Chapter Four:

Shattered Reality

Riiing!!

Annora let out a sleepy groan as her cell phone rang, jolting her out of the warm, dark realm known as sleep. She slowly reached out and picked up her phone from the table next to the sofa and opened it.

"Hello?" she asked groggily. A shrill squeal made her yank the phone away from her ear.

"Annora! You picked up! Are you still mad?"

The teenager blinked stupidly for a few seconds before she realized who was on the other end.

"Katie? Why the hell are you calling me at-" she looked at her wristwatch, "six a.m.?"

"Six a.m.? Annora, it's only been about an hour since I called you last time," Katie said, sounding confused. "And last time, you were really mad. So, where are you?"

"…Why?"

"Because I'm standing in front of your house, and I've been ringing the doorbell for the past ten minutes!"

"Oh…" Annora let out a yawn. "Hey Katie, could you do me a favor, please? I'd really appreciate it if you would feed Rembrant for me."

"Rembrant? You want me to feed some dead artist?!" Katie yelped. "What kind of sicko are you?!"

"Katie, Rembrant's my chinchilla."

"Oh."

"Yeah, oh." Annora rolled her eyes in exasperation. "There's a key to my house under the doormat on my back porch, so you can use that to get in."

"But where are you?"

"Well, I was sleeping."

"So you're in your room?"

"Uh no. Try again Katie," the teenager responded sarcastically as she sat up and ran a hand through her sleep-mussed hair. "Think more along the lines of out of town."

"You're out of town?"

"Yeah, I'm in some place called Central."

Ed came downstairs just in time to see Annora drop her cell phone because of the high-pitched squeal issuing from it. The teen cocked a golden eyebrow as he stared at her curiously.

"What's going on?" he asked.

"My friend's on the phone, and if she doesn't stop squealing soon, the first thing I'll do the next time I see her is smack her stupid!" Annora growled as she glared at her phone. Ed raised an eyebrow before he reached down and picked up the phone.

"Hey, who is this?" he demanded. A startled gasp came from the other end before yet another squeal came from the speaker.

"Edward Elric!!!" Katie shrieked loudly. Ed immediately let out a yelp of surprise as he promptly dropped the phone. Annora dived from her spot on the couch and caught the falling object in her outstretched palm, where she immediately snapped it shut. The teenager let out a sigh of relief as she stood up.

"Phew, that was close."

"Who the hell was that?" Ed asked, his golden eyes stern. Annora let out an annoyed groan as she rolled her eyes.

"That was my friend Katie," she explained as she massaged the bridge of her nose. "Might I also add that she's insane? Not to mention the fact that she's also the owner of the book that you took from me."

"She knows my name!"

"That does not surprise me," Annora muttered sardonically. Ed whirled around to glare at her.

"How the hell does she know my name?!"

"How does who know your name, Brother?" Al asked as he came down from the room that he and Ed shared.

"Some crazy friend of hers," Ed responded, jerking a thumb over at Annora, who shrugged.

"Search me," she responded. Edward glared at her, a scowl planted on his face.

"You just said that it doesn't surprise you that she knows my name, and then you go and say that you don't know how she knows all this! What the hell is up with that?!" he raged, a stress mark appearing on his forehead. Annora and Alphonse both sweatdropped in unison as they stared at the irritated alchemist.

"Umm… probably 'cause Katie knows a lot of weird random crap that I never pay any attention to," Annora offered hesitantly. Ed just made a disbelieving sound in the back of his throat. Annora glared at him in response.

"You can be a real jerk sometimes, you know that?" she growled. Ed just rolled his eyes, serving to only further irritate the sixteen-year old.

"Now, now you two, just calm down," Alphonse said nervously. We need to report to Colonel Mustang at seven o'clock."

Annora looked down at her wristwatch and swore. "Ack! It's already six thirty!"

She ran back over to the couch and hurriedly yanked on her sweater and sneakers, before she pulled on her jacket and wrapped her scarf securely around her neck. Ed raised an eyebrow at the girl's actions before turned around and headed out the door, pulling on his own red trench coat as he did so.

"C'mon, let's get going you slowpoke!" he called out behind him, only to have Annora shoot past him, followed at a much slower pace by Al. An irritated scowl crossed the alchemist's face as he closed and locked the door behind him.

'That damn Colonel owes me big!'

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Alphonse watched Annora as she fidgeted nervously in her seat, her eyes occasionally darting over to Colonel Mustang's office door where he, Ed, and Hawkeye had entered almost an hour ago.

"Arghh! When are they going to finish up?" Annora groaned as she drummed her fingers restlessly along her thigh. "I wanna go home!"

"You need to calm down, Annora," Al pointed out kindly. "Getting impatient won't make the meeting go any faster."

"I know, but still… I can't just sit here. It's not so much the topic of the meeting that's unnerving me as it is the time spent waiting!"

At that point, the door opened and Riza Hawkeye walked out.

"Annora, would you please come in here?"

"Sure," the teenager responded as she stood up. Hawkeye looked over at Alphonse and gave him a polite nod before she closed the door.

"Umm… so what did you need me for?" Annora asked as she stood in front Mustang's desk with her hand clasped behind her back. The Flame Alchemist looked at her steadily, his dark eyes revealing no emotion.

"I understand that your older brother is in the military," he stated in a very matter-of-fact tone. Annora nodded slowly, somewhat unsure as to where the Colonel was going with this topic.

"Yes sir."

"A Private Ethan Thomas, am I right?"

"Yes sir."

"Hmm, interesting," Mustang muttered as he peered at the paperwork that he was holding closely. "Miss Thomas, we have been unable, even through extensive searching, to locate a single military file on your 'brother', much less find any evidence to show that he exists."

"What?!" Annora yelped. "That's not true! He enlisted over a year ago! I remember that because he and my dad had a huge fight over it the night before he went to training!"

"Then perhaps your memory is skewed," Mustang countered. "There is no Private Ethan Thomas in the Amestris military."

Edward watched in silence as stunned horror flitted across Annora's features before her reaction changed. The sixteen-year old's brown eyes hardened and her jaw clenched tightly as tears sprung from the corners of her eyes.

"You're lying," she ground out in a strangled voice. "You're all lying!"

Annora spun around and ran out the door, fighting back tears of fear and anguish. Al stood up when the teenager threw open the office door, only to have Annora run past him, ignoring him completely.

"Annora, what happened?" he called out, only to receive no answer.

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Tears stung Annora's eyes as she raced through the corridors of Central's military office, not paying any attention as to where she was going, except that she wanted to get as far away as possible from the place. Mustang telling her that they had absolutely no records on Ethan at all had shattered her only hope that she would be able to get home, that she wasn't in some other world that existed only in Katie's comic books and TV shows. A choked sob emerged from her throat as she bust out the front door, almost knocking over Lieutenant Havoc in the process. The man stumbled back a few paces in surprise as he regained his balance, watching Annora flee into the snowy morning.

'No, this isn't real! It can't be real!' Annora mentally screamed as she continued to run, her heart throbbing painfully. 'This is just a nightmare, a really bad one!'

The sixteen-year old didn't stop running until she reached an elegant fountain in the middle of a large square, which was located several blocks away from the military headquarters. It was there that her legs gave out, causing her to collapse in front of the stone structure with tears streaming down her face.

'Ethan, Mom, Dad… where are you? I want to go home! I want to wake up from this hellish dream!'

All of the noise around her was muted by the heavily falling snow as it piled up on the ground and buildings, covering up the previous layer with a thick coat of fresh, white powder. The teenager shivered slightly as the cold snow stung the palms of her bare hands, numbing the exposed flesh of her fingers.

"I just want to go home, is that so hard?" she asked quietly to no one in particular. The sound of trickling water in the fountain was the only answer that she received.

Annora watched numbly as hot tears fell from her eyes, melting little holes in the snow before freezing. It was then that she realized how pathetic she must look to the people passing by her: a teenage girl sitting out in the snow by a fountain, bawling her eyes out. The sixteen-year old stood up and rubbed the cuff of her jacket sleeve across her eyes, scrubbing away the hot tears that still clung to her cheeks. It was about that point in time when she noticed the muffled sounds of pounding feet and people shouting. Annora looked back in the direction that she had come from and noticed several dark blurred shapes of people running around. They were obviously looking for something. Or someone.

A slight feeling of unease came over Annora as she watched the approaching people intently. She had the choice of either running away and face the possibility of getting in trouble with the police or military, again, or staying put and finding out what was going on. She decided to choose the latter of the two.

The bandage that had covered the deep cut on her left cheek came loose, detaching itself from her cheek and fluttering down to land on the snow; a patch of dirty cream and dull maroon against the otherwise pristine landscape. Annora directed her gaze upward towards the cloudy morning sky, watching snowflakes spiral down and land on her face, melting back into miniscule droplets of water almost instantly upon contact. After a few moments of staring up at the sky, the sixteen-year old became aware of someone approaching her from behind.

"Annora?"

Edward watched in interest as Alphonse walked up to Annora, ready to interfere if the girl should try to hurt his brother. He silently cursed the deep feeling of guilt that he had felt when he had seen the expression on Annora's face when Mustang had very bluntly told her that her brother did not exist; it was the same feeling of guilt that was the reason behind his coming with Al to find her.

The girl turned around to face them, a sort of dull hopelessness evident within the depths of her mahogany orbs. Alphonse was visibly startled by this sight.

"Annora, are you alright?!"

"What makes you think that I'm alright?" she asked softly as she looked down and slightly to the side. "I've just been told that my older brother, who I trust more than anyone in the world, doesn't exist. It's like saying that he's dead and he's never going to come home."

Ed shifted uneasily from foot to foot as he watched Annora, who heaved a huge sigh and shook her head before she looked him dead in the eye.

"So why are you here? I thought you didn't really care about my problems."

"Uh, I didn't exactly say that…" Ed muttered, a little shamefaced as Al glared at him. "It's just that, well… I was just really upset that the Colonel forced you to stay with us, and I kind of took it out on you."

"Why Fullmetal, I don't think that I've ever seen you act this mature before," Mustang remarked snidely as he and Hawkeye came up behind the three teens. "This must be some kind of record."

Al actually had to grab a hold of Ed's hood to prevent him from lunging at the Flame Alchemist while the irate teenager spat out curses that would have burned the ears of hardened soldiers. As it was, Annora, who was no lightweight herself in that department, was forced to cover her ears before she was scarred for life. Once Ed had calmed down slightly, Annora uncovered her ears, looked up at Colonel Mustang, and scowled.

"You do realize that you're an arrogant, pompous ass, right?" she asked in a scathing tone as she locked her eyes onto his own dark ones. Lieutenant Hawkeye's eyebrows shot up in surprise at the teenager's comment. What shocked her even more however, was Mustang's response.

"Perhaps. Although a foul-mouthed girl like you is hardly one to talk."

Annora chose to respond to his biting remark with the universal gesture of uttermost contempt. The Colonel opened his mouth to fire back some smart-ass comment, only to be stopped by the unmistakable sound of Hawkeye cocking her pistol. Mustang's eyes widened marginally in fear as he realized that he was dangerously close to being shot.

"Sir, we've found her, so why don't we just go back to your office to talk instead of sanding around out here getting wet," Hawkeye suggested in a warning tone. Annora's eyes darted from Hawkeye's face to the muzzle of her gun before she scooted over behind Alphonse, which was where Ed was already hiding. The alchemist glanced over at her before he directed his attention back over to the face off taking place in front of them.

"Is she always this scary?" Annora asked Ed softly. The teenager looked over at her and nodded empathetically in agreement.

"Yeah, she is."

Mustang, on the other hand, was in a fairly uncomfortable position, seeing as if he moved, he'd be shot, and if he gave Hawkeye the wrong answer, he'd be shot. So either way, he was screwed.

The Colonel swallowed nervously, a bead of sweat trailing down the side of his face as he eyeballed the barrel of Hawkeye's pistol uneasily before he addressed his co-worker.

"Umm… perhaps that would be best," he admitted. Hawkeye immediately replaced the safety and smiled thinly at her superior.

"You can come out now," she remarked offhandedly as she turned around and headed for Central Headquarters. Both Edward and Annora almost fell over from shock before they and Alphonse hurried after the woman.

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"So, where are you from again?" Ed asked curiously as he, Alphonse, and Annora walked slowly down the main hallway in Central H.Q. They had just finished an hour long conversation with Mustang and Hawkeye, which had ended with the First Lieutenant telling them that it would be better for Annora to stay with Ed and Al for the time being until they could get her home while aiming her pistol at Mustang to prevent any objections. Needless to say, Mustang had agreed wholeheartedly with the woman.

"Flagstaff. It's not a very big town, but it's not small either."

Ed laughed a bit at this. "Heh, sound's like where we're from. Al and I were born in a small town out East called Resembool. Everybody pretty much knows everybody."

Annora looked over at him and gave a small grin. "I know how that works. When my brother enlisted in the Army to go over to Iraq, pretty much the whole town knew. Annora looked pensive for a few moments before she added. "I hope he's okay."

Ed and Al exchanged looks at her comment before Alphonse asked hesitantly.

"Umm… where's Iraq?"

Annora looked over at the possessed suit of armor in mild surprise. "I have a map in my history textbook in my backpack. When we get back to your house, I'll show it to you."

Ed suddenly froze and uttered a curse under his breath before he looked over at Annora.

"Hughes has spotted you," he muttered ominously. "He is armed with photos of his family. Obvious exits: None."

Annora had just enough time to give a confused 'huh?' before the human slideshow that is Maes Hughes descended upon the three teens.

"Hey there, Edward!" the man greeted cheerily as he came up to them. "How're you doing?"

"We're fine, Lieutenant Colonel," Alphonse replied politely. Hughes grinned at them before he looked at Annora.

"So, this is the girl that caused all that fuss yesterday?"

Annora nodded slowly, a slight hint of an embarrassed blush staining her cheeks. Hughes looked down at her, his expression suddenly serious.

"Is that so? Well, then I have a question for you."

Annora's eyes widened slightly as she looked up at the man nervously. Needless to say, she was extremely surprised when Hughes suddenly smiled at her.

"Wanna see some pictures of my daughter, Elysia?"

Ed and Al both fell over.

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2 hours and 1,000 pictures later

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Annora's eye had developed a semi-permanent twitch during the time that she had been forced to view God knows how many pictures of the four-year old daughter of Lt. Colonel Hughes.

"He's like… a living Kodak commercial," she muttered as she, Ed, and Al walked down the street towards the townhouse that the two brothers shared. Ed cast her a curious glance at her comment.

"What's a Kodak commercial?"

Annora's eyes widened a little bit before she looked over at the teenage alchemist in surprise.

"How can you not know what a Kodak commercial is?"

"Uhh… maybe because I've never heard of it?" Ed offered in a slightly sarcastic tone.

"Oh. That would explain some things."

"Like…?"

"The fact that you're shorter than me."

"Who are you calling a tiny bug that escapes the wrath of a shoe because he's so small that he fits in the grooves and can't get squashed?!" Ed raged, fury shining in his golden eyes. "Besides, that has nothing to do with the conversation!!"

Annora sweatdropped as she looked at the boy. "Okay… anyways, Kodak is a major brand of camera film. Somehow I think that your friend Hughes single-handedly manages to keep it in business with all the pictures he takes. Does he even have a job?"

"Yes, he works in the Investigations department at Central. He also likes to annoy Mustang by calling him repeatedly throughout the day."

Annora looked over in surprise at the boy, who grinned at her.

"So I'm not the first person to be traumatized by an almost endless array of pictures?" she asked. Ed shook his head and smiled.

"Nope. He does that a lot," he admitted. "It's actually pretty funny when he starts to harass the Colonel. One time, I saw him try to light Hughes on fire over the telephone."

Annora thought for a few moments before she began to laugh at the picture that came to mind at the thought of this. Ed gave her a look of faint interest as he gave a small grin in response.

"You're easily amused, aren't you?"

Annora looked over at him, surprise flickering across her face before she gave a faint smile.

"Maybe," she replied in a slightly teasing tone. The Fullmetal Alchemist raised an eyebrow in interest as he stared at Annora. He had never met anyone that had acted like her before. Her moods changed rapidly, depending on what was going on at the time. She had faced and taken down a Homunculus unarmed while using only a very basic style of self-defense, one that looked like it was more suited for brawling than actual fighting, but she couldn't handle someone telling her that her that her older brother didn't exist. Just last night, she had been throwing crap at him and calling him names, and now she was walking besides him and Al, acting almost as though yesterday had never even happened.

Ed looked over at the girl walking slightly behind him with an unreadable expression on her face. As the late morning winter sunlight fell on her face, an expression of anxiety, hope, amusement, and sadness was made evident in her deep chocolate eyes, which looked up at the sky in an almost innocent sort of awe. The teenage alchemist recognized that look; it was the look of one that couldn't believe that they had come so far and only now realized where they were. It was the same expression that he had probably worn when he had passed his State Alchemy exam.

'Where is this girl from?' Ed wondered as he looked at the other sixteen-year old intently. 'And why does she not know what's going on? It's almost as though she's not from this world entirely…'

Ed immediately shoved this thought out of his mind; it wasn't even remotely possible. Not even alchemy could do something like that. With that thought, he increased the size of his steps so that Al wouldn't leave him behind.

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Alphonse stared at the map that Annora had in her history textbook in shock. As promised, she had pointed out where she lived and the surrounding area on a map of the United States. She had also turned the page to show the brothers a map of the world, at least according to where she was from.

"This is… odd. We've never even heard of all these places, much less seen them, and we've traveled around a lot," Ed muttered as he tapped a finger thoughtfully on the continent of North America. Al was still rendered speechless at this point.

"Well, I've never heard of Amesteris before, so I think we're even on that," Annora pointed out. It was then that Annora's cell phone rang, causing all three teenagers to jump about a foot in the air in surprise.

"Doesn't that stupid thing ever stop?" Ed growled as he glared at the small phone that Annora had just pulled out of her pocket. The teenager looked at the screen and sighed as she flipped it open to answer it.

"When it's Katie calling, no."

Nobody, except Al, was surprised when Katie started off the conversation by saying Annora's name several times loudly in rapid succession.

"Annora, Annora, Annora! Are you really there?!"

Annora, who had wisely held her phone away from her ear to prevent going deaf, put the phone up to her ear while her eyebrows shot up into her hairline.

"Uh, Katie, what the hell are you talking about?"

"Are you really in Central?!"

Annora sweatdropped and little oni-bi's appeared around her head as she fought off the urge to smack the palm of her hand against her forehead. How on earth was she going to explain this to her anime-obsessed friend?

"Umm… Katie, I'm not in Central. I read a road sign wrong by accident when I was talking to you last time. Sorry about that."

There was dead silence on the other end. Annora pulled the phone away from her ear and stared at it uneasily. Somehow, she had a bad feeling about this.

"Where are you?"

"Huh?"

"Where are you?"

"Umm…" Annora began nervously, sweat dripping down her face. "I'm in… Denver! Yeah! I'm in Denver right now with some… friends."

"Denver," Katie said flatly in a tone that indicated that she didn't believe a word that Annora was saying.

"Uh huh."

"As in Denver, Colorado?"

"Yep, you got it!"

"Why?"

"Umm… I was going to tell you, but I for got! I was supposed to come here to visit some friends for this… week."

Edward snickered a bit at Annora's obvious unease, only to have her turn around and glare at him while making a slicing motion across her throat with her free hand. The teenage alchemist wisely stifled his mirth, deciding that he didn't want to have Annora try to kill him.

"And I didn't know about this earlier, why?" Katie prodded. "And who was it that answered your phone earlier?"

The sixteen-year old froze, feeling as though someone had dumped ice water into her veins.

'Oh shit.'

Annora's hand was actually shaking by this point, she was so nervous.

"Uh… that was my friend… Alex! He likes to play pranks a lot, and that was one of them!"

"Oh."

Al smacked the back of Ed's head as the teenager once again began to snicker.

"Hey, Al, what was that for?!"

"Because you're being rude, Brother! It's not nice to laugh at people when they're talking to someone!"

Annora turned around to glare at Ed, her chocolate eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Both of you, knock it off!" she hissed. The two brothers immediately stopped bickering just in time to hear Katie's next question.

"Annora, who are you talking to?"

"Umm… Alex and his friend; they're horsing around and stuff."

"Uh-huh."

"Seriously!"

"Uh-huh."

Annora, at this point, was becoming extremely nervous. Not only was she being grilled by Katie, but she was also receiving odd stares from Edward and Alphonse on top of that. It was definitely time to hang up.

"Annora, are you listening to me?" Katie demanded. Annora made a face as she summoned up every ounce of her courage. Once this was all over, Katie was definitely going to give her hell for doing what she was about to do.

"Ohwowlookatthetimegottagobye!" CLICK

(Translation: Oh wow, look at the time, gotta go, bye!)

Annora heaved a huge sigh of relief before she flipped open her phone and pressed a series of buttons before closing it once again.

"Heh, now she can't bug me anymore!" she muttered triumphantly.

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In Flagstaff

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Katie scowled as she glared at her phone, which was currently emitting a dial tone, as though it would cause the object to magically re-connect to her friend's own cell phone.

"She hung up on me!" she exclaimed in disbelief. The girl let out an aggravated sigh as she pressed the redial button forcefully.

"Hang up on me, will you?" she muttered darkly, her expression one that would have sent Dante and the Homunculus running as fast as they could in the opposite direction. "Oh, I'll teach you to hang up on me!"

The phone rang twice before someone picked up. Just as Katie filled her lungs to burst into a furious tirade, a mechanical voice piped up.

"Your call has been blocked. Please try again. Have a nice day."

Katie stared at her phone incredulously before it dawned upon her what had just happened.

Her immediate response?

"Fuck!"

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Hi there everyone! I'm sorry that everything took so long, but I had a lot to do. First order of business, my updating schedule is going to be really messed up for the next eight weeks, namely until the end of the school year. So, that's going to slow down my writing a lot. The next thing is the fact that I have been grounded until I bring my grades up in my science class, so I'm not allowed on the computer until those are taken care of. The last thing is that I was sick as a dog the last time I updated, and wrote, so that might explain some of the 'f' bombs. I'm sorry about that and if I offended anyone. I try not to use those as much, and the last chapter had about four of them in there. -.-;

Oh, and the one in the conversation in the last part of the chapter, that was part of a prank I played on a friend, and that was word-for-word her actual response. She was really mad when I started laughing my butt off and realized that it was a joke. Needless to say, I had to run really fast at school the next day to avoid having my butt kicked into another time zone. She said that she was going to boot be all the way to Tokyo, but she didn't seem to appreciate me saying that I wouldn't mind because I'd get to meet Arakawa-sensei, Takahashi-sensei, and Watsuki-sensei. (The last two are the authors of InuYasha and Rurouni Kenshin).

Anyways I hope you all aren't going to try to kill me for leaving off there.

Ed: Then why do I see about three people firing up a cauldron full of tar? Not to mention why are they holding a big bag full of feathers?

Wandering Hitokiri: (Starts to sweat nervously) Aww crap. (Looks behind her and sees an angry palm tree)

Envy: Why do you keep putting me in a damn trash can?!

Wandering Hitokiri: Because it's fun. Now shut up and leave me alone. (Snaps her fingers and Envy blows up. Grins evilly) Ahh, I love this job!

Ed: Aren't you using him in later chapters?

Wandering Hitokiri: (Stares at Ed) Thanks for reminding me, now you've ruined my fun. (Starts muttering under breath) Stupid runt.

Ed: (Goes ballistic) Who're you calling a runt?!

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Reviews

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Eight new reviews! I'm so happy!

The Maine Coon Cat: I'm on your list of favorites?! Wow! That's awesome!

Liah Cauthon: Sorry about that. I was really sick and had to stay home when I typed up about half of the story and the reviews, so sorry about the misspelling. Fevers of 102 degrees are not fun. I'm pretty short too. I'm only about 5'4, and I have a friend that calls me 'chibi-chan' all the time, which ends with me chasing after her with my backpack, or any other hard object that comes to hand.

Mew Sarin Alchemist: Thanks. Its reviews like yours that inspire me to write.

richard9311: Why thank you.

animeroxmyworld: Yes I did. Your enthusiasm is catching.

Siacatmesecat: Sorry about that one, I didn't realize how many times the f-bomb was in the last chapter until I went over it again. (Turns red) I like your use of 'this one'. Do you read 'Rurouni Kenshin'? I'm sorry to disappoint you, but very little can change my opinion of Dante. Her personality reminds me all too much of a character that I created in my first fan fic, and I hate her as well, even though I created her. The character's name is Ms. Gardens, and she's an evil hag. Every time I write about her, I feel the intense desire to go take a shower because her mind is so warped and evil. I would like to read your story though.

Timcampy-chan: Winry is going to make an appearance in a few of the later chapters, but it's not going to be Annora's graphing calculator that she tries to take apart. Poor Annora, she's going to have to fight off a crazed machine junkie to keep her laptop from being disassembled! I've had my graphing calculator for a few years, but it was still expensive when I bought it. XP

Lightning Dragon Alchemist: You're not the only one. I feel jealous of your ability as well, so I think we're even. Oh, I'm curious as to where you live. If you want to, you can send me a private e-mail. If we live in the same state, let's try to meet! I have two friends that write fan fictions on here, but it's always nice to meet new ones!

I do own Annora, her brother Ethan, and Katie. Anyone else belongs to Himoru Arakawa. Except Michael the perv from the first chapter. He's just some random fathead that I created but don't want to own.