here's chapter 2! And I was actually slightly surprised that I got a review on the first chapter the same day I posted. Either way I'm happy and I'll be working on the story whenever I can for awhile.

God of cake: I'm glad you like it :)


I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.- Minne driver


I was about to get up when a metal foot hit my in my left arm which hurt like a bitch! I groaned again and sat up staring at the person who kicked me with a glare. The person who kicked me was in a suit of armor and he backed up when he saw me. The person next to him seemed surprised I was there and he glared back at me. The guy beside the suit of armor was about the same hight as me maybe taller with gold hair and eyes. He seemed familiar to me but I didn't know why but it didn't matter as I eventually fell face forward groaning "so hungry~..."

A few minutes later I was with the boys at a small café and they had given me a plate of food. I on the other hand scared it down and sighed in contentment. I looked at the two and said "Thank you so much! I thought I was going to did of hunger."

The smaller of the two sighed a bit and said "Yeah yeah just eat your food were in a hurry."

I frowned a bit and asked "Do you think I could travel with your for at least a little bit then? I feel like I should pay you back for the food. I'm also not taking no for an answer."

The shorter one grumbled a bit while the armored one said "Um. Then I guess we don't have a choice. What do you say brother?"

The smaller one grumbled and said "Yeah yeah whatever."

I smiled in victory for a few seconds until I heard "Children of god. Have faith and thou shall be saved. The god of the sun, Leto enlightens thy path. Behold having descended from his throne, The Lord shall shall save the from thy sins. As a messenger of the sun god, I am your father."

I furrowed my eyebrows and asked "what was that all about?"

The armored guy said "A radio broadcast of a sermon?"

The shorter one said "A messenger of god? What's that?"

The cafe owner sighed a bit and said "I should be the one saying 'what's that?' To you. Are you guys street performers or something?"

I fell to the ground while shorty (just gonna call him that till I hear his name) chocked on his food a bit and he asked "alright pops what part of us looks like street performers?"

"No matter how hard I look that's all you can be... I don't see people like you around these parts often. Are you tourists?" The café attendant asked.

Shorty nodded and said "yeah. Were just looking around for something. Though what's with this radio broadcast?"

The café attendant raised an eyebrow and said "You haven't heard of lord Cornello?" When he saw our expressions he said " founder Cornello! Messenger of the sun god Leto."

A bunch of the people around us started saying a bunch of things good about Cornello but what caught my attention was that he could make things out of nothing. Shorty didn't listen to their compliments and he said we should leave unfortunately armor guy hit the roof and the radio broke. I sighed and was about to say something when armor guy said he would fix It. I raised an eyebrow curiously until he drew something and slammed his hand on the ground. A bright light followed that and when it died down the radio was fixed. I was honestly surprised by what he did and when he said it was alchemy I asked "Um. What's alchemy?"

Shorty seemed surprised that I didn't know what alchemy was and he said "It's the science of the flow of natural elements. Like if I use alchemy I could break down and reconstruct the ground into something else. How do you not know what alchemy is?"

I grinned sheepishly and said "I don't know a lot of things. I don't even know what city I'm in. Oh I also forgot to tell you my name. My name is Joanne stinger. You can call me joe if you want."

Shorty sighed once again and said "Ok that explains something. Also I'm Edward Elric this is my little brother Alphonse Elric."

I stared up at Alphonse and he looked right back. After a few seconds I said "He must have had one hell of a growth spurt."

I laughed a bit while the other two, though I had to guess when it came to Alphonse, smirked a bit. I sighed once again and I said "you know what I think I'm gonna go up on that building and see if I can understand the layout of the town."

Edward gave me a confused look and asked" how are you going to get up there?"

I just smirked at him before I ran forward and I jumped at a wall kicking off it to the other wall and I repeated until I got to the top of the building leaving Edward and Alphonse with the a shocked townspeople.

I stared around seeing that a lot of the houses looked to be made out of a stone or something similar and it seemed pretty big for a town as well. I stared around for a bit until I heard edward yell "Joe! Were leaving!"

I smiled slightly and jumped down from the building. I saw Alphonse and Edward panic a bit but I pulled my sword from my back quickly before I hit the ground and i dug it into the side of the building near me just enough to stop me without damaging the inside of the building. When I landed I rolled on the ground and bounced up slightly right in front of the brothers with 'hy-up!'. When I saw their looks I laughed a bit and asked "What's wrong? You think I was going to die or something?"

Alphonse sighed a bit and said "I think you should have warned us before you did that joe."

I smirked a bit but I said "yeah I guess I should have. Sorry bout scaring you like that but don't we have somewhere to be?"

Edward nodded and we walked towards a church at first I was confused but then Edward explained that what he and Alphonse had been looking for was there. I pretty much ignored anything except what Edward and Alphonse said when inside as they talked to a girl. It didn't matter to me what she said as I was an atheist. The statue of the in the building though seemed interesting to me as it indicted of a man who held the sun in his very hands. I looked at it with curiosity until Edward called for me to follow him. I sighed a little bit but did none the less. I had a feeling some thing bad was going to happen so I kept a hand on the pommel of my sword just in case. I wouldn't kill a human being if I could help it but I would definitely protect the brothers as well as myself. The people who we asked to meet with Cornello said we could so I followed Edward and Alphonse to where they were headed.

"We must be quick as the founder is very busy but you sirs and miss have good luck." One of the people in the building said to us.

Edward nodded but said "I don't plan on taking much time though."

A tensed up quickly when the guy in front of us said "yes. We'll end this quite soon like this!" And he aimed a gun at Alphonse's head and fired.

My eyes narrowed and I yelled "Alphonse!" As since I saw him get shot in the head I thought he was dead. I turned quickly only for a blade to be put to my neck. I slowly moved me hand to my sword while the guy who shot Alphonse said "Rose! These people are heretics that were going to trap the founder! They're demons! The founder has allowed this as it is the will of god!"

"Oh?" I heard a voice say. I was confused as it sounded familiar that is until the body of Alphonse started to move without a head! "That's a mean god" I heard him finish so I took this chance to draw my sword faster then anyone could register hitting the people who held a bald to me with the blunt end. When Edward saw the sword and his eyes narrowed I quickly said "don't worry I used the blunt end. I've never killed a person before or at least I think i haven't... Anyway what about Alphonse?! He has no head yet he's alive!"

Edward hit his knuckles against Alphonse's armor and said "it's always been like this. Also you can just call us al and ed. We call you joe after all."

Alphonse put his 'head' back on and said "this is someone with the sin of trespassing into gods forbidden territory. Just like me and my brother to."

I looked at my right arm and whispered "trespassed into the domain of god...?"

Shaking my head I ran after Ed and al who had went looking for the founder. I also noticed that the girl named rose was shying away from me confused I looked at my left hand to see I still had my sword out. Grinning sheepishly I put the sword away while muttering apologizes to the girl. When he found the door to the founders room Al asked rose to go into his armor which she did, even if reluctant to do so. I was still cautious about the whole situation. When the door closed behind us I heard someone say "Welcome to our holy church. Did you come to learn our teachings?"

Ed smirked and said "I'm more interested in the fact that your using cheap alchemy to trick the locals! Yet you ignore equivalent exchange..."

The founder kept his smiling face and said "that's why I say it's a gift of god."

Edward smirked even wider and said "unless you have a philosopher's stone. It's that ring isn't it?"

The founder dropped his hand and frowned as he said "I expected no less from a national alchemist. This is a philosophers stone a mysterious power amplifier that was said to be only found in legends. If we alchemists use this we can do great deeds wi little cost."

"I've been looking for that!" I heard ed finish.

The next few minutes involved the founder spouting about how he was going to use his followers as an army. When he finished both me and Ed said "don't care" which pissed him off. I was so bored at this point that I started to balance the tip of my sword on my metal arms pointer finger. I almost dropped it when the founder yelled something at rose and she said she had to and walked over to the founder as he pulled a switch. The next thing I know there is a beast of some sort in front of me when he jumped at me it hit my left leg as I jumped back and Ed had a similar situation happening to him. After that I deliberately let the thing bit my right arm.

I smirked a bit sadistically and asked "How's that kitty? You like biting into solid steel?!"

Before the thing could do anything my sword was drawn and I had hit it. With the edge of my sword. When I turned around I found a bunch of mush while Ed had beat up the other thing I looked at my coat sleeve and sighed saying "great. This was a nice coat to. And my pants were nice as well."

I looked towards Ed and saw he had a metal arm and a leg just like I did in the same places to. I didn't know how or why I had these metal limbs but I was glad that I had them. Ed seemed to see that I had them as well but he didn't comment on them at the moment as he told them that this was the mess two people could get into for trying to revive one person. I sighed slightly as the two told the founder to give them the stone before they hurt him only for him to make a machine gun out of his cane. Ed thankfully out up a wall and he made a door for us to run out of

While running I got an idea that we could so I said "Ed I got an idea but we need to get to the broadcasting room."

He looked at for a few seconds before gaining an evil grin that I had as well. Al and rose were nowhere to be seen so we ran into the broadcasting room and I raised near the on switch as the founder walked in with his machine gun. I kind of blanked out when I was told to turn the switch on. For whatever reason I just really didn't like to listen to this 'founder' guy. I mean he kept repeating how his word was the word of god and I didn't know why but I felt like laughing at hime because of it. I felt like I had met god at one point but I literally couldn't remember anything before I was on the ground groaning I was hungry. Wither way what burst me out of my thoughts was a huge pounding sound. When I looked up I saw a giant stone statue with its fist on the ground and the founder near it unconscious from fainting most likely.

When I saw ed though I saw the pissed look on his face I asked "What's wrong ed?"

"It was a fake!" Ed yelled and I knew he meant the philosophers stone"you were thinking about something so deeply what about you?"

I sighed slowly and said "I have this... Feeling that I knew who god really was. I honestly don't know why though."

Ed raised and eyebrow and asked "what do you mean joe?"

I looked at him and slowly said "I think I'd be better if al was here as well before I said anything."

I walked away from him as he found al and told rose she needed to do what she wanted.