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The next day, Riko was talking to Hime about some "things" that Riko would not talk to a guy.

"I heard that a ball might be occurring in the next month or so. Who do you want to take?" Hime asked Riko.

"I've been thinking about bringing Roy? What about you?" Riko asked.

"From what I heard from Vezerini; Roy, Ed, Winry, and everyone else can't come since they are alchemist or related to them. He told me that since this is a meeting between Thelem, .Hack, and Serenity, some of the people from there will try to hunt down alchemists in Serenity." Hime explained.

"Then I have no clue, any suggestions?" Riko asked.

"How about you try Sawn? You always seem to like him."

"But… I think he already has someone in mind."

"Yeah right. He told me that he's single and, for some weird reason, can't seem to get a girl for him. You told me a while ago that you fell in love with him a while ago and then he left you, right?"

"Yeah but, well… It's just that… well… I am already married, and…."

"It's only just for the ball. You don't have to marry him or anything of course. Man sometimes you can be so thick. Just try it for once. Sheesh."

"Alright. You win, this time at least. I'll ask him tomorrow."

"Yeah, I think that would be wise now would it. Especially since it is the full moon."

"Why? Is it because it is romantic?"

"Probably"

Next thing they knew Vezerini was right next to them.

"Hi, girls."

"Ahh! What the hell was that for! Vezerini, You know better than to sneak up behind us!" Riko screamed.

"Ok, what did you hear?" Hime said calmly.

"Hear what? I just got here, I didn't even know you had a conversation. Either way, may I get to the point?" Vezerini said.

"Yeah." Riko and Hime both said.

"Riko, is it ok if you teach me alchemy?"

"Wha, what! You don't know how to do Alchemy! I thought you of all people would know everything about it!" Hime said completely shocked

"You are correct on part of that. I do know everything about it but I just can't seem to be able to actually do it." Vezerini said looking embarrassed.

"Why should she? You locked her up in this place." Hime started to rant.

"But, Miss Hime, I have allowed her to do as much as she wanted with out her and my ass's getting caught. If I followed what I was told to do, you wouldn't be in this Dimension right now, Hime." Vezerini turned to Riko, "What do you say Riko? Yes or no?"

"Uh… Yeah." Riko said slowly.

"Riko, you've got to be kidding." Hime retorted.

"I don't see what's wrong with it." Riko said while still trying to put together the irony of the situation.

"Ok, then. When, if I dare ask, shall we meet?" Vezerini asked.

"Uh, when ever it's possible for you."

"Thanks. I'll try to see you next week Friday in my office in the Hogwarts Dimension (ten points to their favorite house if they can guess what Anime, Book, Video Game, and so on this is Dimension is based.) I hope to see you there then." Vezerini said while having a wide grin on his face. He turned and walked away. Hime turned toward Riko.

"I hope you know what you're getting into." Hime said flatly.

"I do. Where's Roy anyways?" Riko asked.

"He's in Amestris. I think I'll go there today, see you later Riko." Hime said as she walked off to the Dimensional Gate.

"See you later Hime!" Riko called after her.

Hime waved goodbye as she walked into the gate. Riko turned and thought for a bit and decided to take a nice long nap. When she got up she was staring into Tenshi's eyes.

"HOLY SON OF A BITCH! Tenshi! You know not to do that." Riko yelled.

"I know. I was told by Vezerini to take you, Hime, Roy, Ed, and Al to a Dimension. The others are waiting. Come on. You'll be transferring into the school to. Vezerini told me to tell you that you're no to tell Hime and the others about anything. I won't be coming though." Tenshi said rather fast. Riko got ready and met them at the Dimensional Gate. The said hello and walked in…

Riko was acting as if she was new here but she really wasn't. Hogwarts. She had been there before without knowing it. She was transferring into school and that's all she knew. She was also having way to many problems with Roy at the moment. She was going back this time with Hime and Edward Elric.

After the sorting ceremony of the three newest students being transferred to Hogwarts they all went to their new common rooms. The fifth years Hime and Edward went to Griffyndor with their new sixth year friends Harry, Ron and Hermione, and the sixth year Riko followed the rest of the crowd of Slytherins to her own common room. All during the feast the girl named Riko was silent, even though people surrounded her. She didn't eat or drink a thing. Although Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle didn't catch her name Draco did manage to catch the size of her bust, and he was thoroughly interested in knowing her.

Now, in the Slytherin common room, the girl Riko sat curled in a chair near the fire and apart from the rest of the students. She had a notebook on one knee and a quill in her hand, scratching away at the paper. Occasionally she would look up at the crowd of people surrounding Malfoy and his goons Crabbe and Goyle, but otherwise she kept to herself.

Malfoy noticed her by the fire alone in the middle of one of his stories and blinked in surprise. Why wasn't she over here admiring him like everybody else? He finished his story and walked away from the crowd, which dispersed almost immediately. Then he walked up to the girl and stopped in front of her so that he purposefully blocked the firelight. She looked at him irritably.

"Could you please move?" she asked politely. Her look was far from polite, though. She was rather good at keeping her emotions in check. Malfoy smirked over his shoulders at Crabbe and Goyle, who were-as always-right behind him.

"What's your name?" he asked Riko. Riko sighed.

"My name's Riko Suundati. Could you please get out of my light?" she said.

"What are you doing?" Malfoy asked, snatching the notebook off of her lap.

"Fine, keep 'em. I don't care. Its obvious that I wont be able to finish anything anymore if people wont leave me to myself," Riko said, standing and walking to the girls dormitory with her quill and ink. Malfoy watched her go in curiosity, then turned his attention to the notebook he had taken from the girl.

Instead of the notes or homework like he had expected there were tons of pictures sketched onto the pages. Pictures of him in the middle of the crowd; pictures of the girl and guy she had arrived with; pictures of people he didn't even know... And they were all brilliant. Almost like tons of black and white pictures, some in pencil, some in pen, some in quill and ink. Malfoy blinked.

"Crabbe, Goyle. Look at these," he said, turning toward them so that they could see the art on the pages. As he flipped backward through the pages he noticed the abundance of one man: the student teacher that had come recently. He was strict and young with messy black hair and brown-black eyes. It seemed that he seldom smiled, even in Riko's drawings of him. For some reason he mostly wore a strange uniform of a deep blue, a uniform like none Draco had never seen.

Then he saw some self-portraits and symbols. There were notes next to the symbols, talking about the importance of transmutation circles in alchemy.

"That girl is strange. Why did she just give up all of this stuff without a fight?" Malfoy mused. He closed the notebook and tucked it into the folds of his robes, walking away. He resolved to give it back to her in the morning.

The next morning Riko woke up early and dressed in a plain white shirt and jeans under her Slytherin House robes. She put her wand in her pocket and slipped on her boots.

"At least today's a rest day. I can try to find my way around," she muttered to herself. She grabbed her actual drawing folder and resolved to go to the library. She wondered if it would be open at this time of day, considering the fact that it was only just past dawn. She walked quietly out of the dormitory, then out of the common room, then the dungeons.

In the entrance hall she looked around at the pictures on the walls, most of which seemed to be asleep. She walked up to one and was about to wake it up and ask for directions when someone spoke behind her in the general direction of the dungeons.

"I wouldn't wake him up if I were you. That's Peeves the poltergeist. He's always hiding in pictures."

Riko dropped her things in surprise and turned to face Malfoy. He was alone, leaning nonchalantly against the wall with his arms crossed against his chest.

Riko bent and picked op the papers that had fallen out of her folder. Draco walked across the hall as Riko stood and produced her notebook from the folds of his robes, handing it to her. She took it from him and put it in top of her folder, holding both items to her chest.

"Thank you," she said.

"Why are you up so early?" Malfoy asked.

"I could ask you the same thing," Riko said. Malfoy smirked.

"I thought you might need a guide," he said.

Riko glanced back over her shoulder at the picture and nodded.

"Yea, I think I do," she said. "Um...could you show me how to get to the library?"

"Sure, but why do you want to go to the library?" Draco asked.

"I need to look up a word really quick. Its important to my crafts," Riko said.

"Right. The library's this way," Draco said. He turned and started up the grand staircase. Riko followed close behind.

Part of the way up the stairs Draco paused so that Riko was right beside him, then he continued forward.

"So what exactly is your craft?" he asked her.

"Wicca. Its another more specialized version of witchcraft," Riko explained.

"How exactly is it more specialized?" Malfoy asked.

"You can use it virtually anywhere without a wand." Riko said, looking around interestedly at the pictures and statues, and occasionally down a hall.

"You can do that? That's advanced stuff, though. I don't even think that Granger can do that. You can do magic without your wand?"

"Yea. Sometimes you need symbols-like the ones on my wrist and neck," Riko said. "Roy and I are the only ones that know about the one on my neck, though. Actually, I got 'em after one of my sp-"

Riko glanced down another hallway and froze. Draco paused and glanced back. Then he looked down the hallway as well.

The strict, dark-haired man featured in many of Riko's drawings was standing in the hallway making out with a girl.

"...Colonel...?" Riko muttered. The man paused and looked over in surprise.

"Riko-" he started, but Riko didn't give him a chance to finish. She turned on her heel and walked away strait-backed towards the entrance hall. Draco walked beside her silently.

"Riko! Riko, wait, I was just..." the man trailed off, and Riko paused in her stride, turning around angrily.

"Why are you apologizing to me, Professor? I don't mean anything to you. I mean, we were only living together, right? That's not much when you really think about it. Oh, and have your ring back. You can give it to your new girlfriend. I'm sure she'll like it just as much as I did-just try not to blow anything up with it again," Riko said to him, taking a ring off of her finger and throwing it at him. Then she turned again and walked away, with Draco trailing along behind her.

"Riko, what was that all about?" Draco asked her. "Are you alright?"

Riko stopped at the top of the grand staircase and took a deep breath to calm down.

"I'm fine, but Mustang wont be if he ever comes near me again," she said angrily. Draco smirked.

This is my kind of girl, he thought.

Riko sighed exasperatedly.

"Can we go outside? I want to go outside," she asked.

" we can't go outside until the headmaster dismisses us from breakfast," Draco said. There were quite a few people in the halls now, all heading for the great hall.

"Then let's go," Riko said resolutely. The pair worked their way down the stairs and into the great hall, sitting at the Slytherin table across from each other, talking. After a few minutes Crabbe and Goyle showed up and sat on either side of Malfoy, as well as a number of people that were in last night's crowd. Malfoy broke into a story about how Harry Potter had totally ruined his reputation again or something stupid like that, and for the first time since she arrived here Riko laughed with the other students.

"Hey, has anyone seen Riko today? I figured that she would have shown up by now," Hime said worriedly, looking around the grounds after breakfast.

"I saw her talking to the boy with white-blonde hair at the Slytherin table in the hall earlier. Maybe she's with him," Ed shrugged indifferently.

"She was talking to Malfoy!" Harry exclaimed in disbelief. Ron and Hermione were gaping at Ed in disbelief.

"If that's his name," Ed said.

"Wait a minute," Hime said. "Riko has made friends with Draco Malfoy? Draco Malfoy! What-the-HELL has gotten into her?"

"Maybe it's a friendship derived only from the depressions of loneliness and being separated from all of those she loves," Al suggested. Everybody but Hermione looked at him blankly.

"Well somebody knows a lot of big words," Hime teased.

"Translation..." Ron said. Hermione sighed exasperatedly.

"He means that she's probably only friends with Malfoy because all of her other friends are in another house, so she was lonely and desperately needed someone to talk to. Malfoy just happened to be in the right place at the right time-or in this case, the wrong place at the wrong time," she said, making it sound as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "And I'd have to agree with him on that hypothesis."

"...Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight," Ed said. "So where is she now?"

"Over there," Ron said, pointing at a large group of Slytherins exiting the school. Riko was in the middle of the crowd next to none other than Malfoy, laughing with the others. She looked around the school grounds and spotted Hime and the group, waving ecstatically. She turned to Draco and said something hurriedly to him and broke away from the crowd, heading for their group.

"What's up guys?" she asked cheerfully. Harry gave her a cold look and said nothing.

"What's up with him?" Riko asked, looking at him, confused.

"He's not too fond of Slytherins, same with most other Gryffindors," Hime said, brushing it away.

"Oh! You're Harry Potter, right? I'm really pleased to meet you, Vezerini has said much about you" Riko said, holding out her hand to him. he ignored her hand without saying a thing, still looking fire at her.

"Who is Vezerini?"

"Oh, never mind," Riko said uncertainly, dropping her hand. She turned to Ron and Hermione and smiled. "You guys are Ron Weasly and Hermione Granger? I've herd about you from Draco-" at this the other two froze up as well-"but don't worry. I never believe what people say about others until I meet them myself, and even then I don't really believe anything until I hear it from their own mouth. I guess that makes me one of the best Slytherins you'll ever meet...kinda. Ron, I met your brothers Fred and George in Hogsmeade. They are SO...COOL! I bought a bunch of stuff from them."

Ron eased up immensely and grinned at her.

"I like her," he said to Harry, "She really isn't like most Slytherins."

"Thanks," Riko laughed. Then she turned to Hermione.

"Draco talks about how smart you are like it's a bad thing. I could really use your help in transfiguration. Professor McGonagoll confuses me every once in a while-even during the dinner speeches; and I don't think that's a good thing. It would be great if you could help me out."

Hermione smiled at her.

"That would be great," she said.

Riko made an exited noise, then paused and glanced over her shoulder as someone called her name. Draco was making his way across the grounds toward them.

"Uh oh. I better go before something happens. Bye!" she said, hugging everybody quickly-except Harry-and walked over to Malfoy.

"What happened?" they heard Draco ask.

"Nothin'. I just said hello, was all. What, did you expect a brawl or something?" Riko said as they walked away. She waved over her shoulder when Draco wasn't looking and turned back around, heading for the group of Slytherins. Harry turned to Hime.

"I have a question. What happened that would have place Riko with the Slytherins?" Harry asked irritably.

"I guess she had something in her that made the sorting hat choose Slytherin." Hermione said.

"I am also curious on who she meant about by this Vezer-what-ever-the-hell-his-name-is." Harry continued.

"I believe she meant of the new counselor, Vezerini. He was supposed to be at the Start of term feast but he was terribly busy with other work that he could show. I think that is him now." Hermione said.

Everyone looked in the same direction as Hermione and they say a man wearing some odd clothing and had black hair. This man came up to them.

"Hi, Roy." Hime said. "Hi, Flame" Ed said. "Hey, full metal and Princess. Uh, have you guys seen Riko anywhere?"

"Why do you ask?" Ed asked, "What having relationship problems?"

"And you don't? Just tell me where she went." Roy said.

"She went off with the Slytherins." Ron said.

"Thanks, uh, Weasly is it?" Roy said then left.

"Apparently I was wrong, but that might be him though." Hermione said sardonically.

This time she was correct. A man with jet-black hair, tall handsome stature, wearing black clothing with a matching black cloak was walking over to Hagrid's Hut. Harry, Ron, and Hermione got up to see what might happen and to see Vezerini, but Hermione noticed that Hime and Ed didn't get up.

"What's wrong?" Hermione asked.

"We've both seen Vezerini enough times. We don't think that another visit would be healthy for us." Ed said.

"Why not, just come and meet him. You don't have to say anything," Ron said.

"Alright, We'll come." Hime said.

They got up and went with them over to Hagrid's hut. Ron knocked and they heard Fangs usual booming barks and Hagrid's usual, "Back Fang, Back!" the door opened and there was Hagrid as normal as he could ever be.

"So, what brings you here today?" Hagrid asked.

"Just to talk. That's all really," Harry said. They all went inside to find only Fang to be in the only one in the house.

"Uh, Hagrid, there was a man who went inside your Hut now wasn't there?" Hermione asked over Hime's and Ed's snickers.

"It wouldn't have mattered if we had come or not. He still would have left that way anyways." Hime said under her breath.

"Yeah but he left not to long ago. He said he had to be in his office and then just disappeared." Hagrid said.

"Disappeared? From what I know of people can't disapperate inside castle grounds?" Hermione said.

"But he can." Hime said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Harry said.

"Vezerini can do a lot. He is even more powerful than Dumbledore. Or at least from what we've seen Vezerini do." Hime said.

"What makes you say that? You don't even know him…" Hermione said.

"Actually, we do. We've known him for a long while. We even know who he is married to and where he lives as well." Hime continued.

"But how. How do you know him when you haven't even seen him?" Ron asked.

"It's long and complicated. We'll be nice and spare you of the story" Ed said while trying not to laugh.

"Never mind… Well, Hagrid, how have you been these past few days…" Harry said.

While they were there Riko was having a good laugh with the Slytherins.

"And then I told him to fuck off and get his own brain for a change." Draco joked.

After the end of this joke everyone left leaving Riko and Draco alone.

"So what did you think of my jokes?" Draco asked.

"Original. I've heard better from more talented people at humor but good al the same." Riko said with a good Critic impression. Draco actually laughed at this.

"You know, I think that Roy guy won't be able to find anyone better than you." Draco said accidentally. Riko looked at Draco in confusion.

"And what was that supposed to mean?" Riko asked.

"Nothing. Nothing." Riko continued to look at Draco funny even after he left. Riko turned and started to walk away to search for Hime and the others. When she found them they were with all of the other Gryffindors. She thought for a moment and said, "Screw it" and walked up to them. When she got up to them the other gryffindors stared and looked as if she was the most disgusting thing on the earth. Seamus then got up.

"So what does a Slytherin want with us? You might as well turn around and slither back to your hole." Seamus said irritably.

"Who was it that even decided to get up and create you?" Riko said sarcastically.

"Break it up you two. Obviously she is lost and doesn't know where to go. You know better, Seamus, than to harm First Years." Dean said.

"She's not lost. She is in our year as well, Dean" Seamus said.

"Oh," Dean turned to Riko, "So you want to cause trouble then." Dean said malevolently.

"Leave her alone!" Hime shouted. Both Seamus and Dean jumped. They turned to find Hime, Ed, Hermione, Ron, and Harry right behind them. "Hey, sis." Hime said to Riko. Riko smiled.

"Hi, so what's up?" Riko said as Dean and Seamus slipped away unnoticed.

"Nothing but you obviously wanted to see us so what's up with you?" Ron asked.

"Actually I have a question, what do you find so interesting in Malfoy?" Harry asked.

"Uh, he's just kind of fun to be around. I don't see why you guys hate him so much." Riko said.

"He's just treating us horribly and I don't think it will stop." Hermione said grimly.

"Oh."

"That's about it though. I don't see what else it could be." Hermione continued.

"Ok. Well, I'd better get going. I have alchemy lessons with Vezerini." Riko said suddenly.

"Oh, yeah! I completely forgot you had to do that." Hime said while smacking her forehead.

"Well, I'll be seeing you guys!" Riko said as she turned and walked away.

"She does Alchemy!" Hermione said astonished.

"Yeah. Ed, Al, Roy, and I can do it as well." Hime said.

"Can you teach us!" Ron asked.

"Uh… I don't see a problem with that, do you?" Ed asked.

"No, When do you want to learn?" Hime asked.

"Now's a good time." Harry said.

"Ok then. Let's find an empty classroom then." Al said as he got up.

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