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"Edward, I think it's time to sit down and have a little talk," Michael said the words rolling off his tongue smoothly, without any emotion.
Ed couldn't believe the Michael cared that little for life, for someone's feeling. Michael took away someone that Rosalie loved and for that Ed hated Michael. Michael killed someone that did absolutely nothing to him and someone that had learned their lesson.
Ed peeled his eyes away from the door and looked at Michael. The man before Edward was nothing, but a cold hearted bastard that didn't care about life. Edward glared at Michael with hatred. He couldn't believe what Michael did. It sent shivers down Ed's spin. How could Michael act as if nothing had happened?
"Why?" Ed asked dark and threatening.
Michael chuckled at seeing how angry Ed was. Michael couldn't believe that they had thought that he would let them go. "I killed Shane because he would have gotten in the way he was useless. I don't need a vampire that knew medical alchemy because vampires never get sick and our wounds always heals, I had no use for someone like him." Michael stopped laughing and smiled at Edward. Ed shivered; the room seemed to grow colder by the second.
"The reason that I killed William was for revenge," Michael said darkly. "Rosalie loved William so I took the one thing that she loved. She took William from me, one of my best men, someone that I could trust with my life, gone, right before my eyes and it's all her fault." Michael stood up from his desk and slammed his hands on it. "I killed William in front of her, so that she would feel the same things that I was feeling on that night, betrayed, angry, lied to, and the list goes on and on and on." Michael spat out angrily.
Ed stared at Michael with hostility and disbelief. Ed knew it, he knew that Michael cared about himself and that was it. He didn't care about what other people thought or felt. He didn't care that he just took someone's happiness away. He only cared that he had gotten his revenge on someone that did absolutely nothing to him. He took away someone's life because they didn't do what he wanted them to do, it's despicable.
"What are you going to do with Rosalie?" Ed asked through his anger.
Ed knew that he was asking a pointless question. He knew that Michael wasn't going to let Rosalie go, not with the amount of anger he had towards her. Ed wished that there was something that he could do, but right now death seemed to be the kindest thing for her. Losing someone was hard, but watching them die right in front of you was something that could never be unseen. Ed knew that he should be angry with them, they were the reason why he was here, but he couldn't. He couldn't find a reason to be angry, they just wanted to make everything right again. They wanted to be forgiven and to have their freedom back; maybe it was because Ed could relate to them. Ed knew what it was like to want to make everything right again.
"Don't worry; I won't kill her just yet. Killing William was just the start. I want to make her suffer before killing her because death seems too sweet for her right now." Michael said somewhere between hatred and happiness.
Ed clenched his hands into a fist. "You said that if they brought me here that you would forgive them and you would give them their freedom back that was the deal," Ed growled out anger.
"Oh, Edward, I did give them their freedom back, just not the way that they had hoped," Michael said innocently, with a wide toothily grin.
"If you just wanted them died, then why did you bring me into all of this, why put a price on my head. Why didn't you get some other vampire to kill them?!" Ed yelled.
He didn't understand what Michael was trying to do. Why would Michael go through all this trouble? What was Michael trying to accomplish, to kill everyone that betrayed him or did Michael really want Ed, but why. Ed didn't know and all he was doing was running around in circles which ended up with him having more question.
"You sure have a lot of questions. I told all the vampires that had betrayed me to bring you to me because that way I could kill two birds with one stone. I would be getting you and I would be killing most of the vampires that have betrayed me. There was only one of you and there were a lot of vampires that wanted to get their hands on you which resulted in a lot of bloodshed. In the end, it didn't really matter who brought you to me, I would have still had killed them and you would still be standing here and we would still be having this conversation. I made sure that everything went according to plan." Michael said.
"You bastard!" Ed yelled, running towards Michael with his fist in the air, ready to punch Michael right in the face.
All the anger that Ed had exploded. Michael didn't care about anyone's life and Ed hated that, he hated that Michael only thought as them as pawns and nothing more. Michael's smiled faded and his eyes narrowed at seeing what Ed was about to do.
"Stop," Michael commanded, in a neutral tone.
Ed came to a crashing halt right in front of Michael's desk; Ed's fist was still raised in the air, shaking with rage. There was rage in Ed's eyes as they widened in surprise. He couldn't move, he tried to take a step or to move his arm, but they wouldn't budge.
"What, how," Ed whispered.
Ed was even more surprised that his voice could work.
"You can put your arm down now." Michael ordered and Ed put his arm to his sided.
Ed figured out why he couldn't move. Michael commanded him to stop using vampire alchemy and Ed did just that, he stopped his attack even though Ed didn't want to. He wanted to teach Michael a lesson that no one was his pawn and that they had lives. Ed's eyebrows came together in confusion. Ed didn't know how it was possible for Michael to be able to control him.
Ed knew that Michael was using vampire alchemy, but in order for it to work there has to be a transmutation circle near or on him and as far as Ed knew there were no transmutation circles around him. So how was any of this possible? Ed was so sure that something like this had happened before. He was so sure that there was a moment where he couldn't move. Ed looked at Michael, he had fingered it out.
"When you killed Shane and William did you tell me not to move?" Ed asked.
"Well, the shrimp is catching on. Yes, I did." Michael said, sitting back down at his desk grinning.
Ed didn't think he could get any angrier, but it was possible. Ed clenched his jaw tighter. He wanted to be able to punch Michael in the face, how he wished that he could move so that he could teach Michael a lesson for calling him short.
"Who are you calling so small that only an ant can see him!" Ed yelled.
Michael chuckled a little. "I can see why Mustang calls you short all the time, it's quite hilarious," Michael said calmly and smoothly.
"How?" Ed asked through his teeth.
"How, what?" Michael said innocently.
"How are you able to control me?" Ed asked.
"I will explain that later." Michael sighed, "But for right now let's get down to business." Michael said seriously. He stood up from his desk. "Follow me," Michael ordered. "There's a lot to discuss, it will take a lot of time," Michael said walking to the left side of the room, where there were two couches on either side of a glass coffee table.
Ed's feet began to move on their own. Ed disliked the feeling of not being in control of his own body. He hated that he had no choice, but to follow everything that Michael asked him to do. Ed remembered the first time he wasn't in control of his body that was back when he was human and when Lilith kidnapped him. Lilith turned Ed into her little puppet.
"So let's get comfortable." Michael said, sitting down on one of the couches, he motioned Ed to sit down on the other and Ed did just that.
"You have met Lilith before, haven't you?" Michael said
Ed raised an eyebrow. He thought that Michael knew everything that went on unless Michael was toying with him and he wasn't looking for an answer, but rather he was looking to make sure Ed knew where this conversation was going.
"Yes, I have." Ed said slowly and confused.
"Do you know why she turned you in the first place?" Michael asked.
Ed didn't like how Michael was toying with him. Michael knew all the answers to all of the questions that he was asking.
"Yes, I do, she turned me to create the Bloodstone," Ed said.
"That's wrong; she didn't turn you to create the Bloodstone, well somewhat. She turned you because I told her to, but she saw the window of opportunity and took it. She saw that you and your friends were the best candidates to make the Bloodstone, that's why she did it. Lilith had always been that person that only did things to benefit herself."
Ed was shocked to find out that Michael was behind all of this from the start that Michael always planned for all of this to happen.
"Then why did you trust her? You knew that she was someone that only did things that benefit herself. You knew that she was going to use me for her own benefit." Ed said.
"When I told her to turn you, I didn't know that she was going to use you to create the Bloodstone. I trusted her so much because I loved her, but that love made me a fool. I was so blindsided by love that I didn't see that she was using me. She used my love to get what she wanted. Over time, I started to see the truth. I didn't want to believe it, so I gave her a second chance. If she could turn you and bring you to me without her doing anything to benefit herself, then I would forgive her and everything that she had done. Though she knew that even if she did that that my trust in her wouldn't be restored, she knew that she wouldn't be able to betray me for a long time."
"She didn't want that so she decided to use you and your friends to create the Bloodstone that way when I did find out what she had done I wouldn't be able to kill her. Though what she didn't realise was that I was watching her every move, she always did underestimate how far I would go or how strong I was. So I got, your friend. What was her name?" Michael said in a hushed voice. "Oh, that's right, Riza that was her name. I got Riza to kill her."
"As much as I wanted to kill her myself, I couldn't risk it. I don't know if you know this or not, but there are a lot of vampires that want me dead. If I did decide to go out in the open I would be risking my life and I don't want to do that, even if it was for revenge. I am the safest when I am here in this building because I have all my guards and they will make sure that I am kept safe. Oh, and your friend Riza didn't even know that I was controlling her or that she was following my orders."
Ed could only stare at Michael as he listened to what he was saying. He was shocked that someone that didn't care for anyone or anything was capable of loving someone, especially someone liked Lilith, but Ed had to remember that Michael could have fallen in love with Lilith a long time ago. Maybe the past Michael could care for people, maybe he could love someone, but maybe Lilith was the one that destroyed that part of Michael. Ed couldn't image what it was like to find out someone that you loved and cared about was only using you to get what they wanted.
After hearing that Michael used Hawkeye to kill Lilith, a part of Ed was happy, Lilith deserved to die, she deserved to die for all the things that she had done and for all the lives that she had taken. There was a part of Ed that hated Michael for using Hawkeye; Hawkeye didn't deserve to be used, no matter what. Something clicked and it made Ed start to wonder something, how did Michael control Hawkeye? She had never met him and Michael said that he couldn't go out in the open because there were so many vampires that wanted him dead. How was he able to control her without meeting her?
"You are able to control Hawkeye using vampire alchemy, but how. You never met her and she doesn't know that you exist, so how did you control her?" Ed asked.
"I was able to use vampire alchemy to plant ideas and thoughts into her subconscious. I did the same thing to you. I was able to get into your head, though your dreams, technically your nightmares. That was how I was able to control you and Hawkeye." Michael said.
None of what Michael had said made any sense. Alchemy didn't work like that. In order for alchemy to work, one must draw a transmutation circle and then there must be an equivalent exchange. What exchange did Michael make in order to get into his and Hawkeye's mind? Ed's mind raced in circles with theories and ideas, but no matter what, no matter how he looked at it, there was no way that Michel was able to go into his and Hawkeye's dreams. What Michael was describing alchemy couldn't do.
"You're not making any sense," Ed said.
"I'm making perfect sense if you knew how vampire alchemy worked. Vampire alchemy doesn't work like a regular alchemy does, but I'm pretty sure you had already figured that out. You see vampire alchemy doesn't work on the principle of equivalent exchange. There has to be an exchange of some sort, but it doesn't have to be equivalent. The price that I had to pay was two things, some of my energy, but also your fear. I had to create a strong emotion to power the transmutation and the strongest emotion there is, fear." Michael said.
"That's not possible," Ed said.
"It's possible because technically vampires don't have a gate because we have died but, on the other hand, we do because we had come back to life. It's all very confusing. For a long time, vampires believe that they couldn't use regular alchemy, but then there was one vampire that decided to test that theory. They had found out that vampires can use alchemy, but the more alchemy they use, the more they had to feed." Michael said.
"What do you mean?" Ed asked.
"You don't know a lot about vampires do you, well that isn't surprising you were turned by Lilith. Blood is a form of energy, the more we use the more blood we have to consume. After finding that out, a couple vampires decide to try to find a way around using the gate because they've come to the conclusion that vampires had a harder time accessing their gate, which means they have to use more energy than regular humans. A very smart vampire made a way so that vampires didn't have to access their gate, which was called vampire alchemy. Only a couple of people knew that it existed until rumours began to spread, then it became public knowledge."
"At that time, a lot of vampires didn't like me and they wanted me dead, but what they didn't know was that I was a very close friend with the smart vampire and I was practising vampire alchemy way before anyone else. I was able to defend myself, but after, I make sure that no other vampires were able to use vampire alchemy against me, so I bandit. I took all the books and erase all the people's memories on how to use it, well most of them. There were still couples of vampires that knew how to use it, but they won't dare use vampire alchemy because they knew what would happen if they do." Michael said.
"What does any of this have to do with me?" Ed asked.
"What I've been telling you has a lot to do with why you are here. Remember what I said about vampires having a harder time accessing their gate, well that doesn't apply to you." Michael said.
"What do you mean?" Ed asked, not liking where this was going. He didn't understand what made him so special that he could use alchemy like any other human.
"Well, I know one of your deepest, darkest secrets and it is that you tried human transmutation," Michael said.
Ed narrowed his eyes, "how did you know about that?" Ed growled out with anger.
He hated when people found out about his mistake because it always reminded him of what happened. That he couldn't save his little brother from his fate of being stuck in a cold, empty armor that his little brother could no longer eat or sleep or feel the warmth of the sun or the freezing cold rain.
"Lilith may have been a bitch and she may have betrayed me, but she was very good at getting important information," Michael said, smiling. "Now let's get back on track. You're very special because even though you that you are a vampire you have complete access to your gate, meaning you can use alchemy like any other human. You are able to access your gate fully because you had opened the doorway of truth." Michael said.
"Why did you choose me?" Ed asked.
Ed knew that Michael could have made anyone do human transmutation. All Michael would have to do was mind control any human and then turn them after everything was done. Ed didn't understand why Michael was after him.
"I chose you for the same reason why Lilith chose you. You care deeply for your family and friends and if you ever misbehave all I have to do is threaten your loved ones and you will do anything that I ask you to, but that's not the only reason. You see it's very hard to find someone who has done human transmutation. I would first have to find someone who knew alchemy, then have to mind control or just kill someone that they care deeply for and someone who they are willing to perform human transmutation on. Then I have to wait for them to research on it and then they have to perform it."
"At that time I don't know what price they have to pay and I don't want to risk having them die on me and then I have to restart over or have them blind or missing an arm or a leg. If they are missing one of their limbs, then they would have to get automail which takes a long time. Do you see a common thread in what I am saying? It will take too long to find someone else, that's why I picked you. You have already performed human transmutation and you already have automail and you are a skilled fighter. Everything that I need, you have, that's why I picked you." Michael said.
"What is the purpose, though?" Ed asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Michael said, raising an eyebrow.
Ed looked at Michael with confusion.
Michael sighed; "I want you so that if any vampire tries to kill me, you would be my secret weapon. Nobody knows why I wanted you, I made sure of that. If someone did find out, then they would try to kill you instead because a lot of vampires don't want me to have more power. You are able to use alchemy without the need of feeding right after which gives you an advantage, an advantage that I need." Michael said.
"No way in hell would I work for you?!" Ed spat with anger.
"Do you really think you have a choice in the matter?" Michael said seriously.
Ed didn't say anything because he knew that Michael was right. Michael could and would control him. If Michael asked Ed to give up his life for him as much as Ed hated it he would have no choice.
"Anyway, I would be using you as a safety precaution just in case. Even though I have you, it doesn't mean I would need you right away." Michael said, grinning." In the meantime, I have a proposal." Michael said.
Ed knew that whatever options Michael was going to give him; it wouldn't be to his liking. Ed knew that Michael had a twisted sense of humor, what Michael was going to propose was only going to benefit him in the end.
"What proposal?" Ed asked with caution.
"You can either go back home and live your life like normal, but in return, you will have to work for me. You will most likely have to kill some humans or get information on certain people, both humans and vampires, don't worry, I won't put your life endanger or anything." Michael said.
"I will never work for you!" Ed yelled. He couldn't believe that Michael thought that he would work for him.
"Or you can stay here and never see your brother ever again that means that you can't talk to him either and you will never have to kill anyone ever again. I'll make sure that you get blood bags whenever you need them and you will never have to work for me." Michael said, grinning; knowing that no matter what Ed chose he would suffer.
Ed looked at Michael with disgust. Michael knew that no matter what Ed chose he would lose something precious to him, Ed would either lose his humanity or his brother. Both were so important to him. The thought of losing one of them wasn't even comprehensible. Ed knew that he couldn't kill anyone on purpose. He couldn't kill on order not even for the military, but was not killing anyone more important than his brother.
Ed knew the answer to that question. He knew that family was more important than anything else, but Ed didn't know if he could do it if he could kill someone in cold blood. Ed hated looking at the person that he just killed knowing that if it wasn't for him they would still be alive and living their life to the fullest. Ed didn't know what to choose. He didn't know which one would be the best and which one would hurt the least.
"So Edward what is your choice?" Michael said.
So what do you think with happen, please tell me by leaving a review? I sorry about how short this chapter is, I wanted to leave it on somewhat of a cliff-hanger. For right know I don't know when I will be able to update again. So for right know updates are going to be random. I will try as hard as I can to get a chapter up within a month, but I don't know if that is going to happen. Thank you for understanding and see you in the next chapter.
