Ed shook his head and tried to get the ringing out of his ear as Professor McGonagall ushered his up from his seat and pointed him to the direction of his house. He saw the face of a ghost with dark red "liquid" over its body. It smiled "warmly" and gesture for Ed to sit down and Ed obediently did so.

Turning back to the sorting ceremony, he saw that both the Ron and Harry kid were surprised. He cocked a wry smile and mouthed, "I'll prove to you that you are wrong."

Ron looked absolutely speechless while Harry looked even more terrified. Turning to the table with the teachers, Ed noticed that Dumbledore also looked horrified. Either that or it was just his own imagination. Ed turned back to the students being seated and noticed that the girl that came into their compartment went to Gryffindor and so did the boy who lost his frog- Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom.

Ed swung his legs underneath him while watching the boring sorting. There was a strong feeling in his gut that vanished as quickly as it came. It was like the same feeling he had while working under King Bradley. He had no way of knowing it back then but now, there was an indescribable feeling of "evil" that was going to go on. If luck was on his side, he could prevent it from happening early on. Anyways, based off of what he read about, this house was the most judgemental- not saying the other houses were not.

Ed smirked under his breath. 'Let's teach some of these foolish 'wizards' what true power is. Starting from this house right here.'

He was truly- or maybe not so much - surprised when the blond hair kid who came into their compartment was immediately sent to Slytherin. He strutted all the way over to the table like he owned the place.

"Surprised you are in this house. Think Potter will end up here too?"

Ed merely shrugged in response, "Its all up to the hat, there is no way of me knowing is there?"

The kid seemed to roll his eyes, "Whatever, you are weird you know that right? Anyways, Draco Malfoy if you didn't hear on the train."

Ed nodded curtly and responded, "Edward Elric here, Ed is fine I guess."

"Elric? I don't know of any wizards with that last name. . .Are you a half-blood then? Or mudblood?" Draco looked horrified after the last word left his mouth. Ed just waved him off in response.

"Is that how you start your conversations? You have problems. Such rude ways of addressing non-magical people. 'Muggle' I 'understand' but 'mudblood?' You have issues dude, "he responded in monotone with a raised a brow in Draco's direction showing him how much he disagreed with him.

Draco merely growled in response but there was also a hint of a blush, "What do you know you- you- brat!"

Normally Ed would have cursed in response but age really does allow one to grow, "Same age as you, same year as you, who is the brat?"

Before Draco could find some way to demean Ed even further, Harry Potter's name was called up. Draco's breathing seemed to stop for a split second before he glanced back at Ed who was transfixed at the hat.

'What is it going to be? Main attributes I see is probably Gryffindor but then. . .'

After what seemed to be like 10 minutes, the hat ripped its mouth open and screamed the Gryffindor house name. Ed could see the housemates cheering like there was no tomorrow.

Draco noticed Ed's relief and he rolled his eyes, "What? You happy that good 'ole Boy-Who-Lived is not in Slytherin?'

Ed rolled his eyes in response, "And why would I care? Afterall the hat puts you in the houses where you would fit in most like personality wise. There is not a problem then."

The way Ed just brushed away Draco's comment got him all riled up but he couldn't do anything to his fellow housemate. Ed also noticed the way Harry seemed to shyly glance towards his table and then up to the teacher's table and wincing.

Ed follow his line of view and poked Draco by the side, "Who is that guy with the greasy black hair?" Ed made sure to keep his voice down in case he was actually important but Draco had absolutely no clue.

"What do you mean?! He is Professor Snape! Head of our house!" he hissed and glared at Ed. Ed simply brushed him off.

"Don't be so loud. Just wanted to know. And who's the idiot who looks like he could be toppled over by even you?" Ignoring the indignant cries from Draco, Ed continued to wait until Draco would tell him who was the Professor in the turban.

"Professor Quirrel, " Draco responded after noticing that Ed would just ignore him till he responded to his question. "Hey, do you have any family members that came to this house too?"

Ed froze after hearing the question and pondered quietly to himself, "Well. . .My mom came to this school but I have no idea what house she is in and as for my father. . .well, I can say for sure I have no idea what his role is- I mean, he is known here but I don't know if he came to the school. . ."

Draco nodded, "Well, both my parents came to this house. If I were to be put into any other house I would have complained." Noticing Ed's obvious look of questioning he continued, "'cause this is the only house for me! All the other houses don't mean anything to me!"

"Why do you say that? I mean, I saw how the hat didn't even touch your head but what makes you think that the other classes are not as good as this one?"

Draco contorted his face as if Ed had just said something tremendously wrong, "What is your problem? Of course Slytherin is better! Gryffindor are the idiots, Hufflepuff people are useless, and Ravenclaws are so prudish!"

Ed recognized Draco's beatdown on the other classes but feigned innocent, "Well but, isn't Gryffindor for the courageous, Hufflepuff for the loyal and Ravenclaw for the intelligent?"

Draco grunted and rolled his eyes. He turned his head to the main table as the sorting ended. The headmaster- Dumbledore- held his shoulders apart and welcomed them in the most peculiar fashion that Ed had ever seen and he could have sworn he saw the old man's eye twinkle albeit somehow sadly- 'that's it, I'm hallucinating.'

And just as he was thinking that, the table he was sitting up had food piled and spread before him. There mere sight of all the food almost made him start drooling. He immediately dug into the food and shivered in joy. The food tasted amazing!

After a while, Ed noticed the pain he felt was his stomach telling him he was full. Draco snickered and jabbed at him, "You know, with all the food constantly stocking on itself, you gotta be careful of the amount you eat. "

Ed groaned and clutched his abdomen while flushing lightly. "How was I supposed to know that the food would keep on adding up without stop?"

Before Draco could respond to his question, the silver "blood" ghost with a thin face and dark robes floated over, "Stomachache already?"

Ed nervously chuckled the ridiculousness of the situation and the closeness the ghost had with them.

"Have I introduced myself to you, young one? I am known as the Bloody Baron. If Peeves ever decided to have the nerve to pull a prank on any of you, feel free to call me. I will properly punish him."

All of that was said with a charming smile but Ed could almost feel the menace behind each and every of his syllable. "Well, nice you meet you Baron. Hope I could rely on you if this 'Peeves' harrasses me." Draco seemed to be surprised at the friendliness Ed showed towards the ghost.


"So hey, how good is your magical spells?" Draco inquired while the Slytherin were being escorted to their house through a dark dungeon.

Ed mulled over the question before giving an answer, "Pretty good based off what I did on the train." With that statement, Ed had a feral grin on his face.

Draco was pretty creeped out by the almost wild-like look on Ed's face. He turned back to Crabbe and Goyle and had ended the conversation between the two.

Finally, they reached a /huge/ portrait hanging on the wall.

'Holy frick, are all the wizards rich or just stupid?'

But that was before the portrait moved The taller boy that led them to the picture only turned back to them. "For those that don't know, you have to give a password in order to pass. This year's password is green serpent." Ed mentally sniggered, creative password that is.

Suddenly, a concealed stone door moved and Ed could only stare in awe, one word was all it took- he wondered if it mattered where he said the password and if a part of the stone wall would just open if he had stood in front of a random place outside of the room.

The room was lit with a greenish color that was dark and not neon-like. Certainly a color Edward himself wouldn't choose- reminded him of a certain sin.

"Looks like we are dorming in the same room, shrimp!" The loud voice of the Malfoy called. Ed mentally hit himself but showed no visual signs- other than sighing that is.

The two other big dudes also ended up being in the same room- what luck.

Ed stepped into the room and saw his trunk leaning against one of the bed stands. There were 3 other beds pushed against the walls. Ed flopped easily onto the bed and pumped his arm for a few times. The mattress was just firm enough and not so soft that he would sink into it.

Draco snickered, "Is the bed not good enough to your liking?" Ed promptly ignored him and pulled his trunk onto the bed and started to pull out his pajamas while ignoring the looks Draco was giving him.

"Are you judging me by my pajama too?" Ed bit while gripping the end of the curtain with one hand and the pajamas with another. He childishly stuck out his tongue and pulled the curtain across to change. Draco could hear Ed cursing on the other side of the curtain.

Since Draco was a Malfoy, he just shrugged it off and pulled his curtain closed too and started to change. In the middle of changing, he heard the sound of Edward's curtain opening and the boy stomping out of the room. Curiously, Draco pulled his curtain open to call after the blond, "do you even know where you are going?"

Ed angrily called back, "I'm brushing my teeth you twit!" He glared furiously and looked around the rooms to find a bathroom where he could clean his teeth. He wanted to sleep desperately. The whole day and business was just so tiring. . . A sleepy Ed was a cranky Ed.

"Good luck with that," and Draco promptly closed his curtain and fell to his pillow.


Edward rose from the bed and groaned at the sleepy feeling he still had remaining from the night. His stretched his arms and pulled them away from his chest. He then proceeded to roll his shoulders backward and sighed at the relaxed feeling he felt.

Then, he pulled his left pant leg up to check on his automail and pulled it back and flexed his metal toes as part of his morning routine.

He then pulled back the curtains to check the time. It was early morning and he was sure that the place where they ate breakfast was still closed cause the 3 other boys in the room were snoring away.

Rolling his neck around, he shrugged off the exhaustion of the first day. He grabbed his uniform and the hanging green robe along with his toothbrush and toothpaste. It was better to take a shower without having to compete with other teenage boys. This time, he found the bathroom with no difficulty and pulled himself to take a shower. Ed experimented with pressing the different buttons and chose the many-times-warmer-than-lukewarm-but-not-burning button. Sinking himself into the tub he felt his muscles loosen up and grinned. Well, today being the first day of his school like, he was very interested to see how much school has changed and how different it would be from the one back home.


"Dumbasses! Get up!" Ed called once he was back into the room. He tapped his shoe against the floor and glared at the 3 closed curtains waiting for a reaction. "Y'all suck, good luck being late."

Ed decided he didn't really care if these kids were late and walked out of the dungeon with his new book bag with a few books that he organized based off his schedule and the book requirements.

He left the dungeon with the book bag slung over his shoulder and he tried to recollect the direction which the kid led them yesterday. But, he didn't have to do that because he spotted a group of students that were also wearing the green robe walk toward one direction and so Ed did the same.

When Ed got to the hall they were in the day before for the sorting, there were already a sufficient amount of students eating and chatting. He took a seat at the edge of his designated table. Immediately- like the day before- food sprung up before him. I like the day before however, Ed examined the food and chose them instead of shoving everything in at once- English food had some peculiar tasting flavors.

In order to be more productive, Ed pulled out some of his books- namely Potions because he remembered hearing that the Slytherin house teacher was teaching potions so Ed thought he should at least humor him.

He carefully took a sip of the white liquid and relaxed when he realized it wasn't, y'know.

While sipping the coconut drink, he flipped through the pages of the textbook to refresh his memory.

"Hey! You're so early!"

Ed glanced up from the page and stared blankly at the stauntering trio.

"And you guys sure took your sweet time, " he retorted indifferently and returned his book to his bag.

"Class doesn't start until a while so I don't see a need to rush," Malfoy replied in a similar indifferent manner waving his hand. He and the two big guys sat down next to Ed and the two guys immediately started wolfing down food while Draco ate the food in a more dignified manner.

Placing the cup on the table, Ed noticed with a small fascination at how the liquid in the glass filled up till it was 3/4 full. Was it the magic in the table that allowed this to happen? If it was, Ed decided that he would immediately learn that to show Winry and Alphonse.

Glancing up again, Ed saw Ron and Harry eating at their own table. Harry also looked up and when he noticed Ed looking, he waved back and then got into an argument of a sort with Ron. Ed merely shrugged and waved back when Harry looked back at him. Who said he couldn't be friends with other students in different houses? Ridiculous.


Okay, Ed didn't even have to be a genius to tell that Snape seemed to resent Harry. But since Ed was a genius, he also knew it was not only because Harry was the "chosen one."

Kindly hoping to relieve Harry of the embarrassment, he raised his hand after he realized that Snape was going to keep picking on Harry until a Slytherin raised their hands. He noticed how Snape ignored Hermione's hand and seemed to smirk after realizing a Slytherin knew the answer. So he called on him. And so Ed answered him. Snape was clearly smug and took points of Harry to mock him as for all Ed could see.

Once again, it didn't take a genius to figure out that Ron was upset, then again, Ed didn't care that Ron was upset at Ed making Harry look like some idiot. Eh, as if he would allow himself to be offended by some kids who didn't even know the real world.

If someone who knew nothing about the house rivalries in Hogwarts, they certainly would have learned that the Slytherins and Gryffindors didn't like each other based on the glares and snickering during the potion making. Ed's potion actually turned out to be effective which was not much of a surprise seeing as how he just read the instructions during breakfast.

The other double classes they had were basically the same. None of the other houses seemed to like the Slytherin much, likewise, Slytherin didn't seem to like them much either.

One good thing that came from the double lessons was that Ed - a SLYTHERIN- was able to prove a Ravenclaw during a lesson. It was actually pretty interesting in how smug the Slytherin all looked. Draco looked pretty surprised but also just smirked in his usual pompous manner. Apparently, that was all it took for Draco to take a liking in him, huh.

Another thing, the Defense Against Dark Arts teacher just stunk- literally. It was a pretty boring class but still beating the History class in keeping him awake. Seriously, history was just a bunch of memorizing and Ed could do that all later.

"This guy. . .how does he still keep his job?" Ed mumbled as the teacher stuttered and flailed his arms all over the damn place.

Transfiguration was a pretty horrifying first experience for Ed as he was not used to seeing things randomly changed from one thing to another with no restrictions. Sure, he had seen the old man do it but that didn't mean he wasn't surprised.

After calming himself down for a few minutes outside of the classroom, he did really well much to the surprise of the other Slytherin members who thought he couldn't do it.

"Guess looks are deceiving, I never would have thought you were a know-it-all yourself, " Draco joked when they were walking to the dungeon.

Ed gave him a dead stare then sighed, "Well, I guess that's how most kids are. . ."

Ignoring Draco's call after him to explain, Ed walked to the stone wall and through once he spoke the password. Honestly, Ed was disappointed, he had expected much better things but today was so very boring. Maybe he'd check out the library and see if there is anything interesting in the Magi-

Ed abruptly stopped and Draco almost bumped into him but stopped and lifted his chin in a very dignified manner and called after Ed and called him an idiot.

"Hey, do you know anyone with the name Voldemort?"

A.N

Hohoho, I feel kinda guilty for late update, sorry sorry! Sorry if this chapter isn't up to your tastes. I apologize also for not going for something more unique but I thought that Ed being in Slytherin would serve my purposes well. I enjoyed all of your comments and did my best to consider them. Maybe next time, I could make a short one-shot with Ed being in another house.

And I guess we think alike eh Moose?

Once again, thanks for all of your reviews and to answer someone's question, my goal is to do all of the books and so it might take a while but I am fully prepared and I dislike having incomplete stories so I hope you guys will enjoy what I have to show you .

(Hope there isn't too many grammar mistakes, hehe)