Disclaimer: I do not own FMA or any of the Plot or characters, Arakawa does. I do, however, own any OCs, any plot I create, and any fangirl moments used against Ed.

Chapter 7

Rubies and Planning

Let us recap, shall we?

After one emotional night, miss Trisha wakes up and goes to brush her stinky bed breath. She is currently stripped down to her undergarments, and Ed just ran to the kitchen, only to be greeted by a scream. Trisha woke up from her black state, only to yell...

"DAMMIT ED!" I yelled at the ceiling.

I then looked down at myself to see my hot pink laced bra and some black and pink spankys.

"DAMMIT ED!" I yelled again.

I ran to my door after grabbing my robe off of the rung closest to it and threw it on while running down the stairs, the shrieking obviously from my mother... Or was it Ed? 'Mom!" I called to her, sliding into the kitchen on my bare feet.

"Oh! Trisha! Nice to see you're awake!" She told me happily.

A smirk crossed my face when I looked to Ed. "Mom, you never fail to impress me." It was most definitely Ed who had screamed.

"Thank you, Trisha! I'm sorry, but I think I need to dispose of some garbage..." She turned away, Ed's face turning as well. She had Ed by the neck, her arm wrapped around it, holding him close to her chest, and was dragging him out to the garage. Ed was now making a weird growling noise as he helplessly tried to get out of her grasp.

"Mom no reason to anything rash, now. He's just staying over, a friend." Ed had finally wriggled out of her grasp, (which surprised both her and me) and he took a few steps back into the living room staring at her.

"Trisha..." he asked. "Do you really think it will stop this beast from wringing my neck by saying-" he began quietly.

"Oh good! Why didn't the shrimp just say so?" Ed's eye twitched.

I lazily slid over and covered his mouth before anything could come out. I was too tired to be hearing such loud and annoying noises so early in the morning. Besides ones that came from my own mouth, that is. "I DID SAY SO!" He tried to say after his rant was done, but I had anticipated it and kept my hand on his mouth.

It came out as shown: "WhrcanSMALLhcnriGRASSHOFFER?"

"Mom, this is Ed, Ed, this is my mom, Illiana." I said politely, ignoring his outbursts, and releasing my hand from his face before he could even try to rip it off.

she grinned. "Your brother doesn't know he's over, does he?" There was something else hidden in her face.

"No of course not I don't think I want Ed getting murdered..." I trailed off. "Yet."

We glared at each other until my mom spoke up again. "Trisha can you take my jacket?" She handed me her motorcycle jacket and walked over to get something to drink.

Ed, still fuming, stomped his way over to the couch and sat, crossing his arms like a child pouting.. "Who the hell does that woman think she is?" He grumbled, earning a glare covered by a smile from my mother.

"Someone's a little mad..." I poked his forehead with my finger on my way to the closet by the front door. Sunlight flashed across my eyes for a second through the window, causing me to squint for a second.

"So Trish, your brother will be home later today, he said he was sorry he couldn't be here this morning to wake you up, but something came up at work and he had to go an hour early." My mom walked over and turned on the television, sitting in the big couch.

The room went quiet when the closing sequence to FMA came on with the T.V. My mom's face stayed too obviously blank, as I knew she realized that it was Ed on the television who was here in person. It even looked more like confirmation, not realization. Maybe she knew the moment she saw him?

I shoved the thought out of my mind when Ed shot me a look and walked to the front door which I was standing by. "I'm taking a walk to the park." And he left.

"How long has this visitor been with us anyway?" My mother eyed me. I turned to her and walked to the stairs.

"Not long."

And I swear on my way up the stairs I heard my mother mumble 'So it happens again...'.

After a short breakfast and quick changing i grabbed my ruby necklace and earrings, placing the earrings in easily and the necklace around my neck while facing my mirror. I threw my loosely curled hair in front of my shoulders, it seemed to grow yet another inch. It was down to my low torso now. It was such a pain to straighten, so i left it a bit curly today.

'Mom I'm heading out!" I called to her loudly, walking out the front door. I shut it and walked down the steps quickly, trying to get to Ed who was waiting for an hour now.

The girl left the house. Envy creeped to the edge of the roof and peeked at her slowly retreating form. She moved quickly, almost skipping, and Envy had trouble jumping roofs to catch her without being noticed.

His plan was just about complete, only a little longer now. maybe something would decide to be of use to him at the last minute. Anything would help.

He smirked and followed the girl to a small park with a large field filled with rocks. They had passed it last night. She met the familiar blonde at a set of swing looking things, as she sat down and greeted him.

Envy settled down in a tree high off the ground, placing his arms behind his head and crossing his legs on the branch to keep comfortable.

He closed his eyes and opened his ears for clues.

Ed glanced over at Trisha who was making her way to him quickly. He was sitting on a seat made of rubber, connected by two metal chains to a stock of wood on top that left him dangling. He had never been on a swing before, and he lifted his feet often to feel the weightlessness.

"So... Ed... Where do you want be to begin? She asked, sitting facing him on the swing next to him, straddling it. It looked visibly uncomfortable.

Truthfully he didn't know where to begin. Until he saw a red glint come from her neck right above her purple shirt. "What might that be, then?" He resisted the urge to reach out and touch the item, as it was on her chest. It shined just like a stone anyone from Amestris would like to have. It looked like a philosopher's stone, per say.

She giggled lightly, "It's a philosopher's stone, silly." She said it with an edge to her voice, like she was trying to confirm something. Her smile relaxed when there was a slight rustle in the trees near them.

Ed's delayed reaction was of no surprise to her, he fell back onto the sand below the swing, Trisha laughing. "I'm kidding! Gosh. These are Rubies, you weirdo." She watched him sit up, completely embarrassed. Ed almost attempted rubbing the blush from his cheeks, but he would have probably looked stupid.

"Come on, In all seriousness I want to stay focused here, Trish." Her face lightened a little at the mention of her nickname Ed had accidentally used. He tried to cover it up. "A- And what do rubies do, exactly?"

"They're just regular jewelry. People wear them to look nice. They cost quite a lot, too." She looked down and flipped her hair to Ed's left, bringing her hand to her ear and taking out one of her earrings. "Here, play with it while we talk. it's just a simple jewel. I actually love rubies. they're even better than diamonds, in my opinion." Ed looked up at her and realized her hair was curly today, for some reason it seemed much more alien than he would have expected. He carefully took the ruby, touching her fingers for a split second, his mind hyper-active from her gaze placed on his face.

His eyes never left the ruby, he pinched it and imagined the gate inside of himself, he imagined the power this would possess if it truly was a philosopher's stone.

I watched Ed take the stone, hoping he would have taken my light hinting. I had felt a presence following me the whole way here, and the branches rustling were only a sure confirmation. For all I knew this could be a friend, or enemy of Ed's. Like I had told myself before, I had no clue where in the series Ed was, and was still unsure of whether or not he was in FMA or Brotherhood.

If he was as cautious as I hoped he was he would just sense it to be a regular jewel, and not try any crazy alchemy thingy on the ruby. Not only would it alert the stalker, but it may ruin the jewel. I had given him the earring specifically because it wasn't as important as the necklace.

The necklace was a present my father had gotten me on the day I was born. It was the only strong link I felt I had to him anymore. Before I could think any longer, my hopes diminished.

The ruby didn't break, but it did do something strange, it glowed with an eerie blue color, a soft glow, with a comforting humming sound. I almost closed my eyes to listen to the hum better, but that was unnecessary as the humming increased in intensity and the blue was almost blinding, reminding me of the night I found Ed, which for some reason seemed like much longer than two days ago.

I was beginning to shield my eyes, when the light shut off, and the humming in my hears became no more than a heavy buzzing. What i saw first were Ed's golden eyes. "This is it, isn't it? A philosopher's stone? His eyes were burning with almost more intensity than the blue light. I had just barely nodded, when I heard another faint shuffle in the trees, the figure retreating farther away, in the direction of my house.

"But.. How?" I asked. "You.. You aren't even supposed to be real.. I mean it's cool and all, but if that's a philosopher's stone... I wonder how it was made, since they are mined from underground..." The clockworks were working inside my mind rapidly, placing pieces together, a possible solution forming.

"What do you mean? Do you have an idea?" Ed was leaning towards me, obviously forgetting that i shouldn't know any of this, and just called him 'something that shouldn't exist.'

"Our planet is trillions of years old. Maybe all of the souls... all the souls have accumulated together of the last billion years or however long something with a soul has been around... Hmm..." I thought again. "What if not only human souls count though.."

"Huh?"

"What if all of the animal souls stacked up together? Animals, humans, all living things have souls, right?" Things were clicking and fitting into place.

"But an animal's soul can't be used for making a philosopher's stone..." Ed sounded upset.

"Have you tried it?"

"..." He almost said something. "No..." Another pause, more recognition crossing his face. "So, not only are all of these human souls compressing into these philosophers stones... But so are animal souls?"

"Yeah.." It made sense now. "And there have been so many animals on earth... Boy who knows how many souls that must have been? Billions..."

"How many rubies are there, exactly, on earth?"

"Lots, if you put all of those souls together."

"Hey..." Ed said.

"Huh?"

"This means I can get home." Edward said stupidly.

"Hey it's getting to be lunch time, come on back to my house so we can eat. My mom'll have food ready, I'm sure of it." I started back, grabbing the ruby from ed's hands and putting it into my right ear. I felt much more even when standing now. "I'll talk to you more later on your questions, and the philosopher's stone, but I was wondering, what were you doing right before you got here?"

I'm not sure if this was really a good or bad question to ask though.

"I was with Ling... and Envy." I thought back hard to when those three might've been together at any given time. "Inside of Gluttony's stomach..."

So either Ling got extremely stealthy, or Envy just saw that we had a philosopher's stone.

"Ed?" I asked sheepishly.

"Uh?" He replied, snapping out of a trance I had failed to notice he was in.

"Uh..." I paused. Maybe we should discuss this later. "What's on your mind?"

"Al."

Envy laid on the balcony that protruded from the back of the young girl's house.

So the girl had a philosopher's stone... If he could get her to do alchemy or something he could get back to Lust and the rest of the idiots back with Father.

Actually It looked like she had three of them.

Edward was a sucker for girls, he realized. Even Envy knew she was hinting that he not do anything, knowing that Envy was following. That was a clever girl, she would make a great accomplice for escaping this boring place.

And the sooner he escaped, the better.

Now would be a good time to say that 1) I am so so ever dearly sorry i took such a long break, I recovered from writers block and not only that but I have been having some unavoidable health issues that have prevented me from writing to you guys! and 2) i wouldn't be surprised that all of you readers left... or 3) that there are going to be a LOT of plot twists from here on out muahahaaaaa and 4) the next chapter is strictly Amestris- oriented... No trisha or ed or anything... But more plot twists for sure! haha;D

Not only that but there are only two more chapters in Arc 1! And yes, I do realize that this is a short story, but i'm trying! Really I promise! (looks to Leafeey) Right? Ne? *silence*

*crickets*

*twitches...*

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Oh! I'll be leaving it up for a while, but i'll have a poll up on my site for a while for voting on your favorite pairing, Trish and Dami or Trish and Ed. and for those sadistic ones who just want to mess with us ill put up a Trish and Envy one... the winner will possibly get a very OOC influenced Omake :D

Illiana: See you next time!

Dami: Yeah! before another month and a half passes, too!