Roy sleepily opened his eyes halfway in the darkness. His vision slowly lost its blur as his eyes adjusted to the darkness. A soft whimper resinated around him in the darkness, as a deep aching pain shot up his back and arm vainly trying to look up. His body was positioned on an uncomfortably hard wooden chair and his wrists were bound behind him,
"Weha, what the hell..." his words were messy, sounding as if from the lips of a drunk, but the sound echoed, and Roy soon realized he was in a small room. Empty, dark and cold. His hair stuck in his face dripping wet from the melted snow. Anxiously he tugged his arms but the rope around his wrist dug further into his skin and the searing pain ran up his arm once more. "Dammit!" he cursed loudly his words still clumsy. The whimper not far off could be herd again, louder and more worrying. The familiarity of the sound registered quickly, "Ari! Ari is that you?" His words tripped over one another as he desperately tried to fix them. The whimper chimed again, followed by heavy footsteps, then a click and a blinding light. Roy closed one eye and squinted with the other trying vainly to see through the bright light.
"Well, well good to see you again Roy.. Too bad it had to be under such circumstances." Echoed the deep tones of a well known voice.
"Fuhrer! What's, what's going on?!" Roy called out keeping his words as straight and forceful as he could. The man stepped in front of Roy blocking the light from his eyes and revealing the chaos of the situation. The room was small and white. Stone walls looking old and worn. The hard wood floors were scratched to hell and through a large hole in the wall a vast deserted city could be seen lying beyond. "What the..." The Fuhrer's Mustache twitched up as a sick smile spread over his lips and he tugged quickly at a leather strip in his hand. A loud yelp rang throughout the room and Roy's attention turned in the direction of the sound and the collard and leashed girl. Upon the floor lie Ari, bleeding at his feet, "Ari!" Roy called desperately trying to get her to stand, her eyes flitted open in brief recognition before her features fell once more blank. Roy looked up terrified at the Fuhrer who made no move, simply savoring the sweet moments with a sick pleasure. "W-what have you done? Where's Krystal, what do you want!" Roy's tone rose higher then necessary, his words were a little less slurred as his consciousness hit him like a brick wall. The full force of what had happened crushed him and he cried out in pain. His arm most likely broken seared with shocks of pain, the back of his head throbbed something awful, and the deep cuts across his cheeks helped little to improve the feeling. The Fuhrer half laughed,
"You humans are so blind. Insignificant, worthless and invaluable! Those girls.. The cat children, guardians of the theoretical balance between man and nature, earth and sky, life and death, and you see nothing of them! It was far to easy! Simply with Envy to mimic your form.. They hate you now! They think you're a monster. After all you did beat them." He laughed again throwing back his head as he did so.
"W-What are you talking about?!" Roy chocked. The fuhrer lowered his head getting in Roy's face at eye level,
"Humans are so thick. Homunculus human dolls.. I along with Envy one of my brethren! He copied your form, and beat the two. They think it was you and are terrified. Well not so much this one.. Which is why I need her! And the other as soon as I can. With them I, we can all become human! We can live forever without this curse!"
Roy stared blankly as the ideas sank in.
"Human transmutation..." he whispered quietly then yelled, "your going to transmute them!! Y-you can their only children, the gate will rip them apart!" The fuhrer stood up straight once more,
"There is more to these beasts than meets the eye, you saw it first hand didn't you?" he grinned. Roy stared down at Ari normal like when he first met her, except for the black fur still running down her cheeks and her claws so much larger, sharper, and bloody. The lightly colors of crimson trickled down her cheeks, and the thick white sheet that wrapped around her form was dyed red. "Give a beast a hunt to tire them out, then strike them when their week and tired." he grinned.
"No" Roy started but the man kicked his chair back and it turned to a cry of pain as his wrists were pinned between the floor and the back of his chair, still tied tightly. The man smiled broadly picked up the small girl and began to walk out,
"I suggest you keep still... One down one to go..." he cackled switching off the light as he left. The sound of thrashing and protesting sounded through the door as he slammed it behind him. "Wrath!" the fuhrer called out, and a young boy looking to be twelve stepped out from behind one of the broken building. His thick black messy hair falling over his face partly, then down to his thigh,
"Yeees?" He said in a hissing voice.
"Prepare the transmutation circle. We change tonight." The boy nodded and ran off.
Meanwhile
Krystal's pace increased faster and faster, Edward falling nearly a quarter of a mile back behind her. Her attention was swiftly changed from, footprints in the snow, to red bloodstains against the contrasting whites, to the bits of black fur scattered along the way illuminated by a thin shaft of moonlight. She abruptly stopped staring up at the large building now in front of her. It was placed sloppily on the top of the hill and the large steeple topped with a white fading cross suggested it was a church. A few moment later Edward stopped short behind her,
"What the hell?" he said looking up. Across the front of the church was smeared in blood a strange symbol. It was of a serpent biting its own tail with a pyramid broken up in the middle and two small wings fanning out to the sides. His golden eyes widened in shock, "That's the Homunculus symbol!" he yelled as Krystal began walking towards the old rotted out door, "You can't go in there!" He came up behind her and grabbed her by the back of the collar.
Krystal turned around sharply, "Why do you care anyway?" She snapped and quickly looked away, she hadn't meant to sound so harsh. Edward stalled for a moment his cheeks tinting red,
"B-because if you... get hurt Roy will kill me!" He stuttered letting go of her shirt. Krystal rolled her eyes and turned grabbing the handle and opening the door. It quickly feel on top of her, but she was not hit by it thanks to a small hole in the door that slipped over her. Edward on the other hand was knocked to the ground with a loud KeRtHuMp!
"Iiiyeeeeow!!" he yelled out rolling out from under the door and rubbing his head, "Ow ow ow!" Krystal laugh hysterically as she continued to walk in.
"That's not funny you little brat!" Edward called after her standing up and walking in behind her. Pews lay on their sides around the pitch black church, cobwebs and dust worked its way through everything. A bit of moonlight streamed through a hole in the ceiling illuminating crooked pictures of mysterious gods and candles burned down to the quick. Edward rubbed his head as he entered mumbling under his breath in a sarcastical manor as Krystal shook her head. She walked to the end of the aisle to where the couples would stand to be married and stood in front of the wall rubbing her chin,
"Hm odd." Edward looked up,
"What is?" Krystal shook her head and began searching the wall, "What are you looking for?" Ed called again as Krystal placed her ear to the stone wall,
"SHHH!" She hissed her ear twitching against the cold stone. "Ah ha!" she grinned pressing a lose bit of concrete on the wall. The stone slab suddenly sand down into the ground like a doorway reviling a long hallway. The stars spiraled down as if descending into hell, the inky darkness swirling ahead like the breath of a monster.
"How did you?"
"Would you shut up!" Krystal yelled at Ed once more. She leaned into the hallway straining her ears to pick up the light sound of yelling. It was a voice.. A mans voice... the fuhrer? No, no that wasn't it, this voice sounded much to young, not haggard and old. Another voice now, a younger girls...
"ROY! ARI!" Krystal yelled out without thinking. She dashed for the steps but felt something pull her back.
"Stop where are you going Krystal?" Edward said a bit worried now.
"Its Ari and Roy, they're down there! I have to go let go of me!" she said trying to pull away, but he kept his automail hand clamped firmly on her shoulder.
"No that's too dangerous." Krystal was becoming irritated with Ed constant worry.
"Ouch! Your hurting me let go!" she lied faking a few tears. Edward jolted back immediately,
"I-I'm sorry, I cant help, it this automail, I can't.."
"Sucker!" Krystal's voice echoed from up the stairway.
"You brat!" Edward called fiercely running down after her. Neither noticed as they ran that the stone slab slowly slid back up into place behind them.
Heh thats it so far ;; I've started the next chapter but i'm still working on it. Please review tell me what needs work, I really want this story to come out well. Also despite the fact that the word neko is used in the story and thought of by some of the characters im reminding you again they dont know the girls are nekos, i was to lazy to edit ;; They all think that they were involved in some sick human transmutation. I'll edit later ok. BYE!