Chapter 4: A Weird Introduction

The time has come, my dear readers. In this chapter, Maka awakens from her slumber and meets the famed Elric brothers and they agree to take her to their childhood friend Winry in order to get some automail for their new friend – both for the leg and the hand. Enjoy! I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or Soul Eater. They are both owned by the company Square Enix, with that said – let's get on with Chapter 4.

Edward and Alphonse Elric weren't skilled doctor, that's for sure. But thank god, they had met Mei Chang – thanks to the little Xing girl, they learned the amazing art of healing alchemy. She also gave the younger sibling, a pair of knives in order to complete the transmutation.

Al finished doing the transmutation and eventually the pig-tailed girl's bleeding had stopped. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said about her arm and leg – he knew that no alchemy could bring those two body parts back. Ed had wrapped the bandages around the raw skin and wounds, while the girl flinched in her sleep.

"Big Brother? Is-is she going to be okay?" Al asked his brother, nervously about the girl's condition.

After, he was done bandaging the girl, he sat down on the coach next to her and said to his brother. "Yeah, I think she's going to be fine. Although, we could have stopped the bleeding sooner…"

It was quiet in the silent room, until the girl broke it. She was squirming in her sleep, it was like she had some sort of nightmare. Maka was dreaming a horrible nightmare about Soul being killed by Asura, this continued for a little while, until…

"SOUL, NO!" Maka had awoken from her unconscious state, with wide eyes. Soon, she noticed a pair of golden eyes and red orbs staring at her.

Maka flinched in pain, got up from the coach and attempted to run, completely forgetting about her missing leg. She was about to fall to the ground, however the boy with the golden eyes caught her just in time from falling into the dusty old floor. Placing her back on the coach, he said to her. „Relax, we're not your enemy. Calm down, you're in no condition to fight."

Maka's eyes soon fell on the place where her leg used to be, her eyes were wide open and turned to pure horror. The pain was gone, as well as the bleeding, but how could she have let this happen? She began to cry, the never-ending tears could be seen coming from her eyelids. Ed and Al said absolutely nothing, it wasn't the first time they had seen someone crying like this and in her situation it was to be expected.

A few hours later, the crying stopped and only a couple of tears could be seen in her red eyes. Ed decided to ask Maka a simple question.

"Do you have a name?" Ed, asked her in a polite and casual tone.

"It's Maka…" She mumbled so quietly, that nobody had heard her.

"Well, Maka. My name is Edward Elric and this is my younger brother Alphonse Elric." Ed told her, while pointing at Al.

"Younger brother?" Maka still mumbled quietly and stared at Ed.

If there was one thing that Edward Elric hated more in the world was when somebody called him 'short', 'younger' or 'pipsqueak'. He hated those words, but to make sure he didn't lash out in front of Maka, he decided to put on a smile with his teeth gritting. "Yes, that's right. I'm the older brother…"

Maka, smirked a little bit when she saw his face – it was priceless. She made a mental note to annoy him a little bit later.

Soon, Ed's anger disappeared and he stared at her with a serious look in his eyes. He moved on to the main topic at hand and decided to ask her how she got in this current form. "Now, can you please tell me what happened? How did you get in this current state, Maka?"

Soon, her smirk disappeared and it was replaced with a look of sadness. Looking down at the ground, she started telling him about what happened to her. "Well, it's going to sound strange, but me and my friend were fighting someone very powerful. We defeated him, but before he died, he wrote some kind of strange circle on the ground and forced me to place my hands on it. He did the same with his own hands and after a flash of light blinded me, my leg was gone and to my shock he was completely healed!"

Ed's serious look was still plastered on face as he continued to stare at her, but this time both of them felt very serious pain. "So, if you don't mind me asking how did you lose your arm, Maka?" He calmly asked her.

Maka flinched a little bit and tensed up at the same time. She calmed down, after a little while and continued talking to Ed. "Well, the guy we were fighting tried to kill my good friend Soul, but I thought if my foe could be healed by the circle, then maybe Soul could be fixed as well, so I did the same with my him. However, I didn't stay for too long to see if it worked… I don't even know where I am, to tell you the truth…"

The two boys both flinched. Her story was very close to Ed's. First, Maka was forced to sacrifice her leg against her will and then her arm was taken away in order to save the person who was precious to her.

After finishing explaining how she got in her current condition, she looked at both boys and said to them. "You don't think I'm crazy, do you? Do you know something about that circle? Before he left me to die, the guy I was fighting said something about alchemy. Do you know what it is?"

Looking at her, Al decided to ask her a question. "Maka, you're not from around here, are you?" Maka, just shook her head with a confused look.

Ed stood up from the coach and looked at Al. "Why don't we give Maka a brief demonstration of our abilities?"

Taking out a piece of chalk, Ed drew a transmutation circle on the ground and then placed both of his hands on the ground. Soon, sparks shot up from the circle, as Ed brought his hand back up and soon after that a weapon was formed from the ground.

Maka, shocked from the scene in front of her couldn't help, but stare with wide eyes.

"This is just the first part of the alchemy I learned. Here's something else that I learned as well." With that said, Ed placed both of his hands together, as if praying. Once he separated one of hands, a weapon formed in thin air.

"Wow, just wow!" Maka, exclaimed both amazed and intrigued.

Soon, after that Maka raised her arm and a blade of a scythe grew from her flesh.

The two brothers stared at her with shocked looks.

"Do you see this, guys? This is alchemy, right?" Maka asked both of them.

Ed ran up to her, touched her arm and feeling it in the process, he needed to make sure that it was flesh.

"Woah, she wasn't lying! This really came from her arm!" Ed informed his brother Al, still shocked by what Maka demonstrated.

"Wow, I've never seen anyone do alchemy without 2 arms on the transmutation circle! Let alone, doing it on the skin!" Al said excitingly to his brother and Maka.

"Doesn't it hurt a little bit? Is this some sort of alchemy we haven't heard of yet?" Ed asked her, still fascinated with the way that blade grew from Maka's body.

"No, don't worry. A lot of people can transform like this from where I come from." Maka answered both of them. "It doesn't hurt me one bit." After explaining, she let the scythe go back into her skin.

Ed just stared in shock again and said. "Whoa, just whoa."

Soon, everybody calmed down and Ed sighed. "Well, since you can't go back to your world, how about I at least help you get back on your feet."

His younger brother and their new friend looked both confused at that statement. Ed continued talking to her. "But in order to fix your problem Maka, we're going to have to pay a visit to an old friend, so she can help you stand up again."

At that statement, her eyes widened with disbelieve.

Al jumped up happily, he knew the person his brother was talking about very well. "Wait, you mean we're going to visit Winry?"

"Yep, the same. Won't she be happy to work on some automail for our dear new friend?" Ed smirked up at that statement. Winry was a good friend from their childhood, she was a very special girl who knew a lot about automail.

"Automail…?" Maka asked the brothers, she was a little confused about the automail part.

"Oh, yeah. I forgot to tell you, didn't I?" Ed rolled his jacket sleeve in order to show her his metal arm. "You see? It's all metal, it might take some time to get used to it. But don't worry, you'll get the hang of it."

Once again, completely shocked with widen eyes Maka had to ask Ed how was all this possible. "No freaking way! Is this true?! How is that even remotely possible?!"

At this comment, Al just simply laughed. Their new friend was like a little child when it came to stuff like this needing explanation. "It's really easy. You just connect it to the nerves."

Maka decided to think about this for a moment. What she saw and heard – could she really trust these two? Maka had just met them, but alas there was no one else who can help her. "Ok, but why should I trust you two? Give me one good reason why I should come with you."

The two brothers stared at her quietly. Thinking for a few minutes, Ed and Al had nothing to convince her, until Ed came up with an idea and said to her. "Well, you're right. We have nothing that can help you, but here is the alternative – you can remain on the streets without a leg or arm and may never walk again." He had an evil smirk plastered on his face - this was the only way the two can convince her to come to Winry's workshop.

Maka flinched at his words, it hit her like a knife to the heart. Alphonse Elric, on the other hand wasn't too happy about his brother using trickery on her.

"Brother, how could you! That was the lowest-" Just as Al was about to scold his brother for saying those words to Maka, she interrupted both of them.

"Ok, I guess you have a point. Let's go and see your friend Winry." She said to both of them.

Both of them stared at her, while Ed just grinned and said. "Ok then, Maka. Let's go and see our childhood friend Winry."

Damn, it's done! Well, two chapter are finished – all right! That's enough for this week. Please read it and tell me if there is something that needs to be corrected. Love the reviews you guys keep sending me! Keep them coming!

Next chapter, Maka and the boys meet Winry, while our favorite meister decides to tease Ed a little bit.

I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or Soul Eater – they are both owned by Square Enix. Love you all and enjoy! Chapter 5 – next week! See ya! Oh yeah, there will be Ed and Maka romance in the next chapter, so stay tuned!