Chapter 7
Abnormally normal again
…well I hope you enjoy this is just a typical disclaimer I do not own FMA and please R&R.
I stayed like that for awhile staring in both happiness and shock.
"This is what power we have." The white haired one they called father said. I was still looking at my arms even though I stared in disbelief I couldn't help but smile. I was now so much stronger then I was without them, so much greater. It felt as if a piece of me I had lost was now returned. "Now what will you give me in equivalent exchange?" he asked. I stopped smiling and I got to my feet. "That is how alchemy works, you know, everything is based on equivalence." I stayed silent and he responded. "Your powers will do as such a nice gift." He responded stepping toward me.
"When you're done can I eat her?" the fat one asked.
"Maybe gluttony but I might have another use for her." Gluttony looked sad but I staggered backward out of reach of Father, a scared expression covering my face. I regained my balance and then snickered and said.
"It's not that easy." I looked up to face all of them I said. "You see now I am whole again and I don't need equivalent exchange anymore. I made a condensed ball of snow that would expand and I chucked it at envy. It expanded and left a huge pile of snow that he had to climb out of angrily he yelled at me.
"Stupid water absorbed freak!" I snickered then
I tightened the position of my hands and breathed slowly as an ice ball began forming from nowhere flouting in the space between my hands. The one called Envy ran at me at top speed but I simply stood there smiling. At the last second the ice ball grew huge lighting fast and exploded into icicles as I shoved it toward him. As I jumped back several yards. That section of the room became enclosed in an ice cloud and no one could see. Or so I thought. I saw Envy's silhouette slowly emerge from the pile of ice as he got to his feet. I saw for the first time that his eyes were like scarlet glowing orbs that pierced through my thick smokescreen they were shaded red, blood red. This made me understand. Just because I could barely see doesn't mean they will have any problem. I looked over and saw everyone had those bright scarlet orbs for eyes. I took a step back and prepared to run but they ran at me the smoke screen used against me I couldn't see at all now. And the girl, Lust, ran at me grabbing me by the collar of my shirt, lifting me into the air. The smoke cleared I was lifted about 3-4 feet into the air kicking and screaming.
"Let go of me!" I cried out instinctively clapping my hands and throwing them at her. Fire burst out of them and she began to burn enclosed in the sea of flames. She dropped me but I landed standing as I watched her burn in my uncontrollable flames I saw May the little girl from my child hood the one I killed. Lust shrieked in pain turning into a strange type of blobby monster. I stared unable to move unable to watch…unable to look away.
"Lust!" the fat one cried in a childlike voice. As he and the palm tree tackled me to the ground my fire stopped and I snapped out of my daze, but it was too late they were too heavy and I couldn't get up Gluttony held me down but asking Lust if she was ok. Envy ran over to Lust and began helping her to her feet as she neared the end of regenerating. Wait regenerating? What were these things? Envy turned to me and kicked me in the side it knocked the breath out of me.
"Don't ever touch her again you hear me!" Envy shouted angrily.
I laid there for a second still pinned under gluttony's weight, but asked angrily. "What are you? You're just like Greed, you're not human what are you?"
"We're homunculi." Gluttony said cheerfully Homunculi! I thought alarmed in fear and shock. They were supposed to be myth a rumor. They weren't supposed to exist!
"Surprised?" Lust asked. I stared up at all of them their scarlet eyes glowing.
"I'll be having your powers now," Father said reaching down to grab me.
"NO!" I screamed in protest. "No stop let me go!" there was a huge crash and the wall closest to us about 13 yards away crumbled to the ground. We all froze and glanced over to see Ed and Al standing there. They surveyed the room and then their eyes fell on me.
"What are you doing? Let her go!" Ed demanded coolly as he and Al ran towards me. Envy met them ½ way to me and Ed quickly began to fight him while Al ran past them and tackled Gluttony throwing him off me. I got to my feet and stumbled away from everyone.
"Are you alright?" Al asked me. I nodded unable to speak immediately. After a few quick deep breaths I managed to choke out.
"Yea I'm fine." I looked at the homunculi and took a step back, about to run. But Lust shot a fingernail that was super long at me like a spear. I managed to bend to my left just in time because it missed my head by a matter of inches. I stared at it in shock and everything seemed to be in slow motion. I stumbled away from her gasping for breath, my heart pounding.
"Now be a good girl and come back here." Lust stated as she pulled her nails back into a claw, flexing her fingers threatening to run me through. I gritted my teeth and stepped back glaring at her in the eye, my green eyes met her red eyes, and they were filled with blood lust and were trained on me like a lion's trained on its prey. Lust pointed a finger at me about to shoot.
"STOP," Al yelled as loud as he could. Lust's spear came rushing toward me. I closed my eyes and shielded my face with my arms even though I knew my attempt was useless. I heard someone scream a blood curling scream that made my blood run cold, only for me to realize the scream came from me. I waited for the pain, the spear to pierce my heart but it never did. Slowly opened my eyes and saw Al was in front of me the nail shoved into him as he held it off sacrificing himself for me. I stared up at him in awe and I was grateful he was here.
"Al!" I cried out in joy.
"Run Bella." He demanded he took firm grip of her nail and pulled them out pointing them away from me. Ed glanced at me from his fight with Envy, in time to see Gluttony run at me. Ed prepared to pounce in and save the day for me but that would leave him wide open to attack from Envy. I tensed myself into a fighting stance. I muttered to myself.
"I won't cause Ed and Al are in trouble." Gluttony rammed into me but I planted my feet firmly in the ground and I only slid a couple feet backwards from the force and was able to hold him back as he chopped at me like I was food. I saw a tattoo on his tongue the same kind Greed had on his hand, and Lust had one on her….never mind. I looked over at Envy as he jumped into the air to avoid an attack I saw he had one on his leg. What was up with that? Do all homunculi have it? Better question how many homunculi are there? I freed my automail arm from his grasp and coiled my hand into a fist and punched Gluttony in the stomach. The impact pushed him back away from me a few feet. Then I clapped my hands and made an ice ball appear. I condensed it into an explosive and called out.
"Ed, Al, over here now!" they didn't ask questions but ran to me Ed began to watch my back and Al instinctively stood defensively in front of me. The three homunculi came running and I threw the bomb as hard as I could at them and it landed at their feet exploding sending sharp icicles everywhere and the homunculi were forced to jump back to safety. I charged toward Lust preparing fire in my hand. The red flame licked at my hand dangerously threatening to disobey me and run rampant.
"Get back!" Envy yelled at me and charged at me. "How dare you flame her!" I skidded to a stop as we came within feet of each other. I shoved my hands at him spilling my fire and Envy became consumed in fire. He shrieked in pain and transformed his arm into a long tough tentacle it was covered in my fire and he shot it at me it wrapped around my legs. The burning sensation encased me and burned my legs as he pulled and I fell to the ground my fire went out. Envy waited for about a minute as he let the fire that was sticking to him die out and he regenerated completely. Then he pinned me to the ground. I struggled but he kept my arms far apart and unable to move. Meaning I couldn't use alchemy or my element powers.
"Get off her." I heard Ed yell and I heard footsteps approach but Gluttony rushed past me to stop him. Meanwhile I tried to throw Envy off and managed to punch him in the face and nearly throw him off.
"Stop struggling." Envy growled through gritted teeth. I glared at him then kicked and made him loosen his grip a small bit and I seized the opportunity and broke free. Ed did some type of transmutation but it made the room start shaking and Ed, Al and I ran while the one they call father began fixing it and stopping it from falling.
We ran and ran until we were a safe distance away and where I was when I first met Envy disguised as William. Ed and I stopped to catch our breath and I was breathing deeply when suddenly, a metal fist came flying at me and hit me square in the face and I went flying backwards and slammed into the ground. I looked up at Ed as he rolled his shoulder and then turned to glare at me.
"You idiot, you followed them what were you thinking? You almost got yourself killed!" he turned away from me and said "Next time you goof up we won't come save you." I looked up at him my back sore and my body was aching and I didn't have the energy to fight with him. But his words stung. I knew it was my fault I had been tempted and bought because of the idea of having my powers. But I certainly didn't want to hear it from him.
"It's not my fault." I shot back "how was I supposed to know they were bad guys? The one guy transformed they were homunculi how was I to know what I was up against." My voice and anger rising. Ed shook his head.
"Pathetic, you were deceived so easily. Your past has made you weak Bella. If you hadn't been thinking of the glory of your past you wouldn't have believed them and fallen for their tricks. Leave your past behind and move forward you have two good legs." At that he turned away from me. I knew he was right, I had been selfish and because of that I almost got Ed and Al hurt. I got to my feet and Al said.
"We are almost late we better hurry brother. We won't want to face her if she's angry." Ed shook his head and they motioned for me to follow. We walked toward a restaurant I realized I still didn't know who we were supposed to be meeting.
The weather was nice and even though it was summer it wasn't too hot or too cold. When the restaurant came into view I saw a figure of a girl standing outside. She appeared to be waiting for someone.
She had long blond hair and was wearing a pink summer dress with a matching pink headband and a parasol in her hand. My eyes widened as I stared in shock I tried to remember the last time I had seen Winry.
The last time I had seen Winry she had been ready for work. With a wrench in hand a small shirt and a bandana she had been ready to work. Now she wouldn't be getting her hands dirty and she was dressed as if she were going on a date on a nice summer day, like today.
