Hey Black-Phinoex here! sorry for the long wait but I had a lot of trouble writing this chapter. It took three weeks to get it typed up on my laptop cause I wasn't sure where I wanted this story to go. I hope it was worth the wait. Another chapter that features the Elrics and werecats together but there is also Wrath and Envy in this chapter.
Italics: is a dream/memory that Envy is having.
Disclaimer: I do not in any way own FMA. I only own the werecat siblings and the plot. The Elrics, Wrath, Envy and any other FMA characters that show up in this story belong to Hiromu Arakawa.
Chapter 8:
A clear night, that's what it was. He was walking with his younger friend Wrath through the trees but then Wrath disappeared and he couldn't find him. Then he heard footsteps up ahead and thought it was Wrath so he kept walking assuming Wrath had just gotten ahead of him. Suddenly a hand shot out and grabbed his arm preventing him from going any farther. He looked behind him to see Wrath pulling on his arm and shaking his head as an inhuman screech filled the air. He looked ahead of him just in time to see a large black shape lunge at him and knock him to the ground.
Envy bolted upright with a pain filled, gasping cry. Weakly grasping his right side he struggled to get air into his paining lungs.
"Envy?" Wrathsaid as he walked into the room to see his friend in such a state.
"What's wrong?" Al asked coming to Envy's aid while his brother sat down on a chair by the window watching everything.
"I don't know," Wrath said reaching out to Envy, trying to calm him.
"He's having a panic attack," Ed said standing in front of the bed in Envy's line of sight. Suddenly Envy stumbled out of bed gasping and leaning against the wall for support he dashed out of the room and onto the dark streets.
"Envy wait come back," Wrath shouted as he and the Elrics ran after him.
"Gotta…get…away. G-gotta…g-get…a-aw-ay," Envy whispered weakly under his breath as he stumbled into the forest a kilometer from central. He kept going deeper and deeper into the forest unsure of which direction he was going in or where he was going. Envy was about twenty-five feet or so into the forest when he collapsed into a dirt wall that suddenly formed in front of him. He turned around and faced Wrath and the Elrics as he sat down on the ground facing the direction he came from.
"You can't go running off like that Envy. You're hurt," Wrath said kneeling down beside Envy.
"What the heck is wrong with you," Ed demanded coming to a stop right in front of Envy who was now looking off to his right.
"Brother he's hurt and scared," Al said coming to a stop right beside Ed.
"Gotta…l-leave…h-here…n-now," Envy said as he tried to make his body move towards Ed and Al.
"It's one of them," Wrath cried out causing the Elric brothers to look in the direction Envy had been looking in just moments before. Crouched down low in the long grass between two trees was a large black cat with piercing blue eyes. The large creature was growling and preparing to lunge.
"Now now Raven play nice," a soft cold voice said from above causing the group to look up into one of the trees above the cat.
"Rastani?" Ed asked in surprise as said man jumped down from the tree to land right in front of them.
"You know him?" Wrath asked from his kneeling position beside Envy who was now lying on his side.
"Yeah he was working at a bar Al and I walked into and we questioned him about the supposed cat creatures you saw," Ed said.
"If I recall right he said he didn't know about them," Al said.
"Yeah he also had two other people with him," Ed remembered.
"Yes two brothers," Al recalled.
"You called the cat thing Raven," Ed said to Rastani.
"Wasn't that the name of one of your brothers?" Al asked.
"yes it is. You see the cat creature is my brother Raven," Rastani told the group before him as Raven walked over to Rastani and laid down beside him growling.
"You're right Rave," Rastani said as he turned his eyes back to the group.
"He's right about what?" Ed asked.
"You see Raven let our little secret out," Rastani told them as he removed his shirt.
"Now what?" Al asked turning to his own brother as Rastani finished removing his clothes and started to change right before their horror filled eyes.
There it is chapter 8. Again sorry for the long wait. what will happen next. will Envy survive this encounter with Rastani? Will Wrath and the Elrics make it out okay? What will Raven and Rastani do now that their secret is out? And where is Blake? Find out the answers to these questions in the next chapter. Review and let me know what you think of the story.
Black-Phinoex!
