VII. Pain
Envy glared down at the boy who stared at him in shock, clutching his throat weakly, as if unsure whether or not to believe him. He stood and Envy allowed it, well aware he was in for a show, he frowned angrily and pulled Envy forward, his eyes furious, Envy so wanted to start the physical torture then, but mental was just as fun.
"What the hell are you talking about!"he screamed, his intensifying, Envy smirked.
"Did you honestly think it was possible?Sacrificial lambs for your precious deity? Heh, and we though you were some sort of prodigy."Ed seemed frozen, as if realizing something, he let go sliding one hand to his chest carefully. He let out a gargled sort of choke, as if officially accepting it. Envy's smirk deepened, now he could start the games. He slid closer and slid his hand to Ed's chest, some part of him, probably the part that still called Hohenheim 'father', was disgusted by this, the rest couldn't wait to pounce.
"Ugh..."Ed said staring at the new hand on his chest.
"Poor little Edo, still a virgin aren't you?"Envy smirked at Ed's stunned face,"I'll fix that."he watched the fear splay over the younger's face in his second realization of the day. He saw the signs, Ed preparing to fight him, and quickly punched his chest, stunning him and sending him into another wild coughing fit, while he was distracted Envy quickly rammed him into the wall, which didn't help his coughing fit, but insured it wouldn't happen later on. Smirking, transform to have four arms, a useful trick, and using the first set, pinned Ed's arms, while his other set pulled off Ed's pants.
"No!"he screamed, trying desperately to squirm out his iron tight grasp,"Please no!"he begged, slightly breathless. Envy smirked, the disease was quite useful to him. Smirking as he felt Ed's panicked face at the pleading face Ed made as his pants hit the ground. Envy had to use both hands to get him to turn around, his cheek press against the wall so he could watch Envy's face. He continued to struggle, but it had lost some of it's fire, the coughing fits had obviously weakened him somewhat.
"Let's make you a man bastard blood."Envy smirked and transformed his skort off. One set of arms still held Ed's arms, while the other set positioned his stiff waist. Smirking he slid in, loving the sound of Ed's pitiful scream, the second time he slid in, Ed was silent, but Envy could easily see how hard he bit his lip. lifting his fourth arm he pried upon the mouth, for the third thrust Ed had no choice but to scream. To Ed it seemed to go on forever, to Envy it ended to soon. He let go, transforming away the extra arms and watching as Ed collapsed to the ground, sobbing and trying to stand but unable to do so with how badly his rear was smarting.
Envy watched in amusement, like a child watching a tipped over beedle, as Ed tried to lift himself up. Finally, the boy used his skort to pull upword, slightly making Envy cringe, he had forgotten a while ago that the skort was just an extension of his skin. As he stood, panting, wheezing, and still slightly sobbing, he reached over and slapped him. He simply grinned.
"Sorry whore, I don't think we should go another round with you all bloody. I'll send down Lust later though, I'm sure that you two whores will have tons of fun together."Ed winced, still managing to stay standing until Envy transform into a bird and flew to the ceiling, waiting for the inevitable. Ed slid back to the ground sobbing and trying to become comfortable against the wall, he couldn't sleep on his back after all. Envy smirked one last smirk at the sight of Ed's bloodied sobbing form and disappeared through the small hole Wrath had left for him, this was going to be a fun game, and maybe Wrath would play a little bit of it to...
Envy stared in shock at the sight he saw on the upper levels. The younger Elric, Alphonse, stood before them. It shouldn't be possible, the underground mansion was undetectable, unless...he glared at the sight of weeds, so the code he'd left was nearly impossible to solve in a day, someone had helped out the boy, looking arounding at the weeds decorating the mansion, he easily made the deduction of who, the Tringhams. He transformed into his normal form, enjoying Al's widened eyes as he spotted the blood left over on Envy's thighs.
"Heh, what luck, I just get through with on Elric, and the other appears."he shrugged helplessly, smirking all the while.
"What the hell did you do to my brother?"Al demanded, running forward, ready to punch him, Envy could have dodged easily, but instead gripped the fist tight.
"It doesn't matter what I did to your precious little brother, he's going to die any way."
"What the hell are you talking about?"Al demanded, trying not to look out for Russel, he was the back up, hidden among the plants he transmuted here, he was suppose to be finding Ed quickly while he distracted the homunculi, so far only Envy had appeared.
"Heh,"Envy shrugged again,"isn't it obvious? Or hasn't your big brother told you?"Al scowled.
"Tell me dammit!"he tried to ignore how much he sounded like his brother, he needed to find him quickly.
"Your brother,"Envy smirked,"is dying because his lungs are shrinking, taking in less and less oxygen, and in a few months he will be unable to breathe without aid, and then..."Envy's smirk deepened at Al's widening eyes.
"No! That's...that's not possible..."he sounded lost, unable to stand the very thought of it, Envy enjoyed every minute of it.
"Oh yes, it is. He didn't even realize that he was losing them. Your brother's little sacrificial lambs bought him times, his disappearing lungs bought him your bodies."Al stared in horrified shock at his hands, before glaring.
"Well so what! We'll just keep offering up lambs!"Al shouted, Envy smirked.
"Do you really think it's that easy? The gate won't take it unless it's for toll, you're aware of that, aren't you?"he watched as Al's glare deepened, yes he did realize.
"Shut up! I'll save brother, even if I have to wear auto-mail the rest of my life, I'll save him! But first, I'll kill you!"he shouted,running forward, Envy smirked and transformed so that Ed stood before the youngest Elric.
"Oh, can you kill me when I look like this?"he asked, his eyes imploring, Al winced but his frown intensified.
"Yes! I'll do anything for brother...even if it means to kill you in his form!"Envy grinned.
"If you'll do anything, what will you do when he wants to die? What will you do when his only life force is a breathing machine and he stares up at you and says,"he imitated Ed's voice perfectly,"I want to die."Al froze, as if unable to move at the very thought of it, he clutched his head, shaking furiously.
"No...it won't happen...brother will...brother won't do that to me!"He screamed, rushing forward he transmutated a javalin and stabbed Envy.
"Eh,"he shrugged,"it doesn't matter anyway, you'll have to kill me several times over, can you do it again?"Al growled, and pulled out the javelin, pushing it again into Envy as he healed.
"Heh, how long can you do that before you won't be able to tell the difference any more? How long before your blind with rage and I replace myself with the real one, will you still stab forward?"Al scowled.
"Shut up! Shut the hell up!"he screamed, stabbing forward again.
"It doesn't matter to me, even if you killed me, you'd still be killing a brother."he smirked and transformed into his original form," After all, I'm the original eldest Elric."Al pulled out his javelin again in shock, giving Envy his chance. Quickly he kicked the boy, sending him crashing into the wall.
"Ugh..."he moaned.
"I think I'll make my escape before the little weed-grower gets me."smirking he transformed into a black cat and disappearing out a window.
"Fletcher?"Al asked, sitting up and rubbing his head.
"Are you okay Al?"the boy ran forward, having been hidden behind transmuted plants.
"Yeah, is Russel getting Ed?"he asked,standing.
"He should be, brother found a hole nearby, he couldn't see much out of it, but he managed to break it open far enough to jump down."Al nodded.
"Are you sure your okay Al? Winry said that you had a fever yesterday."
"Yeah, but I'm fine now, the important thing is that we get brother."Fletcher nodded.
"Okay, I'll take you to the hole."
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Ed felt...he couldn't describe the awful black feeling that had settled into his chest. What was the point in living? He might as well lie down and suffocate himself, it was what he deserved, after all, all he was doing was hurting Al...
"Ed?"he blinked, unable to see properly through his tears, blond short hair...Russel Tringham.
"Ugh..."he moaned, curling up slightly so that he couldn't see his nude lower half.
"Listen to me Ed, I'm going to pick you up, okay?"he didn't respond, half wishing that Russel would leave so he could lay down, the other half
"Guh..."he groaned as Russel picked him up, it hurt, but still, the embrace felt safer than Envy's grip, he didn't cuddle inward like his body seemed to want, but lay stiffly in the younger's arms, wondering when the sadistic homunculi would show up and kill them both.
"Russel! Did you find him?"was that Al's voice calling down?
"Yes, but he's in bad shape, he's not responding!"he wished Al would come soon, because he was to selfish to truly release his hold on the younger brother.
"I'm going to bring you up!"Al shouted down, he distantly felt himself being lifted up, but it didn't really matter, as long as he got to see Al again. somehow, in the few seconds it took to reach the hole, Ed managed to fall asleep, and very possibly dream.
AN: This chapter is pretty much a homage to what got me started on FMA, I mean, I had been watching SasuNaru vids and ended up watch "From the Ashes" one of the best FMA AMV's out there, but that didn't turn me onto FMA completely, I was still prett high in my Narutardation, then one day, I got over Naruto's awesomeness (Mostly out of boredom) and began to read FMA, but not before I watched one AMV that told me I absolutely had Read/watch it. An Edvy vid that covered what I believed to be Envy and Ed's past (In truth, it showed Ed's past and present, Envy's present, and Wrath, who freakin looks like kid!Envy) called....
I forgot, sorry!