p class="MsoNormal"Calumon was giggling as he bounced around in the hollow head of his new metallic friend, (Edward suggested that's how he would travel) Al Elric when he noticed an odd symbol inside where his neck should be. "Hey, Allie?" Calumon asked with his own little nickname "what's this red thingy?" "What's what?" Alphonse asked the cute voice in his head. He then realized that the adorable creature was talking about his blood seal which kept him alive "Noo! Don't touch that!" Al yelped, (surprisingly high pitched, for an eight foot knight battle suit), startling Calumon and causing him to fall into the suit of armours torso and causing his older brother, Edward Elric, to jump in the air and yelp too. "Geez Al, you nearly blew my ears off!" Edward said. "Well Calumon was about to touch my blood seal!" Al responded. "Oh, well-" Edward was cut off by Calumon's ringing voice rang from Al's interior saying "What's a blood seal?" "Huh? Oh! Right, it's a type of transmutation circle!" Edward responded with enthusiasm, eager to teach a young (he guessed by Calumon's voice and behavior) "What's a…?" Calumon asked, struggling to remember the long word, as he climbed out Al with the help of … Al. "THIS is a transmutation circle!" Edward said, with a flourish as he drew a quick, sloppy transmutation circle on the ground, which Calumon stared at with wonder. "What does it do?" Calumon asked. "… well, it… transmutes," Ed responded, and seeing the look in Calumon's huge eyes, he added "Transmutation is using a substance, breaking it down, and replacing it with something else. For it to work you need equivalent exchange, in order for you to get something, you need to give something of equal value." Edward said wisely, feeling like his teacher did when she was teaching them about equivalent exchange. He then noticed Calumon using a pen from his back and scribbling a wiggly, but nonetheless, transmutation circle on his forehead, with his red gem right in the middle of it "Yeah, that's a transmutation circle," Edward chuckled. "Uh-oh, we got company!" Alphonse said, pointing at a group of bandits approaching. "All right then, Calumon, get behind us!" Edward told Calumon. "What are they bad guys?" "Oh, yeah." Ed responded. The two Elrics both set themselves up in their own ways, Al, drawing a circle, and Ed transmuting his robotic arm into a sword. Even Calumon was starting to feel a familiar headache and his gem started glowing./p
