Chapter Four
"Sir we have searched all warehouses and found nothing. Riza said. "Also there's only a handful of houses left." Breda joined.
"Okay we'll split into groups. Havoc, Hawkeye, Fuery, Breda and myself will inspect the house on the east side. Everyone else pair up and search the others." Mustang ordered.
"Can't we take a break, it's already turning night." Havoc whined and his collar was grabbed.
"If you want to wait while Fullmetal is molested, raped or killed be my guest, but I'm searching that goddamned house!" Mustang shoved him and got in the car to go to the house in question. Everyone else including Havoc piled in and they were off.
Meanwhile in the basement Ed was placed in the center of a transmutation circle. It looked like the one for human transmutation, but with the Ouroboros in the center as well and seven symbols of sin.
Joachim smiled and caressed Ed's cheek and hair, enjoying the feel of the soft texture. A sound from upstairs made him stop and a frown replaced the smile.
Mustang and gang swarmed inside the building and checked all the rooms. They entered a small dark room and Havoc turned on the light.
Mustangs eyes fell on a pair of wrist vices and ropes and he knew.
"Fullmetal is here somewhere!" He yelled.
"But the rooms are clear." Havoc said.
"The basement!" Riza yelled and they raced to the last door. With a kick it was broke down and they filed down the stairs.
There in the candle lit basement was the missing alchemist, naked and lying facing them on a transmutation circle and that sent a horrified chill down Mustangs body.
"Fullmetal!" Mustang yelled, running forward, but stopped when a man stepped from the darkness. He stood on the other side, behind Ed and crouched down.
"Stop it right there!" Riza yelled, raising her gun.
"No one is going to stop my experiment." The man smiled and Ed groaned, looking up.
"Mustang?" He questioned and before anyone could move Joachim activated the array.
Ed screamed and the group was pushed back by the swirling purple black energy.
"Edward!" Mustang yelled. 'Damn it! I can't get to him!'
"It's working! It's working!" Joachim cackled. Ed's screams stopped as did the light.
Everyone looked up, but couldn't see anything through the dust. Joachim laughed manically and moved to the from, facing them.
"I did it! I made the first live human homunculus!"
Mustangs eyes went wide and went to snap his fingers, but was stopped when a blade impaled the mad man from behind.
"What…are…you…doing?" Joachim rasped and in a quick move his head was severed from his body, blood gushing from the body as it fell.
Everyone stared in horror as the dust settled and out walked Edward who chuckled darkly.
He was no longer nude, instead he wore a black tank that went above his navel. Black ribbon like material was laced around his automail arm and black shorts that had the same ribbon covered his legs. Around his belly button was the Ouroboros with seven symbols of sin.
Mustang gasped and came to Ed's face. His hair was still blond, but with black streaks and blowing freely. Black vine like tendrils covered the right side of his face and neck and his eyes were the same golden, but with a purple ring around them.
"Fullmetal?" Mustang questioned. "Ed…Edward?" Fuery gulped.
"I am seven." Ed spat, his voice laced with venom. "I am all seven sins of humanity." With a clap he blasted a hole through the wall and ran off.
All were too shocked to speak or move and Edward escaped.
TBC
I forgot Armstrong. -_-