unexpection : Thanks you . What you're thinkin is only partial of what she's actually doing. So you're on the right track. But I'll explain a little further on what she's doing in this chapter. ;D

>>>Chapter 5

A dark figure stood in front of a doorway in the dead of night. An eerie fog wisped around the buildings and gave a mysterious kind of look to it. The figure, dressed in black and had a hood on, reached its arm out and knocked kindly on the door. The knocking made a disturbance to the dark silence, but no one sleeping in the other buildings heard the knocking. The door opened slowly and cautiously. A creaking sound was made by the door and finally stopped as the door was finally wide open.
The figure removed its hood and revealed a woman. A woman with dark brown, tangled hair and the look of lack of sleep. But even through that look there was another look. A look that showed triumph. Even though it didn't look it, a passerby would know for sure she was proud of something. And today Gracia Hughes was proud she found what she had been looking for
"Oh, it's you. You shouldn't scare me like that, arriving wearing that hood," a bitter voice came out of the doorway. Inside the house was a dim light, coming from deep inside it. There was no other source of light so even a person with sharp eyes couldn't see the person speaking.
"I just don't want to be seen," Mrs. Hughes replied simply. Truth. She didn't want to be seen by anyone. Not the common passerby. Not the military that was looking for her.
"What kind of lie is that?" The voice was cold now, "I don't like being lied to,"
"It's not a lie," Mrs. Hughes said, gritting her teeth in anger. Her fists were clenched. She had searched and she had looked. She wasn't going home empty-handed.
"Oh of course, of course." The voice said slowly, "But I'd like to ask one question,"
"Go ahead,"
"Why did you come looking all of a sudden? 10 years is a long time to wait,"
"I haven't just started. I've been looking. All those 10 years I wasn't sitting around doing nothing," she let out a cough and covered her mouth quickly.

"Well then let's not keep you waiting. Come in," It said again. In a way the voice was very creepy. Not something you usually heard everyday. But reluctantly Mrs. Hughes entered the voice's domain and found it surprisingly warm, compared to the cold outside.
"But...You do know the alchemic standard don't you? Exact trade?" They walked toward the dim light. The voice's body was beginning to take form. The man was taller than Mrs. Hughes. Much taller. As if he'd taken an overdose of vitamins and grew that height. Mrs. Hughes clenched her teeth. This was what she had been hoping not to hear. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up straight and she knew that this wasn't good.
"To gain something you must give something up of equal value. So what will you give up?" The man turned toward Mrs. Hughes. His bright blue eyes facing her's. An evil grin spread all about his face.

"After all...A Philosopher's Stone isn't easy to make,"

Roy Mustang and Edward headed back down the stairs. When they got down there Roy took a seat and Ed stood up, his hands in his pockets. Jean Havoc sat on the couch, being his lazy self. It wasn't surprising to see a sight like this. Amazingly you could call this a normal routine. As in..It happened every day at the Central Headquarters. Only today it was different because of the change in setting. And because it wasn't always this late at work. According to the clock hanging in the kitchen it was almost 8pm. Roy yawned, Ed leaned against the wall, and Havoc snored. Yep. Normal.
A loud noise echoed through the room where they were staying. Someone was knocking on the door. Strange for someone to come this late, though. Everyone lifted their heads up and looked toward the doorway. Mustang stood up, scratched his head, and walked toward the door. His hands had their gloves on, but there were concealed when he carefully put his hands in his pockets. In front of the door Roy unlocked it and opened the door, quickly.

A young boy stood outside, wearing a jacket. He held a wrapped package and looked uncertainly and Mustang. He quickly shuffled through his pockets and on a note card he read something, looked at the number hanging next to the door, and scratched his head.
"Umm..Is this the Hughes' home?" he said, looking confused up at Mustang. 'I thought she didn't have a dad,' he thought.
"Yes," Roy replied, raising an eyebrow, "And, who are you?"
"Uhm," 'She said her dad was in the military, but died when she was young. Did her mom remarry? If she did, boy does she have something for people in the military,' He thought with a frown on his face. "I'm one of her friends. Are you Mr. Hughes?" he finally asked, pointing a finger at Mustang.
"SAY WHAT?" nothing could describe Roy's expression after that question.
"I-I-I wasjustwonderingsir!" The boy's words were tangled together after seeing Mustang's reaction to his simple question.

Edward and Havoc ran from where they were staying to the doorway to see Mustang fuming and the boy completely shocked.
"This..Isn't exactly what I expected," Havoc whispered to Ed, and slowly lowered his pistol. An annoyed look was spread out on his face and a somewhat amused one too.
"How dare you say that to the Fuhrer!" Roy yelled, pointing his finger menacingly at the kid.
"Fyu...her?" The boy tried to repeat the what Mustang had just said. But apparently he'd never heard of Fuhrer Mustang.
"WHAT? YOU'VE NEVER-

Mustang was cut off and fell to the floor. Behind him was an annoyed looking Edward with his fist raised up in the air."Nice job, you idiot. Roy's gonna kill you when he finds out," Havoc said, putting his hands on his hips.
"He won't. Because he won't know I did it. Because I'll blame it on you!" Ed laughed like a maniac and pointed his finger at Havoc.
"Not if I blame it on you first!" Havoc yelled back at Edward. The boy stared at the two adults fighting and could've sworn that he, himself, could act more mature than those two.
"Uhm...Excuse me?" he finally spoke up between those two and was the only other noise that actually was made while those two were at each other.
"Eh?" Ed looked at the boy, confused. It was seriously the first time he'd noticed the boy standing there, watching Havoc and Edward fighting.
"Uhm...Is Elysia here?" He held the package he was holding up and showed it to the two men.
"Oh I know who you are..." Havoc held a smirk on his face. A smirk on Havoc's face never meant anything good.
"You do?" the boy was surprised. He'd never met this person before. How did he know who he was?

"You're Elysia's boyfriend!" Havoc exclaimed pointing at the kid, smirking like there was no tomorrow. Ed stared crazily at Havoc and both his arms dropped to his side, as if they'd been deprived of movement.
The kid..shocked, yet again, fell to the floor.
"We're...Not...that...close...!" The boy twitched and looked as if he was having a seizure. Havoc watched in triumph and pointed his finger in the air.
"JEAN HAVOC KNOWS ALL!"
"Umm...Sure, wonderboy." Ed said raising an eyebrow.
"Ergh,"the boy groaned. 'What kind of perverted person is this?' He thought with a disgusted look on his face.
"Ignore him," Edward said, shaking his head and pushing Havoc aside. "What do you want with Elysia?"
"Uhm. Well it is her birthday," he said, holding up the package again, "I just wanted to give her something. I was going to give it earlier in school, but she left early." he said.
"Well she's sleeping right now," Ed said, frowning. "I'll give this to her," he said happily.
"Oh, sure! Tell him it's from Hiro!" Hiro handed Edward the package and jumped down the front steps. He waved at Edward and ran walked down the street.

"He was sure in a hurry to leave," Ed said to himself. Havoc heard him.
"Well it is getting late," Havoc said, shrugging.
"I wonder what he got her," Ed said, evilly, holding up the package.
Havoc conked him on the back of his head. "That's just not right. It's her present," he said holding up a fist. Ed rolled his eyes and was about to go inside when he remember something.
"Oh yeah. What do we do about him?" Ed said, pointing to the steps where he had knocked Mustang out. Havoc plainly shrugged and walked inside.

"You knocked him out. He's your problem," Havoc said while walking inside and put his hands in his pockets.

Ed took a last look at Havoc who disappeared from sight and crouched down to Mustang. He could drag him in. So Ed tried that. He took Mustang by the wrists and began to pull. But had no success of moving him anywhere. Plus he might break his wrists. But...That was a good thing to Ed. Next Edward tried kicking him inside.
WHAM

"What the hell do you think I am! A dead dog?" Mustang landed his fist on Ed's chin and Ed fell backwards a little. 'Crap,' Ed thought as he rubbed the area where Mustang punched him.
"Yes," he said in a very low voice, you probably wouldn't have guessed he'd talked. But...Mustang heard him. As usual.
"Shut up. Your punishment for kicking me and knocking me out is..." Mustang rubbed his chin for awhile. He tried to think of a punishment for the Short Alchemist that would be torture him.
"I'll think about your punishment later," Roy said happily. "You're not getting anything for now, so be thankful." Mustang was about to go inside when he spotted the package laying next to him. "What's this?" he said picking up the package that Hiro had left behind.
"Oh, that boy dropped this off for Elysia." Ed said, taking the package from Roy. "I'll take this to her,"

"Who was that boy, her boyfriend?" Roy said uncertainly. Ed froze and just shook his head. He just went back inside and walked up the stairs to Elysia's room. Mustang stared and picked himself up. He walked into the doorway and shut the door behind him. He walked toward to his spot before everything happened and sat back down. He leaned back in his chair and stretched. There was something about this house he didn't get. Like some sort of lost feeling. Something was missing, but Roy just didn't understand it.

There was a swift running coming down the stairs. Ed and a sleepy looking Elysia were running down the stairs. Elysia almost fell but picked herself back up in an instant and ran to where Mustang was.
"I don't know a person named Hiro!" Elysia said, holding up the package which the boy named Hiro gave Ed and Havoc. "I don't think there's anyone in my school called Hiro!
"Huh? But he acted as if he knew you so well," Havoc said from the sofa. He stood up and turned around to face Elysia, only to show a cigarette hanging from his mouth.
"Uh oh," Havoc said, quickly grabbing the cigarette and hiding it behind himself. He tried to dodge the package Elysia had thrown at him. but failed. It hit him in the head and Havoc fell to the floor. 'Why is there so much violence in the world? Oh wait...I'm in the military...never mind,' Havoc picked himself back up. He took the package carefully and put it against his ear.
"It's not a bomb," He said after clearly making sure there was no ticking. He put the package down again.
"What's inside it then?" Mustang said, still sitting on the chair, acting as if nothing wrong was going on.
"There's only one way to find out!" Ed said, rubbing his hands together. He leaped for the package but Havoc moved it aside just in time for Ed to look like a total idiot, crashing on the floor. Havoc and Mustang smirked and Ed glared angrily at Mustang. Havoc slowly ripped the wrapping paper from the package and saw a box under it. He opened that up too and in that instant a loud ticking was heard. Havoc froze in terror.

"THROW IT, YOU ASSHOLE!" Ed said, leaping again for the box. This time he was successful and threw it out the window. Mustang jumped up and pushed Elysia into the far side of the house. Ed and Havoc scrambled up and ran in the direction of Mustang. It was too late though. Ed screamed as the heat from the bomb crept up to his skin. It felt as if his feet were melting right before his eyes. Havoc pushed himself forward. It seemed as if the explosion would never subside.

Mustang shuffled through his pockets and grabbed a piece of chalk. He began to draw an alchemy circle next to the sink and created a large pipe. He opened it and forced the water to pout in the direction of the explosion. A great sizzling noise was being made and steam was being rushed everywhere in the house.
"Elysia! Get out of here!" Mustang called from where he was sitting, seriously by the alchemy circle. Elysia was hesitant.
"GO!" Mustang called. Elysia ran to the front doorway and struggled with opening the door. The flames from the explosion had made the doorknob hot and burning but Elysia managed to open it and escape. She ran out onto the front lawn and fell. Her hands moved in front of her to stop herself from falling and hitting her head. It was dark outside and flames were making a bright light on the side of the house where Ed threw the bomb.

Tears formed on Elysia's eyes. If something had happened to them..She'd be all alone in this world. An orphan. Alone. She closed her eyes and prayed for everything to be over. For everything to stop. For everything to be the way it was before bad things started happening. She prayed for Mustang, the closest thing she ever had to a father.
The flames on the side of the house finally was put down, but it still barely gave hope for Elysia. They could've died, but the pipe would keep running until someone stopped it. She waited for a sign, for an answer, for someone to tell her everything was alright. But it didn't come. Nothing came. It was late at night and everyone was sleeping safe and sound. Everyone was sleeping happily. Was happy a word she'd ever use again?

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Yeah...I felt like making things suspenseful..muahaha. Cuz like while I was writing this I was reading some more Naruto Manga (Obsesssiiooooon aleeeert). And the chapter I was reading was pretty sad. So like...I made this sad! D

Amazingly this literally took FOREVER to write. It really did. I started at 4pm..and its now 12am. I wasn't writing the WHOLE ENTIRE time...But I was writing most of the time. And umm..I dunno what you should expect for the next chapter. Depends how I'm feeling when I'm writing it. X But I should get going with my homework...so yah. Oh yeah...This took 5 pages to write ;) what I'm using is Corel Word Perfect...I forgot which version XD