*Slams head on desk a few times* I had so much Writers block with this chapter, and I knew what I wanted to do and such. it helps when I get to listen to music though. I hope it won't be this bad later on. Thank you all who gave reviews and watched this fic. My editor said this one feels rushed and I kinda agreeish on it due to the block I had. I will probably rewrite it later as i get closer to the end of the fic.

Disclaimer… I don't own Fullmetal Alchmest, Nor Touhou. Hiromu Arakawa owns FMA and Zun Owns Touhou. Thank you.

Note: This is Manga version of FMA. Any lines that are said between characters come from and normally are verbatim unless I need to add the Gensoykoen's into it.


CH. 9 Reuntion of the Phoenix and the Witch

Amestris: Resembool: Rockbell household

Edward was on the phone, talking with a teacher of his as Marisa and Nitori get packing to head out. The exercise with the shoveling bothered she arm to much to be any help though so Marisa just listens into Ed's conversation. From what she could hear, He was talking to his teacher and the conversation was about something similar to the thing they buried and made a grave for back up on the hill. The conversation abruptly stopped and a chick of returning the phone to its base was heard as she sits up straight and looks as Edward walks back into the room.

"Sounds like that could have gone better." Marisa says to ed as he goes to sit down.

"Yea I guess. Though I was half expecting her to yell or threaten me really." Ed pauses as he looks at Marisa. "Thank you by the way, for the help."

"Not a problem, Yo. It was just a bit of equivalence. I still owe more really for learning such a dark secret." She smiles a bit at him. "How about I tell you about myself and where and how-"Marisa was cut off by a scream from upstairs from Nitori. The two of them suddenly stand up and rush to head upstairs.

"Nitori! What's wrong!?" Marisa asks as she rushes into the room to find Nitori holding Martel. "What? What are you doing here?"

"Like I was going to be left behind with that doll obsessed girlfriend of yours, No I came to find Mokou." The vibrated voice of Martel rings out to answer her. This made Edward freeze up behind Marisa. The Doll looks at him in a surprise as his expression turns from confusion to shock and then anger.. Within a blink of an eye, Ed had turned and grabbed Marisa by the color and slammed her against the closest wall.

"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Edward growls out with a glare that could melt metal.

"Wh-Wait a moment." Nitori squeaks out before Marisa puts her hand up to stop her.

"I- I was an idiot. It was my biggest mistake that I was made to do that not only ruined my life, but those of my friends whom know of it and one I thought I lost because of it." A grimace forming her face as she speaks. Seeing the sorrow in her eyes, Edward relaxes his grip a bit.

"Explain." Ed says in a tough tone.

and with that, the Gensoykoians told the tale of how this all started, with Mokou being used with the first circle, to the depression to being made to do it a second time. Meeting Truth, Getting Patchouli's philosopher's stone and using it to get past Truth to arrive at the Rockbell's shop. Fullmetal listened quietly to them as they told there tale, though his expressions of anger and understanding shown through out the telling. Once they came to the end, the two girls and doll looked at Edward.

Taking in a deep breath and exhaling it out, ED open his eyes and spoke.

"That." he pauses, looking round the circle they formed while telling the story, with a face of disappointment, "was probably the most stupid and idiotic set of events. I don't understand how you-" Edward jabs a metal finger at Marisa. "could make your friend try something that dangerous. You didn't even know what it would do!." Marisa hangs her head at the lecture.

"And you." Edward turns to Nitori. "Provided not only the first time materials but did it again even after you knew of the disastrous was you thinking?" Nitori dips her head in shame as well.

"What's more, you used a Philosopher stone. Do any of you know what it is made of?" Edward ask them as they raise there heads back up at the question. After a moment silence, Edward sighs and answer them. "It's made from human souls." This made there eyes widen quickly in surprise.

"L-looks like i got a few words for Patchy if we get back to Gensoyko." Marisa finally speaks after a few moments of quiet. She looks at Edward, hoping this made the mood a bit lighter. She shrank back when she found it didn't.

"I should give you two the biggest lecture of your lives and then turn you in for committing Alchemy's biggest taboo." Ed pauses as like to be in thought. "but that would make me a hypocrite." The three of them look at him in confustion. "You have know by know that I made that same mistake to try and bring back my mother, and I can tell from how you told your story that you will never do it again."he looks at Marisa, knowing she didn't do it to bring back anyone she loved but to help a friend with an impossible project. "I do have one question though, how did you get Martel's soul without having to pay with your life?"

"That's easy to answer." Marisa speaks up as her mood returns slowly to normal. "I used a soul mushroom, Ze." She pulls one of the three she has on her to show as Edward looks at her and it skeptically. She drops it into his hands, which causes his eyes to widen as he feels the energy from it. "You feel it, don't ya? I hypothesized that these shrooms have just enough energy to draw a soul in when used right. I found them growing by the river's edge and at Hakugyokurou's garden."

"Youmu won't be happy" Nitori deadpans as Edward quickly gives back the mushroom.

"Hey, shrimp." Martel's hollow voice rings out.

"WHO YOU CALLING A DOLL THE SIZE FOR A DOLL?! YOU AREN'T SO BIG YOURSELF YOU KNOW!" Ed freaks out as he points at the doll that is Martel. Marisa and Nitori look at Ed with a bit of concern but doesn't say anything.

"I didn't say all that, anyways. I got a question. You seem to know Mokou."

"Yea, a bit. what of it?"

"Do you think she will be happy to see me again? even like this?" Edward's fuming fades away faster than any of his short rages had ever done before.

"Of course she will be. She said all of you there was her friends."

"But I'm a doll. even if I look like I did, I'm just that" Martel hangs her head. "A doll."

"You are Human!" Ed shouts at Martel. "Don't ever think different. You are still human." This makes the three of them look at Edward in awe. "Now then. We should get everything ready quickly or we're going to miss the train." The three of them nod to Edward and rush to finish up packing. Nitori taking Martel with her.

"One thing I don't get, Martel. Marisa left you with Alice, so why are you here?" Nitori ask the doll quietly. Martel turns and looks up at her.

"Mokou needs me more than that puppet freak." She simply replies.


Gensoyko: Forest of Magic: Alice's House.

Alice frowns as one of her doll's bring in the Bunbunmaru Newspaper that sports the title of 'MARISA MISSING' Gensoyko's second best incident solver missing for a week now. She opens up the paper to the articular inside. The puppeteer was wondering where Marisa had gone off to.

"It's will probably just give some BS reason or something." Alice mummers to herself as she reads.

My search for information on the whereabouts of the Gensoyko's self proclaimed 'ordinary witch' starts with the disappearance of Fujiwara No Mokou, whom when to Marisa's household a month or so ago and disappeared completely. Some rumors say she found a way to kill immortals, others say she sent her off to the out side world and made it that even the Gap Hag can't even find her. ever since that day, most to all reports of those around Marisa said she was down and depressed. She did weird things during the time too and would only talk with Yukari, Remiu, Nitori and rarely Alice. We got an eye witness of one weird event right before her disappearance.

"Huh? The Black white? Yea I saw her on her last break in to the Scarlet Devil place. She and the Kappa girl flew in with a big bag that looked full. I though it was weird but she's always going there to take stuff, right? I know it. I am a genius after all. I waited outside to see the fun and such, but nothing came. No yelling or explosions at all. I waited till it got dark then I went back to the lake cause it was boring." -Cirno (9)

After that I went to the Scarlet Devil Mansion and found that everything Marisa took from there was returned. After such I went to Rinnosuke's junk shop and found that he had gotten a lot of things back and given to him by Marisa as well. From his description, Marisa seemed happy, almost manically happy. After this, nothing else has came up on the location of where Marisa has gone off to. Those I have asked think she's probably off somewhere after some rare treasure but I think differently. To those who know Marisa, she likes to brag about everything she gets. One of her most famous lines being that "I'm just borrowing it. You'll get it back after I die, Ze." This makes me think something darker has happened to our favorite Kleptomaniac. My theory is that she when off to the Bamboo Forest of the Lost to comment suicide over the fact of what she did to Mokou. In my spare time, I shall be searching for her or her body, which I find first if I even find anything. As everyone knows, those Youkai in the Bamboo forest won't hesitate to eat people. This is Aya Shameimaru, flying by.

Alice almost drops the paper as she reads it. 'Marisa, Dead? It couldn't be.' race through her head as she ponders what happened a week ago.


Gensoyko: Forest of Magic: Alice's House: one Week ago.

Alice was making her dolls clean her home, waiting for that moment that her studies would be disturbed by her favorite person in Gensoyko, Marisa. It had been over a month now and she was getting a it antsy. She wondered what and how the experiment she was doing was going when a knock on the door shook her out of her thoughts. She made her best doll, Shanghai, open the door.

"Yo, Alice!" came the voice she was hoping to hear. This made her rush down the stairs, abandoning her books and studies as she goes. Alice happily turns the corner to the front room and stops at the sight of Marisa. The first look told her that Marisa was missing her left arm.

"Wha-What happened to your arm?" Alice asks shakily as she slowly steps forward. "It's j-just a joke right? it's invisible right?" Alice goes to grip where her wrist would be and found thin air. Marisa just smiles in a grim way.

"It's gone, Ze." She finally says to Alice, whom keeps looking for fruitlessly. "But don't worry about that, Yo. I got you a gift."

"A gift? No Marisa, We got to do something about your missing arm." Alice says as she turns to get something, but it stopped my Marisa.

"I said don't worry about it, Yo." Marisa pulls Alice close to her and with her hand turns Alice's face close to hers, almost touching lips. "Just calm down and enjoy our time together." This made Alice shiver a bit as Marisa slowly undid the closeness to get to her bag which she dropped right beside the door. "Here we go, Da, Ze." Alice watches as she gets out a shoe box size box, wrapped in seven color wrapping paper with a white and black bow tied around it. Marisa turns and hands it to her.

"T-thank you." Alice replies to the gift and carefully opens it. Inside was a doll, perfectly human like. Looking closer at it, it blinks its eyes and stands up in the box.

"Who are you?" The hollow echoing voice emanate from the doll before turning it's head toward Marisa. "Hey! I didn't agree to this, Marisa."

"A-A living Doll?" Alice looks up from doll at Marisa. "Is this a joke?"

"Who are you calling a joke? I am alive here." Martel scowls at Alice while Marisa grins.

"She is alive, Ze. I made her for you, was quiet hard ya know." the Witch brags a bit before turning her attention to Martel. "I need you to watch over her for me, Yo. I can't have my precious thing stolen." This made Alice blush a bit as Martel sits and pouts a bit.

"This is amazing. but how?" Alice asks after her face turned back to her normal color.

"That I can't tell ya. It's to dangerous. You are on the right track though with the way you want to go by it though." Marisa says as she puts her arm around Alice, hugging her from behind.

"Is that how you-" Alice was interrupted by Marisa putting her finger to her lips.

"Don't worry about it. Just don't try it and don't rip Martel to shreds either, She does want to keep living." Marisa almost whispers in her ear.

Martel looks around, away from the two girls so not to have to watch such romantic bull crap. She notices how clean and nice the place was compared to Marisa's place. She watches the dolls going around doing the chores even while the puppeteer being distracted. 'That's impressive' Martel thinks as she hops out of the box to explore. The household, even with the piles of books, sewing and scraps of cloth, wood, and other materials, was surprisingly well organized and clean. After five more mins of exploring Martel could hear Marisa talking again.

"I got to go now. Got something I got to do and it can't wait." Marisa speaks softly to Alice.

"But why? can't you stay longer, Please?" Alice complains as Marisa pulls from her grasp and reclaims her hat from the floor.

"Ze... Sorry Alice. This is really important and has to be done." Marisa replies sadly as she gives Alice a small kiss on the cheek. "Take care of Martel, ok?"

"I will." Alice nods to Marisa as she picks up her bag, pulls her broom from it and opens the door. The Kappa girl was outside, waiting at the edge of her property. As Alice watches Marisa wave to her as she closes the door, a feeling of loneliness fills the household. She turns to go pick up Martel to find she had wandered off. She spent the next two days looking for the doll.


Gensoyko: Forest of Magic: Alice's House: Present time.

Dread fills Alice as she remembers that day. She didn't think about it like that and even distracted herself from the feeling she was feeling since then by searching for Martel, whom she just though was being shy and/or nervous about being with a new owner. She frantically looks around as she grips her chest in fear.

"Marisa can't be. No She isn't. She just can't." Alice starts to speak to herself as one by one her dolls drop lifelessly to the floor till only Shanghai was floating next to her. Almost drowning in her dread, she thinks of one person who may know or be able to help find Marisa.

"Shanghai, I think we need to go see the Red White. Don't you think?" She asks the doll floating next to her. The Doll nods as to say yes as they leave the house.


Gensoyko: Hakurei Shrine.

Remiu took one read of the article and scoffed at it. The Crow really must want to be roasted.


Gensoyko: Human village.

Kenie picks up the paper as she is getting snacks for her class and frowns at the article. She knew her friend was missing but she didn't know it was Marisa's fault.

"If she wasn't missing, I would have a few questions for that witch." Kenie says as she folds it under her arm as she goes on her way to find ice cream for Cirno's snack.


Gensoyko: Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Patchouli is handed the Paper, takes one look and puts it down. She simply asks Sakuya to see about getting a certain crow Youkai as the main dish for that days supper and leaves it to that as she picks up a dusty book to read.


Amestris: Central: Hotel.

After a long quiet train ride, that consisted with a small chewing out of Martel not staying with Alice, an exploration of the train and lots of questions of the conductors by Nitori, and long hours of looking out at the passing landscape or sleeping, Edward and Co walks into the hotel as Winry is on the phone.

"Hey Winry" Ed says to get her attention and almost immediate regrets it as she just almost pounces on him calling him an idiot. "What gives? If this is about my Automail, I didn't break it!"

"That's not it, Just hurry up and go see Al." Winry yells, pushing Edward as he asks what she is doing. She gives him a face and he calms down. The whole scene just watched by the two girls who came in with Edward. With a srug, the two of them follow quietly. They follow them up and watch as Ed yells about what happened to Al, then the kicking out of the Xing Prince and his guard before they closed the door.

"Looks like they need some time to catch up, Ze." Marisa grins as Ling and Lanfan get up.

"Who are you two?" Lanfan immediately got into a defensive position.

"Marisa Kirisame, an ordinary Witch of Gensokyo. Nice to meet you." Marisa grins and holds out her Automail hand.

"Nitori Kawashiro" Nitori says with a bow.

"Prince Ling of Xing, you say you are from Gensoyko?" Ling asks as he takes Marisa's metal hand and plants a kiss to it's back. "Lanfan, didn't our friend say something like that?"

"I believe so, my Prince." Lanfan replies, still not trusting the two of them. At this moment, Mokou decides to step out into the hall way since Edward's return, the noise around seem not to stop.

"Hey, what's going-" Mokou pauses as she see's Marisa and Nitori there. "You. You're here. What the Hell?! Should I be blaming Yukari?"

"Not this time, Yo." Marisa says with a big grin as she turns to head toward her. Right before she gets to Mokou though, she is whacked in the head.

"You baka, what the hell made you come here and drag Nitori here as well?!"

"ow ow owowow." Marisa bends on her knees while holding her head. "That's some welcome, Ze." This made the two of them stop and snicker before laughing out loud. "You can blame that on the Gap Hag though. She ain't here. The Truth wouldn't let her." This made Mokou blink and wonder how powerful Truth really was. Before she could reply though, a person from the front desk came to inform Ed he has a phone call from Izumi Curtis, then turns to the group to go to there rooms and not clutter up the hallway. They do go to there room but go to follow Ed to listen quietly on what is going on. After listening in slightly they follow them back to the room. As Winry stops to observe Edward, Marisa takes this chance to introduce herself.

"Looks like you got a crush on him, Yo." she says right next to her ear, causing Winry to jump and whack Marisa over the head with a wrench.

"Ouch, that had to hurt." Mokou comments as Marisa holds her head and checks for blood.

"Who are you, and who is that?" Winry asks as she notices Nitori standing by Mokou.

"Name's Marisa Kirisame, That's Nitori Kawashiro and We come from where Mokou comes from. Also I'm the shrimp's new apprentice, Ze." Marisa exclaims. This earns her a shocked expression from Winry, a chuckle from Mokou, and a stone palm to half smash her into the wall by Edward for calling him a shrimp which knocked her out. By the time she awoke, she was on the couch as Winry half complaining about Edward surrounding himself with woman. ("It's Not like that!" Edward yells but his cry fall on deaf ears.) and half jabbering away with her new friend Nitori whom was begging to become her apprentice. Ed and Al was discussing something among themselves and Mokou had already discovered Martel and was in a crying heap of happiness while almost squeezing the life out of Martel. Marisa rubs her head and grins.

"Things seem to be looking up, Da, Ze."


Finally done with this chapter. It took me a lot to get this one done, but it will be better now. I do have to say I hated making Alice worry so much. I am really an AlicexMarisa fan, though I gave a though just today of AlicexPatchy due to the fact of what if they got together over there upset at Marisa's Heart breaking/stealing ways. anyways. I had fun with this chapter and I hope you will too. Let me know what you think, I get really happy to see reviews.

PS: I have found myself in a bit of a bind since I finished this and haven't gotten started on the next chapter as of this posting, I may be late in the next two weeks as I have not only have two days again on the weekend at work to make these chapters, but I need to find a new monitor for the laptop my wify broke. if I can find that I'll have my own computer. Also distractions from Blazeblue Chronophantasma Extend and I finally got Majora's mask for the 3DS. I will be working on it as much as I can with what time I can, I'll try to keep my plot bunnies in there pins as playing BBCP:EX has pulled up some other stories I wanna make but till I have a comp of my own, I dare not write less this or any other stories I make go the way of the Dodo... anyways, ones more I hope you enjoy this chapter. Please give me a review aswell.