Part 9
'I hate it when I'm right.'
Alphonse and Gluttony went somewhere under ground. And I could feel the darkness radiating from there.
The moment the two descended, I took a deep breath to gather my courage and bolted toward the door war.
When two shadows showed up at the end of the alleyway, I skidded to a stop.
The tallest was a hooded, masculine figure.
The smallest, I recognized immediately. May Chang; the 17th daughter of the Emperor of Xing. She was 3 years younger than me and from the worst off clan of Xingese society.
I had an idea as to what she was doing in Central but, obviously, she didn't like seeing me; she, immediately, threw a kunai at me. I leaned away to avoid the thing and glared at the little girl.
She just smirked at me. "Kai Ying. You've been causing a lot of trouble lately. Frankly, you don't seem worth all that trouble. So, why don't I just do our homeland a favor, end your families suffering, and kill you now?"
I narrowed my eyes at her. "Even if you could, Princess, it would not be in your best interest."
"And why is that?"
"You think I don't know why you're here? You want to achieve immortality. Well, you want to do that? You're gonna need me."
"Why is that?"
"While we're both fluent in Alkehistory, I'm the only one of us who has learned anything about Alchemy. Not to mention the contacts that I have here."
"Who could you possibly know here?"
It was my turn to smirk. "Have you ever heard of the FullMetal Alchemist?"
"EDWARD ELRIC? YOU KNOW HIM?"
I had no idea what was going on in the little girl's head and, judging from the blush in her cheeks, the hearts in her and the wiggle she was doing, I didn't want to know.
"You really know the FullMetal boy?"
I looked to that hooded man. A tan man with white hair, blood red eyes and an X-shaped scar over his face. Judging from the description that Edward had given me, this was the Ishvalan man known as Scar, famous for his numerous State Alchemist murders.
'I better act like I don't know who he is. This guys dangerous and will probably take out any one whom he sees as trouble.'
I nodded, answering his question.
I looked to the under ground door, radiating with anger and hatred. I looked back at the two travelers. An ignorant little girl from my country and a man whose eyes reflected all the blood shed that he'd ever seen. And me, a girl running from inequality. All of us were different. But we were headed for the same destination. We all had the same goal.
"Look. I know that you have no reason to trust me and I have no reason to trust you. But, we all need to go down there for one reasons or another. And, truth be told, I don't think any one of us will survive whatevers down their. Not on our own. How 'bout we help each other out? Just for now, at least."
The man looked at me skeptically for a moment. But I had to keep a confident face, otherwise, he wouldn't trust me. He looked between me and May Chang before silently nodding his agreement.
We all got our toughest faces on before we descended.
…
Chimeras.
Endless numbers of Chimeras.
All coming for us.
May Change and I used our best Alkeistory while Scar seemed to blow their brains out with a simple touch of his hand.
'This place is truly evil. To combine so many animal in this horrific way. And to create homunculi from the dead. Who would be so cruel?'
We fought our way through the creatures, falling deeper into the horrid feeling that May Chang and I felt.
Finally we came to a door.
'I'm coming.'
We pushed our way in.
The site shocked me.
The room was made of cold concrete. Metal pipes, gears and tubes sprouted up every way and single beam of strong lighting hit the middle of the room.
The creatures inside were even more shocking. A giant green lizard-like thing with the shapes of human bodies crawling out of its skin. Gluttony. And a man from which the feeling was radiating from. Human yet not. It took all my strength not to shiver.
Underneath the feet of the lizard was Al and Ed.
And right behind that creature, was Ling.
It took all my strength to hold back a smile and a breath of relief.
Just then, a little panda ran up to May Chang and hopped right up into her arms.
While the two were reuniting, Ling started clapping and said, "Ho! Now that is a touching reunion, right there."
I caught my breath.
That wasn't Ling's voice.
'What have they done to him? How could they? How could they just take another humans body and use it for their own twisted experiments? Don't they know? Don't they know all he's done for his country? For his people?... I thought that nothing could be worse than killing…. But this…. this is unforgivable….'
"Hey you! Taller girl!"
I snapped my eyes opened and glared at the monster posing as Ling.
He smirked at my glared and said, "Has anyone ever told you how sexy you look when you're angry?"
That made me snap.
And Scar and May Chang snapped at about the same time.
The lizard creature said to Gluttony, "Go ahead and eat the outsiders. They can't use their alchemy in here."
With that Gluttony descended upon us and he was going to start with Scar. Scar acting quick and blew his brains out as he did with the chimeras.
May Chang started yelling at Edward. Something about toying with the feelings of a maiden. And, and with that, she threw five kunai into the ground near by the boys and the lizard. Then, she drew a star formation at her feet, placed a kunai at every point and worked her alkehistory.
This made ground turn into a fist that punched the lizard and threw the thing into the air, releasing the boys from it's grasp.
And even through all this commotion and chaos, I was focused on one person and one person only.
I threw myself into the air, performing flips and martial arts moves. In mid-air I created two sabers out of ice before I decided down upon the imposter.
He looked up just in time.
His arms started glowing as struck at him.
And, the next thing I knew, our faces were two inches away. My swords were crossed in front of me. And he was holding right onto my blades. And not a drop of blood was oozing from his hands. His black hands.
My shock amused this monster. I could tell by his chuckle. "Ultimate Shield, baby. Nothing can get through it. In short, you're in way over your head."
I clenched my teeth and growled at him. "Let. Him. Go. Give him back."
He looked confused for s second but, then, he said, "Aw, you were friends with the kid. Aw, you poor thing. You don't even know." I narrowed my eyes in confusing. He smirked and leaned in close, whispering into my ear, "In order for me to give something back, I had to have taken it, right? Well, guess what, honey; he gave himself up willingly to me. All I did was accept the body that offered."
I shook my head at him, refusing to believe it. "You're lying."
He let out a huge laugh before pushing me away and throwing me to the ground. "Even if I was, it doesn't matter, whether I took the body by force or not. What does matter is that he's gone…. and Greed is here to stay!"
I flipped to my feet and resumed my attack, giving it everything I had.
I was slicing at him while also throwing in martial arts moves. And he either dodged with ease or took everything like it was nothing, laughing at me the whole time. But he wasn't making a move to fight back.
"Fight back, coward!"
"I don't fight women, dear…"
He took hold of my arm and tugged me close to him. He held my face and said, "And I especially don't fight women when their… well built." Naturally, he looked my body up down when he said this, smirking the whole time.
Baring my teeth, I swing my leg around throwing him off balance and onto his back.
I made two figure-eights with my swords, held them fast, knelt down over the assholes body and started to slam the blades down, the points going right his neck.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you."
His voice made me stop, the tip of blade just barely touching his neck.
He smirked up at me. "I may have control over his mind, but this is still his body. Kill me… and you kill him."
I froze, looking at myself. I had nearly kill the man who had hunted me, treated me like property… and then asked for my forgiveness.
I disgusted myself.
I stagger off of him and threw my swords aside. I ran my hands through my hair, trying so hard not get hysterical and break down crying.
Then next thing I knew, I was being throw to the ground and pinned down. By Greed.
He ripped my Hydro-net gloves off of my arms and tore them tore them to shreds. And I was still in shock, so I couldn't fight back.
I looked around. May Chang, her panda and Scar had disappeared. The lizard was holding onto Ed and Al. Gluttony was one the ground, red sparks flying off of his body.
And the human-yet-inhuman man was just looking down on all of us, giving orders. "Take the boys upstairs. I want them to see Wrath as soon as possible." Then, he looked down at me. "As for you… keep her down, Greed. Once I help Gluttony, he can do what he wants with her."
So, this was how it was going to end. A man only start to trust ends up as a host for a monster and I get eaten by another monster while he watches.
"… Hang on."
Everyone looked at Greed questionably. "Instead of feeding her to Gluttony… why don't I take her."
The head man looked at him, confused. "What use is she to you?"
"Well, I get bored easily. I gonna need something to entertain me. And besides, you know me;"
He smirked down at me. "Greedy for all the women I can get."
I looked away from him, almost preferring to get eaten.
After a few moments of silence, the head man said, "Very well. There's a room prepared upstairs. Take her and do what you will."
Greed smirked again. "Don't mind if I do."
He got off me and pulled me to my feet by my arms before throwing me over my shoulders. Before I could even make a move to get out of his grasp, a pipe flew out and wrapped itself around his waist, securing my legs down.
"Hey, thanks for that old man. Can't let sneak away."
I struggled against him as he walked up the stairs, screaming at the top if my legs. No matter how I hit him and struggled, he was not bothered. He didn't even yell at me to be quite.
Finally, we came to a door.
He kicked it open and marched inside.
He sliced the pipe of with his shielded nails before throwing me onto the bed.
To my shock, he started walking out of the room, saying, "I'll come back once you've cooled down. In the meantime, take a shower and make yourself comfortable."
I went running at the door, trying to get there before he closed it.
I couldn't make it. It slammed shut just before I slammed into it.
I kept jiggling at the knob and banging of the door, yelling to be let out.
Eventually, I just fell back onto the floor, exhausted, sweaty and horse.
The cold floor invited me to sleep and, soon enough, I gave into that darkness.
