HEY PEOPLES! Sorry I've been gone so long, I looked back at old reviews, and I wanted to thank those of you who gave me good reviews. The rest, ehh, cheer up. Unless you have stories on your profile that are WAY better than mine, please, and excuse me, but shut your traps, please. I'm sorry, but I just get so sick of it. Please, stop. And some sad news: My family MAY be moving. It's not official, though so I, or we, can hope.

Anyway, here is a guide for this chapter:

Thoughts

memory/ flashback

"Talk"

Story

"Yelling/ Yelling"

And Here's the story:

Alex POV:

I sat on the couch, bobbing Alphonse, or Allie as his baby name. Ed was napping, but Al had woken up early. Mom passed through the room, picking up toys and turned to us. "Alex, can you put Alphonse back to bed, and come help me out with the laundry?" Mom asked with her kind smile. I nodded, and picked up Allie. I put him in the bed with Eddie, and tucked them in. I put my mini work boots on, and rushed out the door to help Mom. I almost passed Dad, but I stopped.

"Hey, Dad?" I asked. He looked at me with kind eyes.

"Yes, leaf?" I smiled at my nick-name. I could climb like a monkey, but could fall out of the one in our yard like a leaf. That, and I grew like a tree.

"Can you teach me a-al-ch-emy, alchemy sometime soon? I what to make stuff for Mom and Eddie and Allie!" I said. Dad laughed, but nodded.

"Sure, leaf, but how about tomorrow? I'm not feeling well today," Dad said.

"Ok! Thanks dad! Yay!" I said hugging dad's legs, then running off to help Mom.

Dad traced a circle in the dirt. "The circle in a transmutation represents the flow of energy. There are two kinds of alchemy, this country's kind and Xing's Alkahestry. I'll teach you alkahestry first. For alkahestry, in the circle you draw a five-tipped star." He drew a star in the circle, and continued.

"In alkahestry, you use the 'Chi', or the flow of something. You can sense the chi of someone, if just a little, can't you?" Dad asked, turning to me. I nodded a bit. I could tell where someone in a room was, just not who. I trained it a bit, or I tried too. Dad's was, um, I guess extremely powerful.

"Rearrange that chi, the chi of the land, to shift itself to make a rock. I'll set up the circle, but you activate it. Ok?" Dad explained. He got out 5 knives, and put them at the tips of the star. I focus on the chi of the land, and touched the circle. I could feel the chi at an even greater scale, and I used the energy, I don't know how, but I made a rock the size of my fist. "Well done little leaf! Now let's try some things on a larger scale...

I shifted in the circle that the man drew. He had put a slightly injured bat in there, I could tell. Then he walked to the outside of it, and activated it. Then there were those pretty lights of a transmutation, but then, t-then so, so, SO much pain...

Edward POV:

Alex woke with a start, but calmed down. She held her head in her heads, and silently shook. I put my hand on her shoulder, and she grabbed Al and I in a hug. She whimpered, but I heard two words: Eddie and Allie. My eyes opened in a flashback.

Al had to go potty, so I took him, and Mom and Dad stood in the door way. Mom had just noticed we were there. "Oh, there are my boys! What are you doing out of bed?" She asked. She seemed worried.

I rubbed my eye at the bright light from behind the door. "Al had to go potty," I said, putting me hand down. Mom clasped her hands together.

"And of course you went with him. Thanks little man," She said. Leaf came around and gave us a hug. It puzzled us that she did this. She hugged Mom,and stood by Dad looking down. Both she and Dad were in their normal clothes, but had their coats and suitcases.

Leaf waved, and simply said, "'Til we met again." And she walked out. Dad's gaze hardened, and walked out the door without a good-bye.

We never saw them again.

Over time, we heard stories about Hoenhiem and Leaf on our travels. We had forgotten about Leaf, as she wasn't really mentioned, and I never held a grudge against her.

It's no suprise that we forgot about her. But she never forgot us, I thought with a bit of guilt, but didn't dawn on it. I realized something else. The thought angered me deeply. So much so, that I pulled back my arm, and punched Leaf in the face.

Sorry it's a short chapter! I'm putting a poll on my page, and you tell me if you'd like me to make more shorter chapters, that are more frequent, or Longer ones that will take a little longer. Hopefully I will update soon, but I'm not sure. I'll put an author's note up if I find out I"m moving.