Hmm…wonder who came to meet Ed?
And because I haven't said it in a while, I don't own any of these fandoms that I write about, I just own what I write about them
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Chapter 6: Introductions
Standing in front of the travelers was the strangest group of people one could think of. There was a lanky girl with pink spiky hair and wearing weird robes; next to her was a creepy looking robe-clad man with a missing chunk in his nose, and one of his eyes was larger than normal vivid blue, and was rolling around in his head. The two behind them were a very old man with an enormous beard (also wearing robes), and a thin boy with black hair, round glasses, who was wearing normal clothes. They were obviously Ed's welcoming committee, and he could feel Winry shrink back as the creepy guy's one blue eye rolled around to focus directly on her.
The old man came forward and held out his hand.
"Which one of you is Edward Elric?" Ed stepped forward.
The old man smiled. "I am Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts. It is very nice to meet you. I am so sorry we're late, but Harry and I had something to do before coming and that delayed us a slight bit." Ed shook the hand extended to him,
"It's fine. We were alright waiting." The man nodded, reminding Al of Hohenheim for a brief second, before turning to face the others. "You are his family I presume?"
Izumi shook her head, "I'm his teacher Izumi Curtis. This is his brother Alphonse," Alphonse waved briefly, "and this is their close friend Winry Rockbell." Winry nodded politely.
Dumbledore stepped back, "This is Nymphadora Tonks-"
"Please don't call me that sir." Snapped the woman with the pink hair, looking highly annoyed.
"-Who prefers to be known as simply Tonks. This is Alastor Moody," the other man grunted, "and Harry Potter, who you shall be going to school with."
"Nice to meet you," said Harry, smiling hesitantly. Ed smiled back. If I'm going to possibly live with this guy I don't want to get started off badly.
"So, now what? The letter mentioned me getting supplies…" Ed said, wanting to get on with it. Dumbledore smiled.
"Eager are you? That's wonderful. I shall be leaving you now, while Tonks, Alastor, and Harry take you to do just that."
"But sir!" Harry said franticly, "You said as soon as we were done talking to Slughorn, we were heading straight to the Burrow." There was no mistaking the disappointment in his voice.
"Alas Harry, times change. Now, I need to be going, so farewell everyone." Dumbledore started walking off through the crowd, and seemingly vanished.
"Alright, Edward. Lets be off then!" said Tonks, giving him a huge smile. "We're going to Diagon Alley, so we can talk without being disturbed." Izumi nodded.
"Yes, lets be off."
The group started walking down the street. The wizards walked ahead of them, until they reached a small pub.
"The Leaky Cauldron?" Izumi read skeptically. "Are you sure this is it?"
"Yeah, this is it," said Moody, shouldering open the door. They walked inside, to see a large space complete with a bar and several tables. Tonks led them over to a secluded corner table, and they sat down, Al's armor attracting many stares.
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"Now," said Moody after they had gotten drinks. "Have you ever used magic before son?" Ed tilted his head to the side.
"Do you mean magic like with a wand? Or alchemy, because alchemy I've done loads of times. Never magic though."
The wizards seemed quite surprised at this. "Could you show us this alchemy?" asked Tonks, after a moment.
"Sure," said Ed, reaching for his glass. He clapped his hand together, and after the confused faces of the wizards sunk in, he transmuted his glass into a small statue of Mustang crying over a gigantic stack of paperwork. Al rolled his eyes, Winry smiled, Izumi nodded proudly, and the wizards stared.
"How did you do that?" Harry asked, wide eyed.
Al nudged his brother, "You might've wanted to use a transmutation circle instead."
"Right, forgot about that. Got some chalk? Or a pen?" Ed asked the room in general. Izumi handed him a pencil.
"Make sure you erase it off the table Ed," Winry said quietly.
"Yeah, yeah," Ed muttered, drawing a small diagram around the statue. He crossed his hands over it, and it became a glass again.
Again, the wizards stared, wide eyed.
"What?" Ed asked. "The whole hand thing, I know is weird, but that was basic. Don't you have alchemy here?" He was met with shaken heads. There was a brief pause, and afterwards Moody got up from the table.
"I need to tell the Order about this," he muttered softly to Tonks, "Proceed as if he hasn't used magic before." Tonks nodded, and Moody Apparated off. Ed, Al, and Winry jumped up, knocking over their chairs.
"What did he just do?" they cried, looking around. Tonks waved them back into their seats and began speaking.
"Okay, so obviously what you just did isn't magic. That's perfectly fine, it just means you may have to do a few beginner classes for a few weeks. Mad-Eye just Apparated, which is a form of travel that is common with us wizards. Now, before we do anything else I need to ask you a few questions."
"Alright," Ed said, anticipating this.
"Where do you come from? I only ask this because we did not pick up your existence until a few weeks ago, which is odd considering we normally know who and where the newest wizards are once they've been born."
"I'm from Amestris," So they record the new wizards the same way Drachma monitors alchemy. Weird.
Harry gave them a blank look, and Tonks hurried to cover up a similar one.
"I'm sorry, where?"
"Amestris. It's South of Drachma, and West of Xing." Ed was met with more blank looks. Winry glanced at him apprehensively.
"Um, we've heard of Drachma, but never Amestris or Xing. However, that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Okay so, this may seem weird, but," Tonks seemed to be trying to phrase something. Harry took over for her.
"Where are your parents, and why didn't they come with you?" Harry asked, while giving them a look that clearly said, I get this all the time.
Al started "Our mom died when we were young and we aren't in touch with our father because-"
"He's a damn bastard. Our legal guardian wasn't able to come here so instead Sensei decided to come." Ed finished, venom showing in his voice when he mentioned Hohenheim. Tonks was caught off guard and Harry nodded, knowing the feeling all too well (only about the Dursleys).
"Well, that's nice. Since we've gotten what we basically wanted I just need to ask two more things. How old are you really, and how old is your brother," said Tonks.
Ed was about explode into 'I'm not shortness' so Izumi spoke up for him.
"Ed is 16, and Al will be 15 in a month." Tonks nodded like it was no surprise for her, and Harry's jaw dropped.
"YOU'RE the same age as me? How is someone as short as you 16?" he burst out.
"I'M NOT SHORT DAMMIT!!! DON'T CALL ME TINY! OR A RUNT! OR ANYTHING DAMN YOU!" screamed Ed, and was about to tackle Harry, when Al and Winry restrained him, Izumi hitting him on the head to take the fight out of him.
"Calm down dummy!" Winry called.
"Big Brother, shut up!" Al yelled. Ed stopped, and glared at Harry, who was feebly protesting his innocence against half of Ed's claims.
So much for not starting off too badly. Oh well, he's the one who called me short, dammit.
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Because I love them just that much…
Not quite sure why I said that, but whatever.
Yeah, Roy sure hates his paperwork. He's a bit like Kyoraku from Bleach in that respect… And now that I think of it, so's Hawkeye and Nanao.
Starts seeing parallels
AAAAHHHHH!!!! KyorakuMustang and HawkeyeNanao!!! The Apocalypse is coming!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!
Dodges a flying brick and hides behind a wall
If the world hasn't ended yet, I'll be updating soon.