Tomoyo: FINALLY! I GET TO DO THE DISCLAIMER!
Ed: Oh no you don't!

Tomoyo: Yes I do! Ed and Tomoyo get into a fight

Scar: appearing out of nowhere Fullmetal Alchemist and all related characters, locations, and objects are not owned by either of the fan fiction authors. Disappears

Erin: Wow….that was unexpected….
Amanda: Tell me about it. Enjoy folks!

Tomoyo: Darn it, not again! cries

"Since I never got any of the books I requested, I assume everything is as I left it, Roy-kun?" She asked as she ran, able to keep up with even Envy.

"As far as I know Sakura, let's just hope that the Homunculus haven't gotten to the library where your books are being held," Roy said as he looked over Riza's shoulder and replied. Ed couldn't help but flashback to the past when they had found the First Branch of the Central Library gone up in flames...he only hoped the same thing hadn't happened with Sakura's books and notes. Sakura gave an evil grin.

"They wouldn't have been able to get past the barrier I left up." She said matter-of-factly. "I left that Protection Cirlcle that you gave me, Roy. This way, nothing non-human could enter."

Ed and Al were both puzzled along with the other other writer as they stopped at the mention of the Protection Cricle; they both wanted to know, they both read through notes and books in Sakura's apartment late into the night, but still they couldn't find anything out about the Circle. It maybe something they were not to know.

"Excuse me, Miss Sakura, but what's a…'Protection Circle'?" Al asked, as the boys resumed their pace to keep up with the group. Sakura smiled at him.

"It's something Roy and I came up with. If someone without alchemic ability needed protection from something, be it alive or nature, the user needs only prick their finger to activate the alchemy. It puts up an energy field which only allows certain people to enter.

"The transmutation cirlce is drawn by an alchemist, and the drop of blood gives the energy needed to create the barrier. Basically, equivilant exchange takes the energy on your blood, your living energy to protect. Got it?"

Al understood, but Ed was still trying to figure out the idea behind it, could it be, that if Sakura were to give up a drop of her blood, what it would it be enough to a create a powerful enough circle to wipe the Homunculus off the face of the planet? No, he knew that no such thing could be possible. He would have been able to concentrate if he didn't have the constant chattering of Tomoyo and Havoc about wedding plans, but a more stranger feeling came over him, as if they were being watched.

"It's amazing that they haven't spotted us yet. And you said they have a Homunculus with them? Which one is it?" The doctor asked, staring down at the group while Scar leaned against a rock.

"As far as I'm concerned, its a shape shifting Homunculi known as Envy," Scar said as he looked up to the doctor.

"How do you know?" the doctor asked as he started to climb down off the rock.

"While you were removing the bullet from her chest, she was asking for someone named Envy, it's the only possible answer, Scar said as he put on his sunglasses and started to walk away.

"Wait! Aren't you going to try to get her away from the group again?" The doctor asked him, looking back at the girl, "I thought you had some questions for her."

"I got what I wanted...she's no longer of any use to me," Scar said as he brushed the doctor with a wave of his hand as he remembered their conversation; "you and I aren't that different, we've both been killed for who we are." The doctor became fustrated as he left Scar to his own way as he walked back towards the Hospital to attend to his other patients, but somewhere in the shadows, Wrath and Sloth were still watching as they followed the Doctor back to his office. They would corner him in his office to get the answers their "Father" was seeking about Sakura.

The day turned into night, and they were forced to spend the night out under the stars. Sakura laid down next to Envy, loosly wrapping an arm around him. Roy gazed at Riza as he lay down, using his coat as a pillow.

"Why don't you come sleep next to me?" He called.

Riza couldn't resist, but she felt uneasy as she watched the others getting in close to one another as the night air nipped at their noses; Riza finally took Roy up on his offer and laid down next to him, but with some hesitation at first. When she felt his hand reach for hers, she knew that he was willing to try and be a better man and not do something stupid during the night. "Thanks...sir," Riza said as she lay with her back to Roy. Roy laid his arm across her chest and pull her over onto her back as he straddled her. "Sir, what are you doing?" Riza asked questioningly as she felt uncomfortable, but the moment became perfect as he placed a big kiss upon her moving lips and their bodies soon became one as he lay on top of her and then she on top of him. No one paid attention as sleep came upon them.

The doctor was thrown to floor in front of a mechanical chair, shaking and fearing for his life. He had been "visited" by two homuculi and now found himself deep underground, unsure of what was to come.

"Where...where am I?" the doctor asked dumbfounded as he stumbled about in the dark.

"Welcome to my nightmare Doctor," Shou Tucker said with a whisper as the light caught on his glasses and an evil grin crossed his face. Out of the shadows came a high pitched whistle as a pack of Chimera's charged out of the shadows; the Doctor never stood a chance against the monsters as they thrashed him around the room like a rag doll.

"Did he know anything about the girl?" Shou Tucker asked as Sloth and Wrath came out of the shadows.

"As far as we know, anything in this file is all we know," Sloth said as she handed the folder to Shou Tucker.

He opened the file carefully, reading through it. He tapped at one part with a claw, "This is interesting. He says that when he removed the bullet it 'shone with the bright crimson color of the Philosopher's Stone.' I wonder…." Tucker folded up the file and looked to Sloth and Wrath, "I need a sample of the girl's flesh to be sure. Go procure one for me."

As you wish sir," Sloth said as she prepared to leave the room, "Wrath, come on." Wrath was enjoying watching the Chimera feasting on the Doctor, but he soon moved as he felt Sloth pulling on his hair.

"OW! I'm coming!" Wrath shouted as Sloth pulled him by the hair and then the ear. "Hey, are we getting a 'sample' or bringing him the whole girl?" He asked as they ran to the unknowing group. "I kinda like the idea of killing her in front of Envy."

"I don't know, Tucker didn't specific, just be careful of the Fullmetal Boy and the Flame Alchemist...especially Envy, just don't leave the battlefield a bloody mess like Gluttony after he eats an enemy," Sloth said as she sighed at the image of Gluttony, messy after eating a former enemy. Wrath was off like a shot as he hid in the shadows as he made his way towards the campsite of Sakura and the others.