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Tangled | Edwin AU

Winry, a naive and young girl, is locked up by her overly protective mother. Her wish to escape into the world outside finally comes true when she meets the good-hearted thief, Edward.

Basically just Tangled with different characters.

All characters belong to their respective owners. I don't own any of them.

Chapter 1 Chapter 10 Masterlist

Chapter 9

Winry opened her eyes and looked at him, confused as to why he pulled back. Did he not want this? Did he not feel the same way? Was it her? Had she completely misread the situation? When they got to shore she would ask.

"Is everything okay?" She asked, when they got off the boat, upset. He couldn't make eye contact with her. She'd definitely done something wrong. He snapped out of his thoughts.

"Huh? Oh yes. Uh, yes of course. I just...I'm sorry, everything is fine. There's just something I have to take care of." He started to walk off. Where was he going?

"Okay."

"I'll be right back." He told her. He was going to sort all of this out. She wouldn't get hurt because of him and his stupidity. She wouldn't.

"It's all right, Al." She looked down at him and then at where Fullmetal went. She trusted him. She believed that he abandon her and leave her with the satchel.

Fullmetal walked towards the shadows of the men.

"Ahh, there you are. I've been searching everywhere for you guys. Since we got separated. Hey, the sideburns are coming in nice, huh? You gotta be excited about that. Anyhow, just wanted to say, I shouldn't have split. The crown is all yours. I'll miss you, but I think it's for the... best." He threw the satchel at them.

"Holding out on us again? Hey, Fullmetal?" Kimblee smirked evilly.

"What?" He gasped. They couldn't be? No. How would they? How could they have possibly found out about her hair?

"We heard you found something. Something much more valuable than a crown. We want her, instead." His eyes widened when Tucker pinched his neck, knocking him out.

Winry was starting to worry when Fullmetal hadn't shown up for awhile. Then, she saw his shadow and sighed in relief.

"I was starting to think you ran off with the crown and left me." She laughed.

"He did." Kimblee grinned.

"What? No. He wouldn't." Winry couldn't believe it. She trusted him. And he left her by herself so these thugs could do whatever they wanted to her.

"See for yourself." He signaled to the side, and there he was, sailing away in a boat. Her eyes widened and felt tears forming.

"Edward? Edward!" She screamed, hoping for some sort of reply from him. She got nothing.

"Fair trade. A crown, for the girl with the magic hair. How much do you think someone will pay to stay young and healthy forever?" The black haired man asked his friend.

"No, please. NO! NO!" She shouted, running as fast as she could. She looked behind her to see they were chasing after her, and then she tripped on a log of wood. She heard rustling in the background as she sobbed.

"Winry!" She heard her mother yell.

"Mother?" She whimpered. Lust ran over to her and crouched down to pull the crying girl into her arms.

"Oh, my precious girl. Are you all right? Are you hurt?"

"How did you?" Winry asked.

"I was so worried about you dear. So I followed you. And I saw them attack you. Let's go, let's go before they come to." She ushered the girl into the forest.

"You were right, mother. You were right about everything."

"I know darling. I know."

On the boat, Fullmetal was coming to. When he realised where he was he pulled against his restraints. The boat hit the side of something. He looked up. Crap.

"Look! The crown." A guard yelled.

He was getting taken through a hallway filled with prisoners behind bars. He kept pulling at his restraints and pushing the guards away to no avail.

"Winry. WINRY! Wait, wait, wait. Guys, guys. Winry!" He yelled.

"Let's get this over with, Fullmetal." One of the guards said to him. He raised an eyebrow.

"Where are we going?" He looked through the window and saw a hanging station. "Oh..."

Back in the tower Lust and Winry were sat on Winry's bed. Lust pulled out the last flower out of her hair.

"There, it never happened. Now, wash up for dinner. I'm making hazelnut soup." She looked at her daughter and bit the inside of her lip. "I really did try, Rapunzel. I tried to warn you, what was out there. The world is dark, and selfish, and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine, It destroys it."

In the prison Fullmetal was getting taken to his sentence when he saw Kimblee and Tucker next to him. He elbowed one of the guards and shoved the other and ran towards the two men. He grabbed Kimblee by the collar.

"How did you know about her?! Tell me, now!" He demanded.

"It wasn't us! It was the old lady!" Kimblee shouted back, terrified of the little man on the other side of the bars.

"Old lady? Wait, no, wait! You don't understand, she's in trouble. Wait!" He gasped, struggling against the guards again.

Winry was laying down, holding the handkerchief that Fullmetal gave her to the ceiling when she was pulled into a slideshow of memories. She gasped at the end and sat up on her bed, panting heavily.

"Winry? Winry, what's going on up there? Are you all right?" Lust asked her.

"I'm the lost princess." Winry mumbled, eyes widened in realisation.

"Please, speak up, Winry. You know how I hate the mumbling." The older woman scolded her.

"I am the lost Princess. Aren't I? Did I mumble, Mother? Or should I even call you that?" If looks could kill Lust would be in tiny little ashes on the ground.

"Winry, do you even hear yourself? Why would you ask such a ridiculous question?" Lust laughed at her stupid accusation, nervous.

"It was you! It was all, you." She pointed her finger at her 'mother'. Lust gave up the charade. There was no point anymore.

"Everything I did, was to protect you."Winry pushed her aside as she walked down the stairs, gripping her hair.

"Winry!"

"I spent my entire life!-- Hiding from people who would use me for my power."

"Winry!"

"I should have been hiding from you." She realised, and glared at the woman once more.

"Where will you go? He won't be there for you." She told her.

"What did you do to him?" She growled.

"That criminal is to be hanged for his crimes."

"No." She gasped. It was all her fault. He was going to die because of her.

"Now, now. It's all right. Listen to me. All of this is as it should be." Lust tried to approach her.

"NO! You were wrong about the world. And you were wrong about me. And I will never let you use my hair, again!" Winry yelled and stormed off.

"You want me to be the bad guy? Fine. Now I'm the bad, guy." Lust smirked evilly.

Tangled | Edwin AU

Winry, a naive and young girl, is locked up by her overly protective mother. Her wish to escape into the world outside finally comes true when she meets the good-hearted thief, Edward.

Basically just Tangled with different characters.

All characters belong to their respective owners. I don't own any of them.

Chapter 1 Chapter 6 Masterlist

Chapter 5

Fullmetal was hanging by the arrows he had stuck into the stones.

"You coming, Blondie?"

Winry jumped, her hair in the loop she used to pull her mother up. She fell all the way down but stopped just before her feet could touch the ground. The grass was a lush green, and looked so soft. She gulped. Her feet grazed the grass and giggled. It tickled her feet like little feathers. Once her feet were on the ground she wiggled her toes around to get used to the feeling of the grass. She grinned from ear to ear. Finally. After eighteen years. She was outside!

Over the next few hours Winry's emotions were going haywire and in all honesty, Fullmetal was kind of sick of it.

She went from disbelief and 'I can't believe I did this' to concern and 'Mother will be so furious' to

'That's okay though, what she doesn't know won't kill her, right?' and 'Oh my gosh, this will kill her.' to 'THIS IS SO FUN!' and back to 'I am a horrible dauughter, I'm going back.' and then back to 'I am never going back!' again. Then came the self-loathing of 'I am a despicable human being.' and then she went back to happiness of 'WAHHOOOOO! Best day, ever!'

Now, here we are, with Winry crouched down leaning against a rock, sobbing. Fullmetal sighed and cleared his throat.

"You know, I can't help but notice, you seem a little at war with yourself, here." He mentioned to the other blonde.

"Really?" She looked up at him in awe of his 'observational' skills.

"Now, I'm only picking up bits and pieces. Overprotective mother, forbidden road trip. This is serious stuff. But let me ease your conscience. This is part of growing up. A little rebellion, a little adventure. That's good, healthy even." He told her. Winry laughed.

"You think?" She gave him a weak smile.

"I know. You're way over thinking this, trust me. Does your mother deserve it? No Will this break her heart and crush her soul? Of course. But you just got to do it."

"Break her heart?" Her eyes widened.

"In half." He stated while rolling a grape around on the stone.

"Crush her soul?"

"Like a grape." He squeezed the grape between his fingers until it burst.

"She would be heart broken, you're right."

"I am, aren't I?" He laughed. "Oh, bother. All right, I can't believe I'm saying this, but...I'm letting you out of the deal."

"What?" Winry looked at him in disbelief.

"That's right. But don't thank me. Let's just turn around, and get you home, here's your wrench, here's your frog. I get back my satchel. You get back a mother daughter relationship based on mutual trust and viola!" He waved his hand. "We part ways as unlikely friends." He put his out for a handshake.

"No, I am seeing those lanterns." She insisted. Fullmetal face twisted into one of frustration and he waved his arms about, annoyed.

"Oh, come on!" He yelled "What is it going to take to get my satchel back?"

Winry held her wrench up to his neck. "I will use this." He put his hands up in defence. The bushes beside them rustled and Winry screamed. She ran behind Fullmetal and jumped on to him, pointing her wrench at the bushes, her body scrambling to stay upright while holding onto him.

"Is it, ruffians, thugs? Have they come for me?!" She yelled, panicked. A rabbit hopped out of the bush.

"Stay calm, it can probably smell fear." Fullmetal told her, his voice void of any emotion.

"Oh, sorry. Getting just a little bit, jumpy." She laughed nervously, and rubbed the back of her neck.

"Probably be best if we avoid ruffians and thugs, though." The blonde man smirked.

"Yeah, that's probably best."

"Are you hungry? I know a great place for lunch." He suddenly suggested. Winry's stomach grumbled, and only then did she realise that she was starving.

"Where?" She asked.

"Oh, don't you worry. You'll know it when you smell it."

Lust was walking around the forest, basket in hand and hood pulled over her head, when Mustang suddenly jumped out of the bushes, smelling the dirt below him.

"Oh, a Palace horse." Then she realised. "Where's your rider?" She looked back in the direction of the tower. "Winry."

She ran. She ran as fast as the wind could take her. As fast as lightning. She tripped on her cloak a few times but gathered herself quickly before continuing. When she reached the base of tower she yelled "WINRY! Winry let down your hair!"

There was no answer. Lust panicked and ran towards the back of the tower, The overgrown vines that were there was covering a secret entrance, and old wooden door. She burst in and ran to her daughters room.

"Winry?" Still no answer.

"WINRY? WINRY!" She continued to yell. Still no answer. She ran around the tower, ransacking everything to find something, some sort of note from Winry to know where she was possibly, or a clue as to where she went or who took her precious daughter.

Winry and Fullmetal were walking around, Fullmetal guiding Winry with his hands lying on her lower back.

"I know it's around here, somewhere." He mumbled, eyes wandering looking for the place he was taking her for lunch. "Ah, there it is. The Snuggly duckling." There was a concerned look on Winry's face. "Don't worry, very quaint place, perfect for you. Don't want you scaring, and giving up on this endeavor now do we?"

"Well, I do like ducklings." The woman chuckled nervously.

"YAY!" He opened the door. "Scar, your finest table, please." Winry gasped. There were ruffians and criminals everywhere.

"You smell that? Take a deep breath through the nose. Really, let that seep in. What are you getting?" He asked her, pushing her through the crowd of rogues. "Because to me, it's part man smell and the other part is really bad man smell. I don't know why, but overall, it smells like the color brown. Your thoughts?" He continued.

"That's a lot of hair." A large man said, holding her golden hair. Winry screamed and ran, her hair flowing through his hands like a river, never stopping.

"She's growing it out, is that blood on your moustache? Goldie, look at this, look at all the blood on his moustache. Good sir, that's a lot of blood." He told the man. He noticed that Winry was looking queasy, as if she'd chuck up a waterfall.

"Hey, you don't look so good, Blondie. Maybe we should get you home. Call it a day. Probably better off. This is a five star joint after all. And if you can't handle this place, well maybe you should be back in your tower." As he was guiding her towards the exit, one of the men slammed the door shut.

"Is this you?" He growled, holding up a poster of what Winry assumed to be Fullmetal, the only difference being the fact that he had a Pinocchio nose.

"Ugh, now they're just being mean." He groaned.

"Oh, it's him all right. Isaac, go find some guards. That reward is going to buy me new glasses." Another one of them said.

"I can use the money." Another chimed.

"What about me? I'm broke. GET BACK!!" One yelled from the back. A brawl broke out, each one of them throwing and pulling Fullmetal about.

"Please, stop!" Winry yelled, worried for his safety and how she would cope getting to see the lights without his help.

"We can work this out." They we're stretching him out like he was some elastic toy.

"Hey, leave him alone." She shouted.

"Please." Fullmetal begged.

"Give me back my guide!! Ruffians!!" She started pulling them off of Fullmetal. She stood on top of one of the wooden tables and screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Put him down! Okay, I don't know where I am, and I need him to take me to see the lanterns, because I've been dreaming about them my entire life. Find your humanity! Haven't any of you ever had a dream?"

All of the thugs looked at her, and then they began to say all of their dreams. One just wanted to find love and have children, another wanted to reconnect with his family again, and one wanted to be a florist. Winry also found out that Fullmetal wanted to know about a gemstone in order to get his limbs back, and to be rich.

"I found the guards!" The guy known as 'Issac' shouted as he slammed open the door.

"Where's Ryder, where is he? I know he's in here somewhere. Find him, turn the place upside down if you have to!" Hawkeye yelled to her guards. The thug with the glasses took them to the back of the place and showed them a secret escape entrance. He signaled for them to go down.

"Go, live your dream." He told them.

"I will." Fullmetal said, nodding to him.

"Your dream stinks, I was talking to her."

"Thanks for everything." Winry said, and kissed him on the cheek before going down the hole. He waved to them and shut the flap.

"I believe this is the man you're looking for." Isaac held up a small man with glasses and a handlebar moustache.

"You got me." He held up his hands.

"Ma'am, there's no sign of Fullmetal." A guard said. Suddenly, the door flung open and Mustang stomped through the door. He started sniffing the floor.

"Mustang. What he's doing?" One of the guards asked.

"A passage, come on men, let's go. Jean, make sure those boys don't get away." Hawkeye ordered. Kimblee elbowed Jean in the stomach and grabbed his spear, breaking Tucker's handcuffs. Tucker then broke his.

"Play it safe. Or go get the crown." Kimblee told him.

Outside of the bar, the short, grey haired man was leaning against the wall, when he saw Lust.

"Ohhh, somebody get me a glass. 'Cause I just found me a tall drink of water." He flirted. Lust covered her mouth as she laughed.

"Oh stop it, you big lug." Her face suddenly fell and she pulled a knife out and held it to the man's face. "Where's that tunnel lead out?" She demanded.

Tangled | Edwin AU

Winry, a naive and young girl, is locked up by her overly protective mother. Her wish to escape into the world outside finally comes true when she meets the good-hearted thief, Edward.

Basically just Tangled with different characters.

All characters belong to their respective owners. I don't own any of them.

Chapter 1 Chapter 5 Masterlist

Chapter 4

She pulls the chair out from under the handle of the wardrobe, opening it. Fullmetal flops out and face plants the floor.

Al wacks Fullmetal's face a few times with his tail, trying to wake him up. He fails, and eventually sticks his tongue in his ear.

"AHH!" He yells, awake. He pulls against his restraints.

"Wha..? Is this...hair?" Golden hair was wrapped tightly around his wrists, preventing him from moving in the slightest. He heard a voice.

"Struggling...struggling is pointless. I know why you're here. And I'm not afraid of you."

"What?" Fullmetal raised an eyebrow, confused.

"Who are you, and how did you find me?" The voice asked. Something, or rather someone, dropped from the ceiling, the hair that was restraining him stemming from their head. A figure walked into the light. It was a woman. One with golden hair, shining in the sunlight.

"Ah hah." Fullmetal was in awe. She had gorgeous ocean blue eyes, and a beautiful face to match.

"Who are you, and how did you find me?" She pressed again.

Fullmetal cleared his throat, swallowing the lump that formed there. He was facing the floor.

"I know not who you are. Nor how I came to find you. But may I just say." He lifted his head.

"Hi! How you doing? The names Fullmetal Alchemist. How's your day going, huh?" He gave her a smug smile, and raised in eyebrows, in an attempt to flirt.

"Who else knows my location, Fullmetal Alchemist?" She questioned. What is with this woman and her questions?

"All right, Blondie." He started.

"Winry."

"Here's the thing. I was in a situation, Gallivanting through the forest. I can across your tower and..." The young man looked around in panic.

"Ho, ho no, where is my satchel?"

"I've hidden it, somewhere you'll never find it."  She crossed her arms over her chest.

"It's in the pot, isn't it." He deadpanned.

She hit him over the head with her wrench and hid the satchel somewhere else, somewhere he was sure to never find. Under the stairs. Al the stuck his tongue into the man's ear, to wake him up again.

"Ugh! would you stop that?!" He yelled.

"Now it's hidden where you'll never find it. So, what do you want, with my hair? To cut it?"

"What?" He was even more puzzled now.

"Sell it?"

"No! Listen, the only thing I want to do with your hair, is to get out of it. Literally!"

"Wait, you don't want my hair?"

"Why on earth would I want your hair?" He tried to move his hands to talk.

"Look, I was being chased, I saw a tower, I climbed it, end of story."

"You're, telling the truth?" She asked, tilting her head, now confused as well.

"YES!"

She turned away and started to talk to her pet lizard.

"Hmmm. I know. I need someone to take me. I think he's telling the truth, too. He doesn't have fangs! but what choice do I have?" Al was communicating with her using his hands. She turned back to Fullmetal "Okay Fullmetal Alchemist, I'm prepared to offer you a deal."

"Deal?" He asked.

Winry pointed at her painting on the wall.

"Look this way. Do you know what these are?"

"You mean the lantern thing they do for the princess?"

"Lanterns... I knew they weren't stars." She grumbled. "Well, tomorrow evening they will light the night sky, with these lanterns. You will act as my guide, Take me to these lanterns, and return me home safely. Then, and only then, will I return your satchel to you. That is my deal."

"Yeah, no can do. Unfortunately, the kingdom and I are not exactly, simpatico, at the moment. So I won't be taking you anywhere." He pursed his lips, apologetic.

"Something brought you here, Fullmetal Alchemist. Call it what you will, fate, destiny-"

"A horse." He chimed in.

"So I have made the decision to trust you-"

"A horrible decision, really."

"But trust me, when I tell you this." She grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him forward, so that they were face to face. "You can tear this tower apart, brick by brick. but without my help, you will never find your precious satchel." She threatened. Fullmetal averted his eyes, terrified of the woman before him. He cleared his throat.

"Let me just get this straight." He looked back to the blonde. "I take you to see the lanterns. Bring you back home. and you'll give me back my satchel?"

"I promise. And when I promise something, I never ever break that promise." She looked into his eyes. They were so blue. So beautiful. There were oceans inside of them. He could swim in her eyes forever.

"EVER!" She continued and he snapped out of his thoughts and blushed.

"All right, listen, I didn't want to have to want to do this, but you leave me no choice. Here comes the smolder." He smirked at her and made a weird face. His eyebrows creased upwards and he pursed his lips. Winry just continued to glare at the man.

"This is kind of an off day for me.This doesn't normally happen."

The glare continued to ware him down.

"Fine, I'll take you to see the lanterns." He gave in.

"Really!" She exclaimed, jumping up and down in excitement   She did a little mini victory dance. Fullmetal fell to the floor, face first.

"Ooops."

"You broke my smolder" he groaned.

Modern AU: Albert and Louis James Moriarty.

Tangled | Edwin AU

Winry, a naive and young girl, is locked up by her overly protective mother. Her wish to escape into the world outside finally comes true when she meets the good-hearted thief, Edward.

Basically just Tangled with different characters.

All characters belong to their respective owners. I don't own any of them.

Chapter 1 Chapter 8 Masterlist

Chapter 7

Winry and Fullmetal were sat on two different logs. Winry was holding Fullmetal's injured hand with hers as she wrapped her hair around it.

"So you're being strangely cryptic as you wrap your magic hair around my injured hand." He grunted in pain.

"Sorry. Just don't...don't freak out." She asked. He looked at Al worriedly but the chameleon just looked up at him with a smug grin. That scared him more.

She began to sing. The glow that came to her golden hair came back, and travelled up to the hair that was wrapped around his hand. The glow made her hair appear a yellow colour and it reminded him a lot of the sun.

After she had finished singing she pulled her hair off of his hand and he brought it up to his face to see. His eyes widened to the point where you could probably cook a full English breakfast on them. The injury had disappeared. His jaw dropped and he was going to scream.

"Please don't freak out!" She panicked. His scream got caught in his throat.

"Ahhh. I'm not freaking out, are you freaking out? No, I'm just very interested in your hair and the magical qualities that it possesses..how long has it been doing that, exactly?" He rubbed his neck nervously, ranting. Winry laughed nervously.

"Uh. Forever, I guess. Mother said when I was a baby people tried to cut it. They wanted to take it for themselves. But, once it's cut." She pulled her hair behind her ear, and a stray piece popped out. It was a light brown. "It turns brown, and looses it's power. A gift like that, it has to be protected. That's why Mother never let me...That's why I...I never left the..."

"You never left that tower. And you're still gonna go back?" He asked, finishing her sentence for her.

"No...yes. Ugh. It's complicated.

So, Edward Elric, huh." She teased him, quickly changing the subject. Fullmetal caught on to what she was doing and played along.

"Ah yeah, well. I'll spare you the sob story of poor orphan Eugene Fitzherbert, it's a little bit ah... It's a little bit of a downer." He looked to her to see if she wanted to hear his 'sob story'. She shuffled closer to him in order to hear better. Fullmetal smiled slightly.

"There was this book." He began. "A book I used to read every night to all the younger kids. The tales of The Fullmetal Alchemist. Swashbuckling rogue, richest man alive. Not bad with the ladies, either. Not that he'd ever brag about it, of course."

"Was he a thief too?" She was curious.

"Ahh, well no. Actually, he had enough money to do whatever he wanted to do. He could go wherever he wanted to go. And...and, for a kid, with nothing. I don't know, I... It just seemed like a better option. You can't tell anyone, about this, okay? It could ruin my whole reputation." He requested.

"Ahh, you wouldn't want that." She teased.

"Oh, a fake reputation is all that a man has. Um, well I should uh... I, I should get some more firewood." He got up quickly, embarrassed. Just before he could leave she grabbed his wrist.

"Hey. For the record, I like Edward Elric much better than, the Fullmetal Alchemist." She grinned at him. He gave her a small smile back.

"Well, then you'd be the first. But, thank you." He walked off. She sighed happily to herself, glad to be on this adventure, and to be what seems to be bonding, with Edward.

"Well, I thought he'd never leave." A voice from behind her said. Winry's eyes widened and she turned around so quickly it's a surprise she didn't have whiplash.

"Mother?" She asked, eyebrows furrowed, trying to see the figure that stood before her. Lust stepped out from behind the trees.

"Hello, dear." She smiled slyly at her.

"...How did you find me?" Winry stammered.

"Oh, it was easy really. I just listened to the sound of complete and utter betrayal, and followed that."

"Mother..." Winry looked down ashamed.

"We're going home. Now." The older woman demanded.

"You...You don't understand. I've been on the most incredible journey. I've seen and learned so much. I even met someone." She smiled to herself, remembering her and Edward's earlier conversation.

"Yes, the wanted thief. I'm so proud. Come on." She continued to shop Winry.

"Mother, wait. I think... I think he likes me." She beamed.

Her mother than began a lecture on how she knows best, and threw the crown at Winry, saying that he's only there because of that before leaving.

"So, hey uh, can I ask you something? Is there any chance that I'm going to get super strength in my hand? Because I'm not going to lie - that would be stupendous. Hey, you all right?" He noticed how upset she looked.

"Oh, sorry, yes. Just um, lost in thought, I guess." She reassured him to no avail. He didn't buy it. The smile she gave him didn't reach her eyes and was one of the most male ones he'd seen. Usually her smiles were beautiful. They could light up a whole room. When she smiled her eyes smiled and the rest of the world smiled along too. But he pretended to buy it. If she didn't want to tell him he wouldn't pry. As he usually would.

"I mean because here's the thing. Superhuman good looks, I've always had 'em. Born with it, but superhuman strength? Imagine the possibilities, I'm just..."

Up in the shadows, Kimblee, Lust and Tucker were all crouched behind a bush. Kimblee went to get up to attack them but Lust put her hand up as a signal to stop him.

"Patience boys. All good things to those who wait." She said. They bothe rolled their eyes. How long was this going to take? When could they finally get their revenge and rid the world of the Fullmetal Alchemist?