God I hope you guys like this story. I'm pretty sure the summary was crappy but the idea hit me like 2 days ago and I've been continously writing a chapter each day so far. So heres chapter 3!


"How does it work?" Eloisa asked the older brother who looking over some book.

"What?" he said not looking up.

"Alchemy," she said flipping through the pages of a 'Beginners Guide to Alchemy' seeing the different forms of transmutation circles. 'I did always want to be an alchemist since I first started watching the show.' She thought, skimming through a page that explained on how to transmute dirt in to flowers. "I understand a bit of what it's explain but how it actually works I'm not getting." She sighed closing the book and laying it down on her lap.

"It's equivalent exchange," he said.

"I know but still," she grumbled pursing her lips grabbing another alchemy book. They seemed to always have some form of alchemy book lying around. "I can't fully grasp it," she sighed looking over at the desk he was sitting at looking for a blank scratch paper and pencil. "The basic laws I can understand," she said crawling closer to next to the brother grabbing hold of the paper and pencil, "The drawing perfect circles seems impossible," she said laying the book down to a page on transmuting wood and carefully drawing the transmutation circle on the paper. "See!" she exclaimed pouting at her failed attempt of a circle.

"That's an oval," Edwards bluntly stated making the girl glare at him.

"I can see that."

"Use your pinky," Alphonse voice said behind them, "use your pinky as the center of the circle and draw it from there." He said gently moving Eloisa finger to the middle of the new blank piece of paper. "Try it." He encouraged her as she excitedly tried to redraw the transmutation circle only to end up with an oval again.

"Impossible to draw one," she pouted once again.

"Here," Edwards said standing up and moving right next to here taking her right hand in his helping her draw the simple transmutation circle. "See," he said moving their hands away to reveal the perfect circle. "Don't angle your hand so much," he said gently moving her hand in the way that would make it easy for her to draw the circle.

"You're hands really cold," she blurted out looking at the gloved hand that was holding hers. 'He must be using his metal arm.'

"Sorry," he mumbled out clamping his hands together before placing them down on the paper transmuting a small amount of wood into a tiny horse.

"Wow!" Eloisa said excitedly taking hold of the horse into her hands. "That's so cool," she said in amazement looking at Ed and back at the horse.

"That's baby stuff," Edward said confidently puffing out his chest seeing her amazed eyes go from the horse to him.

"Teach me!"

"What?"

"Teach me," Eloisa said bouncing up excitedly, "come on I'm a fast learner!"

"No," Edwards quickly said sitting back on the chair, Eloisa's excitement slowly dying down.

"But-"

"You came from a world where this type alchemy never existed," he plainly stated going back to reading his book. "Trust me you don't want to get involved with this. It will only brings bad things." He finished shutting Eloisa down from trying to persuade him any longer.

"Poo," Eloisa simply said grabbing a few of the books and heading to the bedroom closing the door behind her.

"Brother," Alphonse said noticing the grim look that formed on his face.

"She's better off without alchemy Al," he softly said closing his eyes.

"But brother," Alphonse said hoping to reason with his older brother.

"I couldn't save Nina from the evil of alchemy but I'll be damned to not try and save Eloisa from it," he said glaring down at the book in front of him.

"I'll go check on her," Alphonse said heading over to the bedroom cracking the door open to see Eloisa crossed legged on the bed with book around her opened to pages filled with different transmutation circles. "Eloisa?"

"I may not know a lot about your brother," Eloisa said not looking up from the book she was reading, I do, "and I may not know the reasons why he won't teach me," Nina, "but that doesn't mean I can't try to learn on my own!" she determinedly said looking up from her book and giving Alphonse a big smile.

"I can help," Alphonse said moving towards the girl his metal legs scratching softly along the wooden floor, "I may not know as much as brother but a I know a few things," he said sitting on the bed next her making her slide closer to him from the weight of his armor.

"You don't have to," she said smiling up at him, "I don't want you to get in trouble."

"It's fine," he happily said pointing to quick note on one of the pages. "in order to successfully transmute something you have to be able understand the chemistry behind it." He said as Eloisa let out a loud groan.

"This is going to be tough," she said falling down on her side on the bed, "I'm horrible at chemistry and the math behind it." She pouted.

After at least 3 hours of going over and over some of the basic concepts of chemistry and alchemy. An abundance of multiple papers filled with oval and circle shaped failed transmutation circles were scattered around the floor. Alphonse was finally able to teach the stubborn and frustrated girl a simple transmutation. Picking up a book from the other side of the room Alphonse thought would be easy for his new found friend Eloisa to learn he turned around book in hide seeing her fast asleep covered in paper and open books. If he could a small smile would have formed on his face seeing how in a few short hours she was able to learn so much regardless of her constantly saying she was horrible.

"As stubborn as brother is," he said softly gently moving the papers and books away so she could sleep more comfortably.

"Looks like a tornado passed through here," Edward said from the doorway massaging his neck, "I guess she decided to teach herself then," he scoffed looking at the peaceful girl sleeping on his bed.

"She is as strong minded as you brother," Alphonse said, "taller than you also," he jokingly said.

"Who you calling small!" Edward shouted causing the sleeping girl to stir a little from the noise before settling down and going back to sleep. "Huh," he said running a hand down his face seeing that the morning had quickly turned in to night. "For someone who was snatched for a completely different world and brought to a new one she sure has been acting calm about it all."

"She has hasn't she."? Alphonse said looking over seeing his brothers' face slowly start to show how tired he was. "You should go to sleep brother."

"We have to go to the 1st Branch Library tomorrow morning," Edward taking his coat off and handing it on the bed post "we finally have a lead on getting the philosopher stone with D. Marco's research notes." He said stretching out his tense muscles laying on the bed.

"Goodnight brother," Alphonse said taking a seat keeping an eye on both his older brother and newest friend.

"Night Al," Ed sleepily mumbled out.


"It's gone," Edward, said in shock slowly moving down to pick up a burnt book only to have it turn to ashes. "It's nothing but ashes,"

"I wonder who did this?" Alphonse asked slowly shuffling closer to the burned down building without trying to destroy anything else.

"Our only decent lead is turned to ashes," Ed disappointedly said slowly taking in the burned down building knowing well that library was his only lead.

"Can't we go check and see if maybe they were able to save some books," Eloisa suggested, "or you there could be someone with photographic memory that read said books you're looking for?" she carefully said trying not to reveal anything to the brothers and give away any of her knowledge.

"Major Armstrong!" a feminine voice shouted from behind us. A pair of military people, male and female, salutes the Major.

" Oh, Second Lieutenant Ross and Sergeant Brosh," the Major said smile at the two military officials behind his oh so famous blond mustache. "To what do we owe this pleasure too?"

"You have been ordered back to the Command Center," Ross said.

"We will be taking care of supervision Edward Elric and his brother," Brosh added on, "along with Eloisa."

'I wonder what timeline this series is following,' Eloisa thought seeing Edward over reacting at his apparent 'new babysitters'. 'I hope it's the Brotherhood one. I have watched that one more than the original.'

"We have a car waiting for us sir!" Brosh yelled running to catch up to Ed who ended up stomping away annoyed, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Oh brother," Alphonse said slouching slightly.

"He can be a handle can't he Al," Eloisa joked earning an uneasy chuckle for Alphonse both of them following Ross towards the car. "Second Lieutenant?"

"Yes," she said motioning her to enter the car first.

"Do you know the person who was working the First Branch library before the fire?" Eloisa sitting at the end of the car followed by Brosh and then Ross with Al and Ed in front of them.

"Well there was someone who was well acquainted with the books there," Ross told them perking Ed's interest, "Unfortunately, she wasn't working there anymore and I can't remember her name exactly."

"Sheska?" Eloisa said earning an unnoticed curious look from Edward.

"Yes!" Ross said quickly tapping on the window separating them from the driver. Giving him the address to head to Sheska's home. "Did you know here Miss Eloisa?" Ross asked realization dawning Eloisa at the fact that she said information that she was supposed to be clueless too.

"No! I, uh, guessed!" she quickly said scratching the back of her head nervously Ed's previous suspicions on her growing even more. "Yes, I guessed that's what I did." She finished as the car came to a halt in front of a small house. "Look we're here!" she said quickly jumping out of the car and running towards the front door.

"Weird," Bosh said as all 4 of them stepped out of the car and followed the girls lead who ended up talking to an elderly woman.

"She should be on the 3rd door to your left," The elderly woman said as Eloisa gave her a quick thank you and headed towards the direction.

"Hello?" Eloisa knocked before opening the door seeing the bookworm of Sheska's abundance of books taking up most of the space in the room. "This would be a dream come true if it were better organized."

"Is she even in there?" Edward sighed looking at the barely illuminated stacked room.

"She's under the books," Eloisa said holding up her pointer finger searching for the hand and glasses, "Right there!" she pointed to the far right hidden corner the girl was buried under a pile of books in.

"How did," Edward was about to ask before she bolted to where she had pointed before throwing a few books away from the pile fully revealing the twitching hand of a person.

"There's someone under there!" Ross, Bosh, Alphonse, and Edward yelled in unison quickly running over to help uncover the buried Sheska.

Gasping, Sheska repeatedly started to thank a panting Edward while Eloisa stacked a few of the books making sure they wouldn't fall over a crushing one of them. "Thank you! I'm so sorry I got myself stuck under there!"

"You're Sheska aren't you," Eloisa smiled warmly at her standing up and dusting herself off.

"Yes."

"You have photogenic memory, no?"

"I do!" Sheska happily said.

"Then you can help my friends here!" Eloisa said motioning to the boys on the ground, "they're looking for books by a Dr. Tim Marco and I'm almost positive you've read them no?"

"I have!" Sheska excitedly said, "I can write the books down for you. I remember all of it perfectly but it might take me a while to write it all down."

"Perfect," Ed said standing up grinning at Sheska, "When do you think you'll have it done by?"

"At the most two maybe three days," Sheska said moving her fingers around and mumbling a few things about not eating and what not to be able to finish write it all down for the brothers.

"That's fine," Ed said sighing rubbing the back of his neck, "I guess we might be able to show you a bit around Central then." He said looking over at Eloisa.

"Really?" she said her eyes going slightly wide in excitement. "Awesome!" she happily said smiling at the Edward causing a small blush to coat his cheeks noticing how her brown eyes quickly lit up. "I desperately could use some womanly essentials," said examining her slightly torn dark blue t-shirt, jeans and converse, "and maybe a change or two of clothes."

"I-It's settled then," Edward stuttered embarrassed at the images of said womanly essentials popping up in his head. "We'll go get you some clothes and we'll be back to check up on you Sheska," he saved waved goodbye heading out the door and back to the car.

"I hope she doesn't get buried underneath all her books again," Alphonse spoke up scotching over to sit next to Eloisa this time.

"I made sure to put a few in sturdy stacks," Eloisa said looking out the window as Ross told the driver to drop them off in the market center of Central. "But of god so many beautiful books in there," she gushed, "I can only dream of owning that many books." She sighed Edward chuckling at how easily excited and happy that girl was.

The thought still lingered in the back of his head as he saw her animatedly talking to Al about some of the books she saw in Sheska's house. Which Al seemed to happily listen to, contribute and ask a few questions here and there. It was good to see his younger brother in a good mood after all the disappointments that have been happening to the so far. She knew about Sheska and where she was buried. She seems to know a lot more than what she is admitting too.

"Isn't that right brother?" Al said snapping Ed out of his thoughts.

"Hmm?"

"Mom used to read to use when we were little," Al said, Ed smiling softly letting the memory form in his head of his mother reading from children's book to Al and him before bed.

"She did," he said glancing out the window, "almost every night before bed."

"My mom did that for a short while," Eloisa piped up a small smile gracing her lips, "she decided to stop when she saw that I started to read on my own."

"Bookworm," Ed joked smirking.

"Pipsqueak," she retaliated glaring at him.

"Who you calling pipsqueak, nerd?" Ed grumbled out veins popping out of the side of his head in annoyance when someone mentioned his height.

"We're here," the driver said stopping on the side of the street.

"Make sure to stay together," Ross said stepping out of the car and looking up to see Edward and Alphonse chasing behind an excited girl moving from one store to another. Sweat dropping, her eye twitched in annoyance clutching her hand in a fist.

"She's an energetic one," Bosh said turning to look at Ross who was already running ahead of him to catch up to the group they were supposed to protect. "Wait for me!" he shouted chasing after her.


Eloisa's POV

"I'm in actually here," I said looking around the anime world I had seen so many time, imagined myself in. "I'm in the Fullmetal Alchemist world," I mumbled stopping at a store filled with flowers.

"Anything I can help you with miss," a little girl said smiling widely at me.

"I'm just looking sorry," I told her looking at the many different colors of flowers in the shop.

"Hey!" Ed shouted finally catching up to me, "Don't run off like that," he panted out leaning on his knees trying to catch his breath.

"Sorry," I apologized, "I got overly excited and I wanted to see everything," I shrugged looking down at the blond teen in front of her. She had to admit for someone her age he was pretty small. 'Really cute and god damn if I remember right he was pretty fit under those clothes. This is a fan girl's biggest dream,' I thought.

"Hey mister," the little girl said tugging in Ed's famous red coat trying to gain his attention, "here," she told him holding out a bouquet of blue rose up at him, "your girlfriend will love these," she said beaming at him and then at me.

"Girlfriend?" I said feeling my heart race in embarrassment while Ed's face quickly turned a tomato red.

"N-No!" Ed quickly stuttered out, "she's not my girlfriend!" Ed said seeing him only continue to get increasingly embarrassed.

"Idiot," I mumbled out laughing at him.

"W-What are you laughing at?" he grumbled while I shook my head at him taking the bouquet of flowers from her.

"So kind of you Ed," I said smiling and taking a sniff of the flowers, "I love the flowers," I told him giving him a smile before walking out on to the next store.

"Moron," Ed said looking at her retreating form smiling before paying the little girl and following after her.

"Where to next Eloisa?" Al asked me as I moved the flowers around an object in mind to form them.

"Hmm I guess a pharmacy might have some of the things I need," I told him concentrating on the task at hand, "and then just a few clothes and I should be good to go."

"Try not to take so long, alright," Ed, blurted out looking around the stores.

"I'll try my hardest," I said rolling my eyes.

"Here's a pharmacy," Al pointed out to the little run down store.

"I'll be quick," I said handing Al my flowers stepping inside looking around hoping they would have the few major necessities I need. Humming softly to myself I found what I need and grabbed a few that would last me at least 4 months. Wincing slightly I felt a pang of pain in my stomach. Shaking it off I finished grabbing my stuff heading to the counter to pay with the money Ed gave me as another wave of pain struck my stomach causing me to drop my items and clutching my stomach.

"Miss, are you alright?" the owner said as I gritted my teeth taking a few deep breaths nodding.

"Y-Yeah," I wheezed out slowly collecting before falling down tightly holding my stomach as the pain only increased.

"Miss?" the owner asked as I bent down whimpering at the horrible pain surging through me. "Miss!" he shouted seeing the small amount of blood splattered on his floor from my couch.

"Hey," Ed's voice rang through my ears as I fell down on my side coughing up more blood, "Eloisa!" he shouted running towards my followed by other steps. "What happened?" he asked me.

"S-She just fell down!" the owner stuttered out scared.

"C-Can't breathe," I wheezed out gasping as a few tears streamed down my face.

"What's happening…oh god!" Ross's voice rang as she gently moved me over on my back.

"H-Hurts," I cried clutching my stomach tighter, "make it stop." I whimpered couching another, bigger, amount of blood.

"We have to take her to a hospital," Ross said brushing my hair gently away from my sweaty forehead, "Alphonse," she sternly said standing up, "we have to get her to the car." She said.

"There's a d-doctor not far from here," the owner said as Al gently picked me up.

"Where?" Ed said not taking his eyes of the pained girl in his brothers' arms.

"Just a block and a half to your right," he said as the brothers nodded at each other taking off, "He's called Doctor Matthew!" he shouted.

'Was this Truths payment,' I thought, 'did he take an organ as payment for being here? I felt this pain before. Before I came here, right?'

"You're going to be," Al reassured me holding me tighter to him.

You're the stone!

'I'm the stone?'

Let's see how long you can last.

'I'm the stone.' I heard Truth say that. I felt this pain when I got here, in class also. It was the stone. I am the philosopher stone.