Hey! Welcome to Clandestine Destiny! Oh, I'm so excited. This is gonna be awesome.

This is an Evil!Riza fic but it's also Royai. And no, she won't be a homunculus. Someone asked me that when I showed them the summary, and I'm just like, so inner demon=homunculus?

THE WORLD NEEDED AN EVIL!RIZA STORY, OKAY!? DEAL WITH IT!

Let's check something: Do you see Adult!Selim, Demon!Riza or Link running around in FMA? If not, I don't own it. Hopefully, I don't.

Summary: One year after the Promised Day, Roy and Riza have started spending more time together. But in a freak accident, Riza dies and Roy makes a bad deal with Truth to save her. The toll? She's cursed with an inner demon, and Roy's gone back one year, and has to face the Promised Day without his lieutenant. Brotherhood.

I: Bad Deal

It had been one year since Edward Elric defeated the Homunculus Father, and Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye have been living up life.

Currently, the pair was walking back towards Riza's apartment, when they heard the screeching of a car.

It was speeding towards them.

And there was no time to move.

Roy heard a scream.

"Riza!"

He heard a faint grunt in response. The car had sped away, and Roy winced and clutched his arm.

"Riza! Are you okay?"

He saw her. She had various scratches along her face, and her stomach was exposed with a huge gash across it.

"Roy..." She whispered. "I am going to die."

"No you aren't, Riza!"

-

"Oh? This is interesting." The voice cackled.

"Where and who are you?"

"I'm so glad you asked! I am Truth, or One, or All, or the World, or the Universe."

Roy jumped a little at the name. Hadn't Edward said something about this?

"You want your girlfriend back, right?"

"What are you going to take?"

"Oh," Truth chuckled. "I'll let you figure it out yourself."

-

Riza awoke inside a purely black space. She couldn't find a single speck of light no matter which direction she looked.

And then she saw something: A dark grey figure, approaching her.

"Hello," it said.

"...Hello..." Riza replied.

The figure chuckled and said, "Do you know who I am?"

"No."

"I am you!" It laughed. "And I want my body back!" Before Riza could react, 'her' figure melted into shadow and wrapped itself around her.

It felt like being torn apart in a vortex of pain and anguish. Riza couldn't breathe.

And all went black.

-

Roy awoke in a hospital bed next to Jean Havoc.

"Jean?"

"Oh, Chief, you're awake."

"Where is Riza?"

"Who?" Roy stiffened. "What do you mean who? First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye."

"Doesn't ring a bell."

Maybe Jean's injuries were getting the better of him.

So he dug through his wallet and found an old picture.

And she wasn't there.

-

Riza smirked and strolled across the road, chuckling when drivers shouted their insults toward her.

"You have a death wish, woman!?"

Why should she care?

Care...

'Someone cared for me...'

'Can't... remember...'

The demon howled inside her.

'No one cares! You're all alone!'

'I'll show you!'

'Wait, what am I doing?'

Riza's body moved against her will, and she started running towards a smaller village across the road.

Once there, she grabbed a branch from the ground and pulled a lighter from her pocket. When the branch was ablaze, she tossed it to a nearby house and watched it burn.

"No!" Riza screamed inside herself. "You can't do this!"

The demon laughed and said, "Oh, but of course you can do this! You're doing it right now, aren't you?"

The people's screaming interrupted their conversation. Quickly, Riza's body carefully picked up the branch and tossed it towards the next house.

The occupants of the first house stopped short when Riza's body pulled out one of the many revolvers she had on her.

"Don't move," she said, "I'm about to kill you."

Of course the people moved, they were about to die.

And Riza shot them all.

Riza never misses her target.

"I never would have thought that such lowly humans can make such beautiful screams." Riza sighed.

A gunshot sounded, and Riza doubled over in pain.

"Take that, monster!" The man shouted.

'No one cares...'

Riza smirked and stood straight.

"Pretty good acting, right? Is that all you've got, human?"

The man fired several rounds, all of which Riza dodged with inhuman speed. She waved the man off and said, "Get lost, I have more important matters to attend to."

Riza found another branch and used the fires from the second house to light it.

Instead of lighting the next house, Riza turned to the patch of trees.

She smiled wickedly and prepared to toss the branch when a body tackled her to the ground.

"Monster! Quit setting things on fire!" The boy started punching Riza's jaw hard, and was about to bring his fist down one last time.

Riza thrust the burning branch into the boy's stomach, impaling him.

"Great. Now I have to find another branch." Riza tossed the boy aside and turned to face an approaching vehicle.

Military police members jumped out of the car and pointed their guns at Riza.

"You're under arrest for murder! Please come quietly!"

Riza laughed maniacally.

"Come quietly? Who do you think you're talking to? Riza Hawkeye?"

The policemen gulped.

"This will be so much fun!"

-

Roy stared at the picture.

She wasn't there.

She... doesn't exist?

"No..."

"Something the matter, Chief?"

"No..."

"Okay then."

Roy sighed. Maybe he could change things.

-
"You weaklings don't stand a chance against me!" Riza laughed as she caught the next officer's hand and threw him over her head.

Another officer fired a shot that Riza just barely dodged.

"But you idiots just keep coming, don't you!"

Riza grabbed her own gun and started firing.

"Look at you pitiful worms."

She walked up to one of the men and planted her boot onto his face, and the man grunted in pain.

"Haha! Can you scream for me, young man? Or do I have to beat it out of you?"

The man let loose a yell.

"No, no, no. That's not good enough!" Riza lifted her foot from the man's face and stomped down harder onto his gunshot wound.

He let out a bloodcurdling scream.

"Was that so hard? Can you do it again, please?"

Again, Riza pounded onto the man's gunshot wound.

"Ah! I love that sound! I want to hear it again!"

The man screamed continuously as Riza pounded on his wounds over and over again.

Once she was done, Riza chuckled and removed all of the guns and ammunition from his uniform.

"I'll be leaving now. I hope we can have a talk like that again!"

-

So, how was it! I hope you liked it, cause I could have been spending my time on In a Wasteland or Aerugo's Weapon or something.

Gosh. Kidding you, I love writing stuff like this. At first I was going to keep Riza and the demon as separate entities, and then I was like, 'that's boring, Paper, Riza should be a completely insane sadist!'

And so, Secret Destiny was born.

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