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Author's Note: I didn't like the last chapter so I decided to hurry up and make a better chapter. Also thanks for the reviews.

Chapter 13

Roy sat in front of his desk with his head resting on his hands. His eyes were glazed over; lost in thought. Riza sat by her desk, watching her superior officer. She had heard about what had happened to Ed, and desperately tried to think of a way to get him to come back. Havoc also sat at his desk smoking a cigarette. Hughes leaned against Havoc's desk watching Winry pet the kitten Al had picked up. Al was sitting beside Winry with his arms wrapped around his legs, secluded in thought. Major Armstrong was standing in the corner; there were no sparkles around his head.

"Miss! You don't have access to this-" The army official was cut off as loud pops and cracks erupted into the air; it was plainly obvious that something broke on the mans body. More yelling and ordering started to expand in the hallway along with a few more popping and cracking.

Within seconds Roy's office door swung open and cracked against the wall. A tall lady swept in and headed straight for Roy's desk. Everyone in the room immediately reached for their weapons.

"Teacher!" Al yelled in surprise and stepped towards the lady.

"Where is he!" Izumi demanded grabbing Roy by the collar of his shirt, with a free hand ready to throw a punch. The cock of Riza's gun echoed in the room, as Roy tried to stare down his attacker.

"Teacher," Al said again taking another step towards Izumi. Roy's eyes grew wide with understanding as to who she was looking for.

"We don't know," Roy said quietly. Izumi pushed him back into his chair.

"How do you not know where he is!"

"Because wherever Ed is now, he was sent there by alchemy," Roy held his gaze with Izumi, and saw that she didn't believe it.

"I would've expected a State Alchemist to know that that is impossible," Izumi glared back down at the Colonel.

"Well then you tell us what this alchemic circle does," Roy tossed the blood stained paper that occupied the circle. Izumi looked down at it, seeing the complicated design and knowing full well what the blood stains meant.

"How many people were given up in exchange?" Izumi asked quietly.

"We don't know. But we assume at least three people," Roy answered. He glared down at his desk.

"Then how do we find Ed?" Izumi demanded, knowing what the answer would be.

"As of now, we can't."

Ed slammed another book shut and tossed it aside on the library table. He rubbed his sore eyes from the dimming light. He rested his chin on his hand trying to think of some other book that may have had some reference to alchemy or the Philosopher's stone. So far he had no luck.

It's been a few weeks since Ed had started to look through the library books. But he had little time to do so. All the professors had started to give their students more and more homework, even though Ed got through it all fairly easy, there was still a lot of it.

Professor Snape seemed to enjoy giving him piles upon piles of essays to write, but Ed figured that was because he was the best one at potions in class. After the first day of class Ed stopped sitting beside Hermione, and decided to sit beside Neville. When Ed started to still get the right answers while sitting beside Neville, everyone started to believe that Ed read the textbooks just as much as Hermione. During class Ed even went out of his way to correct the ingredients Neville might have put in before an acid explosion erupted; acid on automail wouldn't be a very good thing at all.

The only teacher that never really gave out a lot of homework was Professor Lantz. Most class periods the students dueled, but on some days he would teach the class a new spell, or review some old ones. But most days they dueled. Since the incident with Malfoy, whoever fought Ed knew to stay a distance way, but if one got too close a hard punch in the face or a kick to the side usually resulted.

Quidditch practice every other night also limited the time Ed spent in the library. Harry liked to keep the team later than most because he one, didn't want to lose and two, he didn't want to go up to the dormitory and face the looming pile of homework. Whenever Ed got up to the dormitory he went straight to it, but Harry and Ron always lagged behind. And when it got to late they always asked Hermione to give them the answer or check over it. Hermione always said no the first go around, but when they really started to look pathetic she gave them a few answers. Ron and Harry even ventured to ask Ed to help them, but no matter how pathetic they looked he always said no.

And of course the Library closed at 8:00 so that also shortened the time Ed had in the library. But now Ed had the rest of the evening to look through dusty books. But there was no sign of what he was looking for.

"Gezz Ed, you spend just about as much time in the Library as Hermione," Ed looked up and saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione walking up to the table he was at.

"There's nothing wrong with that Ron," Hermione said as she sat down at the table. She shifted the books around to see what Ed was reading. "The Theories on Alchemy, Why Alchemy is a Fairy Tale, Reasons why Alchemy isn't real, Links with Alchemy and Magic. Wow I take it you like alchemy,"

"Yeah, but all those books are worthless," Ed said glaring down at the useless books.

"Don't tell me you really believe in alchemy? Its practically a fairy tale." Ron said looking through one of the books.

"Its mainly potions isn't it?" Harry asked.

"Kind of. Back in the middle ages, Alchemist tried to convert metal to gold. Some have succeeded, but only for a short while. They transformed lead atoms into gold atoms by a nuclear reaction, but since the atoms were unstable they only lasted for a couple of seconds. Some mixed acids and bases together and drank it. But the uneducated public didn't know it turned into salt water," Hermione said. Now tell me something that isn't in a textbook, and is actually worth something, Ed thought.

"Gezz Hermione is there anything you don't know?" Ron said. He quickly looked around for the librarian. When he didn't see her, he brought out four chocolate frogs and tossed them to each of them. Ed unwrapped his chocolate frog and quickly swiped it up before it jumped away, having had a misfortunate experience before hand. The frog was quickly stuffed into his mouth, and was chewed away. Ed flipped the card over to see who the card was and chocked on reading who it was: Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim.

"Careful," Harry said patting Ed on his back. Ed coughed in reply.

"Who did you get?" Ron asked leaning over the table and reading the name. "Man I thought being born with the name Ronald was bad, but look at that guy!" Ed didn't say anything as he read over the card.

Theophrastus Philippus Aureoolus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus).

1493-1541

Father of Toxicoloogy

A wizard who was a master of potions.

Claimed to have created a homonculus.

Showed his findings to muggles claiming to be an alchemist, and denying he was a wizard.

One of the first wizards to encourage that wizards hide their real powers from muggles.

"Now that's what you call ironic. It looks like he was an alchemist too," Harry said reading the card over his shoulder. He look at the picture and saw a man with a warm face and long blonde hair along with a yellow beard. The card kept pushing his glasses up on his nose whenever they started to fall down.

"All you alright Ed?" Hermione asked seeing how Ed was giving a death glare at the card. Ed clenched his teeth, and then cursed. He pushed himself away from the table and stormed out of the library cursing along the way.

Author's Note: This chapter should be better than the last one. This one I'm at least pleased with. I'm not too worried about the characters being out of character either. Don't know why. Maybe I finally got them right, or maybe I stopped caring as much. Most of the info about Paracleus I got from wikipedia, so if you want to look up more on him then that is a good place to go. Hope this chapter was better than the last!