Disclaimer: I do not own Full Metal alchemist Brotherhood. If I did, Greed wouldn't have died...*sniff sniff*
Yumi groaned as she opened her eyes and found herself sitting in a room that looked like a basement with her hand behind her back. She could feel a cold metal object binding her hands and arms together and she assessed them to be chains. Though she could be wrong.
She glanced up to see a tall guy with spiky black hair who wore a pair of black sunglasses to cover his eyes standing before her. He had on a pair of black leather pants with the shoes to match, a dark brown t-shirt that didn't seem to have any sleeves and a dark green vest with some white fur along the collar of the unzipped vest.
She wasn't even sure if it could be zipped up or not. On the back of his hand he had a tattoo of the mark of Ouroboros.
When she had opened her eyes he was in the process of poking her. "Gha!" She growled out and kicked him in the head causing him to stumble back. "Personal space is very important to me." She said relatively calmly as she observed her surroundings. There were the three chimera's from before as well as one that seemed to have the tail, claws, and mentality of a lizard.
He chuckled as he stood up and cracked his neck to the side with a smirk on his face. "Am I supposed to be impressed?" She asked with pointed glare at him. "Why'd you kidnap me?" She questioned without giving him a chance to respond.
He laughed loudly. "I know what you're thinking and, no, I am not a chimera." He stated with a smirk.
"I never thought you were. You are nothing like any animal I've ever encountered in my life." She interrupted. "Which means, based on that tattoo of yours on the back of your hand you must be a homunculus." She said, though the surprise wasn't in her voice, her eyes widened slightly with each word she spoke.
I still have too long a life ahead to get rid of these feelings, right?
I want to try doing over all the things I've left undone.
I thought I was running after something carried over from my dreams,
Yet I'm stumbling into people on this narrow, winding road.
It's not like I want things to go back to the way things were back then,
I'm just searching for the sky I've been losing,
Here's hoping you'll understand,
Stop making that sad face as though you were a victim,
Sins don't end with tears, you have to carry the pain forever,
Who am I waiting for, in this maze of emotions with no way out in sight?
I want to purge myself more simply, as if writing in a blank notebook,
What is it i want to escape from?
...Is it reality?
It makes me want to scream that we're alive for things to come true. Can you hear me?
I can't put up with playing it safe...I've got nowhere to go home to,
I'm always grateful for kindness,
That's why I want to grow stronger,
( I'm on the way)
I even welcome this pain,
For the things I miss.
"Right. You can call me Greed. Let's try and get along." He said as he put one hand on his hip turned around to walk a safe distance away from her before turning back round to face her. 'That's why he looks so familiar! This is the doosh who was trying to get information out of the Fullmetal brat.'
She gritted her teeth together in anger. "Thanks, but no thanks. I have no interest in getting along with anyone. Especially someone like you!" She snapped sharply.
He smirked and walked over to her and knelt down in front of her. "And why is that?" He asked, causing shivers to go up and down her spin.
"PERSONAL SPACE! Have you never heard this word before!?" She yelled as she kicked him in the face again to the best of her abilities.
He chuckled as he stood up and cracked his neck. "You'll find that I don't bruise so easily, doll. If you're trying to hurt me. Then you're going to have to do something a little like-." He broke off as Roa chopped his head off with his hammer. Her eyes widened in surprise as he dropped to the floor.
"Uh... She said thoughtfully as she kept her eyes on his body, not even blinking. She was going to say something else but stopped when he slowly rose to his feet and wiped some blood from his mouth. He slowly cracked his neck back into place before turning to her.
"That's once that I've died now." He said with a smirk as he held up one finger.
She narrowed her eyes at him. "So what, you got nine lives?" She said sarcastically causing him to laugh.
"Onto the main question. How important do you suppose you are to Edward and Alphonse?"
She narrowed her eyes. "I'm not. Your note annoyed me. It had one serious error. I am not friends with those two children. I merely follow my orders from Colonel Mustang." She explained.
Greed narrowed his eyes. "We'll see how fast they come running. You see they call me Greed for a reason."
"Cause' your greedy as hell?" She guessed.
He nodded. "See, I'm Greed. I want everything you can think of. Money and women, power and SEX. I want everything this world's selling and eternity's topping the list!" Her eyes widened.
"You want to know how Ed did it." She whispered in disbelief.
He grinned. "Smart girl."
"What did you think I was some dumb blonde who got into the military by fluttering my eyelashes?" She retorted in anger before turning to Marta. "No offense to blondes, of course."
He laughed. "Feeling a bit touchy are we?" He said with a smirk.
"You have no idea." She retorted as she activated the transmutation circle she had been working on throughout the entire conversation causing the chain to melt into ashes. She winced as she rubbed her hands where the fire had scorched them before she ran forward.
Dolcetto lunged for her but she did a front flip over him, simply dodging his next attack before rolling to the side and squaring off against Roa. She shot her arms out to their full length, sending a earth fist out of the ground causing him to fall to the ground. She quickly ran past Mart, doing her best to dodge Marta's attack before she shot forward and punched the homunculus in the face.
She bit her lip from the pain that coursed through her as she heard her bones breaking before she jumped back a couple of feet.
"Tell me did you break four fingers, or five?" He questioned.
She held up her hand so that he could see two of her fingers were red and swollen. "Two fingers." She responded with a slight wince but merely bared with the pain as she balled her uninjured hand into a fist and in one swift movement pulled out her gun.
He let out a sigh. "Give me a break." He said as he shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. "Don't tell me you're going to try and start something. It's no fun fighting a woman." Her eye twitched slight before she pulled out a second gun and flipped them round so that she was holding them the correct way before she started to fire madly at him, her fingers moving rapidly with each passing second.
As she was doing so she used one foot to slowly start to draw a circle on the ground. A transmutation circle. By the time she was done she was breathing and panting heavily. She twirled the guns round before shoving them back into their places in her gun holders before she dropped to the ground and placed both hands on the circle.
Something big gray and stony shot out of the earth and wrapped around Greed. She wasted no time in sending a gray stone fist out of the earth. She decided to set the fist on fire at the last minute, for good measure, and quietly prayed that it did some damage.
She carefully placed the lock on her guns like she always did and rose to her feet before turning around. She froze when she heard mocking laughter echo in the room and spun around to see Greed shatter the stone into a million pieces, his hands now pitch black up to a few inches above his wrists. He laughed some more as he landed nimbly on his feet.
"I told you, I don't bruise so easily. Weren't you listening doll?" He said with a smirk. She narrowed her eyes in anger before carefully reaching for her guns. "Hey, I thought you guys took all her guns." Greed complained.
Thinking that he was distracted, Alice rushed forward to land a blow on the homunculus. She ducked down as she ran and rushed past him, before she dropped to the ground and spun around her heels and raised her guns to resume firing at him.
With one swift movement Greed knocked the guns from her hands. Alice narrowed her eyes before she gritted her teeth in anger. 'Shit. I'll never win if I keep up this pace.' She thought angrily to herself.
She quickly slipped her identical silver bracelets with the alchemic charms on them out from under her sleeves. On the bracelet on her left wrists there were three charms. One was purple and it looked kinda like that female sing with the 't' and the circle above it except it had a half 'u' that looked like a smile on the very top of the circle. Under the sign, in white letters was the word 'Mercury'. The next one was a red 'x' that had three red lines going through it. Underneath the x and lines in white letters was the word Copper. The last charm had a blue upside-down triangle and what look like a capital 'a' but with no line. Underneath spelled 'Arsenic'.
On the bracelet on her right wrist, three more charms dangled gently. One of them had a beautiful design of a gold circle and inside the gold circle was another gold circle, smaller this time and filled in. It had the label 'Gold.' on it. Next was a charm that had a dark red triangle with a straight line coming out of the bottom that was about two inches long and had a arrow going through it. It was labeled 'sulphur'. The last charm had a green backwards crescent moon and a circle that had a smaller filled in circle in the middle. It had label name 'Platinum.' under it.
She flexed her fingers outwards before shooting her arms outwards to full length and pressing her wrists together so that her hands pointed in opposite directions.
The light reflected on the charms and suddenly there was a big magenta colored beam of light.
Greed merely broke the several spikes that she had sent at him with his bare hands. Her eyes widened. He smirked before rushing forward in a blur. She blinked in shock before taking a step back but she was too slow. He grabbed her by the hair and slammed her head onto the ground.
"Ugh..." She groaned out in pain as her head was forced onto the ground. She felt herself being rising into the air and opened one eye to see that Greed was holding her up by the collar of her shirt.
"Are done playing games now?" She gritted her teeth as she tried her best to concentrate on something, anything that would help her in this fight. "This sort of thing isn't my style, but if you won't cooperate I won't have a choice." He said with a grin as she slammed her head against the wall causing black dots to cloud her vision.
"Not...again..." Was the last thing she said before everything went black once more.
Hey, do you remember the scarlet sky, the sky we saw on that day?
Making a promise, the early summer wind enveloped us; the two of us came closer together
Behind a forced smile, I harbor a grown shadow
So I pretend to not notice it and choose rebirth
I keep waiting for a notification that won't tremble on the table
And I knew about everything, the blank nights and the mornings that shouldn't come, too
Hey, I wonder if you did forget about the scarlet sky, the sky we saw on that day
The promise tore apart and vanished into the early summer wind; the two of us can't go back
In this room where sounds, colors, and temperatures are cut in half
After I mess it up today, too, I stagger, grow tired, and fall asleep
"Deceive me well, okay? I hate yet love lies" were your words
Nowadays, given how much those feelings hurt, we bid goodbye
We waved at each other, saying, "See you again someday," but we won't meet anymore, right?
The final lie was a tender lie; I won't forget about it
Hey, someday, will you recall the scarlet sky, the sky we saw on that day?
Embracing the promise we couldn't keep, the two of us start walking.
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I know, I keep making cliffhangers, but it is necessary. I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, constructive criticism is welcome, just no flames please. Let me know if I made Greed out of Character.
Review?
~Greed the Ultimate Shield.
