Crossover Together ~クロスオーバ 一緒に~

"Well gang, we've beat down some demons, gained some Alchemy, and made friends with the queen and her guard dog. Whelp, we got a damn good story for home," Karma noted as the group went over towards the airport.
Indeed, it had been a rather interesting vacation (if one would call it that anyway). Dealing with Homunculus and Demon Hounds, along with what the Phantomhives had for them was a bit to gamble with, and all of this within the course of just a month as well. With everything chilled out for the time being, it was time to head right on back over to their corner of the world, right back to Tokyo Japan. Nagisa, Twilight, Pinkie, Blair, Aladdin, and Karma all arrived on time to the airport, the place as busy as ever, and all of their stuff ready to go. Well, they may have gone through some rough trouble during this 'vacation' but they were all together and made it out alright all the same.

"Oh yeah! You know, maybe we got enough to have them make a movie! That'd be so cool. What would it be called you think? 'Hound of Tartarus'? 'Sins of Earth'? OH, oh, oh I know. 'Holy Flame'! ... I like it." Pinkie's chit-chat was mainly met with mixed ears; some listening, some not. As Aladdin walked alongside Pinkie, he took a look inside the cat cage Pinkie Pie was holding, seeing Blair moping inside. Blair had been oddly quiet for a while, back to the door and head to the back wall of her cage. Aladdin gave the cat a poke in the tail.

"What's wrong, Blair? Aren't you happy?"

"Nope," Blair simply said. An odd silence hung in the air.

"... Why?"

"BECAUSE HELLGAR DIED BEFORE I COULD DO ANYTHING TO HIM! Life's not fair."

"... O ... K ..." Aladdin decided to leave her alone. Blair was fine with Hellgar being dead, but the witch wanted to at least make her own point and satisfaction across to Hellgar, which the demon hound didn't even allowed her the chance to. The feeling was a bit mixed, to say the least. Aladdin allowed Pinkie to walk ahead, and he went by Twilight next, who was looking through more of the spells and magic Alchemy. Since finding the first one out, she'd been a bit more deep into finding out some more magical potential.

"How is the magic coming along?" Aladdin asked.

"Oh, it's going. I think I want to try some more of these in particular," Twilight replied, showing Aladdin one of the pages, this one showing a sort of electrical type of Alchemy. Or at least it appeared to be according to the pictures that accompany it. Aladdin's eyes sparkled on just the thought of it.

"OH, Fullmetal Alchemy! How sweet. You sure you wanna give that a try? I heard it's rather tough to do for any Alchemist," Aladdin pointed out.

"Of course. The least I can do is try," Twilight said, with confidence. That's all one could ask of her, wasn't it? Not too far behind them, Nagisa was observing how everyone was getting along with eachother, and he couldn't help but smile. It'd been a while since the whole group was together, and now they all were finally back in business, and back together again. As they were going along, Nagisa stopped for a moment, and turned back to London from the main entrance of the airport. Despite everything that had happened, it still looked lovely from the airport view.

"Well, this has been quite a trip. ..." Nagisa thought. But as he turned to join the others.

"HOLD ON A SECOND!"

Nagisa paused for a moment. That voice, albeit a bit distant away, sounded familiar to him. He turned back to the city, and looked down the road just to see that someone else was trying to catch up to him. It only took one look to recognize the head of the Phantomhive house trying to catch up. Ciel was in his outdoor outfit, black clothes with top hat and all, and he kept a firm grip on his hat as he tried to run up to them before they could get on their flight. It was only Ciel though, not a sign of any other servant trying to run up to him from what Nagisa could see. By the time Ciel finally caught up, he was already a bit winded, probably from running so much to catch them. As he was, the others looked back to see him coming up too, though Nagisa was the only one who could get a guess to why he was doing this.

"Ciel?" Twilight stated, as Ciel tried to catch his breath from the mad run. Not too long after catching up, another figure soon showed up not too far from him, carrying a single suitcase as any good butler would do.

"Afternoon, everyone," greeted Sebastian. Ciel would make the greeting if he wasn't trying to catch his breath first. The others eventually went over back to him.

"HIYO! Come to see us off?" Pinkie asked, waving to them. Ciel needed a little moment before he properly got himself relaxed and paying better attention. As he was though, the others took quick note of the suitcase Sebastian was holding for the young earl.

"So, you have some travel plans," Karma concluded.

"Let's just cut to the chase. Over here," Ciel said, gesturing them to follow. If they were going to discuss anything, he wasn't going to discuss it right out in the open and for peering ears to hear them. They followed him over to a more secluded spot of the place, though Ciel had to hurry up with whatever he had to say.

"What's up, earl? We have a plane to catch," reminded Karma, pointed a thumb behind to the airport main checkout. If they miss their flight, who knows how long it'll be for the next one? Ciel made a little gesture, and Sebastian presented a newspaper in regards to another figure. Nagisa looked at the figure itself in the newspaper, talking about some decision he made though it wasn't too important.

"Now, before you left the manor yesterday, the queen had arrived and informed me of our next task. The information in regards to this man: King Bradley. Various malicious activity had been reported within the country of Amestris, and now we have to venture there and investigate the source of these claims."

"....... What?"

Not the response Ciel wanted.

"Were any of you listening to me?!"

"You kinda jumped on us out of nowhere, how're we supposed to react?" Twilight had to admit. Ciel just sighed, and tried to regain himself, as Aladdin suddenly got a possibility in his head.

"Wait. Does this mean ...?"

"It means that I'm going to be accompany you from here on out," Ciel revealed. Well, this was an interesting surprise: the young earl of Phantomhive and close to the queen, now hanging out with them on this demon hunt of theirs. In surprise, Pinkie dropped the cat cage, Blair stumbling out before Pinkie threw in her own reaction.

"NO. WAY. WE GOT OUR OWN FANCY PERSON!" Pinkie beamed, starry eyes and all. Ciel wasn't to amused by that, but at least the point was put across.

"Joining us? Ciel? Sorry to break it to you, but we're kinda expected back home in Tokyo. We still have school to go to, and families too," Twilight said, a bit embarrassed at Ciel's expense as Pinkie was psyched in the background.

"Your 'friend' Korosensei said he will handle everything for you during your time away," Ciel also revealed, though 'friend' was still a little questionable due to his antics during his stay here, but he had to take his word for that if it meant to get the others on his track. They hadn't heard much out of him in a while, so who knew what he was really up to.

"Sounds good to me. Come on, everyone -"

"Aladdin, we can't just run off like this! Gakuho will have us expelled for sure if we do this," Twilight said, worried over her head.

"Pardon me?" Ciel questioned.

"Our sadistic principal back home," Karma simply stated. Ciel wanted to ask, but he just kept it at that instead. Still, some of Team Harmony just didn't seem to see this as a good idea, two in particular.

"If I may cut in, but I believe that this is more required for you than just a feeble request. As stated in that future vision of yours, perhaps?" Sebastian said. Suddenly, Sebastian pulled out another slip from his overcoat pocket, turning out to be their future vision list they made! They hadn't checked that in a while, and Sebastian presented it to the two very people who made the list in the first place.

"How'd you get this?" Nagisa asked, a bit urgent.

"Sebastian apparently made a side stop on the way to the queen's palace," said Ciel. Nagisa and Twilight looked over their list, and found that it had been altered a bit: a few events that previously happened being cut out in black ink pen. Either being from Nagisa's point of view, or Twilight's point of view, the events had been removed accordingly. Almost scarily accurate.

"... I'm not gonna ask." both thought. It was probably for the best, anyway. The two looked over the list, and one single word ended up catching their eyes, as they looked to that and the newspaper picture.

King.

"Fate's sure convenient," commented Nagisa.

"Really," agreed Twilight. And as with any fate, it was hard to escape from, if at all. Karma though jumped to it before they could say anything.

"Alright, it's all settled: we're heading to Amestris, gang," Karma decided. Time to increase their vacation away from home. Ciel was glad to hear that they were going to cooperate on this, and they seemed ready to give it a shot anyway.

"Very well then. Let's go Sebastian," Ciel said, turning to his butler. However, Sebastian was down on his knees, his eyes staring in astonishment at something else. It was as if the most beautiful thing ever had just stepped before him, and he appeared unable to react in any other way besides affection and amazement. And Blair just so happened to be right in front of him. ...

"Those wide, innocent eyes blind to the filth of the world.~ That smooth, delicate noble tail.~ Those paws, so pale, pink, and perfect.~"

Well, looked like Sebastian was a bit distracted, and Ciel just sighed.
It'll be a while before he would get things going, but at least they all finally got some tracks to finally get things going. Time for Amestris.

.......

"So soon? That team is going faster than I thought."

Sombra open his eyes, and got up to his feet from his meditation position. He'd been in some tense meditation since his latest report given to him, but with that foresight shown to him, it was just enough to halt him and get him back to current time. It honestly hadn't been easy, and this news still was bothering him in his balcony. It was probably good thing for one figure that his meditation stopped here, as it ventured into the balcony to see him.

"You hoo,~" cooed a voice. Sombra turned and found the new figure now within the balcony with him. A new figure soon strutted in, and Sombra got up to his feet. This female demoness seemed pleased to see him, though her eyes showed a sexual interest towards the demon king. She stood tall, taller than Sombra himself by a foot, her skin fair and smooth. In fact, much of her didn't appear much like your typical demon. Her body was voluptuous like Homunculus Lust, and her outfit showed plenty of eye candy for the demon king. Her hair, sea blue in color, stretched down her back, past her curvy hips. On top of her head was a sort of blue-green tiara, a emerald at the center of it. A cloth flowed around her shoulders, held together by another rounded green pearl jewel just above her chest, which was only covered by a black bra, each having a blue ring around it, and held by a metal ring. Her arms wore a long sleeve, only opening at the end of her hands. Her skirt reached down to her feet, which had boots reaching up to her thighs. Her outfit mainly was black, rimmed with a blue color that matched her hair. One unique feature on her was that she had a set of blue wings, the type one would find on a dragonfly.

"Chrysalis. Thank your stars I was just finished," Sombra said. Chrysalis moved closer to the demon king, swaying her hips to show off her body to the stern Sombra.

"Why don't you relax? I never seen a demon lord so tense," Chrysalis suggested, winking to Sombra. However, Sombra saw through her attempts, and just sighed.

"I know, but you haven't met one so involved above before either, I don't have time to relax right now," Sombra made clear. With Team Harmony going around quicker than expected, he had to keep on his game as well. Chrysalis brought her arms around Sombra's shoulders, and he suddenly found himself in an embrace with her, the demoness giving him some bedroom eyes.

"Sure you do. I'll be more than happy to help,~" Chrysalis reassured him.

"Not happening," Sombra bluntly said, pushing her aside. Chrysalis just pouted as Sombra moved past her.

"Shy much?" Chrysalis griped.

"Not at all. I didn't hire you for ... that. It's your unique properties that's the reason you're here. Speaking of, have you check on those Homunculi yet?" Sombra questioned, turning back to her. Chrysalis didn't enjoy Sombra's more stern nature, but got up to her feet anyway.

"They're still in the blood tombs where you left him," Chrysalis replied, though she didn't sound like she cared too much about them.

"Right. That's all I need to know," sombra replied, soon walking out, but before he could go, Chrysalis suddenly went very bold, and pushed her rather big breasts into Sombra's back, hugging him from behind. Sombra shivered.

"Come on, Sombra. Why can't I go out and have some fun, instead of those artificial humans? I'm sure I wouldn't screw up as much as they've been."

"Don't be ridiculous, Chrysalis. I'll tell you when, but for now just stay put," Sombra instructed. After that, he went right off and left her. so much for some time with the demon lord.

Sometime later, and Sombra was reaching this 'Blood Tombs', This was in a much darker location, one underground to be exact. The area looked within a dark tunnel, only main source of light coming from violet flames of the wall torches and nothing else. Right next to him appeared to be some sort of strong door, which Sombra went right over to, and opened up.
Inside was another part of the Underworld, one a bit away from the regular palace. Various pools dotted the cavern, the main light source being the red crystals illuminating the area. Within each pool, each was shallow and filled up with a red velvet liquid, stagnated in the pools all around. In one of these pools, a body was laid inside, with two figures standing in patience as Sombra walked right over to them. These figures were Lust and Gluttony, both Homunculi watching their fellow Homunculus laying in the pool.

"Has Envy resurrected yet?" asked Sombra, as he approached.

"He's taking his time apparently. That human group in the Phantomhive estate did quite a number on him," explained Lust. Sombra looked into the pool at Envy's body. Envy appeared alright, almost appearing asleep in the velvet pool, bare naked with only his stomach, chest, hair, and face visible above the surface as the rest remained concealed. Sombra shook his head. He'd get mad at them for going after the Phantomhive estate if Hellgar didn't instruct them to do so in the first place.

"So I see. ... Gluttony, did you handle that other task Hellgar told you about?"

"They were so delicious, thank you very much!" Gluttony said, licking his lips greedily. Well, that answered Sombra's question. Though, seeing him drool and lick like that was more than enough to make Sombra cringe.

"Stop that. Please stop that," Sombra said, his hand covering Gluttony's mouth. He didn't come in to lose his lunch. He wiped off the slobber from his hand before looking to the body of Envy again. Envy appeared to be breathing, but very slightly as his body was recovering. It looked intently at Envy for a good minute, Lust and Gluttony exchanging glances with eachother before Sombra looked to them again.

"When Envy's recovered, you three head off out to Amestris. ... Make sure to get a strong ally," Sombra instructed, just before leaving them alone in the room. After that check up, Sombra was walking off again down the tunnel where he came in, his active mind rethinking over the situation at hand.

"Let's see. Envy is recovering. Chrysalis is adapting fairly well. That team of humans had overcome both Homunculi and demon pack. ... This is getting troubling. One more thing I have to check."

.......

Eventually, Sombra began to reach his next quarry soon after the Homunculus visit. This room was a bit different from the blood bath chambers, or the chambers within the palace. The room was quiet, only sounds of distant dripping of water the main audible sound to be heard. The place was especially cold, the ground underfoot actually frosted over slightly in patches. Sombra wasn't too bothered by the cold as his eyes scanned the area around him. The walls, ceiling, and floor all were made up of cold steel, the sound of every footstep echoing down the small hall towards Sombra's main destination, to which he stopped himself. The room widened up to a larger blocked chamber, almost like a small arena with four pillars standing at each corner, each one dormant apparently.

"Hey. You still there?" Sombra asked firmly.

"Sombra. My old friend."

Then came the main reason he came down there. One main figure was sitting there, that wicked smile still evident on his devilish face. Despite the cold, this demon was still red and burning. As far as a demon would go, this figure would better fit the generic build of one over Sombra: red skin from head to toe, pointed ears, and a large set of horns belonging to a bull. Some details made him stand out still, one thing included his eyes were completely black with yellow irises that almost glowed. For hair, he had a rather scruffy gotee going on, and while his hair did stretch to his tailbone, the top was still shaved clean with the exception of a shaved Mohawk. The only main source of clothing on him was a pair of black shorts, but apart from that he was completely bare. His arms, legs, chest and stomach all had chains and locks that weighed him down. On him as well, a red pearl engraved the top of his ribcage, and two distinct scars showed themselves: one around his neck and one slicing over his left eye, both of which looked less like cuts and more like white stitches. This person was who Sombra wanted to check him, and admittedly, Sombra wasn't happy that this figure was actually happy to see him.

"Good, you're still here. That's all I want to check in," Sombra said, as he turned to go.

"Dearie me, Sombra. Is that all you have to say to me? Me: the previous ruler of Tartarus?"

"No, here's another one: stop acting so cocky. I got you in chains, and down in the coldest prisonhold in the Underworld to prohibit your power. I fail to see what's worth being so cheery about."

The figure got up, and started to move closer to him. Sombra made sure to stay off the arena boundary, the figure only stopped by the limit of his own chains.

"You seem so confident in yourself. You think that everything will work out by playing it safe, don't you? There's a reason why we demons don't ever play fair to our opponents."

"Shut up. It's because of your reckless behavior that you're locked up in here in the first place -"

"You mean your reckless behavior, you mean? You are aware who I am, don't you?" the figure chuckled. Sombra cleared his throat.

"Demon lord Tirek: ruler of Tartarus over the last fifty years, fullblood demon-class, also known as the inventor of torture. Yes, I know who you are, and you're reputation didn't help you get any farther."

"And you think your reputation will? You can play your childish games as much as you want to, but in the end it'll be the end, I'm the true demon king that will take the surface world back. All you are is a match that'll start my hellfire."

"When elephants fly! Now I only came to check in on you, and I did, now good day to you sir!" Sombra finished, walking on out, frustrated at Tirek. All Tirek did was smile and giggle slyly.

"you'll see."

"Oh sure I will," Sombra replied sarcastically before leaving Tirek alone. So long as he remained there, Sombra was secured.

~~

Japan. Orora High. As Team Harmony continued their own agenda with Ciel and Sebastian, Korosensei continued his many assortment of deeds for the next school agenda. A month away from the 3-E building gave the place a bit of time to get all stuffy and worn down, so Korosensei had a bit of work to handle. course, it was nothing a Mach-20 Demon King couldn't handle.
When Korosensei first came back, the place was covered up in dust from lack of maintenance: desks, walls, floors, etc. having a thin layer of dust. Some books fell over on the shelves nearby, and even some boards on the roof had grown loose. The front gym yard had a number of weeds sprouting out from the ground in several places.
By the time Korosensei was finished sprucing up the place - it only took about twenty to twenty five seconds - everything in and around the 3-E building looked good as new. The gym yard was trimmed, picked clean of any foreign flora around the yard down to a tee. The interior sparkled and shined with cleaned up floors, walls, and even the ceiling thanks to some handy work. Desks were wiped clean, books rearranged with precision, boards on the roof mended up. Korosensei, being the cocky Demon King he is, had extra time to get a little sweet treat of ice cream, and writing out "Welcome Back" on the front chalkboard. The Demon King swung his leg over (or in his case, his four tentacles tossed over the rest), and he happily licked his ice cream and waited for the students to come back around. Karasuma, Gakuho, each student of 3-E. He missed them all over summer vaca, and now he's willing to see all their faces again.

"Ah, what would this place do without you Korosensei?" Korosensei commented. All he had to do was wait patiently for the bell to chime it's tune, and his lovely class of students would come right through that door. He's sure that they'll be more than happy to see him again. The minutes ticked by, and Korosensei waited and waited for the students to happily show their faces to him, but as Korosensei waited for that clock to chime he found not a single student coming in from anywhere. He didn't see any come in from the main path, nor coming in from the direction of the main building. He even took post up on the roof with a pair of binoculars but the only thing he saw was summer trees and the occasional Pidgy. Nothing more beyond that for the next five to ten minutes. Strange. He would see a student come out by now, considering the time.

"This seems peculiar. Shouldn't they be here by now? At least one of them should be coming by," Korosensei wondered, checking the clock back inside for a brief moment. He soon started to check around the yard outside. He went around high and low, but whatever these students were doing, they were well hidden.

"Okay gang, you had your fun. We have a lot of time to catch up with one another. I got some sweet gossip from my vacation that we can chat about," Korosensei offered. He considered that a great offer for any curious human, but that didn't seem to cut it. Odd indeed.

"KIDS?! WHERE'RE YA?!" Korosensei called, zooming around the nearby forest. He continued flying around the forest for a bit, but as he was, something along the forest floor. It was interesting enough to make Korosensei stop cold.
A pile of porno magazines dumped into a pile.
The sight of these priceless gems made Korosensei's face fluster pink with a blush, his smile having an extra little curl. A clear trap, yes, but the chances to eye and gawk some big-boobed babes was too good to pass up for this demon king.

"OOOO what do we have here? Is that the exclusive beach time issue?!" Korosensei wondered excitedly, already sitting down and going through the pages. Any pervert would love to get a grip on these issues. Then the cover said a extra something that especially made him psyched.

"WHA?! Never-Before-Seen thong bikini set?! Oh gimme gimme gimme gimme," he said, rushing to see this supposed set in this issue fast, skimming through the pages. By the time he managed to get there though, all he got was a blank page with a silly picture drawn on it. Particular, one of his own face, winking and sticking his tongue out.
Next thing he knew, the ground suddenly gave, and a fast-reacting net launched upward. Normally Korosensei would bolt out of the way, but the distraction of big boobs was his major downfall this time. He found himself stuck in a net trap, porno magazines on the ground and him stuck hanging up in a tree. Who'd of thought that first time back and he'd get up a tree about it.

"Got him!"

"Who'd of thought some porno would be the perfect bait."

These voices Korosensei recognized, and sure enough out came the 3-E students. Each and every single one of them, and each one with a weapon in hand. Some had guns while others tied their knives on poles to stab him with. Korosensei was not in the right condition at the moment for a quick getaway, so when the first shot fired, all he could do was dodge to the best he could manage to do. As students tried, two of the leading minds watched on. Or rather, one leading mind, one pacifist.

"See Nabiku? Knew that pervert wouldn't be able to resist. Sure you don't wanna take a stab at him?"

"No thank you, Nakamura."

Nakamura and Nabiku just stood there and observed what surely would be the ending blow to this demon. Korosensei dodged and waved around like mad against these students and their games, knife slashes and gunfire ringing out all around him, but none of them could make a hit onto him. Soon the demon king found this fun.

"HAHAHA, what a start! See you all been sharpening your blades, but it won't do ya any good!" Korosensei said, getting pretty cocky about this whole thing. Nabiku did have a weapon in hand, but she was too humbled to even fire the thing.

"Nabiku, here, take one shot. He's right there, just one and it's all it'll be," Nakamura said, trying to encourage her to fire.

"B-But ... but ..."

"It'll be fine, I promise. You don't have to do anymore today," Nakamura promised. Nabiku trembled a little, but she took her options a bit and finally made the ultimate choice: fire. Nabiku took aim at Korosensei, trying her best to find a firing point. Nakamura actually went behind Nabiku and tried to help her out. Nakamura may not have a gun but she had the right eye all the same.

"Try to aim where the points meet. He may be moving around a lot, but there's one part that stays still on him," Nakamura advised, both watching the blurry dodges. Korosensei continued to constantly dodge, but Nabiku and Nakamura focused on that one point. ...

Then the shot was fired.

"YOW!!"

It happened rather fast, but it seemed like slow motion. Korosensei broke free from the trap and bolted off to a far safer distance, but they did noted that Korosensei actually moved, ever so slightly slower. One other thing too was where the rope landed, they all saw a clump of yellow goo from Korosensei's tentacle now splattered on the ground. Nabiku's gun smoked from that one shot, Nabiku herself shocked more than anyone that a shot was even made, let alone actually hitting him at all. The hit may be minor, but it proved that they were stronger than Korosensei remembered.

"WOO. Well well well, we've got some new tricks I see. Congrats to Nabiku and Nakamura for that million yen shot, but word of advice: one shot to the foot wouldn't take your opponent down for long. Though it will cripple them, naturally," Korosensei explained, his tentacle regrowing after a little bit. Korosensei then leaped up, and zoomed off out of sight. Nabiku, still trembling a little, lowered her gun. Her heart was racing like crazy, even if it was just one little shot and minor too.

"Damn, look at that, you got a shot out of him. Good hit Nabiku - ... Nabiku? Nabiku, calm down," Nakamura said, trying to help Nabiku calm down. However, Nabiku was too freaked out over just shooting her weapon to relax, nevermind hitting someone with it.

"I ... I-I'm fine. I-I'm fine. I-I'm fine."

"You look ready to break, my god," Nakamura thought, especially when seeing her face. Nabiku will need more time yet before she can handle weapons without spacing out.
Meanwhile, Korosensei flew straight back to the school, all cleaned up and looking forward to the students coming back for sure. With their attempt failing again, they don't have to wait around anymore. Regardless, this did get his own heart pumping, but in a good way.

"This year's going to be fun."

~~

Travel time had been pretty good for Team Harmony. The main location in mind from the United Kingdom had to be from boat to the mainland instead of a typical flight on a plane, though mainly because Amestris didn't have a airport. Time was extended yes, but they were good off of that anyway from what could be. The boat they've managed to get themselves on was a seagoing ferry, a fine ride overseas that Ciel managed to get himself on. The boat wasn't exactly a cruise ship, but the boat was still a decent size, about as long as two buses. With good weather for the sea riding the boat made good speed to the mainland, wave sways notwithstanding though. The boat moved along steady as it goes, Team Harmony taking some time to enjoy their 'cruise'. Pinkie Pie, Nagisa, and Twilight were over by the edge of the boat, though while Pinkie was giddy about the trip and Nagisa content with the view of the passing sea, Twilight was looking more sickly, hanging off the side of the boat with a green tint to her face. The rest were nearby, and basically waiting until the ship reached port, which it didn't do until about sunset.
Hours at sea just didn't suit Twilight much, though she was glad it was all over. The docks they reached were as crowded as they expected it to be, reaching the border lines of a seaside city. The city looked pretty modern, like Tokyo but smaller, yet differences stop there. The first one off the boat was actually Sebastian, lifting Ciel off the boat and jumping down to the dock. The rest went off the normal way, and met up over by the inner docks.

"Oh wow! This Amestris city looks sweet. It's like a pocket-sized Tokyo," Aladdin said in astonishment, looking around like a tourist.

"Well what're we waiting for? That king's gotta be around somewhere," noted Blair, strolling out in her human form.

"Not here: we have to go to the Capitol if we're to meet him," Ciel corrected. Fair enough situation. Not too far behind, Nagisa brought Twilight on over, trying to help the slightly green-faced girl from riding around on the boat. She'd prefer the flying carpet anyday of the week over the boat.

"What happened to you, Twilight? Your face is green," asked Aladdin, finger pressing her face.

"Just. Just give me a minute," Twilight said meekly, trying to gather herself.

"Oh Botha. Come on, Sebastian, we have little time to waste," Ciel instructed. He didn't have time to be toying around with Twilight, as he had to get to King Bradley according to the future vision list they had.
After a minute or two, and soon they were starting their way through the city. The group fitted in pretty well overall, with many of them observing the neighborhood around them as they walked through. Cities like this are something they were more familiar with; plenty of people, modern buildings, the main works. Buildings around the city matched with Tokyo Japan, though a bit shorter naturally.The people were slightly different from the people they knew in Japan, as expected, but some of these people Twilight and Nagisa begun to note had some unique features on them that made them stand out from regulars of Japan, or England for that matter. People from different places would have some sort of natural difference, but Amestris was a bit more noticeable with some folk.
Mechanical parts. That's right. Either be it a arm, or a leg (no joke), some people had mechanical parts that looked right out of some steampunk world.

"Strange. They have metal arms and legs," Nagisa quietly noted, curious.

"It's Automail," stated Ciel.

"Excuse me?"

"Oh, I've read about this: It's a common practice in Amestris to use metal parts to replace lost limbs. Usually a arm or a leg, or both," Twilight said, as she and Nagisa were seeing the examples around town. Nagisa knew of artificial limbs, but those were mainly made up of plastic, not straight metal like a machine such as this. Ciel cleared his throat and addressed the group.

"See someone did their research, but we're not here to sightsee. This is a strict task from the queen of England, so if we all can cooperate -"

"OOOO, what's going on there?" Pinkie said, suddenly rushing off on them! Well, so much for that.

"Where the devil are you going?!" Ciel called, but Pinkie was a bit far away already.

"Easy, earl, she's just having fun. Come on, let's check it out," Blair suggested, following her. Some of the others decided to go off, but Ciel just stood behind. Not even five minutes in Amestris and Team Harmony's already going off. The others were sure to just follow her and check out what she saw, as Pinkie wasn't going to go with them otherwise until she found that out at least.
Nearby, Team Harmony found themselves a rather large crowd, watching and anticipating over some sort of event going on. It took a little bit for the group to get through, but once they did, they soon found what was causing so much ruckus. Around an area, two men stood tall and looking pretty proud. One of them, a regular sized human with one of those 'loud' orange shirts held a bag of coins in hand, but the person next to him not only towered over him, but both his arms were completely made of Automail. Aside from them stood a lone, sturdy table and two seats, one for each opponent. The defeated opponent just walked sadly away, holding his sore arm in defeat. Pretty easy to figure out what this was.

"Down goes another contender! Come on, who's next?!" the referee called, waving the money bag above him for all to see. As one man went off to heal himself, another one with an automail arm stepped up to the challenge.

"Oh, arm wrestling. Haven't done one of these in forever," Karma commented.

"Is this another human game?"

"Something like that. Watch," Karma told Aladdin, pointing to the event at front. They all watched the next challenger get himself situated, and both men locking arms. The referee held both hands down, and started his countdown, as any ref would do. After the traditional 'three, two, one', both men started on their game. At first, none of them wavered much, but after a bit, the champion slammed his new opponent's automail arm down hard, securing his victory yet again. The hit made Aladdin cringe up and the opponent just walked off away. Cheers abounded from the crowd over yet another secured victory for the champion. At this point was when Ciel and Sebastian caught up.

"Odd game."

"Come on, any real challenger ready to come up? Come on, who wants to take a crack at the champ?" shouted the referee, waving the money around. As he was looking, he caught sight of Team Harmony standing there, along with some others in the crowd. He put his hand over his eyes in a salute fashion, looking around for any other potential figures.

"Oh, how could I? Asking this tiny little shrimp to take on the champ?! HAHAHA!" The ref suddenly said. The team was going to say something, but the ref wasn't referring to any of them.

"WHO'RE YOU CALLING A SHRIMP?!" Shouted a pissed off voice.

Then came the next challenger. The referee got his next sucker far as he was concern, and the opponent here looked a lot smaller just as well. He looked rather short, only taller than Aladdin, but shorter than the rest of them were surprisingly. His hair was blond, tied back in a braid and parted at front with the exception of a strand of hand poking upward. The outfit of said person primarily made up of black trousers, a sleeveless black shirt with a black jacket that had silver/white lining along the edges, and a bright red, long-sleeved, hooded cloak whose tail came down to his upper calves. As he ventured forward, he took of the red cloak, and went straight over to the tall challenger. When he got there, it is revealed that he too had his own automail arm, gleaning in the light once he got into position. Everyone, including Team Harmony watched them both lock arms and the referee counted them down.

"Ok. Three. Two. One ... Go!" So they went at it. At first, both sides remained still and focused in strength. Everyone held their breath for a good ten seconds. ...

The he pulled back. ...

And tore the champion's automail hand clean off! lightning sparked, metal torn away, and soon the newcomer was holding what remained in his hand like it was his own trophy. As was expected, the entire crowd, most of Team Harmony included, saw this wide-eyed and mouths-agape. One had to be goddamn strong in order to tear someone's automail off so easily. The newcoming opponent smirked and dropped the automail hand down in front of the champion. Or rather, once was.

"I think I'll take that now," said the opponent, confidence gleaning as the referee silently gave him the bag of cash. While it was impressive, it did mark the end of the situation, and any reason to stick around.

"Now that you've had your fun, may we head on our way?" Ciel asked.

"Okie dokie lokie," said Pinkie, as they begin to go off. Aladdin took a moment to watch the other guy go off on his way before going to join the others.

~~

The day had been long, but eventually the school day back in Orora high had come to a close, and the students of 3-E were heading off home. For Nabiku, that meant that she had a walk home alone from her usual trip. It wasn't exactly anything new for this girl, as walking home alone was something she was more than used to ever since high school even got started for her, nevermind this year itself. All the same, it gave her time to listen to the birds chirping around her, which was always a nice thing for her to hear. Still, while it was nice, her mind still remembered over what had happened earlier, the thrill of shooting that gun at Korosensei still having an effect on her.

"Why do we have to kill him? He's so nice, he doesn't deserve this. ..."

That was Nabiku's main thought above all. She never found a reason to kill him, being a demon being the only actual reason there was, and even that was not enough for her. Such a charismatic, and cheerful carefree nature, what's there to provoke murder on him? sure, he looked a bit questionable, but that was purely speculation. Should she try and kill him like everyone else? Nabiku sighed.

"Maybe I should leave them to do it," Nabiku concluded, though her decision came with a grain of salt. She would try to stop them if she had the nerve to.
During her walk, she took a moment to stop and observe some Pidoves perched up in a nearby tree. They sang their basic tunes as usual, and one of them started to fly away. Nabiku enjoyed these cute little birds, and the Pidoves didn't seem too worried over her either. One thing that Nabiku looked forward to was seeing these cute birds around the forest on the way home.

*bzzz*

Then it happened. Out of nowhere, and in an almost blur, something suddenly took off from the forest, and grabbed the Pidove right out of the air! Nabiku flinched on the sight and sound of the attacker. Be it curiosity or dumb luck, Nabiku saw the fate of the poor bird just a few moments later after taking a few steps forward. Over on a tree trunk, the poor bird squawked and fluttered for a little before going limp and falling lifeless onto the ground under it. For the attacker, the creature gripped the tree with six insect legs. The overall body looked like that of a moth, but this was no ordinary moth. The purple wings themselves stretched behind it, though Nabiku could make out eye markings on them, resembling amber eyes. Fluffed antennae aimed forward with four tendrils that looked like tentacles or proboscis, but the overall size of this moth, and probably what scared her the most, was that it was as big as a deer! And seeing how it just killed the bird, probably rather aggressive too. As first, Nabiku was scared to budge, worried that any sudden movements would trigger something off this giant moth, the moth's eyes having a faint yellow glow as it sensed her standing about ten feet away. Its antennae twitched and flickered, as if sniffing for her. The remaining Pidoves flew off from there, leaving only Nabiku with this strange giant creature.

"W-Wha ... W-What is that? ... W-w-w-what do I do?" Nabiku thought, trembling a little bit. Just seeing this giant kill a bird so easily, and so quickly, this thing was built to kill, and it looked plenty big enough to take her down if provoked, much like a hawk or eagle in a way. Both Nabiku and the Moth were at a stalemate with eachother, neither side moving an inch. Nabiku knew she can't stay there forever, and so Nabiku, ever so slowly, started to move along the path to home. The giant moth didn't budge at first, letting Nabiku move slowly along, step by step. The moth almost looked fake on its tree, but each twitch of the antenna just proved otherwise.

"Baby steps. ... Baby steps. ... Easy does it. ..."

But it wasn't easy enough.

With a flick of the wing, the giant moth launched straight forward directly at Nabiku. The girl ducked fast, the Moth zooming off above her. The broad-winged Moth quickly turned itself around to find Nabiku running like mad to get away. Nabiku tried her best, but this mad moth buzzed and fluttered around her like crazy, trying to get a grip on her. Nabiku was basically running blind while trying to avoid the bug, just to end up tripping over her feet, and falling to the ground. The moth landed on her side after she fell, the weight keeping Nabiku down as she struggled. Nabiku yelped in pain as she felt the mouth of the moth sink into her shoulder, already feeling the suction of the moth starting to such her blood dry. So not only was this bug a giant, but also a bloodsucker.

"Help! Help me!!" Nabiku called in horror, but there was no one around to hear her. All Nabiku could do was flail around to try and dislodge the insect. The giant moth thrashed around until it eventually released her for a moment. It had a fair amount of blood, but not enough to satisfy it. Nabiku straightened up, and the bug landed on the ground nearby. The moth readied to fly up again and tackle her.

"O-Oh no. ..."

.......

The bite never came. In fact, everything became quiet after the supposed launch. Nabiku straightened up, dazed and light-headed and with a bite mark on her shoulder. The mark was a minor cut, blood seeping out in little drops, but the moth suddenly found itself with its back knocked into another tree, its wings dangerously close to getting ripped. Nabiku needed a moment to get herself together, wondering what exactly happened, but eventually she found that she wasn't alone in this battle. As the moth got itself turned around, rather than attack again, it quickly got off the ground and flew away fast, leaving nothing behind apart from scattered dust.
As for who apparently saved her, Nabiku's dazed condition didn't give her too much of an expression, or very much details. Someone was indeed standing there, almost on top of her as if protecting her, some sort of blur stretching out from her torso. One detail that Nabiku could make out was a surprising amount of blue, especially on the stretch parts. The figure turned its head to Nabiku for a brief moment, smile on its face, before suddenly a huge gust of wind struck her. She had to cover her face in case of any attack. Once the wind calmed down, Nabiku found herself all alone again. Whoever that was, just as quickly as it began, it was over. Nabiku managed to get to her feet, getting her senses back together. The only evidence that someone was indeed there was a set of dug-in footprints right at her feet, looking like they belonged to a pair of sneakers or something. She knew it wasn't her own by the placement, but there was no sign of any trail anywhere.

"Who was that?" Nabiku wondered.

~~

As the world continued outside, Korosensei was busy with his own little bit of schedule. The days back at school were alright, but his own little agreement towards Gakuho for Nagisa, Twilight, Pinkie, and Karma's sake in terms of grades had given him a little bit of decent challenge to try and please. Bad enough they weren't here for one, and Korosensei had to handle the multiple grades for them too, along with the 3-E students here. It wouldn't be so bad if the group wasn't practically half way around the world right now. As he tried to handle it in his office, mainly preparing their little work sheets as homework, Karasuma came in and soon noticed the situation going on with Korosensei, the speed demon working out each study session from pure scratch and writing them down on blank papers.

"They won't be back. That it?" asked Gakuho. Korosensei had confronted him in his office, standing there with the names of the students that won't really be attending as much this year, according to Korosensei's knowledge.

"Thought I'd give my boss a heads up before this year starts. It's a very personal issue, you know," Korosensei replied with a wink of the eye. Still, Gakuho remained a bit unmoved by the words, and instead presented Korosensei with a attendance sheet with their names on each one, and a pen hovering over them.

"Well, in that case, I might as well mark them suspended."

"WHOA WHOA WHOA, l-let's not be too hasty!" Korosensei insisted, freaked out by the sudden jump.

"Korosensei. My school is the best there is. Tardiness is not tolerated. And it seems by what you told me, they won't be back for quite a while. ... Unless they can return from England by tomorrow morning? ..."

Korosensei was on the ropes here. He didn't tell Gakuho that information just to get them into trouble. Still, it took the demon king only a short time before getting an idea in his yellow head.

"Wait a minute! Problem's the students learning, right? How about I mail them the work, and I'll come straight back with their scores. It's like they never left at all," Korosensei decided, quickly changing into a mailmen's outfit with envelopes in his tentacles. Gakuho stayed eerily quiet for a little bit, each second worrying Korosensei more and more, until Gakuho got up and moved over to the demon teacher.

"Are you willing to go through all that trouble for such neglectful students?"

Korosensei only nodded, shivering a little.

"... How about I make you a deal. I'll let you handle this, but if one paper is left unchecked, one test not written and put into their grades, then I'm afraid we'll have four failing students to add to your "little E family". How does that sound?"

"Gakuho, you're about to be played," Korosensei thought.

"What're you doing now?" Karasuma asked.

"Ah, Karasuma, good to see ya. Just getting some little tests ready for a few kids," Korosensei said, his tentacles blindly zooming around and writing down each question, detail, and instruction down to the wire. Karasuma raised his gun to shoot Korosensei, but the cheeky Korosensei got one tentacle to snatch the gun up during his work, just as he finished up.

"AAAAND bam!" Korosensei said once he completed it.

"Don't try and get too comfortable. They're all out to get you, remember that," Karasuma reminded sternly, but Korosensei only chuckled, his head showing his green stripes.

"Oh, I'd love to see them all try. Maybe you can try some anti-demon grenades tomorrow morning," Korosensei suggested, just before he stepped outside, and disappeared from sight. Well, so much for a attempt at Korosensei's life again. Karasuma, with some time alone, simply sat down by the desk and opened up his laptop. Yeah, his job was to kill Korosensei, but he still had his school teacher job to handle, so he had to check that out anyway.

"Damn Korosensei. Who in the right mind would encourage being killed, anyway?" Karasuma thought, though if it meant making the job easier he wouldn't object it. As he looked through some of his emails, one of these did come up that caught his attention during this point from his official: Seitenshi herself! He was military, and presidential messages meant something important one way or another, as he opened it up to see what was going on.

Tadaomi Karasuma:

You've been assigned to the Protection agreement transfer. You'll be sent off to London as trainer to the Queen's air military for the next upcoming month. As such, Akira Takaoka will be your replacement. He'll be arriving within the next few days, so be sure to inform him on what to do before you go.

Seitenshi.

Karasuma paused for a moment on this decision. This was fairly new, only given to him about 22 hours ago according to the time frame left on it. So, Karasuma went on to reply back.

Understood.

~~

Out in the city, little Blair was out and about in her own time in Amestris. Hanging out with the others and doing this was fine, but strolling around as a true cat gave Blair plenty more freedom to check out the neighborhood. While the rest of the group made overnight accommodations before their move off towards Amestris for King Bradley, Blair kept her curious eyes all over the place. Many a people paid her little mind as the black cat went along, and many birds and mice that saw her kept well clear of her. Been a while since she did these kinds of walks, since she left England as a matter of fact, so some chilling walking was what she needed to explore the place.

"Ok, kitty, what do we got today?" Blair wondered. Her eyes scanned around the area for some fancy snack to catch, though much of the busy sidewalks didn't make it too easy. Plenty of people for sure, lots of birds off on the rooftops that were out of reach, but some little nice scurrying along looked pretty good right about now. A few stray mice rushed down some alley steps just as Blair saw them, and being the cat that Blair was, she went right on after them.

"I see you micees!" Blair noted, racing down after them. The alleyway Blair decided to run down lead down to a labyrinth of pathways around many of the buildings. Tall walls and windows along a five foot wide path, and one cleared of many a debris so the mice didn't have much to hide in. Not much people out in this part of the world, so Blair had nothing in the way in her chase with these mice. Blair was in hot pursuit by this point, but the mice were just ahead of her enough to run out of sight into a nearby drain. Blair made a dive for them, but the mice just managed to get out of her paws. All she got to get was a face full of dirt.

"Damnit mice!" Blair complained, shaking the dirt off of her. So much of a mouse snack. As any cat, she regained herself quick as if nothing had even happened. As she walked off down the alleyway, she caught sight of her reflection off some stray metal, and saw just how dusty she got.

"God damnit, got my fur all messed up," Blair sighed, as she started to clean herself up, using the reflection in the object as her mirror. She continued getting the dust out of her fur for the next minute before her eyes started to scope what she was actually using as her mirror.
The object in question appeared to be some sort of metallic object, in particular a kind of suit. The suit consisted mainly of blueish silver armor, reaching from the shoes up to the head. A few exceptions to this appeared to be some brown leather underneath the armory, visible around the hands and straps by the shoulders. The suit appeared sturdy, thick and very tall compared to the minuscule feline. Basically a suit of armor perfect fitting a prime muscular man. This wasn't your typical knight armor, with many unique details: the shoulders hosted a trio of spikes, the waist covered in a grey cloth, the neck armor circled the neck like a thick collar, and the helmet didn't match any regular country Blair knew of. The forehead had a single horn on it, the jaw region equipped with edged top jaws to resemble sharp teeth, and the top of the head had a silvery white, hair-like addition that reached down to the armor's hips, like a very thin white ponytail. Three slits make up the openings on the helmet, one which had the eye opening while the other two were for air to flow through. An entire bodysuit of pure armor, and it so happened to be out in a secluded area like this.

"Oh, neat. A full suit of body armor! The others are gonna get a kick out of this," Blair thought, walking around and looking it over. As she moved to the otherside, she also noted a red emblem of sorts on the armor's shoulder. Blair looked it over up and down, even climbing on it time to time to check it out. As Blair hopped up onto the lap of the object, it was then that this odd object began to stir a little. ... Then it started to move.

"It's alive? This armor's hexed!" Blair thought, hopping off its lap as the apparently live armor began to move, and turn its head towards Blair. Blair stayed still, backing up slightly, but the armor didn't do much of anything at first. Eventually, a large arm extended towards her, Blair withdrawing a bit. Rather than any harm, the hand gently started to pet Blair's head.

"Hello, little guy. Are you lost?"

Blair heard a voice she never would've expected from a live armor, sounding like a young boy instead of some large man. Blair began to relax a bit, letting this thing gently rub her head. Blair then got an idea, just to see if her suspicions were correct or not.

*meeooww~*

The armor gasped from the display of affection, a tone like a parent seeing their child in a beautiful outfit. Blair made sure to put on a pity face to her kitty outfit. She would try to act sexy, but she can't fault what she really was to just anyone (as much as it restricted her). Still, this figure gently lifted Blair off the ground, apparently happy to find a little kitty like her.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of you," the figure promised. Blair gently held the kitty, getting up to his feet (which lifted Blair pretty high up off the ground. Blair thought it over shortly, and just meowed again, letting this figure bring her with him.

"I'll catch up with them later," Blair thought.