Alchemy At Hogwarts

By: Solar Hawk

Disclaimer: I don't own FMA or any of its characters. Nor do I own Harry Potter and its characters. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this now would I?

Before I get started with this chapter, I need to announce a couple things. First off, I forgot to update before I left on Spring Break Vacation. I couldn't update. REALLY SORRY! Second, I'm putting Ling, Ran Fan, and Mei from the manga into this story. (There's also another OC...) I'll add a short bio for each character at the end for those who aren't familiar with them.

And another thing, I've introduced one of mystrange ways of cursing in this chapter.

Cahrap is how I say and spell (remove the first a and the first h)

Chapter 5 : The Idiot Prince, The Female Bodyguard, & The Fangirl

The Amestrians were walking down the cobbled streets after purchasing their robes. Ed stopped them and looked around, confused. Reina cocked her head and tapped her brother on his shoulder. "What's up, Ed?"

Ed shrugged helplessly and grinned a little sheepishly. "Hermione never mentioned where we'd meet them. And they have our books..." Everyone's head dropped and the area surrounding them was blue.

"You're right!" Mustang groaned and put his head in his hands. "We don't know where the heck they are!"

"Who?"

"You know," Al sighed. "Hermione, Harry, and R-." He stopped when he realized that the voice speaking belonged to a new person. He quickly turned and found himself staring into the faces of four people, a boy and three girls.

The boy was very tall and lanky, with a lazy look in his eyes. His black hair was messily pulled back into a ponytail and he was wearing an outfit that looked like something out of a Chinese action movie, a jacket that opened to reveal his skinny chest and baggy pants with a sword at his side. His face housed an idiotic-looking grin.

The first girl was a little shorter than the boy and looked very fit and trim. Her burnt-colored hair was pulled back neatly into a single bun with some of her hair hanging down the sides of her face. Her outfit was all black and baggy, almost ninja-like. She looked very serious, but her smile was similar to Riza.

One of the other girl was very short and had a tiny little panda on her shoulder. Her outfit was similar to the boy's, except the pinkish jacket was buttoned up. Her black hair was braided into a million little braids and then put up as buns on both sides of her head. She was smiling at Alphonse but her eyes were glaring at Ed.

The last girl was holding the short girl's hand tightly in her own. She had long waist-length charcoal hair that was in one long braid. She was wearing a red and gold bigger-version of the small girl's outfit. She was very tall, as tall as the boy. Her face was bored, but her dark eyes were smiling.

"It's-", Reina started.

"No way!" Ed protested and backed away.

"Ling! Ran Fan! Mei!" Alphonse said happily and began jumping up and down gleefully.

"Yo!" Ling said with that same idiotic grin. He waved ferociously, resulting in a group sigh. They weren't exactly ready for this...

"Greetings," Ran Fan said with a slight incline of her head. Her arms were crossed and she moved her fingers slightly in a very simple wave.

"Hello!" Mei giggled and waved. Then she turned to face Ed and narrowed her cute little eyes at him. Ed backed up a couple feet, all the coloring draining out of his face.

"Nice to meet you," the unidentified female said airily. She rolled her eyes and blew some stray hair out of her eyes.

"If it isn't the idiot Prince and the overprotective ninja-girl," Rei muttered and crossed her arms. Ling just laughed and rubbed the back of his head, still grinning his annoyingly infuriating grin. Ran Fan just shrugged, it was true after all! But then Rei looked at Mei and realized something. "Hey wait a minute! Mei isn't trying to kill you two! Last time she was all, 'stay out of my clan's business' all shouting-like" she declared and pointed at Ling and Ran Fan.

Ran Fan smiled nervously and patted Mei on the head. "Oh..we worked that out. Mei decided that it was for the best...for the time being." Mei nodded, smiling evilly.

"Yep! We decided that we should stop fighting. Our country's politics shouldn't interfere with our outlooks," Mei chirped with that same diabolical look on her face.

Rei had a blank look on her face. "You don't mean that do you?" she guessed from Mei's evilness.

"Yep!" Mei giggled merrily and skipped up to Alphonse. "Hi! Where's your bean-brother?" she asked sweetly. "I want to take another crack at him! He is my height after all!" Ed twitched, but ignored that comment.

"So it is insulting twerp," Ed muttered, crossing his arms. Mei's eye twitched as she heard that last comment.

"WHAT WAS THAT, BEAN-BOY!" Mei shouted, her hands balled into fists.

"Bean-boy?" Ed growled, his eyes narrowing. "TWERP!"

"Twerp..." Mei muttered thoughtfully. Then she grew angry and threw her panda at the offensive blond Alchemist. It bounced of his face and ended up in his arms.

"WHY THE HECK DID YOU JUST THROW YOUR TEDDY BEAR AT ME?" Ed shouted right back and threw the poor dear at Mei. He squealed and flailed his little paws as his owner caught him.

"XIAO'S NOT A TEDDY BEAR!" Mei screamed and tackled Ed. She began to punch his face and basically anything she could reach, which included his stomach and the you-know-where, until Al grabbed the kicking and punching girl and held her away from Ed. Ed tried to pull himself up shakily, but to no avail. So he just lied in a slump on the ground.

"Why do you hate me so much?" Ed groaned and rubbed his sore face. She could really pack a wallop!

"You broke my heart, a poor maiden's heart!" she sobbed and hugged Xiao to herself.

"You what?" Mustang asked, confused. "I thought that was me, not Fullmetal..." The Flame Alchemist's face was screwed up in confusion.

"I broke her heart, apparently," Ed sighed and shrugged. "I have no clue how, though." He held his hands up in the air and groaned.

"I wonder..." Reina wondered and put her hand to her chin. Then a thought came to her head. "Ed! I didn't think you were like that...!" she exclaimed and put her hand on her cheek in surprise.

Ed blushed profusely. "But I didn't-," he protested.

"Ed!" Al scolded and waggled his finger at Ed, joining in on the "Let's-gang-up-on-Ed-and-destroy-him" club.

"Al! Not you, too-," Ed whined and whimpered.

"My goodness!" Ling giggled like a little girl. "My, my, Ed, you're worse than anyone I know!"

"Does that include you?" Ed shot back. Ling, for the first time in that time period, dropped his smiling and proceeded to glare at the blond teenager.

"At least I don't take advantage of little girls," Ling said in an aloof tone, but his eyes were narrowed at Ed.

"I don't!" Ed snapped.

"PEDOPHILIA!" Ling screamed in rage, the only available comeback he had at the moment.

"I'M ONLY SIXTEEN YOU IDIOTIC CAHRAP-HEAD!" Ed shrieked so loud that everyone walking down the street backed off. By the "pedophilia" part, a rather large crowd had gathered. But now they were starting to leave, fearing for the violence that might follow.

"In our country, sixteen is considered is considered adulthood for males, fifteen for females," Ran Fan whispered in a tired tone. Ed and Ling continued shouting insults at each other, sometimes getting close to resorting to their fists.

"How can you be so calm?" Rei hissed at Ran Fan. "They're going to kill each other!"

"Yeah," Al whispered in agreement. "I don't know about Ling that much, but Brother gets mad really easily! He might accidentally hurt innocent bystanders!" His echo-voice was fraught with worry.

"If you want to worry about anyone," Mustang sighed. "Then worry about yourselves. Ed's rage is going to be redirected towards someone in this general area," he stated in an it's obvious tone. "It always does."

And, as ominous as it sounds, something was redirected. "AT LEAST I'M NOT THE SIZE OF A GERM!" Ling shouted at his opponent.

"What are you saying?" Ed demanded, his tone suddenly level, but the anger was still detectable.

"I'm saying...that you are SHORT!" Ling sneered and stuck his tongue out at Ed.

"Short?" Ed hissed. "SHORT?"

Ling, ever unafraid (or just stupid), nodded. "Yes. SHORT!" he screamed at him. His face was taking on a very red hue as was Ed's. "What are you gonna do 'bout it, BEAN-BOY?" he screamed, stealing Mei's nickname for the Fullmetal Alchemist.

"THIS!" he snapped and clapped his hands, thus creating the second Earthwave of Shockiness for that particular day. And without even thinking, he accidentally sent the Earthwave towards the poor defenseless maiden and panda that had started the argument. Mei and Xiao.

"BROTHER!" Al exclaimed. Even so, he was paralyzed by the moment, just like everyone else, and didn't make a move to try and stop it. Just like how it's almost impossible to not watch an explosion, everyone was mesmerized by the transmutation.

When the smoke cleared, everyone was surprised to see a giant cobblestone hand had stopped the Earthwave with just a small crack in the palm. Mei was kneeled behind it, having 'fainted' from fear. They were even more surprisedto see the last female with her right hand on the ground on top of a piece of paper. Upon closer inspection, after she held it up, it was actually a card with a pentagram drawn carefully on it. Finally, after a moment of silence, she spoke. "Sorry, couldn't have you hurting Mei," she sighed and gestured towards the twitching figure on the ground.

"Yes?" Mei responded and sat up immediately at the sound of her name. "Oh Rin! You saved me!" she giggled and hugged the girl around the waist.

The newly-identified Rin looked mortified and tried to unclamp the little girl from around her waist. "Hey! Get off!" she protested and pushed Mei away. Mei just giggled even more and hugged Rin around the waist again. "I said get off!"

"But, you're my sister!" Mei pouted and crossed her arms, portraying the perfect "I'm-so-cute-when-I'm-mad-that-you-have-to-do-what-I-say" girl.

"Sister?" the not-violent Elrics chorused. They looked extremely confused.

"Oh yeah!" Ran Fan laughed. "Ed, Reina, Alphonse...this is Rin. She's Mei's older sister." Rin acknowledged her name with a simple nod.

"And I think you should apologize to Mei. Both of you," Rin said slowly and deliberately.

"Sorry," Ling and Ed muttered at the pigtailed girl.

"Apology accepted," Mei voiced happily, glad that she got her way. "Thanks, Rin!" Rin nodded and smiled mischievously. Noticing her sister's face, Mei smirked at Ed. "But don't worry Ed! I'm sure you'll get taller, someday."

"If I wasn't so-," Ed warned in a dangerous tone.

"So what?" Mustang snickered. "Short?"

Ed's eyebrow twitched. "At least I'm not a womanizer," he said as calmly as possible for the situation.

"So?" Mustang said with a shrug of his shoulders. "At least I'm not a bean."

"I-!" Ed began but was cut of by Alphonse.

"So..what are you four doing in London?" Al asked curiously, trying to change the subject from womanizers and beans. "And how did you get here?"

"Well," Ran Fan began. "We got here by a train. We got a letter from a man and it told us to take the letters on the train, that's where we all met up together. And we somehow ended up here," she finished with a confused look.

"Sounds just like our shoes," Ed mused and looked at Mustang. "Did you have anything to do with this?"

"Nope, but I might know if Ling told us the why in this situation," Mustang said, just as musing as Ed.

Ling flashed his pearly whites at the Elrics and Mustang. "Why, we're going to the pig swellings academy of magic and sorcery!" he exclaimed happily.

"What..the..heck?" Ed wondered out loud while scratching his blond head.

"What do you mean?" Mustang demanded. The Flame Alchemist's face was screwed up in confusion and showed his total lost-ness in this matter.

"Uh.." Alphonse was at a loss for words. Even the really smart ones were confused!

"I...er..." Reina stumbled on the words. She had no idea, either.

"I believe he is referring to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," a familiar voice suggested.

"Thank you!" the Elrics said in unison. They turned to face the voice and took a couple steps back. "Lieutenant!" they exclaimed. Riza smiled and waved slightly at them. Ed and Rei returned the smile while Alphonse returned the slight hand motion.

"How goes the shopping, Colonel?" Riza asked. She was dressed in civilian clothing, like Mustang, and was carrying a handbag. Everyone knew what was inside that little blue bag, and they hoped she didn't use it.

"Not so good," Mustang groaned. "See, we met James Potter's son, Harry, and his friends. Well, they went out to get our books and haven't returned. Now I'm starting to get suspicious, though. They didn't even ask what year these guys are going to be in," he said with a gesture towards the Elrics. "So now we're screwed," the Colonel said with a huge sigh.

"Most intriguing.." Riza murmured with her hand on her chin, closing her eyes. Finally her eyelids snapped open and she opened her mouth. "I believe the best course of action would be to head towards Flourish and Bott's, sir."

Mustang nodded and looked towards the Xing four. "All right. You guys come, too." They all nodded slowly, somewhat intimidated by the Lieutenant. "Let's go, then. We're going to get to the bottom of this, now."

> > > > > > > > > >

"Hermione, what the heck are we looking for?" Ron whined, slightly peeved. He had built a tower of dusty books in his extremely advanced state of boredom. Now he was just lying there, under the table.

"I already told you!" Hermione snapped, never taking her eyes off the old book she was looking at. A skill she was quite good at. "I've heard of Amestris before an- AHA!" she declared triumphantly and jabbed her finger at the book. "Look here!" She motioned towards a line in the book.

"What does it say?" Harry asked curiously. The words were written in a kind of ancient rune, one that he couldn't read. Even if he couldn't understand it, he did see some pretty weird stuff drawn next to it. One picture was a red snake-like dragon-looking animal eating the tip of its tail, forming a ring. In the center of the ring was a strange triangle design. On the other page was a complex diagram. The main shape was a circle, but there were all sorts of triangles and squiggles in the design. It interested him a lot.

Hermione rolled her eyes. "Honestly, you two.." She shook her head and heaved a sigh. "It says,

Amestris is a place of legend, a folklore that has all but died in the minds of the Magical Community. It was in this place that people could perform feats of transformation called Alchemy. In Alchemy, one uses various materials and elements to form something of the same components. At one point, Amestris was connected with the Wizarding world and one could quite easily travel between them. Unfortunately, the connection was broken when a German Alchemist made a pact with devils. This greatly angered the Alchemists of the land of Amestris. They sealed the connection with an object known to their most accomplished great minds as The Gate...The only people in this day that can perform an Alchemy at all are Nicholas Flamel and Albus Dumbledore. But the greatest loss of Amestris was the loss of a-

..And the rest is smudged rather badly, I can't read it," she sighed.

"So...Ed and his siblings...and Mr. Mustang came through this Gate? From a forgotten world called Amestris?" Harry gasped.

Hermione nodded. "But what are they doing...going to Hogwarts? And how did they get here?" She put her hands on her forehead in defeat. "I'm baffled!" she exclaimed and sighed at the same time. "We need to figure this out, they might be- Wha?" Hermione gasped as her legs became bound together by plants that had mysteriously grown out of the ground.

"What's going on?" Ron whispered and tried to struggle to get free. "What kind of spell is this?"

Harry noticed movement at the end of one of the bookshelves as two boys, one tall and the other short, were walking towards them. "I don't think it's a spell, Ron," Harry said nervously.

"Good," the tall boy said. He had long blond hair swept over one eye, and was wearing a white shirt and dark pants with suspenders. "Then we shouldn't need to explain ourselves," he said coolly.

"What the heck are you doing?" Ron snapped and struggled some more.

"W-we're sorry," the shorter boy stuttered, lifting his hand from a strange symbol drawn on the floor. The plants had sprouted from there. He had blond hair as well, but he was also wearing a strange sort of green hat. He was wearing a short sleeve white shirt underneath green overalls. "But you found out something you shouldn't have. W-we need to take you-."

Harry cut him off, almost shouting. "It's none of your business what we want to know! We just wanted to find out about Edward and Alphonse and Reina and Mr. Roy!"

The taller boy looked surprised. "Ed's here? And Al and Reina?"

Hermione shook her head defiantly. "It's none of your concern!" she snapped, shooting a glare at Harry.

The smaller boy ignored that. "Didya hear that, Russ? Al's here, and Ed and Rei, too! This is great!"

'Russ' smiled. "Hey, hey! Small world. I was hoping that they'd come, too. I mean, this wouldn't be fun without 'em. Right, Fletcher?"

Hermione looked extremely confused. "What? You know them?" she asked, surprised.

Now it was the bigger boy's turn to look surprised. "What, you know them?" he asked with a slight hint of mockery that was always present in his voice.

Ron nodded excitedly. "Yeah! Their friend, Mr. Roy, is a friend of my dad's!" he blurted without thinking. Then he grinned nervously at Hermione who was glaring her eyes out at him.

"Interesting..."

"Can I let 'em go, Russ?" Fletcher asked innocently. Receiving a nod, he put his hand on the symbol again, and the vines receded." Harry and crew stood up and dusted themselves off, completely shaken by the whole ordeal.

"Sorry about that whole thing. My name's Russell Tringham. This is my bro, Fletcher. We're friends of Ed's," Russell explained. "We didn't know you knew them, too. But we do know that Alchemy is supposed to be secretive here, so you can't tell anyone, got it?" They all nodded, too confused to do anything else. "I'll explain later," he assured them and turned to leave. When he noticed they were standing still, he ordered, "Well come on! And bring that book!" They obliged and brought the weathered tome with them.

"What are we doing, brother?" Fletcher inquired, jogging to catch up to Russell.

"We're going to give the Elrics a little surprise," Russell snickered demonically. "They're going to be so glad to see us, after all." Then he grinned widely, and evilly, speeding up in his pace.

"What's going on?" Ron hissed to the other two students.

Russell, overhearing, turned and smiled at them. "Oh, nothing harmful. But it'll be funny as heck!" he declared and turned back to find the Elrics.

"I have a bad feeling about this," Harry confided in Hermione.

Fletcher smiled kindly. "Oh don't worry, Russ's pranks never cause any real harm. And this time will be no exception."

"Good," Harry breathed in relief. Then he and the others hurried to catch up with Russell.

Fletcher stopped on the street and sighed silently. "At least I hope so..."

S.H. Stuff: Oops...forgot to update before I left for Vegas...Ehehehe...

Let's see, oh yeah! Bios!

LING: Prince of Xing. Comes to Central to locate the Philosopher's Stone so that he can find Eternal Life and therefore his clan can rise to the top in the heirarchy. Kind of an idiot and in this story is the very epitome of idiocy. SPOILER: Later becomes the sin Greed. END SPOILER

RAN FAN: (Also Lan Fun, Lan Fan, Ran Fun depending on translation) Guards Ling closely. I consider her to be a ninja-kinda person. Later gets automail, which she has in this story, from cutting her own arm off to protect Ling from the Homunculus. She can see through Envy's disguises. Very kind, but very protective of Ling.

MEI: An accomplished Alchemist from Xing. Her people are of the lowest caste in her country and dying, so she is looking for the Philosopher's Stone in order to revive her clan to be the most populated and therefore powerful. Doesn't really seem to like Ran Fan and Ling that much. She befriends Scar and Yoki in the manga after Yoki finds her collapsed in the back alleys. Mei follows Scar around all the time in hopes of getting a glimpse of "the Great Edward Elric" the oh-so-tall and handsome Alchemist that she wants to have all her own. The first time she meets him, she doesn't know it's him and calls him "Bean-boy". When she later realizes it was Ed, she sobs, saying "Toying with a fair maiden's heart, how dare you!" Her alchemy...will be revealed next chapter.

RIN: (OC) Sister to Mei. Accomplished Alchemist, but cannot draw pentagrams very fast, so she carries around cards with pentagrams on them. Other than that, she's screwed.

Another thing, I'm going to decide on an update Schedule. I think SUNDAYS will be the absolute LATEST I will update if I haven't updated in over 8 days. Kay, that sounds good.

Okay, that's all. LOVE you all. R&R.