The time you have all been waiting for. Chapter 5 of Weeping Willows! I would like to thank all my reviewers, especially Blu3 Flam3s. If it wasn't for you, this chapter would barely be half way finished. Thank you.

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Weeping Willows

I was born on October 31st, the night of the full moon.

I am a disgrace against humankind

My name is Luna

And this is only the just the beginning

Of what my name holds

Chapter 5: Reactions

It was already 11:10AM. The two young alchemists walked down the busy streets of Central headed towards HQ once again, to be assigned their next mission. Edward was a bit nervous, he was not sure what Mustang might say after their little "argument" yesterday morning.

Flashback

"Once again, you disobey my orders. I simply instructed you to come straight to HQ after your mission, and instead you take another joy ride, expecting me to brush it off!"

Edward clenched his fists and his superior, ready to attack. He managed to contain himself and gave a death glare, "If you just let me explain…" he grumbled.

"No!" Mustang shouted, "I am sick and tired of you making excuses all the time; thinking I'm that stupid to actually believe you! Why can't you act more responsible like you're brother, Alphonse! He listens to his superiors, unlike you!"

Ed had enough; his head was about to explode and he wasn't going keeping listening to this idiot tell him who he should and shouldn't be. He was not going to let someone accuse him and have no input, "Just shut up, Colonel! Stop telling me to act like my brother, because I am not him!" Tears started to form at the corner of his eyes, sliding down on his pale flesh, "I hate you all! And I hope you burn in hell!"

End of Flashback

"Umm, maybe we should come back tomorrow…"

"Yeah, right! It'll be alright Ed, just pull yourself together. Besides, the Colonel is probably in a good mood and forgiving today. I'm sure he understood how you felt yesterday, just act normal," Alphonse spoke in a very happy tone. He grabbed on to Edward's shoulder just in case he tried to make an escape.

Edward growled and looked down at the puddles made by yesterday's precipitation. "Oh, the Colonel is probably in a good mood and forgiving," he says. How encouraging!

"Edward! Alphonse!" a voice called.

Edward mumbled under his breath, "Great! Just what I need! That bratty, little, good for nothing, triple lying thief, tagging along, with us!"

"Excuse me? Now just who are you calling good for nothing?" The figure in blue questioned sternly, switching the safety lock off her gun.

"Oh crap!" Edward exclaimed, sweating like hell from what he had just called the lieutenant.

"Oh my gosh, we are terribly sorry Lieutenant! You see, Brother was talking about some girl from earlier, and did not mean to offend you. As usual, Brother does not think before he acts. " Alphonse quickly laughed off, giving Ed a big pat on the head.

She put the safety switch back on, "If it wasn't for your brother, you would have felt the shot of a bullet," Hawkeye said sternly, staring straight into the elder Elric's eyes.

"Yes ma'am," Edward mentioned nervously.

"By the way," Alphonse started "what brings you here? Shouldn't you be in the office with the Colonel or something?"

"The Colonel asked me to deliver some documents to you for your next mission."

"How come we cannot go up to his office and get it instead? Why didn't he come down instead of you?" asked the curious state alchemist.

"He can't" Hawkeye started, "he took the day off…" Riza looked at the Elrics to see shock across their faces, "Apparently, a situation had occurred yesterday that seemed to have made the Colonel look terribly… Oh how could I say this? Pathetic. "

"Wow! Great choice of words Lieutenant! I couldn't have said that better myself!" Edward smiled with glee only to be jerked by the arm by his brother.

"Ed! How could you say such a thing? Especially about the Colonel!" Al yelled, having Ed plug his ears to prove he did not care what Alphonse said. He was NOT going to feel sorry for the Colonel, even if it meant being held hostage or something by some lunatic, which would never happen. "Anyways, we'd better get going now. Someone is waiting for us, and we wouldn't want to be late. "

"That seems perfectly fine to me. I have to get going too. Even if the Colonel is gone, there is definitely no time to be slacking off." Riza pointed out, giving a salute and heading back inside HQ.

Luna gazed out of the hotel window. Looking at the sky with curiosity. She closed her tanned eyelids and inhaled deeply, letting the crisp oxygen fill her young lungs. She then slowly exhaled and lifted her eyelids open to see the eyes of a young man with angelic wings inches away from her face. His hair reached up to his waist, and was white as snow itself. His skin was tanned just like Luna's, and his eyes were a grayish blue. He held her rough face in his hands and a light aura started to appear around her.

"You will never know the truth, unless you find the children who weep among the Great Willow Tree." The angelic figure spoke softly.

"Kronos…is that you?"

Knock Knock. The door to Luna's room knocked loud causing her to jump. She only blinked her eyes for half a second and to her surprise the young man vanished. "Huh, where did he go?" She was not for sure if that was the spirit of her elder brother, Kronos, but she was positive that she saw him before. "The Great Willow Tree…what is that?"

Knock Knock. "Alright, already! I'm coming, just give me a moment!" Luna pulled her gaze off the bright blue sky and walked over to the front door. She slowly opened the door to see Edward and Alphonse on the opposite side.

"Yo," Edward greeted.

"What he means is Hi, how are you feeling?" Alphonse tried to laugh off. He knew Edward was trying to be impolite on purpose and he was not going to stand for it.

Luna looked towards the wooden floor and rubbed her left cheek, "I'm fine…thank you."

Edward fixed his gaze intently on the cheek that Luna was currently rubbing. Her fingers were putting such tremendous force on her coarse skin that tiny streams of blood started to trickle down the left side of her face.

Ed's POV

"You're bleeding. You seem to have torn the skin from itching and rubbing it a lot," I said pointing towards the evidence. No matter how annoying she might seem a girl needs to know when something nasty like that whatsoever is on them, right?

"Oh, whoops! Guess that little infection is still not healed completely yet…" she tells me embarrassed, taking out a little bandage in the process.

"Infection?" Al and I say in unison. I gulped so hard that I almost choked on my own saliva. EWW! I'm sorry but that is DISGUSTING! Go see a doctor or something, before that rash makes me vomit! "Yuck, stay away from me!" I accidentally blurted out, shocking both the stupid girl and Alphonse.

"Brother! Say sorry!" Al demands shaking my shoulder. I look at the girl again and see tears forming up at the corner of her multicoloured eyes. She started to close the door until I pushed it back open and held her hand that had the blood on it with my left hand.

"Look, I'm sorry," I remove my hand from hers and scratch my face, blushing slightly. "I guess I overreacted a bit."

She gave a weak smile and said, "That's okay, I understand." Wow! And all this time I thought she was just a mean, heartless b-

"It's nice to see that you're not too upset. My brother can be a jerk sometimes." Alphonse added. I can be a what? Hey, come to think of it, she has been acting a bit odd from when we last saw her. I realized that from her facial expression, she was somewhat in the mood to talk anymore, so I decided to end the stupid conversation and we headed to our suite next door.

End of Ed's POV

Luna shut her door and walked slowly towards her bathroom mirror. She took the bandage off her left cheek and checked the irritation. It was gone.

"Why does this always happen?" she questioned herself, touching the area where her rash was last seen. "First, this infection keeps coming back every few months with no signs of slowing down." She gave a great sigh of depression and went back in to her small bedroom. She flung herself on the mattress and looked up towards the squeaky silver ceiling fan. "Second, once again I'm putting my trust in to these guys. For all I know they could just be a couple of rapists ready attack me any minute."

Flashback

"Come on! I won't hurt you," an older man's voice could be heard from the corridors of the 2nd floor. A two and a half year old, child prodigy Luna, hid herself in a small closet, fear of being beaten for having to see what her Uncle had done to Kronos a few moments ago. The dark closet reeked of unwashed clothing, considering that her uncle never liked to clean up his estate. The rusty silver door handle opened, exposing bright light that illuminated the confined area. Luna quickly hid her face in her palms and started crying loudly. "Stop crying! I did not do anything to you did I?" he questioned.

He grabbed her by her pigtails and dragged her in to her so called bedroom. He threw her on the bed and got on top of her asking her a question slyly, "Want me to demonstrate what I did with your brother?" And with that he started to touch her in ways a family member never should…

End of Flashback

"So Brother, what has the Colonel asked us to do this time?" Al patiently sat opposite is older brother waiting to her a response.

"He wants us to investigate the ruins of Rogue and see if there is any weird activity up there what so ever… Seems pretty stupid to me. Just another mission that won't bring us any closer to our goal!" Edward complained pulling his bangs in frustration.

"I don't know," Al pondered, "maybe the Colonel suspects that someone or something is interfering with the daily activities of local towns and villages. The Colonel isn't that kind of person to send us out to go sightseeing."

"I am not sure what the Colonel wants us to actually 'look' for, but we're heading out first thing tomorrow morning!" he planned not thinking about the other person next door they were taking along.

Then came the question, "Brother, what about Luna?"

Ed looked down towards the wooden floor thinking hard on what he should do with her. He couldn't exactly leave her here, yet bringing her along was out of the question. Plus, her behaviour towards them was acting somewhat strange. Just yesterday she was barking at him for being an idiot what not, and today she seems so calm and collected. He even began to notice that he has been acting pretty cool around her too, despite what she did to him in the past. "We'll talk about that later. Right now let us relax for a bit…"

'I wonder...does it have anything to do with those suspicious treats that woman gave us…'

40 minutes later

It was around 3:00PM, and the sun was as bright as ever. Edward mysteriously scratching his left cheek reached over to small window and closed the light blue window curtains, as it was interrupting his reading. In the meantime Alphonse, silently played Solitaire with himself in the corner across from Ed. Both were waiting for one of them to break the silence.

"Dammit! Why do I feel so itchy all of a sudden?" Edward's left cheek was now swollen and had fresh pimples on the surface. I looked like something was growing on his skin and it was terribly…

"Disgusting! Brother, I think you caught what Luna has." Alphonse stated in disgust.

"And how the hell would you explain that? I didn't touch her face!" he yelled back, in disbelief. Then it hit him, maybe he did touch her in some way.

Flashback

"Brother! Say sorry!" Al demands shaking my shoulder. I look at the girl again and see tears forming up at the corner of her multicoloured eyes. She started to close the door until I pushed it back open and held her hand that had the blood on it with my left hand.

"Look, I'm sorry," I remove my hand from hers and scratch my face, blushing slightly. "I guess I overreacted a bit."

End of Flashback

"Oh, shit!"

Next Day 6:50AM

The moon and stars shone through the light grey skies of Central. Edward, Alphonse, and slowly behind them, the youngest of them all, Luna, walked down to Central's train station; hoping to catch the earliest train to Rouge, as soon as possible. The rash that Edward had got in contact of yesterday was still bad, but the medication that Luna had to cure stuff like that had started to take effect.

Still, Edward couldn't put a finger on why Luna was acting so nice to them all of a sudden. He couldn't trust her completely though, something about her was just too…weird. Like the time she snatched his wallet without him noticing, or when Alphonse told him he took shelter at her cottage. Either way, he was going to get to the bottom of things.

"Al," Edward softly whispered, in a serious way. He surely did not want the young child staggering behind them to overhear the conversation.

Alphonse responded, "Yes, brother?" unsure of whether he should take his brother's tone of voice a good or bad thing.

"From now on, I want you to keep guard until we know the true identity of this Luna person…We can't put full trust in her…To me… she's too odd, for a regular person."

Yup that's it. Once again I apologize for the long delay. I kind of get a bit lazy when I write stories. I personally don't like this chapter. For some reason, it seems too out of place. The next chapter will be posted in a few days or sooner, and this I promise! It will also be a lot better. Don't forget to review (no flames)! Se ya!

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