Al and Wrath glanced slightly at each other before once again turning to stare at the yellow haired sleeping man.

“I think he’s lightning” Wrath whispered as they slowly backed away to hide behind a nearby tree.

“How do you know that?” Al whispered back.

“We were on a train and one of the elementals was there, he told us a little about them. The yellow hair tells me it’s the lightning one. He should be killed by the water stone.”

“Who has the water stone?”

“Sam.”

Al sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose “Ok then I’ll go get Sam, and you keep an eye on this guy.”

Wrath nodded and while Al ran off in the direction Sam was in Wrath walked slowly up to Sparks. Carefully he bent over, and picked up a pebble off the ground. It was small and cold in his hand.

Within a second the look on his face turned from one of normal calm thoughts, to thoughts wishing of death and anger. With a silent but forceful throw the pebble was sent towards the sleeping elementals head. Sparks played on the pebble’s surface mid air, the alchemy turning it into a long needle like spike of stone.

There was the sound of the air being moves, and the spike halted its movement. With a contraction of Sparks’ hand the needle broke into splinters.

“Nice trick.” Sparks said in a bored tone as he stood and dusted himself off. The movement caused the air to move, and carried a scent to Wrath. His pupils contracted slightly for a second, before he gave a toothy, maniacal smile that would remind one of his violent past.

He had smelled Ally’s blood.

And it was coming from Sparks.

That was all the reason he needed.

Wrath almost turned invisible in his dash at Sparks. The lightning homunculi dropped to the ground, but some of his hairs were cut by Wrath’s fist, which from alchemy were jutting white blades from the knuckle.

Sparks was not one to stand, or lay, still. Before Wrath had time to react Sparks had kicked up his legs, and though they missed Wrath’s chin Sparks was still able to thrust out a kick into Wrath’s chest, pushing him away into a tree.

Wrath slumped down the trunk, to show the spot where the impact had caused the tree to shed its bark.

Standing up and once again dusting himself off Sparks started to walk over to Wrath. With ease the elemental dragged Wrath back up the tree by holding him by his shirt.

“Stupid human” Sparks spat.

Wrath’s eyes snapped open, and an even crazy grin adorned his features. With a hand full of dancing red Wrath hit Sparks’ head, using the alchemy to melt away a great portion of it, showing the throbbing veins that lined the brain before that too melted away into a bloody, sticky, red goop that covered Wrath’s fingers.

Spark’s body fell to the ground into a twitching and convulsing heap. Wrath kicked the shuddering form.

“Who the hell said I was human?”

A smile that one could easily mistake as one of happiness formed on Sparks’ regenerating lips.

“You’re one of those man-made abominations then, aren’t you?” the faceless body laughed as it stood, it’s skull still growing back and new eyes budging into its sockets.

“I am not an abomination.”

“Oh then what are you? A fluffy bunny?” Sparks laughed as he ran his fingers through his new head of bright yellow hair.

“I…am…an…ALCHEMIST!” Wrath yelled, his fist clenched, before he ran full speed at the homunculus.

The air around them sparked as they met. Their fists both covered in sparks, one read and one yellow. Kicking, punching, ducking, hitting. It seemed to go on forever, one would get hit with an attack that would kill a human, only to regenerate seconds later and go back to kicking the living-dead shit out of each other.

“You won’t…win.” Sparks grunted ducking a spin kick.

“Why…do…you say…that.”

“Humans made you….you are…thus very… fucking…inferior.”

“And yet…I died…4 times…and you…5”

“You…play…dirty.”

Wrath smile grew bigger as he punched the lightning in the gut, knocking the wind out of him.

“And you don’t?”

Sparks chuckled. “You’re fun to fight kid.”

“Thanks, you too” Wrath smiled normally before it turned crazy again as he kicked the kneeling man in the groin.

“Now that was dirty you shit head!”

Wrath just shrugged.

Wrath fell back and he found himself pinned to the ground by Sparks, who was holding a ball of brilliant yellow, jumping light in his hand. Blood leaked From Wrath’s skull from where it had struck on a rock.

Before the pulsing light could be thrust into Wrath’s chest, a great gust of water flew from the forest, knocking Sparks’ off and knocking his body against the stone wall. Sparks’ screams were gargled as the pressure of the water ripped his skin off his bones, turned his bones to paste, and utterly destroyed his body. When the gush subsided all that was left was a wet steaming pile of red staining the grass.

Wrath shook his head with a growl as he stood while standing up.

“Was that necessary?” he growled. Al and Sam came out of the forest trying not to laugh at the soaking wet boy.

“Yes it was, it was either that or a shot gun to get you to calm down”

“Though I love the hair” Al laughed. Wrath growled as he shook his head again to try and get his hair back its volume, since as of now it was plastered by the water to his head, and strands were jutting out at odd angles.

“Can we get back to saving Ally?” Wrath asked as he punched the wall, using alchemy to make it crumble to dust.

“Right, her” Sam sighed.

The three descended into the dark whole where the door had once been, but not before Al grabbed a yellow stone out of the pile of wet mush.

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Ally, Rain and Cloud all turned their heads towards the sound. It seemed like an explosion had taken place.

“What was that?” Cloud yelled. Rain shook her head at her brother. The boy growled and threw his sister on the ground before he left the room to investigate.

When he was out of the room rain put her hand in the bowl of soup, turning the brown liquid into a blob floating in the air. The blob flew into the key hole and turned, with a click the lock opened and ally was able to wiggle out of the chains.

As soon as Ally stood Rain grabbed her had and dragged her out of the room, running.

“The boom had to be because of your friends, they had to have come looking for you!”

Ally smiled as she ran behind the small blue haired girl. But suddenly they had to stop, a red haired woman standing in their path.

Her red eyes grew crazed as they looked at Ally. With a cry “I will get my revenge!” Ember charged at Ally, flames covering her hands. Rain quickly blocked, steam rising from the water shield. Ember growled at the little girl, but her eyes suddenly moved upwards and the look of annoyance and joy turned to a look of horror.

A blast of water hit the Fire woman, and her body was destroyed in a way identical to Sparks’.

Ally and rain stared at the pile before turning to look upwards, at Sam who was still holding the stone in front of him. But ally didn’t notice him. She left Rain’s side, and ran, tackling into Al.

The boy’s look of shock grew as the female bullet pressed her lips against his. When Ally pulled away from the kiss, Al was staring at the other wall, a happy smile plastered on his face.

“Oh come on Ally.” Sam sighed “can’t you make him a love zombie later? We still need him to fight.”

Ally ignored him and instead hugged Wrath, who she was equally glad to see.

Ally looked around the dark tunnel, remembering she hated the dark.

“Can we get out of here now?”

Al nodded, as he pulled Ally away from Wrath, pulling her into his own hug.

“We better, they will be pissed we killed three of them in one day.”

“What about that one?” Sam asked, looking over at the shaking rain.

Ally smiled. “She’s coming with us.”

Wrath picked up the small girl and smiled at her, and she smiled back.

“We should go before the others find us” Rain said. The others suddenly got looks on their faces that translated to ‘oh shit, forgot about them’ and they ran out of the cave in blurs.”

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Rain, in a new dress they had bought for her in town and Wrath were asleep in a pile on the train seat. Sam was sitting next to the aisle reading a book. Ally was sitting on the seat, leaning against Al.

As soon as the group had run all the way back to Russell and Fletcher’s Lab they told each other what had happened to each other. Rain noted that the elementals were in Xenotime because to the rumors a stone was here, they had been planning to leave soon since they couldn’t find any stone. That left Youswell and some other unknown town to search in. The 5 decided the best bet was to get out of town as soon as they could, and maybe stop by Winry’s so Al could visit. And then they planned to go to Central to get some State Alchemist work done. The three people with such profession all slumped in their seats thinking of the paperwork and missions they were sure to face.

Ally’s mind was in turmoil. Though she seemed calm, almost napping against Al. she had yet to tell him the truth. So she had kissed him, but that didn’t clear everything up. Al played with a lock of her hair as he looked out the window. Ally smiled; at least he had forgiven her about her first rejection. Their relation ship was getting better, more and more complicated though. What would happen when she went home though? The reason she started to travel with him was to get home to Grandpa Ed.

So who would she choose.

Ed or Al

Home or…

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Sorry for not updating in so long, so I tried to make this a long chapter.

If you were confused here is a chart!

Killed elementals: Shale, Sparks, Ember, Oak

Alive/bad elementals: Steely, Cloud, Snow

Alive/ good elementals: Rain

Bad guy stones: Metal, Ice, Air

Good guy stones: Water, Fire, Electricity

Unclaimed stones: Earth, Stone