Maruken: Hello peoples! I know my other story wasn't followed through, but this one will be! I SWEAR! Anyways, I wish you happy reading, and an annoying disclaimer.
Disclaimer: I don't own FMA, nor will I ever. sigh Oh the cruelty of reality.
" Anyone know why Dante called us here?" Lust asked her 'companions'.
Gluttony turned his head to stare a Lust with a vacant, clueless expression. She looked around, her gaze settling Sloth, who shook her head. Wrath looked from Sloth to Lust then back to Sloth, it was safe to conclude that the young Sin didn't have a clue either. Pride reacted the same as Sloth, as did Greed only he added a little chuckle and wink in Lust's direction. Lust slightly blanched at Greed's unwanted flirtation.
"Who the hell cares? We'll probably just be given another mission. I just hope she hurries up, this is boring." Envy punctuated his opinion with a scowl.Lust sighed and leaned against the wall closing her eyes. Envy did have a point, this WAS boring. However, no sooner had she closed her eyes than Dante walked into the room.
"Now listen well, I am about to give you a very serious mission based on some startling news." This seemed to catch most of the Sins' attentions, excluding Sloth's and Envy's and partially Greed's.
"It has recently been discovered that beyond the Gate is another world and that this world has had a tremendous fluctuation. Time has been thrown completely off course sending this other world into the future." Dante paused to let this information sink into their heads. Now Envy was listening intently and Wrath was shaking at the mere mentioning of the Gate.
"In this world exist certain people who posess the greatest possibility of becoming sucessfully created homunculi. Your mission is to locate, retrieve, kill, then raise them. Understood?"
"How do we find them?" Lust asked skeptically.
"When one of you gets close to one of them you will feel an invisible reaction occur between the two of you. The other will probably feel this as well. You can check to make sure this is the correct person by alchemizing them with a special array I have created specifically for this task. If they are indeed one of these certain people an oroborous will appear upon them in the same place it would appear on any of you." Dante showed them a picture of this new array whick looked startlingly similar to the sealing/death array that appeared when homunculi stood before some part of themselves. Only in the center was an oroborous instead of the usual symbol.
"Wait here while I open the Gate." She instructed while walking back to her room to get the key ingredient in opening the Gate. Soon a baby's crying filled the air and the Gate appeared. Wrath was desperately clutching his ears and trembling uncontrollably while Sloth held him close in an affectionately protective embrace. One by one the Sins disappeared through the Gate.
Greed was the first to awaken, he lazily moved his head from side to side trying to forget the awful trip through the golden rays, the thousands of anomous hands clutching at him, grasping him, wrapping themselves around him. He shuddered and vigorously shook his head.
"Where are we?" Wrath asked still held by Sloth who had not let go the entire time.
"In the other world, where else brat?" Envy snapped as he stood up and looked around.
What he saw astouded him. Hundereds of buildings, strange tall thin silver structures that had wires or some kind of wire like material hanging off them connecting that structure to another indentical structure. Huge bridges hung over a large body of water held up by gigantic pillars. Thousands of different cars that looked similar but not the same as the ones in his world driving along strips of black.
He inhaled a large breath of air only to gag on it.
What the hell was THAT! He thought while trying to breathe in the strange atmosphere and not choke himself with it. He crinkled his nose in disgust and snorted. Envy turned around to look at how the others were faring. Lust and Sloth had both crinkled their noses as well while Pride and Greed looked slightly bewildered. Gluttony appeared to be, well, EATING or at least attempting to eat the air. Lust turned to stare quizically at Gluttony when she heard biting noises. Wrath blinked repeatedly and sneezed attracting Sloth's attention.
Once the initial shock had worn off they began to wander down the grassy green hill they had awoken upon. They walked until they came upon a massive structure with the word 'school' written upon it. Interested, Lust began to walk up the stairs that lead to the entrance of the 'school'. The others saw nothing better to do and followed her.
"You'd better to stop slobbering all over everything or else people will get suspicious, or at least creeped out. In fact, stay with Lust OUTSIDE of the 'school'." Envy ordered.
Lust heard Envy's order and muttered something under her breath about what an ass the eldest was. After all, going into the 'school' was HER idea. Still she turned around and escorted Gluttony away from the 'school' and into a less conspicuous place, which was kind of hard considering how ROUND Gluttony was.
However the others continued onward till they entered the 'school'. What they saw were hundreds of people walking around, sitting on stone benches, and standing beneath protuding roofs. They earned a couple of looks but nothing more really. Their wanderings led them to a portable salmon colored room that had a brownish interior which Greed snorted at in disgust.
Inside were two girls, one with long brown hair that had a violet gleam to it that was held back by a flowered headband, and one with short dirty blonde hair that curled around her face and rested on her shoulders. The brunette was about one foot taller than the blonde and when she turned her attention from the blonde she was currently squeezing the life out of to the little troupe in the doorway they saw her hazel green eyes. The blonde promptly got up off the floor and turned her blue eyes over to them as well.
All of the homunculi felt something when they walked into the room and could easily guess that these two girls were part of their objective. Sure enough, as they began to walk towards the two the feeling intensified. Envy stopped suddenly and turned to Greed and Sloth.
"Find the others and lock the door on your way out. If you do anything stupid Sloth will report you. Get going." He whispered to the both of them. Greed tched, shrugged and left with Sloth, but not before closing the blinds and locking the door. And looking at his female companion's rear end way too much, who just rolled her eyes. Once they left Envy turned his attention back to the girls and sauntered right up to the short haired, blued eye one. While Wrath, who was currently 'motherless' sullenly trudged over to the long haired one. However with one square kick to the butt and a firm reminding of why they were here from Pride he quickly bounded over and crawled onto the hazel green eyed girl's lap while staring at her with huge puppy eyes, completely distracting her from her friend.
"Hey, aren't you cute. Wanna come with me?" Envy seductivly inquired which had just the opposite effect of that which he wanted. The girl blushed, then looked at him like he was insane.
"Well?" He asked again. This time the girl found her voice.
"N..no." She stuttered in a low voice while attempting to back away.
"What a shame! Why not? Would you feel better if you knew my name or something?"
"I don't..w..want to go ANYWHERE with someone I..I..I don't even know."
Envy rolled his eyes and began to wrap his arm around her waist in a sneaky way so she didn't notice it. He decided outright, blunt innuedo wasn't going to work so he tried a different, subtler approach.
"My name is Envy, and yours is?" Said technique appeared to be working since she wasn't nearly as frazzled as before, now she was more skeptical.
" Ryuu. Why?" She ventured carefully.
"Just wanted to know. So, what are you doing here?" Almost there.
"What do you mean?" Ryuu asked tilting her head a bit.
"Why aren't you outside?" Just a little more, gotcha!
Ryuu was too confused to notice him subtly leaning against the desk more and more or the way his arm was snaking itself around her. So she was caught completely off guard when he clutched her then quickly turned her around so that her back was pressed firmly to his chest. He wrapped one arm aroud her waist, pining her arms in the process. The other arm wound it's way around her neck, holding her in a lethal lock.
" RYUU!" The other girl shouted, scrambling to get up, knocking Wrath off. "You get your filthy hands OFF HER!" She yelled in a fury, trying to get to her friend only to be tripped by Wrath and caught by Pride in the same lock Envy was using on Ryuu.
"Let go of me!" Ryuu screamed, struggling to get free from the crazy nutcase holding her.
"Now now we'll have none of THAT, now will we?" Envy maliciously snickered tightening his hold on her, strangling her till she stopped struggling and began to make choking noises.
"Leave her ALONE!" Her friend screamed as she flailed helplessly about in the grip of the incredibly strong homunculous.
"You'd best stop that or i'll do the same to you." Pride warned, but the girl ignored him and began screeching vulgar profanities at them as well.
Pride didn't take it well and began to strangle her in the same fashion as Envy had till the desired goals were achieved. Once both girls were silent and still the homunculi began to talk amongst themselves.
"We've got them, now what?" Wrath asked impatiently.
"We check to make sure they're the right ones. Envy, you have the array, right?"
"Yeah, Dante gave it to me right before she left. Lets get to work carving it."And with that, the homunculi began to engrave the array into the floor. By homunculi they meant homunculous A.K.A Wrath.
"Carpet, eck. Why couldn't it have been dirt? And why didn't we bring Lust?" Wrath complained as he went about his work while the others watched.
"Shut up and work kid." Envy ordered while yawning.
"I'm not a KID! Or a BRAT! And I AM working!" Wrath shot back.
"Tch, whatever you say, bratty kid." Envy retorted lazily.
Wrath just fumed this time, he knew he couldn't win with Envy. In fact they had spoken those exact same words many times before and it always ended the same, him losing humiliatingly. The only time he even stood a chance was when Sloth was there because she didn't approve of Envy picking on him, but when that happened Envy would just walk off, declaring it a 'waste of his time'.
By the time Wrath was done with his 'reminiscing' he had finished the array. Envy gave a low whistle of approval, right before roughly shoving Ryuu into the array. Before she could get out Wrath intiated the alchemization and a bright blue light appeared from within the intricate slashes in the carpet creating many bright blue walls of light that effectively held Ryuu within.
"RYUU! Ryuu! Ryuu...Ryuu... RYYUUUUUU!" The girl screeched terrified for her friend, tears gathering at the rims of her eyelids.
Envy just watched the girl within whirl around with pure, raw, fear apparent in her wide eyes, her mouth hanging open in terror and incredulity as she stumbled around. Finally the blue walls began to fade leaving a trembling girl in the center. Envy sauntered over to her and ripped her coat off while gripping her arm so she couldn't escape. Upon seeing another layer he tore that off too. By now the girl's friend was too hoarse and too shocked to yell anymore, all she could do was watch as some strange man ripped her friend's clothes off.
When Envy realized there was no symbol on her breasts he grabbed her tongue and yanked. Ryuu gave a undignified yelp and jerked forward. Seeing no symbol on her tongue either he checked her eyes, then her hands. He smirked then ripped off her jeans and still no symbol, he began to wonder if he was mistaken. However he lost his train of thought when Ryuu planted a well aim kick to his head. Just as she was scrambling to get the the hell away from Envy he remembered the last place he needed to look.
Deftly his hand shot out and grabbed her left ankle, wrenching her foot around. This caused Ryuu to lose her balance and fall face first onto the floor. A sickening crack could be heard as Envy viciously twisted Ryuu's ankle in a direction it wasn't meant to go. She let out a blood curdling screech of pure pain, whimpering in agony. He took off her shoe then her sock and inspected her foot and sure enough, on the ball of her foot was the oroborous.
"Wrath." Envy said before throwing her aside, right into a pile of desks. "Next." He ordered, not even glancing at Ryuu who was howling in pain. Before the brunette could process what was happening, she too was thrown into the array and was trapped just as her friend had been when Wrath began the alchemization again. She tried to run to Ryuu but was thrown back by the bright blue walls of light.
"Aundrea! Aundrea! AUNDREA!" Ryuu cried out tears streaking down her face, her vision blurred by them. Envy took great pleasure in seeing the noisy girl shut up for once. Once the aura died down Envy sauntered over the Aundrea.
"STOP! PLEASE STOP!" Ryuu yelled helplessly from within the pile of bloodied desks.
"Pride, Wrath, make her shut up." Envy ordered as he stood in front of Aundrea, glancing at the two homunculi, but only Pride moved to obey, Wrath stood, trembling, eyes wide in horror of what Envy had done and enjoyed.
Without warning he grabbed her face and forcibly opened her eyelids wider. Finding no symbol he was about to search else where when Aundrea decided she had had enough. Her knee collided with his stomach and her fist with his face. For a moment he was stunned, but only for a moment, Ryuu could only watch in horror as he quickly retaliated by thrusting his middle finger into her right eye, then flipping her off with her own eyeball skewered on his fingernail.
Aundrea let out a blood curdling screech nearly identical to Ryuu's when Envy broke her ankle. At this Wrath blanched, doubling over incapacitated. Envy shrugged, sighed melodramatically and continued his search, despite the horrific wailing noises Aundrea was emitting. After finding nothing on her hands, he ripped off her shirt. Right above her left breast lay the oroborous. Envy smirked.
"Sloth." He said, his smirk widening to a sneer as he raised his hand which he began changing into that of Edward Elric's automail arm, complete with the blade. The next second he plunged it deep into her chest, shattering bone, tearing through muscle and ripping through nerve, tendon, and ligament alike, till it reached the heart and tore right that as well till it violently exited through a gruesome hole in her back. Blood bubbled up through her throat and gushed from her mouth, coating Envy in scarlet life.
"Au..Au...Aun...A...Aund...Audnr...Aundre...A..dre..a..Aundrea...AUNDREA! AUNDREA! AUNDREA! AUNDREA! AU..nd...r..e...a. Ryuu's screaming died down as Pride grabbed her neck and began to asphyixsiate her. She could feel the intense pressure build up, the sharp stinging pain increase, she could even feel the vertebrae in her neck crack, the disks of cartilage losening, the nerves tearing apart. She wanted to scream, screech, wail, anything, but she couldn't even utter an incoherent noise. Her vision became splotched with black and she could feel the acidic levels of her blood increase dramatically. She couldn't even attempt to stop him by clawing at the hands wrapped around her neck. Finally black engulfed her vision and she couldn't feel anything anymore.
"Quick! Before she completely dies, we need to create the Gate!" Envy shouted, completely having forgotten that they were trapt in a rather unpleasant situation if they failed to create the Gate which could only be done by a human.
He transformed into Lust and used her nails, which were more like claws, to carve the needed array into the barely alive Ryuu's stomach. Pride ran over to the still incapacitated Wrath.
"Wrath! Wrath! Wake up!" He shouted, shaking the unconscious Sin back into consciousness.
As Wrath's eyes fluttered open, Pride began to explain what happened and Wrath understood immediatly what needed to be done. He hurried over to Ryuu and used the alchemic array to summon the Gate. Pride gathered up Aundrea and Envy picked up Ryuu and they ran through to their world, leaving Wrath behind to bring the other remaining homunculi through the rapidly disappearing Gate.
Maruken: I am SOOOOOO sorry about the format! I tried but sadly all my comp has is notepad so the formatting died, damn and notepad.
Next update will be like this one sadly but the one after that WILL BE FORMATTED!
OH! And if I get one review, I'll update! I already have the next chapter written and don't worry about the OCs, they won't eat up the main time and they won't have allthe guys falling over them like rabid dogs in heat. Sorry for the lewd description. If ANY guys for that matter, except in a few circumstances and there won't actually BE anything REAL between them anyways.
Toodles!
Sincerely twisted, Maruken
