Chapter 2

All three wait on the train to get to their destination, Sarah's meeting with Al went well she found him to be kind and intelligent. She told him her thoughts of him so far which quickly mad the young man blush. Ed simply smiled more than happy to just SEE his brother blush or show ANY emotion for that matter. It was a difficult thing but true enough he returned his brothers body back. Still Ed found himself obligated to stay with the military, also he got to meet so many people and got to move around as much as he wanted. Al came along because it's what he had been doing for the past few years why change it now?

Ed looks out the window of the train deep in his own thoughts while Al and Sarah play some poker with one another. Paying little attention to the world passing by him Ed rests his head against the headrest of his seat trying to get some form of sleep.

(Ed's dream)

Ed looks around seeing the flowers under his feet have bloomed sweetly and dance gently in the wind. He attention is brought to a young woman who for some reason reminds him of Sarah, though her hair is blond instead of brown. She turns to him with a gentle smile, her hair caressing her face at the winds demands. She turns back to the cliff before her feet with nothing leading down below except for a quick death.

Ed looks to her nervously, "Sarah!"

She smiles at him more brightly before turning back to said cliff looking at it. She simply jumps off it with out a care in the world.

Ed's eyes widen, "SARAH!" He runs after her jumping off as well watching her fall in front of himself he narrows his body to fall faster only to see something strange happen, feathers start leaving her back and quickly hit Ed in the face. 'What the?'

Gigantic angelical wings grow out of Sarah's back bursting through the back of her shirt, Ed eyes widen at the sight and ultimate beauty of pure snow white wings. Though terror quickly crosses his face as he starts falling and her wings are lifting her into the air. "Sarah!" Ed yells out as he passes her.

She looks to him and grabs his hands pulling on them, causing her to fall slightly, though with a swift flap she quickly evens out and balances, and quickly starts moving back up. Ed nervously looks up to see the gentle smile of his rescuer, he smiles back looking down seeing that she wont let go.

"Ed…"

Ed's eyes slowly open to see Sarah look at him with a gentle smile on her face her hair brown once more. "Mmmm?"

"It's time to wake up we're here."

Ed looks around seeing that the train has stopped for the night, and that they've arrived at their destination. "Ok!" He speaks up trying to sound awake.

She smiles brightly at him and walks over to Al helping him with the luggage. Ed rubs his head, thinking about the dream he had, 'weird…' Ed follows his comrades off the train to the quaint little town before them, small but none the less quaint. "Lets look for a place to stay we'll check out this scary place tomorrow, when it's light out. Sarah, Al and I will check the castle you go around and see what the complaints are about."

Sarah nods as they walk along seeing the buildings and very quickly find an Inn. "Well shall we?" Sarah speaks up walking into the inn getting them some rooms to stay in for the night.

(SC)

The next morning went easily enough Ed and Al left for the castle and Sarah went around for information. Ed looks up at the old thing, which had obviously not been tended to for years. "How could anyone live here?" Ed remarks more to himself than anyone else.

"Well we wont know until we see for our selves isn't that right Nii-san?" Al speaks up sounding chipper.

Ed nods as they both walk past the main gate and move to the front door, knocking a couple times Ed looks up to Al wondering what he's doing, "The report said no one lives here."

"Well there's no point in being rude if someone does!" Al points out.

Ed shrugs his shoulders walking in with Al both looking in at the old building. Both looking in shock at it's size, cob webs everywhere, dust on the railings of the stairs and some on the floor. Old pictures of lords and ladies hang from the walls their names at the bottoms of the frames. Suits of armor old some standing on their feet two are three having been knocked over. Though the real shock was that this was only the entry hall.

The brothers walk forward trying to ride themselves of this shock, Ed smiles and laughs nervously, "Man! They had it good!"

"Yea…" Al gets out still consumed by the entire place. They both meet the end of the hall way and find three ways to go, to their front a large set of stairs red carpentry almost looking like a form of velvet red with golden rims. The stairs wound around the castle to their backs to where the second floor must be, which could easily be seen from the entry hall. To their right a closed though small door comparatively to the rest of the house. To their left is a large opening of a door seeming to be another hallway. "Maybe we should have brought Sarah with us…" Al looks around still taken by the place. Ed looks up seeing a gigantic sky light with painted glass, he looks down to see the pictures, though finds none since the sun is not out that day. 'oh well…'

Ed sighs blinking a couple times, "I'll take the stairs."

"I'll take the left hallway!" Al waves both walking the their said directions.

Ed turns back to Al leaning over the railing, "Hey Al! We'll meet in this room when we're done with our searches ok?"

"Right nii-san!" Al speaks up happily.

Ed smiles and starts running up the stairs to see a hallway of rooms, the hallway being very wide he didn't find it too surprising since the entire place seemed to have a theme to make Ed feel smaller than he truly is. Seeing that there are only eight rooms on this floor, he guessed they're very large rooms. He walks up to the first one on his right to find it locked, 'interesting… oh well.' He sighs and walks to the one to his left finding it open. 'Ah-ha!' He smiles to himself seeing it to be a sitting room, chairs and cushions all over the room covered in dust from disuse. He closes the door and looks to the next one find it to be a large bath.

He looks around to find the floor to be tilled porcelain, a gigantic tub that couldn't be more than ten meters in diameter. He looks at the edge finding that it's made of gold the tub itself having been built into the ground of the castle is made with marble. Though the odd thing about it was there's water in the tub. Ed pulls off his white glove dipping his hand into the water, 'it's still warm…' He quickly gets up and looks around finding that there's another door leading to the hallway and he quickly takes it.

He opens the door across from his only to find a room with no windows. He looks rather displeased about the thought though quickly finds a candle in which he lights. The room aluminates to the dull flicker of the candle, looking around he finds the strangest thing, it's a woman's room, a bed before him with white silks from the distant lands. A dresser made of an old wood cherry from the looks of it, next to it a smaller dresser though in the form of a table seemingly meant to help a woman prepare herself since it's holding up a large mirror.

Ed still looks around finding little things like the closet though suddenly feels a chill on the back of his neck and a whisper at his ear. Stopping in his place he turns slightly seeing no one at his back. He turns once more to find a woman. Ed quickly blushes at the woman's state of attire.

Her long black hair covering her free breasts and a simple pink sash, that didn't help since one could easily see right through it, wrapped around her waist reaching the floor exposing her left leg to the young man.

Ed backs away bowing quickly, "I'M SO SORRY!" Ed turns trying to back away before embarrassing himself any more. He quickly reaches the sites of the door only to watch be quickly closed by what seemed to be the wind itself. Ed's eyes widen as his light quickly goes out. Feeling that chilling wind once more and the whisper in his ear Ed officially freaks out, and tries touching the walls with his frightened hands, only to find cooled fingers in their wake.

"Don't leave me yet… my lovely prince…" The woman's voice rings in Ed's ears, causing him to blush.

"I… I wish that you'd turn on some lights in here, or light some candles or something! I want to leave with out making an idiot of myself!" Ed growls trying to hid his blush.

"If you love the light so much… you must give me something in return…" the woman's voice speaks up once more, though more to Ed's left ear.

Ed backs away not even feeling the woman's presence get closer to himself, "Wha-what!"

"A kiss." The sound of the woman's voice makes Ed think that she's smiling at him.

Ed blushes all the more, and quickly begins to stutter, "I… uuuggh…. A-as long as you turn… the l-lights on f-first!" Though Ed quickly starts mentally beating himself down 'Right make it worse that you saw her naked, now you have to kiss her and see her nacked. Ed you idiot, idiot!'

"Very well…" She smiles as all the candles in the room light up making the woman's nakedness more obvious to Ed which only causes him to blush all the more. She smiles at him stealing his lips and a gentle kiss.

Ed blinks for a moment, noticing her lips are nearly frozen to the touch. Though he quickly falls into bliss as the woman cups his face, everything seemingly just passing him by. He doesn't even notice that the young woman's lips have left his own. She smiles at her success and unclips the buckle holding his shirt in place. She smiles seeing that the young man still hasn't noticed a thing, she slowly drags her fangs against his tan skin causing blood to seep out into little droplets. Licking them, she finally digs her fangs into his neck pulling them out once more she drinks from her newfound sources of blood.

A couple of drinks she runs her tongue along the two new holes she'd made, though they quickly scare over. She brings her lips to his ear, "Now young man, tell your friends that you have found nothing and be on your way…"

She backs away seeing the emotionless face of the young man before her. His blood slowly drips down a corner of her mouth. She looks at him and buckles his shirt back together, and smiles at him, "Go." He nods and turns leaving to the room that he and Al had designated as their meeting place.

(SC)

Ed walks down the steps slowly leaving his stupor, blinking as he makes it the bottom of the steps. He looks up and only shrugs his shoulders, "Nii-san!" Ed looks to his young brother trying not to seem too out of it. Al looks to his brother worriedly, "Nii-san are, are you alright?"

"Yea, I'm fine just a little sleepy is all." Ed rubs his eyes feeling slightly light headed and anxiety way on him.

"Oh…" Al only nods, though finds it odd that his brother would be sleepy at three in the after noon. Not worrying about it too terribly much he looks back to the path he had taken, "I didn't find anything down there. What about you nii-san?"

Ed shakes his head, "Nah, I didn't find anything either, just some rooms." Ed sighs looking around the place. "Lets go I don't thing we're going to find anything here." Al nods in agreement with his brother both leaving the castle.

The young woman from before smiles watching them both leave her castle from the darkness of the hallway. She grins at them both loving their little out fits, his companion looking just like her new pet though taller, a hair tie and a black jacket instead of read "I'll be seeing you soon, young man…" She turns walking back to her room, still completely naked.

(SC)

Ed and Al get back to the town the Ed can't help but unconsciously rub at his neck, it feeling soar. He'd been trying to ignore it but it still wouldn't go away, 'Man did I hurt myself up their… how stupid could I have been to hurt my neck? Maybe it was those beds we slept in last night, they were so uncomfortable!'

"Nii-san?" All gets out worriedly.

"Yea?" Ed leaves his neck alone.

"Are you alright?" Al looks to his brother trying to examine him from his point of view.

Ed waves his brother away, "I just slept weird last night, guess I hurt my neck or something like that."

"Ah." Al nods and smiles in relief.

"Boys!" Sarah runs up to both the boys looking rather worried.

"What did you find out?" Ed speaks up first.

"Well there have been people slowly disappearing these last couple months. Children mostly, most of them in their mid teens. I heard from a group of boys that they go to the castle to show they're not afraid of it, since everyone says it's haunted, it's cursed. Though the one that caught my attention was that it's said that there's a vampire in the castle." Sarah sounds very serious about the last reason for the said disappearances.

"Vampires? You're joking right?" Ed looks at her like she'd told them a really bad joke.

"Well it has been proven that certain alchemists over a hundred years ago tried to do human experiments and one-"

"Oh please! The only thing that can come from human alchemy is humonculi, and Chimeras, Chimera's are too dumb if made wrong and the others well they do what they can to hide their other side. The humonculi have their own agenda as far as I know so none of them would be here." Ed points out. "Now lets get back home and get our report in."

"But sir… We haven't explained about why these kids are disappearing!" Sarah points out.

Ed sighs, she did have a point but there were no serial killers around the area much less vampires so this had to be investigated. Scratching his head Ed looks to Al and back to Sarah, "You guys go on home there's no real danger here just an unsolved mystery. I'll stay behind and try to figure out what's going on with the kids. I'll stay for about two weeks and see if I find anything."

Sarah looks rather displeased with Ed's decision and looks to Al, who doesn't look to pleased either. She sighs and turns to Ed, "Sir I'll stay to help you!"

Ed looks at Sarah a little shocked, "Wh-"

"Well when we do find the person who's either kidnapping these citzens don't you think there should be two of us since the said person should be considerably strong? Some of the people that have disappeared are strong people so wouldn't it make sense for the capture to be stronger?" Sarah points out saluting Ed the entire time.

Ed thinks about it for a moment and nods, "Yea that would make sense."

"I'm not leaving either then!" Al points out, he smiles at Sarah happy that she made a very good point.

Ed turns to his brother and smiles at the eagerness of both of them, "Alright… But first lets get back to the Inn I'm tired…" Ed grumbles, both nod and head toward the hotel.

(TBC)

Trom: Oh noes Ed gets bit XP!

Ed::shivers: That was creepy…. :rubs at his neck:

Trom::grins just wait till later chapters…

Ed: What?

Trom: Nothing X3!

Japanese words:

Hai: yes

Nii-san: Big brother

Gomen: sorry

Thank you everyone that commented. I'm sorry but I can't respond, ff wont let me :tear: Still I think you for commenting !