Me: hello all! Look I did not keep you waiting this time!

Kana: And we are all grateful for that, I swear the way we left the other chapter like that for 3 months… I thought the Reader's would have murdered us for that

Me: well if they did that then there would be no more Cruel Alchemy

Kana: true

Sam: I for one am glad you didn't make them suffer for long this time… you should have seen them they were frothing at the mouth and snapping at each other over the tiniest things

Angie: reminded me of a pack of rabid wolves

Chapter 10: We ask for some Official Training

Sam's POV

Okay so, we ate dinner then Izumi gave us a room. She said she would not tolerate me sleeping on the couch. In other words she said that if I did so again she would kick my ass so hard I would not be able to stand for a week. Needless to say I didn't fight her on that subject. She would have given us separate rooms but we were cool with sharing a room. I would be fine on the floor because it is surprisingly more comfortable.

'Sides I would sleep in my snow leopard form. Anyway as soon as we were in the room Angie locks the door.

"Okay spill, who did you fight?"

I sighed, "Yeah the one who I fought was a Homunculus." Her eyes went wide.

"But how? I mean I'm sure by now Envy would have killed Hughes, the others would not have made a move since."

"You forget the fact that we are here now. Just us being here have either screwed with the timeline, or that it was just different that the manga and both anime's to begin with."

"You could have a point there, so who was it that you fought?" she asked moving off the storyline subject

"His name was Sin. I remember him from my time in the Lab. He was there over seeing the scientists that made me like this."

"Well that explains who he was but, why did he come after you?"

"That my dearest friend is something that I will never know. But before he completely went to dust or faded away, however you want to view it, he said this to me and I quote 'Thank you young chimera.'" I said quoting the dead homunculus

"That's strange for a homunculus to say."

"Right?"

"Well let's just get some sleep, granted we won't tell anyone else this crap were discussing."

"Naturally." With that final word said I changed in to my leopard form, found a nice corner, I feel safest in a corner… weird I now but oh well, and fell in to a happy dream sleep.

Or at least it started out that way.

I was in the mountains. It felt like home to me. The patches of snow, the green, green grass, the flowers. The clear skies, the clean air. Not to forget the breath taking view of the mountain range. The prey was plenty; there were even other snow leopards. They beckoned me with their tails, I followed. They greeted me warmly. And for once in my life I actually felt accepted.

But twas not to be. Then everything went black. I looked around in fright at the dark void that surrounded me. My tail curled itself around my back leg; my ears went flat, my claws unsheathed. Then in front of me was a giant Oroborous tattoo.

I woke with a jolt. It was still an hour before sunrise from what I could tell. I sighed and tried to lay my fur flat again. This due to the dream had risen. I changed to my humanoid form and quietly padded to the door, I unlocked it as silently as I could. Thank Truth Angie is a heavy sleeper. I thought as I exited the room. I crept through the silent house, grateful for my careful paw- steps.

It took me little time to reach my destination. The roof. I may be afraid of heights but there was something about a nice tall tree or a roof if I could not find a tall enough tree, which made a great place for me to think. I sat at the edge of the flat roof of Izumi's home and looked to the beautiful moon. Odd, I thought to myself, I often fantasized being crossed with a wolf so I could finally sing my heart out to the pack that lived by my used to be home. But on the other paw I kind of always was partial to being a cat. What with their flexibility, stealth, and balance. I shook my head trying to rid myself of those thoughts. That was not what I wanted to think about at the moment.

What I wanted to think about was why the Oroborous symbol appeared in my dream. Why did that show up? What does it mean? Is it a warning? All sorts of questions ran through my head. Sure I had had the occasional weird dream, but this was beyond what I have ever had before. I was completely lost to what I should do. So once more I looked at the moon. I had always liked the night. It was beautiful yet dangerous.

It was calming, it was frightening. It could send chill down your spine, yet it would also ease the heart. It could be romantic or it could be a nightmare. I hugged my knees close to my body. Honestly I think the only person who could sort of connect with me was Ang. Sure I have had friends over the years. But none as true as her, one of my friends from Middle School betrayed me. She quit being my friend, she tried to make up for it years later when we were in Junior High, but, she was never really my friend anymore. Merely an acquaintance, someone you know but you don't know anything about them. When I finally went to High School I went to a different one than her, I thanked God that day. To me it was a whole new environment, no one knew me. A fresh start.

A week or two into the school year I borrowed one of Angie's mangas'. When I returned it the next day I noticed she had something from an anime that I to watch. And we hit it off from there. We were so alike it was a little scary. But I didn't give a rat's ass, because it had meant I had finally found someone who I could relate to.

I was pulled out of my memories by a hand that had tapped my shoulder. I glanced at the person who had tapped my shoulder.

"Hey Ang what are you doing up?"

"The question would be why are you up?"

"Had an odd dream." She gave me the look that said 'but you always have odd dreams'

"This one was particularly strange." I said as I recounted my dream to her. She looked puzzled by the end of my tale.

"Sorry dude but I have no clue what to think." She said

"Yeah me neither."

"Hey we should get back to bed; after all we are going to ask Izumi to give us some sort of proper training. Especially you since you got turned into a chimera." I nodded and followed her back to our room.

I woke the next morning after not having anymore weird ass dreams. I was not a morning person to say the least. The two only things that can wake me up in the morning were two things:

Bacon

and coffee

Those are the only two. And when I took a whiff of the air I smelt it. My eyes shot open, and shot out of the room, down the stairs, and into the kitchen where the sweet smell of bacon was on the pan. My mouth started to water, and before long I started to drool. But I regained my composure and started to set the table. I knew Izumi would have told me to it any way's so it's best to get it out of the way.

Five minutes later the rest of the people sharing the small house came down for breakfast. While we were eating I nodded to Angie, who got that signal. The signal that it was time to ask Izumi to help train us. Both in hand- to- hand and alchemy.

"Izumi?" Angie asked tentatively

"What is it?" she asked

"Would you mind helping Sam and I with some training both in alchemy and close combat?" all was still. No one made a sound or moved for a full minute. Then Izumi spoke,

"No." was her answer, oh it's on now, I thought, that is not the answer we want. I thought my inner-self was burning with determination. With fire blazing in my eyes with a fiery background.

"But why not?" I asked cautiously not wanting to sound whiny

"You would just join the Military." Silence reigned again, but this time it was broken by Angie and I. we laughed our asses off.

"Us join the Military?" I asked, "I mean sure Angie was in a program for it but that was then. Do we really seem like the type to take orders' from people without giving a fight?" Izumi was stunned into silence by my rebuttal. Finally she relented.

"Fine, but we start after you and Angie have cleaned to kitchen."

"Fair enough." I said, inside of my head there was a victory parade and a whole bunch of celebratory crap going off, and that is how you get Izumi Curtis to teach you boys' and girls'! I thought as I finished my breakfast.

Me: well another fantastic chapter!

Kana: could not agree more

Sam: so wait Ed and Al are going to be gone for a month aren't they?

Me: yea~h *drags out the word with suspicion*

Sam: oh fantastic!

Angie: *looks at Sam* why?

Sam: *evil grin* hehehehehe… I just got a brilliant idea is all *whisper's it to Angie*

Angie: oh I want to help

Me & Kana: what are you guys going to do?

Sam & Angie: You'll find out when they return

Me: *shrugs shoulders* whatever so Nina would you do the honors?

Nina: sure thing Shadow! REVIEW!

Kana: wait hold up isn't she supposed to be dead, not that I'm complaining or anything but…

Me: it's the authors' notes we can whatever we want here

Kana: oh -_-