"Shut up!" Kaori yelled.

Rae and Kai continued to sing, but stopped when Al walked into the room.

"My Al!" Rae yelled, giggling. She then glomped Al, landing on top of him.

Kai and Kaori sighed. "You're an idiot, Rae."

After awhile, Kaori looked over at her bedside table. She cocked her head to the side as she looked at a mysterious box with a card attached to it.

"What is it?" Rae and Kai asked in unison.
"I… Don't know…" Kaori said, still staring at the box.
"Then open it!" Al said.

When Kaori opened the box, she gasped softly. She picked up a blue and purple dragon necklace, which had her name engraved in it. She looked at it closer and noticed Mac's initials were in it too.

"It's so pretty…" Kai said in awe.

After an hour or so, X came into the room and Mac woke up. Ed had also returned.

"Shall we get you out of here?" Mac asked, smiling at Kaori, who was wearing the necklace.
"Sure." Kaori said softly.

The group got Kaori checked out and they started walking down the street.

"Oh, guys!" Kaori started. "Rae, X, I bought us all a new house to live in. It came with furniture and everything!"

Rae's eyes glittered. "You… You didn't!" She said. Her voice was excited and high-pitched.

Kaori laughed softly. She was barely smiling when she nodded. "I did. I thought it would be a great idea to get you two out of your old place."

"Thanks so much!" X and Rae said in unison, and then hugged their friend.

Rae gasped as she saw two kittens walk out of an alley towards her. Rae picked up one and Kaori picked up another. Just then, two puppies followed the kittens and walked up to Mac and X.

"What're they doing?" Ed asked.
"I… Don't know." Mac said. He looked down at the puppy rubbing against his leg and laughed.

X knelt down and petted a puppy. She swished her two tails as the puppy wagged his fiercely.

Rae giggled. "Hey, Kaori, can we keep the kittens at our place?"

Kaori nodded. "Fine with me!"

Mac smiled and pointed to the puppy sitting by his feet. "I'm keeping this one."

X shrugged. "The kittens are fine with me, but I'm keeping this puppy!" She then picked up her puppy and scratched behind its ears.

The group continued to walk until they reached a two story house.

"Welcome home, guys." Kaori said, smiling a little.

Rae smiled, laughing excitedly. "This is so much better than the old abandoned church!"
Al frowned. I never realized how bad her living situation was…

X smiled. "We'll be able to have so many parties here." She then smirked to Rae and Kaori.
Kaori smirked back and opened the front door of the house.

Rae walked around the house, examining every room. She then screamed and the others ran over to her.

"Rae!" Al said. "What… Is…"
"Beer room." Rae simply stated.

"Holy shit!" Mac yelled.

For a moment, everyone stared in awe at the beer room door.

"Wait until you see the inside." Kaori said, snickering.

"Underage drinking is bad…" Al said.

"Fine then. We won't get drunk." Kaori said sarcastically.

The group then sat down in the living room and talked for awhile.

"Uh… I'll go get us some drinks!" Kaori said.

"Ooh! I want to help!" Rae said excitedly.

The girls then walked into the kitchen. Rae grabbed some cups, soda, and a few cans of beer.

Rae and Kaori looked at each other, smirked, nodded, and began to mix the soda with the beer.

The two girls walked back into the living room, carrying many cups of spiked soda.

An hour later, Rae looked over at Al and glomped him.

"Al!" Rae said, still lying on top of him.
Rae… You have to be drunk… Al thought.

Al and Rae looked over at Kai, who had a lampshade on her head. Kaori was flirting with Mac (who was flirting back), and X and Jae were still drinking, and started to have a burping contest.

"Al…" Rae whined. "Let's go…" She then nudged to the staircase. She hiccupped and smirked slyly.
"Rae, you're drunk," Al said, blushing and frowning.
Rae hiccupped and giggled. "No, I'm not, Al!" She said, her words slurred. "Now let's go!"

Al didn't budge. "You—you're drunk."
Rae sighed and hiccupped again.

"She's not drunk. Rae and I have a high alcohol resistance." Kaori said, hiccupping and laughing.
"Yup, Kaori is," Rae stopped and hiccupped, "right!"
Al sighed. "No she isn't. All of you are drunk."

Ed tripped over his own feet. "I'm not as think as you drunk I am!"

"I swear to drunk I'm not God." Mac said. He then fell over next to Ed.

Why am I surrounded by my drunken friends! Al cried in his head.

"Hey, Al! If you can't beat us, join us!" Mac said, still lying on the floor.

About 20 more drinks, or about an hour, later, Kaori looked out the window and saw Roy and Riza walking down the pathway to the house.

"Oh, shit!" She cried out.

"What is it?" Rae said, stumbling everywhere.

"Roy's coming! Hide!" Kaori yelled.

Ed quickly clapped his hands and used alchemy to clean up all of the beer cans and the trash all over the floor.

The group ran up the stairs. Rae grabbed Al by the wrist and pulled him into her room, locking the door. Kaori and Mac ran into Kaori's room, and Jae, X, and Ed hid in X's room.

As Roy and Riza came to the front door, they heard a rush of people in the house.

"What was that?" Riza asked.

"I don't know… But I'm getting suspicious." Roy said.

Roy and Riza then walked into the house.

"Kaori?" Riza called out.

No response.

"She has to be here… Kari told me this was her new place." Roy said.

Upstairs, Kai knocked on the bedroom doors.

"Guys?" she whispered. "Let me in!"

Kai then heard Roy and Riza walking upstairs.

"Oh, shit!" Kai whispered her voice panicked. She then saw her lampshade and put it on her head.

Roy looked at the "lamp" in confusion.

"Sir, what is it?" Riza asked.
"It's… Nothing." Roy said, shaking his head.

Kai then curtsied, and, without Roy noticing, ran downstairs and hid in the beer room.

Hours later, X and Jae woke up, Ed lying between them. Jae lifted up her blindfold and her eyes widened.

"Oh… Fuck…" The girls said in unison.

Jae screamed, waking up Ed and everyone else in the house.

Rae shot up, being sure not to hit Al's head. She was breathing heavily and her body was hot and sweaty.

"Rae… What is it?" Al asked, trying to catch his breath.

Rae stopped and caught her breath. She then rubbed her head, which was aching from the many drinks she had. "Ouch… I just heard Jae scream…"

Al smirked slyly. "Can't we check on her later?" He then kissed Rae's neck.

"Al…" Rae moaned softly. She was giggling and blushing a bit. "No, we have to check on Jae…"

Al looked into Rae's eyes. "Just five more minutes in—I mean, with you."

Rae blushed more and giggled. "Fine." She said, groaning.

Al smirked and moved his hands down Rae's sides, feeling every curve of her body. "You won't regret it."

Jae looked over at X. "You remember what happened, right?"

X shook her head. "No… But my hands handcuffed to the bedposts, your blindfold, and Ed… Who's awake! Well, that tells me that something happened."

Ed groaned and sat up. "You guys were so drunk earlier." He then snickered.

The next day, Kaori got out of bed, not even bothering to put on her normal clothes. She immediately ran downstairs when she heard someone knocking at the door.

It must be Roy to yell at me… She thought.

When Kaori opened the door, she saw the Fuhrer standing at her doorstep.

"Sir!" Kaori said, immediately saluting.

"At ease, Darklight. You have a new assignment; I would have given you this at school, but you weren't there… Anyways, why didn't you show up?" The Fuhrer asked, handing Kaori an envelope.

Kaori took the envelope. "I… Have a really bad headache and I accidentally slept in, sir." She laughed nervously and smiled.
"Oh, okay. Just don't let it happen again." The Fuhrer replied, smiling a little. He then walked away.

Kaori closed the door and immediately read the letter.

Urg! I have to check over the battle grounds over at SJH… She complained in her head.

"Hey, who was that?" Rae asked, standing at the top of the staircase with her undershirt and a pair of very short shorts on.
"It was just Roy, nagging again, as usual." Kaori lied. "I have to stop by headquarters, so once I get my uniform on, I'm out of here."
"Oh…" Rae said. She yawned and went back into her room.

Kaori walked upstairs and got her uniform on. She then walked back downstairs and walked out of the house.

Kaori continued walking from her house to headquarters, making sure her friends didn't follow her. She then ran off to the battle grounds between SJH and CJH.

Back at the house, Mac woke up and stretched. He looked around. "Where's Kaori?" He asked himself.

He then walked into the bathroom and found a note taped to his forehead.

"Kaori!" He groaned.

He snatched the note and read it out loud to himself.

"Mac, if you actually are reading this, then I am at the battle grounds in between Spanaway Jr. High and Cedarcrest. I got an assignment from the Fuhrer to check out the place. At least I'm pretty sure… But please, don't tell Rae, she'll just worry about me, as always, and I really don't want that. If Rae wants to know where I am, tell her I went to Kari's or something.

Thanks!
-Kaori"

It had been an hour, and Kaori still hadn't found anything. She declared that nothing was there.

Why did the Fuhrer send me here? Kaori thought.

Kaori then turned around, and was attacked by a group of Ishbalans.

"What do you want?" Kaori asked.
"Your life!" An Ishbalan said. They then punched Kaori hard enough to make her faint.

A week later, a group of Ishbalans came into the school and pounded on Roy's office door.

Roy opened his office door and glared at the Ishbalan girl at his door.

"What do you want?" He asked, pulling on his gloves.
"Do you want to know where Kaori is?" The girl asked.
"You know where she is!" Roy asked, his eyes glaring hard at the girl.
"Yeah. Get her friends and tell them to follow me to the lake by Spanaway Jr." The girl said.

Roy took the intercom microphone and called down Rae, Al, Mac, Ed, X, Kai, and Danielle down to his office.

The group followed the girl to the lake. They then saw two Ishbalan boys throwing a tied-up Kaori into the middle of the lake.

The Ishbalans then ran off, snickering.

"Kaori!" Rae yelled, taking off her jacket. Her undershirt was a very tight belly top with a high neck. It showed her orobourous, but she didn't care.

Al looked over at Rae. "Don't!" He cried. "You're automail…"

Rae nodded. "I know." She then closed her eyes and took out her metal arm, then dropped it onto the ground.

Rae jumped into the lake, followed by Mac and Ed.

Ed's arm and leg helped him sink faster to the bottom, but Mac was already swimming quickly ahead of him.

I wanna save Kaori, but I need to take a breath! Damn! Doesn't Mac need to go up too? Ed thought in his head.

Ed started swimming towards the top of the lake for air.

Rae popped her head above the surface of the water, gasping for air. She then got out of the water, and looked down at herself. She blushed heavily as she saw her miniskirt sticking to the curves of her hips, and her undershirt was really tight at that moment.

Al wiped his nose, his glove a bit red. "Rae, couldn't you find her?"

"I would've, but my chest is also automail and it weighed me down." Rae replied, looking down and still blushing.

Rae then walked back to where her arm was on the ground and picked it up.

Al walked over to Rae's side and held her hand. "Take a deep breath, Rae."

Rae took the deepest breath she could and shoved her automail arm back in. She screamed so loud that Mac could hear her underwater.

Al hugged Rae. "You're fine…" He said, smiling.
Rae blushed. "Yeah…"

Mac popped out of the water, Kaori lying in his arms. He was gasping for breath and he couldn't even speak until he caught his breath.

Kaori woke up a few minutes later. It seemed that she was fine, even being underwater for a good couple of minutes.

"Damn it, my pocket watch stopped working." Mac said, looking at the watch.

"Let me see." Kaori said.

Kaori opened the back of the watch, but before she could see inside it, she felt a sharp pain go through her fingers. The watch fell to the ground, and she was unaware of its landing.

"Ouch…" Kaori said softly, looking at her hand.

"Hey, what's inside the watch?" Al asked.

Mac picked up his watch and opened the back of it and watched the Philosopher's Stone fall out of it.

"Is that the…" Mac said, his voice trailing off.

"Holy shit!" Roy yelled.

"What the fuck!" Ed yelled.

"How the hell did that get in there…?" Rae asked, her voice hushed a little.

"I'm so stupid! That's how the watch amplifies our alchemy!" Kaori said.

Why did it hurt when I tried to open it? Kaori thought.

Rae's eyes flashed. "Kaori… Can I talk to you?"

Kaori nodded and walked over to Rae.

"What is it?" Kaori asked.

"Your blood is trying to mix with the Stone, man. If I were you, I wouldn't go near those. Something really bad could happen to you!" Rae whispered. "When I was researching the stone, this happened to people that I read about…"

Rae then backed up a little and took out her pocket watch.

"Rae, don't waste it… It's not worth it!" Al said, walking towards Rae.

Rae closed her eyes and took out the stones from her watch.

"…I just want to be human again."

Al's eyes widened. "Rae, don't!"

"I'm ready to give up anything to become human. Even some stupid amplification in my alchemy." She said softly.

Rae opened her eyes and made one spike come out from the back of her hip. She made it curl around her so that it could cut a transmutation circle into her chest.

When she finished cutting herself up, her undershirt was ripped and she was covered in blood.

"See you guys when I'm human." Rae said. She then put the stones into her palm and touched the circle on her chest.

"Rae!" Was the last thing she heard before she fainted.