OK! So this story has now TEN chappies of life; and like, 71+ reviews. Now that's quite the achievement of the month, haha. To celebrate it, this part is longer than the others... but don't get used to it! Haha...

CHAPTER TEN: The namesake

Namesake: two things that, being different, have the same name.

"There are surely loads of unnecessary races in here, huh?" Envy mused, and flipped the page of the book. He was all sprawled on the bed, browsing through a thick encyclopedia, deciding to which country he'd pretend to belong. The most similar to Amestris, at least to him, seemed to be one called 'Germany'. And so he went for it. Even if he pretended not to, he was having some fun. And now that he'd chosen his nationality, he could as well pick a name.

So much trouble when in the end he was just another foreigner in that melting-pot of a country that seemed to be called England.

Swinging his wand without looking, he hissed through his teeth, "Accio" and an English-German dictionary came floating hazily towards his hand. He started looking for the word 'envy', in it. "Neid" he read aloud. He twitched his nose. "Schneid was OK since the start, why did I even bother." he said. "I'll look for a last name later." he thought with laziness, picking both the dictionary and the encyclopedia, and throwing them across the room without a care. After all, those weren't precisely his books, so...

:ooo:ooo:

Apparently, Envy thought without much delight, there were mere weeks left before the start of 'classes'. In order not to degrade himself, he liked to think about it as a "temporary intelligence work", that would benefit him (and only him) on the long run.

Because it had been very humiliating if he hadn't.

Ack! He slapped his forehead. "I'm starting to be affected by this stinking place!" He was supposed to be thinking about his surname, not about nonsense!

Hmm... he should make it simple. So he wouldn't confuse it, or forget it. "Sin" he said unenthusiastically, and looked that up in the dictionary. "Fehler... Schneid Fehler." His eyebrow twitched. "That's so plain." he laid back on the bed, and let the thick book slide from his hands and fall to the floor. After a while, when he felt like starting again, he picked up the dictionary and stole a quick glance at the page he was currently in. "Von: (from a place, procedent of..) title of nobility..."

A grin spread across his face.

"Schenid Von Fehler..."

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"Hey there, foreigner!" a teen called. Ed spun around. "Foreigner?" he repeated, looking on with curiosity at the one who'd addressed him as such.

"Right, you." he said, catching up with Ed. "You're new to London. So where do you come from?"

"Far away" Ed answered flatly, still looking at the teenager with a wtf-look. "Oh, right. It's just that we don't see many people going around with a symbol of alchemy scribbled on their overcoats, pardon me."

Ed rolled his eyes, so as to hide his twitching eyebrow. "I'm a fan"

"Haha, alright. My name is Seamus Finnigan, by the by. And you're...?"

"Edward Elric..."

Seamus slapped his forehead. "Ah, right! You're the guy who was staying at Ron's huh? 'Guess I'll be seeing you at school in some weeks, then."

"Yeah, sure." Ed answered, with a tired sigh. "In some weeks..."

"I have to go now, man, so yeah, see ya. Just let me tell you..." he leant towards Ed a little, so as he would hear him when he whispered "Alchemy is a symbol of power in some circles, and that flamel stands for Eternal Life. Keep it down unless you want to catch the eye of some Death Eater." He winked at Ed.

"Later!" he called, and ran towards an elfin-looking woman who appeared to be his mother.

"Death Eater? What on Earth?" Ed said to himself (earning some hushing glares from passerbys...) "Awesome." he thought bitterly, "If there aren't homunculus, there sure will be homunculus-wannabes. I think I have discovered a new law of Alchemy."

Schneid von Fehler: word game in German. Neid means Envy; and according to my dictionary, Fehler is should be 'sin'. Schneid, even if it's a way of disguising the 'Neid', means by itself 'to cut'. So yeeeeeaah.

And I'll be creating some suspense; feel free to take some guesses:

How will Envy go into Hogwarts unnoticed?

How did Seamus know about the flamel?

WILL ED AND ENVY GO BACK TO THE WORLD BEYOND THE GATE?