Hola. This is the long overdue last chapter of the Beginning arc so please, Enjoy!

Anna: Amberintheflame does not own fullmetal alchemist. How ever, she does own all her ocs.

Helen: So now, please sit back and enjoy the story. I know I will. Oh, and thank you Konri Kari for your review.

Anna: Um, yeah. Enjoy.

I hate islands. Very much so. I now hate them with burning passion.

Just like I hate life, er, death.

No, you know what? I'll just direct my anger at the real cause of my agitation.

"Damn you Helen!" I scream at the sky, shaking my fists wildly.

It's the twenty ninth day and I still couldn't find the dumb flower.

"Oi Anna! I hate that evil excuse of an angel but instead of shaking your fist at the sky, help me with lunch, would ya." Lei hollered from our make shift camp. It wasn't very professional, but it worked.

"Sorry" I call back sheepishly. He sighed, but a smile took over his lips. We were rather close now that we were forced to survive with each other. I now knew his favorite foods (He told me the whole list one day before we started to catch fish) and a whole bunch more trivial things about the angel.

And him to me. But even so, I could tell the dumb land bump in the middle of nowhere was getting on both our last nerves. And don't even get me started about that darned masked dude who steals our food.

He scares the crap out of me.

"So, It's almost time to get off this island, what are you going to do about the picture?" my brother-but-not-by-blood asked. I just shrugged with a sigh.

"I really have no idea. Izumi didn't look like she was lying when she told me the flower was hear."

"You really trust to easily." He just commented, before taking another reluctant bite of under cooked dead fish. "You've searched every corner of this island and found nothing. Does this Varmillion flower even exist."

I shrug. It was hard to tell at his point. All I could really do was hope the darned evil teacher number 2 would tell me when she gets hear.

"Yo-ho! I'm back! Anna, Lei, where are you?" Both of our heads turned to the voice. Huh, speak of the devil.

Izumi was waving from a small rowboat, her lovely husband rowing closer to land. We glare back.

"It wasn't that bad, was it?" She asked once her boat was successfully docked on land.

"It was!" I exclaim with a frown. "You left us on an uninhibited land. -apart from crazy mask guy- for a month and I couldn't even find that dumb flower!"

"Idiot!" She bellowed. "I survived for a whole month at Briggs with no more than a knife and the cloths on me, battling the bears to survive!"

"What are you?!" I shout back surprised.

She raised her head with pride. "I'm just a simple house wife."

I sweat dropped 'That's an obvious lie!' "Anyways, about the flower..."

She gestured to the small boat "Come on." I look at her, and then Lei. He nodded and we both entered the boat, slightly nervous she'd leave us in the middle of the lake to drown or something.

Haha, no, of course she wouldn't... Right? Naw...

The meat selling duo got into the small thing as well, causing it to be a bit cramped. Izumi shot me a meaningful look. "Get your camera ready." she instructed and I look at her curiously.

Never the less, I quickly grab the mentioned item from around my neck and angle it towards where she was pointing.

I gasp. "No way"

Lei stared with a dumbfounded expression. Izumi flat out laughed and her husband chuckled. The island she had been pointing at, the giant one, was now in the shape of a giant flower, pink flowers on trees forming the petals and green leafs causing the illusion of one really big flower.

"So, we were on the Varmillion flower the whole time?" I asked curiously. She just nodded with a grin.

"You got it!"

Once we got back to the shore, we spent the rest of the week at the comfortable home of Izumi Curtis. She taught me some fighting moves and beat me up pretty bad, but we also talked quite a bit and bonded.

I guess it's because both of her "idiot student" were guys. Either way, even though it was fun, I was happy to be moving on.

If I stay in one place for to long, Helen will probably irritated.

But, watching the couple move away from us as the train I was on currently inched forwards, I smile.

"So," I address Lei "Where to next?"

Okame 1: Locked doors and Big Shots

I looked up in distaste at the man in front of me, a haughty expression in his eyes and a sadistic smirk on his face.

"What the hell are you doing hear?" I demand angrily at him when we first meet. Usually, talking like this to someone older than me would be rude and gets me beat up, but this was an obvious exception.

Fore some reason, this man, who usually stayed in Eastern, had been assigned an important mission and was required to go to this town. And it just so happens that he gets hear the one day I'm in said town.

And to make matters worst, Lei (The one with all of the money) was no where in sight. Which means I lost him. Witch means I'm going to have to turn to this disgusting man to ask for help. He was the only person I knew hear and was my only chance for dinner and a place to sleep.

Swallowing the little pride I had, I look at him straight in the eye. "Mustang. I need a favor."

His smirk grew. "I'm sorry, could you say that again, I'm afraid I couldn't hear over all of the noise."

Bastard. I knew he heard me perfectly fine! "Mustang." I practically spat out his name, "I need your help."

"Can you give me a please?"

"Please?" I ask, half desperate. He gave me a look of pity.

"What do you need help with?" He asked.

"Well... you see... I'm lost without food or money or a place to stay so please give me some of your money!" I quickly explained, well, if you would call it that.

He raised an eyebrow. "Is this your attempt at mugging?"

I pale "N-no! Who would be stupid enough to assault an officer! One with magical flaming powers no less!"

Right at that moment, a whole group of large guys surrounded us, grinning and chuckling like the generic henchmen we all knew they probably were. "You Colonel Mustang?" One leered.

The state alchemist snorted. "Yes. What do you want?"

I would face palm at the dumb question if I wasn't cowering at the guys surrounding us.

...What? They're big! And macho!

"You are the one trying to stop our gang, right?"

"So?" he snapped back. "What of it?"

"We're gonna have ta take you to the boss now. And your girlfriend for safe measures."

I glare at him. Girlfriend?

"I'd like to see you try." The Colonel cut in before I had the chance, getting ready to do his notorious snap.

But the men didn't look scared. In fact, they held out something back. Was that a hose? What would that do?

Roy on the other hand looked terrified. He attempted to snap, but it was too late. The hose let out a spray of water, drenching both hero Mustang and his gloves.

He turned to me "You can do alchemy to right?" I stare at him in disbelief. His weakness was water?

Well, he was the flame alchemist. "Lei has my alchemy chalk right now, too." I inform the older man, crushing any hope of escape.

The men once again gave evilish chuckles. A hard pressure hit the back of my head. I passed out.

I awoke by something I never wanted to be wakened by. Roy Mustangs voice.

"Oi, get up. Anna, get up already." I snapped up with a jolt.

"What?" I ask irritably.

"Those guys got us. We are now locked in a storage room in the middle of nowhere."

I stare at him. "Your joking, right?"

He laughed sheepishly, as if they weren't in such a horrible situation. This confirmed my suspensions.

"Fuuuuuuuu-"

It's now been an hour of being locked up the the random thug dudes.

Right now, Mustang is currently telling me in detail about how he is so perfect as well as his many successful attempts to seduce poor Havoc's girl friends.

Kill me now.

Hour three of this place and I was already desperate.

I glared at the door. Maybe if I stared at it long enough, it would spontaneously combust.

Glare.

Nothing.

Glare.

Nothing.

Glareglareglare.

...

Nothing.

"Dammit!"

Lei's POV (Because I haven't done it in a while)

I walked around the crowded town, scanning faces as they walked past and talking to the nicer looking ones, showing a picture of Anna to them.

How hard was it to find one lost girl in this place anyways?

Apparently, very hard. I let out a sigh.

I was never going to get a break, was I?

...Don't answer that.

Continuing my search, I see a face I knew. Although it wasn't Anna, they might as well have been.

"Um..." I walk up to the woman nervously. This was my new little sister's idol after all.

"You're Miss. Hawkeye, yes?" I ask her. She looks at me blankly. "I'm Anna's older brother, and I was wondering if I you've seen her."

She looked at me and I shrunk back at her foul mood. Did I say something wrong?

"So you guys are hear too." She muttered before turning to me. "It seems I have lost track of Mustang a while back and right now, I'm in the middle of tracking him down." she clenched her hands around the black guns in her hands. "He decided to skip out on work again..."

I pitied that Mustang fellow, but then an idea popped into my head. "Why don't we look for them together."

She gave him a flat look. How could Anna worship someone so scary! "Fine."

Anna's POV

Now the man was ranting about paper work. It has been five hours. I can't do this anymore.

"ENOUGH!" I screech, shaking the older man by the shoulders. "THAT IS ENOUGH!" I panted, winded out by my outrage.

He sighed "Calm down, Anna."

"Why aren't we trying to escape?" I demand.

"That's obvious, I'm waiting for them to take us to their boss."

"And what makes you think they are going to do that?"

He tutted her "Simple, when they captured us, the thugs said 'We're gonna have ta take you to the boss now'"

I blink. "So where is he?"

"Are you two talking about me?" Both of us turn to the new voice, startled. And before us was the most generic head criminal of all. It was so fabricated I almost wanted to laugh. It was a buff bald dude with a leather jacket and piercings all over.

"So you're their leader." Mustang said.

"So I am." The generic enemy retorted. They stare at each other for what seemed like hours.

"Just do something already!" I finally interrupt. All eyes turn to me. Oops.

"Um... Hi?" Roy face palmed. The bad dude walked over to me.

I braced myself for the bad news that was sure to follow, but it never came. I open my eyes to find a familiar figure in front of me, gun coked at the enemy in one hand and the other.

"Put your hands up." Riza Hawkeye demanded coldly. The guy (Who I still don't know the name of) raised his hands shakily in fear. I stared up at my role model with sparkling eyes just to notice someone back at the door.

"Lei! There you are!" I call out happily. He just looked at me and pushed up his glasses. I frown. How mean.

"Here." He said, holding out a hand. And in it was chalk!

Oh chalk! How I've missed you! Grinning evilly at the man who kept me in a closed space for such a long time with a complete idiot, I get to scribbling on the ground with my chalk. Then, I place one hand over the other on the mark. Insistently, a small pillar of stone rises from the ground and gives the poor man a uppercut where the sun don't shine.

Yeah, training with Izumi had this sort of affect on me.

I kicked the crying man as he was down.

"That's what you get." I stick out my tongue at him and he passes out. Serves him right.

I think Miss. Riza gave a nod of approval in my direction.

I beam.

Okame 0: Time for the opening act

Two cloaked figures traveled over yet another dune of sand in the scorching desert.

"Lei, why are we in the desert again!" the first whined to the taller of the two. It has been two years since she and her brother left her teacher, and all was going well.

So far, her camera held over sixty kinds of flowers, some that haven't even been discovered yet!

Lei, used to her antics, sighed. "We need to find a special kind of desert flower that only grows at our destination. And there's no other way to get their but foot."

"Ugh! Why is Reole so far away!"

"You'll live. It's just a quick trip anyways. No problem."

"I suppose you're right."

Oh, how wrong they were.

End of Arc: Beginning

Preview:

"Uh, Lei? Who's the fat guy?"

"Miss!" random villager one interrupted "That's the most holiest man alive! A saint!"

I tilted my head. "So he's Mustang! That's exactly how he describes himself. Hm... he's gotten a bit chubby though, huh?"

Some where in eastern, one Roy Mustang sneezed. "For some reason, I want to punch Anna..."