Edward was momentarily confused until he started growing impatient. "Who the hell are you!?" he growled. The figure just laughed maniacally in response, and slowly started walking towards them. Feeling threatened, Edward clapped his hands and transmuted his auto mail right arm into a wide blade. The person suddenly stopped walking and her eyes widened.

"So the rumors are true…you can transmute without a circle." She whispered excitedly. Edward groaned and spoke again, "Damn it! Stop messing around! Just tell us what you want!"

"'Us'…?" She questioned slowly. She looked past the furious alchemist in front of her, and saw a silent Alphonse standing not too far behind him.

"Aha!" she shouted, while pointing towards Al, "It's confirmed then! You are the Fullmetal Alchemist," she momentarily paused to look at Ed, "and you are his younger brother! I've found you two!" she shouted triumphantly with a grin plastered on her shady face. "Why have you been looking for us?" Edward asked, his voice getting lower in volume.

"So I can destroy you." She whispered so softly they could barely hear her.

What the hell is this girl talking about? "Destroy us?" The note was obviously a decoy so that she can get us here. But why does she want to "destroy me?" And is she only talking about me, or does she want to fight Alphonse, too? Edward's thoughts were in a flurry.

As if she could read his thoughts, the girl said, "My fight is only with you, pipsqueak. I'm not going to touch your brother."

"DON'T CALL ME PIPSQUEAK!" Ed shouted at the top of his lungs, "GET OUT OF THE SHADOWS AND FIGHT ME, THEN!"

"Fine. Have it your way." She mumbled. She then quietly stepped toward Ed, out of the dark.

Then they saw her, and their breath caught.

She had long, medium brown, strait hair, with bangs that hung above her eyebrows. Her hair, being illuminated by the dim light, revealed light auburn highlights. Her skin was light and smooth, showing no obvious flaws. But what made their breath catch was her eyes, shimmering gently, framed in thick black lashes.

They were very large, round, and an unbearably brilliant blue color.

And the girl looked no older than them.

She was wearing a fitted plain blue tank top, tight black pants, and short navy ankle boots. A grey coat that stopped a little bit past her waist hung loosely on her. She also had on odd-looking fingerless black gloves.

"The name's Wendy Havoc. Pleasure to meet you Edward Elric." She said with a goofy crooked grin, while extending her hand, with no intention he was actually going to shake it.

Ed silently noted that when she was hidden earlier and they couldn't see her, she was much more intimidating. But, now, she just seemed like an ordinary teenager. This caused Edward to laugh under his breath.

"Wait, Wendy Havoc, as in Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc?" Al called over to her. She frowned and nodded.

"Obviously she isn't very proud of being related to the Second Lieutenant. But I thought he was a war hero in Ishval? I wonder how she is related to him. A cousin, maybe?"Al thought.

Wendy obviously tired of just standing and talking, suddenly clapped her hands together and slapped them against the concrete transmuting a large sword.

"She transmuted without a circle!" shouted Alphonse.

Ed simply grunted in response and prepared himself mentally for battle.

"HYEAAH!" Wendy screamed as she flung the weapon at Edward while she touched her hands to the ground ready to transmute some more.

Edward quickly transmuted a wall from the concrete below him, protecting him from getting hit. Wendy, however, soon destroyed his wall without much effort and clapped again. Edward charged at her, not wanting to give her time to transmute.

He thrust his blade at her, and she barely dodged it. The look in her eyes suggested she was not comfortable with Edward being so close. She transmuted the ground beneath him to rise up with a flash of blue light knocking off his balance.

Then, something happened that neither of the Elric brothers would have expected to happen in a million years. She smacked her hands together, touched them to the ground, and then after the flash of light, transmuted the moisture from the ground and the air around them into a gigantic ball of floating water, thrusting her arms forward, the water flying toward Edward.

Edward screamed, and tried jumping back to dodge it, but his efforts were futile. The large ball of water crashed over him, causing him to fall to the ground, soaking wet. Wendy laughed loudly and grinned, her eyes flashing with evil.

"YOU CAN CONTROL WATER!?" Al shouted in disbelief, "BROTHER, ARE YOU OKAY?" His younger brother started running over to Ed, just to be stopped.

"Back off Al! This is our fight; I don't want you to get hurt!" Ed shouted back, while getting up and regaining his composure.

After taking half a second to absorb what just happened, he then grunted and started charging toward Wendy, his blade pointed forward, now thirsty for her blood.

She wasn't expecting him to get up at all and involuntarily screamed, not knowing what to do.

"Don't hurt her, Brother!" Alphonse cried out.

Edward let out a loud battle cry, then tackled her, and pinned her on the ground.

"I've got you now, damn it." He said, while forcing his blade up against her neck.

Not daring to scream, Wendy kept silent, while looking into the eyes of the alchemist who had the power to slice her throat open.

Ed growled, a pushed his blade harder against her neck. However, there still wasn't enough pressure to break the skin.

Then he looked into her eyes.

They were such a bright blue; it was almost unnerving how much power they had over him right now. He should have been interrogating her about her motives for attacking him, but instead, he just stared into them, getting sucked into a pool of blue.

Why was he not saying anything? Wendy wondered. She should have been trying to find a way out of his clutches, but instead she just looked into his eyes, getting lost in a golden window.

They're beautiful… the brilliant caramel color of his eyes. They're…magnificent. Wendy tried ridding herself of these thoughts, but they kept coming back. It was as if she was in a trance, a trance that made her forget what she was doing, or why she was here. Still being pinned on the ground, she just focused on looking into his eyes. She had always thought that by looking into a person's eyes, you could tell what kind of person they are. By what she could see in Edward's eyes, on the outside, she saw anger, and even a little guilt. But, lingering just underneath, she saw utter kindness, and…pain?

Edward didn't know what to think. He felt like he couldn't think. And for a few moments, all he could think was how mesmerizing her eyes were. The eyes he was looking into didn't seem to belong to an evil girl who wanted to attack him. They were soft, and feminine.

And they just laid there, getting lost in each other's eyes, Edward's knife still ready to tear into her neck.

And Alphonse just stood a few feet away, looking at them with awe and confusion.