Ai's POV

I looked at the two boys that I was leaving with. I'm insane. I shook my head and turned to them. "So where are we going?"

"We're walking to the next town over." Ed answered

"Good. I haven't been there in a long time." We walked through woods for a while. Eventually we came across a pond.

"Let's stop here for the night." Ed said, they both looked tired so I agreed. I sat next to the pond and took off my shoes to dip my feet in the water. Al was asleep in a few minutes. I looked at Ed, who was still awake.

"So, Ed right?" He nodded; I looked at his mechanical arm.

"What mission could you possibly have that would make you rather go off with two strangers, teenage boys, instead?"

"Let's just say I'm tired of Bradley."

"You must be, not that I blame you." He mumbled.

"I'm guessing you know what he is?" He nodded, "Great. So to change the subject, why is your arm made of metal?"

"You're not one to beat around the bush are you?"

"Why waste time?" I asked with a shrug. "Don't answer if you don't want to, I was just curious." I knew it was going to take a bit to get anything out of him, so I looked to the water.

"You wear interesting cloths." I laughed a bit. It was a fake laugh, slightly bitter, but a laugh all the same. "What?"

"I wear something similar to what I wore in the war."

"That's not a uniform." He pointed out

"I was 8, why would I wear a uniform?"

"Why would you be in a war?"

"Tussah." I said, "But in all honesty, I wore a child like version of this. No jewelry, my skirt was longer though. It went below my knees. I had my hair longer back then. It went to my mid back." I looked to him, "In all honesty, I kept this look because, as twisted as it sounds, the war was possibly the best time of my life."

=====Ed's POV=====

"The war was the best time of my life." Okay, so she is insane. Great. I mean, who needs sanity anyway? "I know how that sounds, but I found a family there."

"The war…"

"I found Roy and Armstrong…They became my closest friends. Marcoh and Jean Havoc and Hughes all kept me entertained, got my mind of what I did or was doing. They were my family, something I'd never had." She looked lost in her memories. But really? War was the best memories she ever had? That's so sad.

"So," I started, desperate to change the subject. "Why do you wear that on your leg?"

"Hm?" She looked down at her leg, "That's a good question." I nodded, "Maybe one day I'll tell you." I stared at her, what could it possibly be that she won't tell me?

=======Ai's POV========

We arrived in the village around noon the next day, we would have been earlier but Ed wouldn't wake up. I found that Al was easy to open up to. I could talk to him for hours, I did in fact. Though for the most part it wasn't anything I found important.

"Okay, okay," He laughed as we arrived; we were playing a game now. Ed was pouting so he wouldn't participate though. It was the question game, I'd ask a question and he'd answer, then I'd answer, then he'd ask a question and I'd answer and so on. Now it was Al's turn. "So," He looked up in thought as we walked through the little town, "I've got one. How did you meet Armstrong?"

"Armstrong?" I smiled, "I met him when I was about 6." I said as I remembered the day, "The muscle man creped me out when I met him, but he ended up saving me from a fall that may have made me unable to do alchemy."

"What happened?"

"Well, I was a kid experimenting with alchemy and went too far." I said, "It was something that would be relatively harmless now, but I was small and young. I went to my roof, that's where I had been working on my puppet technique, and tried to use it on my pet. She is an extremely large animal and my alchemy use on her scared her, so she ran. The thing is I was attached to her, so when she ran I was pulled off the roof with her."

"You can run under your puppet strings?" Ed asked, joining into our conversation, finally.

"Sort of, see for the average person, man or women, I have complete control. But for someone like Armstrong, who is about three times my weight because of all that muscle, he could move away easily."

"That must have been one large pet."

"She is Al, and she pulled me off the third story roof and Armstrong caught me." I sighed as we stopped. "So what are we doing here Ed?"

"You and Al can go sit down; I just need to talk to someone." I followed Al to a table as Ed went to the bar to talk to the owner.

"Al, what is he doing?" I asked as we ordered food.

"I don't know. Brother is looking for a way to get rid of Bradley. Maybe he has a connection here."

"Hmm…"

"So what was the mission that he wanted you to go on?"

"Something that had to do with Envy." I shrugged; I saw the look on Al's face that said he knew exactly who Envy is. "I see you've met." He nodded, "As have we, he and I have a lot of history."

"What kind of history?" I shook my head.

"Mission history," I said as I took a bite of my food. "I've never been too fond of him, but he's better then Lust." I said. That's when something hit me. "I do know about you two," I said suddenly.

"What?"

"I didn't realize it was you two because when I heard of you it was the big guy in the metal suit and the little one. When I saw you it was the two boys with blond hair and gold eyes. I didn't see any metal guy, just two boys."

"But didn't you call us out. You said 'Full metal, I'm glad you're here.'"

"I knew that full metal has metal limbs, I could tell Ed did." I said, "But you are all flesh and blood so I didn't see you by your reputation. Why aren't you in that anymore?"

"Um…" I cocked my head waiting for his answer. "It was getting in the way."

"No, you were in that for years, it wouldn't just change."

"No really, I just stopped wearing it one day." I looked at him suspiciously.

"I won't force it out of you." I decided with a shrug, "I've found it's not a good way to make friends."

"Really, you're just going to drop it?"

"I won't lie, I am curious, but I'll stay quiet and wait till you're ready." He looked surprised as hell that I was leaving him be. "So, if that's that, what could Ed possibly be doing over there?"

"Um, I guess we're about to find out." I looked over to find that Ed was on his way to us with a frown planted on his face. "Hey brother, what were you doing?"

"Let's go get a hotel room." He said ignoring the question. We got up and followed him out and to a hotel, but I stopped him from walking into the building. "What?"

"Don't go in there." I said looking at him seriously.

"Why?"

"Just trust me." I said to him. After a moment he nodded and I led them to a different hotel, "I'll pay." I said as I got us a room. I led them to the room and took one of them, "Night guys."