Ace: Well, hello again everyone!!!! Since lots of people seemed to love Sorrow, I decided to get in on the action again since Sorrow was ready to move on to the next world. Her plot bunny was kind enough to become a zombie for everyone, so you all should be grateful.
Envy: Should be, but we're not, so get on with everything, would you?
Ace: *sniffle* Yeah...
Disclaimer: I do not own Full Metal Alchemist. I do not own anything else other than this particular plot bunny. I do, however, own my pants. They're really nice pants. :)
Prologue: Death and Rebirth
I didn't mean to do it. Well, not exactly at any rate. But it didn't matter to Father and the other homunculi. I had nothing to really do with it. Well, that was a lie. But I really didn't wake up that morning wanting to get in trouble yet again! Really, I didn't!
Of course, none of that mattered to Lust. As spokesperson for the homunculi, her word carried the most weight with Father, seconded only by Envy and Pride. Next was Wrath, a former human, Gluttony,who was always content to follow Lust's lead, and finally Sloth, who rarely did have anything to say.
And so I was dragged, kicking and screaming, by Wrath and Lust to stand before Father. I stiffened when I saw him, my competitor for ruler of the world. "Greed," he said slowly.
"Father," I spat, squirming in Wrath's death grip. "Let me go, you old bastard!"
"I'm sorry," he sneered, twisting my arm painfully behind me, "What was that you said? I'm rather hard of hearing."
"I said 'Let me go, you old-'"
"Greed." I glared at Envy, who'd stepped in on my behalf. He was the only homunculus who seemed to not hate me, but I wasn't fond of him. All he was to me was a homicidal gender-confused cross-dressing palm tree.
"Don't intervene for me, you son of a bitch!"
He raised an eyebrow lazily. "Are you calling Father a bitch?"
"I think I just did, you-"
"Enough, Greed, Envy. Wrath, loosen up on him. Lust, you and Pride take Gluttony out to take care of a few loose ends."
"Yes, Father," they all murmured, obedient as puppies as they hurried to obey his orders. My face twisted. Their loyalty sickened me, sickened me far worse than the horrors they'd done to the poor people who had been experimented on in Lab 5. I'd taken them in because I thought they deserved a second chance at life, and now they were all likely to be hunted down and murdered by my traitorous family, of which I swore out of. I wasn't part of them anymore. Not by blood, since I didn't have any, and I had no desire to be part of it by choice.
"Greed, I have ignored your rebellion because I thought it best for you to remain solitary, but this time, you've gone too far. You destroyed an entire laboratory and even marred the various tunnels for the transmutation circle. Explain yourself."
I glared at Father, inclining my head, shaking out my collar, and removing my sunglasses. "There's nothing to explain. I trashed your precious Lab 5 and set back construction on the tunnels for months. My motives were anger and greed, pure and simple. I don't care what you do to punish me at this point."
"Greed," he sighed, shaking his head. "Sometimes I think you have a little too much of myself inside of you."
I bared my teeth. "I am nothing like you. Nothing!"
"I think it's time we started over, Greed."
Not this again. "You're kidding, right? You've done this hundreds of times now, and it still hasn't done a thing for me. I do something bad, you get put out with me, you dunk me, and we end up doing everything all over again."
"Oh? Then I think it's time we changed things up a bit when you come back." With that, he opened up the hole in the floor into the boiling cauldron below. I cussed him out loudly as I fell, hating the fact that no matter how many times I would end up in here throughout my many lives, I never could quite remember exactly where it was. Ironic. I hit the liquid and felt a splash of pain as my Philospher's Stone, my source of life, rejoined Father as I died. Luckily, or not so luckily, depending on your perspective, I did not remain there for long before I was spat out into the world again, and reborn as a different Greed than any of my other previous incarnations beforehand.
Ace: Ooooooh, cliffhanger!
Envy: Not really. If they read the summery or the title, they'd be able to figure out what happens next. You aren't really all that original, Ace.
Ace: *glare* Shut up now, En, or I'm gonna have to get the garden shears.
Envy: *pales* Not the garden shears.
Ace: YES, THE GARDEN SHEARS! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
Envy: *screams like a little girl*
Ace: Now I just have to FIND the garden shears.... Maybe a review or two or ten will help me search...
