Discliamer: Words cannot discribe the pain I feel when I say, I do not own Al and Roy...

There were a number of things that contributed to the lateness of this chapter. First I was working a number of 8-hour shifts at work. I have no time to think of what's going to happen next, and the rest of the day I spend sleeping. Secondly I was painting my room, thirdly I bought a whole bunch of manga, got caught up reading Tsubasa chronicles and Gravitation. And fourthly I took a horrible spill on my bike. I was lucky to end up with a goose egg on my head and a deep scratch on my ankle. And fifth I got an editor! Thank you Kayizzle!

Chapter 3: Ed, Scar, the VP and the Interest of the Student Council

Ed sat staring at his still wrapped obento, wondering why his mother wrapped it in blue fabric with fluffy white rabbits on it. It was insulting to his height, somehow. He sighed, tilting his head to the right, examining the fabric once more. Now coming to the conclusion that he hated rabbits. Then something hit him, literally.

Now with a rather large bump on his head, he found out that Winry had once again pulled out her all famous wrench and smacked him one over the head.

"Edo-kun, would it kill you just once to pay attention?"

"Who and the what, in the where now?" Ed said coming out of his dazed state.

"Nii-san, why haven't you touched your food?" Al said giving him a look of concern for across the table.

"Oh…" Ed said as he recalled his surrounding, looking to find Winry on one side of him and an empty seat on the other. Across from him was Al squished in between Scieszka and Rose, both girls were eyeing him oddly.

"What?" he said offensively at them while he unwrapped his obento.

"Never mind." the two said together as if to push off the topic of Ed's oddities. But Ed glared in return. And started shoving rice into his mouth with his chopsticks.

"So Edward-kun, how long have you known Winry-chan?"

"Since about the first grade. She sat next to me during class and asked if I wanted some cookies."

"Edo-kun, you still remember that?" Winry said blushing

"Of course," Ed said in a matter-of-fact tone, "it was teddy grahams! Those were my favorite when I was a kid! I could go for some-" Ed was cut off by Winry's wrench.

"What as that for!" Ed yelled at her.

"If you don't know I'm not going to tell you."

"If you don't tell me than how am I supposed to know?" Ed spat back. At that moment the whole argument caught the attention of the student body that was sitting in the cafeteria. And with the voraciousness of a hurricane a whole group of girls gather around their table.

"Oh my! Sheizka-san where did you meet such cute boys?" one squealed.

"You have to introduce us Rose-san," another poked Rose in the side.

"Winry-chan are these the new transfer students? There both so handsome!"

Ed hating all the girls' pleas to be introduced to him or asking private questions, needing to find a way out of the mess before it got out of hand.

"Well, I'm going to throw away the garbage, if you'll excuse me ladies." Ed said standing up, and began shoving the disposables into his arms.

"Can I help you with anything?" one offered but Ed insisted that he do it himself, mumbling something about it's a man's job. Al gave him a desperate glance for help but he found none in Ed. 'I'm sorry Al, but only one person is going to leave here alive and… it's going to be me.'

At about that point Ed was halfway to the garbage can. His trip was shortly ended when he ran into something shoving what he was holding into it. And that happened to be a tall, tanned student with white hair, red eyes, and an "X" scar across his eyes. He dislodged Al's half eaten pudding cup from his nose and looked down at poor little Edward.

"Aisumimasen." Ed said politely bowing, hoping that this person would be easily forgiving. But Ed was wrong; oh boy was he wrong.

"Freshmen…" the large scarred man grumbling.

"What are you talking about freshman? Just because I'm smaller than you doesn't mean that I'm a freshmen! I'll have you know I'm in second year!" Ed yelled back.

"Well I'm in third year." Said the large scarred senior, "And I don't care about a short, lying freshmen."

"Who's a super chibi that could be squashed by an ant?" Ed swung his left fist into the senior's face, thinking that it did some damage. But the senior merely grinned under Ed's fist imbedded in his cheek.

The large scarred senior tossed Ed into sea of chairs now not so neatly put away. Edward lay there in a daze while the giant came to finish him off. He threw his massive hand down and grasped Ed's face, raised him into the air, and began to clamp down on his temples. Ed yelped and his arms and legs began to toss about much like he was drowning. Somehow he regained his composure while his head felt like it was in a vice. Ed pounded the senior in the solar plexus, which released Ed from his prison. Edward then stomped on the senior's foot and followed quickly with a strong elbow to the senior's chin. The large man was thrown back a few steps and fumed as his crimson eyes locked onto Ed once again. This was the most fun Edward Elric had all day and now it was time for Round two.

Ed clapped his hands as he began to charge but was stopped by something wrenching him aside by his collar. Ed was about to knock some sense into what stopped him, as he turned to confront it. He came face to face with a rather large snakelike man, who threw each boy onto a chair.

He was tall, had white pasty skin, dull greenish-gray hair, and light blue eyes that resembled something that was dead. The way he looked almost made your skin crawl. He opened his rather large mouth, "I do hope you do realize the consequences of fighting on school grounds." He grinned he grabbed their collars again.

Ed merely cowered back by simply shaking his head, the senior merely shrugged. "Well for starters-"

"Well for starters, you'll let go of my students." A man interrupted behind the three. Ed turned to see who it was, he knew that voice, he knew those glasses, he knew those dark gold eyes, and that goofy smile. Ed shivered; his dad came to save him.

"Elric-kouchou, itamiiru." The snake man bowed.

"Archer- kyoutou, I believe that this is matter can be dealt within the student council."

"But sir…"

"I know this is normally dealt with by you, but you're being physical with students. Now I have business with you." He turned towards the two seated boys, "Scar-san, I advise you to take Elric-san to the student council room to deal with this matter, I or Hawkeye-sensei will be there once they reach the verdict." And he motioned Archer to his office.

Ed slowly followed behind this Scar fellow. While eyeing his back, Ed came to the conclusion that he got in trouble often to actually know where the bloody place was. They were getting farther and farther into un-chartered territory for Ed, but that was only because this was his first day.

Scar gruffly threw open the student council rooms door. They entered the dim room. Edward found seven people. Two were at the front of the room. The first was a man with squinty eyes, a silly grin, short black hair and a mustache. The second was a young woman, with long brown hair, and light purple eyes. Ed also noticed she looked kind of like a younger version of his mother.

On the opposite side of the room nearest to the drawn blinds, were two boys arguing about something. One was tall, had long green hair that resembled a palm tree, with dark purple eyes. The second one was short with long messy black hair and blue eyes.

Further down the long room were the three others. One had short dark brown hair. He wore a pair of sunglasses that covered his eyes, and seemed to be annoyed by the other two who seemed to be helping each other out. One was a tall woman with long black hair and red eyes, similar to Scar's (1). The last was a fat boy bald that had beady black eyes.

The young brown haired woman looked up. "Pride-gichou, it looks like Scar-kun is here."

"Oh, why are you here?" Pride said, smiling at the two of them. Scar gave Ed a look that basically said I'm not talking.

"Got into a fight," Ed mumbled.

"A FIGHT!" Pride said excitedly.

This caught the attention of the entire Student Council which all were delighted. Most all dropped what they were doing bolted for the Pride's desk. This was followed by gawking and questions like 'Who won?' 'Where?' and 'Why'd you fight with Scar, he's huge!'

"Forgive my colleagues, this is just special to us," Pride explained, "This is the fifth fight that we've been in charge of this year. Two more and we break a record. Now who are you, my young friend?"

The young woman with black hair from the back of the room stood up and walked towards the front saying "Edward Elric-kun, class 2-D, started today." As she walked to the front the fat boy followed her.

"Your knowledge of your grade is as exquisite as always, Lust-kouhai."

"I am here for a reason, aren't I?" Ed looked questioningly at the young woman. 'Who were these people and why did that girl know his name?' Ed's face immediately turned to an expression that seemed to say, What the Fuck?

"Oh, hohoho," Pride laughed, "I haven't introduced you to my staff."

"Staff? Aren't you a student?" Ed blurted out, pointing to Pride's school uniform. Scar had completely forgotten.

Pride smiled widely almost as to forgive Edwards rudeness. "I am Pride, a student in third year, and I am also the student council Gichou." Ed's mouth went into a big "o" and he blushed a little for insulting a senior, "Well anyway," Pride continued, "I'd like you to meet my Fukukaichou Sloth-kun, my treasurer Greed-kun, my club coordinator Wrath-kun and also the grade representatives in descending order, Envy-kun, Lust-kouhai, and Gluttony-kouhai."

"Gokigen'you!" Ed said politely.

"Well have a seat! No need to stand any more," Pride motioned to some chairs directly across from him. Ed sat; Scar was motioned as well but refused.

"As happy as I am to take on the responsibility of placing a punishment on such a nice person as yourself, a fight is still a fight and there are dire consequences for having one on school grounds. In which, they tend to lead to suspension in and out of school, and in the most extreme case expulsion" Pride said gravely Ed shuddered, "but this is the student council and I shall go easy on you." He returned to his normal goofy grin. Ed and Scar sweat dropped. "Now I think that detention is in order and I assume that you made a mess of the cafeteria…" he dropped off into silent thought and started to write something on a piece of paper, "you both will serve 20 hours of detention, 2 hours a day starting tomorrow, hmm and you Edward-san shall also be on clean up duty in the cafeteria for a month, as for Scar-kun…"

Ed drifted into thought, 'clean up duty! Detention! Oh, his parents are going to give him hell when they find out…damn otou-san already knows! And knowing otou-san he already told kaa-san. Damn, kaa-san is going to be angry with me for days! There has to be a a way of avoiding this…' "Winry!" he said out loud. Everyone gave him a questionable look. "O-oh it's nothing!"

"As if I don't have enough to do, I have to deal with this crap…" was heard from the hallway and all the students turned to find a rather disheveled Riza Hawkeye. Her bad mood was felt all around the room, and Edward thought he'd be afraid of his mother when he got home.

"Busy as always Hawkeye-sensei. I have already handed out the punishment and written it on the submission papers, all I need is your signature and I can hand it to the Kouchou."

"As sufficient as always Pride-san." She said as she walked over to his desk, grabbing the papers, read it's contents and quickly scribbling her signature on the bottom of the page, "Elric-san, you cause this much trouble, and only on the first day… reminds me of a certain black haired man," She smiled at the memory, and continued, "You're dismissed, you may head to your classes," Then, she turned to Edward, and with the most threatening tone ever said, "And Elric-san, I do not wish to see this behavior continuing."

His fear could not be expressed in words; Edward just nodded as a response.

(1) In the anime wasn't originally Lust a Ishiba woman? Well anyway instead of saying another shade of purple, I gave her red eyes.

Oh yeah, some of you talk about the voice actors that play Ed and Winry in the English dub. I had no clue what you were talking about at the time! I was like didn't Romi Paku play Edward and Megumi Toyoguchi play Winry, then I remembered english voice cast. Yeah so I'm dense, and I've only watched FMA in Japanese.

To my reviewers:

PhantomAlchemist - Heh... sorry updating regularly is really hard. )(is ultra lazy person)( Oh and the rest of the commentary is above!

FireanIce- Thank you for understanding, and you'll read it anyway? It's people like you that make me so happy!

CowNapkin - Ha! Thats funny! But truely I know the feeling of horribly stupid/annoying teachers.

urbanfae - Hehe! Thanks for the help! But I know that already, I try to go along with fan subs so people that watch them don't get confused. I'll keep that site in mind when need help with nihongo.

Kayizzle - Thank you for your help! I've very horrible with English grammar!

jackie-chan - )(giggles at the name)( Thanks for the complement! Yeah it took me a while understand nihongo but i'm getting the hang of it )(still isn't very good)( I'm glad you enjoy the highscool setting people tend to say it's over used.

I'd like to say thank you to: Nyago, dramanut26, FullMetalChic and Meika-chan for reading this story. Your reviews are like "good job" and "update soon" and I don't how to make those things personal reviews. I'm sorry:(

Obento – Lunch box; wrapped lunch
Nii-san - Brother
Aisumimasen – (formal) forgive me
Chibi – small; tiny; or young
Kouchou – principal or headmaster
Itamiiru - to be very sorry
Kyoutou – vice principal; deputy head teacher
Chan - used to address someone younger that you, like small children. Diminutive to boy over 10, used as a form of addressing someone close to you, and mostly used on girls.
Kun - used when addressing classmates male or female, can be used as an affectionate term, generally used for males.
San - Mr; Miss; Mrs or used to address someone older than you, or you don't know well and form of respect.
Sensei – teacher
Gichou – president (of council, senate, etc.)
Fukukaichou - vice president (of a club or organization, organization)
Sempai – upperclassman
Kouhai – underclassman
Gokiyen'you - Nice to meet you
Kaa-san – mother
Otou-san - father