Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or any known characters as mentioned in this story and I don't own the rights to the Fullmetal Alchemist movie, Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shambala. That is all! Now, onto the story at hand as we see what becomes of our friends and Envy.

Leo and Rick had since learned to live with Scar's former teacher since Scar's departure for Lior after the battle between the Elrics and the Homunculi and since then the boys had been involved in becoming better people. Rick, begin the youngest brother had taken up an interest in alchemy, even though it was starting to become tolerated amongst the people of Ishbal, but it was still regarded by most to be a work of evil against God. Leo, the oldest of the siblings, had decided to take up learning the ways of their God of their people, Ishbala because he didn't dare tamper with alchemy after the trouble he saw it had caused during the years previous to the Ishbalans return to their homeland.

Envy and Fletcher had been the train headed to Ishbal long since before dawn and Envy had taken on the figure of a mother to hide his true form from the others on the train, but even as the sun was becoming hotter, Fletcher had been hiding under the cloak that he had been disguised in since his capture, but as he watched Envy sitting across from him, he starting planning how to try and escape from Envy once they were at the train station in Ishbal.

"We are getting closer my boy, soon the mice shall fall into the cat's trap and their lives shall be snuffed out like a candle in the wind," Envy said as he looked to Fletcher, but Fletcher didn't dare answer him as he silently slipped off one his wrist bands to drop when they were getting off the train.

"Ishbal train platform in five minutes folks, please gather all belongings and other items that you brought with you ready to take when you get off," shouted the train master.

"Good, my chance to escape is soon at hand," Fletcher thought silently as he pulled the hood further down over his eyes.

The train slowed to a crawl as it crawled into the train station and the passengers starting heading off the train and onto the platform, but as Envy and Fletcher got off Fletcher dropped the loose wristband.

"Oh, son you dropped your wristband," Envy started to say as he looked up and noticed that Fletcher had made a run for it, "You won't get far my young friend."

The chase was soon on as Envy chased Fletcher through Ishbal as Fletcher slipped through the many alleyways of the ancient city, but as he went through one, Envy soon followed, but not as the mother figure he had been portraying, but now he was portraying Ed chasing him down as he screamed after Fletcher.

"Come back with my watch you little bastard thief!" Envy shouted as Edward Elric.

Rick and Leo were headed back home with food for the evening meal, but they soon stopped in their tracks as they heard what sound like the familiar voice of the Fullmetal Alchemist Edward Elric. They followed the voice as they saw a person in a cloak running from the look alike Ed as he chased him toward an abandoned Ishbalan church, but as Rick looked closer he could tell it wasn't Ed by the way he moved after the boy.

"Brother, that's not Edward Elric!" Rick said as he pointed at the Homunculi symbol on top of the gloves that Envy wore as Ed.

"We need to get back home now and tell Master what is going on and what we have seen," Leo said as the brothers started back home, but Rick soon ran after the imposter which was soon followed by his brother.

Envy chased Fletcher into the church and looked around the room, but he soon stood ten feet away from the cloaked boy Fletcher as he held a secret dagger in his hand and panted under the cloak as he stared at Envy.

"I guess I can lose the disguise since no one would believe that Edward Elric would be back in Ishbal," Envy said as he shed the disguise as he walked toward Fletcher and sent the boy sprawling across the room into a wooden pew of the church, "Stupid boy, did you honestly think you could escape me that easily?"

"It was worth the chance at freedom to get away from you," Fletcher said defiantly as Envy slammed the boy across the face.

Up in the rafters of the old church sat the two brothers, Rick and Leo as they watched Envy beat up Fletcher mercilessly across the floor of the old church, but what Envy said next set the boys on edge as they overheard what Envy had planned for certain visitors coming to Ishbal.

"If you know what's good for you and also for your brother, you will not try something as stupid as what you pulled on the train. Do you want every person in the world to know that I'm not human?" Envy said as he pulled Fletcher up and sat him in one of the pews.

"I wish they did so they knew what kind of monster you really are," Fletcher said as he spit a little blood from Envy's attack.

"Something as stupid as you did today won't save your brother or any of your brother's friends and I have a hunch that they will come seeking me here in Ishbal because at least three of them has a dark secret about this place that still plays on their minds, especially the Dogs of the Military. They all shall fall like flies as each of them is overcome by the game I plan to play on their minds because this place is still a hard place to come back to after the evil they did to this city. I shall separate each of them and one by one I will take them out by the use of memories of the past," Envy said as he circled the interior of the church, but he sensed that there was someone else in the room.

Rick and Leo could tell that the person or creature or whatever Envy was starting to get wise to the idea that they were in the room and they knew that they had to get out of the church before Envy found them and punished them like had been doing to Fletcher.

"Rick, I think it's time that we left this place," Leo said as he started to move from the rafters of the church.

"We have to help that boy and what does he mean about the darkness that surrounds those in the Military?" Rick asked as he moved from his hiding place and the two brothers ran for their Master's house to tell what they knew.

"It seems that we have a pest problem, but a bigger one is headed our way. I will deal with that one first than the smaller pests will be easy to do away with and with that, no more pests," Envy said secretively as he watched the brothers slink away into the dark of night.

Rick and Leo got back to their Master's house out of breath and the bags of food sagging under their arms as they dropped them on the floor as they placed their hands on their knees as they tried to gain their breath back from the run.

"Where have you boys been?" Master asked as he saw the sweat forming on the boy's foreheads.

"Master, we saw someone who looked like Edward Elric chasing a young boy through the town," Leo said as he gained his breath.

"Yeah, but when we followed them, we overheard him and it wasn't him, it was someone that could change his form to trick others into thinking that he is the person in question," Rick said as he accepted a glass of water from his teacher.

"What did this imposter say?"

"'They all shall fall like flies as each of them is overcome by the game I plan to play on their minds because this place is still a hard place to come back to after the evil they did to this city. I shall separate each of them and one by one I will take them out by the use of memories of the past'" That's all he said," Leo said.

"That is truly a problem and I will help as much as I can, but I don't think that we should get too involved because it's not our war to fight."
"Why not Master?" Rick asked pleadingly.

"If we get too involved we may lose our very lives as well as those involved in this evil plot," Master said as he looked at the boys sternly as he made his way to bed.

"But," Rick said, but before he could continue Leo stopped him and shook his head to stop the boy.

"No, he's right Rick…it's not our war, but if that monster decides to cause harm to our people, then we will become involved in the fight," Leo said as he and Rick made their way to bed, but sleep would not come as the boys thought about the lives that would be lost.

Al and the others finally arrived in Ishbal and it was a desert city like it had been when the few members of the Military in the group had visited back in the time of the Eastern Rebellion, but stepping onto the train platform a thousand memories flooded back to Major Armstrong, Dr. Marcoh and Mustang as they tried to envision the city before the attack. As the many memories flooded back of their first visit to the dying city, they could still smell the blood caked into the sand of the streets of the reconstructing city as they were attempting to recreate their town back to its glory. The sound of screams of civilians running from the Military mixed with the screams of the dying, both the Military and Ishbalan rebels. The sound of the wounded as they were carried off the bloodied battlefield that was soaked with the blood of the Ishbalan rebels and the various Military members that had joined just to get to their hands dirty in war. As the memories performed the deadly dance one more sound came to mind as the voice of the Brigadier General Basque Gran came to mind as he gave each of the State Alchemists involved in the Rebellion their orders and duties as State Alchemists of the Military. It felt as real as they scanned the once prosperous town that had now been turned into a city of rubble, small tents and huts dotted the small village town of Ishbal as the city was trying to rebuild what it had lost so along ago.

"So this is Ishbal Colonel Mustang?" Rose asked as she scanned the small desert town.

"Yes, this was the place of the Ishbal Massacre to the Ishbalans, but to the Military it was the Eastern Rebellion and where my youth lays buried under the sands of time. I promised myself that I would never return to this place of death" Mustang said as he cringed at the very lives he had destroyed in this desert town, especially Winry's parents.

"I can almost hear the cries of the lives we ruined," Major Armstrong said as he wiped tears of shame and guilt from his eyes.

"This place is the place where I gave up all connection to the Military and where I left with the weapon of mass destruction that was used in this bloody war…it is also the place where the deserted the Military, you remember Colonel Mustang?" Dr. Marcoh asked as he looked to Mustang for an answer.

Mustang was lost in the moment of returning to the site where he had committed heinous crimes against the people of the city of Ishbal, the cries of children as they wept for their parents as their parents lay in the streets that were added to the slaughter. Mustang could hear the laughter of the Brigadier General Basque Gran and Kimbley as they laughed at the sheer power that the Philosopher's Stone brought to them as they went about destroying the city. As Mustang prepared to fall onto his knees from the sheer force of the memories, he was pulled back to reality by the hand Lt. Hawkeye.

"Sir, are you alright, you're sweating all over your face?" Hawkeye asked as she shook the Colonel from his trip from reality.

"I'm fine, it's just that the heat is getting to me," Mustang said as he kept his eyes on the city as he moved from the platform towards the town as he headed towards a local inn where they would stay the night.
Dr. Marcoh and Major Armstrong knew something weird was happening to Mustang as they watched the Colonel walking away and they knew that the problem was going to solve itself on its own. The others soon followed and the friends checked into the local inn where they would stay the night, but the day was bound to bring about its own challenges and problems and they were looming on the horizon as the sun was reaching its highest point in the sky.

"Only time will tell what damages has been done to the seasoned Military officers," Al thought out loud as the others walked ahead of him.

A lot of suspense still lies ahead for our companions as Envy plots to bring the Military officers to their knees, but they aren't the only the only ones that are cutting to suffer in this desert town as time seems to be slipping away slowly. Read and review and also wait for the next chapter as this Ishbal saga begins and comes to and end, here's a sneak peek of what is the next town on this crazy trip: XENOTIME! Till next time readers.