Everyone froze in their tracks, all four of them staring at the entrance of the kitchen, hearing Pinako's footsteps getting closer,

"Uh, oh." Winry muttered under her breath, loud enough for the people in the room to hear, but Pinako did not hear what Winry said.

The old woman strolled into the room,

"So this is where you all are!" She said with a smirk.

Winry smiled nervously,

"Uh, yeah! Welcome back Granny, how was Creta?"

"Good enough. I trust you didn't destroy half the town while I was gone?"

Winry crossed her arms, "How, and WHY would I do that?"

But when Winry looked up, Pinako had already left the room and was heading upstairs, jetlagged from the rip back (if you can get jetlagged from a train, or would that be trainlagged?)

Edward glanced at Winry,

"So when we going to tell her?"

Winry responded with a sigh,

"I don't know."

The next morning, Ed, Al and Winry (Mei was still sleeping) called Pinako into the living room. Ed and Winry found nice places with a lack of sunlight (which was hard because there is a giant window on one wall of the room.)

Pinako raised her eyebrows at the two,

"Have you two acquired sensitive skin while I was gone?"

"Er….Sort of." Ed replied.

"Spit it out Ed." Pinako prompted.

Ed responded by explaining everything REALLY FAST,

"Longstoryshot,severalWeeksagoWinrywasattac kedandturnedintoavampire,thenyesterdayshehadalittle breakdownandnowIamavampireto thatstheshortversionandnoIam notkiddingaround."

Pinako didn't respond like Al, and certainly didn't respond like Mai. She just looked at Ed and Winry saying,

"What?"

Ed sighed, "I said-"

"No, no, no. Don't repeat it."

"Then-"

"Ed, I mean Explain it."

Ed crossed his arms, "I thought it was already pretty self explanatory. What do you think Al?" He asked, turning to face his brother, who was reading the mythology book from earlier.

Winry spoke up,

"Granny, what is I that you don't understand?"

"Well." Sighed Pinako, "If You were attacked, then why does Ed claim to be a vampire to?"

Winry bit her lip, then, Ed answered for her,

"Because I asked her to turn me." He said simply and bluntly.

"And there's no cure?"

Ed sighed, "Apparently."

Al joined the conversation at this time,

"Actually, Nii-san, I've been doing some reading," Everyone turned to Al, "And I think I've found a way."

Everyone looked at Alphonse,

"What?" Winry choked out.

"Well," Al started, "It says here that you have to kill the vampire at the source"

"What? Does that mean we have to kill Winry!? Ed explained, jumping up from his seat,

"Not exactly." Replied Al, "In this case, a good solution would be to hunt down the vampire that turned Winry."

Winry sighed, "But we have no idea where he is."

Ed gave a determined glance to Winry,

"No matter what, I'll hunt him down."

The sun was going down the next day, and Edward, Alphonse, Winry, and Mei stood outside the door, ready to head off.

"be careful, and come home soon." Pinako said to the group. Winry nodded,

"We'll try to!"

Edward grabbed Winry's arm and began to pull her along the path,

"Come on, we better hurry or we'll miss the train."

Winry allowed herself to be dragged and she looked at Al,

"You have the black-out blankets* right?"

Al nodded, "Yup." He replied holding up a bag stuffed with 2 black, think blankets.

Ed smirked and broke into a run for the train station,

"Then we'll be heading out!"

Al and Winry followed behind Ed, trying to keep up with him.

*Black-out blankets- they're like a blanket version of black-out blinds, which completely block every single ray of sun. You can imagine why we need those.

Sorry it's so short guys and that it's basically just a filler, I promise to release another one sooner then usual, so you could call this one...part 1 of chapter 9! Expect another update tomorrow, thanks for reading, see you all soon!