noticed Ed glaring at me, about to explode. "What?"

"Who are you calling so small that an ant needs a microscope to see him!" Ed yelled while chasing me around the Party Hall. His yelling woke Al up. He noticed then how they had fallen asleep, hands entwined, and blushed, I laughed and stopped running, Ed ran into me.

"Come on Edo, cleaning time" I grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him over to a wall. "Take off the paint and other decorations on all the walls I'll deal with the food." I started to wipe up drink spills and collect dropped food, while Ed was getting rid of the paint and decorations using Alchemy. Al shifted slightly and woke Oryx up; she smiled sleepily up at him. I laughed, and fell of my cliff. Ed did his awesome alchemy thing and saved me. I climbed up the cliff and he pulled me over the top.

"You okay?" he asked.

"Yep, that happens sometimes, something usually saves me before then though." I smiled.

In The Corner

(The happy shiny corner of magic!)

"They should get together" Oryx whispered to Al conspiratorially.

"She might be good for Brother." Al replied, they both watched Frog hit Ed in the back with a folding chair for making a comment about her decorations. "Or not." They both said together.

Back to The Hall

(Of Oranges!)

"You're just jealous that you're shorter than someone who's two years younger than you, and a girl too!" I laughed. Ed turned red.

"Am not! And you're only 9 centimetres taller!" He shouted.

"But I'm still taller!" I yelled back, he threw a piece of cake at me. I responded with an entire turkey. It hit him on the head and knocked him out. I laughed so hard that I let go of the ladder I was using to scrape cheese off the ceiling and fell off of it, and off my cliff, and into a river at the bottom, laughing all the way.

Once again The Corner

(Of Awesomeness! And glitter!)

"They should so get together, don't you think?" Oryx said, looking up at Al from her position next to him.

"I think we should get together." Muttered Al, pulling her into a hug. Oryx giggled and dragged Al off to her castle and room.

Back in The Hal-Hey, who are you what're you doin-

AWESOMENESS! CHEESE!

I pulled myself up the cliff again and ran over to where Ed was now sleeping. I sighed, knelt down, and poked him just below his ear; his right arm came up and hit me in the jaw. I blacked out.

That was the first chapter of CCC! I hope you enjoyed it. Reviews welcome, Flames will be laughed at, mocked, and then used to heat my poor cold friends. I suppose you could call us Mary-sues. You can call me a confused giant mutant ninja ten pound turkey in a top hat, (moo) and it wouldn't make much of a difference, but I did warn you.

Next time on CCC: More stuff happens.