Chapter 10 readers, Rejoice I haven't given up on my writing. I consider this an Aniversery so review, Help me keep up if I'm doing good though all the people who've added me to their story alerts could be a fairly good sign...

My dreams were filled with lessons of Alchemy and flying over Resembool. I saw Den barking at me from the Rockbell's yard, the train pulling in at the station, even a group of kids play at the river nearby. I woke up early and lay in the bed feeling relaxed for the first time in days. My shoulders were completely relaxed and my head was so clear. There was still no sound from the rest of the house, but it wasn't too light out but still I decide to start the morning.

I got dressed putting on one of Winry's tube tops, and a pair of jeans, which I rolled up to my knees. I put on my belt and went downstairs. I found Ed asleep on the couch, where we'd left him last night, and the rest of the house closed. I was off my crutches and my leg felt fine, so I slipped out side. I left my sword next to the door so I could slip it out when I felt like practicing. I stretched in the yard Den happily running around me. I urged him to follow me as I took a dawn run through the country side. It was beautiful this time of day.

When I got back the house was still silent, but I decide I would go ahead and wake it. I smiled at Ed still snoring softly on the couch, as I started to make my special Omelets. As the smells wafted through the house and it started to come to life. Up stairs I heard someone turn on the water and take a shower. Ed stirred a little and I heard Al come stomping down. Winry's lighter footsteps followed just behind him, laughing happily. I turned to look at the stairs and nearly spilled breakfast all over Ed, who was crouching next to stove. "Edward!! Don't scare me like that. Jesus Christ, did you want breakfast on your head or something. God Damn it," I cursed at him.

He didn't seem to notice, "Smells good," He mumbled half-asleep. He came over behind me, I yelped as he wrapped his arms around my waist. "Mom, I'm so glad you're making breakfast. Can we eat outside today?"

I swallow, hard, didn't he remember his mom was dead? Winry and Al were standing at the stairs, starring wide eyed at me. I shared a scared look with them. Then turned on my motherly charm, "Sure, Ed, now why don't you go wash your face and wake up some more then we can eat until we can't move."

Ed nodded against my side, and stumbled past Al and Winry up the stairs, "Mornin' Winry… I didn't 'now you stayed here last night." There was a thud when Ed ran into a wall instead of going through the doorway up stairs. I took a deep breath, as I heard the door shut softly.

I turned on Al then, shoving down my shock, "Now this is just a shot out in the dark, but I'm going to say that, Ed is not a morning person."

Al laughed nervously, "How could you tell?"

"Heh he…" I said not amused, "Go make sure he doesn't drowned in the sink or something." I shooed Al with the spatula, and went back to cooking. I already had the Coffee and toast ready. I let the cheese on the omelets melt while I took the food to the table, "Winry, can you set the table? I had intended to have everything ready by the time you guys came down."

Winry nodded, and thankfully choose not to mention the shocking scene she'd just witnessed. "You didn't have to make breakfast," She smiled as she started to put plates around the table, "Granny and I could have done that."

"I don't see why you had to. I was up. I was hungry, and I decided to make something to help the rest of you out." I noticed the number of plates as I put the second Omelet on a serving plate, "Is someone not eating?"

"Yeah, Al."

I looked over at Winry, the third set of eggs in the frying pan, "Is there something wrong with that boy? I mean most teenagers I know Eat like horses, But I haven't seen him so much as nibble a thing since I met the kid."

"Umm… Al doesn't eat, he doesn't need to. He… he doesn't have a body under his armor." My eyebrows shot up, "He and Ed lost parts of their bodies a couple years back, it had something to do with Alchemy. You should really ask them if you what to know what happened."

"I already asked, Ed didn't want to talk about it," I told Winry as I finished the Omelets. Granny Pinako, Ed, and Al all filed down as Winry and I finished setting up breakfast. Ed was more awake now, thank every god ever thought of. "Okay, Everybody," I said cheerfully, "We've got toast, Coffee, juice, and three kinds of omelets; Ham and cheese, Spinach, and Ranch-style, which has ham, cheese, potatoes, onions, steak seasoning, and sour cream." I pointed at each of them. "So as my grandfather would say, 'who ever eats the fastest, eats the mostest.' Chow down." I sat down and cut my self some of each of the omelets and promptly started shoving it in my face.

Once we finished I let Den have the crumbs. "Wow, Dalka, that great," Said Ed, "I've never tasted any eggs that good."

"Wanna know my secret?" I smiled, Ed, Winry, and Al all nodded vigorously, "Cream."

"What?" Ed looked shocked.

"I add cream or milk to the mix. It gives it a fluffy texture. I did the same thing with coffee," I added at Ed's look.

"Well, looks like I was wrong, Al," Ed leaned back in his chair.

"Wha…" I looked back and forth from Ed to Al.

"Milk's good in more then just stew." Ed smiled.

I raised an eyebrow, and put on a southern drawl, "Ed, honey, I put milk in just about everything I can make."

We all laughed at Ed's look, He didn't take it well. "Will you all stop laughing at me. Come on, Dalka, Let's start you training." Ed ended up dragging me into town to buy the Alchemy books he needed to teach me, but by the time we got back half the day was gone. I felt it was a major waste of time, and lectured Ed about it, saying he should have picked them up yesterday when we came through.

To get me to shut up Ed made the Sketch book he'd promised, and gave me the afternoon off. I was drawing a picture of Winry working on Ed's arm, while Ed asked me about the lesson from the day before. "Okay, so what's the first law of Alchemy?" He asked in nothing but his Boxers. Some how I'd gotten use to this.

"Equivalent Exchange," I didn't look up from my picture, "Just like in Physics, 'For every action there is an equal or opposite reaction.' Therefore to make something you need an equal amount to start out with. There's also the law of conservation of mass, 'mass can neither be created or destroyed.'" This was a longer answer then he wanted, but I wanted to make sure my bases were covered. I glanced back up at the two of them, to check the lighting.

"What about the second law?"

"You mean the law of natural providence? Didn't I already cover that?"

"And the reason for the Circle?" Ed lifted his head.

"Go back to the way you were." I told him, "The reason for the circle is to symbolize life, or rather the circle of life, and the never ending flow of energy."

"Good now what's the slogan of the alchemists?"

I looked up at him more then a little confused, "Never heard of anything like that."

"'Alchemists work for the people.'" He said from the chair.

I looked at my picture, it was almost done, "My grandpa use to tell me that."

"I thought you'd 'never heard' of it?" Ed sipped a cup of coffee I'd made for him earlier, it was cold now, "Eck…"

"He never called it the Alchemist's Slogan, He said it was my families' duty. 'We work for the people. We work for them in everything we do, and we must never stop, and never forget.' He was always so disappointed when my father and uncle took jobs that meant they weren't helping, but hurting some of the people." I added the finished touches, "there all done." Winry and Ed looked at me as I stood up, "I'll be outside if you need me."

I walked out and settled on the porch and started drawing Den playing with Al. When I finished I went in and helped Winry make dinner. Ed, Al, and Winry asked to see the pictures I'd done, but I just smiled evilly. I went to my room early and spent an hour drawing funny little pictures of everyone I'd met doing something strange. There was even one of Ed had him being chased by Winry with a to-kill look on her face and a wrench in her hand, Al ran behind them trying to stop Winry. I finished it and went to bed.

The next day we had a big breakfast, again, and Ed and Al started to teach me alchemy, I had the afternoon to do as I pleased. It went that way every day for almost a month. A week before we were going to head back to East City Ed told me I had to present something to show I knew how to do Alchemy, I wanted to shoot him. At first I didn't have a clue what I was going to do, then it literally came to me in a dream. I just need to test it.

Ok boring chapter I know but at least the segment about Ed when he's half asleep was funny... I hope. Now someone review please.