Well, now I'm really having requests for this fic, so I will have to give more importance to it, please enjoy it.

Chapter 3: Interview with the Führer

Alphonse Elric was sitting, in a quite comfortable chair in the room that he and his brother were occupying, trying to build a card castle. A month had passed and he was still suffering the enclosure his brother had imposed to him due to the problems that returning to a human body after almost 5 years have. Although his coordination was now perfect, and he had managed to perfectly control all his physiological needs; Ed still had his doubts and he was still encaged there.

He was Alone at the flat at that moment. Winry have already returned to Rush Valley with Ran Fan to make her Automail, and they would return in a month; and Ed went to buy food and other things for the day. And Alphonse hates loneliness, so he was turning uneasy in addition to his boredom.

- ARGH! I'M TIRED OF THIS!- He exclaimed the tenth time an almost completed card castle crumbled down to turn into spread cards around the room. He then put his hands together and in a vortex of wind and light, all the cards were put together, making a beautiful and perfect castle.

Suddenly, Ed returned

- Hi Al! How is everything?

- Hrmph! – he replied, with arms crossed and a puckered frown.

- Oh! You finally managed to build and entire one

- Hrmph! – he replied again

- Oh! Please Al! Try to understand that I must be completely sure that you have complete control of your body before I can let you out.

- And how do you want me to prove it to you! To kick your ass so hard in a fight that you won't be able to sit in a month! – Al asked, standing up and facing his brother.

- Oh no! – Ed replied, a bit scared after thinking how painful would be fighting such and angry Al.

But then the bell rang; a salvation bell for him.

- Führer Roy Mustang wants to see you, Elric Brothers, to discuss the past events – the Officer who called said to them please come with me.

- Ok let's go – Al said, not leaving Ed time to reply.

- But wait Al, your body…

- I'm sorry "niisan" but we can't make wait the most important person in this country – Al said, taking his blue overcoat and leaving the flat and following the officer as fast as his legs let him.

- How stubborn! And he has the guts to complain about me! – Ed said to himself, sighing. After taking his red overcoat and preparing to reach Al, he noticed something strange in the card castle. He lifted the top card and all the card castle was lifted with it.

- Beautiful… - he said, leaving the flat.

With a solemn pace, the Elric brothers entered to the office of the most important person of his country. After the brothers entered the office, he looked at the two people that were there. First Lieutenant Hawkeye was sitting at the corner, at the secretary's desk. She greeted the boys with a smile and a military salute, trying to contain the surprise to see Al in body at last; then they saw him.

They knew that that was his goal since the very beginning, and he had reached it by some means he still ignored. But Führer Roy Mustang didn't show the happiness that that achievement should deserve. After the boys entered, he raised his face and looked at them quite alarmed.

- Good morning Fullmetal – he said greeting the State Alchemist – and who is this boy?

- Oh! I'm Alphonse Sir – he said with a sincere smile – just with less iron than before.

- Uh?...Oh! Sorry Al, I have to get used to see you that way

- No problem sir – Al replied

- You know why I called you today; there are happening a lot of strange things and I want to make a connection between all of them. First I want to know what did you find in that strange place and How Al returned to his body.

The Brothers made a detailed relate about all the things happened since the fall of Edward into Gluttony's stomach. Al seemed a bit depressed when they touched the Hohenheim's topic; Edward was as if nothing had happened, though.

- Well…it's very interesting that the conclusion of this thing is the solution of the mystery of Van Hohenheim – Roy said after the brothers finished their tale – I would have never thought that.

- Well, it is not difficult to believe that a person who is able to abandon his family, is able to do such a thing, but even as old and "wise" as he is supposed to be…well, he can commit mistakes; I'm sure that it wasn't in his plan that we were here now talking to you about all of this.

- Well…I wouldn't be that sure if I were you Ed.

- What do you mean?

Roy stood up and walked towards the big window that illuminated his office and he started seeing through it. After a while, he said

- I used to think that it was only my goal and only mine; that Maes and my subordinates were the only ones that knew it and it will be very difficult to achieve. However, it wasn't difficult at all, and if you see it, it's incredibly ridiculous.

"Maybe I shouldn't worry about this. Overall, my power is absolute and my voice is law, as it was in Wrath aka Bradley's case… But … I can't forget the General's calm when I assassinated him and all of them declared me the new Führer, it's extremely fishy.

"Sometimes I think I am just a puppet of this system; all the Generals seem to follow my orders without complains but…how they can? I have been less than half the time they've been here, they are more prepared and know this state more than me; and there is no complain.

- You know that Bradley was under control of Hohenheim, if he was killed, maybe all the Generals feel relieved about the death of the link with that monster, but you know that he won't leave thinks so easily.

- Yes I know, doing all this to take control of the state and then get rid of that is just senseless. He's preparing something.

- There is one more thing Col…

- FÜHRER!

- Ok, ok, there is one more thing "Führer" that I want to tell you. Pride …

- The Homunculi that helped you to return Al's body.

- Yeah, the same…

- There is something I can't understand about him, if he was a creation of your father…then why he helped you?

- Even he was puzzled about that, but it seems that he grabbed some of my hair in our meeting in Rizenbul and he used it to create him. Not only my knowledge but my desires and goals were also transferred to him. As he said "A feeling strong enough to make him to sallow his own Pride, the roots of his own existence"

- All of this is….very interesting…Er…were you going to say something?

-hum….oh yes… he said that Dr. Marcoh was imprisoned there and he will use he and us as human sacrifices.

- Human Sacrifices! What did he mean with that?

- I don't know … but I will find the answer to it.

Suddenly someone knocked the door; it was one of Roy's assistants.

- Sorry Sir, but there is someone outside that claims to be the Emperor of Xing and wants to talk to you with Urgency.

The Emperor of Xing? In Amestris? So Ling and May were right and something bad had happened in Amestris. To make such an important person, of a country twice as big as their own was something really strange.

- Well, we have indeed a very important visitor here; we don't want another international problem so we can't make him wait; so I make him to enter my office and make the others to prepare a lunch.

- Yes Sir! – He went out the office.

Please Elric's stay, you have met Xingjians before and I surely will need your help.

- Ok we will stay – Al answered.

The four of them waited inside the office, in a solemn pose looking at the door. Suddenly the door was opened and two Amestrian Soldiers entered the room. What happened next was something neither Ed nor Al would ever believe if they weren't looking at it. The Emperor of Xing entered the office and one of the soldiers claimed.

"Ling Yao, Emperor of Xing"

A/N: Well, really no comments really for my part, do you have any?

Next Chapter: an Alliance against the Darkness.