Hey ppls,

I hope this chapter gets rid of the depression from last chapter. : )

I know Winry has seen Ed in his boxers a million times because of automail repairs, but I don't think he ever hugged her in them! lol

I mean come on how many ppl has Edward actually hugged anyway?

Anyways I hope you like this chapter I spent like two hours on it so give me a break if it's not perfect.

Disclaimer- I don't own FMA… but I have dibs on Alphonse!

Ed and Al to the rescue

Awakened by the clinking of dishes and the smell of bacon, eggs, and pancakes, Edward Elric stumbled groggily out of bed. Why is Al cooking?

Thinking nothing of what he was wearing Ed slowly made his way down the hall and descended the stairs. He walked in the kitchen with his eyes still closed and pulled out a chair to sit on.

After yawning like an animal he propped his feet up against the back of another chair and scratched his chest lazily.

"Good morning 'sleeping beauty'." Alphonse's voice said from across the table.

Edward mumbled something along the lines of – whatever. I want food.

Immediately Ed was conked on the head with what felt like a spatula.

"I spent hours on this breakfast, you could at least be polite to your brother!"

Edward's eyes snapped open at the sound of Winry's voice. Like a bat out of hell he shot up out of his chair and hugged her.

"Winry! How long have you been her? We haven't seen you forever!" he pulled away from her with a smile on his face and looked in her eyes with joy.

"Well, I'm glad you're happy to see me Ed. But the eggs are going to burn so could you please let me... umm you know—cook." She said a little startled by his enthusiasm… and lack of clothes.

Ed snatched his hands back and blushed a little. Whoa…where did that come from?

Al watched in amusement at his brother's embarrassment. And couldn't help but point something out to him.

"Umm Ed?" he said barely able to stop from laughing.

Ed turned to his little brother.

"Yeah, Al. What is it?" he asked.

"Uhh, are all your clothes dirty or do just like your underwear that much?" he said finally laughing.

"Ah!" he shrieked. "AL! Why didn't you tell me I wasn't wearing anything but my boxers!"

After his brother had run out of the room, Alphonse let out all the laughs he had been holding in. He's gonna kill me for that later. But it was worth it!

A few minutes later after Ed put some clothes on breakfast was done and they had all just sat down to eat.

" So Winry, what made you come visit?" Ed asked casually after stuffing his mouth full of buttered-toast.

Al glanced at Winry nervously and shook his head at her. Don't tell him I called an asked you to come! Please, don't!

Winry noticed Al's silent plea and quickly made up an answer.

"I missed you guys. And I hadn't heard from you for so long that I figured I come make sure you were still alive."

After a moment Ed swallowed his food and said "Oh…"

An awkward silence soon descended upon them so all tried to fill the void.

"So Winry, what do you have planned for today?" He asked in a chipper voice then stuffed his mouth full of eggs.

Winry looked up from her food and tapped a finger on her chin for a moment in thought.

"Well I guess I do need to go to town for some stuff I've been wanting… other than that I was just gonna hangout with you guys…. u-unless you've got an assignment from the military to do to day." She said sadly as she looked down at her plate.

"A trip to town sounds good, Winry." Ed assured her. "What about you Al?"

Al swallowed a large mouthful of food and answered. "Absolutely, sounds fun!"

And with that they all stuffed their mouths full of fluffy pancakes and crunchy bacon until their plates were clean.

"I'm done!" said Ed as he dumped his plate in the sink.

Al and Winry finished soon after him and then they grabbed their coats and headed out the doors.

Thirty minutes later Edward, Winry, and Alphonse stepped off the train and headed into town.

Hundreds of people were bustling throughout town and the streets were so crammed that there wasn't room for all three of them to walk together so Al was forced to walk behind Ed and Winry.

They walked for a few minutes just looking through window and going into random stores and buying knick-knacks and other useless thing when suddenly Winry remembered that granny had given her a list of things to buy.

"Hmmm… looks like I need to go buy some stuff for granny. You guys can just hangout here for a while. I'll meet you back here by this food stand in an hour or so- okay?" and with that she disappeared into a crowd of people.

"W-wait! Winry don't just leave us here! We don't have anything to do!" Edward dove into the crowd of people with his brother close behind.

"Ed wait! We should go back before-" suddenly they were shoved out of the crowd of people and into a small clearing that they had never seen before. "-we get lost…."

"OH THIS IS JUST GREAT!" Edward shouted kicked a can down the alley and it bounced of the graffiti-covered walls and dumpster before it clanked into a gutter.

"This is all winry's fault for leaving us!" He said stubbornly as he crossed his arms and pouted.

Suddenly there was the sound of a switchblade snapping open and they saw a dark shadow creeping out from behind a dumpster.

"C-come on Ed lets get out of here." Al stuttered and they ran back out into the masses of shoppers.

After what seemed like forever they managed to find a street that actually had breathing room. Although for some odd reason none of the stores were open. They knocked on every door they passed and no one ever answered.

"How are we ever going to figure out where we are if no one is here to tell us!" Edward shouted in frustration when they had reached the 18th door and still no one had answered.

"We could always just head back the way we came. At least there are people there." Al said as he looked into the dusty window of another shop.

"No way am I going back there! I could barely breathe because people were pressed up against me so hard."

Al knew what he meant. I swear to god I felt someone grab my butt back there.

"You're right, there were WAY to many people… but what should we do?"

A lone newspaper flew by in the wind like a tumbleweed in an old western movie. Ed shoved his hands in his pockets and walked across the street.

"I think I hear people in this direction come on."

And true enough there were people, just not the ones they had been hoping to find.

"Get out of the way!" A girl with blonde hair yelled earnestly as she shoved them toward the nearest wall then kept on running. With one last look backwards she mouthed the words 'I'm sorry' then she ran around the corner.

Not even a second later a bullet ricocheted off the ground where they had just been standing and five or six men came running around the opposite corner with guns in their hands.

"Stop her!" They yelled harshly, then they slammed Ed and Al out of their way and chased after her.

Edward looked at his brother and the unspoken question hung between them. Should we help her? Alphonse immediately decided that he was gong to help and Ed followed suit.

"I'll take out the ugly guys in black. Al- you go after the girl and figure out why she's running." Edward took off after the guys while Al ran a couple blocks then turned down a narrow alleyway to cut her off.

Edward clapped his hands together, creating a alchemic circle with his body, and causing sparks of power to crackle around him as he pushed his hands on to the wall next to him. The wall seemed to reform then suddenly a solid brick pole jutted out of the wall right in front the slowest of the men and he was knocked unconscious.

Edward leapt over his body and picked up the pace to catch up with the others. One down and five to go.

Meanwhile Alphonse was catching up to the girl and dodging the bullets that were being shot at them.

"Hey! Hey you! Wait up!" he shouted out to her.

The girl looked back at him and nearly tripped in surprise. They turned one more corner then she darted into another alleyway and snatched him by the arm and dragged him with her.

"What do you think your doing!" She whispered out of breath as she pulled them behind a dumpster to hide.

Al took a moment to look at the girl before him, she had eyes of the softest blue that he had ever seen and her lips were the lightest of pinks. The girl wasn't very big but Al could tell she wasn't more than a year younger than him. The dark red shirt she wore was partly covered by the short black jacket that only came to the middle of her abdomen, and a silver cross necklace hung around her neck.

Al heard a faint dripping sound and noticed that a bullet had torn through her shirt and ripped open the right side of her ribcage.

"Your hurt!" he whispered worriedly as the pool of blood continued to grow larger.

She covered the wound with her left hand. "It's fine. Now tell me what you think your doing! You could get hurt if you keep following me. Those guys have been chasing me half way across town—"

Al grabbed her and yanked her against himself as he scooted closer to the dumpster. When she started to struggle he clamped his hand over her mouth and whispered in her ear quietly.

"Shhhhhh—look." He nodded his head toward the two shadows that were coming closer to their hiding place.

"Which way do you think they went" the one on the right asked in a deep gravely voice.

"Lets check over here." The one on the left answered in a higher pitched but twice as annoying voice.

They walked even closer to the dumpster and left one spotted the edges of Al's black cloak. He smiled grotesquely and pointed at the dumpster with a gnarled finger. His companion stared for a moment then revealed all his missing teeth with a hideous smile and together they advanced on their prey.

Alphonse knew when they had found them and he pressed the girl against the wall behind him. Spotting a long chunk of metal about as big around as a quarter beneath the over-sized trashcan, Alphonse picked it up and pressed himself against the fowl smelling thing that they hid behind; preparing to fight.

Just as the two thugs were about to reach them Al heard a familiar voice yell from down the alleyway.

"Hey! Short fat and ulgies— Over here!"

Edward ran down the ally, dodging bullets, and then he jumped into the air and slammed a foot into one of the guy's face; knocking him out cold.

Barely a second later Alphonse burst from his hiding place and slammed the other guy in hand with his metal pole causing them to drop their gun. Then Al thrust his elbow into their stomach and when they bent over in pain he knocked them backwards into unconsciousness with a foot to the chin.

"Looks like all that sparing is starting to pay off, little bro." Ed said with a thumbs up.

Al smiled and nodded then rubbed his elbow. "Yeah but it still feels weird. Before I couldn't actually feel it when I hit someone."

"Yeah… so where's the girl?" ed asked as he looked up and down the alley.

"Oh crap!" Alphonse ran over to the foul smelling dumpster and pushed it out of the way. The blonde was out cold and there was a pool of blood around her.

"Ed she got shot and I don't know how long she's been bleeding. We've got to find Winry!" Al and his brother ran over to her and tried to check her pulse and see if she was breathing.

"I think she's dieing Al, do you think you can carry her? If I did and she woke up she'd probably freak out."

"Right." Al carefully picked the runaway up, bridle style, and then they ran out of the ally way and toward the sounds of civilization. Stay with us, who ever you are. Just hold on and we'll get some help!

Ok how'd you like it? I'm sorry if the ending kind of sucks but I was in a hurry today.

Forgive me if there are A LOT of grammar mistakes because my grammar sucks.

PS if any of you watch the BLEACH series and you like UlquiorraXOrihime then you should read my story. It is just now getting to Ichigo and I'm on chapter ten so don't plan on a lot of IchiRuki stuff. Gin and Rangiku will be reunited after around a year, and Ulquiorra is getting ready to tell Orihime about his past life.

Anyway please review!!!!! I need reviews ppl!!!!

!!!!!!!!!MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!