OO;;;;; It's been FOREVER since I wrote anything! Does anyone even remember me? I would feel so sad if they didn't, but I wouldn't be surprised. ; Anyway after my extended vacation from writing I have come back fully obsessed with a new fandom Full Midget Alchemist! Er..Full Metal..Alchemist..eh heh heh.. Hey he's a runt what can ya do? I'm enthralled with Envy and I enjoy just about any pairing with him. After watching some of the anime and getting a few mangas I have decided to write fiction again! IF you don't recall who I am I will explain now, I write yaoi. YAOI people. So deal... o.o;
Disclaimer: If I owned FMA Envy would be the star, wear less than he does now and make out with Ed, Roy, Greed, Wrath, Scar, Hughes, just about any attractive male in the series, on a regular basis. Happy lil lemons keep falling on my head!
Summary: Just so you know this is an AU fic. Majorly au. The Sins are a highly secretive criminal power active in Central and it's surrounding cities, the only way to become part of the organization is to be born into the family and prove oneself through a special test, at which point the birth name is disowned and the name of a deadly Sin is ascribed to that person for the rest of their life (which can be cut short at the command of the leader.). Ed, Al (who is in his normal body.) Roy and the others are part of the police force set to track down and capture the Sins, dead or alive. The characters are different only in that I have assigned ages to them, in other words the Homunculus are not immortal creatures living from centuries past, but rather a complete set of stones will stop their aging process until the stones are removed or they are sealed and killed while powerless.
Warnings: This fic is set to contain Yaoi, violence and gore, slight supernatural themes and heavy bdsm themes, rape, death, unabashed humor at the expense of Ed's height, and eventual fluff and romance.
One last note: Characters will retain all their unique powers, it just makes them more fun that way, however since it's au I retain the right to use seals on the Sins the way one might seal a demon in other anime, such as YYH. Deal with it! P (And yes I use song lyrics for chapter titles if they fit a main scene in the chapter.)
Capture the Darkness
Chapter One
This Body's Left the Soul
Narrowed violet eyes glinted with malicious amusement at the frightened face of the pathetic creature chained to the wall. Nearly bare feet padded softly through the numerous pools of blood on the floor, many old, several newly laid down. A slender arm slid out, the wicked, crimson tinged dagger grasped in its hand striking expertly across the victim's throat, slicing through the jugular vein and ending the suffering that had lasted for well over six hours now. As blood gushed down the limp, ragged torso the figure turned, lifting the drenched blade to pale lips so that a soft tongue could slip out and take a generous lick from the cold steel.
Appreciative smiles and low chuckles greeted the youth who stood in the middle of the blood saturated room, the dagger still clutched in his hand. A light applause silenced the mirth as all eyes turned to a lone figure shrouded with in a sweeping black cloak.
"The boy has passed the final test, he has earned the right to become one of you. From this moment on he shall be known as Envy." A small cheer greeted the announcement as the boy offered a cocky grin to the veiled figure, whose voice faintly reminded him of sharp nails dragging over old glass, it had a very disturbing tone to it, not that he was afraid. He had waited all his life for this moment. Casting a wry grin to the form of his final initiation he chuckled, flipping the bird at the mass of broken bones, blood and torn flesh on the wall.
As he exited the room one of the figures who had been watching, a tall muscular man with intriguingly sharp teeth approached him, resting a large palm on his bare shoulder. That smile slightly unnerved him, but he didn't dare let his unease show for an instant, offering a glare of suspicion at the smirking man.
"Envy, you'll be working with me for a while till you learn your place well enough to be on your own." The man, whom the youth was quickly starting to think of as 'shark-tooth' smirked and squeezed his shoulder.
"I suppose I can tolerate that if I have to, but don't expect me to be your subordinate for long." He sneered at the taller male, flipping his long emerald hair over his shoulder and shrugging off the man's hand. His cocky attitude only garnered a chuckle from sharky and the hand was back all too soon in that uncomfortable position.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that if I were you. Now let's head out, I have a lot to teach you. You may be proficient with those little daggers of yours but you'll need more than that to run part of this organization." The hand rubbed his shoulder, drawing a displeased grunt from his throat as the two of them headed up the stairs to another room.
"And what should I call you? You had better not be expecting me to refer to you as Sir or Master because if so you're seriously fucked in the head." The boy spat and tried to shrug out of the firm grip on his arm. It only grew tighter, almost painfully tight.
"For now you can call me Greed, but if you get too big for your britches don't think for an instant I won't bust your ass right back to where it belongs brat. So watch that pretty tongue or I'll have you screaming Master at my feet in tears." The hand suddenly changed against his skin, growing as harsh as Greed's voice had become, an unbreakable force clawing into his flesh and drawing blood to bubble out from between charcoal tinted talons. Envy stared wide-eyed at the change, too stunned and pained to believe what he was seeing. Greed chuckled over him and let his hand revert to a normal human appearance.
"Tonight you accept the first of the stones. Prove yourself to us all, and you will be given enough of them to be nearly indestructible. For now though we should get you a bandage." The shark teeth smiled down at him, and immediately he began to loathe the way they gleamed in the light.
Ghostly pale light filtered in between the thin drapes covering the windows of the long stone corridor. As his feet padded silently down the long hall he absently considered how lonesome the walk was through the dismal passage. Not a single adornment hung on the walls of the narrow path, and in the distance the bleak light from the windows ceased to penetrate, leaving him to plod into absolute darkness. He smirked as he stepped onward, alone within the black depths of this secretive chamber. Eventually he came to the door, his feet resting against the lush carpet seeping out from beneath the wood. Beyond the door was the room the rituals were held in, the room designed for one purpose alone, the Stone Rite.
He glanced at his bandaged arm with a scowl. That filthy Greed had taken it upon himself to wrap the boy's arm, but had used the opportunity to touch Envy's bare flesh as much as possible. The youth cringed in a mixture of loathing and distaste at the thought of spending any length of time under the grinning man's guidance. Still, the power he would gain, the control and absolute authority that could be his if he endured just a short while. Gripping the door handle firmly he pushed his way into the room.
Torches set into the wall at seven points in the walls of the room shed light upon the ornate glyph in the floor. Intricate lines crisscrossed and spiraled, darting towards the curved walls at sharp angles before doubling back in elegant loops. The ancient symbol was imprinted upon the stones with a dark red fluid, likely blood, laid down many times over the years. There was far too much to have ever belonged to just one individual at a time. Between each torch a different tapestry hung from two golden posts, jutting out of the wall to thrust the images toward the center of the room. Each one was painstakingly crafted to show the greatest detail in rich colors. He noted that every image was a tangled web of a particular sin. Demonic beasts and fountains of blood lined the edges and corners, mirror images of a red dragon encircling a six pointed star caught his attention next, between each set was inscribed the name of the sin, in a language he did not recognize. The most unnerving image loomed from the very heart of the woven curtain, a great set of doors were the next layer up, the unique image of the doors was unsettling enough itself but within the fanged maws rested a single eye. The pupil was slit, like his own, yet it was immensely wide, a madness seemed to overwhelm the clouded orb, but a very disturbing clarity was ever present in the image, as if the woven orb could actually see, straight into the depths of his core. Envy shuddered very faintly and turned his gaze to the figure in the center of the room.
"The Stone Rite is an act that shall alter your being forever my child. Once you consume seven complete stones you shall be completely indestructible, immortality will be yours and ultimate power will rest within your hands. Crush the world with it if it pleases you, but never forget that I granted you this gift, and I can rip it out of you at any time. If you accept the stone you become my child, my servant. Refuse this offer and you shall die before you leave this room. Come forward Envy, accept the power you have worked so hard for." That disturbing voice echoed eerily in the small room and disgruntled as he was, the boy couldn't deny that he wanted that power, and he wanted to live. He had come to far to die this young. Stepping into the heart of the small room he stood as tall as he was able to before the cloaked form.
"I pledge my services to you in exchange for the gift of the stone." He stared unflinchingly into the menacing gaze of the hooded being's eyes. A thin hand lifted, displaying a small crimson stone held between two spindly fingers.
"This is an incomplete Philosopher's Stone. You will eat it as I recite then stand before the image on the wall that responds. Only then will you receive the beginnings of your powers." A low chuckle followed as Envy nodded and offered his hand to take the stone.
"No! Open your mouth. You must eat the stones." He stared suspiciously for a moment before slowly parting his lips and allowing the slender digits to press the polished stone against his tongue. It felt strangely heavy within his mouth but as the glyph began glowing to the unfamiliar chanting being whispered around him he swallowed. The symbol began to crackle at the edges with energy and light, surging around the intricate swirls and sharp angles below his feet. It flashed all around him, then blazed out in a burst of electric pulses, illuminating one of the tapestries to his right. Envy stared in awed horror as the eye in the center bulged out from the fabric, wet and alert, the pupil constricted as it focused on his face, then shot open once more.
The words had ceased by this point, the only sound of the room the crackle of energy and his own hushed breaths. He stepped forward, his feet only slightly unsteady as he came before the eye. It's gaze pierced through him, sending blasts of chilling malevolence over his being. Inwardly he trembled, unaware that his shivering had become noticeable to the figure watching from the center of the room. Suddenly the eye widened even more, the dilated pupil enveloping the entire surface of the protruding orb as a shrieking howl and a black energy lashed out, coiling around his body. He screamed at the searing heat and freezing cold that bit into his flesh, unable to move he could only screech as a beast began to emerge from the eye's depths.
Thousands of open mouths, skeletons and gruesome twisted mockeries of human and demonic forms all jumbled together and jutted forth from scaled flesh like festering sores. Horns dotted the serpent like spine that trailed into a thick snake tail. two sets of monstrous arms and legs supported the beast that smiled at him with a wicked grin. The worst of all were the eyes, one half covered in scales and blazing with fiery light while the other remained completely bathed in a sea of dark colors, glowing only from the evil that thrived within. The thing spoke to him, once, in a thousand different tongues.
"We are one ."
It surged forward, forcing itself inside of his convulsing body as he screamed around it. Following the path of the stone it filled his very being, causing him to writhe and claw at his own flesh in unspeakable pain for several minutes. The energy from the glyph and the eye pulsed and swirled around his body then exploded in a burst of light. When it dimmed the eye had sunken back into the cloth, the room had ceased to quake, and the boy stood stock still his eyes glowing and discolored from each other, one a brilliant white with violet tints, the other swathed in darkened tones. He smirked over his shoulder at the cloaked form.
"I am Envy."
The figure laughed, removing the hood of its cloak and bestowing a wicked smile upon the new Sin.
"Welcome my son. Now come, your mother has much for you to do."
Envy had stayed up well past dawn's first light listening to his mother's instructions. Though he hadn't slept in over twenty-four hours he didn't feel tired. He also didn't feel hungry. Absently he rubbed at his bare stomach, looking down as though it should offer up a reason for not having growled once in such a lengthy amount of time.
"There you are. I've been waiting for you to get your skinny ass outside for over an hour. What are you staring at your gut for?" Greed's irritatingly cocky voice cut through all of the boy's musings, drawing him reluctantly back to the outside world.
"I'm not hungry." He stated plainly, then glared at the smirking shark's mouth.
"Of course not! You're a Homunculus now little one. You can eat if you want to, but you don't need to." Greed's amused voice changed suddenly to an angry growling tone. "You do need to get your butt outside though. It's about time you learned how to fight with your newfound strength."
"And who is going to teach me ah?" Violet eyes narrowed dangerously. "I all ready know how to kill."
"That may be so, however you don't know how to fight should your prey be stronger than expected. Not everyone in the world is a weakling Envy." He sneered at the boy's scowl. "And I will be the one indulging in the pleasures of kicking your little ass all over the yard."
"Hah! You wish bastard." Envy's scowl deepened as he stalked past the taller sin, heading for the expanse of green field behind the large manor. Greed adjusted his sharp smile into a broad grin and followed the smaller figure, enjoying the view of Envy's skirted backside swaying faintly as the boy walked.
Outside in the sunlight, Envy finally got the chance to really take in his opponent's appearance. Greed was tall, a lot taller than the sin should have been allowed to be in his opinion. Spiky brown hair mirrored that damn jagged grin perfectly, a pair of reflective black sunshades settled between the rows of points on Greed's thick nose. The guy had a sturdy neck and a broad chest, certainly capable of packing power, and those arms looked pretty strong too. If the boy could find anything to stroke his own ego against it would be Greed's clothing. True enough he had to wear clothes that only made it that much harder to tell his gender from a distance, or up close, but Greed's tight leather and feather get up was downright laughable. Envy settled for an amused smirk.
"Say Greed? I never knew you borrowed your fashion sense from chickens." Taunting at the other, Envy slid his feet across the grass, crouching low while balling his fists at his sides. He caught the faint twitch in that glinting smile and broadened his own smirk in response.
"If that's the best you can throw at someone Envy then you'll have your ass handed to you by every opponent you face." Greed chuckled, watching the boy shift and charge forward. He readied his own defensive stance, leaning backwards to avoid the lithe form's initial attack.
Their bodies danced across the grass, the smaller of the two leaping wildly, arms and legs lashing out with powerful, but unfocused attacks. The target was hardly ever struck and even when a blow did connect it was batted away easily. Envy's rage began to fester as he continued to strike out in vain. Why his attacks were having no effect was infuriatingly mysterious to him. That is until Greed's fist came crashing into his stomach. He was hefted off the ground by the blow, his eyes opening wide in shock and pain. A sharp cough threw spit and a tinge of blood onto the tip of Greed's shiny left boot.
"Aww you got my shoe dirty little one." Greed tsked mockingly and lifted the boy off his fist by the hair. Envy growled in response, clawing at his hand while he just smirked. "You see? You need to be taught properly." He dropped the lithe form, slamming his knee into the boy's side knocking him backwards.
Envy stumbled, desperate to not fall in front of his attacker. He set his jaw, snarling as he ran back to meet Greed's oncoming rush. He twisted backwards when the sin's thick arm caught him under the jaw, tugging his body against Greed's chest while his neck was squeezed painfully in the iron like vice of the sin's arm. Struggling and gasping, he clawed at the flesh, rending it with his nails while his eyes bulged from the need to breathe. Greed's grip tightened even as he tore through the flesh, tendrils of blood spilling over his quaking hands while his feet kicked uselessly above the grass.
"You have much to learn my little one. I'll be teaching you everything from now on, my Envy." Greed's words were hissed softly into his ear. He tried to growl, or swear, but all he couldn't find the air required to make any sound. His dark pupils dilated wide, staring up at Greed's wickedly sharp smile. The taller sin tilted his head, allowing those dark shades to slip enough that his steely violet eyes could peer straight into Envy's own. The sadistic glint in the sin's eyes brightened as the two stared at one another. Greed's voice took on a dark edge Envy hadn't ever wanted to hear, one that sounded almost aroused, though venomously dangerous at the same time. "Oooh I like those eyes! Yeah that's more like it! Show me everything inside you Envy, my little bitch."
Somewhere under all the pain and panic, he found the rage bubbling and spitting within. Fury at his situation, at Greed, at himself for allowing his body to be trapped like this, all sent it surging out. One of his hands grasped at Greed's arm, squeezing with a strength he had never before possessed. As black clouds began to seep over his vision, he caught a glimpse of Greed's face grimacing, then he heard twin agonizingly sharp snaps and everything went dark.
When he eventually came to, he stared up at the sky in utter confusion. Hadn't his spine been broken just below his skull? Frowning groggily he silently cursed Greed. He blinked, coming out of his daze in a cold shock to find that he was naked from the waist down and something very sharp was stroking his bare hips. He slowly gazed down, his pupils dilating again at the sight of Greed's talon claws raking over his nude skin. He watched, fascinated and horrified as his flesh tore painfully, bled and then healed as though nothing had touched it. So he really did have some kind of immortality, well that explained his neck.
"What the hell are you doing?" He hissed at the other sin, who was frighteningly lacking in clothing as well. He blinked, watching Greed's dark claws dance over his flaccid shaft, scratching a thin scarlet line down the pale skin that quickly healed.
"You lost to me bitch. Now you have to pay the piper." Chuckling, Greed sat up and loomed over the startled sin, catching Envy's wild punches in unyielding fists. He crushed the fragile bones, enjoying the screech he wrenched form the boy as he slammed the mangled limbs into the grass above Envy's head. He smirked, letting the bones heal before snapping them again. Using his other hand, he lifted the boy's right leg, setting it against his hip while nudging his thick erection against shuddering cheeks. His eyes peered hungrily over the rims of his glasses at the other sin, wallowing in the fearful look he had seen before, it was all encompassing to him. The pain and terror and hate mingled in that wide-eyed gaze drowned him in pleasure. He slid in, plundering the tensed body beneath his larger frame, relishing the agonized scream that tore from Envy's throat as he brutally rocked his hips back and forth, using blood and torn flesh as a lubricant to speed his thrusts.
Again he clenched his talon, crushing the bones of Envy's trapped wrists and grinding them into one another, the friction of the splinters adding to the pain blaring through the boy's lithe body. Envy trembled, screaming his pain to uncaring trees and clouds, the world moving peacefully about its own affairs while his pained body was savagely desecrated. Eventually Greed climaxed, spilling sticky wetness inside of him before pulling away with a contented sigh and a lopsided fangy smirk.
As Envy felt his body healing, his face contorted with a furious rage. He scrambled to his feet and slapped the smirk right off of Greed's face, or at least he tried. The taller sin caught his wrist again and twisted it, forcing the boy down for a dominating kiss. His lip healed, but the blood stain on his formerly wounded mouth remained. Wrenching away, he stormed back for the house, intent on ignoring Greed's taunting calls about another lesson tomorrow. He really hated that bastard.
"I'll show him! I need more stones, then I'll show him!" He seethed darkly, glaring into the mirror in his room while fixing his tangled hair. "No matter how many years it takes, I'll make him pay for this!"
To Be Continued
As Envy would say, "Yippy!" I finally got the first one finished! Expect the next chapter to be more on track with the entrance of the police forces special Alchemist Unit. There will obviously be a time lapse as well since this entire chapter happened a few centuries before Ed was even born. From here on out you can think of the Homunculus as ancient monsters, which is what they are anyway ne? Review if you wish.