Chapter One - The Lightning Alchemist

"You want me to what?" Lenna asked, crossing her arms. Her auto-mail squeak quietly as she gave a look of disbelief to Mustang. He returned a glare but she didn't flinch. Flame alchemist or not, Mustang didn't scare her.

"I told you, the Elric brothers are coming to Central and I want you to speak with them. You have a similiar history to them, that's why." he replied. Lenna rolled her eyes with a sigh.

"Fine, fine." she said. "But what do you mean by 'similiar history' Mustang?" before he could answer the door to his office slammed open.

"Mustang! What did you want?" one of the two boys demanded. He was short and had a blonde braid twisting down his back. A black shirt and pants with simple boots, a red jacket and white gloves. The second boy was tall and in a full set of armor.

"Brother! You didn't have to kick the door!" the one in armor sighed. Lenna laughed at them both.

"Let me guess, the FullMetal Alchemist and his brother? Ed and Al, hm..." she looked at them, still laughing. "Hey pipsqueak, how'd you become a state alchemist?" Ed fumed as Al held him back before he could get a chance to kick Lenna. She walked over to them with a smirk.

"I'm Lenna Kimaru, the Lighting Alchemist. Nice to meet you both." she greeted, holding up her right arm. "Mustang said I had a few things in common with you, like this. As well as my background. So, may I ask what he means?"

"Hell if I know. I don't exactly know your history." Ed replied as Al let him go.

"You've both attempted a certain transmutation." Mustang cut in, slipping past Ed and Al then out the door. "You three talk, I'll be somewhere else...with coffee and not paperwork." the door shut with a small thud.

"Does he mean human transmutation?" Lenna muttered, but loud enough for Ed and Al to both hear her. They looked at her, Ed's gold eyes wide.

"Y-you've tried that?" he questioned, gawking at her. She looked at him, frowning.

"Yes, I tried to bring my twin sister back four years ago. I lost my right arm because of it." she paused. "What about you? Two auto-mail limbs and an empty suit of armor has to mean something, right?"

"How did know about the limbs and armor?" Al asked her. She laughed with a smirk.

"Well, shorty here has uneven steps, and his arm squeaks. He might wanna take better care of his arm. And armor makes more of a sound when somebody is in it. I have very good hearing as you can tell." she paused, pursing her lips. "So, who'd you want to bring back?"

"Our mother." Ed's expression saddened.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." she apologized. "Okay, I'd like to not talk about depressing things." she looked around as the door opened slowly, a cat paw poking through the gap. "Des!" The door opened with a jerk, revealing the rest of a woman with cat paws, a tail and ears.

"Len-Len!" she meowed, grinning. "So, what's up? These the brothers the coronel wanted you to meet?" Lenna gave a nod. "Okay, have you asked about the homunculus yet?"

"Sh, Des, I haven't gotten that far!" Lenna snapped looking from the cat woman to the brothers. "Well I guess Desdemona ruined the moment. But you heard her, you two know anything about homunculi?"

"Yes, we know a lot. Why? Are they after you too?" Ed questioned. Lenna crossed her arms over her chest.

"You could say that. I've only met a few of them, but there are many." she admitted. "There's one...she looks just like my sister, and she wants to kill me, but I can't bring myself to fight her." Lenna sighed as Desdemona gave a sad nod next to her.

"I met some too." the chimera said. "This one looked like a palm tree. And another had different colored limbs. Oh! And the last was this woman with one huge rack and long dagger like nails!" she looked at her paws. "I want claws like that."

"Envy, Wrath and Lust." Ed told her. "The one you mention Lenna, I don't know. Al?"

"No clue, brother. We've never run across her before." Al answered.

"Len-Len, didn't she call herself Death or something?" Desdemona inquired, her tail twitching.

"So they aren't just named after the seven sins..?" Ed looked at Lenna with a look of curiousity. "Then the seven we've met aren't the only ones. Shit."

"They might be named after things like the seven sins, brother." Al suggested. Lenna perked up at that.

"The seven sins are envy, lust, wrath, pride, gluttony, sloth and greed. Then death is the one. So maybe...vengance, ignorance, disobedience, pain, fear, desire, regret, tradegy, vainity, despair, insanity, hate, lies, hell, deception, violence, temptation, deciet, fright, murder and corruption." Lenna chided.

"Well shit, that's a lot of homunculi." Desdemona muttered, looking at the three of them. "We are screwed, Len-Len. That's about thirty."

"Frak!" Lenna squeaked. Ed looked at her strangely. "Geez, it's my own word so just...don't look at me like that!" Ed started to laugh at her and Desdemona lashed her tail at him.

"Don't laugh at Len-Len you little dwarf!" she hissed. Ed stopped laughing and glared at her as Al held him back again with a sigh.

"I'M NOT SHORT SO JUST SHUT UP KITTY GIRL!" he yelled and Desdemona purred with amusement, giving a wink.

"Well, if you two can get it together, do you have any leads on the homunculi?" Lenna interrupted, clearly irritated. "I...I need to deal with her. With everything that's been going on, I can't deal with these random attacks from her."

"What do you mean by 'everything that's been going on' exactly?" Al asked, letting his brother go.

"Between this homunculus trying to kill me, I still have to deal with Scar." Lenna explained, pulling out her silver pocket watch. "And the state isn't letting me get along without any work." she sighed, slipping the watch back into her pocket. "Do you understand? I'm way over worked. You two just go off fighting and searching, easy stuff, not the same for me, you know?"

"Well for leads, we have nothing." Ed shrugged. "Though that could change if you helped us out..."

"Yeah, me help, forget it. No way in frakking hell that the state would let me, pipsqueak." Lenna responded, crossing her arms across her chest and rolling her eyes.

"You need more faith in the state, Miss Kimaru." the door opened, Mustang standing there. "I've told you that before, right?"

"You were listening in?" Desdemona shrieked. "You said you wouldn't!" she added with a hiss.

"You can pull the strings, then?" Lenna questioned. Mustang gave a nod.

"Give me a few hours and you can travel with them." he replied. "Promise."