"Brother! Brother!" Alphonse shouted, running up to Edward with a smile on his chubby face. It was his 7th birthday, and he'd gotten a lot of gifts and a gigantic birthday cake with sweet frosting and colorful fruit.

"Yeah, Al?" Ed turned toward his younger brother, grinning while rustling his sandy blonde hair.

"You know, what I wished for? On my birthday candles? I wished that you, Mom and I would live together forever!" Al told Ed, hopping up and down in excitement.

"Al! You idiot, you're not supposed to tell anyone what you wished for! Now your wish won't come true!" Ed scolded Al, crossing his arms. Al stared at him in shock, wide-eyed. Then his wide hazel eyes narrowed as tears began to fall and Al started to cry.

Later, Trisha Elric had ushered the boys into the house, carrying Al and rocking him gently so that when she'd arrived at the boy's room, he was already fast asleep.

Little did the Elric brothers know, Al's wish really would never come true...

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Ed looked down at the floor of the underground laboratory. He was badly injured and beaten up everywhere, but he didn't notice the pain. Everything around him had blurred, except for the two images of people he knew taking their last breaths. How had this happened? How did everything he'd just gained get taken away so quickly? Where was the Equivalent Exchange?

"Ed...ward... B-brother... It's.. okay... Go.. Escape!" Alphonse wheezed, the gaping hole in his chest leaking blood. Envy had pierced his chest straight through his heart; there was no longer any hope for him.

"Al... No... ALPHONSE!" Ed's golden eyes clouded with tears, desperately shaking Al's weak form, praying to the gods he never believed in that Al would somehow survive this. Somehow make it out alive...

With one last breath that did not take any air, Al closed his eyes and his already fragile form seemed to crumple like a piece of burning paper before Ed's eyes.

"Al! No!" Ed shrieked, looking away from the corpse of his younger brother, only to spot another dead body behind him.

"Roy... no. NO!" Ed's golden eyes were crazed, widening, then scrunching together, trying to make the death beyond them invisible. But the two bodies of the ones he'd most admired; cared most about; did not disappear.

"Heh.. Now there's nobody left to pester us, huh, chibi-san?" A sarcastic voice taunted. Ed turned again, seeing Envy in front of him. Envy smirked as he raised one of his blood-soaked arms and licked off some of the red liquid. Ed felt his stomach churn, and he just wanted to end it... End the pain; block out the horrifying images of blood blooming from the chests of corpses, of that sick homunculus licking his hands clean of blood that used to be in living, human bodies...

Crying out in anguish, Ed scratched at his throat in a moment of insanity, automail puncturing the skin on his neck, and blood, this time his own, came pouring out. And as he looked one last time into the empty eyes of his brother, Edward Elric sighed heavily and fell to the ground, at Envy's feet.

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"Father... He's dead. He killed himself, actually..." Envy reported, and 'Father' raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"How unexpected. This makes my plans a bit more complicated; I was going to have that boy make the Stone, but..." he stopped in mid-sentence, an idea popping into his mind.

"Bring the boy here." He ordered Envy.

"What! But, I just told you, he's dead--"

"Did you not understand my orders? Bring his body!"

"Y-yes, Father..."

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Ok, so I downloaded the game Bluebird's Illusion, and I had at for about 4 months, then my laptop died and all my files were deleted, so I can't play it anymore... No more smexy pics of Ed... darn. Anyway, I've recently been obsessed with Pride!Ed, so I wanted to write my own version of how it happened. I think I'll add more chapters later. Yes, I know, that's what they always say, but oh well. Please leave a review if you enjoyed reading this!