Well, Looks like I got rushed with reviews. So, I'm officially starting to answer each and every review.
Reviewers Corner
Ha-chan: I respect your opinion very much, but this is my story, and I shall do what I feel is fit.
Dark-Angels-Tears: NoOoOoOo Gimmi back Killer! Please, I beg of you! Also, thanks for the rampage idea :)
Charroum The Lady of Death: Thank you for the idea :)
Kakanene: Well, I might add a little Mir/San, but right now that's not one of my top priorities. As for Shippou, I think he might become a good little boy now that he has a family...or at least, an almost good boy.
crazyanimefreak15:Gah, I forgot the bloody wrench! -Runs to Pinaco's house, grabs Winry's wrench, bashes himself over the head, and runs back.- That would'a been funny if she knocked Ed out-cold. Also, sad to say, but Naraku is NOT coming back. The bastard deserves to rot in hell. But there might be some relation between the homunculus and Naraku.
Vi3tdream27: Thanks :)
inukuramaRmine: Thanks, from now on I'll use those changes, but I might not fix the chapters posted for a while.
silver starlight kitsune: I did copy off the episode somewhat, but after they entered, it was almost all me. Except for the traps, I just HAD to keep those XD.
RisingMist Alchemist: Woot, another quote to put on my semi-long list of quotes. Thanks.
Elric24: I have no clue either, but on the subbed anime I watched it kept refering to plural as homunculus.
Flower Kid: Thanks, without you I probably would have forgot the update note.
inuyasha's plushie: Ed's watch is the best. -Starts waving it back and forth like a hypnotist, then in an unnerving voice- You will do whatever I command... You will kill my RL friend Relyat Rohtma.
And last, is my friend Relyet: If they do begin a riot, your my first class meat shield, buddy. ;P
-Chapter Nine-
-Rockbell residence-
Blackness. Thats all she could see. Thats all she wanted to see. It was relaxing, peaceful, and oddly enough warm. Sort of like a living death, which she never wanted to leave. But like all good things, it was intruded upon. In the distance she could hear a ringing. And the more she tried to ignore it, the louder it became.
It finally became so annoying that Pinaco opened her eyes. But it was not the blackness she wanted. It was her room. Looking to her right, the tiny arm of her alarm clock each bell it was between. With an annoyed grunt, she reached over and slammed the clock with her hand, shutting it off at once.
It took a whole five minuts before she lost the urge to regain sleep. With a sigh of defeat, accompanied with some slight grumbling, she got up. Walking to her closet, she looked out the window.
A bright sun met her gaze from behind the shed. But something was peculiar. The hair on the back of her neck stood on end, and a sense of forboding hit her. Turning away from the window, she quickly covered the distance of the room to her closet. And after picking out some clothing, got dressed quickly. When she was finished, she turned to the door, opened it, and walked into the hallway, where she was hit with the full force of the situation.
Something that had become common place was missing, and Pinaco picked it out immediately. She couldn't hear Winry tinkering with her automail. With amazing speed for someone her age, she sped up the stairs and opened the door to Winry's room. Nothing. It was exactly as before, but tools lay unused on the table. New auto-mail parts were left whole, not torn apart like they were every morning. Extreamly worried, she rushed back downstairs to the spare bedroom. Just as she thought, Ed and Al were missing to. Now slightly panicking, she went to the kitchen table, and sat down. 'Okay. There has to be a logical explanation to all of this. Where would those three young fools go off to together. Damnit I-'. She was cut off from that last thought though when she heard a knock on the door.
Slowly Pinaco got up from her chair, and made her way across the kitchen to the door. When she pushed aside the curtains, she was met with the oddest sight she'd ever seen.
Two people stood at her door. The first was a woman, who had long black hair, and wore all black. Black dress, and black arm long gloves. But the wierdest this about this woman was the insignia tattooed onto her upper chest, just below her neck. The other, her best guess would say he's male, had long green hair, that stayed together in thick strands, and somehow defied gravity. He also wore barely any clothes, and what little he did was also black.
Going against her better judgement, she opened the door, and warily greeted her strange visitors, In specific the female. "What may I do for you, strangers? Do you need to buy some auto-mail, or does your friend there need a haircut?".
The women took a quick glance at her companion, and chuckled slightly at his rude mutterings to Pinaco's comment. She then turned back to face the elderly lady. "As a matter of fact, we do need your help... But not anyway you listed, although my companion could use a haircut.". Yet again she glanced at her companion, and smirked when she caught a word or two of muttered death threats. "Anyway, may we continue our business outside? Or would you rather do it here?".
Pinaco didn't know why, but a suddon urge told her to go outside, away from the safety of her house, with these strangers. She could also walk casually to the shed and check out why it gave off a slightly unnerving feeling. "Sure, just give me a minut and I'll grab my coat. It's a bit chilly out this morning. And unlike your friend, I'm conscious of my health.". With that, she dissapeared from the doorway for a few seconds, then returned wearing an old wind jacket of hers.
Closing the door behind her, Pinaco looked at her to strangers, and began a brisk pace around her yard. "So then you two, what business do you want with me?".
This time, the other stranger answered. His voice was a little high pitched, but it was definitly male. "We actually were travelling the path when we saw something interesting. Three teens, one female, one male, and another one in a suit of armor were doing something in your shed. When we took a closer look, they were drawing wierd circles all over the place. And there were also some nice statues in there we'd like to buy.".
The last part was added a little to hasty for Pinaco's liking. And there story didn't exactly fit together either. Since a young age, Winry never particularly liked alchemy. And she has never helped Ed or Al make a transmutation circle, so why should she start now? And second, those statues were rusting hulks that even she wouldn't buy. There was definitly some thing fishy.
Before Pinaco could quite figure it out though, they were at the shed. And as they say, thats where it all went down hill. Pinaco looked into the window, and saw the transmutation circles. A slight pinkish glow emanating from both of them. She couldn't quite understand it. She reached for the door handle, and turned it. Thats when it happened. A searing pain racked up the side of her body before she fully open the door. Looking down, she saw something between a spike and a tenticle piercing her body. When the tenticle retracted, she gasped as even more waves of pain came. All the while her blood stained the threshold of the shed.
She took a few steps forward, then stumbled. It was like slow motion to Pinaco. Her hands flew wildly, grabbing only air as she fell. And when she made contact with the ground, her hand made contact with the circle. In one bright flash, there was no more Pinaco.
Smirking, Envy boldy stepped to the edge of the circle. "It was as simple as that? Who would have thought. Anyway Lust, lets get going and find that stone.".
-Kaede's Villiage-
In Kaede's villiage, things were going full speed, in the preperation for the upcoming winter. Wood cutters were tearing down trees, cleaning them of branches, and sectioning them for easy storage. Through the activity, Kaede watched from the edge of the village, bow and full quiver set on her shoulder, for any signs of danger.
As the hours passed though, Kaede became more and more nervous. Something just didn't feel right. Like a calm before the storm, as they say. And thats when it happened.
One of the men who were scouting for suitable trees to chop down came running, caution thrown to the wind. "Kaede-sama! Kaede-sama! We've just found someone badly wounded. An elderly lady, not unlike yourself, but with strange clothing.".
Hearing his statement, she ran through the field as fast as she could, and met him about halfway. "What are you waiting for? Bring me to her, she may not have long left to live!".
Upon seeing the woman, Kaede thought she might have already been to late. A puddle of blood formed around her right side. Her face ghost white. But at closer inspection, Keade was slightly relieved to see a faint mist form from the elderly ladies breathing, and the slight chill of the day.
Immediately she sent the man back to the villiage to get blankets, and a stretcher. In the meantime though, she had to stop the bleeding. Ripping the jacket into a usable bandage, with a little help from her sharp arrows, she then lifted the womans shirt untill she could see the wound. She gasped lightly when she saw it. A puncture wound through her right side, very similar to wounds Inuyasha used to gain quite often. In no time Kaede had it bandaged as best she could, which with all the practice she had, was pretty good.
When the man came back, they carefully lifted the elderly woman onto the stretcher, and then covered her in blankets. The two of them then gently lifted the stretcher. Then carefully trecked through the forest towards the villiage.
-Chapter Nine-
Short chapter, but I'm tired and I have school. Oh well, night Y'all.