Previously: Envy is lying on his bed with a new knife when Lust comes in and says they have to go check something out down the road because Father thinks Greed would be too irresponsible while dealing with it. Luki wakes up and finds himself in a clinic with Sgt. Brosh and 2nd Lt. Ross explaining they found him and his friend Wyatt beaten up pretty badly on the street. Edward Elric comes in and introduces himself. Luki decides to go see Wyatt and find out if he found Bella. Wyatt explains he didn't know where Bella was and is asked by Brosh what she looks like because he would keep an eye out if he found her. Once Brosh, Ross, and Edward leave, Wyatt explains to Luki that they are in the TV show, Fullmetal Alchemist. Bella wakes up in a field in Resembool and stumbles upon the home of Winry Rockbell. She is allowed to clean up and stay there for as long as she likes. Winry comes in and explains the following day they would have to visit Edward Elric. Bella drifts off later that night and only hopes Camile is somewhere in the strange world too.
Me: I DO NOT OWN FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST. Thus, the reason I only own my OCs. Camile makes an appearance! YAY~! Why do I think 'Dreaming Out Loud' by OneRepublic is such a fitting Homunculus song? I don't know but have fun reading and don't forget to review! ;)
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Camile woke up to be surrounded by trees and lots of them too. She rubbed her head and looked around.
"Middle of the forest. Great," Camile rolled her eyes. She got up and was surprisingly okay. After that stupid squirrel dragged her down a hole, she figured she was a goner.
"Okay then…" Camile figured she'd might as well walk around and wonder how to get out of there. She stood on her feet that had the uncomfortable pins and needles feeling. She shook her feet and began walking, trying to get some blood flow through them.
On her way passing several trees, she got distracted by pulling leaves out of her long sandy blond hair and nearly ran into a tree. Her clumsiness had returned.
When she reached an old abandoned-looking house at the edge of the woods, she slowly snuck around to the front door, but saw something that nearly made her faint.
The guy had round black glasses, some weird pants, some sort of outdated vest and a skin, and she meant SKIN tight, shirt on.
"Hey at least he has abs," Camile shrugged to herself. Something threw her off though. The man seemed to be looking all around as though he lost something or was hunting something.
"Greed…?" Camile whispered and thought to herself.
"Either I lost my mind or this guy is a really good impersonation! OMFG is he my kidnapper?" Camile had so many questions and asking herself wasn't really getting anyway but she didn't care.
Greed stopped in his tracks. He was a good distance away, Camile figured. But his sharky smirk split his face and he seemed to be looking in her direction. Camile's heart sped up and she ran into the house without hesitation. She locked the door behind her and ran into the closest room—the bathroom.
"Ok, I haven't been kidnapped," Camile, said in thought. "Or I would probably have been raped and chained to a bed or something by now…" she let out a small laugh and looked into the grimy mirror.
"Ew, I look so pale…" she thought. She stared at her reflection for a little longer before she had an idea. That idea consisted of her taking out a red Sharpie she remembered she had in her pants pocket and take off the cap.
"If those really are homunculi out there," she thought. "Then I should play along."
She took the red sharpie and drew two red dots vertically on the right side of her neck. She put the cap back on and put it back in her pocket.
Camile looked in the mirror and smiled. She looked like she hadn't slept in a few days and her usually fair skin was even paler somehow. If she really was in Fullmetal Alchemist, which didn't surprise her at this point, she was going to be a vampire.
She opened her mouth and observed her canine teeth that seemed sharper and longer than the rest of her teeth. She had braces and they were straight but for some reason her canine teeth never really took to braces. Camile remembered that Wyatt always called her "vampire" because of it.
Once she was satisfied with her 'look' she slowly breathed in and out, waiting for Greed to burst through the door any moment. She sat there for a while…and then more time passed. It was probably twenty more minutes later.
"Well," Camile sighed. "Can't sit here forever." She slowly opened the rusty door and looked all around the tiny house. No sounds could be heard except the creaking of wood from her own footsteps and the occasional bird outside.
Camile decided to skip along into the kitchen rather quickly and brandished a rugged knife from a drawer.
"HAHAHA!" Camile laughed menancingly. "IF YOU'RE HERE I DARE YOU TO SHOW YOURSELF!"
Silence. A little too much.
"GREED GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE NOW!" Camile shouted. She was ready to fight and he was discouraging her.
She moved from the kitchen over to the window and saw absolutely no sign of Greed anywhere. In an act of pure bravery, she burst open the front door waving her knife around in the air.
"WHERE ARE YOU HIDING!" Camile shouted. She was only met by more silence and a few birds flying to the trees for cover after she gave them little bird heart attacks.
Camile looked all around and was purely confused.
"Well he's gone~!" Camile shrugged happily and skipped back inside to find something to eat.
She opened the fridge to see nothing but cobwebs.
"EW! OH MY GOD!" Camile had to keep herself from barfing at that moment. She covered her nose and turned to open the cabinets; same thing, more cobwebs.
Camile sighed. "Okay…looks like I may starve." Her stomach grumbled and it was starting to give her a nauseous feeling.
She started to rummage anything for some food, but all she found was mostly dirt, sand, and cobwebs. After a while she would probably find a rat or something in that filthy house so she ran outside, with her knife of course, and ran into the woods.
Camile ran uphill a little and attempted to get to a bush with little berries on it at the top. Gravity got the best of her and she slid down on her bottom.
"OW!" She yelled and stumbled to the bottom of the hill. "I GOT STICKS IN MY FRICKING PANTS!" she awkwardly pulled out the prickly branches from her shorts and walked back to the house, discouraged.
She attempted to reattach the hinges of the front door she burst through while looking for Greed. The door resisted and she got so frustrated that she just left it alone and tried to close it the best she could.
Camile went over to the sofa, which seemed to be the last thing intact and she took a nap on it for a while. She tried to adjust herself on the couch but couldn't really get comfortable. She attempted fluffing the pillow beneath her head but dust spurt out of it and she had a coughing fit.
Camile groaned and threw her head back repeatedly trying to make her tired—not like that would help the situation. She was still as hungry as heck!
"Shut up," Camile growled at her stomach, only to be met by even louder growls. She whined and squirmed around on the couch. After a while of fidgeting she just lay there, staring at the ceiling and breathing in and out.
Camile's attention turned to the front door when she heard muffled voices talking. She gripped her knife and slowly got up from the couch and inched her way toward the door.
"Are you sure Greed saw someone here?" an effiminate voice growled, obviously irritated.
'Envy?' Camile blinked. Maybe she really was in Fullmetal Alchemist.
"That's what he said." Camile heard a rather sexy woman's voice this time. She raised an eyebrow at the woman's voice.
Camile sworn she heard drool dripping off of something—or someone. "Can we eat them, Lust? Huh? Huh? Can we?" Camile heard a rather eager voice ask.
'What the eff? Eat me? I am not getting eaten today!' Camile gripped the knife even harder in her hands and leaned closer to the door.
"We'll see Gluttony." Camile heard a loud whimper at the woman's response. She found herself getting angry and leaned her ear to the door. She must've leaned too hard and got too angry because as soon as she did, the weak wooden door couldn't support Camile's weight.
Next thing she knew, she was on the ground outside on top of what was once a door now in shattered pieces of wood. This slightly surprised Camile considering she wasn't all that heavy and was in reality, rather slim.
The woman spoke this time. "Oh. Well I guess he was right." Camile rubbed her forehead that smacked dead-on with the sharp part of the door and groaned. Within seconds Camile felt strong hands grip her arms and lifted her right up in the air to face some pissed off looking violet eyes.
"Who are you?" the one who was carrying her up in the air by her arms asked. Camile was right; it was Envy! She never got tired of that girly man—especially his voice.
Camile could not withold the sudden urge to bust out laughing and that's exactly what she did, much to Envy's annoyance. His grip tightened on the girl as she laughed in his face.
"What's so funny?" He growled. Camile let out one more chuckle and then grinned at him. "Oh, nothing, really."
'Ok Camile. He's like a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, 8 times more very irritable guy. You need to pull yourself together.'
Envy still didn't let her go. Her feet were dangling a few inches above the ground. "I said…who are you?"
"Camile," Camile replied. Envy's purple eyes narrowed slightly and his grip loosened. Her feet hit the solid ground. She was surprised her and Envy were eye-level.
"I'm Lust, this is Envy, and this is Gluttony." It was the woman who spoke this time. Of course Camile already knew who they were, she was just going to play stupid.
"Can I eat her?" Gluttony looked at Lust excitedly while flapping his tongue everywhere like a dog. A little drop of spit hit Camile's face and she flinched and wiped it off.
"N—"
"NO!" Camile interrupted for Lust. "No, no, no, no, no! I am not something edible. Believe me I'm not."
Envy crossed his arms and smirked. "Oh are you sure?" Camile glared. "Let's test that."
"Look pineapple," Camile started casually, placing a hand on his shoulder. "I'm guessing you guys aren't human. So let's try and get along, shall we?"
Envy growled as he smacked her hand off of his bare shoulder. "Good job."
"So I'm right?"
"First off are you human?" Envy smirked slightly and got uncomfortably close to her face peering into her hazel eyes. He wasn't that much taller than she was.
Much to Envy's surprise, she didn't even flinch and still had a bored look on her face. "What is that, like, a challenge?" she crossed her arms.
He backed away a bit. "You just don't seem like the typical human. That's all."
'Wow, considering I'm not the 'typical' human, and it's coming from Envy, I'm going to take that as a serious compliment!' Camile inwardly smiled.
Camile raised an eyebrow and threw some hair behind her shoulder, trying to reveal the two expertly drawn dots on her neck. "No, I'm not the 'typical' human."
Lust gave out a little gasp as Envy just stared at her—softening a bit of his irritation.
"A vampire…?" Lust said in surprise. "Really?" Camile nodded, smirking smugly.
"Well, if you're really a 'vampire' then how come you're letting sunlight from the trees touch you right now?" Envy pointed out. His ego was starting to get as big as his mouth.
"Because that's a stereotype," Camile made up. "Some are different than others. Duh, I thought you would know that some vampires can survive sunlight."
Envy glared at her. "Show me some of your powers." He commanded.
"I can't."
"What? What do you mean you 'cant'?" Envy said gritting his teeth. He was starting to disbelieve she was really a vampire at all. Camile could tell and tried to throw away all signs of nervousness from her face and demeanor.
"I woke up—a little over there. All I remember is having my powers sucked away…" Camile tried to look as guilty and sad as possible. She looked up and for the most part it was working in a way she guessed a homunculus would believe a sob story—by raising an eyebrow.
At that moment, Camile realized she was in deep shi-z and a part of concious yanked at her for it, but she tried to push it away. If she was going to pretend to have amnesia—damn it—she just was!
"Then you should be a good fighter," Envy said pointing his head in the direction of her knife. She stared down at it.
"I just told you!" Camile sighed angrily. "All I remember is waking up over there. With no powers, no fighting, and no memory! Comprendez?"
Lust looked at her observingly. "Maybe we could help you then." Camile raised an eyebrow at this.
"But only if you help us first," Lust added.
"How?"
"We have others like us at our—house. And we can help you get your powers back if you help us with research."
Camile pouted a little. "You guys are homunculi aren't you?"
Envy stepped in. "And how did you know that, princess?" Oh no way was he calling her that.
"'Princess'?" Camile sighed, shoving off the name. "Vampires are familiar with homunculi and the whole ordeal. You are artificially created humans—a failed attempt at human transmutation and have memories of the person who died and yada yada. You guys are similar to us except we are just pretty much pale humans with a bunch of powers."
Envy looked shocked at how much she knew. It lasted only a few moments before his usual irritation took over his face. "Well, you certainly aren't human then…if you know that much." He had to give it to her—it was better knowing she wasn't human.
Camile nodded proudly.
"Well, we should get back," Lust said. "This your house?"
"No, I just was using it to find food. I'm really hungry."
"Well I think you'll be pleased at the food at our—place." Camile smiled wide and hugged her. Lust just gave her a strange look and sighed. She sure was an odd one.
After a little bit of walking, Camile decided to make small talk. "Soooo, Envy?"
He ignored her.
"Hey!"
"…"
"Yo!" Camile beamed. "How old are you?"
"…Ugh…"
"What's up?" Camile drawled trying to sound cool. "Yo! Envy! Envymeister! Envy the Cool Guy! Envy the—um—Envy!"
Envy snapped his head and glared at her. "Just because you're not human, doesn't mean we can't kill you."
Camile scoffed. "I'm complimenting you, dumbass."
Envy growled at her. "What did you just call me?" he snarled.
"You heard me," Camile said curtly and looked straight ahead trying to ignore him. He was beyond puzzled and pissed at how unafraid she was of him.
Envy raised a fist and was about to beat the daylights out of her when Lust interrupted his contact with her own fist. "Envy!" Lust scolded and threw his hand out of the way, stabbing him with her fingernail.
"We need her uninjured if she's going to be for research." Envy just growled and stomped ahead away from the annoying brat.
Camile looked at the prostitute—as she called Lust in her mind—curiously. "What do you mean 'research'?"
"Just research. You'll see." Camile just nodded and walked with the homunculi in silence through the streets they came into. They took a couple of turns around corners and came to a very cool looking secret hideout.
"This is so cool! You guys liv—" Camile was cut off when Envy's hand encased her mouth.
"Too loud," Envy groaned and shrugged. Camile was starting to get annoyed with this green-haired ass. And to think she liked him—he was different on TV! He wasn't annoying the crap out of you!
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"Your powers are back to normal." Camile stared at Dante who just put some weird voodoo magic on her.
Camile turned to walk away. "You're staying here," Dante said firmly.
"Huh?" Camile inquired. It came out ruder than she meant.
"It's not like you have a place to go," Dante said. "You have amnesia don't you?"
Camile nodded, still a little confused at how exactly she got powers. She didn't even have them in the first place and she could only hope Dante didn't curse her or something.
Dante didn't look at her. She just continued to read the book at her desk.
"Um, Miss Dante?"
"Hm?" Dante said still reading.
"Thanks?" Camile said a little unsure at how this—woman was so nice to her. She had to know Camile was a human!
"Just be back here at noon tomorrow for our research." Camile stared at her. So she was going to test her newbound powers? With Camile's luck she'd end up injured possibly and die if they found out if she was human—that is if they were going to do what she thought.
"Am I going to fight?" Camile asked. "Yes," Dante said, turning a page in her book.
"Who?"
"Envy…most likely. Or Wrath. Depends on how well you do with Envy first." Camile gulped. She was dead no doubt! She knew Envy; he would absolutely not go easy on her! Wrath was like a little devil-child behind all the sweetness she met a little while ago. No, she was going to die!
"Dante?" Camile started. "I'm not really immortal…"
This got Dante's attention. She looked up from her book and looked at her. "Oh…?"
"Well…uh I mean I am but I'm not. You see…I can die but I don't really age. Stupid package deal with my group of vampires."
Dante didn't seem to notice Camile's nervousness. "I'll have Envy be your bodyguard then, instead of a duel. Or Wrath. Take your pick."
Camile let out the biggest sigh of relief in her life. But then her chest tightened again. Envy as her bodyguard? She'd rather stab herself ten times over! She sighed inaudibly and lowered her head in her hands.
"Not going to answer?" Dante inquired, rather bored and uninterested more than irritated.
"…Um—"
"Ok. Envy it is," Dante decided and returned back to reading. Camile just stared at her and mentally slapped herself for not choosing Wrath right away. Stupid fricking spacing out!
"Go!" Dante ordered. "Come back here tomorrow at noon!"
Camile walked out of Dante's study confused and dazed. She felt miserable having Envy of all homunculi as her bodyguard! She knew Dante wanted to keep her alive for research but if research were going to be painful, Camile would rather be dead…less pain that way.
If there was anyone she was scared of, it was Dante!
"I just hope research doesn't include injecting me with Philosopher's Stone or something…" Camile sighed to herself. She went down the hall and into the room she shared—yes shared—with Envy and Wrath. Camile couldn't quite get over that.
"Got your powers back?" Camile wasn't even in the room two seconds before Envy was in her face.
She glared at him and scoffed. "Nooo we had tea and crumpets," she said sarcastically.
Wrath chuckled a little but Envy gripped his wrist death-tight and he let out a little yelp.
"I take that as a yes princess?" Envy inquired.
"Again with the nicknames?" Camile sighed.
"I don't care," Envy smirked. Camile rolled her eyes and sat down on the bed next to theirs. They shared the bunk bed on the left side of the room and she had the one on the right.
"How would you like it if I called you pineapple or palm tree?" Camile asked, sighing as she lay down on the surprisingly comfortable bed.
Envy crossed his arms and looked away. "I'd snap all your pretty little fingers off…"
Camile smiled and chuckled. "Good! Then don't call me that."
"…Princess…"
Camile shot up from the bed, nearly hitting her head on the bunk above her. "Palm tree!"
Wrath looked at the two; a small smile playing on his lips.
Envy shot his glare in her direction. "When do you shut your mouth?"
"When do you learn?" Camile said throwing her hands at him.
"I learn," Envy said pompously. "Just not from flat-chested pretty girls like you."
Camile looked down at her chest. Ok, so she never really had that much to show but she still had something. "I am not! Wait…pretty?" she felt her cheeks heat up and it was a good thing he didn't see it in the dark room or he would tease her to no end.
"Yes," Envy said slowly and a little confused. "Pretty." He said 'pretty' oddly…as though he was assuring himself she was only just that.
"You're pretty too!" Camile giggled and lay back down on the bed. She was sleeping in her clothes but she didn't really bother asking for some gothic-looking pajamas at that point. It was late and she just wanted sleep.
She heard Envy growl and she just chuckled to herself along with Wrath, who had climbed up into the top bunk of Envy's bed.
It was silent for a while until Camile had an unknown laughing attack.
"What?" Envy asked seething his teeth.
"Nothing," Camile said turning on her side with the biggest grin. She took an extra pillow at the end of the bed and threw it at his face playfully. She heard him shout a really bad word and couldn't help but laugh. Wrath was laughing the entire time.
"Go to bed already!" Envy screamed resulting in very loud agitated groans and pounding from Lust and Gluttony down the hall.
"What am I going to do with you two…?" Envy grumbled to himself, although he failed at not being heard.
Silence was filling Envy's ears for at least five more minutes and he was about to fall asleep—almost.
"HAHAHAHHHA!" Camile burst out suddenly.
Wrath joined in too. "HAHAHA! Heeeheeee hoo ha!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU NOW?"
"Nothin'," Wrath responded. "Go to bed."
Envy let out a small shout. "THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO SMART ASS!"
"No," Camile said. "Not if you're yelling at us going like 'grr I'm Envy I'm yelling at you'," Camile mocked Envy's voice scary well. Wrath giggled.
Envy was so frustrated that he kicked the top bunk so hard that it almost sent Wrath up into the ceiling.
"SHUT UP!" Envy growled one last time. Wrath was shaking a little—considering he almost got stuck in the ceiling.
"…Poopy head…" Camile murmered inaudibly.
Envy growled, beyond annoyed. He was absolutely pissed at the two for deriving him from much-needed sleep. If this kept up he was forcing Dante to make Camile sleep on the damn floor for all he cared!
"Will you stop?" Envy said with anger seething through every letter.
"Maannnn!" Camile drawled rather deeply and chuckled lightly. "You have some good ears!"
Envy took the pillow that was on the floor from where Camile threw it at him earlier and smacked it into her back so hard it had an echo.
"OWW!" Camile whined.
"You okay?" Wrath asked. At least he cared.
Camile rubbed her back and frowned. "Yes, thank you for asking, Wrath!"
She gave Envy a dirty look that didn't really work very well because the room was technically pitch black except for the lights in the hallway that seeped under the door.
Wrath beamed. "You're welcome!"
Envy rolled over onto his stomach and threw his pillow over his head and tried to drown out the idiots that he had to share a room with. It seemed to work very well because within minutes he fell fast asleep.
Me: Ok, I lied! The more I think of it, Camile and Bella aren't so much like my friend and me. Honestly, the more I write this the more I think they are developing their own personalities. But if I were to meet Envy, I would act like Camile and would he would probably get really annoyed with me and I'd die. :D ah well he's adorable.
Envy: WHO YOU CALLING ADORABLE! I AIN'T ADORABLE *unintentioned adorable pout*
Me: Oh nooooo (sarcasm) you're just so friggin' ugly *Pinches cheek*
Me: I gots an idea! We should review for the sake of bugging Envy!
Envy: That's the worst idea I've ever heard.
Me: Oh shush you joy killer
Envy: Bu—
Me: *places fingers over Envy's mouth*
Me: Please review! And thanks to all those lovely reviews I got in the past chapters! :) Peace out homies!