Hohenheim's Mistake 10
When Hohenheim finally stepped out of the house, Dante smiled. "Finally Hohenheim,have yougotten so rude that you won't even answer to a knock the first time?" She asked him, an old woman shuffling towards him "The years have been kinder to you and your body Hohenheim of Light, why don't you tell me your secret?" She purred "I'm in current need of a new body"
Hohenheim glared at her "Dante, there is no secret and why are you here? How did you find out about us? Where is William?" Hohenheim asked, trying to throw her off with the last question.
"Don't play dumb Hohenheim, I know he's here, I know he's been here the whole time. You see, this was a little experiment of mine, I wanted to see just how the great Hohenheim of Light would react to his abomination of a son coming around, trying to kill his new family and might I say, I would have never expected you to do what you did." She said smiling "how cruel of your, to lock him down in the basement with no contact, food or light at days at time. It reminds me of how you used to treat William when he didn't answer a question properly" Dante said smiling at him.
"How do you know all of this?" Hohenheim demanded. "And if I recall correctly, you're the one who did the most of that. You think you've done so much better after we brought Envy to life? He's a psychopathic murderer, just like you or, he was just like you." Hohenheim snapped "Now, I'm not proud of what I've done to him but it's better, will be better than what you have done the past four hundred years" he said again in a hostile voice and raised the ground, beginning to bombard her with earth made snakes.
She clapped her hands and prevented all the earth from hitting her "You want to know how I knew about your little family and your treatment of Envy? You see Hohenheim, I have some more 'people' that I have taken under my wing. They've been watching you" she said smirking as his face paled "you see, the reason I'm here today is because I've decided that the experiment is over. I am in need of Envy's specially abilities" she said giving him a closed eyed smile "And you can't say no"
Hohenheim tensed "why can't I say no? I'm not giving William to you, not after all that has happened and where are theses people that you claim took under your wing?" He asked and tried again to attack her, this time from behind. Dante laughed and stopped the attack again.
"You have gotten rusty Hohenheim andI've gotten better, now you are giving William to me because if you don't, your new little family is going to meet their end" she said smiling as Hohenheim heard crying behind him. Trisha, Edward, Alphonse were all standing outside, a woman with finger nails two feet long at Trisha and William's necks and the boys head inside a a short fat man's mouth. "You see Hohenheim, I'll let them live for just a little while longer if you give me Envy, or I can kill them all one by one in front of you. You can't fight me and my subjects at the same time. Now hurry and choose, before I choose for you" Dante said while smiling still, her voice suggesting that she found this funny.
William had tears running down his face. He was scared and confused. Why does this lady want me? I don't like her, I want her to go away, I want this other lady to let us go. I'm scared, please don't hurt them, please don't hurt my mom, my brothers…and my dad. What are they waiting for?! Kill them already! I'm sick and tired of being here! Dante better know how to fix me.
Lust looked down at her captives with an impassive face but was internally in turmoil. Here she was, holding an innocent mother of two innocent children by her throat, ready to kill her at a word. She didn't know why Dante hated these people so much, this wasn't their fault, they most likely weren't fully aware of Hohenheim's past, if even at all. Even Lust herself didn't know the full story. Another thing that really threw her off, was seeing Envy cry and actually looking scared of her. She hadn't never seen either expression on his face before and to top it off with the things she had never seen, was him affectionate. When she and Gluttony had gone down into the basement, the woman had the both of her two little boys in her lap and Envy's head on her shoulder, one arm wrapped around the boys and her other hand in Envy's hair, stroking it. This was wrong, she shouldn't be doing this, if Hohenheim was an alchemist as well, she could ask him to make her human instead, not work for this woman.
Gluttony didn't understand anything of what was going on. All he knew was to keep these two little boys from escaping and their heads in his mouth. I'm not allowed to eat them he thought in disappointment, sniffling, causing the two little boys to whimper when the action moved his mouth.
Edward and Alphonse were crying. Neither understood what was going on. This pig like man was acting like he was going to eat them. Their hair was soaked with salvia and what they were mostly breathing in was his bad breath. Edward tried to squirm and wiggle out of his hands with no luck. Alphonse tried the same but stopped with the man bemoaned how much his food was moving and how hungry he was.
Trisha stood stiff, trying to angle her neck away from the sharp knife like nails. These people had demanded that they get out of the basement or die. So, she had gathered up the boys only for them to be torn out of her grasp then she and William held captive by this woman. They were marched outside where she could see Hohenheim having a conversation with what appeared to be an amused old woman. Trisha reached over and grabbed William's hand, his frightened eyes darting over to her as he squeezed it tightly. She gave him small smile then directed one at Edward and Alphonse, hoping they could see her. It's going to be alright, Hohenheim can fix this, we will be ok she told herself. She didn't know that it may be a lie.
Hohenheim turned around and looked his family, sorrowful. He didn't want to give up William nor did he want to have his family killed but he had to choose. "Hurry Hohenheim, some of our bodies don't stand in one spot for very long well" Dante purred.
Hohenheim wiped his face and said "I will…"
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