Zira- Yay! A new chapter! And I got a review! Thanks a bunch canyonlakeforever for being the first! Also thank you people that I'm too lazy to type out! You guys are the best!

Ed- Why so excited over so little?

Zira- Cuz!

Ed- (sigh)

Zira- so onwards! I don't own anything except Zira!

Chapter two – WTH!

I woke to the sound of birds. Well, I thought as I got ready for the day, that isn't very exiting.

I hadn't gone to bed before 12 once since we came to East City, we were too busy setting things out and arranging things and people. The people who were here before hand had to get used to us. which would probably never happen. Mustang had to learn the ways of the City, and I was stuck with almost every job. Everyone had an assignment to make it easier, and I just sort of helped out with everything, this is a lot more stressful than you would think.

Once I got to the kitchen, I stock some bread in the toaster and got myself some water. As I was eating the phone rang. Mumbling some swear words I picked it up.

"Zira Shion here." It was Hawkeye, that was weird, she never called me in the morning. I can be pretty nasty in the morning, like when that recruit rubbed me the wrong way. He was stuck in that wall for over four hours. I smiled to myself, not even a week and I was already causing trouble.

"Zira, I think that we'll be doing some rounds today." Hawkeye said, and I groaned, rounds basically meant that we had to go say hello and acknowledge the important people in the city. I sucked at it, and usually ended up in an argument.

"Any idea how many?" I asked, the less the better I thought, and crossed my fingers.

"Just one, a state alchemist by the name of Shou Tucker. The Colonel already did most of them, He said that you would mess them up for him." I laughed at that, so he figured that keeping me away would help his reputation. For now it would, but in the long run it was a really bad move.

After finishing breakfast I walked to Headquarters and once I was there, started looking for my coffee. After drinking a cup and a half I felt ready enough to deal with people, so I headed to the office. When I walked in I was greeted by mass chaos, Hawkeye was threatening the Colonel, Falman was trying to work but kept getting distracted by Havoc and Breda, who were doing something stupid again, and Fuery was trying to hide in a corner. The guy was a good solider and a great tech, but he couldn't handle these idiots in the morning, and neither could I.

"WILL YOU GUYS SHUT UP!" I snapped and there was silence in no time at all. I went over to my desk, finished my coffee, and looked at them. "Now what the hell is going on this morning!" instead of answering everyone got back to work, and I started working on my alchemy project. Two hours later I had only made a little progress, and it was time to go see this Tucker guy. It was Me, Mustang, and Hawkeye going. Everyone else had orders to not destroy the building.

The lieutenant drove, Mustang was in the passengers seat, and I was stuck in the back. I leaned forward and looked over at the file Mustang had. Apparently this guy was the 'Sewing life alchemist', and had made a chimera that could talk two years ago. I grimaced, biological transmutation wasn't a favorite of mine, and chimeras were creepy.

We stopped in front of a huge house, which I assumed was Tuckers and when we got out the Colonel pulled me to the side. "Watch your language Zira, he has a four year old daughter." I nodded, but that sounded kinda strange.

"Doesn't this guy have a wife?" he shook his head and I sighed, a divorce says a lot about you as a person. I hadn't even met this guy and I already didn't like him! We rang the bell and a little girl opened the door. She was actually kinda cute, and when she called into the house a man came out too. So this was Tucker, he didn't look that bad, but I still didn't trust him a bit.

"Ah, you must the Colonel Mustang." He said and they shook hands. He looked at me, probably thinking why a 16 year old girl was here too. I put out my hand and pointed to my watch.

"Zira Shion, the Waterdrop alchemist. Nice to meet you." We shook, and I wiped my hand on my pants afterwords. The little girl walked up to me and I crouched down to her level.

"I'm Nina! Zira is big sister!"She said pointing at herself and then at me, I smiled at that, I wasn't the best with kids, but she seemed sweet.

"Come on Zira." That was the Colonel, he and Tucker were motioning for me to follow them. I got up and did, and started listening to the conversation they were having.

"There's not really much to my research sir, lots of mistakes happen in this kind of thing." Tucker said, and in my mind I grimaced. He led us to a door and led us inside,before I went in I could hear all the different animals screaming. I backed away, feeling slightly sick.

"If you don't mind sirs, I'll pass on this." I said and Mustang looked surprised. With other people I always wanted to learn about what they were doing. But he nodded, and going by his body language, he wasn't very thrilled about going in there either.

I turned around and found Nina looking up at me and smiling. "Wanna play big sister?" she asked and I nodded. She grabbed my hand and led me outside, where I big dog was tied up. She undid the latch and started to pet him. "This's Alexander!" Alexander chose to greet me by licking my face.

"Agh!" I started to rub the doggy spit off me, but I just ended up laughing. Nina thought that it was hilarious, and I could have sworn that Alexander was smiling too. We played around for about an hour and then Mustang came out, shook hands with Tucker again and started to leave. I got up and ran over to Tucker before he went in.

"Mr. Tucker, is it okay if I come by to visit Nina every now and then?" He said okay and I headed back to he car. As we were leaving I waved to Nina and Alexander, and then we were out if sight. Mustang was looking at me like I was crazy. "I'll be honest, I don't trust Tucker and I'm worried about Nina." Riza glanced at me from the mirror and looked like she might say something, but then we got to HQ and found that a small fire had erupted.

I got out and looked at the carnage around us. 90% of the people around us were drunk, and people were fighting each other with marshmallows and pies. There were also many people passed out on the lawn.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!" that was me and Mustang, I looked around some more and found a spare pie on the ground. I picked it up and pretended to look it over. Then, I chucked it into Mustangs face. I ran out to join in the chaos, and as I was running I slipped on a pie and landed on Fuery. After de-pieing ourselves I looked him over. Still sober, Fuery looked pretty nervous and twitchy.

"Fuery," He jumped, afraid that I was going to start yelling. "who started this and how?"

"It was Havoc and Breda, they were serving pie in the cafeteria, and a new recruit had marshmallows, so it went from there. Then everyone got out the hidden alcohol and started drinking." I nodded as he talked, yep it sounded like them alright. I just didn't think that they'd start doing it so early on.

I was aware of Hawkeye and Mustang getting everyone under control, so I went inside to extinguish the fire. I clapped my hands and water from the air condensed and landed on the fire, putting it out. It seemed all I got to be around here was a fire extinguisher. I looked to room over, it wasn't anything a new wall and some paint couldn't fix. Good thing it wasn't our room, or I would have been really pissed. Even so, this was coming out of Havoc and Breda's paycheck.

I poked my head out of the missing wall section and found that everything had calmed down. I sighed, I had wanted to throw another pie at Mustang! "Back to work everyone! And can I get a contractor for this wall!" Everyone groaned and headed in, I saw Havoc in there too. I patted him on the back and smiled. "Nice job, doing all this a few hours." He smirked and continued in.

I started back to the office, and I put my hands in my pockets. Feeling something in there I took my hand out and discovered the 60 dollars from the bet on the train ride here. I ran over to Falman and showed him the 60.

"huh? Zira, what's that from?"

"Remember that bet? We never did settle that. Why don't you go get everyone?" He nodded and ran off. Falman apparently works fast, because when I got there, he had rounded up everyone. Even Mustang and Hawkeye.

"So whats this bet about Zira?" Mustang asked and I told him, he just looked at us like we were idiots.

"Just tell us why those guys were talking to you." I said and waved the money in his face. "we got 60 riding on this." He just sighed.

"They were trying to get me to tell them why I had Zira kept nearby." I cheered. But he kept talking " that and it was one of those stay out of my business things."

"That falls under me and Fuerys bet, so I guess we'll split it! Okay with you Fuery?"

"Sure!" He seemed pretty happy, understandable though. Last couple bets hes had a some bad luck. I tossed him 30 and put the other half back in my pocket. I got back to my desk and continued with my project. I was trying to figure out the tattoos I wanted on my palms. I had water alchemy circles on the back of my hands, but I wanted to have more ability. So far I had one for some basic materials drawn out, and I was working on a metal circle. At the rate I'm going I'll probably have to settle for basic metals.

After a couple of hours with that it was almost time to go, so I figured why not play a harmless prank. I quickly drew a transmutation circle on a sticky note and placed it on an ink jar. It would heat up the ink, causing it to expand and end up on anyone nearby. Actually all HQs had wide mouth jugs now because the first time I did this, the glass went everywhere.

Once I activated the circle there would be about 5 seconds before inky doom descended upon us. So the moment I activated it I went under the table and listed for for the 'pop' and the 'splash' that would mean that it was safe to come out.

'POP!' 'SPLASH!' "ZIRA! What the HELL did you do!" Mustang screamed and I popped out from under the desk. He had ink all over him and some paperwork had gotten ruined too.

"Yo! Actually, pretty good look for you there Mustang. It hides your face!" The guys started laughing while Hawkeye just sighed. I took the fact that Mustang was putting his gloves on as my cue to leave for the day. So in 4 seconds I had my stuff packed and was running out the door, laughing, and scaring the recruits.

I jogged the rest of the way back to my apartment and let myself in with the key. I hadn't had dinner yet so I searched my cupboards. I managed to find a can of soup and was able to make and eat it without messing up.

After showering and putting on pajamas I plopped down on my bed and took a look out of my window. Nothing much was going on, since the weather had been damp today. Heaven by my standards, but not for most other people.

Before I fell asleep a few things ran through my mind. 'What am I going to do with 30 dollars?', 'What am I going to get tattooed on my palms?' and 'Whats gonna happen while we're here?'.

Zira- :D I be happy!

Ed- Why?

Zira- because I finished another chapter!

Ed- okay then.

Zira- Beach tomorrow, and I still gotta pack.

Ed- ditto.

Zira- also Happy fathers day to all fathers out there! So, go give you're dad a hug or something!

Ed- …...

Zira- you don't have to.

Ed- I still wouldn't if I had to.

Zira- Please review! Flame me and I'll have my dinner for tonight!

Edit!

Some editing, I hope it makes the story a little better ^^