Finally, I'm gonna post again! TT^TT My poor story….so lonely…TT^TT

It had been about a week after Maka had gotten used to the automail arm and leg, and she had began traveling with Ed and Al. It had been surprisingly enjoyable to finally hang out with each other. At first, they thought it might be strange, since Maka was from a different world and all, but she seemed to fit right in no matter where they went. Let's go see that peculiar group, shall we?

Maka walked after Ed and Al, her new metal foot clanking with every step she took. Maka grinned goofily to herself since this world seemed to bring out the better of her "Clank." She said as her automail touched the ground.

"…" Ed glanced back bored then looked forward once again.

"Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Cl-"

"Would you stop that?" Ed snapped.

Maka stopped and grinned at his annoyed face. He had had less patients than she did.

"Sorry, but my old shoes won't fit over my automail. The sound is annoying" Maka argued.

Ed narrowed his eyes, and pointed at Al with his thumb. "I've been dealing with HIS clanking armor for years, and you don't hear me complaining!" Ed finished with a smug grin.

"B-brother!" Al scolded, flustered.

Ed chuckled. "I'm just kidding Al."

Al grumbled, and faced away from his brother.

Maka sighed. "So, why are we in this town again?"

Edward kept walking but pulled a folded up, crumpled piece of paper out of the side of his jacket, and began to unfold it. "This." He said, looking at Maka to make sure she was paying attention as he pointed to one of the articles on the paper.

"It says that a couple went missing in the woods after the boyfriend gave his girlfriend, or rather, fiancé, gave her an engagement ring…" Ed said.

Maka shrugged. "Yeah, tragic, but where do we fall into place?"

Edwards face turned serious. "Well, unlike traditional engagement rings, it wasn't a diamond stone, but a philosopher's stone (sp?)…"

Maka paused. "…..Right…That stone that's supposed to give you and your brother's body back." Maka said as she recalled the time he told her how important this stone was. "The stone that might be my ticket home…"

Once Maka had heard of the Philosophers stone, she figured that if it had enough power to bring Ed and Al's body back to them, it should also be able to bring her home to death city, correct? Now they were all on the same journey. Find a Philosophers stone.

Al's head clanked as he nodded. "Yes, that's right. This could be our chance. If we find them…or their bodies, we can find the philosophers stone as well…We can only hope it's not a fake though…" He trailed off.

Maka went silent…She slowly glanced over to Ed. He had an intense determination in his golden eyes. Maka smiled warmly at this. He'd do anything for his brother. He always seemed to put other's before him, instead of walking away from the problem, and getting on with his own life. Suddenly, Ed caught her gaze, and Maka turned away quickly, with a pink tint of embarrassment on her cheeks, from being caught staring. Ed grinned.

"Like what you see?" Ed teased.

Maka grumbled and turned away. "Yeah, if you were taller."

A vein pulsed on Ed's forehead. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING A SHRIMPY LITTLE FISH CAKE!"

Al sweat dropped. "Brother, Maka didn't say anything remotely close to that…"

It wasn't long after they pasted through the whole town that they reached the entrance to the woods where the couple had went missing. The woods where thick, plush, green, and since it was dark by the time they got there, it was pretty creepy.

Ed cursed. "Dammit…" He grumbled, rubbing his head after getting a headache. "There's no way we'll find anything now! It's too dark, and there are too many trees!" He said, starting to flip out while Al tried franticly to calm his older brother down.

Maka closed her eyes. "I can sense two stray souls up ahead…" Stray meaning that the couple was already dead…

Both Ed and Al stopped in the middle of what their rant, with Al holding Ed back by his arms, and Ed's legs kicking in the air. They both stared with a blank face. "Eh?"

Maka opened her eyes slowly, and looked at them seriously.

"I told you, I can sense the souls of the living and the recently descend. Well, there about 2 miles up ahead." Maka told them

Maka took this chance to look at Ed and Al's soul. She was curious, since they had quite the character.

First Ed.

His soul was a glowing gold, with a strange, pouting looking face, a dangling braid, and a cowlick. Maka inwardly giggled at its amusing appearance.

Now it was Al's turn.

Maka stared in awe. It seemed like half of his soul was missing… How odd…

Ed and Al composed themselves, trying to compose themselves after running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

"Well…" Ed started. "Lead the way, Maka."

Maka nodded, and began though the thick woods with Ed and Al following after her in that order.

After an hour or so of walking, chatting, and occasionally tripping over rocks or tree roots, they were finally in front of the 2 souls. As Maka walked up to the Souls, they soon became visible to Ed and Al as well, whose brother stifled a gasp when they saw it. Maka reached out to touch the one of the two souls when she accidently kicked something. She looked down at whatever she had just kicked and narrowed her eyes. "Uhm…I found them…" Maka announced.

Both Ed and Al walked up behind Maka, and looked down at the remains of the couple to be. All three of them seemed to bow their head in silent respect for the 2 who were lost, and then Ed swiftly began to search the bodies for the ring.

20 minutes later:

"WHAT? This can't be, not again!" Ed's voice echoed through the forest, and caught both Maka's and Al's attention.

"What's wrong?" Al asked his distressed brother.

Ed grit his teeth and glared at the ground. "There's no philosire stone, not even any ring here at all. Either someone beat us to it and took the stone, or it was a lie from the beginning.

Maka walked up behind Ed. "But who would lie about something like that?"

"Ah. You fell for it." A voice behind Maka said. Maka's eyes widened as an arm shot out and looped around her neck, pulling her closer to whoever was behind her.

…-…

With Soul and the Gang:

"WHOAAA!" They all yelled, landing on top of each other, one after another, as they fell through the end of the portal, which was connected to a window in a shop. Luckily, there were no civilians around to become freaked out by this sight.

Kid landed on the cobble-stoned ground, then Liz and Patti landed on top of him, the Black star, Tsubaki, and finally Soul, all landed on top of another in a huge dog pile, poor Kid begin crushed underneath them all.

Soul glanced at the window, which the portal had just passed though. The portal quickly disappeared, and the window rippled like water as it turned back to normal. Soul sighed, and got off of the top of the dog pile, and took in his surroundings.

It was a small town, with few people around, and nothing they were really used to.

Finally, they all hand scrambled up, and Liz had to calm Kid down after he became asymmetrical, and then, they all stared at each other silently.

Soul slurped, drooling a bit. "Well…let's find Maka."

Maka struggled against the iron grip of the arm and struggled to look at who had grabbed her. She was able to turn her head slightly to catch a teenage boy with long green hair, a weird headband, and a sinister smirk.

"MAKA!" Al cried out in alarm

"You brought a GIRL along with you this time, alchemist?" The green haired teen snickers.

Ed kept his fist clenched at his side, ready to attack the said boy at any moment. "Envy…" Ed muttered with hate.

Envy snickered. "Not happy to see me?" He asked rhetorically.

Maka twitched and squirmed under Envy's grip, catching his attention as he held her back easily, and he leaned his head down to her shoulder.

"Aren't you going to introduce me to your girlfriend?" Envy cruelly joked again.

"Let her go now!" Ed yelled feeling rage build in him.

"Or what?" Envy smirked, and then decided to tease Edward more, and licked Maka's cheek flirtausously.

Maka bristled. THAT'S IT! She has had enough! She could control her instinct as a long, curved scythe blade burst out of her back and into the creep behind her, successfully impaling him and making him let go of her. Maka let the blade sink back into her back and then jumped back and turned around to see the damage. Her eyes widened and she gasped.

The cut that went straight through Envy and his vital organs had begun to heal. Quickly.

"Nice try." He smirked.

Dear readers I hope you haven't given up on me, but to tell you the truth, I don't know much about the anime, fullmetal alchemist, so I have no idea why Envy would have wanted to lure Ed and Al into a trap…Any (NONYAOI) ideas?