Summary: Can a one boy melt a heart of a warrior that was created only to kill? Can a heart that no one has never touched, be changed?
Envy is a powerful soldier whose only job is to kill as many as possible. He sees other's only as nuisance and endure only his fellow comrades from so called Seven Sins unit what was created in order to win a war that is raging in Amestris. One day Envy get's a mission to go with some soldiers to a town that is lost to the enemy and get it back to be part of Amestris again. There he will meet a boy who will show him a completely new way of thinking and for some reason he saves the boy. If only Envy would have knew just what the boy will do in order to find him again and to be around him, trying to make him see thinks in colors instead of black and white and maybe even feel something.
Author note : If you don't like swearing, cursing, describes of death and blood and how people get hurt I apologise because here will probably be a lot of that kind of stuff in this story but there are also sweet and fluffy moments. I promise. I am also sorry for any grammar errors or other spelling or detail mistakes.
I also don't own the series of FMA or the characters.
For this first chapter I wanted to explain a lot about what is exactly going on in Amestris, the main things what you need to know and if you will find that the information is either confusing or incomplete then please just ask and we will see if it's something what I have forgotten to explain or if it will be explained in later chapters.
I want to thank everyone who have decided to check this story and I truly hope that you will like it. I would also like to say special thanks to icefrosty whose wonderful story HomUnculuS inspirited me to write again and gave me an idea what changed really many times until it turned into this story
The Warrior
Chapter 1 : The war and the Seven Sins unit
Amestris is on a war, in a great and horrible war what swallows more and more land every month and every year as it goes on. People in the cities and in the countryside are suffering everyday and trying to survive middle of the raging flames, bombing and attacks. The government has lost count of how much people have been killed and how many have gone missing and hospitals have a never ending line of patients and people sleeping in their corridors, praying endlessly for food to satisfy their hunger. Many have lost everything and those who still have something left are holding it like nothing else matters anymore. They see no reason for tomorrow but are still not willing to throw away their hope.
Many have also forgotten why this war even started but they still hate the government from the bottom of their hearts. Everywhere in the shadows and even in daylight are heard some words against those who hide behind their status and are able to eat and sleep peacefully. There were some who said with a serious face that it was Amestris what started the war by trying to take some land from Aerugo and then from Creta, not fully understanding the consequences and power those country could hold.
Victory was now only something what the government and army wants. Yes, indeed the great army of Amestris.
When Amestris was first being attacked people hardly noticed it in Central because they believed in their army. They thought that they were safe no matter what, they were foolish. They believed that their army was greater and more powerful than that power what reached from so far away and the uneasy feeling slowly started to take place in peoples heart as the armies attacked each other's over and over again. What a citizens thought that would soon be settled, turned out to be going out of control instead. Every day it could be heard from the radio, how more and more people were getting killed and the enemies where slowly getting closer to the central. Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months and moths turned to years and the war still wouldn't end. That uneasiness turned to fear and fear finally into terror and panic. Chaos filled the Central and so many other cities and towns in Amestris.
Connections were cut between different places and those few who managed to escape into central told how their homes were burned and how they could still hear all the screams in their head. It was becoming painfully clear that Amestris was slowly losing the war.
Then one day when the central of Amestris was attacked a group of unknown persons appeared middle of the battle field. No one knew who they were and where they come from but what the soldiers learned that day was their terrifying power and fighting skills. They were called The Seven Sins, as there were only seven of them and for unknown reasons they preferred to be called by the names of sins.
People in the battle ground that day were asked to describe it what they saw but for some reasons no one could really find words to tell exactly at what they saw. It was said that it was because they didn't really see anything because of the smoke what clouded the battlegrounds that day. The details didn't matter in the end even if many speculations were made. Only thing that mattered was that with the help of the Seven Sins unit the army started to win their battles again.
They were and still are a unit what holds power over every other soldier in the army and the citizens gave another name for the Seven Sins unit what the commoners used among each others. They were called in the streets by the name of The Warriors.
Everyone cheered when people were finally able to take a breath without inhaling smoke and a huge party was held that night but the 'heroes' of the fight, the Seven Sins, didn't want to take part of it. It's being told that when they heard that the party was held for them they only turned their backs with a faces full of disgust and walked away. Except one and when that person appeared in the party, the other army men asked. "Why didn't the other 6 come?" The one who appeared, the one named Greed, revealed his sharp fangs and his ametist eyes behind his sunglasses with a wicked smirk and sat down with a bottle of beer. Everyone fell silent as he spoke.
"They don't care about this party that's why. They also don't care about any of you so do yourself a favor and don't try to be their 'buddy' or anything. They won't hesitate to kill the enemy and they won't hesitate to kill you guys, they don't have those what you people call morals. They only have a mission and they will only think about fulfilling it. Sorry, WE have a mission and we only work in the same battle ground as you pieces of shit."
Of course it was understandable that when this person named Greed had finished at what he wanted to say, the other army soldiers started to be taken over by anger and maybe also fear. They couldn't believe that the leaders of the army, even the government and Führer King Bradley, were allowing such things. Killing your own comrades was indeed the biggest taboo and most horrible things to do among the army and now this person said that those who were meant to go in a battle with them had no intentions to even look in their way or protect them. It was a dreadful thought.
After that night the army was practically split into two, the regular army and the Seven Sins unit and those few who admired the Seven Sins unit so much that didn't really belong anywhere anymore.
Before the Seven Sins unit appeared, Amestris had already lost some of its lands and now that their army was again gained back its power the leaders had decided to take back what belonged to them. The government wanted back those lands and towns what made it possible to the enemy to sneak closer into Central. They couldn't allow that.
The army was split into very well calculated battalions and so were the Seven Sins unit. Each Battalion was given an exact piece of land to win back from the enemy's hold and the preparations where quickly made.
When it was finally time to the battalions to go to their different ways those who were normal soldiers kept thinking if the Seven Sins unit was still powerful when they were taken apart. Their superiors told them not to worry, one Warrior from those seven was all they needed. Only exceptions where that gorgeous lady in black and the fat guy who everyone were scared of. Those two where the only ones who were going together in their destination and again many things where whispered in the darkness.
As the train whistled as a sign of its departure, the soldiers kept looking out of the window. They were still nervous even if their lieutenant colonel Mustang had tried to calm them down many times. The soldiers kept still babbling nonsense anyway. How could they be calm when they knew just who they were going to travel with? They were actually starting to hope that there would be some last minute change of plan and they could get a different warrior. Mustang only shook his head and told his men to shut up and stop behaving like little children.
Mustang would never admit it out loud that even he himself was feeling nervous, especially since he was the one who had to share the cabinet with the guy. He turned his head to look out of the window and after a while a figure caught his eyes. There was no mistake about it.
There he was walking toward the train as the smoke gently played around him. His long dark hair with a hint of green in it was still shoving from under his military hat what hided his eyes. He seemed to be thinking something as he walked, taking his time and clearly ignoring the sound of the train. He scratched his neck and then wiped some dust away from his uniform just before he climbed in the train.
No one said anything to him as he walked past the soldiers to the first class and he neither said anything, he didn't even look at anyone. It was like they were just air around him, invisible. They knew that this man cared about them just as much as Lion would care about an insect.
As the door was opened and closed, Mustang raised his eyes and for his surprise met with those ametist eyes for a second. Neither of them said anything, it would have been pointless. This man was never in the mood for chatting and everything just seemed to irritate him.
Mustang saw him take his hat off and let that long hair of his fall fully down now as he sat down next to the window. His face what had just a second ago looked almost angry was now simply showing that he was already really bored. He took off his white gloves and opened his uniform, looking again irritated. For some reason he seemed to really dislike those clothes that he was wearing.
Mustang sighed, this was going to be a really long ride and he doubted that he would get his much needed rest.
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I hope that you liked the story so far and would be so kind to review, please? I hope there wasn't many bad mistakes and errors. I am truly trying to get better so that you who are so wonderful as to read my stories would enjoy them.
Now I really must go to bed… I was so excited that I wrote this the whole evening. Good night to those who will also go to sleep and good morning to those who already are ready for a new day.