This is a gift fic for the 100th reviewer of my crossover fic, Unusual Arrangement of Harry Potter and Full Metal Alchemist!
A challenge, of Homunculus!Al, with which I used my own theory of using Al and a homunculus together! Aheheh...
I'm not really sure how it will turn out... Some things just seem too ... ... made up. But, oh well.
Will be about ... either a twosome fic, or a threesome, with an epilogue... Yeah, it'll prolly be a three-chap fic.
Ah, warnings! Lots and LOTS of warnings!
This fic follows the Manga. Not the Anime.
This fic follows an event that happened recently in the Manga, so there will be lots and LOTs of spoilers. Actually, it starts with a spoiler, since I took out the scene from the Manga.
There might be holes, though I can't see them... right now.
It's not really ... Pride!Al ... but it's more like Al!Pride.
May be crappy.
Enjoy!
"Don't ever mock my son," growled Hohenheim, as the great thick mounds of earth wrapped over the two beings in the middle.
"Wha-" Pride didn't have time to react quickly enough, as the mounds started to take shape, covering down at him and sealing him off from sources of light.
"Hohenheim!!!!!" Pride extended one branch of his power, headed straight towards the man, trying to stop him from trapping the sin.
The dome was completed, and Pride, in the darkness, felt his powers retreat into his human form.
"Complete darkness…" Pride hit the wall with his fist. "Damn you, Hohenheim…"
"Hahahah!! All according to plan!" A voice rang through the darkness. Was it the armor? "Now you can't use your powers."
"Is that your voice, Alphonse Elric?" Pride turned around, trying to smell the faint, cool iron and dried blood. "He trapped you too?"
"I hardly think you should be laughing," He snapped, turning back as he found where it was standing. He groped around the wall, trying to find even the smallest of cracks.
None.
"The moment you try to escape, I'll send my shadow out through the crack, and-"
"I never intended to try to escape," interrupted Alphonse, "let's see which one of us is more patient, Selim… My body doesn't require food, water, or even air."
Pride gritted his teeth as it dawned on him that Elric was right. Alphonse plopped down, crossing his legs.
"You and I are going to remain here until the 'Promised Day' passes us by."
"You are forgetting, Alphonse Elric, that I still have my human body," said Pride, turning away from the wall and advancing towards the armor. "I'll wipe off your blood seal."
"You can try, shorty," Pride could hear the clankering of the armor as it rose up again. "I can just stand."
In a matter of seconds, Pride had run up the bent knee of the armor, twisting his body as he entered the hole above, into the metallic body of Alphonse Elric. Putting his thumb right next to the blood seal, Pride smelt the dried blood, somehow, quiver.
"Ah!!" Al's hands went up in panic, trying to get the small body out of his. Having someone in his armor brought up disturbing memories.
"You were saying, youngling?" came the smug retort from right next to his blood seal. Alphonse couldn't believe he'd just do what he'd been reproached innumerably by Izumi: underestimating an opponent. It was always Edward who did that, not him.
"Get off!!" He yelled, trying to put his hands into the hole above his head. The stiff armor joints prevented the arms from going any further than the top few inches.
"Open the wall up!!" came Pride's yell from inside.
"No!!" Alphonse started to run around, trying to shake off the creature. Pride hung onto the edge for dear life, his thumb still next to the seal.
"OPEN IT!!"
"Not until the 'Promised Day' is-!!"
"Damn it-!!"
Alphonse started unclasping the front plate, still running, when Pride lost his grip.
"HaAck!"
The armor fell into a heap, both Pride and Elric screaming and gasping in pain.
"What the hell is this?!" Pride looked down at his hand, where he could only see darkness.
"What the hell did you do?!" Elric started to shake the whole body, trying everything, twisting the arms of the armor in impossible ways to get rid of the Sin at its back. Pride lost his hand again, his fingers brushing the rotting blood. "HaaAAH!!"
"Get OFF!!"
Alphonse started rolling, trying to squish Pride under its steel weight.
"Get OFF me!!"
Pride finally lost all of his grasp, and the he felt- he smelt – his hand wipe off the blood seal.
"HwaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"
Now as this story seems to go to somewhere very… ambiguous, let us look at how this is happening.
Pride, a.k.a. Selim Bradley, is a homunculus. A homunculus is an artificial human that runs with the power of a philosopher's stone as its main power source.
Alphonse Elric is a soul encased in armor, where its mind and soul is affixed on an iron body with the help of the blood seal.
In theory, a human body consists of body, mind and soul.
In theory, without one, none of the others should exist, and in theory, if it does exist, one or two of these components attract the other, but are defective in the end.
The homunculi and Alphonse Elric, however, are something similar to an exception.
The homunculi have bodies. Like Lust, it can be their original body with which they could change it however it suits and fits their power, like Greed. Like Envy and Pride, the body may have yet another original body, in which they may retreat to or spread out from.
They have their own minds, even Gluttony. They are seen to make their own decisions, like Greed, although they usually follow unanimously the orders of their creator – 'Father'.
The only thing they are missing … are the souls. The bodies, implanted with a mind, need a soul to function. In which comes in the philosopher's stone. The philosopher's stone, made from thousands and thousands of souls of human kind, it provides the necessary energy to keep the mind and body together. But since it is the soul of many people put together in a mass of raw energy, and since the artificial soul, unlike when a baby is born, does not exactly fit with either the mind or the body. Therefore it is incomplete.
Alphonse Elric, a soul connected with the mind, which Edward Elric sacrificed his right arm to bring back, does not have the body to hold it together with. Connecting the information of the soul with the blood of his sibling, to the iron of the blood and the iron of the armor, Alphonse Elric exists. However, even though faintly, Alphonse's soul recognizes that the blood that connects it with the body is not the original body's blood, and that it's already dead. Dried.
And since Alphonse Elric's body is at the gate, the soul and mind searches for a vacant body most similar to its own.
Alphonse Elric's body, when taken away, was around ten. About five years have passed.
Selim Bradley, Pride's container and root, remains at the age around twelve.
Alphonse Elric has a soul and a mind, but not a body.
Pride has a body and mind, but no soul.
The two mass of energy attracts each other, but the reaction only took place when there was a physical contact.
Not when Lust snapped the seal of the Elder Brother of prisoner 48, in which she used her elongated finger.
Not when Pride took control of Alphonse's armored body with his shadows by covering the seal.
Now, when Pride's human body, its original body where the shadow emanates and retreats to, has made contact with the blood seal in a primary contact.
It processed a human… with a homunculus' body… and two minds.
Neither the sin nor the sinner knew how much time had passed.
"Gah!! UAAAH!!" Alphonse woke up, the still darkness around him almost accentuating his fear. He felt around the area, but all he could feel were the cold surfaces of his armor.
"What-Huwah!" Alphonse jerked in surprise as the other voice suddenly appeared. "The Hell happened?!"
Alphonse looked around, then smacked his head for being an idiot.
No light.
No way to see.
He tried touching around, since that was about all his unfeeling armor could…
Since when could he feel the inside of his armor?
Actually, since when-
"Argh!!" came Pride's voice … from somewhere. "What the hell?! Why am I moving?!"
Alphonse was momentarily confused where he was hearing the voice, when it dawned on him.
"PRIDE?!" he yelled, his voice ringing in the armor. "What are you doing in my body?!"
Al felt a stab in his head. So he was there.
"Speak for yourself!!" yelled Pride, his voice ringing in the darkness within his mind. "YOU are in MY body!!"
Alphonse had yet another epiphany. He was in a body! He could feel things. The cold armor, the wet patches in the dirt…
"What-what happened?!"
After a few rounds of changing control (more like Alphonse taking and giving away the control) of the body, Alphonse found out that he was, indeed, in the same body as Pride, with the same hair, same cold skin, same facial features… as Selim Bradley.
"It seems we've… merged…?" suggested Pride, scowling as Alphonse took control once again.
"This doesn't make any sense!!" yelled Alphonse into the darkness. He looked back in his mind, at Pride, who was brooding, sitting in a self-made corner. "You're not the only homunculus that touched me before!!"
Alphonse allowed the body to sleep, before stomping around his mind, searching the file cabinets that he made appear spontaneously, looking, searching for an answer from his memory.
"You even touched my blood seal before!!!" Al yelled, throwing another 'file' on what he knew on Human Alchemy onto the 'pile'. "Why now?!"
"Don't ask me!! I don't know!!" Pride was sitting just a few ways away, clutching at his head. Even in mind Pride seemed to look like Selim, either by his effect of never seeing Pride's real form, or because of Pride's own preference and influence on Al's mind.
Al scowled, got 'up', and 'kicked' the 'pile' of knowledge 'in front' of him in frustration. "You lived for more than centuries; you can't not know these things!!"
"Will you shut up?!"
"You shut up!!"
"I need to think, damn it!!"
"I can not believe-!!"
"Al!!"
Alphonse's mind quickly dove for the body's control, waking it and making it crawl to the nearest wall.
Edward's voice. How long since he'd last heard?
"Alphonse!! I know it's after the Promised Day, but-!!"
Had it really been that long?
"Brother?!" Al yelled, hitting the earthen wall with his … Selim's, small fists. "Ed?"
"I'm going to come back later," said the faint voice of Ed, Al dimly realized that Ed must be using a microphone of sorts if he could hear his brother through such thick walls. "I can't talk for long, the homunculi are angry!!"
The homunculi are still there? Wait, out there?! "Brother, wait!!"
"I don't like leaving you here like this, but-ARGH!!"
"ED?!" Al's… Selim's fists pounded for all it's worth on the walls. "Ed!!!"
It felt like he was hitting the floor. Changing tactics, Alphonse started clawing the wall. Never mind that he and his father had designed it to withstand a child's scraping.
"Damn it-ah!!" He felt his wounds – broken fingernails – get fixed alchemically, momentarily lightening up the dark dome. He faintly saw the crumpled armor, where it was just… there, like a random object out of a horror movie.
"It would be easier of you transmuted a hole in it," said Pride from his mind.
"So you'll escape? Never!"
"You have the control of the body," Pride shrugged, "I can only do so much."
"I've seen Greed and Ling," snapped Alphonse, forgetting for a moment that he could, at any time, take back control without much difficulty. "You could just seep out any time! You just want out of here!! We're not leaving before everything is over!!"
"Damn it…" Pride bristled. "your brother could be in danger!"
Al was too focused on clawing at the wall to fall for it at that point. "He better not!"
"Argh! Damn it, human!" Pride yelled, and 'jumped' over at Alphonse, hands outstretched to strangle the other ego. "Give me that!"
Selim's body crumpled down as two minds controlled over the body.
"You might have the power to control the shadows," said Alphonse, sending 'a kick' at Pride's face, throwing 'the boy' onto the far side, where he made appear a cage to lock it in. "But in my mind, where there's no real source of light, you're just Selim Bradley."
"When we get out of here…" Pride turned from Selim to a mass or shadows and back to Selim, obviously unsettled by the fact that he was caged in like an animal.
Alphonse glared at the sin, then let the body return to digging. "Who says I'm going to let you have control?"
After a while – an hour, minutes, days, whatever – when Alphonse was on the verge of giving up, he heard Ed's voice once again.
"Alphonse?" It was tired, tight with pain, but to Alphonse it showed that Edward indeed came back when everything was over. Right after everything had ended. Safely.
"Ed?" Al asked tentatively. "Is that you?"
"Yeah… it's… they're all gone now…" Al could almost hear Edward gasp in pain. "I need to get you out-"
Alphonse blanched. If Edward saw him like this-
"Don't! Pride-"
"Don't worry, I have a flash bang."
"No, I mean-"
The wall exploded with a bang, and before Al could react, a blinding flash exploded. Instinctively closing his eyes, Alphonse only felt a stab at the back of his neck, making him kneel and fall slowly into unconsciousness (Pride wanted to take control as he did but fell unconscious with him).
Before his vision dimmed, he sorely saw the light fading, and blue military soldiers running into the dome, where Ed's uncertain… worried… scared voice rang out.
"Al? Alphonse?"
Everything went black.
... One.
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