Nothing but trouble and mayhem.( c'mon peeps)

[Hoenheim Of Light [Zohi]]

Zohi had separated from andras for easier travel. As he rounded a corner he ran smack into a child.
"forgive me, little one. Are you lost?" the child was about four foot tall with a long blond ponytail, and he was wearing a red hood-sweater and white gloves.

Ed had been directed by a potter to this quarter of town, where he had by chance seen a man in armor. He was standing on the corner of the street, on top of a medium sized box when a giant of a man heaved straight into him, "Watch it! Look where you are going, mister... Er by the way can you see over this crowd?"

Zohi was in fact well over the heads of others, and could see far down the street and over some of the smaller buildings. "Yes, I am able to see far and wide in this environment, are you lost, child?" Zohi began to feel sorry for the youth. "fear not I am a priest and will help you...((( OoC: ; RUN ED!!! Don't get in his van!)))"

Ed spoke up trying to put some bass in his voice," Do you see a man in a rather large suit of armor it would fit you well, by the size of it..."

Zohi looked around to see if he could spot the armor clad person.

[Dante [Andras]]

Andras stood at the street corner brushing his long raven hair out of his face now and again. He observed the conversation going on between Edward and Zohi with mild satisfaction. State alchemist or not there was no way the kid was going to make it through a fight with the both of them. But thinking back Andras wasn't quite sure whether Dante wanted the two alive or not. Nonetheless Andras - despite having two recent confrontations - was fully prepared to take on the blond "prodigy". Smirking to himself Andras began playfully moving the zipper on his case back and forth, he was ready for jsut about anything.

[Hoenheim Of Light [Zohi]]

Zohi had been given the description of the state alchemist they were to capture."Alive! If it cost you your life, so be it!" were the words of demgai. In a moments inspiration he pointed into the crowd, "There! Is that him?" Zohi raised his hand and pointed and so subtly he almost didn't realize it himself his other hand rose to the back of eds neck as the boy strained to look.

"WHERE?" Ed was practically jumping up and down on the box to see his brother, when he felt a slight pressure onhis neck back and skull. All of a sudden the pressure spiked painfully and he blacked out...

Zohi caught the body of Ed under one arm and opened the box on which the boy had been standing, then placed the unconscious form of Ed inside, resealing the box he picked it up and nodded once at the well concealed form of andras on the other side of the street.

[Alphonse [James Applewood]]

Al had just lost his companion Solaris and now continued down the road toward a large temple in the distance ahead. As he clanked down the sandy stone walkways the vendors shouted toward him. Most were trying to shine his armor or sell him various goods. He ingnored most and shrugged along.

Then as he walked he heard the voice of a particular vendor:

"There you are! There you are! Did you find your friend? He came asking about you! I told him where you were ... did he find you?"

Alphonse looked over at the man. He was one of the men in the crowd when he broke Lee's pot earlier, and then reconstructed it with alchemy.

"Who? What friend?" Alphonse responded.

"I don't know, some kid with blond hair and amber eyes. He was looking for you." The man said with a matter of fact look,

I don't beleive it .... brother ??

Al thought as he looked around, scanning the crowd for his brother.

"That big guy! With the pony tail. He was just talking to him, but now I don't see him." The man shouted to Alphonse and pointed toward Zohi who was making his way down the street by now.

Alphonse hurried to stay with Zohi. He followed the man closely but tried not to alert him. Little did Alphonse know, Andras was probably close by watching from above. Al didn't know where Ed was or what this tall guy said or did to Ed. However, Al was going to follow him nonetheless.

[Barry the Chopper [Rouin]]

OOC: (Just so we all know, this is before Barry's soul was placed inside his suit of armor.)

Watching from the shaded corners of the small town, Barry waited with excitement as he saw the situation unfolding before his eyes. Seeing Zohi stuff some child inside a box made little viable sense to Barry, nor did observing a giant suit of armor patrol the town looking for the boy that had been put inside the box. He was completely unsure of what was happening, but news and media and other town events rarely affected him, he was more interested in taking everyone apart.

Seeing the latest crimes unravel before him only made him tense uneasily; it had been two months since he had made his last kill, two months since he had felt blood upon his hands. He whimpered with anxeity as he slowly adorned his wig, shifting it with his trembling hands so that it would appear to be natural. Perhaps the appearence of a woman would ease the man he intended on aprehending.

Barry's heart beat within his chest as he neared Zohi, his fist clenched around his concealed cleaver. He had no intention in saving Edward from Zohi, in fact he wanted to cut them both into pieces. Watching Zohi kidnap Edward only excited his urges, he could kill them both in one attempt.

Biting his lip, he whispered in the sweetest voice he could manage. "Y-you, I have never s-seen you before. Are you perhaps new here?"

Allowing himself to shift slowly as he put more weight on the leg without the cleaver, he regained some well needed confidence as he spoke. "Perhaps I could show you around here? a little tour wouldn't hurt, right?"

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Ooc: Okay, here we go, my first post as Barry the Chopper. Hopefully I'll get better as we go along, but please bear with me in the meanwhile. Also, what did you think? Was it okay? I'm kindof desperate for reveiws, 'cause I want to make sure I'm doing alright before I bore everyone to tears.

[Hoenheim Of Light [Zohi]]

Zohi flinched as he heard gratingly high pitched male voice ask him a question.turning to face him he said "no thanks I am familiar with the town by now. What are you hiding?" Zohi had spent his entire life in danger, and could now sense a muffled killing intent coming from the man wearing the wig. Understanding flashed upon him and relaxed a little. "five movements... Pretty good for a low-level."
Zohi was talking to himself, meaning that Barry was an okay figher in the sense that if his cowardly sneak attack failed then he might be able to hold his own for five movements before Zohi killed him.
Zohi turned away from the less than challenging opponent and turned his head to the side, "You can have this one Andras. Try to kill him in under fifteen movements... If you can."
Zohi needed to get Ed back to the base were they could chain him up until pride came for him. The entire time he had been talking to himself he had draw a rudimentary array in the dirt. He activated it and after a large cloud of dust settled he was nowhere to be seen.

[Barry the Chopper [Rouin]]

Barry's body shook with rage and fear as the cloud of dust settled, and the man nowhere to be seen. Realizing that the strange man had seen through his disguise made him feel open to bystanders. He could barely understand what Zohi had meant when he had said 'five moments'. The statement made little sense to him, as he had never fought anyone who stood a chance against his tactics, and was still relatively new to combat.

"H-hnn! N-no! Don't go! I'm not r-ready yet! COME BACK!!"

He looked from side to side, hoping to spot Zohi and his box, but with no success. Barry then turned his attention to Andras, as the man called him, he hoped to make a kill tonight, it didn't matter who it was anymore. He had to satisfy his need for blood.

"H-helloo? W-where are you? I can cut you to pieces too! Andrass?!!"

[Alphonse [James Applewood]]

Alphonse didn't know what to make of the unfolding situation. He thought he was tailing Zohi, but then some guy in a ragged disguise jumped the line and tried to start some altercation with Zohi. All Alphonse knew was that he had to find Ed and Zohi is who the man pointed to and said that he was the last one to talk to Ed.

Gosh Ed, what have you gotten yourself into this time???

He thought to himself while trying to come up with some sort of a plan on the fly. Just then he realized that Zohi was gone. He couldn't have vanished ... he was a 6 foot tall guy with a white ponytail. He had to stand out in the crowd. Alphonse stayed in the background as Barry looked for Andras who had not yet made his appearance.

[OOC: Barry give us a chance to post and react to everything before you post again. Otherwise I will get left behind in the action. So now we should be waiting for Andras....]

[Hoenheim Of Light [Zohi]]

(((OoC (Jeapardy theme inthe background) that is correct! If there is something aimed directly at you, like an attack, you may respond in a short paragraph or so. As long as you don't interrupt the ability for the other posters to coherently post. So don't make a huge post and then a couple medium sized posts, it effects the post quality and is generally looked down upon as not giving other players the opportunity to play they're turn.)))

[Barry the Chopper [Rouin]]

((Ooc: Oh, sorry. *Scratches head.* Thanks for the information, and sorry 'bout that, I'm still learning. I'll get better eventually.))

[Hoenheim Of Light [Zohi]]

(((OoC. Ok just do you best to leave open ended posts and try not to move the thread along by yourself and you'll do just fine!)))

[Barry the Chopper [Rouin]]

((Ooc: Come on guys, log in and post, I don't like talking to myself. Besides, I can't move the thread on my own. I'll give you guys another two days, then I'll leave the post. Please post!!))

[Dante [Andras]]

Andras didn't think twice before opening his case and shifting to playing position. He had his bow rested on G in order to knock him back before slicing him to bits. He would however, wait preemptively for the blond hair maniac to strike before he made a move. In the corner of his eye he observed Zohi possibly preparing to fight a mysterious man in a suit of armor. In the back of his head he guessed that it may have been the fullmetal alchemist, nonetheless Zohi wasn't important enough to him to let his guard down towards Barry. "Cut me to pieces? Oh the sweet irony..."

(Sorry for such a short post I have to get back into the roleplay fully. )

[Barry the Chopper [Rouin]]

(( Ooc: It's not a problem, I don't mind. Just curious, should I wait a little longer for everyone else to react, or do I get the next post?))

[Hoenheim Of Light [Zohi]]

Zohi had to avoid the very accurate vision of al as he kept to a rooftop in the the confusion of all the dust. After a moment he heard the skreech of the clever wielding man and knew his deception to have worked. As he watched from the roof of the building he saw a man clad in armor that met the description of Alphonse Elric. Zohi guessed that he would be harder to defeat than he appeared, though to many people he would appear to be the fiercest of the fierce men. Homunculus had given him a circle draw around the boy to cut off his alchemy abilities and he drew it on the roof and placed the box within it. Homunculus had also sad that it would deconstruct any soundwaves coming in or out, and just for good measure he chained the sturdy box shut and placed several other boxes that were on the roof around it to cover up the circle and camouflage the box the boy was in.
Zohi jumped off the other side of the roof to make sure he wasn't seen. He went down an alley and came out behind the admitted fellow."Hey! You there! Aldon, I think thats what the blond haired kid said your name was. Whatever... He's this way if you wish me to show you where..." Zohi knew perfectly well that he would and waited just long enough to establish eye contact before dipping back into the dark alley...

[Barry the Chopper [Rouin]]

Barry was quite confused, this man intended on using an instrument as a weapon! He didn't understand at all, the situation was becoming more and more difficult by the second. He could only wish he had stayed in Central, this place had victims that were far too strong for his liking.

Having come too far, and waited too long to let his prey get away, he charged at Andras, rampaging down the alley attempting to land a hit on him with his most favorite cleaver.

"H-HAAHAHA!! DIE! DIE! I want to SEE your insides!!" Barry's voice echoed down the hallway as he ran at Andras.

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((Ooc: If nobody minds, I'm going to bring my oc here as well, so I'll be roleplaying two different people at once.))
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Rouin entered the city of Liore, following a tall mans lead, asking questions the entire time. Suddenly, she stopped, having caught a completely new scent in the air, she dashed towards it. Running straight past the alley and the giant suit of armor, she dived her head into the towns fountain.

Rouin had never come across wine before, and thought nothing of it before guzzling the beverage down. She had long satisfied her thirst before a man pulled her head out of the 'red water' and scolded her. She only smiled at the man and looked away, her brain already feeling the effects of the alcoholic beverage.

As a youngster, Rouin was still quite new to the world, and these sights boggled her imagination, especially considering she was now under the influence. Voices coming from boxes, people drawing circles on rooftops while others dueled with instruments. In the end, Rouin had never seen so many people gathered in a single place before.

'This is such a strange world' She thought to herself, as the man continued to scold her. Then she saw the huge suit of armor, and her jaw gaped open. She had never seen anything like it before. "Wow!!" She pointed at poor Alphonse, and began jumping around. "It's huge! That must be the one of the tallest men alive! I should go say hi!" With that, she happily left the mans side, only to fall flat on her face a block away.

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((Ooc: There, I did my best to leave it open for Hoenheim, as we were traveling last time. That way, you can choose what he was doing the entire time, if he happened to ditch her or something, or if he was the man that she followed in.))

[Hoenheim Of Light [Zohi]]

Hoenheim face-palms as he watched the youngster get pulled out of the fountain and babble incoherently for a moment befor eating a face-full of dirt. After a moment he realized that he was now in town and resumed his disguise, pulling out a second pair of goggles and placing them on befor leaning heavily on his staff. Maybe he should just remove cornello from the picture altogether, it couldn't be very difficult even if he had a stone Hoenheim was more than capable of taking him out. Hobbling along he sensed a ripple in the alchemic energies around him. Looking up Hoenheim could see a man on the roof of the building closest to him. Hoenheim waited until there was no one looking then disappeared into an ally.
A moment or two later he was on the roof and could feel a distinct void of alchemy directly in from of him but he couldn't see anything. He bent and grabbed a pebble off of the roof and threw it onto a box in the vacenity of the void. Nothing happened, and Hoenheim was going to turn away when he realized that the stone had mad no noise when it hit the wood. There should have been dull clunk or some other noise... Hoenheim moved a little closer to the void and as he drew nearer he saw a thin white line poking out from under a box. The line traveled about twenty inches befor dissapearing back under the box.
So this was alchemy then. Hoenheim started to move the boxes away and found one box In the center of the circle, chained up. He didnt have he key to the chains and his alchemy wasn't working in the circle, so he drug his foot very hard across the circle and felt the flow of alchemy once more, the chains he simply deconstructed and rebuilt into a masive crowbar to lift the lid off. As soon as he had felt the alchemy return he also heard some muttering and groaning, and when he opened the box it got considerably louder. Hoenheim had only a moment to see his sons face as his eyes twitched in his unconsciousness.
Hoenheim didn't want to reunite with his son in this way so with a loving look and a more than one tear wiped he kept off the roof of the building and into the ally. He had to make sure that kid didnt get hurt...

Edward:

Eds eyes fluttered once, then again, then they finally opened. The sun had just begun to rise and all he could see was a blue square of sky. Sitting up hurt some, but that was from being in a box for who knew how long. Ed cursed his height, not for the first time, and he trouble it gave him getting out of the crate. But with one last shove he fell flat on his face. He was on the roof if a building and there was commotion going on below. Crawling to the edge his heart lept! Alphonse was less than a quarter of a mile away turning his head left and right. He could probly reac him in user a minute if he ran hard.
Testing his arm out it felt ok. It was nice and solid and he picked up a stone and ground it to dust. 'Let's do this' he thought.
He deal withe the bastard who trapt him later. Standing up Ed looked around for a way down then decided against it, he could move faster up here, he could also see better. Ed started running at a good pace and jumped the gap between rooftops, pushing off with his left leg toget a better leap. Pretty soon he was across the street from al, so he jumped off the roof and called his name, "ALPHONSE, Hey over here!" he started walking over to Al, he would be with his brother again in a few seconds...

[Barry the Chopper [Rouin]]

((Ooc: I know it's a little soon for me to post, but I wanted to move my oc to better interact with the others. Barry's good where he is though.))

After a few minutes of unconciousness, Rouin finnaly came to and sat up. Her body had already started to ache again, and the liquor added dilusions to her confused brain.

"Hey! Wh- hic! Where did'ja go?! He's gone! Hic!"

In her drunken stupor, her head spinning, she angrily searched around for Hoenheim in vain until she caught eye of the huge suit of armor. Rouin wandered closer and closer to Alphonse, completely oblivious to the danger nearby, bumping into Edward as she stumbled across the road.

"Oh, sorry 'bout that, I could swear you weren't there a second ago... hey hic! Who doess your hair? Hic, it's very pretty! Now, I'vea gotta goes now! I've gotta say hi to that metal giant!"

((Ooc: Oh, and sorry 'bout all the bad grammar and spelling, Rouin's very drunk.))

[Dante [Andras]]

Blue light shone from the transmutation circle on Andras violin as he played the G string **that would knock** Barry flying back a few feet. "How amusing, trash like you thinking you can get that close to me without punishment. Don't worry though, I have something that will slice much better than that dull cleaver of yours. Andras set his bow on A then set to of his fingers down to play C. With a sharp pull of his arm he sent a flurry of curved sound waves towards the savage butcher.

((( MOD EDIT: You were power playing Dante/Andras. You said 'knocking'which is controlling the other player. Don't do that please, I only changed three words that are now between **~** like that. )))

[Alphonse [James Applewood]]

Alphonse felt so helpless as all kinds of pandimonium was unleashed upon the dusty town. Plumes of dust rose from a man using alchemy from a violin, aiming his attacks at the strange looking guy who was obviously deranged.

"How did all of this erupt from nothing?" He thought to himself as he frantically searched for Zohi. Then he could hear faintly what sounded like his brother. His eyes shot upward towards the rooftop, where in a few moments he could finally see his brother Ed.

"BROTHER!!!" Al blurted out in excitement. The stranger who had abducted Ed was nowhere to be seen, however in the back of his mind, Al was still looking for him. He ran over to his brother who seemed unharmed with the exception of maybe damped spirits.

[OOC: It hard to follow some posts that only use words like HE or HIM instead of naming their targets. For instance: He had his bow rested on G in order to knock him back before slicing him to bits.]