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An Interesting Year:

Chapter 14:

Last Time:

"So… General. Why do you want me?" Ed turned and faced Mustang who was sitting at a desk behind a mountain of paperwork.

"It's about the mission. I've checked with Professor Dumbledore and he agrees that we need to come clean. I think that it's time you tell your new friends the real reason that we're here." Ed nodded and looked at the trio who all had confused looks on their faces. Ed looked Harry straight in the eye before speaking.

"We are here for two reasons. The first being that Dumbledore asked us to come and be your bodyguards in a sense." Harry nodded he had suspected it the whole time. Ed did not notice this and continued. "And the second. We have strong evidence that shows the Homunculus are working with Lord Voldemort."

Edward was in a very bad mood. Mustang, being the idiot he was, had called Ed to his office during the middle of lunch. So, stomach protesting loudly, Ed found himself walking down the deserted hallway of Eastern Headquarters towards Mustang's office, Al behind him.

"Alright Mustang! What's the big idea calling me during lunch?!?!?" Ed asked loudly (screamed), leaning on Mustang's desk. With an annoyed look, Roy stood up, looking down at Ed.

"Listen here, Fullmetal. I don't have the time nor the patience to deal with your childish behavior today! So sit down, shut up, and listen!!"

For the first time in his short life, Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist, Hero of the People, did exactly as his superior told him to do. A shocked Alphonse sat down beside him on the couch in Colonel Mustang's office to see exactly how things were going to pan out. Said Colonel cleared his throat.

"An important mission has come up, Fullmetal. One that will test our every belief as alchemist and it has been assigned specifically to you and me, and will cause the two of us to work together without a hitch and to also co-operate." Ed nodded, knowing that when Roy was like this and so totally stressed out, something big had come up. Silence followed and Ed waited for his superior to spit out what the mission was.

"Well? Aren't you going to tell me?"

"Ed actually listened? And to you?" Havoc asked, astonished looking back and forth from Ed to Roy, surprise covering his face.

"Is that all that you've taken out the discussion this entire time?" Riza asked looking at Havoc.

"But Ed listened! Doesn't that raise questions in your mind??" Riza rolled her eyes.

"Yes. I did actually listen for once in my life." Ed responded, annoyance flashing across his features. "Any more questions?" The rest of the group shook their heads and Ed cleared his throat. "Where was I? Oh yeah…"

"We've been ordered by the Fuhrer to go to England and investigate the alliance the Homunculi have supposedly made with a convict there." Ed blinked.

"There's nothing to weird about other than the fact that we have to work together. Just an investigation, right?" Roy shook his head.

"That's only a small piece of it. We also have to guard a school or, more specifically, a student that attends it."

"There's got to be more to it than that. I could do this by myself, and the Fuhrer would only have you go if there was more to it than a guard job and a investigation. What's the rest of the story?"

"There is a little more. The school that we are guarding is called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And the alliance that the Homunculi have supposedly made is with the most powerful dark wizard of our time. We are guarding the one boy who actually has a chance at defeating him and who has kept him at bay many times before." Roy stopped and looked at Ed here. For a moment all was silent and then…

"You actually expect me to believe this? You know that magic doesn't exist! There is only alchemy and that's hard enough to master, but you honestly expect me to believe that there is a school out there that teaches kids how to use magic?!? Preposterous!"

'Ed took it better than I thought that he would.'

"Look Fullmetal, this is real! I promise! I have the mission file right here what more proof do you need?" Ed took the file from Mustang's hands and began to read through it, his eyes speeding across the words. At last, he closed the folder and set it down, putting a hand on his forehead.

"As much as it seems like you're telling the truth, it has to be a lie." Roy shook his head.

"The headmaster of the school is here waiting to talk to us. I'll let him show you what he showed me." With that, Roy walked over to a door that was adjacent to his office and opened it allowing the strangest person that Ed had ever met walk through and hold out a hand for Ed to shake.

"Hello Edward Elric. I am Professor Albus Dumbledore."

A/N: Sorry that one took so long, things started piling up and I just now got the chance to update this particular story…

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