Okay I got an idea from seeing a FMA anime music video; it really almost made me cry from seeing it. Well I suppose since some one asked me to make the next one actually have chapters maybe I will but I need reviews people, not for just this story but for the other three I already have up and I've updated the only one that actually has chapters, which I currently have a writters block for so the Author that brought you "I'm Not Okay, I Promis", "How Armstrong Got His Sparkles", and "The Other Forbidden Child", now presents another FMA goodiness story.

Soriana: Well its a start I suppose, a little different from some of the stuff I usually do wihtTY and YYH

Yoai-san: Yeah well you do more good stuff wiht FMA, anway the IY ones where getting sort of old and people are still pressing you on the matter of updating that one so will yeah? Sides I like FMA better...

Soriana: deflats On with the chapter...blows away

Alchemist Meets Demon

Ch1 Train Ride

Cerulean skies were sun kissed with fluffy white clouds that looked so soft one could wish to pull it down and sleep. Ed looked out the window of the train the long tendril of smoke billowed from the trains pipe in the front as he craned his neck to see it. He had taken Al back to Auntie Pinako's to stay for a month or two as he searched for the Philosophers Stone on his own, last time his brother got so upset that he ran because he wouldn't tell him about that one night in Risembull. He sighed the memory still fresh in his mind and the bruise still fresh on his face as he gingerly touched his cheek; it wasn't purple anymore now it was a red color. He frowned settling back into the trains long chair the soft material was very welcome to the hard wooden seat was sitting on waiting at the station and gave his back a break.

His mind wondered again on the night he had found Al helping Scar, his hands went to the back of his head as a pillow while he closed his eyes. The memory replayed in his minds eye, the sounds, the colors, smells, and images were there still ingrained into his brain like a brand. Opening his eyes he glared at the happy go lucky blue sky and fluffy pillow looking clouds it would all change once he got back to central to see Colonel Roy Mustang, the jerk was always insulting his height one way or another weather it be sultry or just plain out spoken in his brandish ways.

One thing made him worry though, who was going to help him oil his joints? Usually Al would help him with the back of his leg. A huge blush stained his cheeks while staring outside again watching the land change from fertile farming soil to hard packed earth that housed rocks and thousands of weeds; with a chuckle at his impotence he stood suddenly having the urge to do this. Standing stalk straight he looked out the window and saluted the farming lands and his home town with the right hand in a gesture of returning soon for Al when a few months were up.

Once that was done he sat back down with a large grin on his face while pulling out a small journal he had started writing in since this whole thing started.

Dear Journal,

I know what you're thinking why do I keep you around? Well besides the reminder in my watch, you also remind me of what I must do to accomplish and obtain the Philosophers Stone to restore Al's body.

A while ago we had a run in with Scar, Al thought his memories were nothing, something I made up to so he wouldn't question his sanity against me. I was on the roof with Winery who had just moved a swiping hand of metal when I got in front of her to tell Al it wasn't true. He slapped me so hard with his metal hand on my cheek it left a bruise and my body hadn't even healed that much since the encounter with the homunculi Envy, Gluttony, and Lust. Lust was the one to initiate the anger and resentment in me as I tried to make a stone but something went wrong, don't know what but I could feel myself being pulled away from the yelling of one Scar and running towards the sound of Mother…

It was all I could hear until I stopped, still hearing her voice it was just ground ward, the grave illuminated my eyes as tears threatened to spill. Before any did a bloody hand shoot out of the soil making me fall backwards on my butt to land on the ground, there was suppose to be a noise when I hit he dirt but there wasn't even the slight breathing of myself I could hear.

My heart beat wildly in my chest as the hand got closer to me, I could hear it's heart beat as the hand dragged the rest of the body out of the pack soil to have me looking at the creature Al and I created as children. My eyes grew many sizes before realization struck me that I killed my mother a second time, the thing called out to me slowly inching forward to me; as if it's protests of "It's alright Ed" or "I'm here now Ed don't worry." Was enough to make me die on the spot, couldn't shake the feeling until something slapped me hard in the face, the world came back at me full throttle as the graveyard melted away to be replaced by the floor of the 5th lab with a red array glowing slowly fading and me bleeding from the mouth since I chomped on my tongue. Before I knew it blackness consumed my vision I really didn't have enough strength to deny anything seeing as I was the one who activated the array as I found out later.

Once waking up I stared at the ceiling for quite some time even as my eyes protested the act while my head ached from the hitting of one of the subordinates from another unit who were guarding me and Al while Scar was about trying to kill us, in actuality we helped Scar not to make another stone which is the opposite I wanted.

Now I lay in bed with a sling about my metal arm while Winery is talking to us, I can see out of the corner of my eyes that Al is very silent and brooding about something. He might be a piece of armor but from much observation I could tell the subtle changes in moods. We got an angry answer as Al was wheeled out; yes WHEELED OUT on a cart to the top of HQ to think.

Winery worked on my automail arm while we talked about things, apparently she worries much about us like a sister would or even just a bit more for me but I must say this I'm not in love with her; don't know if she dose but I'm in love with someone else. Talk about mellow drama when she was sad and then I had to cheer her up; so we decided to go up onto the roof to see Al while she brought the parts necessary to fix him with.

We had gotten up to the roof and I had just changed Al back to his own metal suit self. He told me he knew what it was that I didn't tell him, I got the impression how ever that he was angry with me and that's when he swiped at me hitting my cheek making me fly across the cement. Before I could stop him Al had fled and never looked back as I got up to jump off a 20 story building to go after him but Winery held me back. I watched helplessly as he took flight about the city to get away from me.

God his suits eyes, those eyes glowed a gleaming wine red that showed hurt, so much hurt and much pain. I really never got to tell ask him my question. That's when I defiantly went back into the building to find my clothes and go looking for him, what a fool I was not to say anything to Al!

The train had hit a bump on the track as the pen skid across the paper while Ed cursed all the curse words he knew and then cursed a new when the train jumped again; thus he still went on with his writing.

It wasn't long before we didn't even find a small trace of him; I worried and started talking with Winery. I told her what I wanted to ask Al all this time and she gaped at me as if it was nothing, to me it was something. That's when we got a call from HQ about Al asking about some kind of Alchemist and the fights over by the Ishbalian camps killing the men, woman and children for no reason.

Following the trail left behind by lackeys they found Al fighting the same person when they went to Lab 5 and Scar fighting an Alchemist with a real love for thunder, rolling his eyes when more lackies came his way he clapped his hands naturally; what brainless morons they were.

So to make this long entry short I helped Al out with his fight while he was still angry with me, while behind the erected wall the question that burned in my mind ever since he was a suit of armor came out.

"Al…d-do you hate me for this?" I turned to him with pleading eyes as his looked into mine with an intensity only meant for brothers.

"No brother…I could never hate you…" his voice was soft inside the suit of armor as we finished up the fight, the others that were with him were reliving a memory just as I did. The small boy got hit in the chest with a piece of wood, while the older cried out is name in horror. The child moved taking up a necklace from about his neck, which was, were the piece of wood lay and smiled.

"Mom saved me!" he smiled, while they talked with the elder me and Al just watched in silence. At the end of that day was saw off the last of the Ishbalians, including Scar to my dismay as I asked him a question he wouldn't answer.

"Did you really make a Philosopher Stone?" he just stared at me and smirked turning his head to look at the boy with the paddle as if to say go while I stood shell shocked for a while and then ran to the docks edge yelling for them to stop when Al put his hand on my shoulder. Ah well he got away this time, but next time I will pump him for information.

That's all for now it's lunchtime and my gut is telling me to eat, so long Journal until I write again.

He yawned sitting the journal on the seat and stretching it had taken him quite a bit of time to write all that seeing as the train moved and his pen had splotched a few pages with big black ink spots. He grinned turning back around to pick up the book and stuck it in the inside pocket in the red jacket, yes he had sewed it in there himself when he found a certain brother snooping in his under garments drawer pulling out his diary to read. Needless to say he was very angry but his brother already knew most the events in there so no need to have him relive them right?

Sighing he waited for the food cart to come about, why couldn't the stupid Colonel have him ride in first class instead of coach, what a bastard. Rolling his eyes the compartment door opened and a stewardess came in with a cart of food.

"Would you like anything Sir?" asked the red head as she smiled at him, blue eyes glowing at him, he nodded taking off a bowl of beef stew, a plate of sandwiches, a few packs of pockey, and a bottle of water. He smiled at the woman as she bowed to him leaving his compartment, slurping the soup he watched the landscape, the mountains were in the background but they got smaller the further away from them the train went.

A crash outside caught his attention as a girl screamed, thinking someone was high jacking the train he was again he sighed putting his spoon down and grumbling that certain Colonels should rot in hell for making his subordinates catch the first train out so he could rush back to Central and send him on another wild goose chase for the item he wants. Stopping in the middle of the main hall he looked around seeing there was no one but a growl got his attention, peering around the corner he almost laughed a drunk man was on the floor holding the ankle of a young girl his age, she sneered down at the man in disgust it seems; hell he would sneer at this guy to cause he was no Don Won.

Soriana was just so excited to get on a train, in her travels she had never been on one before and her siblings told her was an experience she would never forget. Sighing she sat in the compartment, the chairs were so nice and soft she could fall asleep but had work to do as she brought out her book to read, it had passed some of the time and she was bored after about three hours and had finished the thick book on Alchemical Substance enhancers and There Traits. What will humans think of next? Yes humans, those among her own people could do Alchemy and she was one of the few who could do it in any of her forms for you see she didn't need a transmutation circle nor a circle anywhere on her being. It was all done by accident really; she had been with her eldest sister in town and found she had the gift for Alchemy so she was brought to the exams. She was the only female it seemed among all the men who laughed languidly at her with looks of lust and wanting to get into her pants; evil human males. So she began the written exam, which she passed with flying colors and flew out the door to meet her sister; though she raised her eyebrow in question at Kiowa about a man named Roy Mustang she was dating but it was a good thing to because he was an over sear of this project a along with other Colonels and the Fuher himself.

Next was to be the exams were you would be asked a question or lots of questions to which you had to answer truthfully. She only had one question, why she wanted to join the Military and become a dog of the state. Grinning she answered with as much of her heart and soul as she could.

"Because I promised my siblings that I would do what I can for them regardless of what it might be and I'm willing to accept the bad with the good anytime, to dive into anything for them they are all I have."

She smirked at that statement for it was true she had quite a few siblings though not all were female a few were male. Her stomach had rumbled at that pointed in time and she wondered if they had a dinning car cause she didn't feel like eating in her compartment it made her feel confined. With a big grin, she checked all the items she would bring and looked at herself in the window, it showed a girl of tanned skin, eyes of silver stared back though they had an exotic quality to them around the iris was a thin circle of sky blue that got thicker when she was emotional, those orbs stared at her, while she looked at her own lips which were a bright pink pouty color. She wore the traditional clothing though not a dress; hell no she wasn't a dress girl! Her pants were very tight and black with silver lining, though she wore a short silver skirt along with the pants; the shirt was silver with an ebon kitsune howling at the red moon on the cloths back, while shirt itself was silver and very shinny. The sleeves were long but cut in a few places as if she wanted a breeze in them, from belly button to top of the bottom the shirt was cut like the sleeves except each bottom had a black bead to tie it off. She wore her red silver streaked hair in a bun today with silver bangs framing her face; yes she was pretty but in the eyes of male humans well it was another mater internally you know the black widow spider might be beautiful but it's also deadly to others. Her fingernails were just plain, not paint on them because it would be to hard to get it off when she turned into her true form and not to mention Joushine said he liked her nails wihtout the stuff; oh god she did that once and the stuff stunk to high heaven she almost passed out from it being as she has a sensitive nose.

She wasn't done looking yet, she reached into her silver skirt to bring out gold hoop earrings that had black and silver beads on them; she loved these gaudy looking things, along with those she already had two gold stubs on top of her ears, along with four other piercing going down her ear; both ears had identical piercings. Her eyes had natural makeup as it were; those silver orbs where outlined in black with a bit of silver kissing it, along with some gray to make it exotic.

After checking her self twice over for any hair out of place she picked up her book to take with her so she could spy in the humans around her and made sure to have some money just incase she had to pay for the meal. The dinning car would be very nice place to eat indeed.

"Where do you think you're going?" said a voice from the seat she was sitting in, Soriana turned about to see her guardian Joushine yawning. He is disguised as a normal cat but in reality he is a rare were tiger with wings and her future husband; maybe if she decides he is worthy. Grinning from ear to ear she went back over to the fluff ball black cat with a white bow about its neck.

"What Jou? I want out of this compartment and I'm hungry!" she gestured about the small wooden room, with one huge window and two long chairs facing each other made of some kind of soft material.

"Fine but I go with you this time, last time you almost got killed." Yawning largely the cats tongue curled in on it self and pulled the small pink appendage back into the fanged mouth.

Soriana pouted at him with her bottom lip trembling for good affect, she really wanted to go alone this time damnit!

"But I want to go on my own I'm a big enough girl to do this, and you know father would agree." She mumbled a sad look coming into her eyes as she remembered her father, a great demon lord who had lived many a thousand years to met her mother and have three sisters and two brothers who are supposed to ascend the throne after Kiowa dose; though Soriana is the youngest in the family she never wanted the title of Princes or Queen but all that had been shattered when she found out that a child had made a homunculi, and the terror it rained down on her city gods the screams of her father and mother was enough to make her die on the spot and watching your parents be eaten by a monster called Greed made her mad. Now she had no use of the title, she was a State Alchemist and her siblings knew so, so Kiowa was to take the throne as she was to but unfortunately one has to have a mate and Roy Mustang isn't a suitable one for her sister.

"Jou please since you're here I can't have privacy, please!" she dropped down onto her knees sitting on the floor next to the chair giving her best puppy dog eyes to him, he growled but nodded it was true ever since he came along with her, her privacy was invaded but he would keep an eye out for her he promised her father that much.

"If you have trouble with anything call me." He sighed stretching out his body in a strange way with all limps elongating slightly as he clawed the air. Settling down in front of her, he looked into those silver eyes of hers and then licked her cheek lovingly.

She smiled at him, kissing his furry forehead, opening and closing the door her mind began to wonder as she walked and began to think of the last exam because she then knew she passed both the other two. Now she had to show what she could do, a grin placed itself upon her lips as she remembered the one man going over to the Ice Capped Mountains and then making it into ice castle it was so pretty she could have been a princes in it, sweat dropping oh well going on. After that stunt the man had been warn out by the time he had finished, the thing was so big and tall extravagant but he had warn himself out doing so. Another went forward taking bark from the tree, and vines from the small forest making a huge boomerang; thus the idiot tossed it causing the ice castle to crack at the top and tumble forward. As she watched horrified and frozen to place like the others, something strange welled in her to help this human so she ran forward without thinking and clapped those hands together in a stately manner as to make the pieces of ice melt and have it rain down as softly as the first of fallen snow, while the boomerang was turned into soft leaves that fell with the snow. The Fuher chuckled lightly and was the one to say, "I think we found our State Alchemist for this year."

She got sat at a table by the windows, yay! She loved to watch the scenery it's nicer to be around people and look out instead of being cooped up in one place for too long. Getting some soup, sandwiches, a desert called Tiramisu and a glass of red wine. What? With demon standards she's old enough to drink, well she dose still look like a child and got chided by the waitress who got her a glass of sparkling white grape cider instead but man she would of liked a glass of red wine.

Halfway through her lunch a man with an ugly looking fat face was staring, ew he had two chins under a black tie, gods he licked his lips at her so sick! Her hands made fists under the table and her ears picked up the black and silver gloves making a noise, as her hands clinched and un-clinched with anger. So ignoring the man for her meal she ate the rest of the sandwiches being done with the soup and sighed as that same man sat at the table with a flagon of beer in his hands; he was fat about the middle as well wearing a gray suit with a short button down white shirt, his pants were the same color and the shiny black shoes he wore told her he was high class so why was he here instead of in first class with the others on the train? Wrinkling her nose she knew he had been drinking quite a bit as he wiggled his eyebrows at her as she glared eyes burning with the fire to destroy him; when he talked his breathe right about almost killed her from the exertion of rank-of-beer, with out a word to this nasty, bald, sweaty man she got up to go to the restroom though she didn't need to go she wanted it to look that way.

"Wait miss I wanted to kno-" his sentence was cut short as she padded across the dinning car and into the main hall fuming about that nasty man, wait his scent it wasn't human; shit its demon! How could she of missed that, but then again these days her kind hide among the humans and smelling like them mostly so others won't know what they are. She frowned at this thought. Why was he after her, perhaps it was her past being of royalty? Maybe he wants to ransom her for money; well the humans are corrupt in ways she never knew now she knew it was for money, control, but most of all power over others.

Hell she knew the government was corrupt by being as she is, taking out her silver watch she looked at it and sighed, she would find that bastard homunculi and kill Greed if she died trying, putting the watch back in it's place in her silver skirt.

Suddenly the cars door flew open, the ugly bald man stood in the doorway wiping his sweaty face with a handkerchief a lusty look in his eyes.

"You'll do nicely for my masters collection!" he chuckled taking a few steps forward as his stinky alcoholic breathe hit her again, this time she put her hand over her nose.

"I'm not a collectable nor do I want to be with your master." She growled taking a few steps back as he took a few forward to try and pin her in a corner. Narrowing her eyes at him, he leapt forward as she jumped over him, while in midair he grabbed her leg and she fell to the floor in a heap. Groaning she got up to stand above the one who grabbed her ankle it seemed, it was connected to a hand that tightened the grip on her limb. She crossed her arms about her chest to show she wasn't interested in neither this nor anything.

"My master wants people and demons alike that are beautiful, you fit the bill missy." The bald man on the floor smiled showing fangs, shit it was a demon and she knew from the smell damnit she should of listened to her instincts but that would of gotten her in trouble with the Military, and her siblings. She's actually considered a chimera by law standards, she is an animal and yet a human but she dosen't let anyone know that though; but this ass knows.

"Get off me!" She said as some passengers came out of there compartments to see what all the hubbub was about, gods that embarrassed her to no end as silver eyes narrowed very dangerously at him with a wicked idea in her head, about to clap to make this man suffer. Oh she would make him suffer as he opened his mouth to say something a small howl came about as two others of his own clan came, her eyes were now slits narrowing at those men in traditional wolf attire with the fuzzy clothes and chest plated armor.

"Do you have no shame? Look at you, you know you'll be taken to a laboratory to be experimented on!" she pointed her finger at them as the passengers blinked in confusion, quite a few of them went back into there compartments and others chuckled at the weird stuff the lackeys wore. She sighed; some of her demon kin were stupid, gods what were they thinking? You must hide among the humans to blend and not to be seen, these idiots were doing the opposite telling the whole world that they were wolfs in the most show off way as possible.

"They have no need to be told of what they can and can not ware, the master whishes them to ware what they want." floor chuckled his looks changing considerably, the blobs of chin got sucked into his neck and his face was becoming more bony and pointed to look like a henchman or at least to look like a right hand man. His skin color was pale until it changed to a bit of tan not too much but enough to see it changed color considerably.

His eyes that were so pitch black turned from there dark color to a wine red, with speckles of black in them making them look even more deviously evil; the hand on her ankle tightened as she felt the prickling of nails digging into her skin, a wet substance fell from her ankle and she knew it to be her own blood.

A smile from the man on the floor was seen as he looked up and licked her own blood from the cut he made, she shivered as a cackle from thehim ensued her ears echoing only for her to hear. He was no longer fat but skinny and slightly muscled, he now wore the traditional wolf garbs, a gray chest plate with a lighter gray blue outlining it, his ears chnaged fro human to pointed while he wore a furry loin cloth while his tail swept on the floor at the dust that had gathered. He snorted as she smiled; she knew they didn't like to get their tails dirty or any other part of their being unless the leader of the clan instigated they could. Wait could the master be the leader of one of the wolf clans?

The two from before held onto both her arms, tightening their hold so she couldn't get away, she felt herself become angry as her beast wanted to lash out at these creatures who thought they were superior to her; but she was also reminded of being a State Alchemist and if she showed what she was sure they would put her in a jail cell to do experiments on along side these freaks who decided they wanted her for their master.

The man from the floor licked her ankle again before getting up to his feet, he had furry leggings on the left foot and the right had a plated legging sort of like meshed chain mail with a small part of a gray plate used as a guard. At his hip was a sword in a black sheath and a huge hammer that glinted at her.

Most shocking was the fact that he had grown hair, long strands of ebon black hair framed his now pretty face, it was but pretty isn't always good it can be deadly and now it looked like he was going to use this against her as he put a clawed finger to her cheek.

"My dear it would do you some good not to struggle, my master has watched you for some time and he wants you for his collection of beauties. Though I must say he has good taste, you are one of the prettiest ones I've seen thus far." He said in a lust-crazed voice, licking her cheek in a seductive manner when he pulled back from her she spit in his face grinning. He frowned but then smiled licking the spit off as stripes came to his face, the same red wine color as his eyes but on the two stripes on the one cheek they were tipped in black as the other two on the other cheek came in looking the same.

She hissed at him in a menacing manner and wondered if Joushine was awake, if so he would have been out here by now but he was probably sleeping and she didn't want to disturb him.

That's when a surprised gasp caught their attention, the two lackeys growled at a small boy, his blonde hair glinted like gold as he scowled at them; fiery golden hued eyes glared narrowing to almost slits as he stood with arms at his side. He was wearing black pants almost like her own but it was just plan black, he had a black under shirt which was probably sleeveless and a red over coat that was almost to big for him she couldn't help the giggle that erupted from her he looked so cute; a chibi boy but he human and she didn't feel that way about him so thus that thought was crashed when claws dug into her shoulder. She growled at the two wolf demons that still had her pinned to the spot while their leader chuckled at the small boy walking over to stand in front of the small frame.

"My, my look boys another one who looks positively delicious to bring to master." The transformed wolf demon chuckled at the narrowing of golden eyes.

"Don't you touch him! He has nothing to do with me and the fact that he's a bystander!" Soriana growled out almost going into full demon mode but having to hold it back as she wrenched herself and relinquished the slight hold from at least one wolf demon by kicking him in the go nads, that's when the other one grabbed her hands. She smiled at him kicking him in the go nads as well for being stupid. They both wriggled on the floor holding their privates with groans of pain.

"You both are weak." Her stare pierced them with one who knew to fight the demon way as she clapped her hands and pressed them to the floor, they were now in a cage to small for them to fit in, with leather muzzles about the mouths and spiked chokers that had a chain connected to the cage. They spit their rage at her as she chuckled turning around to deal with the one who was their leader, be it he was probably harder to take on.

Before she could do a thing a clap was heard as the blonde had a sword come out of his hand, it was automail! The small boy had a plastered grin on his face as the blue crackling energy left his metal arm.

"Aw look at the toy, you know I have some toys of my own." He chuckled taking out his sword as they began fighting; the rest of the passengers went back into their compartments to hide from the maniacs it seemed.

Ed was having fun with this, he hadn't the need to run since this guy was in front of him so in the blink of an eye he slashed him in the chest or he thought so when a pain from his back told him he was wrong as he flew through the air to be caught by feminine hands. Those hands set him down and left as he got up to help.

"Whose clan do you belong to and why are you here for me!" a voice made him look up a bit she was taller then him but only two or three more inches.

"Excuse me my lady of the South." The man exclaimed giving her a mock bow and looking into her eyes.

"I am Chirosu of the South Clan, my master wants you for his collection of beauties along with the boy. He has many tastes I assure you in both men and woman. The one's that don't satisfy him, he gives them to me." It made her blood boil, this master of his better demon or she swore this human would die by her hands.

"Ah but you must know by now that your siblings were caught?" he mused out loud watching the anger radiate off her as she brought forth a clawed hand that clinched as her gloves tips ripped as the nails grew longer then intended.

She jumped up suddenly leaving Ed to watch her back as she raised her hand skyward and let it fall, silvery energy emitted from her claws like half moon arches heading straight on for the wolf man. The attack how ever missed him as she growled and frowned, he had dodged at the last minute jumping over her as she flipped about to claw at him, he held his sword at the reading and slashed her across the chest; blood spurted from her chest and mouth dribbling onto the floor slowly.

"Oops look what you made me do, but I know you wont die from such a shallow cut my dear." He chuckled running as he said this, there was an open window as he took to it and jumped out never to be seen again. The sword on Ed's hand had disappeared as he rushed over to the girl to help the bleeding to stop, fumbling about he looked for anything to stop the blood flow when said girl groaned sitting up with hand to head.

All the while the Chirosu had hopped out of an open window some where in the next car to land on the ground. He surveyed the area and ran like no tomorrow back to his master. He wouldn't like it that his two collectables weren't with him but he would make the master see that they weren't worth his time.

"Damnit, I swear I'll get him next time." She mumbled looking at her shirt which was cut a bit in the front and she sighed a black cat had made it's way out of a the compartment next to his; it meowed at her and she froze on the spot with a twitch in her left eye.

"Er is that cat yours?" he asked looking at the girl pushing her back down softly when she was going to protest he chuckled, looking around for something to stop the bleeding a muffled meow came from his left side as he looked over the cat had a napkin in it's mouth and set it down for him. Ed cocked an eyebrow at the animal, was it trained to do that?

"We better take this to my compartment, their you can explain how this stared." He sighed messaging his temples the way Mustang would, so without asking her she picked the girl up as she blushed and wanted down, her protests how ever were never heard as he headed over to his compartment seeing as the door was ajar he used his foot to open it wider and set her gently on one of the chairs in the small room.

The cat had followed them apparently as it got up on the chair with the girl; he picked up the animal and smiled.

"You need to wait to get in her lap little one." Placing the cat on the other chair he began to search for the napkin outside when Joushine grumbled in cat language but went over to his love anyway.

I thought I told you to call me when you had a problem!

You know it's not my fault this time, and if I would called you do you know what you would of done? If you went fully demon then you would be taken away from me!

Soriana sighed she knew Joushine loved her very much and could see it some times in the things he did but a lot of time he was over protective of her and she never got privacy. Snorting she looked sideways at the small ebon cat who looked at her with concern in those strange golden eyes, without knowing it Joushine now sat on her shoulder and curled up there for a nap as she stared at the ceiling since she was still laying down.

I love you too much to see you get hurt and if exposing myself to rescue you and know you're all right, then it's worth it.

That statement made her cry for the first time in her life, ever since her parents died all the emotions she held inside, all the shields and walls she built around her heart were crumbling and breaking down within the sights of him; soft wet moisture gathered at her eyes side sliding down smooth flushed cheeks. Before she knew it little plinking noises were being made as she gathered up the silver tear drops, that was why she was mostly sought after by so many not only her beauty but her tears for they were rare silver gem tears.

Good night Joushine.

She sighed looking up when the blonde haired boy came back with some bandages; she chuckled knowing the boy was going to take off her shirt or at least try.

Ed came back with some bandages an antiseptic cream for the cut so it didn't get inflamed and infected. He wondered while walking down the train's long hall, what did that guy really want and what did he mean by collecting? Collecting beautiful people and using something from them? The sight he saw almost made him laugh, the cat was curled up around the shoulder and some of her red and silver hair in the bun was coming out.

Walking forward and closing the door behind him he looked at her shirt and coughed to get her attention.

"You don't have to clean my wound." She said looking at him as he sat by her head on the long chair.

"So why were they after you?" he asked taking her shirt in his hands as she grumbled about stupid chibi's. She moved her hand to his as he began to take off her shirt she sighed, humans can be so epithetic and yet she felt compelled to let him do so; she had a bra on and was really not ashamed of her body.

The blush on his face made him cute as he stared at her chest, the tanish pale skin not having a scratch on it as his eyebrows scrunched up in confusion and his face color changed again to that of pale.

"But I saw you get cut, are you a…a…" he stood up defensively at that moment as she got up to the cats dismay and smiled; snatching her shirt from him she put it back on.

"No I'm not a homunculi." She frowned taking the cat in her arms petting the fur while said animal purred loudly. The boy set back down next to her and sighed, blinking at her and the gloves she sported that had holes in the top. He was staring at them, wondering what caused her nails to grown and what those things were, they looked like chimeras that were human and wolf.

She could feel his eyes on her as she looked down and sore under her breath, she should have taken the gloves off and now she actually did with a raised eyebrow from the other teen.

"What's your name?" she wanted to changed the subject to get him to look somewhere else then at her now as she fumbled with her bun taking it down and braiding it all the while listening to him.

"I'm Edward Elric the Fullmetal Alchemist." He said blinking at her as she braided her multi colored hair, such a strange girl he mused watching her pin her hair back up.

"Who are you?" he asked seeing a grin appeared on her face as she put her hands behind her head eyes closing.

"I'm Soriana Wolfman the Silver Kitsune Alchemist." Cracking open an eye she watched his emotions, first one of shock, then unbelievable, and then just stunned when he was about to say something the door to the compartment opened up.

"Ah it's nice to know you're here Soriana." Hughes was standing in the doorframe leaning against it with both hands over his chest and the slightest of smirks on his face as he looked at her shirt and blanched.

"You shouldn't dress that way." He said coming in the room fully and taking a seat next to her other side while picking up the ebon cat and stroking it.

"I dress as I please Hughes, so how is your wife and child?" out of no where a white shirt was produced from his hands and given to her, she sighed shaking her head in a no fashion while he pouted adjusting his glasses.

"Gracia is doing well and Alysia is doing great, you want to see some photos?" he asked a hopeful grin on his face as both teens blinked at him.

"NO!" they said at the same time to Hughes disappointed laugh but nodded, now he turned to Ed and Soriana asking them both in a calm voice.

"What happen?" he saw tension among the ranks here as it seemed but Soriana spoke up first.

"I was eating lunch when a strange guy came to my table in the dinning car. He looked so ugly and smelt bad like he had been drinking. He had a lusty look in his eyes as he tried to converse with me, ignoring him I got up pretending to go to the bathroom hopping he wouldn't follow me but it seems he did." She bit her bottom lip remembering what had happened quite a bit ago. Ed took the silence for his turn as he sighed.

"I heard a ruckus out side in the hall and came to look to see a guy had a hold of her and he was very weird looking. I fought with him but he hit me, and slashed at her with his sword. I took her in here to clean the wound to find that it was healed already." At that Hughes chuckled looking at Soriana who gave him a death glare if he told this boy what she really was and sighed taking her by the arm leading her to the door and looking back at Ed.

"I have a few things to discus with her, why don't you go to the dinning car and wait for us there. Order something if you want seeing as you didn't finish lunch." He said closing the door with a protesting Soriana sputtering things at him.

"You know you really can act like such a child about people not seeing your photo's Major Hughes." Soriana chuckled walking down the hall with him, passing many rooms with chairs and one large window; they were going into another car as the door shut.

"Yes well you can be a child about what you ware." He countered when a meowing sound made them both smile.

"Hey Joushine, how have you been?" asked the man as the cat up turned a smile in his direction, only one person in the military knew what Soriana and he were that was a good thing since people these day and ages don't respect the demon race as they should.

"I could be better." He mumbled as Hughes took up the talking cat in hand as they walked to the last car on the train and went out on the small platform in the back here Joushine could transform into his human form to talk and maybe go back in.

As if sensing what Hughes was doing Soriana touched his shoulder tentivly with a wry smile as the train went on it's marry way at a medium speed.

"You can change to your human form now Joushine, Hughes will watch over the door." Soriana interjected as said glassed man chuckled going back in and shutting the door standing in front of it to block a view from the cat.

The cat smirked in all it's glory as the small body began to grow; sickening popping and cracking of bones were heard as growls of pain were to. The frontal legs elongated to the size of a man, the paws began to grow into human hands with short fingernails while the back legs twisted and turned about in a strange way to have them become long human feet with a thigh, calf, shin, ankle, and toes. The backbone grew out so he could have a back, cat eyes were replaced with almond shaped eyes the color of blood, and thick eyelashes adorned each eye. Fangs were replaced with small square teeth, while the cat like lips vanished to nothing and luscious lips of human were put there. His skin color became apparent when the fur fell off and the cat tail went away from his bottom, his lips quirked up in a smile as he walked over to her as his hair grew to above his shoulder blades just long enough to be long and it's color was black with white highlights as the cat ears disappeared.

Joushine wrapped his arms about his love that was leaning on the railway, truth b told he wasn't cold even with any clothes on. He loved the warmth of his love and wished her to know so as Soriana turned around in his embrace and chuckled.

"Hughes should have some clothes for you now, I believe he came prepared." With that said she hugged him back and giggled as the last of his human like muscles settled in, she stood about 4'10 and he was 6'9. She liked her men tall but some times she liked them small. Taking Joushines hands from about her shoulder she knocked on the door twice as it was ajared with clothes in hand, she took them and gave them to her guardian who winked at her putting on some dark nay blue boxers. She sighed shaking her head and going inside the train to wait for him to dress.

"So how is the cat?" Hughes joked chuckling while he gave her a worried look in the lightest.

"Hmm seems the cat follows me every where." She chided the Major who raised an eyebrow at her.

"So it seems the men you caught are demons correct?" it was a question that needed to be answered, suddenly people had gone missing not only on trains but in Central as well.

"Wolf demons, they really are a pain in my ass I mean they came from my village! In the Sort Gods sakes!" she threw up her hands in dismay and anger as the man with glasses sighed placing a hand on her shoulder to calm her down, the gentle rocking of the train lurched forward in it's steady speed to bring her out of a daze of anger.

"It happens to the best of villages and people Soriana, but you must remember not to let others know these things exist." He gave her frown and reached into his pockets showing her the gloves she disagreed in the room carelessly.

"Thanks…" she mumbled taking them back and putting them in her pocket, maybe she would cut the fingers from the gloves and ware them that way.

"What are the weakness' of the wolf demon?" as he asked this Joushine came in with black pants and a white muscle shirt with a sleeveless black coat that reaches down to the back of the knees. Though shoe less at the moment he didn't seem to care.

"Sensitive ears and nose." She said messaging her temples when a pair of strong hands slipped about her waist pulling her closely to a strong chest, breath on the back of her neck told her that Joushine was done with dressing himself.

"You know you can tell me when your done." She could feel the grin on top of her head where he had placed a kiss and sighed.

"Okay then should I leave you two love birds alone for awhile then?" Hughes asked raising his eyebrows in a suggestive manner as Soriana snorted at him and wrenched herself from Joushines grasp to go back to the compartment room up a few cars.

"You have a real fir cracker their Joushine." Hughes chuckled opening the door for the demon man to walk in to another train car. They met up with her in the third car when as she stood they're thinking about something.

"You know Ed might get suspicious about Joushine…" she mumbled to them both watching the door to the fourth car open, an old woman with a white shawl walked by them with a smile on her wrinkly face and the cane she used to walk made small tump sounds.

When she was gone Soriana let go a breath she was holding looking at Hughes and Joushine.

"He won't know, trust me Soriana and Joushine." Hughes smiled at them in a way that would make one want to smile back but this was eating at her, knawling at her insides the fact is if Ed found out about demons what would he do? And what about Mustang! What would the whole Military do? Gods she didn't want to think about it. A hand was set on her shoulder giving it a little squeeze, the hand she knew belonged to Joushine and smiled at him.

"Come on then, let's go. If Ed asks about Jou we'll deal with it then." Hughes smiled at that comment as they walked about the train, going to the car that had the room Ed waited in.

Ed sighed as Hughes and Soriana left pretty quickly to talk about something and now that he thought about he listened carefully the sounds of his own breathing and silence were heard. He went a bit pale would the girl be mad at him for losing her pet cat? He went crazy trying to find the cat, looking up and down, around things, under the seats, up at the luggage compartments, on the floor.

Giving up the search eh snorted it wasn't his fault the girl lost her cat, with that he sat back on the long chair to hear laughter outside the door; smirking he crept over to it and cracked it open.

"You know if you shove a sock under their nose, it'll knock em on their ass for awhile!" another round of chuckles was heard as a second voice joined in.

"It's good to know how to put them unconscious that way they won't fight the Military, but I'll need your help to interrogate them because they won't listen to humans." It was strange that voice belonged to Hughes.

"I'll make sure they won't hurt her or the others handling them, perhaps I should help you take them in." it was third voice he didn't recognize.

"Jou you needn't worry this time I'll be fine." It was Soriana's voice, where they talking about the men that looked like wolfs? Were they wolfs?

"I have to worry, it was your fathers request before he got killed by Greed." Ed's eyes got wide at the name of a homunculis. He heard a low growl followed by a loud smack, a groan of pain and soft sobs.

"I'm going to go call the Colonel, er Soriana do you want me to tell him you're on the train?"

"No Hughes, I want to surprise the bastard and give him a present from my sister." That seemed to be the end of it as someone opened the rest of the door and tumbled over himself onto the main hall with a weird looking guy and Soriana snickering at Ed.

"What are you doing?" asked the new guy, man he really looked girly but that body isn't a girls unless she exercised relentlessly.

"Oh sorry this is my companion Jou." Soriana smiled at her guardian as he put out his hand for Ed to take, the blonde boy shook his hand and now she could breathe easily.

"Er I thought you were going to be in the dinning car?" Ed watched her take a seat as the one now named Jou took a seat to her on the left and he taking a seat on the opposite long chair.

"Not really hungry at the moment, do you know your cat went missing?" she was expatiating him to say something else but nodded at the question.

"Joushine usually comes back to me when he's done exploring, since this is his first time on a train." Ed was really confused, usually one would worry over an animal that small and fragile but he shrugged his shoulders.

"So Jou do you have a last name?" it was a question that caught both off guard at the moment, Ed loved to have the upper hand in dealing with these kinds if people.

"Jou Witeman." Was the plain simple answer given as Jou looked at Soriana seeing a strange look in her eyes.

"Well why don't we grab some grub?" Soriana suggested getting up and looking at both her friend who nodded. Once they were out of the room compartment they went into the dinning car to get dinner, the up start of the evening it seemed made all three of them hungry.

Joushine walked over to the table and pulled out a chair for his love or so he thought as she sat in it, while the boy took a seat beside her and he took a seat on the other side of her. Looking at the menu that was on the table he took up the plastic wrapped paper to see he couldn't understand the language, when the waitress came to take orders he stumbled for words.

"He'll take the steak and potatoes, and I'll have a salad and spaghetti please." Soriana could see he had trouble with the words on the menu and ordered for him while Ed gave her a funny look.

"I'll get a hamburger and fries." How could he not be able to read a menu? I mean he can talk, walk, and even differentiate people but why not read?

"Ed what do you think about equivalent exchange?" he heard Soriana ask while taking a sip of her water.

"It's cruel and unjust in ways you can't imagine, but unfortunetly that's how it works in this world of ours. Equivalent exchange is something to not be tampered with unless you do Alchemy the right way." They were just words that spilled out of Ed's mouth, pieces and bits carelessly thrown about to resemble an answer that was right in some cases and not in others.

When Soriana and Ed got into another discussion about Alchemy that's when Hughes left, he decided to watch them to make sure nothing bad happened. Seeing as nothing did happen he went on his marry way to the phone car.

The room was pitch black, darkness crept into every corner until he turned the lights on and sat in swivel seat. He took up the phone in hand to call Roy and maybe taunt him about getting a woman or certain blonde haired boy. Chuckling at that he knew Roy was in love with Ed it was so easy to see, the taunting of Ed's height, the way he kept watch over the brothers especially the blonde, helping them out of difficult situations, and letting them know he was always their for the brothers when things got difficult or bad, that they could seek him out and he would help; he himself was like a older brother to the Elrics helping them in times of need as well.

The phone in his hand rang twice before a voice on the other line answered him.

"Colonel Roy Mustang speaking." Hughes almost chuckled at the expectancy of the voice, the way it crackled slightly probably wanting to know if Ed was coming to HQ or if the boy got hurt.

"Hey Roy, it's Hughes the team has caught an unusual bunch of henchmen though I have it under control." The other side of this call was silent for a few minutes as the only sound was the light breathing and soft sigh of a hard days work in the office, probably another day of paper work stacked so high he stayed until opening of HQ again thought Hughes.

"What happen this time?" asked Roy who was a bit skeptical of what happen, but let Hughes tell him because it had to be better then Hawkeye pointing her gun at her all day while he sat in his chair doing paper work.

"Well Sir the henchmen tried to catch a innocent by stander and Edward Elric, something about collecting people." Hughes voice was a bit grim, Roy noticed the notation in the voice sighing he put his white-gloved hand to his temples and messaged them.

"Who was the by stander and why did they want Fullmetal?" were the only words he could grope for at the moment seeing as signing papers had some how fried his whole entire brain.

"The guys name is Chirosu of The South Clan, er yeah and Ed told me the guyssaid his master collected pretty and beautiful things. I assume the things are people Roy, I would keep a close watch on Eddo once he gets back to Central there's no telling what might happen." He could hear the tightening of gloves over the line, that Roy made a fist and hit his oak table with a yelp of pain while he chuckled.

"Really Roy you need a lover! Come on a woman who can take care of you and your annoying head aches all th-" That's when Hughes got cut off, the dull beeping of a ended phone call hung in his hand as he smiled at it. Swiveling in the chair a few times his thoughts changed to his own family, Gracia his lovely wife and lover who had given birth to a lovely daughter one that Ed and Al helped to bring into this world; by accident that night Ed found that he could do Alchemy without the transmutation circle and thus he became a state Alchemist one of the youngest at age twelve. A dog of the military on the scent of the Philosophers stone, thought a vague picture of Ed with golden dog-ears and a tail, not to mention sniffing the ground made him laugh hysterically almost falling out of the chair. Getting himself off the floor and back into the chair his mind wondered back to his little girl as he got out a picture of her to look at. It was taken during summer time, when there was a heat wave so he invited the others over for a pool party since it was Saturday.

"Hey Roy come on in the pool, it's nice and cold!" Hughes called out to the man who came to the back of his yard, his friend was such a tight ass about things but lately that tightness seemed to melt away since the brothers arrived.

"I think I'll pass and go tan myself, besides I don't want to shrink." He smirked the smug bastard. Hughes chuckled knowing he was talking about Ed who was unfortunately not in the water though he had a swimming suit on he sat in the shade of a tree; poor boy he didn't want to swim and those automail limbs must be a bitch to take care of.

So Hughes got out of the pool an hour or so later to get his camera, on his way back out of the house he saw Roy and Ed in his living room sitting on the couch together. He blinked in mild amazement sneaking up on their conversation.

"Why's Al not here?" Roy asked nonchalantly turning to see the lifeless eyes of the boy staring at the wall, his hands were wrapped around his knees which would be up against his chest.

"At Auntie Pinako's, he always goose their for the summer and I didn't want him to miss the summers we used to have there." Was his muffled reply, moisture colleted on the red swim trunks he had, little by little the wet spot got bigger from tears he supposed as Roy lifted the boys chin up by two fingers.

"What's wrong Edward, do you miss your brother?" it was a normal question one would ask the child but in this case Hughes knew that wasn't it. Ed looked up at Roy's face and probably into his eyes to see the love radiating, the boy shook as tears still filled his eyes and fell down his rosy cheeks.

"I just want to feel loved…to be held once in a while by some one who loves me, I don't mean the kind of brotherly love that I get from Al…I..I-" Ed couldn't finish as he chocked on another sob fresh tears starting were the old ones had stopped, that's when a miracle happened well in Hughes' mind that is.

He watched Roy take the boy in his arms and wrap loving arms around Ed, pulling him into his lap and stroking his hair cooing sweat nothings into his ear, while rubbing his back.

"Why do you think you don't have this kind of love?" Roy had to ask that question to being about another round of sobs, but the boy hiccupped only and sighed resting against him.

"Because…I did forbidden Alchemy…the way I look, the way I act…no one wants a temper filled lover…" a small chuckle escaped him as golden hair hide Ed's face in shadow, that's when another miracle happened. Roy tipped Ed's chin up so he could see his eyes and kissed him, Hughes was cheering inside for him to keep going but something was poking his shoulder and he had to avert his eyes to his daughter!

He eeped when Roy and Ed looked his way, one looked mad enough to fry him to a crisp while the other was just mad and red faced. He laughed throatily taking Alysia into his hands, showing them her new bathing suit.

"Look guys! Alysia's new bathing suit isn't nit cute, oh and look it's goggles she has on her head!" the child in his arms giggled.

"Your a silly daddy, mommy wants to talk with you outside." The child looked at him and giggled again kissing his nose, after he put her down she ran outside to get into the pool. That day he got his buns toasted wholly to a black color this time and lost a few teeth; though those two act like it never happened but he know they fawn over each other and they still don't know it.

He chuckled at the picture he now held, it was taken after he found those two kissing. In the back round is his new pool, while Gracia stood off to the left wearing her blue wave bathing suit with a yellow robe and sun hat with red tie bow, she held Alysia who had on a tie dye bathing suit made just for her and some new spiffy goggles. He had on a black pair of bathing shorts with a picture of a white wolf on one of the legs and his hands were about Garcia's waist holding her close as she smiled and Alysia smirked. To the right of him was Roy wearing some dark blue navy shorts, while he held Ed in one hand and giving the boy bunny ears the other, and Ed was wearing a face of fury seeing as he got bunny eared by the Colonel Bastard, he wore red swimming trunks.

Looking back at that day he put the picture back in his back pocket, they were all so happy that day even though Ed looked like he was going to kill Roy he saw love in those eyes for just that day; after all that they ignored each other and what had transpired. So now he has plotted for them to get back together, and maybe she could help out Joushine and Soriana as well seeing as the man is all over and she allows it; some times unless she smacks him.

His stomach rumbled at him to hurry up and go get grub, he complied by putting the phone back on the receiver and getting up, soon the room was filled with darkness again each shadow seemed to have a second duplicate of it's own as night had already fallen. After dinner he would plot, as Ed always says.

"Plotting on an empty stomach isn't on my to do list." So with that in mind he went on his way to the dining car, oh the fun he would have wrecking those two State Alchemists life a grin settled on Hughes' face as he took a seat seeing the trio wasn't there and most likely in the compartment already.

"What will you have Sir?" asked a waitress, he gave his order and waited for his food, a glass of brandy was set on his table with a small noise of chink, it had two ice cubes in it he loved to have ice in alcohol it's just how it was when he began to work under Roy, maybe Roy was looking at that same picture from last summer he did give a copy to him and to Ed. Oh yes he made sure to give them both a copy as if to say I wont let you forget what happen.

A steaming plate of steak was set before him as he thanked the waitress kindly for the meal, he took a bite and almost lost it this was better then the Mess Hall, he was in heaven!

Eh second attempt at a chapter-by-chapter story but before I go on boys and gals I need four reviews before I post the next chapter. Please R&R for me!

Ed losses his Journal oh know, who finds it and will they exploit from it or gain insight from the chicken scratch written from within? Roy gets a surprise from a visitor and a present is bestowed, Hughes is at it again plotting, plotting, and well what can I say more plotting he's trying his hardest to get Roy and Ed together along with the other late blooming couple of Soriana and Joushine. Will they fall for charms or will hearts be broken never to be pieced back together again? A new threat arises, who is this boy and why dose he want Soriana and Edward, is it just for the good looks or is it really skin deep?

Ch2 Alchemist Unknown