"Ed's been in that hotel room a long time," Winry muttered to Al, staring at the hotel room Edward Elric had locked himself in. "Do you know what he's doing in there?"

"No," Al replied. "I've tried asking to let me in, but he just says to go away until he's finished."

Winry sighed. "This is just like Ed. You don't know any way to get that door open?"

"Not that wouldn't alert him," Al answered. He looked around and finished, "And wouldn't cost repairs."

"Repairs?"

"I've contemplated telling Major Armstrong about this just so he'll get through the door."

"But you're afraid he'll break it."

"Yea."

As the duo contemplated about how to get Ed to allow them into the room, they heard a crashing sound coming from it. "Ed!" Al and Winry screamed. They ran over to the door and forced it open, ignoring the fact that they'd have to pay for repairs later.

"What?" Winry asked, staring at the room. Every light except for a candle sitting on a desk was turned off. Ed was sleeping next to that candle. "What made that crashing sound?"

Al bent down by the desk and picked up a shattered piece of glass. "He must've gotten tired and knocked this over."

"What're all these pictures?" Winry muttered, taking one of the pictures off of the wall. She looked at the little white mushroom with a red cap, trying to figure out what it is."

"Here's another one," Al stated, pulling a picture of a giant purple armor off. The only thing that both of them had in common was a black heart that had a red X in the middle.

Winry pulled a picture of the symbol itself off the wall. "Did Ed draw all these?" she asked, looking at it.

As they contemplated what exactly happened and if these drawings were Ed's, Ed was having a dream that was stranger than fiction…

"AW MAN!" he shouted, looking around. He was in the middle of a courtyard of what appeared to be a very nice palace. "How is it every time I go to sleep lately, I end up here?"

A black shadow appeared in front of him, and started twitching sporadically. Ed looked at it, remembering it from one of the drawings he'd done to try and get to the bottom of these dreams, and sighed. He clapped his hands together and charged on the thing, just as it launched itself at him. The crack of lightning that appeared was fierce, and the black shadow disappeared.

"At least my alchemy still works," Ed muttered.

A voice from inside the castle looked outside. "Who's there?" the voice called.

Ed watched in amazement as a black mouse walked into the courtyard. She was wearing a pink dress and had a crown sitting on her head. Every thought that went through his head had one similar thought: There was no way this mouse was walking on two legs.

"Oh, you must be lost," she said warmly. "I'm Queen Minnie. Who might you be?"

"Edward Elric," Ed replied. He was trying to figure out what was going on when a thought suddenly reached him: He was taller than this mouse. Ed felt a flicker of satisfaction at this fact, and continued, "I'm also known as the Fullmetal Alchemist."

"You're from Amestris?" Queen Minnie asked.

Ed nodded, stunned that Queen Minnie knew about it.

Queen Minnie sighed and said, "Then you're a very long way from home. Come, I'm expecting visitors any moment now. They'll want to talk to you."

Ed followed Queen Minnie into the castle; just to have more of those strange creatures appear. It was more than the black shadows, though. There were armored things slightly larger, and little bells above them. Queen Minnie squeaked, and told Ed, "Keep them at bay while I put a spell on the throne room's door!"

"Right!" Ed shouted, clapping his hands together. He dodged one of the creature's attacks, and slammed both of his hands onto two of the black shadows. They disappeared, just as Ed felt himself get slammed in the back. He spun around, seeing a red bell spinning around, at the top forming a ball of fire.

Ed smirked, and clapped his hands together. "Queen Minnie, you'll want to hold your breath!" Ed shouted, as he slammed his hands into the ground. The fire dissipated and Ed elbowed the creature. He felt the oxygen come rushing back and breathed.

"I'm done! Come on, we'll be safe in the library!" Queen Minnie shouted. They ran for the door that sat at the end of the hallway. They got inside and managed to close the door before any of the creatures got inside.

"What are those things?" Ed asked.

A voice from behind them said, "I'd suspect you're talking about the Heartless." Ed spun around, and found himself staring at a white duck.

Queen Minnie said, "Edward, this is Daisy. Daisy, this is the young man that was out in the courtyard. He's from Amestris."

"Amestris? It's been a long time since we've had anyone from Amestris show up," Daisy remarked.

"Wait. There have been people here before?" Ed asked.

Daisy nodded. "Now, what was her name?"

"I think you're talking about Izumi Curtis, right?" Queen Minnie offered.

When Daisy said, "That's right!" Ed jumped.

He muttered, "Figures teacher had a part of this. So what's going on here?"

The duo shrugged off Ed's remark. Daisy explained, "Lately the Heartless have been showing up everywhere. It's only recently that they've started showing up here. I sent a message to-"

There was a crashing outside, followed by yelling of some sort. "Looks like they're here," Daisy stated.

They stood there, listening to all the noise outside, until finally the door opened and in came a boy, followed by another duck and a dog.

"Donald!" Daisy greeted. "Goofy! Sora!"

Ed stood back as everyone greeted each other. Donald was the first one that noticed he was there and asked, "Who's this?"

"I'm Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist," Ed replied. He decided it was really hard to understand this duck, unlike his female counterpart. "And before you ask, I have no idea how I ended up here."

"Well, if you managed to get here through all those Heartless, you must be pretty strong," the boy remarked. "I'm Sora. Nice to meet you."

Ed nodded. Queen Minnie said, "We must hurry and get rid of these Heartless. They must be trying to get into the throne room."

"How'd you get that spell on the door, by the way? From the looks of it, those Heartless have been around for a little bit," Sora stated.

Queen Minnie answered calmly, "Edward helped me. They may have already gotten in if he hadn't distracted the Heartless."

Everyone fell silent, trying to figure out a way to get to the throne room without having anyone hurt by the Heartless.

Sora asked Ed, "How'd you deal with the Heartless? You don't look like you have any kind of weapon on you, and you don't look like the kind to use magic."

"Well, I've got a somewhat weapon," Ed replied, pulling off his jacket, exposing his metal arm. "As for what I used, it was alchemy."

"Alchemy?" Goofy asked.

Daisy and Queen Minnie looked at the metal limb, clearly surprised to see it.

"What happened to your arm?" Sora asked. "Or do people where you come from normally have metal limbs?"

Ed shook his head. "This was a mistake. I've been trying to find a way to fix it, as well as my brother."

"Well, we can talk more later," Daisy interrupted. "For mow, we need to make sure that the throne room is safe."

Everyone agreed. Queen Minnie said, "Sora, Edward. Come with me while I release the spell from the door."

Donald and Goofy fell back, away from the door, while Ed, Sora, and Minnie walked out.

Ed wasted no time in transforming his arm into a blade. "You take one side, I'll take the other?" he asked Sora.

A key-looking thing appeared in Sora's hand as he said, "Yea."

They charged forward, taking down the Heartless one by one. It was when a Heartless managed to land a hit in the burnt spot on Ed's back that they lost their tempo.

"Cure!" Sora shouted, as something happened to Ed's back that made it feel better.

"Thanks!" Ed called, slashing at another Heartless, before clapping his hands together and slamming them into some more Heartless, stabbing a third one in the process.

"Let's go!" Queen Minnie called. They charged through the doors to the throne room, just to find a bunch of floating Heartless. They spun around, and appeared to have three head situated at the bottom as their bodies swung upwards.* They were red and gold, while the center part of each where the head was, going from the bottom to the top, was black.

Ed and Sora attacked, as Queen Minnie called out, "I need to get to the throne!" Ed signaled he heard as he attacked one of the Heartless, surprised by the fact that his alchemy didn't do anything.

"These are stronger Heartless than the ones outside," Sora called out. "It'll take multiple hits to finish them."

Ed nodded, and started slashing at it. The moment it disappeared, he launched himself at a second one, slowly making his way through the crowd of Heartless.

Finally the last one was gone, and Ed's flesh arm was feeling sore from all the punching.

"Thank you both," Queen Minnie said. She walked up to the throne, but Ed never knew what happened.

"Ed!" a voice screamed at him.

Ed groaned, "Why does my head hurt so much?" He looked up and found Winry holding her wrench, looking prepared to hit him again.

"Brother, are you alright?" Al asked from his other side. "What're all these pictures for?"

Ed shook his head, signaling he didn't want to talk about it. "Let's go get something to eat," he suggested. They agreed, but before Ed left the room, he took the picture of the symbol, found a pencil, and wrote 'Heartless' underneath it.

"It appears the Fullmetal Alchemist managed to travel to the castle before everything was set…" a voice said inside a dark and foreboding room far below the surface.

/AN

* These are Bolt Towers, I'm just horrible with descriptions

Heartless:

Mushroom

Guard Armor

Shadow

Soldier

Red Nocturne

EDIT: Thank you Saki for telling me the name of that last one! It's called a Bolt Tower. :D

And yes, I ended with a cliffhanger on purpose. :3

Thanks for reading!

EDIT:

If I were to continue with the story, would you be willing to read it? (Which, yes, means that I'd take it off the 'Complete' thing).

AN/