Part 9-

Ed could've mentally slapped himself. After years and years of knowing Mustang, heck, working for him, he thought he might have actually gathered some sort of way of thinking. Ecspecially when he had a daughter. He knew that Mustang couldn't classify a toad from a frog, or find a killler in less than a year, but he at least thought that he could worry abput his daiughter. Even if it was only for five minutes.

"She isn't here. Sam hasn't been here for over a week. She went to see Al." Ed said. Currently he was having his leg adjusted by Winry since last night while working he had hit the nerves wrong and they were all screwed up. He didn't feel like bleeding from his head violently and talking to Mustang. It was complete and utter torture. "It didn't occur to you that it was wierd that she would at our house for a whole week?"

"Well, that's what she said she was doing and I just realized that she forgot her pills-" he held up a small cylinder bottle filled with red pills the size of small ring.

"It took you a week to realize that she had forgotten to take her pills?" Ed asked, wincing as Winry pulled on a screw. "And I thought I said to warn me when you were going to connect the nerves!"

Winry put the wrench on her lap and sighed "I thought that maybe while you were distracted it would hurt less."

"WELL IT DIDN'T!" Ed yelled. Axis poked his head into the room and looked then continued on his way. Stopping his parents from fighting wasn't on his routine. Beside, Mustang was there, it couldn't get that bad.

"RENA IS MISSING!" Mustnag yelled over them, just as Wirnry was ab out to yell back at Ed with a snarky comeback.

Winry adjusted another screw which made Ed flinch, curl up his mouth and not say anything. "Maybe she went to Xing with Sam."

Mustang made a disgusted face. "With that Xingese boy there? I thought Rena hated him?"

Winry tapped Ed's leg to show that she was done with his leg. He flexed it defensivly and threw himself down into a chair. "They used to hate each other. The hate only came from Rena because she hates being left out. I think it's funny that your daughter ended up being shorter than mine," Ed said with a grim smile on his face.

X

"Rena! You got a message!" The one and only time I have heard Iaso call Rena by her actually name.

That made Luckty give Rena a suspicious look and then go back to writing in a journal. Rena opened her eyes in disbelief, her matted hair swinging off the bed wildly. "Since when do you call me by my actual name?" she asked as Iaso came into the room. His left hand carried a yellow envelope and he placed it in Rena's hand.

"Since I thought your father was watching me through an envelope."

I swiveled my head to look at the yellow envelope. In quick and spikey handwriting was:

Rena Jane Hawkeye-Maustang

Palace in Xing

The return adress was what must have gotten to everyone else:

Roy Mustang

Central, Amestris

"Can we throw it away?" asked Iaso hopefully. Rena shook her head.

"Nope, I have to open it. He's my dad, would you igore a letter from your dad?" Without waiting for an answer, Rena opened the letter with a soft rip in the paper.

Two pieces of paper fell from the envelope, and Rena picked up one, I picked up the other. The one I picked up was labeled on the front: Read first.

I switched envelopes with Rena. She read it aloud:

"Rena, Please read this one first. Mostly because your father's letter won't make any sense. I'm not mad at you for going to Xing, it's just that next time I hope that you at least tell me the truth. AND remember your pills next time. ~Hawkeye."

Rena held out her hand for the next letter, taking it from me. She read it, her eyes skimming back and forth across the page.

"I'M HERE!"

"And here I was thinking you had finally died," Lucky sighed, pulling her shawl closer to her as Marigold bounded into the room. Marigold flashed a smile at us all, munching on an apple.

"Hi Marigold." We all sang, looking around the her to the pale yellow hallway.

X

"Ace of clubs?" I asked, flipping over the card. A seven of hearts stared back up at me. Lucky smiled then threw a card at Iaso. This game was soooo wierd and I had no idea what was going on, but it was fun.

"Six of diamonds." Iaso said, he flipped the card over and revealed a six of diamonds, he passed it to Rena.

"Ace of clubs!" Lucky said, her face set she flipped it over, revealing the card I thought was next. She passed it to me. Marigold looked out the window- for once- silent. It was a surprise for all of us thinking that maybe she had died or something.

"What is the point of this game?" She asked abruptly, turning around.

"Nothing." Lucky responded, straightening the deck of cards. "That's why it's fun."

"How's it fun if there's no point?" Marigold asked. She threw her scarf behind her back just as Lucky pulled out a kunai. "So sorry, I would love to fight, but I must go home."

She exited the room. Lucky screamed unintellagible words before thowing the kunai at the closed door. "She has got to be the single most annoyong soul I have ever had to listen to!"

Nobody argued with her and silently returned to the game.

Capitulo nueve realizado. Gracias por leer. Translation~ Chapter nine done. Thank you for reading!

I'm glad that so many of you are reading this! However I am totally mistified... can you leave in a review who your favorite OC character is?

List:

Marigold

Lucky

Eliza Samuel (Sam)

Iaso

Rena

Axis