The Hidden Alchemist:

Rin: 'Ello again sorry for the lateness but here's chapter 13!

Envy: Yay I killed my father! :D

Ed: You don't know how sketchy that sounds

Al: Besides he's our father to...

Rin: And you actually didn't kill him Envy! I also have some bad news there is an announcement at the end of this chapter that you must all check out! I am sorry but I hope you all ENJOY!

Chapter 13: Alchemy 101

"Good! Now becareful you don't want to...sorry Niisan!" Al grimiced as Ed's foot got sucked into the cement, he nearly tripped with his arms full of hotdogs they had bought.

Jess was practicing alchemy and it wasn't going the way she planned. She growled in frustration and wiped away her transmutation symbol that she had drawn on the floor. It had been two days since Al and Winry had showed up and two days since Jess had started learning alchemy.

And she was failing.

"I don't know what is wrong I was albe to do it before and now I can't!" Jess put her hands up in exhasperation.

"Maybe we should stick her on a deserted island for a month and see what happens?" Ed growled as he broke his foot free and sat down a safe distance away next to Winry.

"What?" Jess asked.

"That's what our teacher did to us to teach us the meaning of alchemy," Al gave a small smile.

"But what is the meaning? It can do anything right?" Jessica asked looking confused.

"No even alchemy had boundries, like the first rule of alchemy is Equivilant Exchange. Or in more basic terms fair payment," Alphonse explained.

"So like if I was to take an apple from a bowl and then replace with another?" Jess asked.

"No more like you steal five dollars and and then get put in jail," Al grimiced.

Jess blinked but then sighed, "I don't think I'll ever get this,".

"Don't worry how about it, we can take a break from this and try again later, besides I think brother is going to eat all the food anyways," Al tried to lighten the mood.

Jess gave a small smile and nodded.

Hohenheim groaned and opened his eyes. He was tied up in the corner his vison blurry because of his missing glasses and dried blood on his forhead.

"Did you have a good nap?" a whiny voice came from the corner.

A rat like man shuffled forward an evil glint in his eyes and a pointed smile on his lips.

"Envy..." Hohenheim muttered, even talking made his head throb.

The man almost seemed disappointed, "You really were the only person able to see behind my disguises," and with a flash the ratty man transformed back into the palm tree headed figure.

"Well, I know why you have come to find me, so kill me and be done with it," the blonde man muttered again and closed his eyes.

"Oh, I plan to father but before I do I have something to 'take care' of," he cackled.

"You see my little brothers are here and well...they both have nuisances that I wish to send on a trip back home," Envy paced back and forth in front of Hohenheim.

"And I come into this how?" Hohenheim asked.

"I think you already know that," Envy stopped with his back to him.

"Enlighten me..." Envy bristled at how infuriating Hohenheim was being.

"YOUR THE DAMN PAYMENT!" he roared.

"OH I see now, you are sending Alphonse's and Edward's friends back to Amstris while you finish them yourself," the blonde man finished.

Envy turned back to his father, "And once and for all getting my revenge on you all!".

Hohenheim looked sadly at the homunculus, his son.

"I did this to you didn't I? I'm sorry for turning you into this monster, Envy," he whispered.

"I DON'T WANT AN APOLOGY!" Envy kicked his father in the head making him slump to the side, "I want your blood,".

"So is that really what it does?" Al stared intently as Wren played a game on her i-pod touch.

"Ya, it can play music, games, even movies," she scrolled through her music and picked a song.

"This band's my favorite," she held up an ear bud to Al who took it.

He almost jumped out of his skin when blaring music came from the tiny device. Heavy instruments came from the ear bud that he could hole in inches away from his ear and still hear it fine.

"It's Breaking Benjamin," Jess smiled and took the ear phone back from a slightly shocked Alphonse.

"What other thing do you have like that?" Winry asked her eyes lighting up at the idea of machines.

"Well we have cell phones, tvs, eletric cars, light bulbs, i-pod," she rang off.

"Well we have phones, cars, and light bulbs, but what is a tv?" Ed asked.

"It like a box with a glass screen that flashed a bunch of pictures to make a moving scene," Jess tried to explain.

Everyone just looked at her like she was crazy.

After a moment of silence, Al asked, "So are you ready to tried some alchemy again?"

Jessica put her stuff back into her bag and shrugged, "I guess,".

While Al and Jess went off to practice some more Winry turned to Ed, worry showing through her blue eyes.

"I've been meaning to ask, do you have anyway of getting home? And what about that guy Envy what happened to him?"

Ed considered this, it had been something that weighed heavily on his mind, "For getting home, we still have alchemy but that would take alot of payment for all of us to get through without a scratch, as for Envy I don't know where he went," Edward flexed his hand.

"Do you think he'll come back?" Winry asked again.

"Yes, that's a definet but the real question is...when and how,".