A/N: Wheee! Oh my God, I feel so stupid, cause this fanfic is OOC for several characters, but you know what? I DON'T GIVE A FUCK! I'm gonna write this fanfic, and there's nuthin you wusses can do about it. Except my dear friends: Demonyokokuramafan and hirumas baby sis. I know them outside of Fanfiction, so…..yeah, they can stop me. (P.S. You all should check out her stories, they're really good!)
Envy: Can we just get on with it?!
Me: FINE! Geez, somebody's a grumpy little Homunculus….Envy-kun, please do the disclaimer!
Envy: DON'T CALL ME ENVY-KUN! And fine. The authoress owns nothing but her OC and her insanity. No flames, let's leave that to Mustang.
Me: THE SHOW MUST GO ON!!!!!
Envy: (Dear God, what have I gotten myself into?)
The Heart Of A Homunculus: Chapter 1- The Heart-Ripping Kidnapping
Envy's POV
"C'mon, Envy, hurry up, what, are you chicken? Bawk, bawk bawk bawk!" Wrath called at me, flapping his arms like a chicken's wings. I felt bad for what I'd done to the poor twerp. Now he calls that moron Sloth mother, and it was my fault for turning him against his real mother. Unfortunately, the past cannot be undone, and what they're making me do now is going to kill my conscience. "Somethin' on your mind, Envy?"
I looked at the small boy. He may be one of us, but he didn't deserve to be used as a pawn like the rest of us already had been. Now I was about to help create another monstrosity out of an even younger, innocent soul. What was I thinking? How could I do this, especially to a small child that I've even come to adore? And what's worse, the colonel's daughter! My head would already be on a pike just by being within a five-foot radius of her!
"Hey, Envy! Is anybody in there? HELLOOOOOO?! Wake up! Look, it's Hohenheim! Don't you wanna kill him?"
"WRATH! That's NOT funny! Nowhere even close!" I growled. I hated it when he did that. Everyone played that joke. 'Hey look, Envy, It's Hohenheim!' Damn, I'm sick of it!
But it didn't sting for too long. I didn't care right now. I was about to kidnap and kill a two-year-old girl just so there's a small chance for her to become a Homunculus. There were already seven of us, we didn't need to make an eighth! I hated this, so why was I doing it? Why the hell was I going against my own free will?!
Did I have any free will? Did mother have me on a leash? Was I really able to make my own decisions, or was I really a leashed dog?
"Envy, what's wrong? You're really looking down in the dumps."
"…Wrath, you do realize who we're going after, right?" I looked at the small brown-haired boy and felt pain for what I did once again.
"Rina Mustang, daughter of Colonel Roy Mustang and First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye. Why do you ask, Envy?" Wrath looked confused, he didn't get what I was saying. I didn't expect him to, I never said anything to anyone, really.
"Number one: This is suicide, we're on the Colonel's list as soon as we're near her. Number two:….I can't bring myself to want to do this." I told him honestly. "I don't want to hurt her." I looked at him sadly.
"…Envy, what's gotten into you, lately? Ever since Dante came up with this plan, you've been acting strange. What's so special about this kid? You've hurt several people. You killed Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes without a second thought, why are you so concerned about this one little girl?"
I should've known he wouldn't understand. No one ever could. I cared about the child. I was the only Homunculus capable of caring about anyone at this point, wasn't I? Except Wrath's misguided sense of mothers. He thought Sloth was his mother, but it's Izumi. And who's fault was that? Mine. All mine. I really am a soulless monster, aren't I? Turning children against their mothers, Wrath the first, Rina will be the second. Why couldn't I bring myself to turn around and run? Why the hell couldn't I do it?! I wanted to run, but I hesitated, and I didn't know why. I didn't want to hurt her! "Because, Wrath."
He looked at me funny. "'Because'…?"
"Just because! Let's just get the girl and get out of here!" I ran ahead of him and shape-shifted as I did. I shifted into her babysitter, Jean Havoc. He had been asked to watch her after I had coldly murdered Hughes, who had been asked before Havoc. Hughes was good with kids. I felt horrible for assassinating the man, and I tended to hate myself for it.
I ran towards Central, where Rina was, leaving Wrath in the dust. "Hey, Envy! Wait up! I can't run as fast as you!" I slowed down and let him catch up, then we continued to run to Central.
We arrived, and I turned to Wrath. "Okay, Wrath, remember the plan?"
"Yeah." He nodded and sat on the ground.
"When I have the girl, there will be an explosion, or something out of the ordinary, got it?"
"Mhm." He nodded again, and I ran into the building and avoided people as much as possible. The plan was I would find the girl, give Wrath a signal, then he would come get her, and we would bail.
Unfortunately, Mustang stopped me.
"Havoc, why don't you have Rina? Where is she?!" He asked, grabbing the collar of my shirt.
"Whoa, calm down, chief, I just had to go check on something real quick, she's fine. I was on my way back to her." I explained. He squinted his eyes and looked at me suspiciously.
"Hm….Fine. But take Rina WITH you next time, got it, Havoc?!" He let go and pushed me against the wall.
"Ow…Got it, chief." I continued to run to Rina. I knew exactly where she was, I went to see her every so often. Somehow, she piqued my interest.
I arrived in one of the rooms where some officers lived where they kept Rina before Mustang or Hawkeye took her home. They didn't live together so they switched days for who would take Rina home. I looked at the little girl with a smile. She opened her onyx eyes and looked at me. "Envy…!" She giggled. She was rather fond of me, and could tell whether I was Havoc, Hughes, Mustang, or anyone else I may turn into to see her. I shifted back to my preferred form and leaned against the footboard of the bed. They but her on a normal bed because they spoil this child rotten. "Envy! Imitaton time?"
I would shift into different people and imitate them. She was two years younger that Elicia Hughes, so she still didn't understand most speech. She couldn't say 'imitation' right yet, though I'd been trying to teach her. "No, it's not imitation time, Rina."
She made an upset face. "Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaase, Envy? I want imitation time!"
I smiled happily. "Look, you said it right! You're so smart! But not right now, okay, little one?"
"I'm not little! I'm a big girl now, daddy said so!" I laughed loudly at her reaction. She reminded me of the Fullmetal Pipsqueak when she denied being little. "Please, Envy?"
"I don't have the time, child." She was a stubborn one, just like her father. If she was any more like Mustang, you'd think she was a clone. She had chin-length black hair and as I said before, onyx eyes. She was actually rather pale, but not as pale as me.
"You, hold it right there!" A voice yelled from the direction of the door. "What are you doing in here?!" It was Riza Hawkeye, Rina's mother.
I picked up Rina. "Just retrieving a gift for Dante, is all." I smiled the smile that Rina liked, the one reminiscent of the chibi, and shifted into Riza's dear beloved husband, Roy.
She dropped her gun and her eyes widened. "R-Roy?" She stepped back. "You're not Roy. I saw him walking down the hall before I came in here!"
I laughed. "So you humans aren't as stupid as we think you are!" I returned to my preferred form and backed up towards the window.
"You're not going anywhere!"
"Riza! What is it?!" Mustang demanded. I had shifted into Greed before he could see me. "You! What are you doing with my daughter, you bastard?!"
"Taking her with me. If you want her back, you'll have to come get her. Get that dog to sniff us out." I told him.
"YOU WON'T GET THE CHANCE!" He snapped his fingers and sent flames at me. I quickly dodged it and stood in what remained of the window sill.
"Whoa, now! You can't fight me while I'm holding the child, she might get hurt, you know." I smiled mischievously as I saw Wrath running towards the room. "Wrath! Come get her!"
Wrath jumped into the window and took her from me. "Got her, let's go!" He jumped back down and started to run.
"Give her back!" Mustang snarled, snapping his fingers at me like mad.
"Chill yourself out, Mustang! I didn't wanna do this!" I yelled.
He stopped dead in his tracks, and Riza held her gun down. "What do you mean? You went to all this trouble, how could you not want to?!" Riza cried.
"…Mother made me. I never wanted to hurt Rina, but if you come with me, we can save her before they kill her. I'm sorry, they used me as a pawn, and I couldn't get away!" I shifted back to my usual form and fell to my knees at their feet. "Forgive me, I never wanted to hurt her! I really do care about your daughter, and I love to make her happy. I'm sorry about what I've done, I beg for your forgiveness! For Hughes and the damage I've done to you with the Ishval war! I apologize for all the pain that I've caused, but bearing the name of a sin, I can't run from mine. Please don't hold this against me…." Tears fell from my eyes uncontrollably. I wasn't lying. I couldn't run from my sins no matter how hard I tried. I could never be forgiven. I had hoped I could, but I know I-
"I guess I can forgive you as long as you help us get our daughter back." Roy said.
"What? You'll…you'll forgive me? After everything I've done…?"
"Only if you help us get Rina back!" He looked at me. "Besides, if you make my daughter happy, you can't be all that bad."
My eyes lit up. I could be forgiven. After all my sins, I could be forgiven for them! "Of course, Mustang! Follow me, I'll get you there!" I ran out of the room with Mustang tailing me. Hawkeye stayed behind to help out and give orders for backup if needed.
I needed to save Rina. I knew I had to even if they didn't forgive me. I knew in my heart that she was really all I had left, and if I let her go, I'd be nothing but a hollow shell.
A/N: So? What'd you think?
Envy: …Remind me never to let you near a computer again…
Me: Aw, Envy-kun, don't be mean, you know you liked it!
Envy: …Maybe…. AND DON'T CALL ME 'ENVY-KUN'!
Me: YAY! But I'm going to call you Envy-kun anyways!
Envy: Read and Review, or the Authoress may lose her mind.
Me: Probably!