The Eighth Homunculus
By: Valavan Kugathasan
A Little about This Fan Fiction
The setting for this fan fiction takes place in the year C.F. 3519. The C.F. stands for Century Frelian. The planet is earth. Cities are much more advanced, so advanced that there are no more police forces or a special unit for each country. There is only one army and that is the Frelian Army. Composed of the most trained warriors in the world they enforce law to the fullest. All the continents are connected and the earth has reverted back to Pangaea. There have been new discoveries such as the use of Alchemy and the discovery of the dragon species. Homunculi are a type of creatures created by humans attempting human transmutation. Human Transmutation is when a human attempts to revive a dead person by using alchemy, this is the forbidden in the rules of alchemy and will cause the alchemist to lose a vital organ in their body when they attempt to do it. Enjoy.
I am Remeiko. Don't ask me how I know my name, because I don't know how I got it myself. I don't know when or where I was born. I don't know where I am. However, I do know that I came from a gate, and that I must kill.
The Frelian Army has been chasing me for the past 100 days or so. I am still clueless as to why this is happening. Everything from dragons to drakon beams has been sent out to capture me alive. As far as I'm concerned, I am a wanted fugitive.
This still leads me to wonder what I did or why they want me. Perhaps it is because of my supernatural strength. As far as looks go, I look just about what you'd call a human. However, I am not a human. I know this because I have a mark that no other humans have. Two days ago when I destroyed a Frelian Army camp, I overheard one of their men talking about it. It fits the description of what I have. A red circle with a shape of a sea serpent, it is the mark of a homunculus.
The members from the army were saying as to how I shouldn't be let loose in the public and that they wanted to use me as an experiment to clone more homunculus like myself. Finally, they stated as to how the army would be replaced with pure homunculus. This came as a shock to me. Why would they do this? Why do they want to restrict me from the public? Am I dangerous? No, it is their fault that I am causing destruction. They have made me this way.
As for my health, I am not concerned. My wounds heal themselves, but I have one concern; as each day passes the mark of the homunculus grows hungry for the flesh of humans. I can feel the bloodlust; I haven't eaten in about 300 days. A mere human cannot last this long. However, to me it is nothing; these are just a few of the many things that make my anatomy unique.
I decided that I would go to the city today and take the risk of being caught. While I was walking I met a woman, she called herself Lust. She showed me the sign of the homunculus on her body. It filled me with joy. Finally I found someone who was just like me. She took me to her home and introduced me to others who were also homunculus. Their names however were a bit odd until I realized that they resembled the sins of mankind. Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth, Pride, Greed and Wrath, those were the names of the seven homunculus standing before me. I wondered why my name did not resemble a sin.
Putting that matter aside I asked them why they were hiding from the public. "Because they will burn us alive, they do not understand us. We are immortal, they cannot comprehend our power and skill" Wrath said. "They will take away our freedom as many have in the past". I started to feel their pain; the pain only the homunculus can feel. We were created because humans dared to perform human transmutation. We were created by the people who now try to exile us, and for that we must fight. Fight for our survival, even at the cost of another human's life.