1 He Knows His Reason
Lust. She was the one who drew the Transmutation circle that made mommy lose her red stones...her life. I knew this just by observing the scene when I arrived. It was obvious.
The same Lust now stood before me, vomiting up the red stones from within her own body...her life was now vanishing.
"This is what you wanted, isn't it?" I asked, a sneer in my voice. I walked up to Lust while I did so. "To become a human so you could die with them."
"Maybe you're right..." panted Lust. "Where...did I come from? And where...will I go when I die?"
She looked at me, and I could see the sadness in her eyes, feel the eyes of the half-human, half-beast chimera nearby...burning into my back.
"Maybe all this time...I just wanted the freedom to find out."
I walked over and picked up one of the guns lying on the ground. Using the powers of the alchemy in my right arm, I transmuted it with my own arm in order to become a long, shining blade. I then walked over to where Lust was panting...and brought it down upon her neck.
But even after I killed her, something was still wrong.
"Is that all being human is? That you can die?" I thought aloud, "Then why...do I want to become human so bad?"
I looked behind myself to see that chimera. He used to be human, maybe he knows why.
But then again, maybe not. He had started whimpering when I looked at him.
"Well, can't you tell me? You're human, right?" I yelled, hopefully cutting the words deep into his heart.
I believe that I did so, for he ran after I yelled this. Ran far away, with that incomplete human transmutation in his arms.
"Mommy..." I said, looking up. "That's right. There's a reason to live...protecting her."
I then went on...running to find Edward and Alphonse Elric...and Mommy.
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Author's Note: And yet another 1-of-3 short stories. I like these, maybe I'll do a few more different ones.