This is a Full Metal Alchemist and Rising of the Shield Hero Fanfiction only.

Well, I better take care of the source of this illness or in time even I will run out of ingredients to make the medicines. "Did you send word to the capital? Did you request a company of soldiers to investigate the nearby mountain? Something." She looked at me and began to look depressed again.

"This entire situation began when a group of adventurers went to explore that mountain, soon after plants began to die, and animals were getting sick, we sent a request for the capital but they said the troops would be better to support the four cardinal heroes, they would send us medicines and supplies instead."

"We met a lone adventurer who volunteered to look into this, she said she came from some strange nation I never heard off. She went two days ago, so I don't even know if she is alive." I looked at her and couldn't help but nod my head. "I see, well I better take care of this myself then, I am leaving you three crates of the medicine, go slow and it should last you by the time I come back."

She tried to stop me by grabbing my arm and pressing it against herself. "Why would that make any difference, I told you, a group of adventurers could not make it to the source of this illness, and that place has to be a dozen times worse than here. What makes you think you will succeed when no one could?"

I see she is concerned for my safety, rather sweet of her, I told her to thank you as she released my arm, and as I walked over to the door I called for my Alchemy Shield, I told her I would succeed because after all, I am the shield hero.

She seems to relax after she saw the shield and that is when I jumped on the wagon, Raphtalia soon after and we took off towards the nearby mountain, damn it something in this place has caused the monster population to grow so much there were a ton of monsters from the minute we hit the slope of the mountain.

I used reinforcement magic and Filo used wind magic to increase her speed the wagon pretty much became a battering ram. Just as we plowed through a horde I saw someone lying on the ground that made me tell Filo to stop, the uniform from the state military, red hair tied in a ponytail, and a figure I never thought I was going to see again.

I took one of my most potent cures potions and ran towards the body that was on the ground. The second I tried to get her to sit up I knew who it was, Jane Havoc, why? Why is Jane here? There were only supposed to be able to summon four people, the cardinal heroes, so why is Jane in this place.

That is when I remember the nurse's words, this is the adventurer that volunteered to look into the situation, she always did something like this, we used to fight about how reckless she was, "Come on Jane, here take this medicine, wake up. You are not dying today damn it, you have to tell me why are you even here! So don't you dare die on me, I am still your superior, and that is an Order!"

No response, that means there is no helping it, she is too far gone to even wake up, which means she is going to need help swallowing the medicine. I took a big gulp of it and without hesitating I placed my lips on hers, forcing her body to react and open her lips and using my tongue I forced the potion down her throat.

I know that to others it appears as if I am kissing her, but again there was no other way, the temperature of her body seemed to cool down a little, still rather warm but not as bad as it was before, the before might be breaking. As I pulled my face away from her I began to hear her laugh.

"To think that the man who came to end up saving my life was you, Roy, it took me nearly dying from an illness and exhaustion for you to finally kiss me. I at least know where you were, you had me and your folks worried sick you jerk, but I see the truth was telling the truth that you were summoned here against your will."

She began to lean towards me and I helped her stand up and as she finally was standing, she leaned I guess to try and kiss me herself, and that is when I saw the upset faces of both Raphtalia and Filo in her bird form, "Master Mustang what is wrong with you, don't kiss a strange woman you don't even know and you get away from my master!"

She tried to pull her away from me but the thing is she was trying to kiss me at the time which caused her to end up hugging Raphtalia and kissing her instead. The blushing face of Jane and the look of shock on Raphtalia were priceless, and me without a camera.

I don't know why they are both coughing and looking like they both tasted something disgusting. "Well aside from ending up kissing her, her name is Raphtalia is you need to put a name on the pair of lips you just kissed, I never thought that you would end up kissing her."

I guess that after so many times fighting her I got used to the way she fights that I avoided that one punch but that is when she brought out something I never saw before, a bullwhip, I am not kidding she was not punching me at all, she was grabbing one of the most sinister-looking whips I even seen in my entire life.

"Don't try to joke with me Roy, after I ended up kissing that chick which you are clearly shacking up with I am in no mood for a joke, one sarcastic comment, one snide comment, and I will whip you like a disobedient pack animal. You seem to forget that I am not one to mess with when I am angry, and right now I am fuming mad."

That is when Raphtalia finally got over her shock of ending up kissing some strange woman and looked at both of us, "Master, who is this whip-wielding stranger and why is she acting so familiar with you? Why do you seem to know this crazy lady? Could you please explain to me who the hell she is?"

Well, it seems they were both upsets after they ended up kissing each other, "He is Roy Mustang the Flame Alchemist, I am Jane Havoc the Metal Alchemist, and why is he so close to me? Why that should be obvious I am his girlfriend who found him after he was forced to be a hero in this strange world. Why wouldn't he be close to me? I should be more upset with how familiar you are with this anthropomorphic raccoon girl."

I was told Jane that she is not my girlfriend, she looked at me unbuttoned her shirt to show off some cleavage and walked towards me, damn these hormones, she said pointing to herself that she was a girl, and she was my friend, so how exactly is she not my girlfriend? That is when Filo began to nod and actually say that it actually made sense, then she asked me if she should start calling Jane mommy?

"Look Jane you came to his place for the same reason as we did, so how about we table this discussion and focus on the task at hand here, the more time we waste, the more people will either suffer or die." She didn't look too happy about it but she did agree that taking care of the situation would be best done as quickly as possible.

The path to the summit of the mountain was showing clear signs of monster overpopulation, I am not kidding here, we barely advanced three feet in the wagon when another group of monsters tried to ambush us, do a sneak attack or outright try to take us head-on. I got tired of cutting up the bodies of the monsters so I decided that to save time I fed the entire thing to the shield.

This unlocked a few shields mostly to do with the time it took me to use skills, and defense, and of course a ton of experience in two abilities, the ability to block and resist, curse and poison damage. As we went higher I began to notice these strange silver-colored scales, there were a lot of them, so I decided to feed them into my shield, and I could not believe what these scales were.

They were the scales of a dragon or dragons that been born from silver and a steel dragon, a hybrid of sorts, I guess that is why these scales seemed like they were made of the purest silver I ever have seen. They unlocked abilities that were closely related to the dragon or dragons these scales came from.

There was one ability that was hard for me to describe because it was written in letters I never seen before, apparently it was the first time my shield ever unlocked this ability, flame control, and flame generation were unlocked, it shouldn't surprise me, dragons were fabled for having the ability to breathe fire.

"So it seems there was at one point a dragon nest up here, all these scales are from a dragon of the metallic species. What is it with you, Jane? Why are you looking at my shield like that?" She flat out asked me how come I could feed so many monster corpses into such a small shield, and why was I doing that?

Rapthalia decided to tell her everything my shield could do, and I mean everything she knew, I guess this was Rapthalia trying to show her how well she knew me, but by the looks of Jane she was more interested in her explanation of the ability of my shield rather than her attempts to show she knew me very well.

I told these three we need to focus on the task at hand, why do I feel like I been placed on a shelve as part of a free for all tournament between all these ladies? "What I want to know is how the hell did you get here Jane? As far as I understand it only four people may be summoned into this world from another."

She began to laugh as apparently Raphtalia kept feeling these silver scales into my shield. "Is that all? Why Truth and his brother sent me, he even sealed some weapons, items, and abilities they know your shield could absorb and thus help you in this unfair situation, oh yes, I was also told your soul was originally from this world. But don't you worry about our nation, your friends, or even our parents, they are taking care of the waves of calamity all by themselves, you know how to scare Truth can be when angry."

Well at least I relaxed a little, secretly I was worried about people back in the world that I came from, but to me the most surprising thing was that Truth of all people would actually send me any help at all, and free of charge, that is something I always thought that Mr. Equivalent Exchange would never do.

The closer we got to the summit the stronger the monsters but that is alright with me, I was getting bored with Jane telling embarrassing stories of our childhood to both Filo and Raphtalia, Filo was actually laughing while pulling the wagon, I should have some harsh words with her about the language she used when laughing, no daughter of mine is going to talk like a common drunk.

The weapons were firearms, a few dozen types of grenades, books on how to make them and maintain them, a book on modern-day conveniences and eighteen orbs that look suspiciously like the ones the witch told us about, it turns out they had abilities to link the shield with any legendary weapon or the weapon of a vassal it touches, as long as the link is established it would benefit all the wielders, but only as long as the wielder is alive.

That was a strangely specific detail, I guess Truth knows something that he didn't tell Jane about or something not even Jane believed was possible. The stench of death and decay was easy to smell as we walked near, it was so thick I had to wear cloth as a mouth guard to help me breathe. "And I used to make fun of your morning breath." Ah, yes, I forgot Jane used to make fun of me when we woke up that one time having to sleep in the same field tent.

As Filo was looking for something to eat, yes, I have to remember Filo didn't eat before this trip, I need to make her something when we get done here, I walked towards what appears to be a nest being guarded by this massive fire breathing silver dragon, who is apparently guarding the dead body of her mate.

"Do not step closer, it is taking everything I have to keep the poison that is coming from the body of my mate contained, you should not even be this close you and those with you are in grave danger. Why did you come to our den?"

Well, I was not expecting to understand what she said, or that I could tell this dragon is clearly female, but since she can clearly understand me, and I can understand her, I might as well ask why this entire disaster happened in the first place? Or why isn't she trying to kill me and the others to swallow us whole?

"So you understand me, look I appreciate the fact that you have not tried to kill us for food since you have not eaten in days, but we came to stop the spread of poison that is killing everything downwind of your den. Sorry for intruding on your territory."

She looked at me and then looked at the rest of the people with me, "That does make sense, since you asked in such a polite manner, let me entertain you with a tale, my mate and I are children from steel and silver dragons, so we tend to be rather friendly and welcoming to most humans."

"One human, however, did not understand our greeting or he simply chose to ignore what we said, we defeated a black dragon that had been terrifying the region, it is clear this sword-wielding adventurer and his party were hunting this very same dragon, had he been as polite as you, we could have informed him that his query had been already been taken care off."

She looked at the dead body of her mate, "He, however, sent his party against us and in shock of their cruel gesture we tried to reason with him, when this man tried to murder me, my mate took the attack killing him and the man ran away screaming when I screamed at him."

"Like I said I been keeping a shield on us both for days to try and stop the spread of the poison that is coming off the body of my dead mate, I believe this poison is being caused by both his body rotting and the rage at the action of those humans. You are also correct I had not eaten anything in days since I could not move while using this shield ability."

I don't know why, but I felt sorry for this lady dragon and decided to pull something from my inventory that looked to be the baked and seasons legs of two rather large lambs, I placed them near her and she did smell them, considering what she what happened to her and her mate that is not surprising, she ate a bite, "Thank you for this kind gesture."

I waited for her to finish eating those pieces before I place another, I know that a couple of legs of lamb are nothing but a snack to her. She was actually smiling and let me come closer than before. This lady dragon had the sort of voice that it was almost soothing compared to how usually Jane sounded. She, however, was too busy glaring daggers at the poor female dragon to say a word.

After she was done with the few pieces of meat I provided, she was about to say thank you but suddenly the blood that had spread all over began to collect and poor right back into the dead body of her mate, this was not good a creature was said to be stronger when they become undead that when that very same creature was alive.

I know this because of the many undead creatures we fought during the second wave, her mate seemed to get up from behind her and he was glaring at me for some odd reason, "I have not even rotted and you are already flirting with some other male to replace me! I will not let you and this human get away with his, the human shall die for trying to steal my mate, and you for cheating on me!"

I tried my best to explain but as I was about to speak he attacked me but his mate jumped from where she was sitting and took the attack intended for me, the zombie of her mate just killed her in cold blood, and did so in such a vicious form that I was absolutely seething with rage, how dare he treat his mate in this fashion, he is no better than that bastard Luge.

As my anger grew my shield began to light up almost like it was on flames, but I reality only thing I cared about this instant is to destroy this bastard, my rage, my anger served only to fuel the flames on my shield, and without a hesitating for a second I began to gather wind using my alchemy around him, I evaded his breath attack which was useless given my defenses and resistance.

I made the wind more and more volatile, I concentrated the air till it was practically toxic, and without even blinking I snapped my fingers and the mass of air exploded but I didn't care, I was not going to stop snapping my fingers till I made that undead bastard ashes, till I made him feel like he was in hell.

"I WAS JUST BEING POLITE TO HER, SHE WAS GUARDING YOUR BODY SO THAT YOU COULD RECEIVE AN HONORABLE FUNERAL, AND YOU DO THIS! I WILL BURN YOU TILL THERE are NOT EVEN ASHES LEFT! BURN LIKE THE PIECE OF GARBAGE YOU ARE!"

In my mind I kept thinking of Luge, of the horrible things Mire probably had endured because of him, of how my life was supposed to be, our marriage, having children, and then I remember how this zombie dragon killed his mate who clearly loved him as much as Mire once loved me.

Without noticing it a large gem came out of the body of the zombie dragon and fell into my shied, the body of the lady dragon had been absorbed into my shield without me even noticing, and I felt the hands of Raphtalia telling me to calm down, that is when I noticed how her arms were stained by dark burns and she was bleeding.

I immediately tried my best to heal her, but this was not caused by burns but rather a very potent curse, nothing but the holy water could treat this, that is when I told Jane to pick her up and told Filo that we needed to go back to the village to get some holy water. We jumped into the wagon and took off towards the village, I hope that we are not too late, I will apologize for causing her such trouble later, but now treating her was my priority.