Al's-best-friend: I finally got the next chapter out!

Terri: It took you long enough.

Al's-best-friend: I want to send a special thank you to Joyful Music for making sure my chapter was understandable. Thanks again Joy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Full metal Alchemist but if I did I would buy Al twelve cats.

Terri: Why twelve?

Al's-best-friend: Because I can!

Riza looked down at the map again and made was trying to make sure she was at the right house.

"Are you sure this is the right house Major Armstrong."

"Edward told Colonel Mustang that he wanted to check on his auto-mail and this is where his mechanic Winry lives." Armstrong replied.

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"Was it necessary to knock that loud?" Riza asked

"The technique of firmly knocking on doors has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations!" Armstrong said proudly.

He started flexing his muscles and a few sparkles appeared around him.

"Hello?"

A girl had opened the door. She had dirty blonde hair in a high pony tail. She was wearing a white tank top and tan cargo pants. Riza also noticed that her right arm was auto-mail. The girl was staring at Armstrong and his sparkles and seemed to be in shock. The tabby cat at her feet meowed loudly and pawed the air as if trying to catch a sparkle.

"Miss we are looking for a pair of young men named Edward and Alphonse Elric have you seen them?"

"One second…um…mister…?"

"Alex Armstrong and this is Riza Hawkeye." Armstrong said pointing to Riza behind him.

The girl then turned around and shut the door before quickly reopening it. "I will be back in a minute."

Riza sighed; she had a feeling this was going to take more than a minute.

"Ed, Al." Marla whispered as loudly as she dared as she ran up the stairs. She didn't want to take the chance of the people outside hearing her. She was suspicious of the two people in military uniforms on Winry's porch and got more suspicious when the gigantic, sparkling man asked if she knew where Ed and Al were.

'Why would they be looking for Ed and Al?' she thought as she spoke a little louder than last time, "Ed and Al!"

'Are they in any trouble, did they do something wrong, why else would the military be searching for them?'

Marla took a deep breath and sighed. The boys were no where to be seen and she was getting tired of whispering. Marla smiled evilly. She knew a way to catch there attention.

"SHORTY!" Marla said in a slightly louder voice.

The whole upstairs rumbled as Ed voice came out of the second door to the right.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A LITTLE BEAN THAT……!"

But before he could finish his sentence Marla had put her right hand over his mouth.

"Shhhhh." She whispered as she put a finger to her lips.

Ed got the idea and quieted down.

"What's going on here?" Al asked as Marla put a finger to her lips once again and followed Ed inside the room he had just came out of and shut the door behind her.

"Al why would the military be looking for you and your brother?" asked Marla in a normal voice now that she was sure the people outside couldn't here her.

"Brother works for the military." Al said.

Marla's face slowly changed from being serious to shocked to being embarrassed.

"Wha….?"

"I work as a state alchemist." Ed said slowly trying to get Marla to understand.

"I thought you were in trouble with the military." Marla said as she began to laugh. She was glad that they Ed was just a state alchemist and not a murder or something like that.

'Wait,' Marla thought, 'that means Ed is an alchemist. I wonder if Al is one too.'

"Oh, two people in military uniforms are waiting outside for both of you."

"Great," Ed said sarcastically, "just when I wanted to take a break."

"Do you know who they were Marla?" Al asked as he opened the door and all three of them started going down the stairs.

"Yep, a really tall, weird, sparkly guy and a stern looking blonde with a gun."

"Oh no, Armstrong is here!" Ed groaned with a look of pure horror written on his face.

"Are you okay?" Marla asked him.

"It's just that he is too creepy for his own good." Ed stated as Al nodded his head in agreement.

Outside Terri was fixing a couple of house of cracked windows.

"Thanks, it would take me a while to fix them by hand." Winry said as she pointed out the last window to Terri.

"I'm glad I could help." Terri said as he clapped his hands together and then put them on the cracked window. The window was surrounded in blue light for a moment and then changed into a no longer cracked window but a brand new one thanks to Terri's alchemy.

"I would have asked Ed to fix it sooner but he and Al are always so busy." Winry said as she and Terri started walking to the front of the house.

"Ed and Al can do alchemy?" Terri asked.

"Yes, but only Ed can do it without a transmutation circle like you can."

"Marla still needs to draw a circle too but I think she is getting better." Terri said with pride on his face that showed how much he loved his sister.

Winry smiled, "You really love her a lot don't you?"

"Yes," Terri said with a grin but it quickly disappeared, "she is the only family I have left…"

"Oh," was all Winry could think to say as Terry lowered his head so she wouldn't see him with asad look on his face.

They turned the corner and arrived at the front of the house surprised to find Hawkeye and Armstrong there.

"Um Winry, do you know who these two are?"

"This is Major Armstrong and Lt. Hawkeye, they work with Ed."

Terri started whispering to Winry, "Why are there shiny bugs all around the major's body?"

Winry had to put a hand over her mouth to stop laughing and whispered back to Terri, "They aren't bugs they are his sparkles!"

"Sparkles?" whispered a confused Terri.

Meanwhile the Major and the Lt. were having their own whispered conversation.

"Have you seen this boy before Major?" Hawkeye asked in a hushed voice.

"No," replied Armstrong in an equally soft voice, "I haven't seen the young girl inside of the house on my last trip here either."

As Ed, Al and Marla made it through the front door of Winry's house and onto her porch they saw something a little weird. The Major and Lt. were in a deep, whispered conversation and keep looking at Terri and Winry when they thought they weren't looking. Terri and Winry were also in a whispered conversation but it seemed Winry was trying to explain something to Terri about Armstrong because she kept pointing at him.

Ed, who was ticked off already from being dragged away from his research, didn't want anymore of his time wasted cleared his throat loudly and started glaring.

Winry was the first to look up at Ed. She smiled at him and ran over to his side pulling Terri along with her. "Thank goodness you're here! I need someone to explain to Terri what exactly the Major's sparkles are."

"So, they are not shiny bugs?" Marla asked.

Winry sighed and whispered something to herself that sounded like I give up.

By this time the Lt. looked up from her conversation and had made her way up to the group with Armstrong following her.

"Edward I have orders to take you and Alphonse to the Colonel as soon as possible." She said in a serious voice.

"Why would that jerk want us there so badly he would send you out here?" Ed asked a little confused, "I could understand him sending the Major but not you too."

"It's an emergency Edward," Hawkeye explained, "We found out that there is another new homunculi running around causing damage."

Marla stiffened and looked up at Terri. He had a look of shock on his face for a moment but then he relaxed and looked back at Marla. They both were thinking the same thing.

Anna had come back.

Terri: So Anna is back from the dead!

Al's-best-friend: Yes and only I know what will happen next!

Terri: Can you tell me?

Al's-best-friend: Maybe.

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