Chapter 4
The New Kid
The kid was eating away at the stones.
Envy speaks to him. "You like those, don't you? I have developed quite a taste for them myself. Would you like to know what they're made of?" The kid shows no responce. "Human lives." His eyes widen and he tries to cough them up.
"Hate? Will you take him from here?" Envy morphs and walks away.
I mutter something like "Ignorant...self serving...moronic..."
It's now that I realize the boy looking at me.
"My name's Hate." I say. "Would you like to come with me?"
He shakes his head. "No."
"All right."
Questions erupt out of him. "Who are you? What's going on?"
"I already told you. My name is Hate. You and me, we're the same. We're homunculi. Basically people die, and a special type of alchemy is attempted. Human alchemy. We're the result. We look human, but we're not. We have no souls."
He looks up at me. Suddenly his eyes change. They grow sharper and change color.
"You've realized your nature."
He nods. "Yep."
I stand. To tell the truth, I feel really bad about this. I walk to the wall and use alchemy to blow it open. The unnamed child and I leave. I head back to Dante's place.
**later**
"Hate! Come here!" Dante calls. I hate it when she calls me like a dog. "Now!" a very disobedient dog.
"What?" I ask.
"Take care of Wrath." She points to the child.
"Babysit?"
"Look, just make sure he doesn't burn the place down, okay?" She leaves me alone with him.
I look at him. For a second, he seems sweet and innocent. Then I realize, nobody's innocent.
"I want to kill her. I want to squeeze the life right out of her." He smiled as he said it.
I have no clue who he's talking about. "Yeah, well, I'm sorry but going on a homicidal rampage would be bad?" The way I say it makes it sound like a question.
"Bad?"
"Bad."
He laughs. Somehow he still has that essence of childlike innocence. Of course, there's a difference between innocence and ignorance. I sit on a chair.
"Is this as awkward for you as it is for me?"
Envy suddenly walks in. "And how's our newbie doing?" he asks me.
"Ask him yourself." I say.
"You seem to have taken a likeing to the clothes I wear." he pointed out. He picked up Wrath "What do you think, Hate, twins, or what?"
"No. He's cuter than you."
Wrath grins. "Mean!" Envy said.
"Yeah, no one ever said I was nice."
Wrath squirmed out of Envy's grasp and sat on the chair across from mine, mimicking my seating position, one leg crossed over the other. Envy just stared. I got up. So did Wrath. I began to walk away. He followed. Well, this was going to be fun.
AN: Thanks to Cursed Bunny, for the first review! (Technically the first three. . . ) Yes, the story chapters in this are pretty short, because I worte it awhile back. My writing style has changed a lot, for instance, I don't usually write in present tense. Yes, this is based off the 2003 characters, I wrote t before FMA Brotherhood. . . and I loved Envy! I cant explain why, I just admire the homunculi for wanting to be human while they're in truth, better.
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