alright after some delay...here's numbah 5! woohoo! hope you enjoy it! the story will start following the manga now, SO

I DON'T OWN Fullmetal Alchemist! they all belong to Hiromu Arakawa! i am simpley a lowly servant looking up at her queen, hoping to be honored that i could even come a smidgen close to her original masterpiece...i'm weird XD

"My Bomber; My Peacemaker"

"They're beginning to walk their own path"

"Edward! Alphonse!"

The blond boy turned around when he heard his name being called. Edward smiled as soon as he saw me waving frantically in the air. I couldn't help it. It was good to see a familiar face now and again. Theirs was a pleasant surprise. Edward shouted back to me.

"Christina!"

Approaching them with a smile, it was like seeing a friend you had gone to school with in a store suddenly. I pulled little Edward into a side hug while Alphonse I merely hugged his arm.

"You two look well!" looking the little brother up and down, then realizing how hot it was, I asked a perfectly innocent question.

"Aren't you hot in that? You could at least take off your helmet…"

The two brothers just looked at each other briefly and smiled. "Just a hobby remember? He's used to it."

Funny. I didn't think you could get used to the heat in a big suit of armor…

"Where are you guys headed? Library?" as always, I knew what a big bookworm Edward was from our letters from his journey. Of course with the move of my shop to a simple basket business It was rather hard getting my letters from others. Occasionally I had received letters from Lieutenant Hughes, along with pictures of his daughter and wife, not to mention several from Alphonse letting me know how their travels were going…

"I…I wish…" Edward moped.

"Huh?"

"We came to see our teacher…" Alphonse sadly added.

"You think I could meet him, too?"

"If you want I suppose…" he said as he motioned his arm for me to come forward. Taking a nice long walk past the stationed I waved to Bido, the small gray colored man I had become friends with along with the other people at Devil's Nest, He looked at me rather oddly but I suppose he didn't question why I was walking close behind a small boy. Besides, looking behind me I could see several others for the Nest on the roofs, watching me walk behind them. I tried shooing them away but they wouldn't stop following. Looking up at all the buildings I noticed how I had never really looked at the buildings; probably because I was too focused on work to look at my surroundings clearly.

That man had always told me that was a good way to die on the field.

I noticed the huge library steps, sort of hard to miss; they were quite narrow for a library. Edward said that no matter how small or big a library is, it's worth nothing if it doesn't have the books to fill it. I had no way of knowing if he was speaking for himself there as well…the library had the air of the motels in Central, it was bulky and wide, but small on the inside compared to Centrals; although few can compete with Central in any contest.

Gazing up near the entrance I noticed the head librarian locking the doors for the evening. Meaning it was five o'clock…

Five o'clock…

"Oh Crap! I gotta go check in soon!" Greed always made me call in if I was going to come in the Nest late. This way, he would know that I was ok. I don't believe he really cares about me, but it might be his overprotective nature coming out. He is a very mysterious person when it comes to his gang members. Even the male ones; always said he wanted to keep track of his 'belongings'. I didn't much want to be treated like an object to be bought or sold, but he DID give me free ingredients, not to mention a safe place to sleep.

Too bad about not meeting the Elrics alchemy teacher…"Where's your teacher live?"

"A meat shop." they replied.

I thought about it for a moment, but, It couldn't be the same shop I had been working at…I may as well go and ask for a phone call…it couldn't hurt.

"At last…we're here." Edward said with a forced determined look on his face.

"Yup."

The small boy and his towering brother stood in front of my place of work: Meat. just a sign with the word 'Meat'. Of course it did have a cow, pig and chicken underneath the 'meat' sign on top of the building. They were having a special on Mammoth today.

The wind had a nice breeze to it, seeming to get colder as they walked towards the entrance.

Edward grimaced "I just hope… our teacher isn't here!"

"Uh huh!"

"HI! Can I help you?" a mans voice came from up behind us suddenly.

Edward, scared himself to the floor, his heart probably going a thousand miles an hour.

"Please come in and…Edward? Is that you? Long time no see!" the bulky man said cheerfully.

"You're…mason, right? Hi…" he stood up only to have his head patted repeatedly hard.

"Aha ha ha! You've gotten so big! And whose your friend in the armor?" he said looking over at his brother.

"I'm his younger brother Alphonse."

"You've really gotten big…" he said, looking him over.

"You came to see Izumi right? Just wait a sec. I'll go get her. Perfect timing! Izumi just got back from a trip yesterday."

He walked to the side of long building and entered the door.

"Hey! Boss! You have some guests waiting out back."

The deep voice of a man could be heard from inside "Guests?" the huge, burly man walked outside, bloody cleaver in hand with equally bloody apron around his chest as he cracked the areas wherever he stepped. He had a scary looking face; the kind that made you want to do right when he was around. Like a scary principle who also happened to be your pastor.

"Huh?"

"N…" he began as Alphonse finished his sentence for him, "Nice to see you…again…"

Sig's terrifying shadow loomed over Edwards tiny body. His scary looking face didn't seem to faze little Edward at all. After squishing his head and saying 'hello' to the three of us, Sig took off his bloody, spotted apron and began walking towards the back of the shop where their main house was. He opened the door to check on his wife, Izumi.

"Christina would you like to come as well?"

"Oh no Mr. Curtis I couldn't! I promised to check in with a friend."

Technically that was a half lie.

"'Check in'?" he seemed to have called me on it.

"Well…she's very worried about be sometimes, since I tend to get lost…" this was the truth.

"Alright, I'll tell her you stopped by."

"Take care you guys! I'll see you tomorrow evening?"

"Yea we'll be good!"

"By miss Madeline." he said while waving goodbye.

"Alphonse please just call me Christina…you're so formal."

"Well, somebody has to be…"

True. Alphonse was the most responsible people I had ever met.

As I turned around from the alley-way I was standing in, I could see Izumi's foot coming out of the doorway and into Edwards face.

"So…who were you with?" Greed asked from the couch.

"Hmm?" I said, putting my things down behind the bar counter, wondering why he sounded so suspicious.

"Ulchi said he saw you walking with some blond kid and big suit of armor."

"Oh him? That's Edward and his brother Alphonse." I replied quickly, shrugging the question off.

"Edward Elric?" If he had ears they would have perked up.

"Yup. He used to come to my shop sometimes. He's a state alchemist. He was the short one in black."

"Black clothing…in this heat?"

Dublith was known for being very hot, especially since it was located close to the desert. In fact it was next door to Ishval…What was left of Ishval anyways. Greed sat up from Roxie and Janice, the girls who were always around his arms, and came very close to my face.

"This Edward…his brother is inside a big suit of armor?" he said with his eyes following mine.

"Yea…"

"Bido," he backed up and faced the gray man in the corner "Why don't you check them out tomorrow? Do you know where they might be then?" he turned to face me again.

"Edward loves the library so tomorrow he might be there…" most likely.

After a few drinks with Martel and several others, we played a little card game. All while they still drank of course, what's a card game without drinking?

I drank a small shot glass of Stray Dog since Greed kept nudging it in my direction, tasted like Scotch mixed with Vodka…except aged tasting.

I figured it was best to tell him I enjoyed his favorite drink even though he could probably tell I was lying.

After the game, I was feeling so light-headed from the shots I believe I zonked out. I remembered the feeling of being piggybacked downstairs.

I remember when I first came here. I was happy to be here, even if others thought I was crazy because I said I was from another world…era…time frame…galaxy or whatever you wanted to call it. Sitting in a room full of doctors in all white was not fun.

Getting needles pushed into you just because you 'fell' from the sky.

I get it.

That's what Envy said, and that's what Solf said too; but neither one of them called me crazy. They may have thought so, but they didn't say anything.

Maybe it was because they too were a little bit crazy.

My first time in that small office, the place where they brought me after I was found by that man, I was in a backless gown surrounded by all white cabinets on every inch of the equally white walls. My brown hair was the only thing that broke the contrast of white on white. With it being too quiet and the too air tense, I felt like screaming out to break the silence.

Then they came in. all one by one they lifted my arms, touched me in funny places, scribbled several things down while talking amongst themselves. Whispering things about me.

Then the ring leader came in; still in a white coat, yet I knew he must be important because everybody stopped what they were doing when he walked in. He had short hair, and wore glasses. His eyes were very unnerving…then I saw him pull out a big needle.

A needle, my worst enemy. Ever since I was a little girl, I always dreaded going to the doctor; all because of a nurse who didn't know how hard she was putting the needle in. Ever since, a team of huge male nurses would come in every time I came to get blood work done. I would need to be held down- which, for my size, isn't that big of a deal.

I watched in horror as the middle aged man rubbed a cotton ball on the middle of my arm. Eyes widening in terror as he tied that rubbery string around the top of my forearm, then taking the huge needle and insensitively shoving it in my skinny arm.

My world went white like it always did.

Falling off the cold, paper covered table to the cold white floor, sobbing from the stinging pain, I threw anything I could grab at the white coats.

Not even thinking, I ran to the first blue pants I saw; squeezing my stick arms tightly around a firm waist, my hands not even able to wrap around all the way.

"Please…don't let them prick me again! !"

Without saying a word he held my shivering body close to his own.

I looked up and saw his amber eyes paired with his slick smile.

He held me tighter and placed his hand on my head, patting it. If only I could stay against his tight chest and in his arms forever.

"Wake up, sweetheart."

"Mmm…huh?"

"There's a surprise waiting for you in the basement." he said as he patted my head. I closed my eyes a bit longer than I had imagined: It was now 4:30 when I had closed them at 11:45 pm. I got up without putting my shoes on, naturally going to the small mirror in the bathroom. My mirror version had her hair sticking on her face. Eyes red, puffy and sticky. Rubbing my eyes as I walked down the cold stairs to the basement, I could hear sound of a familiar 'clank' noise.

As I opened the doors, once again I saw that big suit of armor tied up on the floor, only now the red coat was missing…Greed may not be the person I thought he was.

here it is, chapter 5 end. hope you enjoyed it :) i'm starting to take the new quotes from the manga itself, this one is from Pinako. as for Roxie and Janice well...those two girls at the end of volume 6. not sure if they got names though so i made some up off the top of my head, thoughtful no? i hope i'm doing the manga justice, i mean it won't be as good as the original but it's the best i can do when adding my character in it. as always, please review! be honest when you do! i could use critisism lol my fiance loves EVERYTHING i do. i could write 'the dog sat on the fat cat' and he would say 'oh it's good i love it.'...seriously!