Author note : I am very sorry for I only just now noticed a one big mistake what I wrote. I meant to write only Führer and not put the name of King Bradley also because in this story Führer and King Bradley are two different persons! King Bradley is one of the warriors in the Seven Sins unit. I am really sorry for not realising my mistake… That's what you get when you wrote a story when you are really tired...
The Warrior
Chapter 2 : This is Envy
There were flames everywhere, growing bigger as a figure walked forward between those destroyed houses and the heat surrounded him, making it slightly hard to breath. His steps were calm, he was in no hurry even if the pieces of hot ash flied the air and burned small holes in his army suit.
Not a single soul that had lived a so called normal life could understand him. They would run away in panic, screaming and without mind of their own anymore they would do anything to get away from here. They couldn't enjoy this like he did. They didn't see what he saw, they didn't hear what he did, they couldn't find satisfaction of knowing that these flames were meant to kill.
"Those fools." The man whispered and raised his head, there couple of houses further were anymore no flames. He frowned, he had been given a mission to look for survivors but of course there were no any and it was not like this person called Envy would have practically even tried to look. He couldn't understand why they had given such a stupid task to him. Just a few more step and those annoying voices reached his ears again and the sound of fire started to fade away. Maybe he should turn around and walk those empty streets again, at least there no one could bother him.
"Envy! Did you find anyone?" A soldier shouted but Envy felt no need to reply to him and simply walked past him. He really was an idiot, if he would have found someone alive he would have brought that person with him because those were the orders.
Orders… How he hated those, he hated to be controlled. He hated to walk side by side with those disgusting men and that he had to listen them talk and see them run around trying to do something what he would already have finished doing. He hated everything about them.
The only thing in what he found pleasure in was killing. Hitting his opponents, cutting them, making them shout and beg for their lives. Their lives where his to take and he wouldn't ever show them any mercy as long as he lived, he was stronger than anyone else. He was better, stronger and so much more than what they could ever be! To have them be close enough to touch him was utterly repulsive. He wanted to smash every hand that reached toward him and he had done that many times already but not in the army. He had been told, he had been ordered to not harm the other soldiers. Why? They were useless, not even being able to do their job.
He only shook his head and just when he was about to head toward a car that he knew would take him where other's where a huge explosion shook the ground a little and lot of dirt and pieces of buildings hit his body, making him fall on the ground.
Envy's eyes flung open. He blinked once as his eyes saw a wooden roof on top of him and he could hear sounds of other people talking as also many other sounds. He could also feel a movement.
Damn it! He had been so bored that he had fallen asleep. He sat up and was greeted with a smile from the man from the opposite seat in this cabinet. Envy felt anger in his rise again as he watched Mustangs eyes and he knew that he found in amusing that Envy had fallen asleep in here.
"What is so funny?" Envy asked with a cold voice, he was starting to feel like Mustang enjoyed making him irritated.
"Oh nothing. It was just nice to see that even the Warriors sleep sometimes and even talk in their sleeps." Mustangs said and Envy's eyes got slightly wider for a segond before they narrowed.
"I do not talk in my sleeps." He snapped and Mustang only smiled little wider.
"Is that so?"
"Yes. Now shut the fuck up you piece of shit." Envy snapped and the language what he used made Mustangs other eye twitch. He knew full well that Envy was known to be bad from his mouth but there was just no way that he would tolerate with it. It was true that The Seven Sins unit had gotten many special privileges and it seemed that anything they did or said never seemed to bother the higher ups, they were almost like children without boundaries and many found it really wrong. Including Mustang himself. They were in the army nevertheless and army without boundaries and rules would be same as trying to sail with a ship what is full of holes.
"At least I am unsocial and that's not a way to speak to your superior." Mustang said, trying his best to keep calm. He would only worsen the situation if he let his tongue slip because he already knew that picking a fight with Envy would turn out to be ugly yet he still couldn't let himself to be insulted.
"Like the hell I would care about that." Envy said and snorted. "We only have to take orders from the top." Envy said and the look in his eyes made Mustang bit his teeth together hard.
That was true, Mustang had also given a small and insufficient report concerning the Seven Sins unit like everyone in lead and he remembered it very well. In that report was only given short explanation of some of their abilities as also their privileges. Mustang had found it very odd from the beginning and tried to find out more about them but he was immediately shut down and all his questions were forgotten.
Now that he thought about that he wanted to ask some questions from Envy but he was sure that it was pointless. Still this was a rare opportunity and maybe if Mustang could play his cards right he would get even a some kind of reply. It was worth the shot.
"I am aware of that, Envy but even I have to wonder… You and the other's from Seven Sins unit are clearly… capable and yet you are still stuck with us. Honestly I thought that you 'the warriors' would be send for different kind of missions than the rest of us." Mustangs spoke, swallowing his pride just enough that he could make it sound like he thought that Envy was better than many other's. That seemed to do the trick because he saw Envy's hand turn into fist and it was immediately clear for Mustang that he had hit the bulls eye right away.
"Like the hell I could understand it either! I shouldn't be here, not with any of you and yet I am. I could do this even alone." Envy hissed angrily and his eyes flashed as he watched the scenery that ran past their eyes.
Envy lowered his face just enough that his hair would cover his eyes and part of his face. He needed to calm down, his desire to kill was making the blood in his veins loud as water falling down from slope. The feeling of need and feeling of uneasiness was making his body restless and Envy felt like he wanted to say something but he didn't know what. Neither of his mind or his body seemed to listen at his will anymore so that he could get a grip from himself. Why did Mustangs words affect him like this? He couldn't understand it and the more he tried to think the more furious he got.
Envy wasn't sure but it seemed like Mustang was talking to him. Envy couldn't hear him thought, he had to shut everything away in order to calm down, calm his rage before he would kill that man. He was already tearing the seat with his other hand and he knew that if he would kill Mustang then this whole mission would fail. The Colonel was needed to lead his own men and Envy knew that killing such a man would get him in trouble with people that he didn't want to get angry at him. He had his reasons to obey but that was something that he would never reveal to a guy like this bastard.
"Envy?" Mustang called. Why wasn't Envy answering? Why had he fell so quiet suddenly Mustang wondered and he caught a glimpse of the other soldiers face he was about to call Envy's name again but suddenly the man stood quickly up and left the cabinet without saying a word, closing the door rather loudly.
Mustang didn't even realize first that the other had really left, it just seemed too weird. Really weird.
Now Mustang had gotten again more questions than answers. It wasn't difficult to understand that Envy hated to be in this mission with them, that he had realized earlier but the fact that Envy didn't seem to even want to be in the whole army made things seem that there was something about the Seven sins unit that wasn't meant for the wrong ears. Something really confidential that only the higher up knew. At least that was how Mustang had understood that Envy felt but he couldn't be sure but that he was sure about that he was now determined to know more. It wouldn't be easy thought but he was a patient man and when he set a goal for himself he would never stop half way.
Mustang sighed and looked at the time from his watch. Only few hours until they would arrive in their waypoint and from there they would start their long walking toward their destination.
"Risembool… I hope that it's not completely destroyed." Mustang said quietly to himself and decided to try take a small nap himself now that Envy was somewhere else for a while.
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Envy cursed under his breath as he closed the door behind him with a slam. Just being with that bastard Mustang in the same train was enough to irritate him more than having to write his damn reports. Why didn't they send Lust and Gluttony here with that bastard Mustang?
Envy needed a break, break from Mustang and all of those who now surrounded him. He knew that where ever he went in this fucking train there would be other soldiers playing cards, sleeping, eating and talking shit.
There was no place for him to hide, except one.
Envy walked to the end of this railroad car and when he opened the door and got to the joint that linked the two carriages together he climbed on top of the other one, wind throwing his hair in his face and making it annoying for him so he decided to use some string what he had in his pocked to tie his hair up.
Then he turned his head to watch the scenery around him and sighed. It was noisy up here but much better than inside there with all those men and their games.
After a while Envy realized that the sun would be setting again very soon so he took a good sitting position and just quietly let his eyes wonder to what he ever happened to see. It was wrong to say that he smiled, Envy never truly smiled. He smirked or grinned but never smiled but as Envy watched the horizon turn from blue to golden, from golden to slowly in so many colors of red his face changed. His eyes were no longer holding that look that terrified so many and his muscles relaxed, letting all that murderous atmosphere around him disappear. He almost looked calm and some would have said that looked beautiful.
If there was one thing that he could say that he felt even slight enjoyment, other than killing, it was this. Watching how the sun set down over those hills and trees, taking the light away and letting that always waiting darkness to rule over their lands for the lonely night.
Envy sighed again and then leaned to lie on his back, watching the last of those dark purple clouds above him fade away in darkness and if he would have gotten up and turned around he could have seen that his peace would soon be lost. A small town and its lights could be seen now and that was the last what many people in Amestris called 'friendly territory' around here. Sooner than they thought they would be face to face with their enemies again.
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I hope that you enjoyed the second chapter. Soon it's time for Envy and Ed to finally meet ;) I can't promise that it will happen in the next chapter thought because some things might happen to Envy before that. Please keep on reading and if you would be so kind as to review you could help me to write little faster. Positive comments always lift up writer's spirit!
PS. I have to admit that I took great pleasure in showing that even Envy could enjoy some beautiful thing is life, in this case the sun set. This mood in him will only last for a short moment but maybe in future he will find some other things also that he finds 'tolerable' ;)