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There was the best of times...
Pride was always a "good" little boy. He would always try his best to help his Father in every way possible. Even if it meant risking his life...
...over and over again. But...Pride always wanted his Father to be proud of him, to be his joy...to be his Pride and joy. But Father should have learned to set boundaries...Because Pride had a side project going. After all...what makes a parent more proud than when their children do better than them.
Lust was sitting boredly in Father's Lair, waiting...It was her turn to guard him as he slept, and it was unbearably boring. "If he has nearly all the power in the world, why would he even need to rest?" She asked no one in particular, believing she was alone.
"Because, even dear Father needs his rest, just as you or me would." an echoing voice answered her as Pride walked in from the sewer entrance. "However unfortunate a time he chooses..." Pride started, annoyance in his voice for finding out he came down here for nothing, "...Father does need his rest." He turned on his heels and began to leave, but was stopped by an extended finger nail poking his upper back.
"If you would like to leave a message..." she started dragging her now sharpened nail across the floor back to her, making a loud screeching sound. "...please leave it after the screech." She ended her sentence after her nail was back to her, a small smile plastered on her face for hope she might actually have something to look forward to. Pride hadn't moved, still annoyed she had invaded his personal space, an unseen scowl plastered on his face.
"Let him know we've yet, to begin working on the circle for the transmutation, our layout is still a little...patchy. We might need to go to the borders of Creta and Drachma, maybe even take a little of Aerugo too." He finished.
"I'll be sure to let him know then..." Lust assured him, and Pride made his way out. "...arrogant wretch." she finished when she was sure he was out of hearing range. She then hissed when she felt something sharp whip her back, hard.
"Love you too, sister dearest." she heard his voice echo down the hall.
Envy was walking down the hallway of the central command building, constantly changing into different soldiers as he found empty rooms, just in case. When he entered the library, he went into the supply closet and turned on the light, ready to change again when he felt something grab his leg.
"Envy, I need you to go up north with me, meet me at the train station in 5 minutes." Prides voice echoed through the closet, one big reddish pink eye staring at Envy from behind a shelf.
"5 Minutes? That's hardly even enough time to get out of this building!" Envy half yelled half whispered.
"Make it work..." Pride ordered him. The Librarian was surprised, to say the least, when a dog bursted out of the closet and through the building. Officers and everyone in the building yelling as it ran past them at full speed. When Father was asleep you were never to disobey Pride, that would fall under the same level as disobeying Father.
As he got to the train station, people still yelling in fear, he could see Pride on the back deck of the train, arms crossed...and the train moving away. He decided it wouldn't be smart to just jump on board and change back in front of all these people, so instead he let the train get out of the station, and out of the city running out of breath as he follow it from a distance. When he deemed it deserted he jumped on board beside Pride, and landed in a tired heap, breathing hard as he changed back to his regular look mid air. So they sat, waiting for the train to reach the north border...Drachma.
When the train finally reached the Amestris northern border village, they got off and walked their way to Drachma. "So Envy...what has Father been having you do during this hiatus of the plan?" Pride started, trying to make small talk to make the time go by faster. He could honestly never stand being near anyone that wasn't Father, and sometimes he wondered which he hated more...the pathetic humans, or his horrible siblings. He dreaded the day when Father would make the others, currently only having the three.
"I just take the place of one of the generals during important meetings to listen in, just in case of treasonous ideas. So far I have 2 higher ups I now need to...deal with." Pride was tempted to ask if he could do away with them instead, how he adored torturing people to the brink of death...frightening them until they either lose their mind or just plain give up, but thought better of it. He needed to keep his brethren happy after all, until his own little "Promised day".
"How useful, I've been stuck with almost nothing to do, scrounging up stuff here an there." Pride rebutted, then he saw the Drachma city he wanted coming up. "You told the generals to send the troops today, correct?" Pride asked, expecting Envy to get his part of the task done prior to this day.
"Of course, I told them the drachmans had kidnapped an amestrian child and father, who happens to be a soldier, in order to torture them for information. So how are we going to do this?" Envy answered. Pride stopped and thought for a moment..
"You've seen a creature called a 'cat', correct?" Envy nodded. "Turn into a black one, go into the city and take something from someone, make sure they follow you out here to me." and Envy did just that. Pride could see a woman chasing him, and laid down on the ground of the snow, hardly feeling the cold at all, but hoping his cheeks had turned red to complete the "illusion" that he needed immediate help. The cat and woman finally reached him, and the woman nearly screamed at what she saw. She picked Pride up, and ran him down to the town, the guards not daring to stop her. Envy saw her take him to what looked like a hospital, then before coming up to the town, turned into an amestrian soldier.
He looked back and noticed a bunch of amestrian soldiers far away, before running to the drachman village. "Halt!" one of the guards yelled, both pointing their guns at him...as he ran right past them. "...H-hey! Come back here!" The other yelled, both chasing after him. Envy stopped in the middle of town, and both guards started beating him with their guns in front of everyone...
The amestrian scouts were now looking through their binoculars on top of a hill, when they focused on the middle of town, and saw them beating a poor defenseless amestrian soldier in the middle of town. They went back to the truck and reported what they saw...then everyone got ready for a fight.
Pride "woke up" in his bed in the doctor's office. "You poor boy! What could have possibly happened to you out there?" The woman exclaimed, over joyous that the boy was alive. "I...I-I was a-attacked, b-b-by amestrian soldiers! T-they chased m-m-me all the way out here, and they're c-c-co-coming to kill me! I-I didn't even do anything!" Pride told her, and she gasped, believing him completely...I mean who would think that a poor child could cry AND lie at the same time? He was obviously telling the truth, and so she told him to wait right there, and went outside to tell everyone of what had happened to the poor boy. By the time the amestrian army had come down to the village...the villagers were all armed with whatever they could find...ready to defend that poor, helpless, little boy with their lives.
End Chapter
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