Hey here's the next chapter of the story.

I hope that you like it.

Both my best friend and I are trying to keep the characters in character.

And trying to keep our characters not to be like Mary-sues...so I'm sorry if the characters are mary-sues.

Anyway...please read and enjoy the second chapter.

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Chapter 2:

The next morning came, Lieutenant Colonel Hughes was calling Roy, telling him about the two girls that are going to help Ed and Al.

He said "and one of them look about your age, so maybe the two of you can get together, and also……get married," as he said the last part in a whisper.

Roy was really annoyed of Hughes saying for him to get married.

Then when Hughes and Roy were talking on the phone, Ed and Al came through the door of the central headquarters.

Ed was still mad about the last ingredient for the philosophers stone.

Hughes saw the two gentlemen come through the door and said to Roy over the phone "gotta go Roy. I'll tell you more about this girl later, bye" he hung up the phone.

Roy hung up the phone on his side and said to himself I really need to do something about him! He gets on my nerves!

Hughes walked over to Ed and Al and greeted them "hey Ed, hey Al. How are you guys? Feeling any better Ed?"

Ed answered "we're both fine, Lieutenant Hughes…but, I'm not sure if we should continue to search for the philosophers stone now, since we found out what it's last ingredient is. So we're not sure."

Both Al and Hughes looked at Ed for just a moment, then Hughes just remembered something and said to both the boys "oh yeah! hey Ed, I know these two very lovely ladies that are willingly to help you two find the philosophers stone."

Ed and Al were both surprised of what Hughes said, Ed said "really? Why would anyone want to help us find the stone, and anyway, who are they?"

Hughes answered "their names are Rika and Erika Sohma. They're both very lovely girls, and I think the younger sister would be the right girl for you, Ed."

Ed blushed and yelled "LIEUTENANT HUGHES, I DON'T WANT A GIRLFRIEND, SIR, I'M FINE WITH JUST BEING WITH AL, I DON'T WANT ANYONE SPECIAL IN MY LIFE!"

Hughes just smiled and told them "well, you'll meet the girls in the central library, they woke up an hour ago and went to the library for some research about something, I forgot what it was though, but oh well, you two should get going to the library too meet the girls, so, off you go," as he was pushing Ed and Al out the central headquarters' door.

Both Ed and Al walked to the central library to meet the girls that Hughes was talking about.

As they got there, Rika and Erika were looking through lots of books.

Erika asked Rika "Rika? Whatever happened to mom and dad, all I remember about them was that they were happy to have us as their children, but what happened to them Riri?" that nickname that Erika said was when both their parents were alive, and her mom always call Rika, Riri.

Rika answered "you're still too young to know the truth of what happened to mom and dad, Kira."

"I'm not too young Riri, I'm a teenager, so I'm old enough to know, so please tell me!" Erika yelled.

"I'm sorry Erika, but I can't tell you yet, when the time is right, I'll tell you, I promise," Rika said in a sad but happy way.

Erika took a deep breath, "fine!" she said, and grabbed another book, "be that way, but you better tell me soon! I wanna know! I mean I've been wanting to know for a while, now!"

Ed and Al arrived at the library.

"So Ed, what do you think these girls look like?" Al asked.

"I don't know Al, I guess we'll find out. Come on, let's ask this lady if she knows." Ed said while he walked up to the information desk.

She pointed towards the girls.

Ed and Al looked at them.

"They're cute brother!" Al said.

"Al, we're here to research, not to meet girls, even though their here to help us find the philosophers stone," Ed said.

Al looked at Ed and said "but brother, don't you want a special person to be with you in your life."

Ed didn't say anything, and walked over to where the girls were sitting at.

The girls heard loud clacking footsteps and looked from the books they were looking at and focused on where the noise was coming from, they looked at a short blond guy and a metal suit guy next to him.

Rika was the first to speck, she stood up and bowed her head down, "hello, my name is Rika Sohma, I'm twenty-six years old, I'm known as the love alchemist."

Then Erika stood up and bowed her head down, "and I'm Erika Sohma, I'm fifteen years old, I'm known as the winter alchemist."

Both the girls finished introducing themselves, and held their heads up and looked at the blond guy and the metal suit guy.

Ed and Al did the same thing the girls did, Ed said "I'm Ed Elric, and this is my brother Al Elric, I'm also fifteen years old, and Al here is fourteen years old."

They had their heads up and they looked at the girls.

Rika asked "this will not be my business to know but, why does your brother wear a metal suit? You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

Ed put his head down. His bangs covering his eyes, Al looked at his brother with a sad expression inside his heart, and said in a sad voice to Ed "brother…"

Erika looked at the Elric brothers, she said "like my sister said, if it's uncomfortable for you to answer you don't have to answer right away, you can tell us when you're ready to tell us what happened."

Al answered it's not that, it's just that, it's painful for us to still remember what happened."

Both the girls said "oh,"

Ed said "it was about 7 years ago, when our mother died, she dies because of our bastard father, he was the cause of our mother's death, but what happened was that we were using alchemy to bring our mother back to life, but something bad happened, my brother lost his body, and I lost one leg and one arm, it was the most painful thing that has ever happened to us, so Al's soul is in this metal suit and that's why, so now you know why he wears a metal suit."

Both Rika and Erika were crying when they heard about that.

Rika said in a sad voice, "we're sorry to hear that, it must've been hard to make that pain go away sometimes, we know, cause our parents are gone too, it was very painful for both of us, well at least to me it was more painful, but I can't tell you yet."

"Yes," agreed Erika, "It must have been hard!"

"It was…" Ed said looking down at the floor.

Rika said "well, we can't mope around now, since we've introduced ourselves lets go to Lieutenant Colonel Hughes now, he'll tell us where to go, or something."

"Yeah!" Erika said excitedly, "let's go!"

All four of them left the library and walked to the central headquarter to see Lieutenant Colonel Hughes.

They walked through Colonel Hughes door.

Hughes stood up.

"Hello there," he smiled, "I see you four found each other!"

"No duh, Hughes!" Ed said.

Erika laughed.

Hughes walked up to Rika.

"So…" he said, "what do you think about dating?"

"Why do you ask?" Rika asking with a confusing look on her face.

"Nothing…much…I'm just thinking of hooking you up with one of my close friends, that's all. I want you two to get to know each other. So…"

"Say yes, Rika!" Erika begged.

"Sure, why not," she said with an 'I don't care' look on her face.

"Yes!" Erika yelled, then ran up to her sister, "I told you that you'd be getting a date soon!" she smiled.

"Ok Hughes, are you going to tell me who it is?" Rika asked.

"No, you'll find out. It's going to be a blind date," Hughes smiled.

Rika had an anime sweat.

"Oh, o-k…I thought I would at least see him before I went out with him."

"So, how is she going to date when she's helping us?" Al asked.

"Next time you guys come back, which should be a couple of weeks, hopefully, then she'll date him. But I think the two will really like each other!" he explained.

"Whatever. Now that that's done, can we get to the philosophers stone?" Ed asked.

The four looked at him.

"We will, Ed," Hughes stated.

"As in now," Ed said looking at Hughes.

"Yes, ok, you may leave. I already gave the girls some money, so see ya next time!" Hughes said, "be back in a couple weeks though."

The four walked out the central headquarters' door.

Hughes picked up his phone and called Mustang.

Mustang picked his phone and said "hello"

"Hey Mustang, how are you?" Hughes asked happily.

"I'm fine, you sound too happy, what's going on?" Mustang asked in his normal voice.

Hughes answered "well, I've got a date for you, no need to thank me, all in a good days work, oh and by the way, it's gonna be a blind date, so you won't be able to see her until she comes back with Ed and Al and also her lil sister."

Roy didn't say anything, he just sat there with a blank expression on his face.

He said "get a life Hughes, I will not agree to this date, and you will never make me!" then he hung up his phone.

Hughes smiled and said to himself oh, he'll change his mind sooner or later then he hung up his phone also.

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