My introductions to the first chapter of my fanfictions usually aren't as great, so I'll just give a few warnings and stop annoying you.
Warning 1: This story contains major spoilers for the Fullmetal Alchemist Manga/Brotherhood series up to episode 54 or Volume 95.
Warning 2: T for swearing, violence, pyromania, homosexuality (not with Envy), and violence (did I say that already?).
Warning 3: This fanfic has Fullmetal Alchemist level violence and morbidity. If you are fine with death, blood, and second degree burns, feel free to keep reading. If you run away screaming at the sight of animated blood, you may want to stop reading.
Disclaimer: If I owned FMA or Pokémon, Envy's true form would be a dragon, not a massive lizard, and Choroneko would have a better English name than Purrloin (which sounds like an appetizer). Sadly, neither of these things happens, so I don't own either.
~1st person Point Of View~
Humans are entertaining.
They dance like puppets on strings, following almost any order because they believe they will gain something from it.
However, their attacks can be a pain in the ass, especially if they involve fire, like Mr. Flaming Pony, who kept setting my eyes on fire. Fun.
Their attacks are even more annoying if they reduce you to a pathetic worm-like thing, which can easily be stepped on, a trait which Mr. Flaming Pony kept exploiting. He had his fingers poised to snap, which would reduce me to a pile of ash. However, Ed suddenly made a stone pillar, tossing me into his automail hand, trying to tell him not to kill me.
However, Roy wouldn't listen. Figures. He poised his fingers to snap, which would engulf Ed as well as me.
"If you want him so badly," Ed proclaimed, "then you'll have to track him down!" With this, he tossed my body into the air, clapped his hands, and slammed them down on the floor. I didn't get what he was doing at first, but then an extremely complex transmutation circle about a yard in diameter appeared where his hands clapped a second ago. I landed in the middle of it, which Ed quickly activated.
A quick flash of light, and the underground complex I was in a second ago was replaced by the Gate.
~3rd person POV~
Roy stared at Ed, bewildered.
"What….what did you do!" Roy screamed, picking Ed up by his shirt collar and holding him against the wall. "Where is he!"
"I don't know. I saw the circle in a research textbook of Marcoh's, and it said it would have the object of the transmutation transported somewhere instantaneously."
"Then what about the fee for being transported?" Riza inquired.
"I believe that a small portion of his his Stone will be his fee."
~Envy's POV~
I was dropped into the Gate. I had only seen it once, when I had to rescue the pipsqueak and Squinty-eyes form Gluttony's fake Gate, but only the Gate looked like this; completely blank, no shadows in sight.
"Hello, Homunculus." I turned around, and the Truth faced me, in my current form. It was actually fairly entertaining to see him in the form of a lizard.
"That human's transmutation that brought you here entertains me. It was meant to be an act of mercy, but he didn't factor in quite a few things. If you ended up in this world, for instance. There are multiple worlds, the same but different in their own ways. For example, the one I am sending you to has strange creatures-you might call them Chimeras-with amusing powers. You'll be turned into one, unable to regenerate." He grinned and vanished, with the Gate took its place. It creaked open, and shadowy hands grabbed at my body.
Then a flash of light, and the Gate was gone.
I was dropped into a patch of bushes, relatively annoyed, but at least I was away from the Flaming Pony. I opened my eyes, sunlight filtering in. Nothing hurt to an extreme point, but I was lying on my chest. I decided to get up, and as I put my arm in front of my chest to pick myself up, I noticed something.
The arm was human.
It may not sound like much, but it meant that at least I wasn't in that embarrassing lizard-like form. However, I looked at my arm again, and noticed that it was covered with onyx-colored fur about half an inch long, except for my hands, which were covered in crimson-colored fur about a quarter inch long. I was what I usually wore in my human form, a black skort and matching top. In looking at my skort, I noticed a tail poking out of it, ebony and furred like most of my body, and about two feet long.
I clambered out of the bush, fairly annoyed at the sudden form change, but it beats being dead, I guess.
From what I could see, I was at the top of a gently sloped hill, on the outskirts of a massive city. I heard voices nearby, coming out of the city. I stepped back about a pace, but the humans appeared first.
If you could call them humans, and not Chimera, which were what they appeared to be. One reminded me vaguely of a cat-human, with dull yellow fur on her chest area, and violet fur masking the area on her head above the nose. She had a sickle-shaped purple tail, and from what I could see, her back was purple with leopard-like yellow spots on it, and purple hair. She was wearing a purple shirt and jeans, which had several holes in the knees.
Her companion, male, had green skin and matching hair. Strangely enough, he had some kind of spike sticking out from the back of his head, green like the rest of his body. He had red eyes, and weird tusks protruding from his mouth. Other than that, both seemed fairly human to me, the male wearing the same outfit as the cat, except that the shirt was green.
The cat-like one approached me cautiously, her tail giving away her slightly surprised mood.
"What unit are you from? You certainly aren't from Mistralton's."
"I'm not from any goddamn unit." At this statement, she tackled me, knocking me to the ground.
"Are you sure? I can always ask around to see if you're running away, "she growled, malice in her voice.
"I'm positive. Now stop annoying me, Bitch," I muttered, standing up.
"WHAT did you just call me?" She asked, suddenly very annoyed.
"Bitch." A vein in her head twitched, and she smirked.
"Wrong answer." She flicked her wrist, and sharp claws about six inches long immediately shot out. She slashed at my chest, and I shot out my right arm to defend myself, concentrating on it transforming into a scythe.
I was used to doing this, but it caught me off guard when nothing happened to my arm, putting the cat slashing it aside. Her claws ripped through my arm, cutting it down to the bone. I collapsed, clutching my injured arm, crimson liquid flowing freely from it.
"Someone, get Audino, and NOW! Someone might die here!" I heard in the background, probably the green Chimera, since he was the only one here besides the cat.
Out of the edge of my vision, I saw the cat leaving and a human with pinkish skin run toward me. It peered at my wound for a second, and then cupped its hands, and I could barely see something pinkish glittering inside them.
"Heal Pulse!" It shouted, placing its cupped hands on my head. After a second, the pain stopped, and I looked at my hand, seeing flesh slowly cover the injury. In another minute, it removed its hands from my head, and then looked at me.
"There'll be some scarring, and you should drink some water to replace the fluids you lost, but other than that you'll be fine," it said cheerfully. I looked at for a second, noting that it was female. The upper part of its face was pink, along with most of its arms, and it had some kind of strange bell-like ears, partially obscured by pink hair. Other than that, its skin appeared human-like in color. Like the others, it wore a shirt (pink), but with jeans that only reached to her knees.
"You said you weren't part of squad, right?" The green one asked, surprised.
"I said no, so leave me alone."
"Actually, you're supposed to be on squad. If you aren't, then you're usually declared rouge and either killed or forced to join a squad. Some of the stronger rouges fight, but seeing as you couldn't even deal with Purr's Fury Swipes, you won't get far."
"No."
"You're supposed to be on one."
"Still no."
"I suppose I'll have to call Purr then," he muttered. "PURR!"
"I was right around the freaking corner!" The cat growled, reappearing. I assumed her name was Purr. It was a rather stupid name, but did seem to suit her, seeing she looked like a cat.
"This guy says he's not part of a squad, and I'm pretty sure he isn't bluffing."
"I heard him before he called me a bitch, and I was asking some other morphs if they knew anything about him, which is more than your sorry butt was doing."
"What do you want to do with him, then?"
"I'm right here, you know. And my name's not 'him,' its Envy," I muttered.
"Okay, Envy. Well, according to protocol, we must take you to Master Dialga. If you try to resist…" she flicked her wrist, and her claws shot out.
"Dialga resides in Chargestone Cave, which is really close by, connecting here and Route Six." Purr strolled over to the edge of the city, which was dwarfed by the size of a massive mountain. She headed over to a small opening which seemed to glow a deep blue.
"The blue glow's from the electric rocks here," the green one informed me, wandering into the mouth of the cave.
The cave seemed to consist of a lot of rocks, mostly blue ones, and a few had cobalt electric sparks pulsing around their exterior. Purr took a left turn, and came to a halt before a massive, ornately carved door. It had fairly primitive-looking designs, and a few alchemic symbols I recognized as being related to time.
"This is where Master Dialga is. If you wish to meet him, please be courteous and respectful."
"Why should I? He's not a god, for heck's sake!"
"Wait…you don't know about Master Dialga?"
"Haven't even heard the name before until you mentioned it."
"That explains it. You see, Master Dialga is, in fact, a god."
"Doubt it."
"Master Dialga is the Lord of Time."
"Probably some stupid fancy title he came up with."
"You can challenge Master Dialga if you wish, but it will be futile," Purr claimed, annoyed. She clasped one of the door's handles and pulled. The door groaned, and then opened smoothly, and Purr poked her head in.
"Master Dialga, a morph named Envy requests your audience. He is not currently stationed on a squad, and was only willing to come here if I threatened him." A low growl resounded, and Purr nodded.
"Master Dialga's fine with it," Purr said, beckoning me inside.
I walked into the room, and Purr murmured that he'd stay at the door. The room was a massive area with the blue rock making up its walls, designs similar to the door's carved into the walls. In the middle was a massive throne, made up of what I guessed to be the blue sparking rock populating the other areas of the cave.
And on the throne was what I figured was Dialga. He was only wearing navy pants, covered by a sliver-colored skirt with strange-looking, randomly upraised patterns, and a dark blue cape. His lack of a shirt was easily explained by the glowing blue gem on his chest about the size of a fist, held in place by what looked to be silver, which covered a fairly large expanse of his chest, with two of these silver-like strands extending to his shoulders, which, like the rest of his body, was dark azure and slightly scaly. His hands had silver streaks on the knuckles, and his fingers ended in sharp-tipped silvery points. His feet, also with clawed tips, had silver stripes from the tips of his clawed toes to his ankles. He also had a kind of silvery wristband around his ankles and wrists, which had no markings on them.
A lighter blue stripe ran up his shoulder to the elbow, and the same stripe was prominent on the sides of his neck as well. The silver, not content with covering his chest, also lined his jawbone, coming up to the top of his head. His hair was dark blue with several lighter cobalt streaks, with silver horn-like things on his head, about an inch long. He was fairly tall compared to some of the Chimera I'd seen earlier; I would guess he was about six to seven feet tall, and he gave off an aura of power.
"You do not wish to be on a squad?"
"Yes."
"Then you are content with dying rouge?"
"No."
"This severely limits your options, then."
"I figured that."
"Would a fight suit you, then? If I win, you join a squad. If you win, I will allow the other squads to allow you free access across Unova."
"I guess…"
"Then allow me to make the first move." Dialga stood up from his throne, his cape rippling with the sudden movement. He lightly tapped his right foot against the crystallized ground, but other than that did nothing. I smirked, running toward him. I knew this guy couldn't do anything, and now he would pay the price for not having better protection.
"Earth power," he said, looking at the floor. I kept running at him, but suddenly the room looked…reddish. I stopped abruptly, wondering what was happening, when I noticed a crack in the floor. Suddenly, a combination of fire and rock exploded out of the fissure, which was about six inches wide. What…what was this? Did Dialga do it?
After a few seconds the flames and rock retreated, as well as the miniature fissure in the stone had disappeared, and my eyesight was getting fuzzy.
So this is what it's like to completely lose, I thought as I blacked out, falling forward, and landing on my stomach.
~3rd Time Lord/God/Deity POV~
Dialga looked at the fallen morph, mildly amused. Most challengers ended up dodging Earth Power easily, but this one stayed put. I confused him, but he defeated the challenger, and he bet himself not being on a squad.
"Mesprit, I beat him. You can come out from behind my chair now." After a few seconds, a morph in the form of a girl whom looked around five years of age tentatively floated out from behind the chair. Mesprit had pale skin on the verge of becoming gray, which was contrasted by bright pink hair and a crimson gem in the middle of her forehead. She wore a tight, simple, form fitting dress the color of her skin, lacking shoes since she was capable of levitating. Once she fully emerged from behind the chair, on doubt because the challenger was a Dark type, you could see her twin tails, the same color of her skin. They were about an inch in diameter, with each being at least two feet long and ending in a leaflike pattern with a crimson gem inlaid in the center of the design.
"Did you pick up his emotions?" He inquired to the legendary pixie, who could sense others' emotions.
"Yup. He's got lotsa different ones, though. "
"Which ones are most evident?"
"Confusion-he's got lotsa that and some annoyance, though I dunno why."
"Annoyance? Not rage?"
"Not rage. He's annoyed about something, but he's been like that since he came near the cave, so it's probably not about you. Oh, and I think he's got jealousy in there, too."
"Jealousy? Fitting, since his name is Envy. Since he lost the fight, he will be relocated to a squad. Are there any squads in Unova that have requested extra members?"
"If I remember correctly Lostlorn Forest, Twist Mountain, Driftveil Drawbridge, and Route Seven requested extra members."
"Those four? I believe that the Driftveil Drawbridge Squad only maintains the bridge, which is done mainly by Steel and Flying types, so I suppose I won't send him there. Twist Mountain's squad makes sure the mountain doesn't collapse and looks around for archeological items, which is generally done by Ground and Rock types. Route Seven and Lostlorn Forest are both at least semi defensive, but I believe a Zorua's shapeshifting abilities would be better put to use around the humans' cities, where they would be more likely to attack."
"Lostlorn Forest, then?"
"Yes. Send him to Fluffy's squad," he muttered, attempting to pick up the unconscious Sin by the back of his shirt, which disintegrated into ash when he touched it. Dialga was fairly surprised; a method of fireproofing clothes had been invented eleven years ago, and everyone wore them so much that the non fireproofed version was basically extinct.
"Axel, Purr, you may come in now," he called, just remembering that they were right outside the door.
"What happened here, Master Dialga?" Purr asked, looking at the unconscious form of the Sin.
"A simple bet. If I won a fight against him, he would have to join a squad. He lost."
"Then which squad is he assigned to, Master?" Axel, a Axew morph, inquired.
"Lostlorn Forest."
"Fluffy's squad?"
"Yes. I wish for you to bring him to the squad there."
"Is it okay if I use Kaza to teleport him there?"
"The Kadabra morph? I'm fine with it."
"Axel, can you get Kaza?"
"Sure thing!" Axel exclaimed, sprinting off to Mistralton.
"Master Dialga, why Lostlorn?" Purr asked after a moment's silence.
"Because his abilities are best suited there."
"Abilities?"
"You are not aware of Zorua's Illusion ability?"
"No..?"
"Zorua are capable of creating illusions, which Lostlorn Forest has use for."
"Oh, right! Lostlorn's closest to the border, so they might use it for spying and things such as that, correct?"
"Yes, Lostlorn is closest to the agreed border between the morphs and humans. They don't attack the squad very often, but a morph that can create illusions would be useful." Dialga paused as a dull sphere of grey light suddenly appeared and grew exponentially larger by the second. After a moment, the light subsided, revealing the Kadabra and Axew morph.
Kaza had dull gold skin, with the same colored hair. Claiming a large portion of his forehead was a crimson star, which was slightly covered by his hair. He had a slight moustache, and his fingers ended in clawed tips, similar to Dialga's. He wore jeans and a yellow shirt, imitating most of the morphs in Mistralton clothing-wise.
"Kaza, you're here. I need you to teleport Purr and this Zorua morph to Lostlorn Forest." The Kadabra morph nodded, encasing him, the Liepard morph, and Envy in a dull grey sphere, which swiftly disappeared.
~3rd Liepard POV~
Purr waited for the sphere encasing her to disappear, and after a moment, it obeyed her whim. She looked around, already knowing where Fluffy's squad would be. She picked up the unconscious morph at her feet and started walking toward where Fluffy's base was.
After a minute, she was rewarded by a fairly large trailer, with a large one story log house nearby. She headed to the trailer, since the house was used by the squad members. After a few knocks on the door, she was greeted by a fairly annoyed Vulpix morph.
"It's eight in the morning. Go away."
"My squad wakes up at six."
"I don't care about how good your squad is, my squad can wake up whatever damned time they please. Why are you here, anyway?"
"You requested another squad member. Here he is," Purr meowed, shaking the Sin.
"He looks weak."
"That's because he's unconscious, you moron."
"If you're weak, you lose battles. If you lose battles, you become unconscious."
"Dialga assigned him to your squad. Don't complain."
"Dialga?"
"Yes. Now shut up and accept him."
"I suppose since Dialga assigned him..." she trailed off, abruptly.
"Good. Kaza, teleport us back to Chargestone Cave. Oh, and his name's Envy." Kaza nodded, and they disappeared from view, leaving an annoyed Vulpix and unconscious Envy.
Fluffy inspected the Sin, annoyed that Purr interrupted her sleep. She figured he was a Zorua morph, which at least might be helpful in battle, seeing that Zorua were rare and could create illusions. Though he wouldn't be very helpful if he died from the burns covering his body, so Fluffy, annoyed that she had to wake someone else up, jogged over to the nearby log house. It looked fairly large on the outside, but that was just the uppermost story. It had several floors underground for storage purposes, as well as extra space for sleeping.
She opened the door slowly to prevent waking up more squad members than necessary. If you opened the door to the cabin, you were greeted with a short horizontal hallway with a door at the end of each, the left door leading to the males' room, the right leading to the females' room. There were also two entrances opposite the front door, one that lead to the bathroom and another that lead downstairs. She walked over to the male morphs' sleeping room, and opened the door. She was greeted by about ten bunk-beds, each with a slip of paper on the side declaring whose bed it was. She looked around for a minute before finding the bed with the paper claiming that the bed belonged to "Nekomata," which housed an already awake Espeon morph.
Fluffy was fairly surprised Nekomata was awake, but at least she didn't have to wake him up. She beckoned to him, and he silently slipped out of bed, following.
"Can you help me with something? We just got a new member, but he's pretty damaged," Fluffy asked once they were out of the cabin.
"Wish?"
"Yep."
"Okay. Where is he?" Fluffy responded by strolling toward the trailer. Nekomata followed, and once they were at Envy's location, Nekomata glanced at his injuries.
"Wish," he muttered, cupping his hands and placing them on the Sin's forehead. Some slivers of light shone through his cupped fingers, but he held them there until all traces of his burns were gone.
"Done. What are you planning to do now?"
"Well," Fluffy paused for a second, "I suppose I should wait for him to wake up. I'd better get some clothes for him as well, since his current ones are badly charred. I didn't even know clothes today could get burned, though." She paced toward the cabin, where most of the clothes were kept, and emerged a minute later with jeans and a black shirt.
"Nekomata, if you want to get back to bed, feel free to." Nekomata nodded, but headed toward the trees instead, probably to perfect a technique he'd been working on in secret.
Now to wait for him to wake up.
Really long chapter by my standards! Woo!
Envy: ..lovely.
On a side note, there will be no pairings involving Envy, and mild homosexuality references in the next chapter, but nothing involving Envy.
Edvy fangirls: Noooooooo!
Happy Black and White Release day! I'll try to update around every eight days, and feel free to pelt me with Heatran if I update late.