Sorry for makeing you all wait. I'm sure you've been dieing to read this chapter. -Hears Echos- Is anyone out there? If anyone is please reveiw...

Disclaimers: I do not own Fullmetal alchemist, But Erin and Mina are mine Along with this fic.

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Smoke rose from the smoke stack of the engine car of the locomotive as it pulled into the station, coming to a slow stop as it did. The loud whistle blew and doors pulling open, very few passengers flowing out, like a small swarm of ants on to the platform. Ed, Al, and Mina pulled away from the crowd. Mina was blushing, obviously from waking up to find she was resting on Ed's shoulder. "So where are we?" Edward asked no one in particular.

"I believe we're in Heantis, its a little ways from Kioea," Mina announced, holding a map up and looking it over. "There's no train to Kioea. We'll have to either take a cab there or walk.

"Well if the rumors are true, then taking a cab there might not be a good idea," Aru pointed out.

"Guess your right. Hey Mina, why don-"

"No, I'm going with you two!" she cut in before he could finish.

"You're persistent," groaned Edward.

...On the road to Kioea...

The group made their way closer to the city they'd spotted ahead. It was barricaded by a large wall, however. It was silent: no birds singing, nor any sound that there were humans ahead. It was eerie. Aru bumped into Ed, obviously scared from the silence. "Hey, watch it!"

"Sorry Nii-san, it's just.. it's so spooky."

"Aru, your a suit of armor, Why are you so scared?" Ed asked.

"Ed, don-"

A rustling in the bushes ahead caught Mina's ear. She spun around to investigate, seeing what appeared to be a winged tiger with a snake for a tail. Its back legs were similar to those of a rabbit, and its front leg were talons. "E- Ed! Th- Th-"

"We're surrounded." Ed announced, cursing.

"I don't think we can hold them all back, Nii-san."

"I know Aru," snapped Ed.

"What a bunch of idiots," came a voice of a new female, "Are you all looking to die?"

Ed spun around to glare at the owner of the voice, though he couldn't find her. That was, until a sterling/cerulean-haired female jumped down in front of them, straightened herself and looked Edward in the eye. Icy cerulean eyes stared straight at his golden eyes rather unblinkingly. "What are you, thrill seekers!" snapped the female, averting her gaze to a chimera that decided to attack. She clapped her gloved hands, changing the moisture in the air to ice and shooting the projectiles at the chimera. "Back off, freaks!" she hissed at the abominations.

"Who the hell are you?" questioned the irritated blonde.

"Erin Raine. So whats your name, midget boy?"

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL--"

"Nii-san!" Aru interrupted. "I'm Aruphonse Elric, this is my older brother Edward, and she's Mina Earnheart, a friend of ours. Is this really the time for introductions?"

The female clapped her hand together again, feeling the crackle of alchemic energy flow though her fingers as she slapped her hand on the ground, turning the moisture in the soil to ice and shooting it up from the ground at various chimeras. They scattered and went into hiding. Obviously she'd dealt with this before.

"So tell me, why the hell have you come here?" questioned the female venomously.

"The colonel ordered us to investigate some rumors," replied Aru, attempting to keep his brother from snapping.

"You're a /state alchemist?" She questioned Edward, even more venomously.

"Eh, yeah," came the reply.

"Go home!" she hissed, frowning deeply. "We don't need any more state alchemists ruining our town!"