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Zakun put his chalk away after creating a few circles and headed off to the training grounds looking for people to fight but he found noone so he looked at the ground helplessly and thought of what he was going to do, as Zakun sat there he stared at the ground and thought as he frowned beginning to speak quietly as if to someone else but still to quiet to hear by anyone else, "Lord Orochimaru, what has happened..... i shall not be defeated.... no mater what, but still i haven't seen anybody for a while. not since the chunin exams so once i have completed your will i shall be completed and you shall be proud of me and anyone else who has been bestowed with this power." Zakun finished saying to himself as he sat down relaxing by a tree.
(2/6)

Ginsa appeared in the village, looking around at the designs and letting all the information soak in. His emotionless face showed that he may be more intelligent that he looked, or just plain stupid. As he continued through the village, he observed that there were a lot of people using a strange method of ninjutsu... Making circles in the ground and placing their hands upon it to create something out of the ground or something they placed the circle on... Things will get even weirder of Ginsa later on as he would learn.

1/???

((Hey Metal, you know Body Flicker?))

((Damn it... Guess I'll just train randomly till I get enough to get the technique at Leaf then...))

Ginsa looked emotionless at his surroundings. Hearing the footsteps of another shinobi walking up, his right hand immediately flew towards the sword mounted on his back. Finding that the boy was harmless, Ginsa lowered his hand and looked towards him. "I am Ginsa Hyumon from Hidden Mythology and your the one confused. If your offering a friendly fight that is not to the death, I accept. Any more than that, and I'd have to get my first master later in life to kill you." Ginsa then drew his sword and prepared himself.

2/???

Ginsa's eyes darted from left to right as Zakun started to talk about the village being able to be rebuilt after their fight and such... Also the part with him dying. As he watched Zakun create a labyrinth made from complete earth. Knowing that this should only be a spar and not to the death fight, Ginsa then started to think that the boy originally planned it to be a to the death fight. Muttering a few words under his breath, Ginsa then started to run through the maze.

3/???

Not hearing his opponent's footsteps, Ginsa then sighed as he started to run up the side of the labyrinth towards the top using the Tree Climbing Skill. As he reached the top, Ginsa then ran towards the forest as stated by Zakun that they should fight somewhere else. "Boy! As you say, I've agreed to fight in the forest. But remember. This fight is not to the death, but rather just a spar for me to test out my abilities as a newly graduated shinobi." Said Ginsa as he continued over the labyrinth towards the forest.

4/???

Ginsa listened to Zakun, hearing about the seal and his memories flashed back to Jason Akasun, his first master. The man that would end any dispute if the need to was small. Ginsa then quickly snapped back into reality as he heard the foot steps of Zakun appear towards him. Raising his sword just as the scythe reached his neck, Ginsa felt the two metals collide. Ginsa flew across the grounds a bit, only to flip in the air and then slid to a stop a few meters from where their blades met.

5/???

Ginsa's mouth then started to fill up with something and there was a hiss coming from his mouth as well. Suddenly, Ginsa spat something out from his mouth that shot towards Zakun to bite onto him and wrap around his body to keep him motionless as Ginsa then pulled out a kunai and tossed it towards Zakun. Knowing how weak his skills were at the moment, Ginsa knew that the attack could be blocked with a simple movement or twist of his hand that held the scyth within it.

6/???

((First off, how the hell can you hold a resangen in a scythe without constant giving of your chakra to keep its form? Second, doesn't need to be. Third, you need to think more often... Poison at no level can cause corrosion upon steel.))

Ginsa ran towards the side, placing a hand on a tree as he watched Zakun move. The kunai was a complete miss, not to much of his surprise as he didn't even care that it was. He didn't let the snake incubate long enough to get big enough to hold Zakun down. Watching as the boy started to envelope his scythe with fire, Ginsa then straightened himself up. As the flaming daggers started to fly at him, Ginsa just stood there. Not moving an inch as the daggers started to pierce right through him.

7/???

But just like that, Ginsa exploded in a cloud of smoke, a burning log in his place (Belief in the Gods + Art of Sub.) and Ginsa was no longer around. A note was hitched upon a tree near where the substitution was hit with a kunai holding it upon it. The note read, "You lied. Your attacks are more around on killing that they are upon a normal spar. Expect to hear from my first master later." With that, Ginsa dropped from a tree near the docks, not caring for anything and left the village.

8/???

"This is freaking DISGRACEFUL! FALL IN You Worthless Crap Eating Bastards! I just blasted my way through countless ranks of those little annoying buggers and you all are just sitting back here behind the walls not doing anything. What the Bloody ********! Yes, I understand your Leader ran off to parts unknown, but who cares!?!?! You can't tell me the Famous Nins of Alchemy just fall apart without a leader. From this day forth you all serve under my command and I will be honest with you. I am crazy... moreover I'm Effin' crazy! Yes some of you are going to die today, but let me remind you THIS... IS..... ALCHEMY!" Now to your posts!" Shiro stood before every single battle ready nin of Alchemy on the parade grounds outside of their HQ. The old man who had come to retrieve him from rain stood at his side. The old man stepped forward and surprised everyone with his commanding voice. "Now Rifle Men, To the Walls. Foot soldiers to the gates! Cavalry Prepare your mounts!" Then in military precision the alchemist were off.

--------- 5 Minutes Later ----------

With slow unstoppable movement the gates swung outward. "Infantry your Blades! Riflemen Take Aim. To You who are about to die.... I Salute you! Forward!" A huge battle cry went up as the ninja of Alchemy charged forward cutting a huge divide throughout the heartless surrounding Heartless. "Hoooah!" Shiro laugh slashing through heartless after heartless after heartless.

-------- Several Hours Later ---------

"Hmmmm...... this is taking slightly too long... I don't have time to fight all of these little beasties one at a time. Time to make this battle interesting." The ever insane brought his booted foot down on the ground sending a shock wave outward blowing back nearby heartless. That's not all his stomp had done. A foot soldier looked down to find he was standing on a huge Transmutation. "No he couldn't be thinking about doing that." But oh Shiro was. "Now let the real fun begin!" Pressing down on the transmutation circle he transmuted all of the remaining heartless into one massive heartless. The light surrounding it began to fade it was time to see what the Alchemy villages crazy leader Had wrought.

Upon arriving in the hidden alchemy Lokey, with his puppet Zair still mounted on his back, began to search around the village marveling at the many things that where happening around him. Such as children taking bare chunks of metal and turning them into Bicycles or occasionally more advanced and intricate works some of them where using strange circles and some weren’t and he finally decided that he would learn how to perform these intricate works of Alchemy so he decided that the best place form him to start would have to be the library since he didn’t know who would be able to teach him this he had best start at the beginning.

Inner Circle: 1/6

“Why are we in this musty and dusty old library when we could be out training or at least exploring this village is amazing why cant we go outside?” Lokey leaned Zair who was still wrapped up against the table he sat down at and using chakra strings he had learned to create with a twitch of his fingers he had a book in front of him that had the title, “The Basics to Alchemy.” “COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN you know you want to go outside and train lets go this place is musty and it smells funny pleasssssssseeee take me outside or at least untie me these wrappings are very binding.”

Inner Circle: 2/6

Looking towards his puppet and unwrapping its head which then turned to look at him he said, “We are not going outside and you are going to quit complaining before I seal you in a scroll and leave you there. THAT would be most uncomfortable for you and I think you should quit your complaining before THAT is what happens to you.” The puppets jaw began to clank as it said out loud in a slightly mechanic voice, “It would be most unfortunate if.. we didn’t go outside come on man its bright and sunning why are we in a smelly library…” The rest of what Zair was going to say was cut off as Lokey rewrapped his jaw.

Inner Circle: 3/6

As Lokey looked up there was another kid a crossed from him looking at his puppet Lokey said, “Whats the matter have you never seen a puppet talk back?” the kid looked at him and said, “Its not that its just he reminded me of my brother Alfonz his soul was once sealed into a suit of armor and as such he acted much like your puppet here and I was just wondering if you had a similar problem.” Lokey looked at the kid and he suddenly said, “Your Ed Howard aren’t you young master of the Alchemic arts you’re the one that wrote this book I was just reading.” Lokey held up the book to emphasize his point.

Inner Circle: 4/6

“Would it be at all possible for you to,” he paused to look at his puppet, “take me outside and teach me this stuff I hate to admit it but I think that my puppet here is right and I would prefer training outside instead of in here with this weird smelling place.” Ed looked at Lokey and then laughed and said, “Id have to agree with you on that point because of the fact that I don’t much like staying inside and training either it is horribly dank and musty in here so lets head outside.” And with that Ed stood up and walked out the door. Lokey finished wrapping Zair’s head and remounted it on his back as he followed Ed out the door.

Inner Circle: 5/6

Once Lokey got outside he saw Ed off to one side drawing an odd circle in the dirt and Lokey knew that it was part of a transmutation circle that he had read partly about in the whole ten minutes that he’d been reading and he had also seen other people both adults and children using it to transmute anything from small rocks to whole boulders and Lokey knew that he would have to memorize how to draw the circle or imprint it on a pair of gloves and wear them constantly… “I can think of two uses for the gloves maybe after we are done here we could go to the Hidden Stone and learn from Deidara on how to make Exploding clay we could use the gloves to hide your hands.”

Inner Circle: 6/6 Complete

Ed was also creating a second circle off to the left of the first one but this one had symbols within the circle and around the outside edge and that was the point that Lokey knew he would be better off putting the symbol not on the ground manually but on two gloves on for each hand so that he wouldn’t have to worry about circles more then he would have otherwise and not having to draw that circle would come in quiet handy because in the time it took to create the circle you would be completely open to any attack that would stop you from doing it and that would be bad, “Told ya”

Symbols-1/6

One of the symbols was a smaller intricate swirl similair to that of the Hidden leaf symbol, but at the same time completely different and immediately Lokey took out a pair of black gloves from his puch and taking a Grey marker permanent marker so as to keep the transmutation circle almost invisible against the dark surface of the glove and Lokey began carefully mimicking exactly what Ed had done so far onto his glove watching careful to make sure that he had every mark curve and line in the exact spot that Ed had so as to not have to worry about making a mistake he had Ed check it every so often.

Symbols 2/6

The second symbol that Ed had drawn was again similar to a Village’s symbol but this time it was similar to the Hidden mists with its wavy lines but at the same time it was different because of the fact that it contained many other intricate patterns that seemed to be behind and in front of the wavy lines breaking here and continuing there this time Lokey had to use chakra to more precisely move the marker on the palm of the glove so that he wouldn’t smudge any of the other lines and as such he had Ed check even more often then he had on the last he was taking it all in good fun obviously Ed had taught many people in his time and Lokey wasn’t sure if he was as old as he appeared.

Symbols 3/6

The third symbol that Ed had drawn was entirely foreign to Lokey it appeared to be a sort of target but broken into several pieces and each of which where set at different angles and this symbol, Lokey thought, was more important then the others not by the detail that was used to draw it but with the way Ed acted as it was drawn with reverence and Lokey knew that he had better make to sure hell bloody whatever that this symbol was not screwed up so much as a line slightly curved where it shouldn’t be not for fear of not being able to complete a transmutation but with what the villagers might do if this symbol where fudged

Symbols 4/6

“ U know I been thinking if transmutation is the art of transmuting materials and later on possibly even humans does that mean you could change me to match your needs at the time as well.” Zair paused for just a moment before continuing, “ I mean such as turning me into a sword or spear or even a suit of armor as needed would be an invaluable skill that would come in useful at any time… that doesn’t mean that I want you to keep me changed but what I mean is that in the hands of a puppeteer alchemy can become even more dangerous then it was before.” Lokey took a moment to reflect on that before replying.

Symbols 5/6

“I see what you mean Zair in the hands of a puppeteer Alchemy would become that much more deadly and as such we should learn as much as we can as quickly as we can so that we may more effectively defeat the heartless menace.” Lokey had said over his shoulder and when he turned back Ed was staring at him, “I can communicate with my puppet telepathically or if his head is unwrapped he can communicate out loud as you’ve already seen.” Ed nodded understanding even though Lokey wasn’t totally sure he had he just had an idea that Ed understood more then Lokey could have ever realized.

Symbols 6/6

Lokey finished the transmutation circle on his first glove and then copyed it over onto his second one before putting them on and about to try transmutation on a medium sized rock close by Ed grabbed his wrists and said, “Before you can use Alchemy you must first learn the basic Knowledge that you will need first is the one true law of Alchemy.” Ed paused a moment before continuing, “Nothing in life is free that holds true for all things even Alchemy to aquire something something of equal value must be given like to create a spear,” He paused and clapped his hands together before pressing them to the ground and created a Polearm that he now held but a portion of the dirt was now missing.

Knowledge 1/6

“In order for you to create ANYTHING you must give up something in return and in order for this you must learn for more advanced things what would be needed such as creating water you cant just go poof and there will be water its not like a summoning Jutsu however Alchemy doesn’t take Chakra it is a much more valuable skill and as such it is very useful after I teach you the basics I want you to find Rox Howard he will give u basic and advanced Alchemy Training up to the third level and then after that I want you to find Roy Mustang he will teach you even more advanced Alchemy skills.” He stopped there before claping his hands together.

Knowledge 2/6

And placing both on his staff it fell back to the ground as dirt and refilled the hole exactly save the fact that it looked fresher then the rest, “For every thing you transmute you must take whatever it takes to make it… this sometimes includes bringing your own chemicals and as such once I'm done training you I'm going to give you a Chakra enhanced Chemical Bag to hold a lot of stuff without taking up a lot of room such as the human body.” He took out a small notebook from a bag of his bag and brought out pencil and paper so that he could keep track of everything Ed was saying.

Knowledge 3/6

“Objects such as the average 70 Kilogram person take a lot of chemicals and if you don’t get the exact amount of chemicals or possibly a little bit extra then it will not work like to create a body you would need Carbon 16kg, Hydrogen 7kg, Nitrogen 1.8kg, calcium 1kg, phosphorus 780g, potassium 140g, sodium 100g, chlorine 95g, magnesium 19g, and trace amounts of over 15 elements that you will have to look up on your own at a later date and make a note of them so that you do not screw up and forget something and transmute a body unsuccessfully and then create an abomination and believe it or not a single mg missing could screw it all up.”

Knowledge 4/6

Lokey and written down the entire thing but had stopped and moved to another page when he had said over fifteen other elements because he knew before ed had said it that he would have to go look it up at a later date. After listening for hours and filling up almost the entire book Ed stopped talking for a moment and said, “Hang on I need to collect my thoughts I gave you the basics now I think I'm going to tell you where to find a lot of these things almost anywhere even with the chakra enhanced carrying bag your going to get you’ll still need to collect a lot of chemicals from a lot of places to make anything of value.”

Knowledge 5/6

“well mainly your going to need the main elements of creations there are only 10 that are needed for almost anything you need and most of them can be substituted but really what matters is your skill in alchemy in order to substitute other elements…” and Ed continued to explain elaborating on finer elements that Lokey would need if he didn’t go through all three levels of training with Rox howard. “You know Lokey it would be easier if we just went through the three levels of training… you wouldn’t have to take all these notes all the time if you where to do that that then you’d be better off.”

Knowledge 6/6 Complete

“Sometimes the truth of things is in the action not the learning so I think that if you wont bring it up that actual practice is better for a ninja then practical knowledge though I will admit both is good I think sometimes a ninja like yourself needs to act to learn and since you have those gloves you wont have to worry about drawing a transmutation circle and that means that you can just put the gloves on and get practicing that will come in very handy but then again that is just my personal thoughts and since ima puppet that doesn’t really mean much but if you don’t listen to me bad things could happen.” Zair said in one long winded sentence.

Transmutation: 1/6

“Alright Lokey lets get to business teaching you how to use a transmutation circle is just as important as the knowledge of how to make more advanced things and with those gloves and the circles on them you shouldn’t have to worry about drawing a circle and before you say it yes I checked to make sure that they where good circles so first I want you to transmute a patch of the earth here into a Polearm like mine was.” And with that Ed reformed his polearm and held it up so that Lokey could see it a visualizing what he wanted to create he clapped his hands together and placed them on the ground recreating Ed’s Polearm exactly.

Transmutation: 2/6

“Well you’ve pretty much got everything that your going to need from me ive just got a few more things that I should tell you such as the first and most important rule of alchemy other then of course equal exchange is… NEVER under any circumstances attempt to bring someone back from the dead using alchemy unless you have EVERYTHING you need if you miss one tiny insignificant thing you will fail completely with no chance of a redo because you will lose a part of yourself maybe unimportant lol a fingernail or maybe as needed as your heart you never know so you must never try unless you are fully trained”

Transmutation: 3/6

“Also you must be especially careful when attempting Human transmutations they can be extremely dangerouse if you don’t know what your doing such as maybe you remove something that shouldn’t be removed or break something you never know how you will mess up so I will again advise waiting on that until you finish training with Rox that will save you a lot of trouble in the future.” Ed took a deep breath and looked up at the sky obviously remembering something that would not have meant much to Lokey so returning the Spear to the dirt he got up and walked away looking for Rox Howard.

Transmutation: 4/6

Lokey couldn’t find Rox that entire day so he decided that he had best get some sleep so booking a room at the nearest inn and managing to avoid paying by using chakra to perform tricks to earn his room and also putting on a show with Zair he managed to get the room entirely cost free which shocked Lokey considerably being as how he hadn’t been able to get much of anything for free as of late except for training but even that required hard work and as such he knew that it wasn’t truly Free as he climbed the stairs with Zair wrapped up on his back again and lay down he thought about everything that he had learned.

Transmutation: 5/6

“ You know once you finish learning alchemy here you will be considered an even greater ninja then you where before you came here and that is always a good thing and also when you need to you will now be able to turn me into armor or something to better suit what we are fighting and youll be able to make kunai and shuriken out of dirt and wood and make them strong enough so they cant just be shattered it will be a great and terrible t hing for people that fight against you… we need human puppets… That last comment cought Lokey slightly off guard… he had learned how to create them he just hadn’t ever thought of actually doing it.

Transmutation: 6/6

The next morning Lokey got up earlier then the entire rest of the inn save the people that worked there they where already preparing breakfast. Lokey took a piece of toast as he waved farewell to the people there he went back to searching for Rox Howard which he knew would probably take a long time. It didn’t, he found him almost ten minutes later not even. He was fixing a kids bike without a transmutation circle anywhere and that Lokey knew was a Howard and as such he walked up to him and said, “Hello are you Rox howard Ed told me that you where the one I would need to talk to about learning Alchemy?”