Team Elric Part Three

A/N: Part Three is here and hopefully there isn't any weird thing in the middle of it this time. That was weird. Anyway, I hope you like this! I spent like four hours trying to figure out what was going to happen in this chapter, but planning out what's going to happen and writing it down is different so we'll see how it turns out! Oh, and in this Chapter I'm not going to call Ed Edward like in the last Chapter. I'm too lazy.

Ed and Kris arrived at the Hughes home just as the rain really began to fall. They rushed up the front steps and through the door, trying, unsuccessfully, to not get soaked.

"Jeez! What a storm! Where'd it come from!" Kris said shaking her head and spraying water all over Ed.

"Hey! What! Watch out!" He held up his hands to try to stop the spray of water.

"Sorry 'bout that. I just hate to have cold water dripping down my back." Kris shivered at the thought.

"So, you don't need to act like a dog!"

"Meow..." Speckles appeared, wrapping herself around Kris's leg purring.

"Oh! Hey! You didn't say that they had a kitty!" Kris bent down, picked up Speckles, and rubbed the cat against her cheek. "This your cat, Eddy?"

"Hey! You need to apologize! Wait a second, Eddy?" Ed looked at her is disbelief. "Eddy?"

"Well, yeah. You don't look mature enough to be Ed or Edward. So I settled on Eddy."

"What do you mean I don't..." Ed shook his fists.

"Hey, does this Gracia person have any food?" Ignoring Ed's obvious rage.

"What?!"

"I'm hungry."

Edward looked around the dark house.

"Yeah, me too. You know normally Elicia comes running as soon as I open the door. I wonder where they are. Gracia didn't say anything about going out. GRACIA! ELICIA!! I'm back!"

When no one answered Ed started to worry.

It's not like her to just leave.

"Hey, Eddy, I don't think they're here anymore."

Kris pointed to the living room. Everything appeared normal except for a small broken picture frame, which lay on the floor. Through the cracks in the glass, Ed could see the silhouette of General Hughes smiling at the ceiling.

There's no way Gracia would let that lay there. Broken...

"Hey Kris! Call the Colonel and tell him to get over here fast! Tell him his best friend's family was kidnapped!"

Ed bent down to examine the picture and noticed a red stone lying near the fallen frame.

"And tell him that the Homunculus are behind it!"

"Homunculus? Kris laughed, "Really Eddy, that's ridiculous. There's no such thing as a r..."

"Just do it!"

"Fine!"

Kris found her way to the kitchen and noticed a small black telephone sitting on the counter. She picked up the receiver and began dialing.

"Hello." A deep authoritative voice answered.

"Colonel Mustang?"

"Yes?"

" Yeah. This is Kris. Eddy and I are at the Hughes house. At least I think that's their name..."

"Eddy?"

" Yeah, that's what I call him. Well, anyway, Eddy told me to tell you that your best friend's family was kidnapped and that the homunculus are behind it."

"SLAM"

Mustang hung up.

"Eddy! I think he's Ma-AD!"

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Gracia slowly opened her eyes. She was in a dark room surrounded by numerous weapons.

Where am I?

"Elicia!" She called into the darkness. No reply.

"Elicia! Answer Me! Elicia!"

"The brat can't hear you." said a cold voice. It came from behind her. Gracia sat up and spun around.

"Selim? Are you really behind this? Come on, let us go!" Gracia demanded.

"First, my name isn't really Selim. That's just the name Wrath and his disgusting human wife decided to give me. My name's Pride and I am the first homunculus."

He made his way towards Gracia, lowering himself until his eyes were perfectly level with hers.

"Your husband knew an awful lot about us and our plans. That's why Envy killed him while looking exactly like you. To punish him for sticking his nose where it didn't belong." Gracia's eyes widened in shock.

"But you," Selim continued, "you are going to act as bait before we kill you, drawing everyone who knows anything about us to this very spot."

"Like who?" Gracia dared to ask.

"The Fullmetal boy, his bodiless brother, and Colonel Mustang and his little posse." There was a loud crash outside the room. Selim stood up and began to back away. "I'll be back to visit you soon, but I must go prepare."

And with the blink of an eye, he vanished.

Wow. I don't think that that Chapter turned out as well as planned. Oh well.

Please review! The next Chapter is going to better (I hope!)!