"Brother!" the cry was sudden and the effects immediate. Edward turned to the source of the voice, but not without hearing Ivan groan beside him.

A young girl no bigger than the rest of Edward's chibi group wearing a purple waitress outfit ran up and jumped on Ivan, latching herself to his arm and staring at him obsessively. "Hello, Natalya," Ivan muttered, his face clearly giving off a 'How did you get here?' look.

"I'm so glad I found you, brother. Now we can get married and be one forever," Natalya said to him.

Edward's head met the pavement at the statement. These guys didn't look to be any older than five, yet one was already talking about marriage? To her BROTHER?

Mustang watched in amusement. "Well, this is an interesting development," he said.

Arthur asked Edward, "Do I have to watch him now?"

"I guess not…" Edward grumbled. Now he really wasn't looking forward to meeting Winry. He turned towards her house. They had just gotten off the train when that happened, and Edward wasn't sure how well Winry would take seeing their latest arrival.

The group of now ten left for Winry's house, but Edward had to wonder what was making Natalya and Ivan stay with them at this point. He forced Ivan to come along, but it seemed like now that he found his sister, he wouldn't need to stay.

Den ran over to the group barking when they got close enough. "Hey Den," Edward said.

Winry opened the door and called out, "Hey Edward. Alphonse."

"Winry, who's that?" Edward asked, seeing a little face from behind her leg. The kid disappeared the next moment, though.

"Long story," Winry said, motioning them inside.

Once everyone was settled and accounted for, Edward counted up the chibis. There were nine there, plus Feliciano made ten. Edward was quietly asking himself how he managed to get so many kids following him around, and silently started cursing out Antonio and Roderich for landing him in this position in the FIRST place.

"Ok, so who should start?" Winry asked, looking at all of Edward's chibi followers. Right now Alfred, Arthur, and Peter were talking with a little boy in a simple black outfit. On his other side, Lovino sat by himself glaring at everyone while Ivan, with Natalya still hanging onto his arm, was talking with another new chibi and who appeared to be his little sister.

"I guess I should," Edward sighed, and proceeded to explain how he ran into each of the chibis sitting around them in the two days since he left. At the same time he was mentally kicking himself for letting this happen in the first place.

Winry nodded when Edward finished. "Well, I can see now why you asked to have them all stay here." She looked around. Lovino was now talking with Alphonse about something and Mustang had disappeared into the kitchen, probably to talk to Pinako.

"You really won't mind?" Edward asked her, absently watching Alfred trying to convince Arthur to do something while Peter talked with the chibi from before.

"No, I've got my hands full anyway," Winry said, watching them also. She pointed to the one talking to Peter and said, "He called himself Kiku. I'm not sure what happened, but when I was out walking Den, I ran across him and brought him back. It wasn't until the other two showed up that I realized they might have something to do with Feliciano and Lovino."

Edward shook his head, turning to the other two countries. "I don't know about Feliciano and Lovino, but all of them seem to know each other. This just keeps getting more confusing, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to stand it."

Mustang chose that moment to walk back into the room. "Sorry to cut this short, but we've got to be going if we're to reach Central. I just talked with the person we're meeting there and he said he'll be waiting at the train station tomorrow for us."

"We're meeting someone there?" Edward asked.

Mustang nodded. "I'm not sure who he is myself, but I explained the situation of how you managed to find all of them," he motioned to the chibis around the room, "And he thought more may have shown up, with the goal of taking Feliciano from his captors to give to Francis."

"Did you receive a name?" Edward asked absently.

"He called himself Ludwig," Mustang answered.

/AN

Short chapter is short and I apologize. I also apologize about not updating on Feliciano this chapter, but hopefully we'll get to see him next chapter.

Oh, and confused yet? XD I swear all your confusions will be answered in the upcoming chapters. (And anyone who can figure out the explanation about Lud before I post the next chapter will get a cookie~)

Don't forget to send in countries to join (and at this point, if you want them to show up and join Edward or the Homunculi, mention it or I'll just toss them one way or the other) and your Edward/Alphonse reactions to Feliciano being a boy.

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