Yaoi: I'm working on this plus the tenth chapter of Zorn der Katze at the exact same time. XD Disclaimer: I no own! Warning: Yaoi (BOY ON BOY…don't like don't read…And don't flame me because you did for I have warned you!) Pairing: RoyxEd
"Ah, I see you're finally awake." A voice from behind the bars spoke making Ed jump in attack mode.
"What's going on here, Envy?" Ed growled as he watched the black haired homunculi with narrowed eyes.
"Well, nothing really, just the special cell that was made just to stop you from escaping. As you can tell, you can't put your hands together or even touch the walls or bars. There are invisible lines holding you from all things that could help you escape and if we wish they can restrain you on that table so we can have some fun." Envy explained with a smirk as he twirled a black key around his finger before he stopped and unlocked the cell.
"What the-" Ed growled out as he was pulled back and held down by the said invisible lines onto the table.
"Now let's have some fun." Envy hissed as he pulled out a carving knife. "I know how much you love transmutation circles, so how about I make you a walking one." He added as raised Ed's shirt and pressed the blade against the struggling Blonde's chest.
"No!" Ed hissed as the blade lightly ran down his chest leaving a red mark in its wake.
"Shut up and take it, whiny baby." Envy growled in annoyance before he dug the knife deep enough to cut the skin covering Ed's chest.
"Argh!" Ed hissed at the pain that was caused by the knife that was still cutting in the same spot. He couldn't see what Envy was making but he could feel a circle being made. "Please, stop." He pleaded but knew it fell on deaf ears when Envy took the knife and made notches certain inches from each other on the circle that he had just created. He was losing a lot of blood, he could tell and the terrible pain wasn't helping either. He had to get free, but how, he did not know. He was stuck and he knew it. There was no way he was getting out of this. He was going to die, not today or now but as soon as they find him useless.
"I'm not even close to done yet, young alchemist." Envy said as he started to make a strange mark in the middle of the circle and he took delight in the noises Ed was making from the pain. "Oh and if you pass out, I will be nice enought to wait until you wake up to continue my work." He added with a sinister laugh as he moved to make more cuts on Ed's chest.
"Mother fucker." Ed hissed as his hands clenched in fists to deal with the pain. He shivered as Envy just laughed at him and continued his work but now adding black ink to the cuts causing Ed to cuss up a storm.
It seemed like an eternity before Envy finally finished his cutting and wrapping his work. Ed felt fatigued and hollow on the inside since he was naked in front of the enemy seeing how Envy removed his pants and boxers to finish his work.
"There, now that wasn't so bad. Now was it?" Envy asked in a teasing tone as he looked down at the dazed blonde.
"F-Fuck you." Ed gasped out before he passed out cold on the table.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, still no manners." Envy said as he released the lines and pulled the alchemist off the table and onto the bed before dressing him. "I can't wait to see my work once it's fully healed." He added as he left, making sure to lock the cell behind him, and making his way to the stairs to leave.
Ed had no sense of time since beening all cut up and then passing out to when he woke up. All he knew was that it had been a while and that Envy was in the room yet again.
"Eat." The homunculi commanded and Ed just glared at him. "Eat or I'll force it in your mouth." He added with a glare of his own.
"I'm not hungry." Ed commented still holding his glare.
"Oh, but if you don't, you could die and never see your precious Roy Mustang again." Envy teased with a fake pout and batting eyelashes causing Ed's glare to drop and be replaced by a frown.
"You know what? I'd rather die than let Roy see what you've done to me." Ed growled after a while of silence.
"Oh, but you should love it. After all, it is of the thing you love the most; alchemy." Envy continued to tease Ed with a smirk.
"Fuck alchemy. Nothing is worth looking like a freak the rest of my life. It's bad enough I'm fucking short!" Ed snapped causing Envy to finally growl before grabbing the spoon with food on it and forcefully shoving it into Ed's mouth.
"You little fucker, shut up, at least you're fucking human." Envy growl as he forced Ed to eat before he put the spoon down and back handed Ed. "You're nothing but a nuisance to me. If it wasn't for Pride's order you'd be dead by now and it'd be by my hands." The homunculi growled as he stood and turned his back on Ed, who was sneaking his hand into his pocket the best way that he could. "I hate following orders." He added as he crossed his arms over his chest as he stared at the cell door.
Ed smirked in victory as his hand found the dagger that they luckily hadn't took off of him. He pulled it out and put it behind his back as he stood while he walked toward Envy. "We got something in common then." He said to distract the other and pushed his smirk away as he placed his empty hand on Envy's shoulder.
"And what would we have in common?" Envy asked in disgust as he refused to turn to Ed.
"We both hate taking orders, though I never do follow mine." Ed said as he moved quickly and slung out his right hand with the dagger into the left side of Envy's back. He smirked in victory as he hit him perfectly earning a growl of anger.
"You little bitch!" Envy hissed as he fought to get to the cell door where the main cord to the lines that controlled all the lines was.
"Yeah, I am." Ed said as he twisted the dagger before removing it and repeatedly stabbed Envy while enduring the kicks and punches until the body was motionless. Ed tried to place his hands together and grinned in victory as it worked. He placed his hands to the ground with a widened grin as he felt the small strings leave his body, a dummy replace him, and the ground suck up Envy's body. "I hope he stays unconscious long enough for me to get out." Ed said as he grabbed the key from where Envy had dropped it and unlocked the door. He rushed up the stairs and stopped at the entryway way to the next hall. 'Shit, guarded.' He thought with a growl as he looked around the stairs for another way but found none. 'Transmuting don't give up on me now.' He thought as he placed his hands together and then put them to the floor, creating a hole big enough for him to fit down.
"Hey, did you hear something?" A voice from the hall caused Ed to jump and react quickly by transmuting the floor above him thick enough to hide the hole plus support anyone, even Gluttony, though that didn't really matter seeing how that homunculi was dead.
Ed held his breath as he heard footsteps walk over his head.
"I don't see anything." Another voice announce before footsteps were heard again by Ed and then nothing.
'So, where am I, is the best question right now.' Ed thought as he followed the tunnel he had made on his hands and knees. He'd been going through his tunnel for at least thirty minutes and still hadn't found where the building ended. He was tired, in pain, and to top it all of hungry. He has reached the end of his tunnels at least ten times and was getting really sick of crawling and transmuting. He sighed as he reached another one of his dead ends and knew he would have to transmute another looking glass to figure out where he was. The front was nothing but rock, both sides was nothing but dirt, and above was just trees. 'Have I made it out?' He asked himself as he turned the looking glass around and saw the outside of a broken down building.
'Yes, finally!' Ed cheered as he transmuted his next tunnel to go deeper into the woods than where he was currently at. He crawled as fast as he could to the end of the tunnel and was glad to see that it was indeed dark where he was. The woods were thick enough to hide him and that gave him an even better hope of escaping fully. Transmuting to cover the hole, Ed turned away from the building that he had been held in for who knows how long and ran as fast as he could toward what he hoped to be a town or something he could count as shelter.
Ed sighed in relief as he did indeed come to a town that he knew very well; Lior. He quickly dodged from shadow to shadow until he made it to the house he knew had Rose in it. He knocked repeatedly until the door opened to reveal a confused and shocked Rose.
"Ed, what are you doing here?" Rose asked as she stared down at Ed.
"Please, Rose, I need your help." He begged and Rose nodded before stepping aside and letting Ed in.
"What happened to you?" She asked as she closed the door behind Ed and turned to see Ed covered in bandages.
"Let's just say, someone envies me." Ed said as he sighed and turned to Rose with a look of hopelessness. "I want to hide from these people, but I can't leave this town looking like me. Hell, if I go anywhere they will find me and my brother and kill us both. I don't know what to do, Rose, I'm at a lost." He added sadly as he stared down at his feet.
"Wait, you said you can't leave the town looking like you…hmm…" Rose said as she looked at Ed with a smirk as she rubbed her chin in a thinking gesture.
"What do you have in mind?" He asked cautiously as he looked at Rose wearily.
"Do you mind me changing your looks, Ed?" She asked with a smile as she placed a hand on the blonde's shoulder.
"If it means I can get to my brother or colonel, then I don't mind at all." He said with a nod after a while of thinking.
"Alright follow me then." She said with a smile as she dragged him toward a door that happened to lead to her bedroom and placed him in a chair in front of a mirror. "Now this is what I'm going to do. First I'm going to cut your hair…" She stopped and grabbed Ed before he could run out of the room. "Wait…Wait, now, listen to me. I'm going to cut your hair, and don't worry, it will grow back, but for now these people after you will be looking for a long blonde hair adult with a red jacket. I'm also going to dye your hair black. I'm going to get you some clothes, ones that cover up everything that you probably don't want anyone to see and a mask for your face to hide the bandages. Does that all sound good?" She asked with a small smile for sympathy.
"No." Ed said but sighed knowing he had no other choice. "But I have to go with it. After all 'beggars can't be choosers' as I've been told." He added as looked back at his friend.
"Alright, then I better get to work." She said as she pulled out a pair of scissors and placed them on the dresser in front of them before disappearing into the bathroom. She soon returned with a small box of dye and a comb and set them next to the scissors. She smiled at Ed in reassurance as she pulled the tie out of Ed's hair and undid the braid. She then went to work with the scissors as Ed looked on in sadness at the scene in the mirror. It was ten minutes later when Rose was satisfied with Ed's hair and moved to the dye.
Ed lost track of how long it had been since the dye had first been put in but when Rose told him to go wash it out in the shower and to use the special conditioner to keep it in, he knew it was done. He stepped out of the shower, dried off his body then hair, redressed, and walked back into the bedroom to Rose.
"Now, I'm about to go get you some clothes. I'll be back shortly." Rose said before she turned Ed to face the mirror he had been in front of when Rose was cutting his hair.
"Okay." Ed said as he examined his reflection and Rose left. He couldn't believe that the person in the mirror was him. He was so used to his blonde hair and the length of it, though he had to admit that his head did feel lighter. His reached up to touch the end of his hair with a frown. "It's all to get back to them." He reminded himself as he ran his hand through his now shoulder length black hair. He turned from the mirror and made his way out of the room into the living room. He took a seat on the couch and decided to wait there until Rose got back.
A full hour passed before the front door open and a smiling Rose came rushing in. "Sorry it took so long, Ed. It was hard to find this." She said as she held up a mask that was split in half, one side red and one side purple. The purple side smiled while the red side frowned. The nose was pointed and ended at the tip of the lips. "This should cover up the bandages and keep people from asking too many questions."
"And how do you know that?" Ed asked with a raised eyebrow as he looked from the mask to Rose.
"Because you don't ask questions to people in masks, duh." Rose simply stated with a roll of her eyes before tossing all the clothes she got on Ed. "Anyway, you can stay here tonight and leave tomorrow or whenever you wish." She added before walking off to the kitchen.
"I'll have to leave tomorrow. I have to get to my brother before the enemy does. Oh and if anyone stops you or drops by asking if you've seen me, tell them 'no' or that I went somewhere. It's for your safety, okay? Also, I shall go by Envidia Lujuria Orgullo now." He requested as he looked back at Rose with a serious look on his face.
"I won't, Envidia Lujuria Orgullo." Rose said with a smile as she started to cook. "You hungry?" She asked with a smile and started to laugh when she heard a growl come from Ed's stomach.
"Looks like I didn't have to answer." Ed joked as he laughed along with Rose.
-TBC- Yaoi: Wow, I've finished four chapters of this but I can't even finish one chapter of Zorn der Katze? WTF? XD