Me: Okies! Chapter 6 time! Woot! *smiles* *looks around finding the place empty* Due to getting hurt by The Stars of this Fanfic… I've have… Locked them out of the Pre/post story parts. There for.. we should begin.
Envy: this place seems nice… *looking around*
Me: ! how you get in here?
Envy: relax, I'm just looking around. *picks up the script* huh, interesting…
Me: Give me that! *snatches it back*
Envy: Jeez! Touchy. Anyways, gotta go. *leaves*
Me:… that was weird… ah well, lets begin.
Amestris: Central city: Train station.
Mokou steps off the train with Ed, Al, and Winry. After stepping off of the train, Mokou stretches her back. This was her second ride on a train and she really disliked it. The seats were hard and there was nothing to do but watch Ed's Highjinks with the Xing Prince, Ling, and his bodyguards. During the train ride, the body guards ride on top of the train. Mokou thought her experience while riding the train may have been nicer on the roof. She gets out a cigarette from a pack she bought from the last station.
"Those things will kill you," Winry says to Mokou. The silver-haired women lights one up anyways and shrugs. Winry frowns at the manner Mokou takes her health. Winry turns her attention to Ed and Al when they get off the train. "Hey! Lets go see Lieutenant Colonel Hughes!" she tells the brothers. The two brothers nod in response.
"Alright, but let's stop at headquarters first. He works at the court martial office, right?" Edward asks while they walk outside.
Mokou stayed back. She did not want to bother them while she was smoking and was confused about who this 'Hughes' person was. She finally decides to speak up when the two bodyguards of Lings, an Old man with a thick, white mustache and hair, and a young woman with her mask on interrupts the conversation in order to ask a question.
"Where's the prince? You cads were with him the whole time," the old man asks as the Young Woman in the mask stares at the group. The young woman, the group, and he looked around. It became apparent that the prince had disappeared again. The two body guards quickly became depressed because they had lost him again. Ed and the gang went on their own way.
Moments Later, Ed, Al, Winry, and Mokou walk near the gates of Central Command. When they get closer towards the gates, Ed recognizes someone familiar to him. Mokou looks at the person and sees a blond woman with short hair wearing a military uniform. She hands a clipboard to a soldier wearing big round glasses when Ed shouts out to her.
"Lieutenant Hawkeye!" the Fullmetal Alchemist calls out to the woman. She turns and notices the group.
"Oh! Edward and Alphonse. Have you guys been doing well?" she asks as she turns towards the group.
"Uh huh, same as always," Ed replies as they walk up to Riza while Winry speaks up.
"Hey! It's the lady that I met before," Winry proclaims as Riza recognizes her.
"The girl from Risembool…!" she exclaims as Winry tells her name.
Winry and Riza spend time to catch up on things as the brothers wonder when it was they had became friends. Mokou stood there, however, feeling like the third wheel of the group.
"…Wait a minute!" Ed said, clasping his teeth afterwards. "If the Lieutenant's here, then that means…"
While Edward finishes his sentence, a car pulls up next to them. A man with black hair wearing a uniform steps out of the car, slamming the door shut.
"Hello, Full Metal," the man says to Edward.
"Good Day Colonel," Edward lets out through his noticeably unhappy lips.
"What's with that unhappy face?" the Colonel asks as he eye's Winry and Mokou. "And who's the new girl?"
Mokou looks at the colonel and puts out her cigarette.
"The name is Fujiwara no Mokou, most just call me Mokou though," she says, introducing herself to the Colonel.
"I'm Colonel Roy Mustang. It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Mokou," he replies. Colonel Roy Mustang notices the frown on her face.
"Please don't call me miss," she almost snaps.
"I'm sorry about that. Anyways, why are you traveling with the Elric Brothers?" Mustang asks her, staring into her eyes.
Mokou opens her mouth to answer but Ed jumps in before she can.
"She's Al's and my Alchemy Student!" He blurts out, making Mokou and Al look at him.
Mustang stares at the Fullmetal Alchemist for a bit before speaking.
"Why don't I believe that?" he articulates in a very strict tone.
"Oh shut up Colonel! We can teach about alchemy you know! And besides- she's just learning the basics from us. She uses an alchemy that's more into your field of research," Ed shouts back at him. Mustang looks over at Riza and then back to Ed.
"You mean Flame Alchemy?" He speaks in a shock.
"Yep. And I bet my flames could beat yours," Mokou says with a bit of pride.
Mustang grips his hands at this and turns to Riza. "Well we got work to do, Fullmetal," he says as he turns to leave.
"Wait, you mean you got transfused to Central?" Al peeps out.
"That's right," the black haired Colonel nods to Alphonse. "By the way, Fullmetal, Why are you here?" he asks the blond haired Alchemist.
"I'm here for Research. I'm trying to find information on the Philosopher's Stone and Homunculi," Ed says back to the colonel.
"Homunculi? Are you stupid?" Roy comments to the kid Alchemist. "You know the rules. 'No alchemist shall attempt to create a human being.' You think the military would leave information like that lying around?" Roy says to Edward.
"Yea well…" Ed goes while looking away from the Colonel. "Oh, and one other thing! We thought we'd visit Lt. Colonel Hughes," Ed smiles.
At the moment Ed asks how Hughes was doing, the mood around the Colonel and the Lieutenant turned as cold as ice. Mokou noticed the mood change right away. When Mustang looked at the group, his pupils shrank down to a dot. Ed, Al and Winry, however, didn't catch on to the shift in moods.
"He's gone…"
Without looking at the group, the colonel gave that small reply. While not looking at them, Riza avoided the gaze of the three innocent, smiling children as well.
"Huh?" Ed says, starting to lose his smile in confusion.
Roy stays silent for a minute. "…He moved back to the countryside," He lied to the group. "Things have been so dangerous here lately so he took his wife and kid and moved back to the country," he continues as the group stares at him. Riza also looks at him as he goes on. "He's going to take over the family business. You won't find him here," he finishes.
"Really…? That's too bad," Ed says with a sad look on his face.
"Being a soldier is a dangerous profession," Al chimes in.
"Aww, I really wanted to see him too," Winry pouts.
Mokou kept quiet not only because she didn't know the person, but because she could tell the colonel was holding the truth from them. She had seen it before when she failed to save a boy's father from the Wild Youkai. She closes her eyes.
Gensoyko: outside the human village about 10 years ago
Mokou ran towards the frantic yelling of a man on the edge of town. She was there to visit her friend Keine when the commotion had started. She sprinted to the gates of the town and saw a young boy cowering from a Youkai. It was ready to eat him as Mokou threw a fire ball at the Youkai, knocking it away from the child. She then rushed over and picked up the child, noticing three other Youkai within her proximity. The Youkai appeared to be wolf like rather than fully human. They looked like primitive wolves standing on two legs. One Youkai chasing the child barked something to its gang and the rest took off. The remaining Youkai was their leader. The leader left a male corpse where they had gathered. Mokou's eyes widened a bit. She turned away from the sight to focus on protecting the crying little boy as the leader took off. On cue, Keine and the mother of the child came outside to find out what had happened. The Mother covered her mouth after noticing the gory mess on the ground- all that was left of her husband. Mokou handed the child to Keine and then ran after the wolf-like Youkais. She reached them inside the Magical Forest and proceeded to fight them. The Youkais didn't stand a chance against the Ex-boss level Immortal human. She burned them all alive, leaving nothing but the ashes of their corpses. She returned home satisfied. A few days later, she went back to see Keine again since her earlier visit had been ruined by the Youkai attack. As she was walking up to the main part of the village, she heard the boy that she saved ask a question to his mother.
"Mama? Where's daddy?" the boy asked, too young to know of death.
The mother became teary-eyed and she picked the boy up.
"He's gone away for a long time," she explains to the little child.
"When will he be back?" the boy innocently asks his mother.
"I-I- I don't know sweetie!" she breaks down into tears.
The other villagers went to comfort the crying woman. Each villager knew victims of Youkai attacks. Mokou, however, felt a pang in her heart hearing this. She felt it was her fault for not being fast enough. Mokou then turns around and heads back to her home, not feeling good enough to visit her friend.
Amestris: Central command front gate
Mokou opens her eyes- escaping her flashback- as she hears the colonel tells Edward to stay out of trouble.
"All right, I'll be careful," Edward says as the four watch Roy and Riza walk away.
The four look at each other and wonder what to do now. They decide to book a hotel room and relax from the long train ride.
Gensoyko: Bamboo Forest of the Lost: Elentel: A few hours later since the group got the hotel rooms
Sikieiki has just left Elentel. Even having lectured everyone of their sins, Marisa was lectured the hardest because she was the one who tried to play god.
"…ze," Marisa lets out while sitting and thinking about what the Emma said. Everyone else was just grumbling a bit. No one liked hearing about their faults. Nitori was the first to notice how Marisa had been reacting.
"Marisa?" she asks as she steps closer to the bed Marisa was lying on. "Don't think too hard on it. She always does that," the little Kappa replies to the silent witch.
"No, she's right, Ze," Marisa finally admits, holding Martel the Doll to her chest.
Everyone in the room looked at her.
Marisa looks at all of them and then gets up. "I'll head home. There's something I need to do, Da ze," she says, going for her broom.
Erirn tries to stop her but is stopped by Yukari.
"Leave her be. She has to do this," Yukari says to Erirn before she can get a word in.
"I'll need some help. I got a lot of books to return," she says to them all.
Marisa gets on her broom and floats up. Martel was placed under her hat before she flew off to her house, leaving Erirn, Reisen, Yukari, and Nitori in a daze of confusion.
A little later, Yukari gaps herself and Nitori to Marisa's place. The witch was pushing book after book into a bag that didn't seem to get any bigger even though she was shoving even more books in.
"Hey, can you help me tie some of these bags? It's hard to do with only one arm, ze," she asks as she uses her right arm to knock a whole shelf of books into the limitless bag she was pushing books into. At the same time, Martel was struggling to tie the first bag shut.
"Sure!" Nitori says. She goes and helps the little doll tie the first bag.
"I suppose you want me to gap these to the Scarlet Devil Mansion?" the gap Youkai asks Marisa.
She shakes her head. "Nope. I need you to gap the back room which is full of books there," She says. "Nitori and I are gonna head there first, Da ze," she continues with a smile. Nitori jumps up a bit at her name being said.
"M-me?" she asks nervously.
Marisa nods as she picks up a tied bag and slings it over her shoulder. She then sits on her broom and waits for Nitori.
Nitori gulps and grabs up the three other bags and floats up into the air.
The two fly out of the forest as Yukari figures she has a good 30 minutes to take a nap.
Gensoyko: Scarlet Devil Mansion.
It seems like a peaceful and calm day while the gate keeper stretches a bit to take a nap. The red haired, well-built woman wearing a green outfit leans up against the brick wall and pushes her hand over her eyes. She knew this was a safe time since the maid of the building was busy going to the human village to get supplies. She yawns and closes her eyes for a few minutes before hearing someone coming toward the Mansion.
"HEY CHINA!" the voice calls out to her.
The gate keeper jumps up and starts to yell at the person.
"IT'S HONG MEILING! HONG MEI-ling!" Meiling squeaks before seeing Marisa charge up a device in her hand.
"MASTER SPARK!" Marisa yells out as the device, known as the Mini-Hakkero, fires a blast of energy ramming into Meiling and knocking her out.
Marisa flies past the knocked out gate keeper as Nitori stops to say sorry to the poor woman.
A few minutes later, the Duo makes it to the library inside the mansion. Marisa opens the doors and starts to walk inside when she sees a purple haired woman waiting for her. The woman was wearing a purple robe and a purple cap with a yellow moon.
"Marisa! This is the last time you will take books from my library! Prepare yourself!" the women says with a slight cough as she gets out a card.
Marisa steps back for a second. "Whoa! Patchouli! Wait! I'm not here for that, Ze!" The witch proclaims to Patchouli.
"You lie. You always come here to steal my books," she says, ready to fight for her dusty library.
"It's true! Look!" Marisa says as she drops the bag, letting the books come out.
Patchouli looks at the books and then looks up at Marisa and Nitori.
"This isn't all of them, you have more," she says as Nitori puts the other three bags down.
"I know Ze," she says as a gap opens up behind Nitori and she, letting a literal ton of books fall behind them. The books avalanched onto Nitori and Marisa.
Patchouli watches this happen and is confused into a coughing fit. Her aid, a dark haired woman looking like a devil in black, comes to help her.
"Thank you Koakuma," she credits her aid. She then looks at trio since Yukari popped her head through the gap above the books and looked at them from an upside down position. "Marisa… why are you returning them all?" she asks the Witch.
"I need something from you, Ze," Marisa says.
"I knew it," she says with a sigh.
"I need the Philosopher's Stone," she tells her.
This made Patchouli stop in her tracks. "You want that? Why?" the purple clothed woman asks the witch.
"It's a long story," Marisa says, turning towards her so she can see what she had lost.
This made Patchouli put her hand to her mouth. She knew what Marisa had done.
"Explain everything," she says to them.
Amestris: Central City: Hotel
Mokou lies on the bed in the hotel room. She was looking at the ceiling. Winry was on the other bed reading a magazine. They had both heard the commotion in the other room. Both of them got up and went to the door. Winry peeked first at Ed who looked distressed.
"Sorry! I gotta go check to see if it's true, and then I'll explain later!" Ed says as puts a hand on her shoulder.
"Huh? Check on what?" Winry asks the brothers while they were going down the hall. "HEY! What happened?" she yells out to them.
Mokou puts her hand on her shoulder as they both watch them leave.
Winry looks at her and nods, knowing Mokou meant that they will be back.
"Lets relax a bit more, ok? We can talk some," Mokou says to Winry.
Winry nods and they head back into the room.
A little later on, Winry convinces Mokou to check if the brothers are back.
"Geez, I can't believe those guys," Winry says with a huff, finding they left without even locking there room.
Mokou chuckles a bit as she complains out loud about the boys. She came across a newspaper. She notices Winry stop and stare at the paper.
"Winry?" she asks her new friend.
Nothing was said and she shook a bit. Mokou went and put her hand back on her shoulder looking at the paper and seeing why.
By the time it was dawn, Ed and Al came back to talk with Winry, but they couldn't find her or Mokou. They then realized they had left the door open and went inside. They found the paper missing.
"I'm such an idiot- Winry," Ed says to himself, sitting hard on the couch in their room.
By this time, both Winry and Mokou were looking for Miss Hughes place. They asked around and eventually found the place. Winry went to knock once they got there.
'Knock Knock'
They wait at the door while hearing a pair of feet run up to the door. As it opens, a little girl jumps out excited.
"PAPA…!" she yells out, expecting her father, Mase Hughes, to be there.
"Oh!" Winry says as she watches the little girl's happy face turn into a sad one. The little girl glomps Winry's legs.
"What is it, Elicia? Do we have guests?" asks Miss Hughes as she comes to the door and see's Winry and Mokou. "Winry!" she says loudly.
"Gracia…" Winry says softly and sadly.
Gensoyko: Scarlet Devil Mansion
Patchouli frowns at what she was told. She found out that Marisa had taken her forbidden notes on Alchemy and had Mokou use the first circle. She found they did it again and Marisa paid the price. She looks Martel over, much to the dolls displeasement.
"Poor thing. You can't talk," Patchouli says to the little doll. "Koakuma" she calls for her aid.
"Yes, Miss Patchouli?" the devil-like aid asks.
"Use this and make this doll a mouth," The Purple clad woman says, giving her a small ring.
Koakuma nods and takes the doll and the ring and goes off to the side to work on it. As she does this, Patchouli turns her attention back to the group.
"So you want to make amends by going to get Mokou yourself," she asks the witch.
"Yes, Ze," Marisa replies back.
"And you wish to get her too, right Yukari? Patchouli says as she looks to Yukari.
Yukari just nods as she lies down on her gap. She was bored from just talking.
The purple clad woman closes her eyes.
Meanwhile Koakuma works on Martel. She sets out a sewing thread and needle as she cuts open a mouth for Martel. Martel wiggles under the bounds she was under while this happens. Martel couldn't feel a thing, nor was she hurt from it, but it still seemed weird. Koakuma put the small ring into the doll's inner stuffing and started to sew an inner mouth to the doll. The metal inside the doll starts to vibrate and weird sounds come from Martel. Koakuma quickly finishes sewing the mouth, making her doll look like she has a pair of nice lips.
"Ahhhh hmm?" Martel lets out in a hollowly voice.
"There you go," Koakuma says to the doll. "Any better?" she asks Martel.
"I-I c-can talk?" she says surprised. Martel wiggles a bit more, wanting to be out of the bounds. "Let me out," she demands of the red haired woman.
Koakuma lets her out and the doll rushes over to Patchouli.
"You have to give it to them! Mokou is my friend! Please!" the doll pleases to Patchouli.
"… Alright. I'll give it to Marisa," Patchouli says as she picks up the doll.
"You will, ze?" Marisa says happily.
Patchouli nods and gets up to get it. Marisa gets up and cheers with Nitori as Yukari keeps on relaxing on her Gap.
Amestris: Gracia's home
Ed and Al show up at Gracia's home, coming to pick Winry and Mokou up. Winry and Mokou were in the living room. Mokou was laxly sitting on the couch. Winry was sitting in a chair holding the sleeping Elicia.
"Hello, Winry. I'm here to pick you up," Ed says to her.
"Uh, sorry," Winry says quietly.
"No. I… I'm sorry too," He replies, confusing Winry a bit. "There's something I need to tell you about Ms. Hughes. Is that all right?" he asks her.
"Winry, could you listen too." Al asks Winry.
The boys then tell them about how Hughes was looking into the philosopher's stone for them and that he must have stumbled onto some information that got him killed. They felt guilty about it and were about to say they would stop looking when Ms. Hughes insists that they continue. By continuing, they would not make his death seem meaningless. Soon after, each of them left in a depressed mood, except for Mokou, who was surprised by how far this man went for the boys, for how the man's wife gave them a good reason to continue. She looked at the ceiling as Winry cries into her pillow. Winry stops when she hears a knock at the door and goes to see who it is. It was Edward. Mokou watches as Winry pulls him in and gets out an apple pie. She talks on how she wishes Mr. Hughes would have gotten a chance to try her apple pie in a small fit of tears. Ed gives it a try.
"Mmm. It's good," He says.
Gensokyo: Hakurei Shrine
Marisa was ready to go even though it was getting late. She was all packed up and ready to go.
"Alright, lets do this, Da ze!" she yells out, annoying the Miko who was standing right next to her.
"You really are going huh? It's gonna get quiet around here," Reimu says to Marisa.
"Nawww. You still have Suika, ze," Marisa says as she points at the little Oni girl.
"True," Reimu quietly says.
"Can we hurry this up?" Yukari asks impatiently.
"Yea sur-" Marisa says before she is interrupted.
"WAIITTT!" yells out the small kappa as she rushes up the stairs to the shrine with a huge back pack full of stuff on her back. She pants as she gets to the top. "I-I'm coming with you," she says out of breath. Marisa looks at her seriously.
"Ahh… Why, ze?" Marisa asks the kappa girl.
"Th-there may be, uhm some technology you know nothing of. I might be able to help," she pleads to Marisa. Her eyes were begging for Marisa to take her.
"Ok, ze," she says as she looks at the stone. "Come to the middle of the circle with me," she tells Nitori.
Nitori happily does go there as Yukari makes a gap there.
"Everyone ready Ze?" Marisa asks them. She watches them nod to her and she takes in a breath. She puts her hand down to the circle and activates it.
Reimu watches as a flash of light engulfs them and they disappear.
Me: man I jumped back and forth a lot on this chapter.
Envy: yep. Move out squirt.
Me: huh?
Envy: Father wants us to take over. *thumb points to Lust and Gluttony.*
Me: Oh hell no!
Lust: you are going to stop us?
Me: Well…
Gluttony: Yay! Time to eat!
Me: ! oh crap! Well I gotta go now. Read and review! *runs*
[Note: I know Marisa seems a bit out of character in this chapter.. but it's a one time deal. Lol. A ploy to get Patchys favor to get the P-stone. *my way of saying Philosopher's Stone*]