CHAPTER 3.
"Did you get the inf...?" "Don't worry about it, I did my job." Envy assured. "I guess now we need to gain a little more of her trust for the job, hoju?" questioned a rather mysterious voice that bellowed in the darkness.
"Now this shouldn't be a problem then. Are you sure you can handle this?" The voice echoed out.
"We homunculi can't take the risk..." "Lust, can I eat her afterwards?" cried a growling voice, filled with hunger.
"No, no, gluttony. We need her." Lust had stated with no willing surprise as she walked off in the darkness.
The next Ayase woke up to notice Edward standing beside her with a note in his hand. The note was written by hoju (Edward didn't know envy's real name) and the note insisted that Ayase was to meet him at the park that was only a few blocks away from healing quarters. Therefore, with Ed's and the doctor's permission, if nothing else, Ayase got dressed and headed for the park.
When she arrived, she waited and realized Hoju is a little late today and Ayase decided to take it upon herself to buy him a soda. When she arrived at the vending machine and had purchase two orange sodas for the both of them, and Hoju leaped from behind and gave her a hug that nearly spilled the drinks.
"...Hoju!" she shrieked in a startled tone.
"Oops, sorry about that. I'm so happy you could make it." He apologized for scaring her.
Ayase looked at him again. His purple eyes and comforting smile pleased her so. Only this time he was wearing a plain white t-shirt with a black leather jacket over top. He wore the same hat as yesterday and dark jeans that were torn at the knee. And this time his long green hair was down and flailed around his shoulders. As sultry as he appeared to her, she snapped out of it.
"Is that for me?" Hoju asked "Oh, yes...of course." Ayase assured him, she took her eyes off him and handed him his drink.
When they finished their drinks, Ayase was happy to hear Hoju offer for her to go to his place. Knowing that she has plenty of time today, she went with him a mile east to and old, run-down, mansion that was located in an underground city below central.
"What is this place?" Ayase asked.
"This is where a couple of friends and I live." He stated.
"Live?" Ayase was captured by the beauty of the mansion, even though where it was located was somewhat cruddy.
"Ayase...I'd like you to meet lust, gluttony, and wrath!" Hoju introduced them to her, who intern, wasn't paying much attention at the time.
"uh...wha...?" "Bam!" "And just like, huh. Seems a little too easy." Replied lust, which was starring down at an unconscious child. (Ayase)
"Tch...what would you expect? She's just a human girl..." "No, she isn't..." lust replied, eyes wide, glaring at Ayase. She noticed that something different about her that separates her from a normal human or alchemist. Wrath, who was a little shaken from lust's remark, looked at Ayase as well.
"Brother..." al said to Edward with great concern.
"I know al" Ed had replied. He walked up to the nightstand by the window and picked up the note Ayase had received earlier.
"If Ayase and that Hoju guy went to the park, then they should have returned by now." Ed stated.
"Maybe they went somewhere else too." Al insisted with a positive note. "And even if, where would they go?" "Let's go al!' Edward commanded.
"Where Ed...?" "The park!" Ayase should have been back hours ago. What if something happened and we weren't there to stop it?" Ed started to get frustrated with himself and showed great concern. Al had already headed out to find mustang and to gather the recruits and prepare for the worst. Edward didn"t know this and started to search for mustang himself.
"Knock, knock, knock, knock." Ed opened the door to Bradley's office and noticed behind the bookcase was an elevator that appeared to have been used not to long ago. Experiences led Edward to believe that the elevator lead to the underground city.
"The underground city," Edward tried to remember all the events that took place there.
"the fight...military officials...my death...al. So if Hoju brought Ayase tot the underground city, then Hoju is...envy, my brother." "Long lost but never forgotten. A far but not to distant memory" Ed said to himself and boarded the operating shaft and headed towards the old mansion.
"Did you get the inf...?" "Don't worry about it, I did my job." Envy assured. "I guess now we need to gain a little more of her trust for the job, hoju?" questioned a rather mysterious voice that bellowed in the darkness.
"Now this shouldn't be a problem then. Are you sure you can handle this?" The voice echoed out.
"We homunculi can't take the risk..." "Lust, can I eat her afterwards?" cried a growling voice, filled with hunger.
"No, no, gluttony. We need her." Lust had stated with no willing surprise as she walked off in the darkness.
The next Ayase woke up to notice Edward standing beside her with a note in his hand. The note was written by hoju (Edward didn't know envy's real name) and the note insisted that Ayase was to meet him at the park that was only a few blocks away from healing quarters. Therefore, with Ed's and the doctor's permission, if nothing else, Ayase got dressed and headed for the park.
When she arrived, she waited and realized Hoju is a little late today and Ayase decided to take it upon herself to buy him a soda. When she arrived at the vending machine and had purchase two orange sodas for the both of them, and Hoju leaped from behind and gave her a hug that nearly spilled the drinks.
"...Hoju!" she shrieked in a startled tone.
"Oops, sorry about that. I'm so happy you could make it." He apologized for scaring her.
Ayase looked at him again. His purple eyes and comforting smile pleased her so. Only this time he was wearing a plain white t-shirt with a black leather jacket over top. He wore the same hat as yesterday and dark jeans that were torn at the knee. And this time his long green hair was down and flailed around his shoulders. As sultry as he appeared to her, she snapped out of it.
"Is that for me?" Hoju asked "Oh, yes...of course." Ayase assured him, she took her eyes off him and handed him his drink.
When they finished their drinks, Ayase was happy to hear Hoju offer for her to go to his place. Knowing that she has plenty of time today, she went with him a mile east to and old, run-down, mansion that was located in an underground city below central.
"What is this place?" Ayase asked.
"This is where a couple of friends and I live." He stated.
"Live?" Ayase was captured by the beauty of the mansion, even though where it was located was somewhat cruddy.
"Ayase...I'd like you to meet lust, gluttony, and wrath!" Hoju introduced them to her, who intern, wasn't paying much attention at the time.
"uh...wha...?" "Bam!" "And just like, huh. Seems a little too easy." Replied lust, which was starring down at an unconscious child. (Ayase)
"Tch...what would you expect? She's just a human girl..." "No, she isn't..." lust replied, eyes wide, glaring at Ayase. She noticed that something different about her that separates her from a normal human or alchemist. Wrath, who was a little shaken from lust's remark, looked at Ayase as well.
"Brother..." al said to Edward with great concern.
"I know al" Ed had replied. He walked up to the nightstand by the window and picked up the note Ayase had received earlier.
"If Ayase and that Hoju guy went to the park, then they should have returned by now." Ed stated.
"Maybe they went somewhere else too." Al insisted with a positive note. "And even if, where would they go?" "Let's go al!' Edward commanded.
"Where Ed...?" "The park!" Ayase should have been back hours ago. What if something happened and we weren't there to stop it?" Ed started to get frustrated with himself and showed great concern. Al had already headed out to find mustang and to gather the recruits and prepare for the worst. Edward didn"t know this and started to search for mustang himself.
"Knock, knock, knock, knock." Ed opened the door to Bradley's office and noticed behind the bookcase was an elevator that appeared to have been used not to long ago. Experiences led Edward to believe that the elevator lead to the underground city.
"The underground city," Edward tried to remember all the events that took place there.
"the fight...military officials...my death...al. So if Hoju brought Ayase tot the underground city, then Hoju is...envy, my brother." "Long lost but never forgotten. A far but not to distant memory" Ed said to himself and boarded the operating shaft and headed towards the old mansion.