I blew the sphere apart, sending smoking hunks of stone everywhere. Magnolia took over, ripping, tearing, and just killing in general! "This is it! Give it up!" I roared triumphantly. No one was left standing. I grinned, flapping my wings. I was headed to West City now.
West City HQ came as no problem. The soldiers were weak and incompetent. I moved on to South City. It too, came easily. I'd eliminated three-fifths of the military within a week!
The Briggs soldiers came as a problem. I destroyed only half on their force before I was forced to flee for fear of losing more of my souls. But I vowed vengeance. I would kill them! It was on to Central HQ now.
I slunk stealthily into the building. No one had seen me. But now, I heard a loud sniffing. Not like someone sneezing, but like a dog on the trail of something. "There! There she is!" crowed a sickly voice. I whipped around to see two people. One was an attractive woman, the other an incredibly fat man. "Can I eat her, Lust? Can I?"
"Wait a minute. Lust, huh? So, you're some of those people who intend to screw with this country using Alchemy? I only know one circle, and that's the one I was born of. But I do know that the circle that this country is smack-dab in the center of isn't good. I've seen it once before, and there were red stains on it. Lust. Envy. Wrath. Pride. You all looked in at me on one occasion or another."
"Yes. It's such a pity you didn't come out how you were supposed to. We had such high hopes, too." Lust sighed.
"And something is telling me that this is the Gluttony I heard Envy talking about. I know I'm right; he reeks of human flesh and blood, not to mention assorted other objects."
"Go ahead, Gluttony. Eat her. She'll make a mess of things."
I quickly jumped up and over Gluttony as he charged me. I stood a few meters away from Lust, waiting for him to charge again. When he did, I threw myself out of the way, and he almost ate her. "So what, you can't stop otherwise, but you can stop when you could run the bitch over?" I wailed.
"Why don't you just hold still? He's a fast eater."
"I'll take your word on it. Right now, I'm in the middle of a mission!" I snarled.
But her distraction had worked. Gluttony charged me again, and I was too slow to avoid him. I slipped down his massive maw, screaming and swearing, before landing in the sea of blood.
I didn't last too long down there. While I was a Chimera, I needed food and water. I quickly died, freeing all of the souls trapped in my body, left without one of my own. I was dead, true, but how can one die without a soul?
