Greetings! I got quite a few surprises for you all in this chapter. I thank you all my wonderful readers.

Special Thanks to:

Eclipsewings- Fret no more for here is the next chapter. I don't know if this will be the reaction you were thinking off, but I hope it's still good.

Innocent Failure- Just keep on reading, keep on reading XD

KawaiiNekotan- thanks for reading and here's another chapter.

Anyways I thought I would clear something up for you guys, even though no one asked. It's about the ages, just so you know.

Ed is 16.

As you know Serena is 15

And Al is also 15.

God the following scene makes me think of pedos. I was laughing while writing this.

Warnings: as usual possible OOCness, possible language and the usual Envy-ness

Enjoy~

Should I or shouldn't I mess with them? Envy asked himself.

As always however he went with the answer of yes, he just had to mess with them.

The Homunculus's menacing grin widened as he looked at Ed, then he turned to face the now pale faced silverette. He grabbed Serena by the collar of her t-shirt and brought her close to his possible the emerald eyed teen became even paler, and the only thought in her head was.

He's gonna kill me, I'm gonna die.

Oddly enough and much to her shock instead of being killed like she predicted, Serena felt a pair of lips press against her own. For a fraction of a second she forgot that the one initiating the kiss was in fact a Homunculus. Then abruptly her world came crashing back down and she tried to fight Envy off, but her cursed body betrayed her and she found herself shyly kissing back.

As soon as it started the kiss ended leaving Serena to turn a shocked gaze upon Edward, who looked just as shocked as she was.

The silverette fought back the urge to blush by becoming angry at the Homunculus.

The teen stood up, which made Envy back away from her a few steps. Serena went to glare at his face, but found it impossible to do right away since they were not of the same eye level. The emerald eyed teen's head only came up to Envy's chin.

She cursed uncharacteristically under her breath and craned her head back slightly to glare at the shape-shifter. She found that Envy was staring down at her with an unsettling grin.

The silver haired girl slowly inched her way to safety and hid behind Al. The now pissed blond haired alchemist immediately went to attack Envy. Serena was quite content in cowering behind Al. The armor just patted her head in assurance.

The green haired menace expertly dodged both Ed and Al and grabbed Serena's arm, pulling her to him.

Again his touch caused the same reaction like before, but before a power rebound could happen again he hoisted the girl over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Said silverette squawked indignantly at Envy's actions.

"Hey chibi, if you want her back you have to take her from me." The shape-shifter told the blond.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL THAT AN ANT COULD STEP ON HIM?" The short blond exploded.

"Brother is this really the time for that?" Al asked with a sigh.

Ed calmed down and glared at Envy, who took it as a challenge. He turned around and started running away from the Elrics with his cargo. Serena started shrieking only to be silenced when Envy hit her roughly on the back with his free hand. She yelped and started to squirm, trying to get away from the Homunculus. The shape-shifter gave her a rough shake to get her to stop.

The silver haired girl became hopeless as she found no way of getting away without receiving some kind of pain. Soon she heard quick footsteps coming up towards them.

The silverette raised her head and saw Ed trying to gain ground, a bit away was Al trying to catch up to his brother. She gave Ed a small panicked smiled and reached a hand out towards the blond.

Edward made to grab her hand but at the last minute Envy quickly sped up. The blond alchemist was quickly becoming frustrated with the Homunculus. He clapped his hands together and slammed them down on the ground as quickly as possible. Two stone hands came out of the ground and wrapped around Envy's legs, stopping his movement.

However due to the momentum, Serena helplessly flew forward from Envy's grasp. Ed's eyes widened and he ran past Envy to catch his friend.

"Gotcha." The short blond said as the girl slammed into him, but he stood his ground so they didn't topple over.

"Thank you Ed." She said to him.

Edward set her down on her feet and they all turned to look at Envy. He had gotten out of the hold of the two stone hands, and was looking back at them.

The green haired menace suddenly grinned menacingly again and walked toward Serena, who shrunk back besides Ed.

The golden eyed teen was ready to attack, and the silverette was tense. The Homunculus simply ruffled the girl's hair and fled from sight. Leaving the three now confused teens staring after him.

"What was that all about?" Al asked.

"I dunno, but Serena you have some explaining to do." The blond alchemist said.

"I-I don't know what you're talking about." The emerald eyes teen replied.

"If you don't explain yourself, I will tell Mustang that you are friends with the enemy." Edward said sternly.

Serena gulped nervously and paled slightly. She definitely could imagine what Roy would do to her. It included a lot of fire.

She let out a nervous laugh, she couldn't tell them the truth right away so she just fed them a lie.

"I just ran into him and we started talking, that's all." The silverette told them, this wasn't a complete lie however.

"Uh-huh. That's it we aren't leaving you alone anymore." Ed told her, as he grabbed her by the ear and dragged her back to the hotel.

Serena squawked indignantly in protest, as she let the blond drag her.

"Ed! Stop pulling me by the ear!" The silverette protested.

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Once they made it to their hotel room, the blond set her on one of the beds and sat down besides her. Al settled down by the foot of the bed the two other teens were on.

Serena and Ed both sat comfortably cross-legged on the bed, facing each other.

"Serena, you don't have to hide anything from us." The blond haired alchemist said.

"I'm not hiding anything." The emerald eyed teen said softly, as the cat went to sit by her.

Edward's golden eyes bore into her face trying to find answers. Suddenly Serena felt the urge to tell Ed everything, but she knew she couldn't instead she settled on saying a simple none too revealing truth. Maybe it was something in the blond's look that drove her to the decision.

"Ed, to tell you the truth Envy was the one finding me and talking to me. Though he never tried to do any harm to me. Just mostly messes around with me." She said to her friend.

Serena's mind suddenly drifted to the earlier kiss.

Was he just messing with me then too? Damn him. She thought.

"Although it unsettles me that he knows so much." The silverette added as an afterthought.

"Envy is a sneaky little bastard." The golden eyed teen told her.

Serena gave him a small smile and picked Shadow up, bringing the feline close to her face. She inspected his passive expression suspiciously and set him back down. Afterwards she gave the cat a good smack to the head, as she suspected him of planning a conspiracy against her. The silverette looked back at her blond haired friend as if nothing had happened. The alchemist seemed completely un-phased by her actions.

The rest of the time they spent in the hotel room, was spent studying. Al was playing with a miffed Shadow on the floor. Meanwhile Ed and Serena were still on the bed. One of the silverette's arms was firmly in the blond's grasp as he studied the alchemical arrays on that arm.

"Do you know what there are for?" The silver haired girl asked her friend.

"Not yet, I'll need to do some research once we get back to Central." Edward answered.

"Hmm…okay." She said, as Ed switched his studying to her other arm.

Envy was getting more frustrated as he watched Serena and the Elrics. As if Mustang wasn't enough to deal with, the Elrics were also becoming close friends with Serena. This made it harder to turn her against the military. The Homunculus was becoming angrier as his plan was slowly starting to spiral out of his control.

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The day to report back to Central came quickly and without much problem. Well besides that on the way to the train station Serena tripped and fell hard, scrapping her cheek, palms and knees. This ended up in a long train ride with sniffling, complaining and a very annoyed Ed.

When they arrived at the train station in Central the teens looked around to see if anyone was there to pick them up. None of them spotted anyone so they headed in the direction of the HQ.

"Do you think Mustang is still working?" Serena asked, shuffling along painfully behind Ed.

"It isn't late, so I'm sure he still is." Al told the girl.

Somewhere along the train ride Ed had bandaged her bleeding scrapes, but they still hurt.

"Roy's gonna kill you Ed, I'm all covered in bandages." The silverette told the blond.

"I know, but he's going to have to beat me in a fight first." The golden eyed alchemist replied.

Soon they reached the HQ and from there they made their way to Mustang's office. Along the way they met up with Riza who stopped to greet them.

"Glad to see you all in one piece." She said. "Mostly." She added after looking at Serena.

"Is the Colonel in his office?" The short blond asked.

"Yes." The blond woman replied gravely.

None of them caught the grave tone that Riza had and went on ahead to Mustang's briefly knocked on the door and stood back to wait.

"Come in." Came the answer.

The blond teen opened the door and they all walked in. Serena set Shadow down on the floor and quickly went over to Roy.

"We're back." The silverette said as she stood in front of Mustang's desk.

The raven haired man looked up from his desk. Once he saw Serena his expression became grave.

"W-What is it Roy? Don't be mad, I just tripped it wasn't the boys' fault." The silver haired girl said quickly.

The Colonel's expression softened and he stood up taking Serena to the couch. They both sat down upon it and Mustang motioned for the boys to come. Ed and Al went to stand in front of the two sitting on the couch.

"Serena, while you were away I found out something." The Colonel began, his voice grave.

"What is it Roy?" She urged, petting the cat as he sat next to her legs.

"I was looking into some files trying to find some clue on your past. I stumbled upon a crazy alchemist by the name of Abel Woods, so I looked into it. I found out it was your father, since he had a daughter named Seerna Woods who fit your description." The raven haired man explained.

"My father? You found him? Where is he?" Serena asked brightening as her hopes rose.

"I'm sorry, but the files say he died during a transmutation of unknown nature." Mustang said softly.

The silverette's eyes began to tear up as her hopes were shot down and torn into a million pieces.

"He's dead?" She said in a small voice.

"I'm sorry." Roy said softly.

This chapter made me both sad and giggly. Giggly because of the scene with Envy, Serena, Ed and Al and sad because of the ending. Also Envy is so abusive. Thanks for reading and keep the wonderful comments going. Hold on I have one more thing to say. Can anyone guess as to why the arrays on Serena's arms react to Envy's touch in such a way. Anyone who guesses correctly or the closest gets a cookie.