After the soldiers had left, Bido and Elyza returned to the part of the Devil's Nest where the fight with Edward had occured. They walked in slowly and Elyza covered her mouth. Broken pieces of wood and debris were everywhere. Some of the walls had huge dents in them and some of the spikes that Ed had used in the fight were stil there. Some of Greed's blood had dried onto the floor. As Elyza walked through the room, her heart began to shatter. She spotted Greed's vest on the floor and went to it quickly. She kneeled down beside it and picked it up gently as if it was a newborn child. She looked at it and smiled a little.

"Hey, Pink, why don't you just stay here? They can handle it. Just hang out with me for a bit and you can tell me more about that alchemy stuff, okay?" Greed's voice said through her mind.

"You're just a little badass, huh?"

You're such got a lot of moxie, kiddo. I like it.

Welcome to the Devil's Nest, babe. You're one of us now.

Tears poured down her face as she held the vest to her body and screamed out in a heartbroken rage as she sobbed.

You belong to me now and no one is gonna to mess with you.

She covered her face with his vest and sobbed so hard that her body trembled. Bido came up behind her and touched her shoulder.

"Miss Elyza...?" Bido said.

"I'm fine. Don't worry about me. Come on. Let's go." she said as she stood up.

She put her fallen protector's vest on and looked up at the ceiling.

"Money... power... status...sex...women... glory..." she said softly.

Bido looked at her as she closed her eyes.

"Greed, when I find you, I promise to help you get it all. I swear that on my life. I'll help you get what you want." she said.

With that, they left and Elyza looked back at the only home she'd ever known.

"Good bye... my safe house." she said as she touched the wall then departed.

Now, however, Elyza had unfortunately lost Bido during their travels after another run in with the military. Now, she was in Rush Valley trying to get some supplies and hopefully find her little lost chimera. She'd successfully stolen some more knives and was now getting away from the scene of the crime before someone figured out they were gone. She ran back into the little shop that she'd volunteered to work for. The man who owned it shook his head as she tried to catch her breath.

"You stole something again, didn't you?" he said.

She looked up and flinched a little. He grabbed her arm and pulled her over to him.

"It's not like I had any money." she said, starting.

"I don't pay you because you don't deserve it. You don't work the way I want you to." he said.

"Maybe if you explained things better, I could!" she defended.

He drug her to the door and threw her out. She landed on her backside and looked up at him.

"I don't need a thief here!" he screamed.

She got up and dusted herself off as the man slammed the door.

"Damn it." she said softly.

She began to walk with her head down as she thought of what to do next. Suddenly she ran into someone and fell down yet again.

"Ouch! Hey, you dumb ass! Watch where you're going!" she screamed.

"Oh, I'm sorry. That was my fault. Here, let me help you." a gentle male voice said.

Elyza rubbed her sore back and looked up. Before her was a young man who was pretty muscular but lean at the same time. His black hair was long and tied in a pony tail with white ribbon while his long, spiky bangs hang over his face, obscuring his right eye. His eyes were kind of squinted but he had a big smile on his face that span from ear to ear. He was loose white trousers and a golden rod shirt which bore a white flame pattern at the base and cuffs, small wing decorations at the collar. His chest was exposed and he had a Dao sword suspended across his back. The sword, rather than being sheathed, was wrapped in white tape. His forearms and abdomen are also wrapped in strips of white.

Elyza studied him for a second as he smiled even more then out stretched his hand. She flinched a little and looked at him like he was crazy.

"It's okay. I won't harm you. I'm sorry that I bumped into you. I hope you're okay." he said.

He had a calm and gentle air to him. For the first time since the incident at the Devil's Nest, she honestly felt safe around someone, like she could trust someone. She slowly took his hand and he heaved her back up to her feet. She dusted herself off and then looked at him again.

"You're not from around here, are you?" she asked.

"Nope. I'm from Xing. My name is Ling Yao." he replied.

"Xing? You crossed the desert?" she said.

"Yep. I was going to see the ruins at Xerxes then I ended up here." he said.

"Xerxes? I've heard of those. My name is Elyza by the way. Sorry for running into you. I wasn't paying much attention."

"Hey, it's no problem. Elyza, right? That's a cool name. I love your hair. I've never seen anything like it." Ling said.

Elyza blushed a little and looked away as she raked her fingers through it.

"Oh, umm.. Thanks." she mumbled.

"Well, I'd better be going." Ling said as he began to walk away.

"Hey, if you ever need some back up, come find me. I'm pretty good at getting out of a jam." she said.

"I'll keep that in mind." Ling said with a smile.

As he left, Elyza began to walk the other way. After a little bit, she heard a familiar voice and rage suddenly took her over as she turned toward the sound. About two yards away was none other than the Full Metal Alchemist. She grabbed one of her knives and slung it at him without hesitation. It stabbed into this shoulder and he turned around.

His eyes widen as he saw the girl behind him. Dressed in combat boots, black pants, and long sleeved white shirt with Greed's old vest over it. A silver necklace with an Ouroboros charm on it laid on the tan skin of her chest. Throwing knives were on her left hip and a gun was on the right side. Her piercing blue eyes burned into his soul and her pink hair floated in the air as she started him down like a lion staring at its prey.

"You're the girl from the Devil's Nest, right?" Ed asked.

"Yes, I am and you owe me for being those rats into our house. Now I will finally get our revenge!" she hissed as she used her bracelets to make a hand that ripped out of the ground and grabbed him.

He struggled to get free but it was too strong.

"Brother!" Al screamed as he ran to the giant hand.

Elyza repeated her transmutation and another hand grabbed Al.

"Stay out of this, tin can! This is between your brother and I." she said.

She pulled out one of her knives and held it to Ed's throat.

"No! Elyza, don't do! Why are you going to kill him?" Al yelled in a panic.

"He's the reason that my family is dead! He's the reason that Greed is gone!" she screamed back, still staring at Ed.

"What? Your family? You mean those chimeras?" Ed said.

"They were the only ones who ever treated me like I was worth anything! You and those military trash took Greed." she growled.

"The homunculus? Why do you care about it so much?" Ed said.

"Shut your mouth! Greed is not an it! He was my best friend and I depended on him! If you hadn't showed up, he'd still be here with me!" she screamed in rage.

"Elyza, you have it all wrong. We didn't hurt Greed or the chimeras." Al said.

"Liar!"

"No, I'm not! Greed was fighting me and my teacher but he ran off. I don't know what happened after that, I swear. As far as the chimeras, I didn't hurt any of them either. You're attacking the wrong guy." Ed said

"He's telling the truth. King Bradley killed the chimeras and Greed. I saw it." Al said.

Elyza looked at him.

"I tried to protect Martel but I failed. I'm sorry. I wish I could have done more." Al said softly.

Elyza's eyes widened and she lowered her knife before looking down.

"Martel? You tried to protect her? Then that means.. that means you really didn't help Bradley." she said.

"Exactly. I didn't kill your precious homunculus or your chimera pals other than our fight. So you need to calm down and let me go. " Ed said.

She put her knife back to his throat.

"Don't give me orders! That's Greed's special right, not yours." she hissed.

"Elyza, we're going to Central after here. Why don't you join us and maybe you can get some answers about where Greed is." Al said.

Elyza looked back and then at the ground.

"No." Elyza said softly.

"You don't have anywhere else to go." Ed said.

"I don't need your damn pity." she growled under her breath.

"If you want to go with us, we'll let you. We know who bad it is to be alone." Al said.

"Shut up! You two have each other! All I had was Greed! You know anything about me." she screamed.

"Look, if you want to get an answers then you need to be a little bit of a team player here!" Ed said.

Elyza's mind replayed a memory as she looked down.

Greed smirked and sit behind her. He pulled her bracelets out of his pocket, placed them into her hand and closed it into a fist. Then he removed his vest and draped it over her shoulders. She looked up in shock but he merely smirked.

Elyza put her knife back in its place and pulled her vest back onto her shoulders before destructing the hands.

"Find me before you leave. If you leave me here, then I'll hunt you down and kill you both." she said in a low tone.

"Fine. We'll do that. By the way, why did you open the portal?" Ed said.

"Huh? What portal?" she said.

The Elrics looked at each other confused.

"You don't use a transmutation circle, right?" Al said.

Elyza laughed which only confused them more.

"You guys feel for my little trick." she said, holding up her wrists.

Her braclets shined in the sunshine light and the craved transmutation circles caught their eyes.

"Nice move." Ed said, with a smile. "That's why you trained with Mustang and Roy, isn't it? They use similar methods."

"Yep. By the way, how is old Mustang doing? I haven't seen him in ages."

"He's fine, I guess. He's an asshole most of the time." Ed said.

"I expect nothing less. I didn't cut you by the way, did I?" she said.

Ed touched his neck.

"No, you didn't. What's up with the sudden mood change?" he asked.

"You're not an enemy now. I wanted revenge on you for killing my friends but you didn't do it so getting even wouldn't make sense. I still don't trust you and I'm not your ally yet but I won't kill you." she said.

"Fine. Well, we'll find you before we leave." Ed said as they started to walk away.

Elyza watched them for a second.

"Hey, Metal Boy!" she said.

Al looked back.

"Yes?"

"I owe you one for looking out of Martel. I'm grateful for your bravery. That's the main reason I'm cutting you two some slack. Martel was like a sister to me. Thank you."

Al nodded and the two left as Elyza went the other direction. As she walked, she looked up.

"I'm coming for you, Bradley. I'll make you pay for this. You might have taken my family but I'm not just going to lay down. I might have been a dog of your military.. but I'm no one's bitch!"