Prologue: Menace Returns
The moonlight filtered into the room, swirling around mystically. A tall man, seemily middle-aged, stood in the center of the room, on a complex array. Seven boxes were neatly placed in a circle around the outer edge of the transmutation circle. He apparently studdied his handiwork one last time, to check for any gaps or mistakes.
To the regular eye, it was just like any other transmuation circle. But to the well-trained alchemist, it was the circle of a deadly sin...
A human transmutation circle.
All was well. His work was flawless. He would revive them all as homunculi, all seven of them... and they would walk the earth with him once again...
The old man clapped his hands together and slowly, slowly, kneeled down to place them on the center of the array. There was a large burst of deadly black light. It probably wasn't even light - but the presence of the force was there, and the array glowed blue.
A large, golden gate appeared out of no where- ornately carved and omnimously looming.
A large, booming voice spoke after a tense silence. "What is it you seek... why do you disturb me... It has been too long. You have commited this deadly sin like many before you..." There was a silence. "What a naive little man... seven at once... Certainly so abnormal... And you can pay for this...?"
Any normal man would have cowed under the great voice, but this man had already proved to whomever cared to notice time and time again: he was not an ordinary man.
The voice seemed to consider something for a long while. The man remained calm as ice, not even flinching when the gate opened slowly and many craving black hands reached out to grab him...
"Very well. Your payment...?"
The man, who was so still he would have passed for dead, finally spoke. His eyes gleamed with a sickening sort of obsession. "The seven virtues I possess."
There was a long moment of silence. The man remained firm and calm, even though the black hands were snaking along his skin and slowly drawing him towards the gate... evil eyes glinted within the depths of the gate, almost gleeful that such easy prey had arrived...
"Very well. Equivelant Exchange, the seven virtues for the seven sins..." It was almost as if the voice was smirking.
And at that, the black hands that had been idly held at bay plunged into his heart, pulling on something. The man winced and gasped, as if the process pained him. At last seven hands retreated to the gate with seven balls of glinting light... The man fell to the floor, kneeling, gasping as if he had lost his limbs.
"You realize you have become the very being of pure evil... You will regret this..."
The man seemed different now... A dark aura was eminating from him... He started laughing, almost hysterically. "I feel so good."
The gate closed slowly, dissolving into nothingness, as if it had never existed...
Only now, there were seven omnimous figures standing in the shadows, each menacing in their own demeanor. They shifted weakly, as if struggling to move. The room was no longer as quiet as before. Now there were eight beings breathing shallowly, and evil was at work in the air. The light was dim, and their exact figures were indistinct...
"Good Evening, dear friends..." the man whispered softly, but even so, everyone heard him. There was a certain menace in his voice that commanded attention and breathed evil with every word.
"Pride..."
"Greed..."
"Sloth..."
"Gluttony..."
"Lust..."
"Wrath..."
"ah, and Envy..."
The man smirked.
"We meet again."
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This is my first fanfic... ever! And I really have no clue what's going to happen. Go me. Just to get things straight, the seven homunculi are mostly different from before. For example, Pride is a girl. Anyways, I assure you, for some reason I'll come up with later, Envy shall stay the same... 'cuddles Envy' Btw, if you've got a suggestion of what's going to happen, feel free to say so...
Oh, and the astericks in my A/Ns are ' '