Hello! I'm back, yeah, it took a minute but this is it! Hope you enjoy
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Oh and a little heads up? This chapt. is sad, so do know...I told you so in the beginning, so NEH!
Chapter IX: Snapped
Everyday seemed like new. Greed had stopped sleeping in his room unintentionally, and continued to sleep in Ellie's every night since Lila had come back with psychotic fever.
Not like he was worry about his kitten, he just couldn't sleep right knowing that he was leaving her vulnerable to anything that could harm her, but what he liked most about it was he got to wake up everyday to the most beautiful thing he had ever laid eyes on. He continually had his arms around her every night, watching her as she slept soundly in his embrace, never getting sick of that cocoa scent that imbedded itself into her silky skin and into his pours. Even today he awoke with a sigh taking in the sweeten smell of her body, and inhaled it with a smirk spreading across his lips. He opened his eyes to the still kitten beside him and sensually began to kiss her exposed shoulder.
It was funny, he use to think she use to just slept in a pair of sweats and a big shirt like when they first arrived at the Nest all those years ago, but here she was, laying with her back to him in a pair of silk shorts and tank top. It was all just too perfect.
He continued to trail his lips down her shoulder till he pulled her body even closer till he could kiss the side of her neck brushing her hair to the side until her tattoo placed on the back of her neck was revealed to him. As much as he's only seen it once, he thought of it as a curse they both shared. With a furrow knit brow taking his face, his eyes filled with hurt before pressing his lips against it with light kisses finally getting the feline to awake with a soft moan, "Mm…Every time Greed…" She shuffled her feet under the sheets only to feet him continue to kiss the tattoo just above her neck bone, "Sorry, did I wake you?" As much as that was a stupid question, Elise knew he was just teasing to get her to smile and sighed blissfully at the soft kisses trailing to the back side of her neck, "What'd you think?" She mumbled quietly as she giggled trying to open her eyes from the sleep.
"Do I bother you?"
"Mm-mm…Not at all…" She sighed again only to wrap an arm around his neck, signaling him to continue. He gladly embraced her tightly to his body, tangling their legs under their heated blankets, "Good…" The sound of his lips smacking against her skin nipping and biting her shoulder echoed through the room until her skin had turned pink, "Don't mark me up too much this time. I still need to go to the store to get Hakuro food..."
"Is that so…Well I guess then everyone will have to know that you definitely belong to me…" His voice lowered oddly as he dug his nails into the skin of her arm. It didn't sound like him as a matter of fact, and it made Elise furrow her brows as she groggily opened her eyes and rub them of dust sleepily…
It was when she turned over she saw it was not Greed laying next to her, but a grinning old man she had never seen before. Her eyes bugged out in fear and she pulled the blanket down onto the ground with, but when she did that…Her entire room disappeared around her, leaving the panther in a world of darkness and one light that shined above her. She began to pant softly, feeling more fear settle into her body when she notice another light shine above the cloaked man. She noticed his matching golden eyes and hair, but still had no recognition of who he was or where he had come from, "Do you know what you purpose is in this life?" Even though she heard him clearly, she could only shift her sights between his eyes. They were so cold and frightening…There was literally nothing behind them and that left the kitten scared of what this man was…She could just tell he wasn't human. He was something else, "Did you not hear me child?"
"I-, I heard you…" Her throat strained when she spoke, but none the less, it pleased the man to get a response, "Then you do not know?" She shook her head holding the blanket she had even closer to her body when the man approached her shaking form. When he was hovering over her, he eerily leaned down to be inches away from her face, grinning, "It is to serve your father…" She almost screamed to his answer, but all she could do was shut her eyes, and prey that he would disappear; unfortunately for Ellie, that wasn't the case. Instead of that happening, another face was placed in front of her, "Come on, you don't think you can still be human can you?" It was Envy, which made her jump back with a gasp, "Stop it! Get out of my head!"
"Seriously, can you really believe that even one percent of you is human anymore? Or even a chimera for that matter? You far more advance sweet heart… You're one of us now." Even though she could see Envy in front of her, the kitten couldn't help the feeling that same man was still behind her, and being unusually right half the time, she was. He put his hands on her shoulders, and leaned down to reach her ear, "You should come home. Stop wasting time, we have much needed work to do, and we just can't do it with out you…Being with my rebellious son will only get you killed…And I can't allow that…You are too valuable to me…" She slowly turned around only to see him still grinning, until she swallowed her fear, and shook her head again, "No…I'm not leaving Greed…" That grin diminished quickly as his eyes glowed a deep red. He stared back with a pondering look on his face now, humming a little, "You dare to disobey your own father?" She glared back as she pant with anger getting the best of her, "You are not my father!"
"Oh, but I am…I created you, Ms. Elise… And I gave you a new life…And there are more important things to attend to…You need to come home…Obey your father!" His voice echoed into the darkness with his body's form and with an echoing laugh from Envy the jealous, the walls around Elise crumbled…Causing a loud shattering noise to echo and a million red faces to fly around her as they screamed out in agony. She could only cover her ears to them and crawl up into a ball as they cried at her to let them go; some cried for even loved ones and yelled in anger. This wasn't something that Elise had never experienced, and as the voices continued to call to her, the tattoo on the back of her neck started to burn, horribly. She hissed in pain, and whimpered grabbing her neck as the marking began to hurt even more until Elise began to cry out in agony as well…
"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!" She thrashed and, arched up in the bed over and over again till it woke up the Avaricious who was sleeping next to her. He jumped up shaking his head awake to see the panther crying out in agony, and yelling out curses, "Elise! Wake up! Elise, Elise!" As she slowly began to regain consciousness, her eyes that were once shut softened with her screams. Greed noticed the tears that stained her cheeks but still they continued to fall when she finally opened her eyes and looked around in a daze, "Ellie…?" She shifted to his voice, taking a moment to consume what had just happened to her and when she finally came to, the tears fell heavier than they already were, and soft sobs began to leave the girl's aching chest. She laid her head back into the pillow trying to hide from the Avaricious, but he wouldn't have it. He sighed in relief and gently pulled her into him, hushing her while he combed his fingers through her hair, "You've been on a roll babe I swear…" He chuckled to lighten his mood from the scare, and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, "Tell what happened…" You know, most girls that would've had as many night terrors as she did, would've been kicked out by now for ruining his good night sleep, but for Elise, she was a lucky one.
He could tell these weren't just any ordinary nightmares, since these ones were continuing to get worse, which worried him a smidge "I don't know…Some man…There was an old man telling me to come home…Envy was there…And they kept telling me things…And those voices…!" Greed's eyes gazed down at her with a little more worry in his eyes, "And all these faces…All these-," She gulped back, "They kept crying out at me, screaming at me to let them go! I don't understand…Why would they keep begging me to let them go?"
He knew all too well what she was talking about, and it alarmed him greatly. The avaricious had no doubt in his mind that it was his father behind this, and subconsciously, he held onto Ellie even more with a discreet growl in his throat. He couldn't tell he though, she would panic if anything, but he knew if he didn't, something would happen… He knew what his father would try to do to get he, but he refused to let it happen. He wouldn't let his father have something as precious as his possession, "So, the old man said he wanted you to come home eh?…" He asked most curiously, only to see that Ellie was shaking her head. Not at his question, but in denial, "I don't even know what that means! He said he was my father, but he's not. I'm so scared Greed…I've been having these dreams all week! They've been reoccurring and that can't be just a coincidence. I don't think I can take another one of those…There too much. I'm going to go insane from them, I swear." She too became frustrated by the situation, but she had stopped crying, which relieved the Avaricious. It let him know that she was still sane enough for him, and he smirked at the way she pounded her head with her fist.
"You're such a nut…It's alright doll, take it easy. We'll make them stop…Just calm down, I hate seeing you like this…"
"Sorry…I don't mean to be a burden…" She sniffled back and wiped her tears away when he suddenly looked down at the kitten with a funny brow, "A burden? You? Psh, those dreams must be really getting to you real bad huh?…"
"Yes…They-…They kept telling me things. They keep telling me to get away from you…" Now, he was pissed, he might've not shown it to Elise, but hearing that made his muscles tense with anger, "Don't listen to those voices doll, they're just nightmares."
"I know, but it just seemed so real. I just wish they'd go away…" He could already hear her drifting back to sleep again, and chuckled softly to himself before placing a kiss on her forehead. He cuddled her into him more and laid his chin comfortably on the side of her head, till he closed his own eyes again and mumbled to her, "Well, that's why I'm here beautiful." Elise heard him and smiled softly as fell into the deep sleep finally. He watched her sleep a little longer thinking of the dream she just had, and gave a very grim look up to the ceiling. He knew his father was watching, and he was somehow penetrating her dreams to get to her.
But he had faith in Elise. He didn't have much faith before having this woman around him…To make him think a whole different way. You won't get her father. She's completely and utterly mine…There's no way you'll get her to come to you without killing me first…That's just a fact.
Somewhere in a dark underground palace, the figure sat in a Alchemy chair just to walk over to a science filled table. Books were scattered on the table, and instruments of beakers and tubes bubbled with a kinds of colored liquids…The shadowed covered man heard every word that passed the homunculus' mind and gave a bored sounding sigh of disappointment as he looked up into the bright light above his head, "Oh my son…You really are a fool…" He left the table and walked back to his Alchemy made throne and sat down with a sour expression taking his face… "Envy…"
"Yes father…"
"There's something I want you to do for me…Before I decide to take such drastic measures in punishing your brother…"
"Alright…What is it?" Envy waited patiently for his father's answer, and with a close of his creator's eyes, he opened them again to give his son a sharp look as he told him his plan…
A couple hours passed when it finally hit mid afternoon. Elise was scanning through a few books in a store called 'Ton o' Book'. The logo might've been terrible, but the novels they had were collector editions. She had already gabbed an arm full still trying to ponder on which books she really wanted, and when she found a little too many she liked, the panther looked down to Hakuro who was just itching the back of his ear before back up at he stared back up at her with a small meow. She gave stifled giggle from behind her lips and took the hint that he was, indeed, bored, "Alright, let's go little one." She sighed quietly, and picked up the kitten in another hand, purchasing the books she picked on the spot, and headed out to the grocery store. Honestly, it was suppose to be her first stop, but the books just kept calling to her... She had to admit she did get a little distracted there for a second, but being back on track, she made it to the right store, and went inside with a sound of the bell announcing her entrance, "What can I get for you?" Elise told him what she needed, and got it on the spot. After she was done, she left with another thee bags in her arms, and the kitten still in another, the girl, waved to the keeper for his help, "Thanks a lot Joe!"
"No problem! You and Hakuro are always welcomed!" With a few last words in their farewell, Ellie made her way back home with a humming melody and a hope in her step. She was enjoying the bright filled day all that she could after the morning fiasco, and knowing that she was becoming familiar with the towns people of Dublith was helping heal the wounds of the night terrors she had been currently been having. In fact, even though no one knew what she really was, she felt that this place was becoming more of a home each week. It was a home she nee knew existed until she came to this town. And she loved it. She smiled to the towns people more than avoid like in her old home. She had helped out a small kid once that had got himself stuck in a well, apparently the little boy tried to each for his toy and failed…Well, he didn't know better, and remembering it made the girl stifle a giggle to herself as she turned a corner to take a short way home.
She knew that instead of going around the busy streets, taking the allies would just be so much easier for her to walk around with her ears exposed. She hated wearing the jacket on a sunny day, and taking off the furry hood-y is just what she needed. She sighed when the sun warmed her ears, but something caught the girl off guard when she lifted her ears to let the soft wind blow against them. It was refreshing, at least until she began to hear footsteps behind her, startling her to the point she dropped all of her groceries to the ground. They scattered before her feet when she noticed who it was, and exhaled with a huff, "Whoa, you scared me…I almost about ready to kill you…"
The person just kept the smirk on his face and chuckled, yet he said nothing, "So, you decided you wanted to help me?" He nodded slowly, making the panther cock a weird brow at him; he was acting-, off to her, "You're awfully quiet. Is something wrong?" He just shook his head, "Then speak to me Greed, you're freaking me out." She started to walk up to him, but just as she did, she felt Hakuro growl at the homunculus, and hiss in defense.
It got worse when Hakuro was yanked out of Elise's arm leaving four long scratches down her arm when he tried to hold on to her. The panther yelped in pain, and turned around to see who it was that snatched her cat, but only turned around to meet a hard object to the face. It was surprising to see her get knocked down so easily, but for considering she saw someone that she trusted, it was easier for the 'hired help' to take the chimera down. Little by little, in the panther's blurred vision, she could hear her cat's cries of help, while the sound of other voices only laughed as they crowded around her, "Yep, that's her alright…Let's take our prize boys…"
"Hey I think she's still conscious…" He eyes were scanning the blurs, but no faces looked familiar…The only voice that she recognized…Was Greed's, "Then smack her again, you fool." A few steps were taken and the whole world that Elise knew went black. The only thing she could remember was the feel of two hands pulling her carelessly by her ankles.
"Shit, this girl is taking forever to get back. My stomach's killing me…" Dorchetto groaned in pain, and flipped himself off of the couch and onto the floor with a groan of his stomach, "So…Hungry."
"Oh give it a rest will ya? She probably stopped by the candle store on the way there or something. You know her, she takes her time."
"And we have to suffer for it!" He whined back at the snake only to hear Greed chuckle as listened to the two's mindless bickering and sighed again when leaned his chin into his hand, "Say Bido…"
"Yes boss?"
"Do you know if the papers been brought in today?"
"I think it's on the counter." The lizard brought it to Greed to let his eyes quickly scanned the fine print. It took a minute but when he realized his break through a wild smirk curled onto his lips. He kept reading it until he was grinning and laughed as he got the new knowledge of the Elric brothers new accomplishment, "Ha Ha! Yes! This is it! Bido, do me a favor will ya?" Bido only smiled at his call and nodded, "I need you to go on a little wild goose chase for me." He showed the paper to Bido making sure he could see his target in the picture, "That boy is Edward Elric. The Full Metal Alchemist. I want you to follow him, see if you can't get any information on them and what happened with their fight in Central… I think there's a lot going on we don't know about, so let me know what you find…"
"No problem boss. I'm on it."
"Good." He praised his friend just before he slithered out of the Devil's Nest. The others in the proximity listened in and gathered around there leader, "I see ya got some good news?"
"Oh yeah. Wanna peak?" He tossed it to the pup with ease to let him read the paper, "Edward Elric, the boy we've been chasing around has come in contact with Scar in Central. Which means something happened and I want know what it is. So, I sent Bido on a little mission to keep an eye them."
"Good idea. Scar has been on the move recently, and according to the paper…" He looked to Martel, "They're seen leaving on a train this direction…"
"This is it boys…" Greed stood up from his seat, and stood to his chimeras with pride, "We're about to see what that armor boy is really about…If Ellie's hunch is correct, this boy is no ordinary one, and he might just have my answer to immortality…"
~Meanwhile~
She couldn't think, her head hut to the third degree and her nose felt broken. She was just waiting for her regeneration powers to kick in, but something felt off…She felt weak, and strung up a like a dead fish. Her feet even hurt for some reason, and it was beginning to hurt even more as she awoken to the color of blood. It was blood that she was seeing, and when she opened he eyes more, she sat up in a startle, panting and tying to see What it was on the ground just a couple of feet away from her.
She blinked a couple of times to clear her vision, and when she did, her eyes shot open wide and let out a quiet scream that was barely above a whisper. She then realized she couldn't scream and reached for her throat, but nothing was there. She just could speak, He nose bled a little more from the impact of that hard metal object to her face, and as she looked away from the sight of her dead friend…She hesitated to look back but when she did, she saw someone walking out in front of her. Staring down at her with a grin, "No…No,-…This is a dream…you're not real…" She denied it, "You're not real…" She tried to close her eyes again, but when she felt him lift her up by her hair, she felt that it was definitely all too real. And so was Hakuro being dead. She yelped out in pain crying even harder. She didn't understand why this was happening, or why she couldn't use her regenerative powers weren't working.
She noticed she wasn't getting any help either, and this was it. She had to try to get out of the chains of restriction, and as she tried she continued to call out god's name in whimpers, "God's not here pet…." She felt those words fill the inside of her mouth as he kissed her to the point that her lips bled, "Now, I want to play a little game…If you can show me a little more of those special abilities of yours…You live…If you don't…Well…" He laughed a little and smacked her face as hard as he could getting her to yelp out and flinch at the pain, "Then that's a bad call for you isn't it?"
She didn't know what to think, all she knew was that she wanted this nightmare to end. She wanted it all to end. But it kept going till she felt cold from the inside and out. She felt the inside of her ache till it shook her to the bone and when he was finished covering her lips, till he bit her lips till it pierced through the skin to make her yell out in pain, "Why! …Why! Just tell me why!" She tried to move but the feel of her pierced hands and feet caused her to wince and gush with blood. She pulled and pulled even when she hit her limit, and when she calmed herself again, the panther realized she couldn't regenerated properly. Her hands were already trying to regenerate themselves, but with her palms pierced through, it did no affect to fully heal. She would have had to rip her hands out of it to get free.
While she began to wiggle her fingers around, she noticed Greed look over to someone and instantly hands began to grab at her body in a rough manner to the point it hurt, "Hey! Get off of me! Stop it!….Greed? Greed!" She could feel her clothes being ripped apart, and felt her back twist in pain when she was beaten with the bat, listening to the sound of unknown men laughing and talking in almost riddles it sounded.
If she didn't do something soon, she was frightened of what would happen to her. She couldn't let the cruel act continue and she had to get away. Greed…Was everything he taught me-, just a lie? Was this all just an illusion to get my true form to break? Is this all he really cared about? My powers…. The more she dwelled in her thoughts, the more he head began to it hut, and so did he heat. Tears began to make themselves known, "Awe, don't be scared pretty kitty, it'll only hurt for a second, and who knows, if you're as strong as they say you are…You'll still be alive when we're done with you." She looked up glaring deadly at the man above her, noticing of all things what her wearing.
A white coat…All of them were wearing one, just like her parents did. Doctors… She then looked to the man she saw as Greed and wondered if he had truly lied to her this whole time to merely make her stronger for the Military's uses. He was never going to help me? He was lying to me this whole time…? He's a liar…He's a liar!
Before long she screamed out and pulled her hand out of the restraints causing her hands to gush more blood as she pulled he palm through the spikes. They were directly in her hands, and it hurt like nothing she had ever felt, excluding from the heart shatter in her chest, it was physically hurting her, bad. She pulled her hands even harder when she felt the men attempt to hold her down to the floor, hoping maybe she'd give in, and stop her struggling, but she used her gushing foot to kick them away as hard as she could. It hurt like hell but it was worth it to keep herself alive.
They attempted to hold down her legs but again it was useless, she was just too fast for them, and even when she couldn't stand on her feet, she used her leg, and forearms as leverage. A man this time tried to kick her while she was down, but only failed when she sprung over him and kneed him in the face, making sue that his entire head softened her fall.
Before long her powers were becoming out control. She sped up her strikes, and extended her nails to her advantage, cutting most of the men's legs off and their entire bodies as they came down like confetti; as she twirled, everything that she consciously knew was like acid to her brain causing everything she knew as a normal human being to diminish, and while this was happening, she was becoming even more angry…More enraged.
She almost felt as if she was falling into a dream.
How could Greed be doing this after promising to protect her? Something wasn't right. Something wasn't clicking in her to either wake up or to see the big picture, and that made her want to scream at the top of her lungs with wrath…
So I'm exposable. But what about Dorchetto? Martel? Bido and roa! And Ulchi, didn't they care? Did they even know what's happening to me! Her mind was going insane from everything falling on top of her, and in a bitter rage and heart ache consuming her form-…Out of nowhere, her pupils enlarged greatly, and she slowly began to pant gritting her teeth till her canine's began to show.
When she felt a surge of pain again, the white coats wee able to get a better hold of he and held he back down onto the circle once more, "No! Stop…Please stop it! Stop it!" Suddenly, a clap could be heard through out the place, and a large bright red light engulfed to the panther-, Ellie went into a world she had been only once before, and she nee wanted to go back. The loud cries of agony began to spin around her head till she felt her muscles tense up and her throat let out a roar of the same agony that her insides did, "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
The distorted face she had seen in her dreams consumed her deep into their cries and anguish. She could feel a sudden pain overwhelm her head and body to the point she felt magnetized to the ground, and all that fighting spirit she once had, diminished. Then, the world went white…The next thing Elise knew was there was a big ancient bulky door behind her and an odd shadow that smiled widely when it noticed her presence.
Back in the warehouse, her body laid lifeless before the group, and a long pause over took the kitten's surroundings…No one made a sound.
Then the girl awoke with the lost all of her humane common senses and felt a quenching need to feed on anything in her path.
On the souls that made her what she was…A monster. She could feel she wasn't the same anymore. She was no longer a chimera, and maybe not even a homunculus…She was something much more frightening and advance…Something with a hunger to feed on the weak hearted and hone a new found power he move eager side craved...Human souls.
He now amethyst glowing orbs scanned the room without even moving her eyes, seeing that 'Greed' had already disappeared leaving the rest of the men in the room with a very unstable subject. The room had suddenly turned into a color of red, and decapitated corpses took the floor around her. When the bright light had faded the scene another loud animalistic cry erupted from Elise's lungs.
"Any one else hear that?"
"No. You hearing things again?"
"No…! I'm serious…" The pup took a scent of the air and widened his eyes, "I smell blood."
"Come on Doro, everyone in here's a skilled fighter…"
"I know…But, its…real bad. It actually has a sweet scent to it." He looked to the blonde with a glare, and sniffed the air again, only to see the door open, and remembered about their friend that had still been missing in action, "Greed? Where's Elise?"
"Huh?" back at his comrade from the couch, "I don't know I thought she was upstairs in her room."
"What? No, she went out to go pick up the cat some food! But that was…over 2 hours ago!" That was alarming to them. No one had figured Ellie would be out for that long, and imagining that she hadn't come back yet, made Dorchetto and the others sort of worry even more about that small noise that he heard…And that smell…He couldn't help but think that he had smelled that scent of blood before…
"I think she's in trouble boss." The pup finally said.
"You think or you know?" He cocked a brow, all the while still staying serious as her rose from his seat, "It's her that I'm smelling… Something's happened!" The room began to fill with more worry now, and with a dark shadow looming over the homunculus' face, he agreed that it was time to go looking for his little kitten, "Can you track it down?" Greed asked running with his three comrades at his side, "Definitely, follow me."
They followed the pup throughout the city, till they came up to a deserted road to find an old industrial warehouse. They could see sparks flying from the lighting, and muffled screams seeping to the outside, "It's here, I can smell the blood like it's in my nose, it's pretty bad." Dorchetto plugged his nose to describe it…And it was pretty bad.
Greed didn't like this at all. He was walking up to the door preparing for the worse, and hesitated to put his hand on the handle. He closed his eyes and sighed…
When he opened them, she was there, laying on the ground in the middle of the dirty empty place. His eyes scanned the area around her seeing the damage that she had seemed to cause. He wasn't expecting the predicament of her naked body hunching over sitting in a pool of blood and dead body limbs. Her side profile was facing him, and all he could see was the blood, and Ellie's hands. His widened at what had happened to them and her feet.
She had pulled them out of the spikes through the webs, panting and staring up at the ceiling with a relaxed gaze in her now light purple filled eyes, that seemed to give the Avaricious a hunch to what just happened, but still he was shocked by the picture painted in front of him. Elise had completely lost it and killed up to 11 men in the most gruesome way you could imagine. The lights flashing above gave them all a good show of she had done, and what let them awed by it all was that Elise was covered in it all, "Son of a bitch…" Martel cursed with horror…
It was the panther slowly, and calmly blew the exhale from her lips and shifted her glowing amethyst over to the three standing by the door.
It wasn't like they were silent about their presence after all…She knew the whole they wee coming when she used her ears to hone in on them, "Elise…" The pup stepped forward, but Greed stopped him. Dorchetto looked to him to see a sour look consuming his face.
It was the only sign to show that the Elise they knew was dangerous, and maybe even gone, depending. And Greed wanted to be the one to see for himself what these monsters tried or had done to his panther. He slowly approached her, hearing his own foot steps echo through the empty place until he was close enough to see her enlarged pupils observing him. She tilted her head to the side with an threatening gaze making Greed glare down at her with a little observing himself.
"You alright…?" He asked carefully, but only to receive her pouncing and attempting to swipe at him. At first he didn't think he was hit, but when he looked down at his chest, he noticed she had sliced his chest open and was regenerated himself quickly from it, "Whoa! What was that for!"
She didn't answer him but merely roared out in a rage he had nee seen on her face before, well not since that day he saved from the Military. It was the roar of her panther DNA, and the instincts she had now, were not of her own. She was incredibly fast and when Greed attempted to shield himself, she had already got to him in the side, causing the homunculus to hiss at the gash she left behind, "Shit, what did I do? Hey!" His hands blackened quickly, to make sure he blocked another one of the young girls' ferocious attacks.
He actually couldn't believe it, she was actually trying to kill him.
For what it was, it must've been something bad, "Please just tell what happened?" He grunted blocking another attack before she stabbed him right in between the joints of his arm. She threw him down to the floor, straddling his hips when she leaned over his face, and dug herself deeper into him until he grunted and clenched his teeth at the pain, "You were there…You should know! You watched me struggle and call for you! I screamed for you! And you stood there and watched! And those restraints…." She glared at him and tried to stop herself from crying. She felt so damage she could only back away from him.
But she couldn't stop shaking her hands in front of her or stop the horrible chills rolling on and off the back of her neck as she clenched her teeth till they grinded,"-and ripping my clothes…and they held me down to a circle! And that red light! It was the same one I saw as a kid! You let them have me to do something else, so what was it!" Her voice was warped and her eyes burned into his with tears of rage he had never seen on her before. It wasn't like the first time she went off on his siblings.
…No, this was one that had him on his toes awaiting the unknown. She was after all considered unstable at this moment, "I don't know." Was the last thing he responded before Elise suddenly stopped crying and raised her head up with a lick of her lips and giggling at him.
Greed was starting to feel like he was dealing with nothing but crazy people the last few days, but hey, what else was new?
Elise stretched out her hands into the air, and gave a sigh filled moan as she slowly back flipped onto her hands and back up onto her feet with an eerie grin, "But that's okay…It was invigorating, no? Doing all this to see what I really am inside…And out." Elise looked crazed and distanced from this world for a moment as she looked at her claws with delight, and looked back to Greed as she sharpened them against the wall, making annoying screeching noises that pierce their ears and the ground shake beneath their feet, "So tell me boss, What's next…? Little one on one sparing to see what I can do? See if I have some new ability? Is that what you want to see?" She taunted with a seductive tone to her step that even sent a chill running down his spine.
Of course, it was more out of arousal than fear.
She stopped in her steps for a moment and tauntingly pressed her tongue up against the roof of her mouth till she licked the blade of her claw with her appendage and grinned at the other homunculus.
Okay, he had to admit, if she wasn't trying to attack him right now she'd be even sexier when she did that, but considering the circumstances, luck was not on his side. He hated this, and he was going to find out why she was trying to kill him; Of all people to get the short end of the stick, it just had to be him, "I don't understand why you're doing this, just tell me what exactly I did!"
"Come on Ellie, whatever it is we can talk about it!" Her friends even tried to stop her, but words wouldn't work on her. Elise was far too gone. She ran at Greed on all fours with lightening speed knocking him over onto his back a couple of times before she took a swipe at him that had him up against a hard object, "Shit, a fucking wall? Of all places…" The homunculus grumbled trying to get back up on his feet, but when he did the panther just jumped onto his back and attempted to bite his neck where the pulse laid; luckily her canine's only grinded up against his shield and getting Elise to growl before taking a swipe at his head. The shield protected him just in time for that as well. Fuck, she's faster…
He growled and reached up to grab her from the back of her neck like a real cat and dug his nails into her until she screamed out and threw her off until she fell to the floor, struggling slightly as she stood up again, staring back at Greed and his agitated expression, "Enough! Elise, you better tell what the hell happened, right now before I loose my temper. I don't want to have to hurt you." He could tell this was going to get ugly, and from the way she was acting, he was going to stop this as soon as he got the chance.
"It's a little late for that! You know exactly what happened!" His eyes widened at her, "What, no I don't! I've been out looking for you dumb ass!" He yelled back at her just as frustrated, how could he have known what happened?
He began to fear the worst when her eyes began to fall with pain with that deadly darkened color absorbing her eyes,"No! You brought me here!" She screamed with tears starting to gloss over her eyes till they stained her cheeks. Again the ground shook, but this time with more force, What the hell is that?
"Isn't this what you wanted! You wanted me to be myself! Well here I am! In the flesh!" There was a short pause between the two before Greed attempted to answer, but only no words would follow. So then Elise vocalized herself, "What am I Greed?"
"What're you talking about? You're Elise." He argued back calmly.
"No! That's not what I mean…What. Am. I."
"You mean a homunculus?" She shakily doubled over in with her arms around herself, "No, these-, things inside me…These distorted faces that keep screaming at me! We said they were just nightmares, but if so, then why are they real! Am I going insane! Is that what it is? Am I losing my mind, Greed!" Her eyes stared straight into his hoping that was it. He knew the answers; Of course he knew, "No, you're not crazy."
"Then what is it? I want to know what's causing me to see these horrible things…What are they?" There was a sudden silence that Elise didn't like and she screamed even louder putting her hand to her heart, "I'm sick of not knowing, damn it now tell me what are they!"
"It's the philosopher stone!" He finally exclaimed loud enough for her and everyone in radius to hear him. She was silent, but gathered her thoughts long enough to ask one thing she never knew about that stone, "What's the stone made of? Why are they testing the stone on people and animals like this! Does everyone with a stone inside them see these things?" She was crying and yelling so hard that her voice rasped and ached. She swallowed hard waiting for him to speak, but before he did, he let down his shield and walked up to her, slowly, "No, not everyone…" He froze for a millisecond but then continued to move towards the girl drenched in red. He tried to stretch out his hand to her, but she only flinched to the action, "Ellie…"
"Don't…" She wept lowering her head with her eyes flickering between reality and sanity.
Greed scooted his foot forward steadily, but she just put a foot behind her, "Just tell me what they are…" She finally whispered getting him to pause and frown with such a grim expression that it made Kitty's spine tingle, "You really want to know? Will it make you feel better if you found out?" Another pause took the room, "How about this." He crossed his arms over his chest with a plan to lighten his mood, "I'll tell you, but only if we can talk...Calmly! Without attacking each other-,"
"I-!"
"Yes or no? I'm not giving you any other option Elise. We can do this rationally, just calm down and think about what I'm saying." He wasn't playing around. He wanted an answer, and Elise just growled deciding she'd answer without a smart retort, "Yes! I want to know!" He looked into her eyes to make sure she wouldn't back down, and when he saw that she was ready, he let her have it, "Human souls."
"What…"
"Human souls Elise. People that were killed for the stone are inside those little pebbles that you parent used on god know how many times."
"N-no…" She was shaking her head not wanting to cry, but she did, and Greed just nodded his head to confirm his words of truth, "They are. Those souls were made in the Ishval war, and were given to various subjects to test out its stability…You were one of those subjects babe. I hate to break it to you like that. I'm sorry, but that's the way it is. I didn't know you had no clue, if I did, I would have told you from the beginning. I just assumed you already knew."
"I didn't know! How could I-, I said it was used on me when I was a kid, but other than that I never knew it was made of people! Of souls!…How many?"
"Souls?"
"Yeah!" He sighed and leaned up against the closest thing to him wondering if he should tell her more, and not thinking to had in his mind, he only thought it would've been wrongful of him to hide the truth from her. He would've felt guilty about it either way, "What can I say Ellie girl, you need the lives of thousands depending on how many wars we've already had.…Maybe millions even…It's very complicated."
"Try me." She retorted.
"If anything you can always ask your father the day you find him. Remember? That was the goal to become stronger, but not like this. I never wanted this for you. I wouldn't kill you're stupid cat over a small ordeal like you getting stronger, I knew you could do it on your own!"
"But I saw you! You were the one that told me God wasn't here, and had those people hurt Hakuro and showed me the souls of all those people!"
"No…I wasn't."
"You smelled of something else though. I couldn't tell…" She couldn't even speak she was shaking, and crying so much that she could barely breathe. She looked so damaged it left him wondering if she would just break to his touch, "I promise you Elise it wasn't me…Just-, Look at me…" The Avarice attempted to cup her shoulders, but she ripped away from him the moment she felt his hands, "Don't touch me!" All he could do was back off and raise up his hands in defense, "Alright, just calm down. So, if you don't want to tell me, then tell them what you saw…Tell them what happened…"
Ellie looked over at the three standing by the rusted entrance, and from what they could see, she was mellowing out, "It's okay Ellie, we're here for you." Martel put out her hands to her showing it would be okay.
Elise swallowed hard, and tried to stop her tears from falling or her throat from aching but it was all too much, "Hakuro…" Was all she could say before breaking down into tears, sobbing had as she looked over to his little form in the distance with his eyes closed so peacefully. They couldn't even look at the poor thing, he was just so horribly mangled that it left a gruesome feeling in the pit of everyone's stomach. They wanted to know who had done this, and make them pay for stooping so low as this.
"Bastards, they figured they didn't need the cat, but kept him in view to make sure they had just enough leverage to do…Something." But what? Greed grunted looking away to spit at the floor, mentally cursing in his head to the bustards back in the Military at what they had put his kitten through. He may have not liked cats as pets, but this? This was just their cruel demented way to break her. Well, they sure did a great job of doing that.
After a moment of silence the only thing that could be heard was Elise's legs collapsing to the floor and weeping out for Hakuro, "Fuck!…Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck-, Fuck!"
Everyone was silent. What could they have said to heal the wound right now. Nothing, not even Greed had anything to say. He couldn't understand this kind of sympathy, but he still could see it broke her; apparently someone looking like him had planned in doing just that.
It made the homunculus think long and hard about who it could've been…When it hit him, "You said it was me that did this?" She didn't say anything, but he continued putting his hands in his pockets for a moment while he strolled over to her. He had this look in his eyes that filled with knowledge of knowing, "I might know who you saw. And it wasn't me I can assure you that."
"Yeah right and I'm the gingerbread man…Who else dresses like you Greed, who else wears the same fucking glasses, and who else wears the same face as you! Nobody!" She retorted bitterly revealing her fangs at him, he stayed unfazed and hunched down by her side, sighing as he rubbed his face, "Kitty, was there anything I said to you when this happened, if I was technically there?…Did I give you a reason why I showed the souls?" She didn't want to think about it, but in asking the question it made her wonder what else he had mentioned in his attack, and slowly...She gave in, "I-, I didn't believe it was you…But then I saw it-, it wasn't a dream…I knew I was awake-, and the circle…It was the laboratory all over again… But no, you didn't say anything unusual. Just that God wasn't here…And when you were close enough I could tell thee was something off about your smell. It was unlike you." She trailed off not wanting to say much after she hunched over covering her lips with her finger tips.
From where Greed could see, it was apparent that her lips and even some of her cheek were bruised, like she had been beaten… Maybe even tortured. His heart literally clenched in his throat at what might have been and widen his eyes getting to his knees to see more of the damage, "No!" She attempted to get away, but he wouldn't let her go, "He hurt you…" He growled tightening his grip on her shoulders, "Please…Haven't I suffered enough?"
"It wasn't me doll! I keep telling you that! If you really want to know who did this, then I'll bet you anything I can tell ya!"
"Then who was it?" He felt her stop struggling feeling relief to it when he sighed, and patted her shoulders, "Who you thought was me-," He trailed off giving her a stern gaze as his eyes locked hers, "Was actually Envy."
"Envy…?" She was stunned.
"That's my hunch." He looked down at their feet just before looking back up into the kitten's curious eyes, "I should've mentioned this before, but Envy has an ability to impersonate anyone...And I mean anyone. It's one of his specialties that he uses to manipulate the Military. Actually, if you can believe it? The little rat was the one who started the Ishval war. He disguised himself as a soldier and killed a little girl to start it's rebellion."
Elise was still trying to take it all in. He could see it with the way the pupil of her eye flickered her once bright greens, "So…It wasn't you-, You didn't do this…?" She sounded a little relieved almost to the point she broke back down into tears again.
She felt humiliated. How could she have let them get to her like that! She covered her face from him in shame and shook trying to hold back her mixed rage and heart felt emotions, "Oh god…I just tried to kill you…What have I done?" She cupped her hands around her head, trying to grasp the mind fuck that she had become victim to.
Greed didn't blame her though. He couldn't even if he wanted to. He should've expected this, and told her about Envy's ability. With that knowledge, she…No, he could have prevented this. He could have stopped Envy from hurting his possession, and the more he looked down at her the more it made him sick to his stomach to know that he wasn't able to protect her.
He could only think of the worst that could have happened, and when the Avaricious calmed his clouded mind, he took Elise's hands from her head and into his own with a tender hold, letting his thumbs rub the tops with a soft caress.
She let him hesitantly at first, but then felt him kiss hers hand as he laced their hands together, making all the anger inside the girl almost diminish from her wounded heart, "I'm so sorry doll… I should've told you. I should've protected you…And I couldn't-,…I didn't." His voice was so full of a regret that made the kitten look up at him, seeing the hurt that came with it.
How could she not believe him after this… He never said sorry…Not much at least. And for him to say it twice was just, a once in a life time thing…She could see he really had no idea about what had happened to her, and only wanted to believe him with all of her re-swelling muscle that was pounded within her chest.
She could feel her eyes burn with tears again, and in seconds she had broken down, shaking her head in shame just before she collapsed herself into his arms, hiding into him as she shook like a leaf. He didn't hide it, he held her back as tight as he could to feel her body cry against his, "No, I'm the one who's sorry…" She wept.
"For what?" He coaxed her gently, petting her ears back against her head feeling her hands tightened to his back, "I almost killed my best friend…I was just-, so scared. And I couldn't control myself. I couldn't control my actions or my emotions. I felt…Like I wasn't even in my own body. " She cried even harder to make him chuckle a little.
He knew he had to have a soft spot because a part of him broke when she said that. He let deep sigh released from his nose and lifted his eyes to the ceiling to think of something to say, "Well, I can't be mad at you if it's not your fault …I mean, you did think it was me and that I've betrayed you..."
"If anything-, I betrayed you, Greed. What would've happened if I'd kill you?" She asked worriedly only to be stopped when he lifted her chin with his tattooed hands and captured her lips with a soft kiss, "Do I look like I can die so easily?" He kept that same smirk on his face until he shined his teeth at her to hear her sigh and close her eyes with relief. She leaned into him, hugging him as had as she could feeling him do the same, "How many times do I have to tell you I only want to keep you for myself? To be mine?" A small smile was brought to his face while hiding his words into her hair to keep his them at bay and to have his nostril fill with the smell of rotting blood.
He hated that scent now more than ever since it'd coated and seeped into her skin; no more did she smell of chocolate, but of rancid copper.
"I'm truly and utterly sorry." She whispered again feeling guilt overwhelm her, and nuzzled her face into the warmth of his body, "I feel so stupid…Used. I never knew my life could be full of chaos. I just want it all to stop and let me be." An intense sensation pierced through her heart, and she looked up, only to get Greed to assist her in pulling her into his arms bridal style. She winced, getting himself to ease off her and rest the kitten against his chest more, "Come on, I think you'd had enough of this." He said beginning to carry his kitten to the door, but only to stop when he saw that frightened feature cross her face, "What about Hakuro…We can't leave him-,we can't…"
The others look to each other for an answer, only to have Dorchetto be the first to respond after he felt an overwhelming guilty for the little babe, "Boss, we can bury him. It wouldn't take long."
"Are you nuts? We don't have time for that-," Dorchetto stopped him only to silently point back at the kitten in his arms who was pouring tears out of her eyes like streams. He couldn't do it if she looked like that, and with a roll of his eyes, he sighed, and shook his head at the shit he had to put up with.
"I'm just too damn nice. Alright, we'll bury him…But then we go! She needs to get out of the cold,…and into a bath or something… Damn Elise you reek!" After hearing that, Elise could only softly smile, and lay he head against her boss's chest with a content feeling inside her heart, "Thank you…"
Roa got a small cloth from one of the old machines a took the kitten into a small box…
Dorchetto dug the hole while Martel helped, and when they were deep enough, they buried the slumbering kitten, and gave Elise her time to say her good-byes to him.
It took them over an hour before they could leave, and by then, the gray clouds has settled above the sky and the rain had begun to pour down, washing away some of the blood on the panthers body by the time they got to the Nest.
Geed made he a bath, letting her undress where ever she felt fit, "Okay, whenever you're ready baby doll. Just don't drown in there." He thought joking would help, but apparently it didn't do any good. She didn't even respond when he spoke, all she did was sit on her bed looking down at the filled water bowl near the feet of her bed, as she let small tears fall silently down her face, one by one until she sniffled to hide the tight sensations swelling within her throat.
Greed wish he could say something to numb the pain inside her but what could he say? He could say she wasn't to blame for Hakuro's death, but how without causing her to drown in her own tears!
Damn it this shit was never his strong suit, and he hated it when a woman cried like this, especially Elise, "Come on Kitty, you need take a bath whether you like it or not. I mean, look at you." She didn't answer at all, not even with a nod, which made Greed stare at her for a moment before he made his way over and tilted her gaze up to his.
A lass, it disappointed him when he noticed he eyes had not return to their natural born color, but he tried to give her the sweetest smile he could muster and caressed her jaw line with his finger tips, "If you don't, I'll have to wash you myself." He tried to see if she would react, but not even him taunting her made her smile. She was just-,…Gone! She was gone and he couldn't do anything to bring her back. He frowned, and shrugged his shoulders to waste no time undressing himself.
Not like he needed to do much, he just pulled off his vest…Then his boots, and pants…
She noticed none of this, only to have Greed keep his eyes on her in hoping and realizing that he was all but serious about what he meant.
She knew that. She just couldn't come to feel anything, not even to be embarrassed or shy by him taking off his clothes.
When he was completely naked he picked her up in his arms, and carried the limp kitten into the shower only to feeling as she wrapped her arms around him for support, and tenderly nuzzling her cheek to his chest to her sign of affection that she was missing.
And that was definitely one thing he liked about her; she eventually came around to him. He hesitated at the feeling, but smirked down at her when he saw the knitted brows and guilt on her face and smirked even softer when she looked up at him.
He then brought her filth ridden body into the water to watch most of it swirl down the drain. When he attempted to put her down, she wobbled back into his arms only to have Avarice chuckle, and place the water directly over shoulders. It made the panther gasp at first at the stinging feeling of it working into her frozen fingers and toes, but then she sighed softly as she placed her head and face into the water and washed away what blood was stained to her skin.
Greed watched her, dazing off at her naked form as it was revealed to him... She had such a beautiful frame, and became even more luminous when she slowly tuned around to face him in an attempt to clean out her hair. Her strands spilled smoothly over her shoulders to her back. She had finally cleaned her face to show him those bruises from before and when he saw the one on her lips the homunculus had to ask his most fearful question that had been bottling up inside him, "Did they-,…" He cooed to her, reaching out to cup her face with both of his hands as he licked his lips with a frustrated look that certainly told her what he was trying to ask.
But she shook her head looking away from him, with a relieved smile on her lips, "No. They didn't…" She voice cracked when she spoke. He could tell from all the screaming and today's hostel kidnapping, the last couple of hours had done a number on her vocals, making it sound hoarse. She sounded strained and very raspy to the point she could only whisper, and when she felt like crying, it only strained her voice more.
She didn't have to say much more, Greed understood, and kissed her lips so softly he barely felt them against his own as he silenced her, also making sure she couldn't break to his touch.
Seeing her like this, made his eyes sore and his chest hurt so deep that it pounded against his chest thinking of what that bastard could have done to his possession, and it worsened to make him even more pissed when he saw that Elise's body showed a lot more black and blue bruises when the he had rinsed away the blood and dirt with the shower head. It made his blood boil and his head pound with such a passion hate that he could only glare at the wounds and ever so gently rubbed the kitten's tender skin, "Bastards…I'll kill that monster Envy a thousand times over for ever putting a hand on my valuable ." His voice dripped with venom while his eyes held the same viciousness that got Ellie to suddenly tremble in his hands. When she saw how angry he was starting to get, she couldn't help but feel he heat fill with a fear that made the panther latched he eyes close and hide he face away in his chest.
She didn't like seeing him get this way, it was scary and she didn't want him dying on he account. She remember what happened last time he tried to fight his siblings.
Suddenly, out of the fear swelling inside her, Elise let out small quiet sound of his name, that eased the homunculus from his once rising anger. She attempted to hush him tenderly when she heard him growl under his breath, and stopped him when she held onto his shoulders with a tight and affectionate embrace, "Don't just-, stay here...Don't go anywhere…" She gave him those big kitty cat eyes that practically made the Avarice melt inside, "Don't leave me…" She then curled up into him and laced her fingers in his with one slip of he hand , "Oh doll…" He looked down with a melodious face, and moved his eyes down her face and body, studying very curve inside and out, with all of its pefection and flaws. But, as many times as he had seen her like this in his arms, he hated that it was again because she was in pain.
For once he wished she could be in his arms…Content.
…Even when she lost herself in fury she was the hottest thing rising. And that body…He knew she had to be his from the start, and this? This was one of those times Greed knew he shouldn't have been thinking the way he was right now, but…he did. He was thinking how much he wanted her… Just the way her body reflected in the light, and the way her eyes burned brightly when she was barely there… It was hard not to take his eyes away from her.
He wanted Elise to belong to him and no one else…Whether he showed it in front of the girl or not, that's just how it was. His Avarice owned him.
He began to look down at her hands with an effortless gaze. The hands had healed fully, but only to leave memories how he remembered seeing them. Severed, split in two from between the webs of her hands, in agony, and in pain; from the inside out, no doubt. It made him feel lower that shit for some reason, and with a caress of her now fully fine hands, he began to leave sensual kisses down the tops of them and all around her fingers till he reached the tips.
She couldn't help it, Elise was caught staring at him while he continued to trail down her wrist and forearm with light pink cheeks to make her angelic face glow. When he reached her elbow, he looked up into her eyes and lightly smirked at her, feeling a tranquility finally come between the two when Ellie decided to contently smile back. She was happy to be with him, he could see it. Whatever those ass wipes tried to do to her…It didn't work…She's still mine… He could feel his desire for the woman unfold with an anxiousness that the homunculus never knew he had when he came to the conclusion that she was still his most loyal companion…
Companion…? He mentally snorted to himself, and placed the sponge at her back again, and continued to wash today's events away from her body until she was completely clean. The only thing left behind were the cuts and bruises embedded into her entire frame, from her torso, to her limbs, hips, and thighs. His eyes ached when looked at them, and while he continued to see them, Greed felt that the sight of her made him enraged; angrier until he began to grit his teeth without acknowledging it.
What he didn't understand the most, was why she was still so badly wounded when her hands and feet were without any of their severe repercussions. Was her hybrid-like being now with flaws such as this or was it from the alchemy those shit heads used on her to change her combined DNA.
He didn't seem to realize it, but by the time he was done thinking, she had fallen asleep against him. God only knew why she knew how to do it standing up, but the woman must've been so exhausted that she had just gave out, breathing silently with her hands curled up under her chin.
Greed laughed softly at how much she would continuously act like a cat, it was just really something to see when she was asleep or awake. With a simple wave of his arms the strong homunculus carried the kitten out, bridal style while trying to be as gentle as he could bring her out. Babying her.
It was the same thing that had been bothering him since he felt so amorous for her. He had washed her, clothed her, fed her, kissed her, slept with her. He done everything but fuck her and it slightly weird him out knowing that, but what was he going to do? All he could do was wash his face and hope that he would stop feeling like a tweaker.
That's what she was-, like his own little perfect drug, no matter if she had night terrors, and acted a little like a damsel in a twist of fate…Which, in a way he liked it. It was never dull running around with his 'Elise the Great.' It was the most fun he'd had in years, being with her.
Was that really a bad thing?
Letting his mind take a break he suddenly remembered something else. The Full Metal Alchemist; he was suppose to be coming soon, and on awaiting Bido's report, he began to plan a day where the Alchemist would make an appearance to see them. He even began to ponder if he should let Elise be the to plan out the meeting.
It might have been too early to tell, but she was one of many who were good at blue printing when no one else could, and putting it in her hands, he could trust her to find the better hiding places to spring a surprise attack.
After an hour had passed, he looked to the clock and then to the girl he had been thinking about this whole time. He sat on his side of the bed looking at the back side of her slender body. Her polished peach colored skin glowed in the moon light just like her tantalizing eyes that flourish with the two shades of green he could find. Her full pouted lips that she constantly bit on when she felt embarrassed or craved chocolate.
He hated it when she did that. She didn't seem to know it that she was a natural tease for him and the longer the days went by without sexual intimacy, the more he wanted to ravage her in the most inhumane way…
The homunculus way.
It killed him not being able to do touch her like he wanted, and now, because of those assholes he couldn't do a damn thing until she was healthy and healed. He growled at his own desires trying to keep them in check just before rubbing his eyes of much needed sleep to counter act his untamed thoughts and he took one last glance down at Ellie, and shook his head as he shut off the lamp.
He turned over to meet the kitten's back, and wrapped his thick arms around her till his hands laid out against her aching thighs.
Greed could feel them throbbing and brought himself even closer to her until his hands consumed her entire thighs in his big hands. He caressed them slowly and carefully, hoping it was helping in taking some of the soreness away. It apparently was working since Elise began to breath raspy and uneasy to the sensation of him rubbing and moved her hips to adjust herself against him. When she did, it was enough to make the Avaricious smirk at the action, and kiss her jaw line. He suddenly felt an uncontrollable hunger building up inside him, and kiss her exposed shoulder.
Then his eyes began to travel down her chest until he came upon her cleavage that poked up just above the rim of her hugging tank top.
He never got tired of what she wore, whether it was for herself or for him they always seemed to make more tantalizing with every passing second. Her body was slowly calling out to him.
Without thinking he had began to scan his eyes over the other parts of her limbs and skin, only to be reminded of the bruises that still blotched her peach cream skin. Being very apparent to Greed, he drew the markings with his eyes and kissed the few that he had found with a tender softness.
He couldn't help it, he wanted them to go away. He felt like it was his fault that this happened and punished himself by kissing them away with his lips. She didn't wake up, but she did swallowed back mumbling incomprehensible words to herself that only made Greed laugh softly into her hair, "God I love you." At the same time he thought it, the words had slipped from his mouth without notice.
It was the second time he had done this, and like before he was flabbergasted by what he did only to sit up in the bed and fall back onto the hard wood floor, "Owe! Damn it…My ass…"
I-,…I can't believe I just said that out loud! What am I high? He couldn't believe himself. His actions wee not his own. To him it didn't feel like it. He would have never said that to any other woman.
He wondered if it was just because they hadn't had sex.
Oh yeah, he knew alright. Ever since he had become submitted to the panther, he had no urge to have a desire for another woman. Just her. And it sucked because she already rejected it once. Would she reject it again? Or worse, because of what Envy did, had he ruined his chances to be with Elise all together? Fuck!
On the inside, he really wanted sex to be the real reason for what he said, but he wasn't even sure. Why would he have said thosewords instead of something more vulgar?
…I wonder…Did I-…Mean it?
He tried to see if she had awaken from his fall, but lucky for him, she hadn't. Instead, she turned to face him, and sighed to herself attempting to find him in her sleep. Greed silently laughed seeing he hand searching for him and laid back in the bed stealthily before she noticed his absence.
She immediately cuddled up into him and nuzzled he head into his shoulder as she fell back into the deep sleep.
Even when Elise slept, he thought she looked so content and peaceful, as if all the things that had occurred, didn't. His paranoia had subsided just by looking down at her and when he did, he decided to take some time on this new scattered question that spread throughout the four corners of his mind.
He was just so into the moment that he didn't realize he said until it was too late. At this moment, he wasn't sure if that's what he even truly felt. This was something he'd never let happen intentionally, it was all just hitting him a mile a minute. All he could was sighed and close his eyes to re-focus them on the moonlit kitten next to him.
It hit her skin making it sparkle in the natural light, and her hair glowed like silk. He must've been stupid not to slightly admit inside himself that he had an attachment to Ellie. Yeah, he knew he had fallen head over heels for her. He just couldn't let anyone know…Not even Elise. He wouldn't never admit to 'belonging' to someone.
Suddenly, Greed felt Elise move and looked down to see the kitten opening her eyes to him. She blinked at him for a moment and closed her eyes again to cuddled up higher into his arms.
"I fell asleep in the shower…" She asked drowsy, getting the older homunculus to chuckle, "Sure did."
"Mm…" He assisted in making her comfortable in his arms, but when he did, she hid her face into the crook of his neck, and bit a tender spot that laid just above his pulse, and Greed chuckle heavily, "What was that for?" He had to ask, curious to her sudden playful act, "Nothing, just wanted to do it." She murmured sleepily, "You're so strange."
"Not as strange as you…" She retorted.
"Feeling a little better are we?" He nuzzled his lips to her ear not being able to help that fact that he was smiling, "A little…" Suddenly he rolled Elise's onto his body, and cupped her drowsy face in his hands, "You want to know something?"
"What?"
"If it'll make you feel better, think of his death this way. He died protecting you. Hakuro was loyal to you and cared about you enough that he gave up his life to keep you safe…He was an honorable animal and died living like no spoil cat I have ever seen." Elise smiled a little and nearly tearing up again when she heard that. She opened her eyes more to see Greed giving into a smile and kissed her forehead tenderly, "He's at peace Ellie. I can tell you that much. Compared to what they could have done to him…He went damn peaceful, I can guarantee you that. You don't have to worry about him being in pain."
"Thanks…" She whispered to him softly when he was finished, and as she laid he head into his shoulder again, she embraced him from around his back, listening to his being and all their surroundings just to feel his own hands rub up and down her blades and back with the sensual touches of his fingers, "You have such soft skin."
"I'm so glad you think so." She giggled so softly that her breath barely brushing passed his neck, "Mm, I was just making an observation." He added with a shrug of his shoulders, and continued to rub her back to make the kitten literally pure. It had to have been from the bruises and aches she still had, and he kissed a shoulder to hear her softly inhale to the cool feel of his lips, holding onto him even more.
In return, he continued his kisses on her shoulders and neck, only to stop when he found that weak spot on her neck and engulfed it with an urge that had grown over time, "Greed…Not now…" She sighed trying to resist, but he sucked even harder to make her gasp, and rolled her onto the mattress to make her weak beneath him.
A hand couldn't help but make itself welcomed on the top of he left thigh and followed down till he gabbed he ankle and forced her leg around his waist, finally making his lips smash against her while he ground his hips to hers, "This is wrong…" She whimpered through the muffled kiss feeling him morph more passion into their roughening lip lock, "Stop…" She could barely finish by the time he pressed her head into the pillow and kissed down her chest with a lick of his tongue.
He stopped licking when he came upon her frilly tank top and slowly moved it up her torso with his fingers tips, just barely clawing his nails into her flesh to make her shiver and breath slowly inward.
Greed couldn't help but make a chuckling sound into her skin and look up at her face, and reddened cheeks, "Too cold for you doll?" He asked with a husk to his voice that made Elise shake to it as she closed her eyes and regrettably pushing his hands back down to her stomach, "No…It's just-, bad timing." She whispered it so softly she sounded regretful when she finally had to stop him, closing her eyes timidly away from him. Well, she was.
He frowned and gave her a pout-y lip of disappointment making the kitten smile and giggle quietly at him, before kissing his lips with a feather light peck and laid back down exhaling through his nostrils to take in her sweet scent that had returned, "Greed?"
"Mm."
"Just know that-, I don't want to go anywhere…" He didn't understand what she was talking about at first, but after giving it a minute, he smirked down at her with a gentle tense gaze, "Then don't." She nodded smiling a little and then wrapped her arms around his neck, embracing him. It was weird for a homunculus like him to feel something as a 'hug', not that he didn't like it, but it was different, he was use to women wooing over him, not hugging him.
But after getting it?
…He didn't seem to think of it as such a bad thing and as he looked down at her, Greed embraced her back, brushing the back of her ears to the tips of them knitting the little fu that stuck out at the tips. Admitting it felt good, the kitten leaned into his hand and quiver at the soft touch with goose bumps, all the while laying her head on his chest for another night's rest, "He really has you all screwed up, doesn't he?"
"Mm-hmm." She replied only to intertwine their fingers together, slowly and stealthily connecting their hands to one another just above their heads where they could see the view of them swimming over of each other, lacing and caressing the others palm and top with warm soft touches. Both of them were drawn to their fiddling, and watched with amusement until Elise smiled up at Greed and laugh gently through her nose to get his attention, "What?" He asked not helping the tugging at the side of his lips, "Nothing, I just like looking at you."
"Ah, I see. And tell me… Elise the Great…" He looked over to see her eyes instead of he hands, and studied he face with funny look, "What's so interesting about my face." Elise giggled and look away to re-gather her thoughts, smiling back up at him as she began to rubbed her fingers up and down his palm, and shift her eyes between his, "It's charming, yeah?" Her reply made him snort with a chuckle and pull her closer to him till he could stare off into her those new dazzling colored orbs, leaving her blushing even harder as he began to lower his eyes further …
Down her neck, collarbone…
And chest, "Damn it…" He could feel his Avarice side calling and pulling him, wanting and needing the kitten beneath him until his brows began to sweat from the pours, and his mouth began dry as cotton, Heh, that's strange I never sweat
"Greed…" Elise finally sang to him when he began to daze off on her, "Oh, my bad, I got distracted…" Was all he could say to get Elise to giggle at him, knowing that she couldn't really do anything to stop him. The man just couldn't help himself.
She then smiled up at Greed and leaned into his chest to rub her cheek against him, hearing a slight heart beat in his chest and ears under his chin as she purred like a cat, "Same old Greed…" She leaned her head into his neck to hide her face and when she stopped there, Greed only laughed, "I never changed doll… " She was more than happy to hear that and smiled, this time, unknowingly drifting off to sleep, "Good. I'd hate to think you did."
"Father, I'm sorry, I failed. She had lost control before we could finish the process." Envy kneeled before his creator, expected a scowling for his impudence, but he was mistaken…
"Oh, but you have done just what I have asked of you, my son."
The little homunculus raised a confused brow and watched as the proud figure in front of him turned from his seat to his off spring, "In fact, you have done just what I asked of you. Her day of joining us is almost here…"
The both of them had barely remembered how or when they fell asleep that night, and after a few weeks, it seemed that the gang was back to normal, a little on edge, but some what normal none the less. Elise had done her mourning for her lost friend, and tried to just take it one day at a time.
Today was a little different though, while Ellie sat at her dresser mirror getting ready for another show. From the sounds down stairs she could hear it was a full house, and it was something she felt she needed after her little friend's death. She missed him so much it hurt to actually think about, and every time she held her heart when it twisted in her chest.
She stared at her reflection when she came to from the heart ache, and with a close of her eyes she let out a big sigh as she pulled herself out of her wondering mind only to study around the room for her brush.
"Where did I put it? Is it here?" She pulled out a drawer to find nothing…
Although while Elise was so busy looking in front of her, she had yet to notice the brush she was searching for was levitating behind her. She fiddled in a few of the other drawers a little bit longer before she finally gave up, and left to look in the bathroom. When she made it though the door fame, the kitten suddenly froze and slowly walked back to see the brush floating next to her to turn pale and swallow back the scream she wanted let out.
At first, she thought it was a ghost, but looked around again to see nothing. It was just floating, and no one else was in the room but her. She then turned back to her floating hair brush, and hesitantly reached out to take it. She had done it with ease, and looked back at her reflection into her purple hazed eyes to have a strange feeling about this shocking mystery.
Elise looked to an empty beer bottle that was sitting on the night stand, and focused her mind on the bottle.
After staring and thinking long enough, she got a result…The bottle moved off the stand and crashed to the floor into pieces, which got the panther to jump back startled, "Shit…No fucking way."
"Elise?" Greed had apparently head it while making his way back up to the room, and saw Kitty staring at him with a pale face, "What?"
"Did something break?"
"Y-Yeah, the bottle, sorry, I'm such a klutz." She tried to play it off nicely, and with a shake of Greed's head she knew he had taken the bait, "You should really be more careful."
"I will, heh."
"Alright, well hurry up, your public awaits you." He smirked trying to get a smile out of her, but when she half smiled, he tilted his head with knitted brows, "You okay?"
"Uh-huh. I'll be down in a minute." She smiled this time to give him reassurance, and with that, he chuckle, "Alright." But then he stopped and began to wonder his eyes up and down her frame and dress she wore, "You look good by the way."
"Thanks, now go before everyone wonders where you went." She laughed at him, seeing him shrug as he closed the door. She didn't know what it was about that man but he had that magic touch to make her want to smile. Especially after what she just found out? She wasn't sure on how to take this new discovery…It was mind blowing.
Elise couldn't help but look down at her hands with wonder and fear. She didn't know how she did it, but she had.
She decided she would attempt in doing it again to make sure she wasn't hallucinating, and with a glance towards the glass shattered on the floor. She became in-tune with her psych-I, and calmly thought of making the glass vanish…
A second later…It did. Out of thin air.
She looked down at her hands again, and this time with wide eyes, panting uneasily with uncertainties by her own new found powers. She knew she had to tell Greed about this, but right now, only one question stand above the rest as she remembered the night Envy ambushed her, What did they do to me…? Something wasn't connecting, there was a piece of the puzzle missing to her brain that was making her forget what had happened after she was held to the circle.
She tried to remember but nothing came. What was it that could have caused her ability to know telekinesis all of a sudden? Whatever it was, Elise was going to find out how she came to know something this unbelievably incredible.
Next -Chapter X: The Elric Project
Planning was one thing
But meeting the brothers? That was something Greed could sink his teeth into
Along with another desire he could barely keep contain much longer
What will be more complicating?
The Capture of the Elric's or a greedy heart?
Hazzah! The deed is done! I got the ninth chapter out now comes the fun part, chapter ten and the lemony goodness! That's correct you heard me right, Lemony goodness is coming soon, so don't go anywhere you little couch potatoes! The fun's just getting started
