XI. Waves

Arquoya was like it had always been, sunny and bright. The tourists spot, not that they'd been able to tell, the late train arrived at ten PM, leaving them to rush to a motel and hope for the best. Ed woke, cheerfully, he was back to his old self almost, as long as he was not reminded of Envy or the kidnapping he was fine, though his nightmares were far from better, and he was getting breathless easily, the jog to the motel had left him a bit winded. He got dress along with Al, bathing suits and tank tops, then walked downstairs to meet Winry, who stood shyly in a sundress similar to the one she wore as a child.

"I didn't know you had another dress like that Winry."Al said, surprised. Winry blushed shyly, running a hand through her loose ponytail.

"Yeah, I thought that since we were at a beach I might as well get some use out of it."Al nodded.

"So where should we go first? We could go to the beach, grab some breakfast, or maybe visit Clara."Winry blinked.

"Who's Clara?"Ed quickly grabbed control of the situation before it could rise into a quarrel between his two friends.

"Old friend, she's actually a thief known as Psiren. Don't worry about her crushing on Al, she prefers to hit on me."Al and Winry blushed in unison.

"Ed!"Winry screamed, throwing her trusty wrench, he sighed.

"Jeez, I'm going to get a concussion one of these days!"Ed complained.

"So what are we going to do?"Al asked.

"Mah, why don't you two head to the beach while I find Psiren, while you two are busy making out I might get lucky to!"their blushes deepened if possible.

"Stop making sexual references!"Winry screamed, Ed smirked at her.

"Than stop making it references and start making it fact!"Winry scowled before grabbing Al's hands.

"Come on Al, let's go shopping!"Ed smiled, watching as his brother was dragged off helplessly. He smiled and walked along, losing himself in remembrance of the old days at this town, it wasn't like him he knew, but now that his goals had been completed it seemed that the memories wouldn't leave him be.

"So you came back."he turned in surprise at the familiar voice. it was Clara for sure, dressed up as a nurse again.

"What? A hospital scheduled for demolition again?"she smiled.

"Nope, though good guess, this time it's to pay for people who can't afford hospital bills."Ed nodded.

"Well at least the poor sap who figures it out won't know as soon as we did."Clara nodded.

"I switched up my plan as soon as you two left."Ed smirked.

"Your far to tricky, you know? Want to come to the beach with me?"Clara blinked, looking around.

"Where's your brother, the one who had a crush on me?"

"Eh, off with some girl, came out of his armor if you'll believe it."Clara smiled.

"I'd love to see him them, as for now, I suppose I can join you, is it a date?"Ed grinned.

"I'm still only fourteen, but if your into that sort of thing..."he raised an eyebrow suggestively. She smirked back at him.

"I've broken a lot of rules, how about a new game? I've got an extra suit, why don't you help with a heist?"Ed grinned.

"No thanks, I'm not into the whole stealing things, more into trespassing, I've heard there's a few private beaches around here." Clara nodded.

"I hope you aren't as wimpy as you were at twelve, I only have a bikini underneath this, and not a full coverage bikini either." Ed grinned.

"I know a guy who would've tried to charm you right out of the nurse outfit as soon as you said that."Clara giggled.

"That's why I like prepubescents, they aren't like other men."Ed smiled, following behind her toward the private beaches.

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"You've failed Envy,"Dante said, her eyes glaring into green-haired man's head,"and ruined the plan." Envy smirked at her.

"Did you honestly think I cared about the plan?"Dante scowled at him.

"Can't you follow some orders?"she demanded, Envy smirked at her.

"Frankly your plans are getting in the way of my own, you can't even create stones anymore, your useless."she glared at him.

"That doesn't matter, once we get the plan back on track everything will be perfect."Envy shook his head, smirking all the while.

"You don't seem to understand,"he said, transforming his arm into a blade and shoving it through her," mother dearest, I wasn't going to stay anyway, your plans are getting in my way and I don't like it. Enjoy the afterlife."he smirked, watching her eyes widen in horror.

"Will...iam."she gasped out before dying. Envy scowled, pulling his arm free.

"Haven't you learned your lesson yet? My life is not yours to toy with, I know very well that you helped the bastard, I've known it from the very start, this was inevitable."he turned and left, feeling successful and ready to visit the Elrics, he wasn't expecting Sloth to appear.

"You've killed Dante."she commented lightly, leaning against the doorway.

"So? It's not like any of us actually believed her."Sloth shook her head.

"Of course we didn't believe her, but that is not the matter at hand."Envy tilted his head curiously at her.

"What the hell is up with you?"he didn't get a chance to finish as Sloth held up a small bag, he stared in shock as she manipulated water he hadn't even noticed stepping into to wrap around him tightly, squeezing him until he died, coming back yet again as a pissed homunculi.

"This is a matter you would not understand Envy, even I do not fully understand it. All I truly understand is that you have done something terrible, and I will kill you for that." Envy glared at her, before smirking and jumping into the air away from her.

"Do you honestly think you can defeat me?"he asked, underestimating her with ease.

"Do you honestly think you can defeat me?"she asked back, easily using the evaporation in the air to catch him, yet again suffocating him.

"What the hell..."

"Wondering why your so weak? I thought it'd be obvious, it isn't as hard as you think to find you ashes, it's childish, hiding them in a place very special to you, yet far away. The place you were raised in, Ishval."Envy scowled at her, lunging forward.

"Shut the fuck up!"he screamed, only to be suffocated, followed by extreme dehydration as she soaked free of all the water in his body, and then an explosion as she shoved as much water as possible into it.

Over and over, until finally he lay dead and disfigured on the ground, unable to even transform into a creature to escape.

AN: So Envy's dead, for those of you against his whole rape-act, this if for you! Also, the reason why Ed's not like completely traumatized and still able to touch people (As you will discover in the next chapter) is because of Sloth's visit and also because...well if you were dying and only had a few days left would you honestly let that get in your way?