I'm sorry that I haven't updated this for a while, but I really just haven't been in the mood to write this story (ironically since I've been playing KH2 non-stop) I'm going to try, but I've just been suffering from some writer's block.

Sora pulled out the Keyblade and immediately began to swing and slash at the heartless relentlessly. Donald and Goofy backed him up, and every once in a while, would perform trinity attacks to help get rid of the heartless in great numbers. However, as usual, the stupid things just kept on coming.

Sora looked over to Ed and Al, who weren't having any trouble at all defeating the enemies not native to their world.

'The heartless must have been around here for a while.' He thought.

Just then, a couple of Large Bodies appeared. It looked like this would be the last round in this fight. Sora and the others all charged at one, while the Elrics went for the other. Sora jumped to the back of the large heartless and began to slash, cutting its health in half. This enemy must have been new to the Elric brothers, because they simply charged at it and got thrown back by its massive stomach. Al caught himself before he was thrown all the way onto his back, but is brother wasn't as coordinated and fell flat on his back.

"What the hell is that damn thing made of?" he yelled. He threw himself up and tried again, but just got thrown back.

"Try attacking it from the back!" yelled Donald. Alphonse tried o get behind it, but the heartless charged at him, and broke the side of his armor so that there was a gaping hole in his side.

"Al!" yelled Edward. He glared at the Large Body.

"I'll kill you, you bastard!"

'So much for rated E' thought Sora as he delivered the last swing that defeated the heartless he was fighting.

Ed clapped his hands together, and then put them on the ground. Suddenly, a blue light surrounded him, and he pulled up a metal spear from the ground where he had placed his hands. Sora watched in amazement as Ed took the spear and defeated the heartless with ease. Sora, Donald, and Goofy stood there in awe. They had never seen anything like what Edward had just done. Totally ignoring them, Edward put the spear down and ran over to his brother.

"Alphonse, are you all right?" he asked. His brother nodded.

"I'm fine brother, but I'd like it if you fixed this hole in my side." Ed gave a small laugh and ran inside to get some metal that he could use to fix his brother. Sora and the others went over to Alphonse as well to check on him.

"Are you sure that you'll be ok?" asked Goofy.

"Don't worry." He said, "Brother'll fix me up in just a minute."

"Well, that's fine for your armor, but what about your body?" asked Sora. Al looked away from them, and in a sad tone, replied

"This is my body." Sora and the others gasped. He got down on his knees and put his hand through the hole. There was nothing but air.

"This is the price we paid." Said Edward who had now returned with a pile of metallic items. He brought them over and dropped them in front of Alphonse.

"Price? Why did you have to pay anything?" asked Sora. Edward lifted his sleeve on his right arm. It was made of metal as well.

"Because we crossed the line and committed the ultimate taboo in alchemy." He let go of his sleeve, clapped his hands together ,and yet again placed them on the ground. The blue light that they had seen before, resurfaced and it began to change the metal that was on the ground. It sort of began to look like molding clay, being squished and flattened and taking weird shapes. Eventually, it attached to Al's body and filled in the hole. He stood up and began to get used to his body again.

"What is that?" asked Donald. Ed and al looked at each other.

"You know, that blue light, and then the stuff that changes into something else!" said Sora, "we've never seen anything like it!" Edward began to laugh at Sora's excitement.

"You really aren't from around here if you've never heard of alchemy."

"Alchemy, what's that?" asked the trio in unison.

"It's the process of deconstruction matter and turning it into something else." Explained Edward.

"But there are rules," chimed in Alphonse, "To create, something of equal value must be lost, like when Brother made that spear from the dirt. There was dirt lost that created the weapon, so we can't just create things out of air." Sora was still a bit confused, but it was alright, he got the jist of it after all.

They went inside afterward since it was getting close to dinner time. Edward was with Winry so she could make some last minute repairs on his automail arm, and Alphonse was with them. Sora, Donald, and Goofy were downstairs, just sitting at the table while Pinako was in the kitchen making food.

"Hey Pinako," asked Sora, "How long have you known Edward and Alphonse?" Pinako came out of the kitchen wiping her hands on a small cloth.

"I've known them since the day they were born." She said as she took a seat with them.

"What happened to them?" asked Goofy. Pinako was smoking from her pipe, and suddenly froze. She took a puff and then out of her mouth.

"Those boys... they always try to do the impossible and play by their own rules. I wish that they would listen more often."

"They said that they did some kind of taboo in alchemy." Said Donald. Pinako nodded and took another puff.

"It was all because they loved their mother. Oh Trisha, why did you have to go?"

"Who's Trisha?" said Sora.

"Their mother. She died, and when they were still very young, and with the help of alchemy, they tried to bring her back, but it all went terribly wrong. In the process, Ed lost his left lag and Al lost his entire body. Thanks to Edward sacrificing his right arm though, he was able to bring Alphone's soul back and attach it to some armor. Now he uses our automail in the place of his lost limbs and he and his brother are looking for a way to return their bodies back to normal with the Philosopher's stone. It's a magical thing that lets them do alchemy without equivalent exchange, and they'll stop at nothing to get it."

There was a sudden smell of smoke in the house.

"Damnit! The steak is burning!" Pinako got up and rushed back into the kitchen to salvage the meat. Sora sat there taking what Pinako had just told them.

'They really have been through a lot.' Thought Sora, 'we defiantly passed E ten and up.'

After dinner (which was almost impossible to chew), Winry showed Sora and the others where they could stay for the night. It was a small room, but it would do just fine. It had three beds next to each other and a desk that had a lamp to illuminate the room. Sora climbed into the bed that was the farthest right, and Donald and Goofy climbed into the other two that were in the room.

"So tomorrow we go to meet that Mustang person. Maybe he can tell us something about the capsule, or about why there are heartless in this universe." Donald and Goofy nodded, before they tried to get some sleep. Sora turned off the light and got back into the bed, excited about the next day.

In the morning, Sora, Donald, goofy, and the Elric brothers bid their goodbyes to the Rockbells and headed towards the station.

"We couldn't have stayed for breakfast?" he complained to Alphonse.

"It was either this train or we leave tomorrow." Said Alphonse. Sora sighed. He was feeling the same way that Ed was.

"What is this Mustang guy like anyway?" he asked.

"He's a self-centered, smug jackass who just loves to cause us misery and sorrow!" shouted Ed, they were approaching the station.

"You really don't like this guy huh?" asked Donald. Ed shook his head.

"Worst part is, he's the Colonel, so I have to do what he says or I'll get fired, and then we can't get any good leads on the Philosopher's stone. See, it's this thing..."

"We know Pinako explained it to us." Said Donald. Now they were on the platform and Alphonse was buying the tickets. Sora looked up and down the tracks. It was going to be a long way to HQ.

So what do you think of it people?