Welcome To Yuki Village: Attacked By A Stranger Or Is He

In the morning they awoke and unboarded the train. Ed yawned and looked around at the buildings around them. Yuri and Akira grin slightly.

"This place is so cool!" Akira cheered with Yuri.

"Heh." Dairu chuckled before turning to Ed."Where does this guy live anyway?"

"Let's see..." Ed looked at the report Roy had given him."This way." Ed began to lead them to a street. He looked around and turned another corner. The others followed.

"Are you sure we're not lost, brother?" Al asked worriedly.

"No, I know where I'm going." Ed answers."Um..."

"Yep, we're lost." Dairu said.

"Oh great." Yuri said rolling her eyes."This is just perfect."

"I'm sorry." Al said.

"It's okay, means we can explore." Akira states."Let's split up and look. What's the address?"

After everyone had looked at the address, and committed it to memory, they set off. Dairu and Yuri went to the empty parts of the city, Ed went to the outskirts of the city, the younger two(Al and Akira) went to the more busy area. They had agreed to meet at the Train Station in three hours and to call for help if there was any trouble.

The two lovers walked through another alley for the millionth time that day. Both were on guard, with their alchemy gloves on. Alchemy gloves had alchemy circles so that the user didn't need to waste time drawing a circle. It had been about maybe a hour since they had split from Akira, Ed, and Al. Yuri sighed as they found nothing, but dirt and rats again.

'I really don't think we're going to find this guy in a place like this.' she thought. Dairu looked over at her and took her hand. Yuri looked up at him with a blush and questioning expression. He just smiled and started walking again. Yuri followed without protest as they turned another corner. The sudden spike coming from the ground startled them.

Akira stared in awe at the busy street she and Al were on. People walked around talking and buying things, children ran around playing tag. Al chuckled at them.

'It's peaceful here. I'm glad we didn't have to go to another country that was trying to thrive on small amounts of things.' she thought sadly.

"What's wrong, Akira?" Al asked.

"Nothing Al, just tired." she lied."We should head back to the Station, the others will be waiting."

They turned and headed back to the Station.

Ed looked around at the houses at the edge of Yuki Village. He was silently fuming that if Mustang had been wrong, then he would personal rip his head off and feed it to a bear. He sighed as he passed another house and paused. He looked at the address and back at the house.

'This is it! Better go get the others.' Ed thought excitedly. He turned around and retook the path to the Station. Once he got there, he saw Al and Akira lookig worried. It didn't take him long to guess why. Yuri and Dairu weren't back yet.

"Where are they? They better not be making-out in the bushes or something like that." Ed growled. Akira shook her head.

"No, they would have shown up."

"Let's go find them. We can vist the house tomorrow." Al suggested.

"Alright." Ed agreed."They took the less popular parts of town, right? That means the alley ways. Come on!"

They ran off toward the darker part of town.

Dairu and Yuri jumped a part as the spike popped up. They looked over to the side where a chuckle came from. A figure came from the shadows. He was tall and dressed in black from head to toe. Dairu's normally relaxed stance stiffened. He glared at the man and prepared to fight. Yuri watched with a sad expression. She knew this man, she had met him the same day she met Dairu.

"What are you doing here?" Dariu snarled.

"What else kid? I came for information on the stone. Same reason as the night I killed your mother." he taunted.

"Bastard!" Dairu roared, clapping his hands and making a wave of water hit the man. He flew back a few feet, but seemed perfectly okay. Dairu cursed.

"It'll take alot more then that to beat me." the guys says(I'm calling him Seth! XD). Seth's arm flew up and chains appeared around Dairu's feet. He struggled, only to have the chains dig into his legs more. Yuri clapped and fire melted the chains. Dairu stood up.

"Thanks Yuri." he said.

"Welcome." she said simplely."Got a plan?"

"Nope!" he answered."I thought we'd just wing it."

Yuri laughs slightly and makes another fire ball in her hand, Dairu does the same with water. They throw them at him. This time the water hit Seth and he had the breath knocked out of him. He sneered and shot chains at them. He slammed them against the walls of the alley. They dropped and he was going to do it again, till he was hit with fire and water at the sametime. Seth made to stand again, though he was in pain. There was an ehco of a clap. A bolt of lightning zoomed down at Seth and hit him. Yuri and Dairu blinked and looked over their shoulders. Akira stood there with Ed and Al. Akira waved.

"Hey."

"Thanks." Dairu said. Akira shrugged and looked to see Seth gone. She looked around, but gave up after not finding him near the group of alchemists.

"Who was that?" Al asked.

"No one." Yuri answered quickly. Ed and Al didn't buy it, but said nothing.

"Ed found the address." Akira stated, changing the subject."We can go tomorrow."

Everyone nods and yawns. They are led by Al to a inn he found and rented rooms to get a good nights rest.