~Ed's P.O.V~

The next morning Alex, Al, and I said goodbye to teacher and Sid. "Thanks for letting us stay here" Alex said. "You're welcome, have a safe trip" teacher said with a smile. Then she pulled me closer to her. "You better get her memory back Edward" teacher growled at me. "I-I will" I stuttered. She sighed and let go of me. We went off to Rush Valley after that. I wasn't too excited to go for 2 things. 1. Winry is going to kill me when she finds out what happened to my automail and 2. What if Alex finds out about everything? It would be nice to tell her but Rush Valley isn't the best place to tell her the truth. My thoughts were interrupted when Alex nudged me with her elbow. "Hey Ed you ok, you haven't said a word since we left Dublith?" she said in concern. I then noticed that we were already in the Rush Valley Train Station. 'Wow time really go by fast when you don't pay attention'. I smile at Alex "Yeah I'm fine just thinking" I told her. She didn't seem too convinced but she shrugged it off and let it go.

We soon walk to 'Atelier Garfield' where Winry was working at recently. I then see Winry walking out of the shop with a box which looked like automail parts inside it. She saw us and smiled "Hi Ed, hi Al what are you guys doing here?" she said. Instead of telling her what happened I lift up my almost dismantled automail arm and point at it with an innocent smile. Winry smiled bigger but I could tell she was extremely angry. All of a sudden she threw a wrench at me and started yelling at me. I then heard Alex giggle behind Al. Winry was looking around to see who laughed. She then spotted Alex and realized who it was. I noticed that she started to get all teary eyed, but it was barely noticeable. I gave her an 'I'll explain everything later' look. Then I panicked. I got up and ran beside Alex. "Oh uh this is Alex my new partner" I said quickly. It looked like she got the message because she blinked away her incoming tears and smiled. "Hi my name is Winry Rockbell" she said as she held out her hand. Alex took it and smiled also. I sighed in relief.

Me and Winry went into a room so she can work on my automail while Alex and Al were out in the city. 'Winry is gonna be pissed when I tell her'. As soon as I closed the door Winry hit me in the back of my head and whisper yelled and said "What happened?!". I couldn't blame her. I told her what me and Al found out about Alex and she was completely shocked. "Why haven't you both told her yet Ed" she said as she looked down. "We don't…-sigh- we don't know how to tell her" I said with a low voice. We then got off of that subject since it was too depressing and got back to automail. Winry patched me up a little bit and said that she needed to go get some parts to fix my arm. I thought that while she was doing that I would go with Al and Alex.

I looked around town for a while till I finally found them. They were looking into an alley. I walked over to them. "Did you guys find something?" I said while drinking my juice. "Well…kinda" Alex said looking back at me. Then Al turned around to face me while holding an unconscious guy by his shirt. I was so surprised that I spit out my drink. "What are we gonna do with him?" Alex asked while crossing her arms and thinking. We then hear the guy whisper "…food…".

Al, Alex, and I took him to a nearby restaurant. But as soon as we got there, he ordered EVERYTHING on the menu. 'I feel like we just got scammed'. "Thanks for the meal you guys, it's your treat right!" he said with a smile on his face. "I don't remember saying we were paying" I heard Alex say as she crossed her arms again. "Don't make such a big deal over something so small" he said jokingly. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING SMALL!" me and Alex yell. We then realized that we said it at the same time and we both burst out laughing. "How lucky I am to find such kindness from three strangers and so far from home and one them as beautiful as you" he said looking at Alex while she blushed. I then got angry. "Far from home? So you're not from here?" Al asked. "That's right, I'm from Xing" he said. Alex and I then got serious and said "Xing…that's the country East of the desert!" we said surprised. "Yeah, crossing that desert was the hardest thing to do" he said. "Why in the world would you take that route?" Al said dumbfounded. "Hmm…I wanted to visit the Ruins of Xerxes, that route goes by them" he said. Then me and Alex look at each other confusingly. "But there's nothing out there from what I've heard" Alex said.

The guy then started to talk about why he was in Amestris and how both of our countries have different customs, like they use alkahestry which is exactly like alchemy but they use it for medical purposes and we use alchemy mostly for military. "I wanna learn alkahestry" Alex blurted out suddenly while raising her hand like she was asking a question. "Yeah I'm curious about alkahestry, it's a branch of alchemy that's for medical uses" Al said. "Me too" I said agreeing with them. "By any chance are you three alchemists?" he asked us. "Oh yeah we are actually I'm Edward Elric a state alchemist, this here is Alex" I said while pointing at her. "Hey" she said waving. "She's also a state alchemist" I finish. "And I'm his younger brother Alphonse Elric, it's nice to meet you" Al says. "My name is Ling Yao, it's a pleasure" he said while he held out his hand. All three of us take it and we made like a group hand shake. "So Ling what else can you tell us about alkahestry" Alex said excitedly. "Nothing, sorry but I'm not really an alkahestris" Ling said happily. Al, Alex and I fell out of our chairs. "I f you don't practice alkahestry then why come all the way here!" I said irritably. "Well I'm looking for something, you guys should of heard about it, it's…the philosopher stone" he said the last part seriously. We were all shocked. From the corner of my eye I saw Alex clenched both of her fists but I ignored it. "I'm very eager to find it, do you guys know anything about it?" he asked. There was silence until I broke it. "No we can't help you" I said as I got up and started to leave. Alex hesitated but then followed me and Al. "You guys aren't lying to me now are you?" Ling said, and then he snapped his fingers. All of a sudden a guy then comes out of know where and holds a dagger like thing (shuriken) against mine and Alex's throats. I look over at Al for help but then see that there's another guy who has a sword inside Al's armor. 'Who are these guys?'. "Why do you want the philosopher stone so bad anyway" Alex said angrily. Ling smirked. "Immortality" he said with a big smile.

"So what do you know" he asked. "Immortality, please that's stupid" Alex said. "Not to me it isn't" he said. "It doesn't matter, I don't like the way you asked" I said as I threw the first punch at the guy but he dodged it and hit me and Alex on the shoulder. "Brother" I heard Al say until he was thrown down by the other guy. Al and I went our separate ways to fight these guys. Alex went with me to help me out. While we were fighting the mysterious guy, Alex and I find out that he's a girl! I was a little surprised but Alex didn't expect the least. Then she takes out a BOMB! She destroyed the place where we were battling. Luckily Alex and I dodged the attack. Then Alex gets an idea about trapping the girl. I broke my arm in half and set a trap and of course she fell for it. "Hey girly you better be careful, your just lucky no one got hurt" I said looking up to her. Alex giggled at the girl for being trapped.

"Brother, Alex!" Al yelled to us. He was carrying an old man that was tied up. 'That must have been the guy he was battling before'. "Good job guys" Ling said coming out of know where. "Why the hell are you so happy!" Alex yelled at him. "You guys should work for me since you all clearly have skills" he said. Then all the towns people started yelling at us about destroying half the town. I try to explain to everyone that it was Ling's fault but he pretended that he didn't know our language and left! "How am I going to fix all of this with one arm" I said. Al sighed. "Don't worry, me and Alex can do this" he said. Alex looked shocked. "But I don't wanna help…" she said under her breath while crossing her arms but I ignore it. "You can do alchemy without a circle?" I said surprised. "Yeah, I have been ever since I saw the truth" he said.

The sun has almost gone down so the three of us head back to Winry after Al and Alex finish re building the place "we" destroyed. "Were back" all 3 of us yelled at the same time. Then we see Ling at the table talking to Mr. Garfield. "Hello" Ling said like we were on good terms or something. All of a sudden Alex takes my automail arm from me and hits Ling on the head. I laughed while she yelled at him. As soon as I calmed down Alex, Ling said that the girl that we battled earlier was named Lan Fan and the old man was Fu and how they were his servants. He later tells us that he's a prince. There was silence in the room until Al, Alex, and I burst out laughing. 'Yeah right, him a prince please'. Then Winry comes and notices my arm. She then starts yelling at me and beats me up with her tools.

'Wow time really go by fast when you don't pay attention'