(A/N: Thanks for your reviews everyone!!! This is the next chapter… Oh, and this is set in Harry's sixth year yet I won't be following all of HBP because this wouldn't fit in otherwise.)

Chapter 2: He lives! Praise the lord!

"Here, give him to me," a woman with bubblegum pink hair said, "I'll heal him."

Riza handed Ed over to the young woman holding a stick out and watched as she waved her stick over Ed and said something. Ed's wound instantly healed. Riza's eyes widened slightly at what she saw but she learned that emotion was your weakness while in the military.

"Come," the pink-haired woman said, "We've got to go to the hide out before the ministry workers get here." And she stuck out a sock, motioning for Riza to touch it. For some reason, Riza's instincts told her to trust the young woman, and Riza always trusted her instincts. So, she put her hand on the sock and immediately felt a tugging at her navel (she's still holding onto Ed) and she landed in a weird house, to the surprise of some of the inhabitants. She was looking around the room and taking in the appearances of the people in the room and the room itself, when Ed woke up.

"Whoa," he said, rather disturbed at the fact that he and Riza were in a roomful of strangers, "Where on earth are we?"

"I'd like to know too," Riza said politely to the pink-haired woman beside them.

"We're at the Burrow, shouldn't you know that," she asked them quizzically, then a look of realization dawned on her and she continued, "Oops, I brought strangers here."

A rather shabby looking man walked up to them and said, "I'm Remus Lupin, call me Remus. Who are you two?"

"Riza Hawkeye," Riza answered briskly, "And this is Edward Elric." (Ed didn't take Riza's surname when she adopted him and Riza didn't have a problem with it, as you can clearly see…)

"Why did Tonks," he pointed at the woman who brought them here, "bring you here?"

"No idea," Ed replied.

Remus looked at Tonks.

"Well, me and the others went to the place you told us to go, and we were hiding at the side unsure of whether we should do some thing or not-" She was cut off by Ed who snorted, "You're lucky you didn't do anything, or we would have killed you like all the others and it was pretty obvious where you was hiding yet those idiots who wanted to kill us didn't see you at all."

"You could see us? I thought it was a pretty good hiding place," she stated bewildered. He gave her a blank look that told her he didn't care.

"Tonks, could you continue," Remus asked.

"Oh, right. Then, you-know-who had this big circle with lots of lines and triangles in it activated by one of the Death Eater's blood and blue light flashed from the circle and I covered my eyes to block them from the light and when I uncovered them, there were noises and I saw these two kill off three-quarters of the Death Eaters there. Then, the boy got hit with a Reductor Curse and was thrown onto this spike, mind you, he was nearly impaled on it but he turned to the side and just got his side struck. We came from our hiding place and the remainder of people there fled while I healed the boy's wound. The others investigated the site and are clearing away the evidence right now. I assumed that because they were getting rid of the Death Eaters like that, that they were on our side. I'm terribly sorry."

"It's alright Tonks. You said these two were killing the Death Eaters, right, but with what?"

"The boy would clap his hands together and spikes would shoot out of the ground and the woman had this muggle machine that shot something out of this hole in the front and kill the person that it hit."

"This boy did that?" a red-haired woman exclaimed.

"STOP TALKING ABOUT ME AS IF I'M NOT HERE! AND DON'T CALL ME 'BOY' I'M SIXTEEN FOR GOODNESS' SAKE!" Ed stood up and shouted.

Everyone looked at him shocked. Well, everyone except Riza. Ed glared at them and sat back down. The red-haired woman spoke first, "You're sixteen? But you look fourteen. A bit short for your age, aren't you." (I'm not making Ed too short because I pity him.)

That was her mistake. Ed lunged at her but Riza grabbed the hem of his coat so he couldn't get very far.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE THROUGH A MAGNIFYING GLASS? I'M NOT SHORT!!!" (I don't really have to type who said this, do I? It's rather obvious isn't it?) Ed calmed down after a bit of shocked silence and plopped himself down next to Riza.

"That boy has quite a temper," Remus said nervously.

"No, that was pretty subdued," Riza stated, "Usually he will beat up the person who said that and everything around that him or her. Once, he almost killed somebody for calling him short. But, hi- somebody stopped him before that happened," she caught her self before she reminded him of his brother.

"How did you get here?" It was Remus who asked the question.

"Well, we were at Central, when somebody activated an alchemy circle and brought us here."

"The two of you came from the circle?!?"

"Because of this, I'm afraid that they have to stay with us."

"Wait, Remus. How do you know that they really came from the circle? The light may have just been a cover and the Death Eaters that they killed could have been fake. How do the two of you know each other?" This time, a man with lots of scars and a chunk of his nose torn off spoke; the last question was directed at Riza and Ed.

"She's my mum." Eyes widened and most of the people in the room were looking at Riza. One of the other guys exclaimed, "But she doesn't look much older than you."

"Never mind her age, Kingsley, we need Dumbledore."

Crack!

"Speak of the devil, he's here," the man without a whole nose said aloud.

"Oh my. Who are these two over here?" a kind looking old man said.

"Tonks will explain it. We have to find out what to do with them."

Tonks gave a quick explanation to Dumbledore and when she was done, he said, "Why don't they come to Hogwarts? She can be a professor for a new subject and he can be a student. I sense some magic in him. Is that alright with the two of you?"

"Yes." Came Riza's grateful reply.

"Now to decide what subject for you to teach."

"How about self-defense?" Tonks piped up.

"Splendid. Now that that's settled, I have something to attend to." and with another crack, he was gone.

(A/N: There! Longest chapter I've ever written in either of my stories so far. Please review.)