A.N.: Hello All! This is Arrow and I know that a lot of you are mad at me because I haven't updated in a while. I will be updating Banishment and Friendship soon, as soon as the plot line starts cooperating with me. Anyway, to tide you all over, I wrote a Fullmetal Alchemist fanfiction. To explain a part of it, it is based on a fanmade Chinese video game in which Alphonse unwittingly turns Ed into a homunculus that is named Pride. This story is basically my take on why the homunculi are evil. Please enjoy and thank you to anyone who read this rambling author's note.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the plot and ideas presented. The characters are not mine (insert depressed face here).
Protection
Envy looked around. It was nearly midnight and his brothers and sister were sleeping. Lust lay on her divan with Gluttony at her feet. Greed was curled up on the floor with a blanket. The older homunculus turned his gaze to the bed where Wrath was snuggled into Pride's side.
Pride. Formerly known as Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist. His younger brother, Alphonse, had unknowingly transformed his brother into a homunculus after Ed had died to gain Al's body back. When Pride had woken he had no memory. Envy found him and instinctually understood what had happened. So, taking the boy by the hand, Envy led the new homunculus to his home. After explaining to the other's what had happened, Elric was accepted into their family and given the name Pride.
Lust had doted on both Pride and Wrath, giving them a mother's love. While the alchemists believed that homunculi had no feelings or a sense of humanity, it was just the opposite. They could not be as close as they were unless they had feelings. Lust was the loving mother and Envy the protective father. The other sins were their children.
Envy refused to show his compassion and caring outside their home. He cared for them and that was why he fought. He gave up his sense of humanity because he refused to give up anyone that he cared about.
Envy walked over to the bed and sat on the edge looking at the newest addition to his family. Was all of this worth it? Was it worth the loss of his humanity and the embrace of violence? Wrath started to whimper and Pride absentmindedly began to stroke the boy's hair. Envy smiled as Wrath calmed and lay down on the bed. Pride unconsciously moved closer to him. As he pet his newest brother he realized that yes, to protect his family, anything was worth it.
"I promise all of you, nothing will ever hurt you. Not while I'm around." With that, he drifted off to sleep, curled protectively around Pride and Wrath. He never saw Lust wake up and listen to his promise. She smiled.
"We all know it, Envy. We all know." She went back to sleep, thinking how lucky she was to have Envy and the others as her family.
Arrow: Alright, please review or private message me and let me know what you think. This is the first in a series of one shots I have planned. Any questions or concerns about anything in the story let me know and I will try to make it clearer for you. Flames are discouraged but if they are received I can assure you that they will be completely ignored; if they are very bad or cruel I may just pm the one who left it and confront them about it.
As I said I am working on Banishment so the next chapter will be up ASAP. I apologize sincerely for the delay and thank you to all the wonderful reviewers and commentators for the advice and encouragement on that story. As soon as it cooperates with me I will post the next chapter.
Sorry for the long author's note and thank you to anyone who actually read the ramblings of a stressed teenager.