Hello, there! Here's chapter 3!

Harpygirl91: Yay! Cookie! And yes, Alphonse/Hotaru are a cute couple.

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Okay, so, PAIRINGS so far:

Edward/Winry (b/c Ed needs someone to reign him in and Winry REALLY needs to mellow out)

Alphonse/Hotaru (b/c even our ickle little Aru-chan needs someone...and Firefly needs a good guy to take care of her)

Harry Potter/Sailor Moon

Full Metal Alchemist

"Harry Potter and the Living Stone"

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Chapter 3:

"Demon Riddles"

Of all the Towers the tengu chose to inhabit, it annoyed Hotaru that they had to have chosen the southern Tower of Suzaku. Everyone at Hokkaido Academy of the Mystic Arts knew that there was a large murder of tengu on the campus, not that the Amestris State Military Academy believed them. Very few of Hotaru's classmates knew that they roosted at the top of the Suzaku Tower and only one other person knew that the tengu loved to frustrate Hotaru with riddled messages that were as clear as Jupiter's Red Eye was green, like its Senshi's peepers.

The leader of the tengu, a human looking demon named Kurotengu, was kind of creepy. He never seemed to blink when he stared at Hotaru with those red eyes of his. He was, unfortunately, the leader because he was the strongest in his murder and the other tengu only echoed what he said. Why any of them had a fascination with the Senshi of Silence was beyond her but Hotaru knew that if she didn't go to him, Kurotengu would come to her and at the most ill appropriate of times, like when she was in the showers or changing her clothes.

The bastard had done it before.

Reaching the top of the Suzaku Tower, Hotaru wished that there really was a fire in the large dish that sat in the middle of this gazebo like floor space. Alas, there were only crystals and they reacted with the pass crystal under her shirt. The crystal fires were only called that because when they glowed, they looked like actual flames when you were out at sea…if you could see passed the Fog of Concealment.

"Look, Kurotengu—we need to talk about you shooting your tengu passed my classroom windows. It's starting to make it a little difficult to pretend I'm not your favorite person to torture. No one knows I'm your chosen whatever, other than Headmistress Hirahito." Hotaru spoke to the rafters. She couldn't see the tengu in the rafters at all, which was unusual. The murder always left a few tengu behind to protect it and Kurotengu rarely left their roost, since he couldn't pass off as a normal sized crow like most of his tengu could. "Kurotengu, this isn't funny. I've got to get back to the Main Tower for lunch. Where the hell are you, you overgrown Goth peacock?"

She should've known better by now. Insulting Kurotengu was never a good thing. Hotaru was soon on her back, landing with a hard thud and her head hitting the hardwood. A large black foot was pinning her down over her body, her head between to sharp talons and another between her legs so she couldn't scoot free. Two other talons pinned her arms away from her body by her sleeves so she couldn't move. And over her loomed a the largest crow in current existence with four blood red eyes, thin pupils and the silver talon and red stone of tengu leadership around its neck. It opened its beak and showed razor sharp and jagged teeth and a forked, barbed tongue.

"Carful with your words, Mystic." Kurotengu's voice angrily purred. The giant tengu snapped at her, the tip of its beak just microns from her face. Hotaru couldn't help it—she let out a small shriek and closed her eyes, turning her head. She was helpless and the last time she insulted Kurotengu, he had haunted her sleep and gave her nightmares of him devouring her alive as he ravaged her. It was something that stuck with her, even now.

A cold, curved talon barely touched her cheek as her glasses were taken away. It was one of the signs she was in major trouble. Her nightmares had started out like this. And it only got worse when that tongue licked her cheek, the barbs collapsed and it taking its time to travel up the side of her face. It drew a soft panicked scream from her.

The tongue left her face but the thick saliva remained. Hotaru didn't need a sensitive sense of smell to know that this giant tengu had found something dead to feast on before it pinned her. The very idea that she might join that last meal made her body tremble softly. All the nightmares Kurotengu gave her started out like this—getting pinned, her glasses being taken and that damned tongue.

A hot breath caressed her cheek, cooling where the saliva was. The weight of that proof of leadership on her chest between the two clawed twos told Hotaru that tengu was so damn close to her, she was probably going to finally see if her nightmares were the dialed down version or an accurate portrayal.

"You think you would have learned by now." Kurotengu hissed. "I tolerate your presence when I could kill you. I could do to you as you now fear and you would never be able to stop me. Not even that Element would be enough to save you, for when you are truly frightened, it never comes to your aid—not against me. Remember that."

"You're a real son of a bitch, Kurotengu." Hotaru managed to mutter despite her trembling. "You know that?"

"I am one of your few weaknesses, Mystic, and I will not fall like those other paltry demons, like the last Blood Talon." Kurotengu's claw tightened, drawing tighter against Hotaru's body and getting a whimpering gasp. "Though, I thank you for riding me of that fool."

"You were nicer back then." Hotaru mutteringly shot back. Kurotengu had been nicer back then, just 9 short years ago when she had been 8 years old. Hotaru had helped name him so she could tell him apart from the other tengu, in her innocence. He had been gentle back then, banishing her nightmares so she could sleep. The nightmares of her world and its fall were mostly gone now but they had been replaced with Kurotengu's own fabrications.

"You have said it yourself." Kurotengu hissed softy in her ear. "You cannot hold your place if those who should fear you, lose that respect."

"You've been Blood Talon for 7 years, you bastard, and you've given me little peace over those years. I have a right to be a little put off when you act like I belong to you." Hotaru managed to growl. Kurotengu growled and grabbed her by the throat, moved his foot and shot into the rafters. Hotaru grunted with a soft whimper when Kurotengu slammed her down on a rafter.

"You do belong to me." Kurotengu growled, her amethyst eyes clashing with the blood red eyes behind a black elaborate half mask. His other hand gripped her thigh, half way up her skirt, getting Hotaru to let out a sharp scream. "You have belonged to me the first time I made you scream. I am your master and I do what I please with what belongs to me. Not even your headmistress can save you from demon laws. I can do to you as I please."

"But I'll have to ask you to release the young lady."

Kurotengu looked away from Hotaru and growled softly. "She belongs to me, even by her laws. I made her scream. I defeated her. She is my possession."

"Not until she's 17, Kurotengu. Hotaru's still 16. You'll have to wait until January 6th like every other suitor." It took Hotaru a few moments to realize who that voice belonged to. Only the headmistress, Iyase Hirahito, knew that Kurotengu used Hotaru and how the sorceress knew Hotaru was in trouble now was beyond the Senshi of Silence but she was so grateful for the save. "Release her and put her on her feet to deliver your message. She has always done what you want, come when you call and defend you against outsiders to your pact. It's not a good idea to continue to terrorize her when she's the Light of Chaos. You know if she gets scared enough, He will come to her rescue in some manner and you will not like the results."

Kurotengu looked at Hirahito, then at Hotaru. With a dark growl, he pulled his hand from her thigh and slashed her left bicep. Hotaru let out a scream of pain and a bright silver light blasted Kurotengu off of the girl. Hotaru rolled off the rafter and landed on her feet, her hand over the new wound. She looked up at the blurry figure of Kurotengu standing on the rafters, licking her blood from his long fingers and sharp black nails. His eyes were on Hirahito and he knew she saw the shreds of cloth from her uniform.

Her glasses clattered on the hardwood but soon zoomed into Hirahito's hand. The headmistress didn't take her eyes off Kurotengu as she pressed her silver shawl to Hotaru's wound. While Kurotengu was fair with his murder of tengu and those of the Mystic Isle, more so than the last Blood Talon, the demon was still being far crueler than he had been.

"Come along, my dear. We need to have that looked at." Hirahito told the girl, helping her stand. Hotaru lightly bit the inside left edge of her bottom lip, trying not to cry. She didn't want to give the feathered prick the satisfaction.

"Just so you know, I didn't mean what I said the way you're taking it to mean." Hotaru said, getting Kurotengu's attention. "What I meant has a lot more dangerous implications. It's something I've practiced myself. That's how I know how lethal it really is."

"Leave him be, dear." The headmistress coaxed, gently leading the girl to the stairs. "Oh, and Kurotengu—you and I are not yet finished. I've warned you about harming one of my students when you took the role of Blood Talon."

"I will do as I like with what belongs to me." Kurotengu growled darkly. "Just be pleased in the fact that I have only scratched her. I could have done as she feared before you even came to challenge me."

"To the bone isn't a scratch, Demon." Hirahito shot back darkly.

"…he's right…" Hotaru murmured softly, getting the headmistress's attention. "…he could've done a lot worse…I'm lucky to walk away with only this as a reward…"

"We will finish this later, Demon." Hirahito both promised and threatened, only getting Kurotengu to smirk. "Be assured in that knowledge."

"Looking forward to it, Mystic."

-sweatdrop- Wow, Kurotengu, you're sure digging yourself an early grave.

Kurotengu: -snort-

Ed: -jerks his thumb at the demon- Can I pull an InuYasha and kick his ass?

No, because Al would have to be Sesshomaru and as cute as you'd look with the beads and him with the fluffy thing, this is a HP/FMA/SM cross.

Alphonse: I got a question on the homunculi, since the Manga and the Anime 7 are different on a level.

Don't worry, Al. I've got it all figured out.

Al: Okay, if you say so.