Ed and Al arrived and the military Headquateres, trying desperatly to get the Mustang's office. Al knocked on the door. Once... twice. BAM! Ed got enough of this and slammed the door open. "Well you seem to be in a good mood today, squirt" Roy didn't pay attention to the half-broken door. "I need you to track someone down for me, and we don't have much time" Ed walked into the office. "Would this someone be a Renee Koontza?" Mustang asked. "Yes. She's 5'6 with darkish blonde hair and blue eyes. She likes Chinese food, she was born in Germany, German is her first language but you'd never tell. She only speaks German when she's mad, and she wears really weird high-heeled combat boots." Ed said
"Anything special?"
"Uh... a charm bracelet. With an alchemy circle on it"
Roy's eyes widened a bit. "Be more specific about the charm bracelet" He said. "Uh, I dunno. She said it was a family heirloom. It was kind white gold, or maybe silver, Rini never said" Ed tried to remember any time she'd siad anything about what kind of metal. "Rini?" Roy was now a little confused about the relationship between the two. "Oh, that's just Renee's nickname" Ed explained. "Right. What kind of circle was it?" Roy was now picturing the bracelet. "I don't know, I didn't recognize it. It was really detailed and she used it for self defense" Ed tried to remember everything about the bracelet. "Are you sure that's it?" Mustang asked. "It used violet colored energy instead of blue when it was transmuting" He blew a string of blonde hair out of his face. "Okay, this narrows it down quite a bit" Roy walked over to a file cabinet and pulled out the "K-M" drawer. He pulled out a very thick manilla folder with "Kootza" on it. "Miss Rini has doesn't know what she's got her hands on" Roy pulled out a few papers and handed them to Ed. As he skimmed over the papers, he came to a certain paragraph and gasped. "It's the equivilent to the philosipher's stone?" Ed asked. "Yes. Execpt only her family can use it. She hasn't fully unlocked it's powers I imagine" Mustang flipped through the rest of the folder. Reading a few paragraghs down, something shocked him even more. Reserch labs had studied two bottles of blood from the family. One was always around a knock-off of the bracelet's power, another was just left alone. After a few days, scientist found that taking the bracelet away from the blood had the same effect as putting 30 CCs of peroxide directly into the blood. "We have to find her!" Ed slammed both palms down on Mustang's desk. "Don't get so angry. We'll find your girlfriend and bring her home safely" Roy placed the pages back in the folder. "Girlfriend?" Ed thought. He'd never thought of making a pass at Renee or even asking her out. He saw her more as a best friend than a girlfriend.
Renee wondered what Ed and Al were doing. She paced around the main room and decided she might be able to break through the window. She ran down stairs to the kitchen and grabbed a plastic trash can. She sprinted back upstairs and looked at the window. She hurled the trash bin at the window, only for it to bounce right off. Rini growled and walked up to the window herself and tried to kick through it with her clunky heels. She bounced off of it. "Damn it!" She yelled. Rini stomped her foot. "Smart, but not enough" The male's voice echoed off of the marble walls. "You" Renee needed anything but to be bothered by her captor. "I was in the middle of an escape for God sakes!" She thought. Rini, anticipating the next few minutes to be like the first visit. "No, I don't know" She said, predicting his next question. "That's not what I'm here for, dear" He approched her. Every horror movie she'd ever seen raced in her mind. She wondered which scene she'd be in. "This is real life, Renee, this isn't a movie, this isn't predicted" She thought to herself. He stepped closer and closer to her, and finally, she'd had enough. She moved right up to him, and showed no sign of agressive body language. He looked straight into her eyes, and she planted a combat boot in his chest. He didn't see this coming, and fell backwards. "Give me back my bracelet" Rini demanded while holding him down with her foot. "Renee, don't be so unreasonable" He said coldly. "Unreasonable? You freaking KIDNAPPED me, locked me in this weirdo mansion, and say me kicking you down and demanding my bracelet back is unreasonable?" She shifted all of her weight onto his chest. He gasped for air, and suddenly, inraged, grabbed her ankle and twisted it around. She fell to the floor and the postitions switched. "Let me go" Renee shouted. She looked at his pocket, with had her beloved bracelet dangling out of it. "If I could just reach" She thought, "If I could just reach"
