A/N: Trying out a new writing style, and I'm feeling sadistic. I know none of my other stories are getting done, but they will, I promise. Eventually.
Disclaimer: FullMetal Alchemist is copyrighted to Hiromu Arakawa-sensei, not me, so I do not own.
It hurt
Envy's eyes snapped open as he drew the blade across his wrist once more, his lips parting in a silent gasp. Dropping the blade to the blood-soaked ground, the green-haired homunculi glanced around the depressingly empty werehouse with pain-misted eyes, content to just let his open wounds bleed.
But if felt so good
"I wonder where Gluttony went," He said, "Probably out eating again." He cackled to the empty space, his manic laughter echoing back to his own ears.
He closed his eyes and shifted his appearance with a gentle sigh, wandering over to the exit. As the warm bars of sunlight danced over unnaturally pale skin, Envy's feminine face twisted into a scowl.
"Hot today, isn't it?"
The young woman - Envy - spun on her heel to glare at whoever spoke. "Who's there?"
It was you and I knew it
A short blond man - a youth, actually - stepped out from behind the overgrown shrubbery that had been allowed to fester beside the building for years. Envy forced a southern accent into his voice, to go along with his guise of a young foreigner, and said with false surprise, "Wh-who are you? What d'you want?"
The boy rolled his golden eyes heavenwards, shrugging off his heavy red jacket and tossing it aside. "Shut up, Envy; I know it's you." Envy observed with a certain amount of interest that the trenches his fingernails had dug into the boy's neck - a gift left from their previous encounter - had left scars.
They run deep, don't they?
"Don't feel like playing with me today, shrimp?" Envy let his body slip back to it's preferred shape - Amethyst coloured eyes that always seemed to be laughing at you; emerald green hair, held in check by a black headband; Pale-but-tanned skin, marred only by the Oroborous tattoo on his thigh.
"Don't call me shrimp!" The youth clapped his hands together as he stepped towards the wall of the building angrily. Envy instinctively tensed, springing into the air as the boy's hand slapped the cracked cement with a crack and sent a bolt of energy along the wall and through the ground.
Energy best not spent
Even as the homunculi landed, he was up into the air again, only barely clearing a well-aimed spike of stone - Well, it would have been well-aimed if shrimpy had been quicker.
"Whatever." Envy dusted himself off, chuckling sporadically as he dodged the boy's attempts at his life, maneuvering himself closer to the hot-headed young man. "Ed, I think you should just give up. You lost last time, and you're going to lose again." The boy - Ed - jerked around to where Envy stood, unnervingly close behind him, raising a fist and swinging it towards the homunculi's face without thinking.
Envy tsk tsk-ed and caught the fist easily with his own, twisting it quickly and yanking, breaking the artificial arm. Envy didn't give the boy time enough to respond as he punched Ed in the stomach and kneed him in the face as he doubled over. Stepping back, Envy watched with a smirk as Ed stumbled back, colliding with the wall, clutching his bleeding nose with his undamaged arm.
Almost like crimson tears, the way the blood beaded along the sweat-soaked skin
The homunculi sauntered closer to Ed, smirking when he glimpsed the raw fear in his golden eyes, as his body pressed closer to the sun-warmed cement, and as he looked around in vain to find an exit; On one side stood the tangled and impenetrable wall of thorny bush, to his back was solid cement - he could always blast his way through, if he could move his arm - on the other side stood the pile of rubble created by himself and the homunculi was closing in fast.
Suddenly, Ed's demeanor changed - from fear and pain to curiosity and astonishment - and he lowered his hand so his words would be heard clearly, "Since when do you cut yourself?"
Envy halted and glanced down at his arm, surprised that Ed had noticed only now - but not surprised that when he'd shifted he hadn't healed. He shrugged. "Since I felt like it, shrimp."
With great amusement on Envy's part, Ed visibly twitched and his eyes narrowed but he didn't comment on the jab at his short stature. Instead, the blond swung his shoulder and touched his the hand of his broken auto-mail and touched the cement behind him, breaking through the wall before the homunculi could react.
The brat could be fast when he wanted
"Now we don't want you to get hurt!" Envy sprung forwards and grabbed hold of Ed's broken arm, yanking it out of it's socket to further stress his point as he cleared the hole, relishing the steely grating noise it made as the auto-mail disconnected from Ed's body. Envy's smile widened to the point it almost looked as if he smiled any wider his face would crack and fall apart as he pushed Ed to the ground by the shoulders, ignoring his anguished cry of pain.
Envy straddled Ed's smaller frame, noting nonchalantly that he'd stopped eating again. His grin faded a little as he watched Ed scrabble with his fingers for a stone just out of reach and he brought his fist down against his cheek. Ed's body went limp momentarily beneath his before Ed redoubled his efforts to reach the stone, bucking and squirming and struggling frantically. He seemed almost desperate now.
Maybe I should let him
Envy pressed the heel of his hand into the blond's neck, cutting off his air supply quite effectively, and grabbed the stone Ed had nearly reached. "And what would you ever want with something like this," He purred into Ed's ear, "not thinking of braining me with it, were you?"
Ed's eyes widened and he clawed at the hand blocking his air intake, his eyes misting with tears - from pain or otherwise, Envy couldn't tell. His smile turned into a smirk and he slammed the stone into the ground, smashing it into several dozen fragments that scattered in every direction, half of them pelting himself and the shrimp trapped underneath him.
His eyes squeezed shut under the assault of the sharp pebbles, but his one hand closed around a sharp piece of the stone and he haphazardly started scratching the pavement beneath him with it. Envy sat back and allowed him a little air as he watched the alchemist carve a shaky circle into the ground and activate it, surprised only a little when Ed pulled a razor-sharp stone dagger from the ground.
Even as the young blond beneath him swung the dagger, Envy's free hand shot out and caught his wrist and squeezed. With a cry, Ed's wrist became dislocated and he dropped his weapon into Envy's other hand - he'd abandoned suffocating him. Envy twirled the dagger around, twisting Ed's wrist cruelly, enjoying the way he writhed beneath him to try and lessen the pressure. "You shouldn't be playing with sharp toys, Edward." Envy spat out Ed's name like it were an insult, delighted when his body went rigid and his golden eyes widened almost impossibly, staring up at the homunculi with unveiled fear. "If you apologize now, I may take pity and not cut you to ribbons."
"N-no ... I will never apologize to you, you monster!" He was panicking and Envy could see it. Ed gave a small shudder and struggled weakly as Envy leaned closer, toying with the stone blade indifferently.
He bled so easily
"I'll give you three seconds to change my mind. One-"
"Let me go-"
"Two-"
"Let go, please-"
"Three. Time's up." Envy grasped the hilt of the dagger and lurched forwards, plunging the blade into the soft flesh of Ed's shoulder, rewarded with a hoarse scream of agony.
Envy's cheshire grin returned with a wave of sadistic pleasure as he yanked the blade out of Ed's shoulder, watching the blood well up and spill out around the wound like a blooming flower. Ed's body tensed and tried to buck Envy off of him again, but Envy held him down, running the blade down Ed's chest, slicing through clothing and skin alike, cackling as another grating scream of pain tore free of the blond's throat and his weakened arm scrabbled at the homunculi's own gored one.
His screams of pain were almost as good as his screams of ecstasy
Envy halted his trek at Ed's waist, holding the blade to his lips and sucking the blood from the tip of the dagger, watching him writhe in pain before fisting his shirt and drawing him up so he was almost sitting. Even though tears stained Ed's face, even though his body trembled in fear, he still glared hatefully at Envy.
