Chapter 10: Identity Revealed! Deception Overturned

The group of silver haired men walked together through a side street. Reunited, one of the two began whispering to the other. "Hey...Verg..." whispered Dante to Vergil.

"What brother?" Vergil asked in a whisper. "That blonde haired guy and his armored buddy fell for it...They didn't suspect a thing," answered Dante in a whisper.

"Humans...They're all the same...They choose to believe what they want to believe," whispered Vergil in response. They continued down their intended path; until millitary personals armed with guns stopped them. Surrounding and aiming at the group; Sparda was confused.

"What is the meaning of this? We haven't done anything wrong," said Sparda, acting innocent.

"If one of them makes a break for it, fire at will," said Roy, "But not to kill." "Yes, Colonel!" shouted a solider. As instructed; Roy held the group in one place. Ed and Al return to the library with vital information for Lady. They enter the section she was at, finding stacks of books used all piled on the table.

"Find anyway to reverse it, any so far?" asked Ed. "No...Unfortunately..." groaned Lady in disappointment.

"We've got trouble...And I think you should know about this," said Al. The Elrics filled Lady in of the mysterious silver haired men that appeared in Central. After they were done; she was in shock.

"You mean those guys used an alias and are really Dante, Vergil, Nero....And Sparda?!" she asked in surprise.

"We just found out today...What should we do?" asked Ed. "They probably still think we fell for their tricks...So let's go see them and give them a reality check, shall we?" said Lady.

"You've read our minds entirely," said Ed with a smirk. The three left the library to find where the soldiers are holding the silver haired group of men.

Just as the three walked out the door, Ed hears a beeping sound coming from his coat pocket. He retrieves a walkie-talkie that Roy gave him in case they found the group and needed to alert him.

"Fullmetal here," Ed said into the device. Roy's voice was then heard, "We've found them and made sure they are staying in one spot.." Roy also gave the location of their position; making sure Ed and his companions knew where to go.

"Ed...Isn't that near a bookstore?" asked Alphonse.

"Yes it is....I know where to find it," answered Ed, mentally smirking to himself. The soldiers continued to hold the four men in the ring, not letting any of them to get out. At long last; Ed, Al, and Lady arrive to the scene. The state alchemist cuts through to the front, coming face to face with the four with a smirk.

"Well, well, well....Funny to be running into each other again...So soon," Ed said to one of the four, Dante. "What's going on? We didn't do a damn thing wrong, so why holding us?" said Dante, playing the innocent card. Edward didn't buy it one bit.

"Isn't it obvious, Redgrave? Wait...Redgrave really isn't your name at all, I know who you really are. You are...Dante Sparda, one of the twin sons of the Legendary Dark Knight, Sparda...Right, Dante?" said Ed, pointing at red cladded silver haired man. Dante couldn't believe this, the kid he lied to earlier figured it all out. Alphonse then joined his older brother, then pointed at Vergil, "And your name isn't 'Gilver'...Its really Vergil Sparda, your the second son of Sparda. We know the truth through your lies completely." Rage began to build inside Vergil, a demonic rage.

Ed then turned to Sparda and Nero; the only two that were left out in the beginning, "I figured out your name...Nero, you used 'Reno', because it was an anagram of your true name, and your true name is 'Sparda'. You may have fooled us from the beginning, but not anymore! Not even your human forms can save you!" Sparda couldn't believe this human child of 15 managed to figure it all out, but then Sparda spoke, "You wretched little rat!" Within a few minutes, Sparda revealed his demon form in front of everyone. Ed and Al stood their ground while mentally panicking.

"When I'm through with this city! I will make sure all you pathetic humans pay for your sins!" Sparda roared. Vergil and Dante also joined their father by using their 'Devil Trigger', revealing their demon forms. The crowd shrieked in fear; including the soldiers. Nero's eyes glowed red, then his body glowed with a demonic blue light, crackling with light, bright blue electricity originating from his left gloved hand. The glove immediately shreds off; revealing the key feature of Nero: His left demonic arm. As the demonic energy and rage intensified, a type of silhouette of a demonic creature, armed with a kantana of its own, appeared above Nero.

'I knew it...That glove was hiding his left arm...' thought Ed. "I thought you was our savior? Didn't you save us from your brothers in arms?" asked Ed. Sparda looked at the alchemist, "So....You've found out those stories that the humans tell of me..I'm surprised you already know about me."

"Quit actting Innocent! Its not working anymore!" Alphonse shouted, "We can understand you are mad at us for what happened over a thousand years ago...But that doesn't mean killing us!"

"You shut up...Human!" shouted Vergil, "I will personally enjoy this....For its the ways of humans that make me sick; like a cancer..."

"How can you say that, son of Sparda?" said Lady, approaching the scene armed with a rocket launcher, "You're half human yourself...How ironic."

"Who are you?! How do you know us?!" cried Dante in suprise. "What's wrong, Dante? Don't recognize me?" Lady said to Dante, playing a mind game of her own, 'How....Sad!" She fires the rocket launcher at Dante, nailing him and Nero with one shot.

"Waaaahhhh!! Dante!! You little-" Ed heard Sparda say the one word he despises the most. In response; he turns the automail into a weapon. "Don't say that word!!" Ed roared, nailing Sparda in the torso with the automail blade.

"Big brother! You got him!" cheered Al. Ed thought he took down Sparda; then a rude awakening was soon unveiled.

"What!?" cried Havoc, "Edward nailed Sparda in a fatal location, how is he still standing??!" Ed was even more shocked.

"Stupid human....I am more superior to you..Behold my ability to survive and regenerate from the fatal wounds humans die from," growled the powerful demon. Sparda grabs onto Ed's hood and flings him away from the area into Alphonse.

"Grrraaaahhhh!!" both the Elrics screamed as they fell to the ground. The clicks of Sparda's hooved feet echoed the area as he moved forward.

Hughes hid behind a black car. "Guys! It looks like he's healing up!!" Hughes shouted out. He was close enough to Sparda to figure out he was in fact healing up from the fatal stabbing from the Fullmetal Alchemist: Edward Elric. Ed lifted his head up, watching the wound heal up on its own. "No way....How is that possible? It has to be alchemy in someway?" questioned Ed.

"It's not alchemy...Its biology. Half the amount of demons in the Demon Realm can survive fatal hits and regenerate. I am one of them," Sparda explained, "And this trait and ability has been passed on to my sons, plus my descendant, Nero...You can't defeat us."

"Wanna bet? Everything has their limits! Even you!" shouted Roy, firing sparks of fire towards the four. After the tenth to eleventh hits, Roy ceased. "Hmph...So much for being called 'Legendary Dark Knight'...How unfortunate," said Roy, but a response was about to come his way. The smoke then began to clear, revealing an angry Sparda holding up a car above his head, preparing to toss it at someone.

"Do you think your alchemy can save you!!?" shouted Sparda, "Nothing can save you! Not even yourself!!" He throws the car at Roy's location, but Al catches it before it nailed Roy.

'Man this car's heavy...' thought Alphonse. "Is that all you got? Oversized goat!" An anger mark pulsed on the right ram-like horn of Sparda's head. 'Oversized goat!? How dare he!!' thought Sparda.

"I'll show you goat!!!" screamed Sparda as he charged towards Al. Just as the demon knight was about a few feet from Al, Ed responded by slamming his hand into the ground, alchemizing a stone wall in front of them as a barrier. Sparda hitted the stone wall like a ram.

Bwaahhh!!...." grunted Sparda, "....Baaaa...." Ed couldn't believe what he just heard; he just heard Sparda go 'baaa' like a goat. 'I guess he showed us...Like a goat; Sparda style..' thought Ed with a teardrop on the left side of his head. Vergil slapped his right hand over his face in embarrassment; while Dante stared with his mouth open. "I can't believe father did that..." groaned Vergil.

"Oh...My god..." said Dante. Sparda got back up and slashed the stone wall away with his blade; now infuriated. "Stupid alchemist! Die!!" Sparda shouted.

Lady then fired another rocket, but this time it was at the demon knight himself. "What?!" Sparda said as the rocket nailed him. The demon flew backwards into a stone walled building, causing a hole his size. "Graaahhh...There's not enough room...Grrrr," growled the demon knight. Ed and the others made their advance, but then they heard a car coming their way with a solider running after it.

"Stop them! Three to four demons hijacked the vehicle!!" screamed the solider. The car pulled in front of the Sparda brothers and Nero, revealing a dark brown long haired man wearing a white long coat with designs and areas of gold; including his pants.

He wore dark, charcoal grey gloves and wore a monocle on his right eye. "G-get in! Let's g-go!" he stuttered as he spoke. Another man sat right next to him in the front. He too had dark brown hair, but was short cutted to the middle of each side of his neck. His outfit was the same color as the driver, but it was different in design. Straps were wrapped around his thighs in two locations spaced and dark charcoal boots. "This aint the perfect battleground...Let's get your father," the man next to the driver said as the three got in.

Lucia was sitting in the back with a recently recovered Trish. "Hey, boys," said Lucia, "Let's get the dark knight and get to a more suitable battleground." Sparda turned around, then watched the car head towards him. As the car slowed, the passenger next to the driver opened the door, then shouted out, "Sparda!! Get in!!"

"I don't believe this! They commandeered a car!?" cried Ed. Sparda dashed to the moving car, then got in. "This ain't a perfect battleground..." groaned Sparda.

"I kn-know where to go...The li-lighning witch will meet us th-there," said the driver. "Don't just move slow, Agnus..Speed it up!" shouted Sparda.

The driver, named 'Agnus', speeded the car through a busy intersection with Edward chasing behind them.

"Slow down!! Stop!!" screamed the blonde haired alchemist. "Hey Agnus," said the passenger.

"Wh-what Credo?" answered Agnus. Credo, the passenger, then answered, "I got a funny idea...Stop the car."

"What!?" shrieked Agnus. "He's still chasing us...and he won't even know we stopped til he runs into the back of the car, enough said," replied Credo.

"I get it..." said Agnus. Ed still chased the car, but then the car came to a halt. Not knowing the car stopped; Edward immediately rams into it. "Gaaahhh!! What the!?" Ed roared in pain. The car then speeds off on its way, into more intersections.

"Fullmetal! Get in!" Roy called out from his own car, driven by Hawkeye. Alphonse was in the car as well; including Armstrong, Hughes, and Havoc. Lady rode ahead on her motorcycle, chasing after the runaway demons.

"Brother, are you okay?" asked Al with concern.

"Yeah...They pulled a fast one on me..." groaned Ed, rubbing his face.

"Looks like Lady is keeping up with them...We better disable their getaway car, fast!" said Hughes. Roy rolled down the left window. As he managed to get half of himself out of the window; he called out to Lady, "Move!" She knew what he meant, he was going to use those pyro-tex gloves again to disable the car. She moves to the left, allowing room for Mustang to hit the car with an explosive spark.

The spark hitted the right side of the car, shakening the occupants inside. "Gaahh! Th-that man knows al-alchemy! I guess I-I aint the only alchemist!" said Agnus in surprise. Nero's rage intensified.

"Those fools! I'll destroy them!" Nero roared. As Mustang did, Nero got half of himself out through the window in the open.

"Roy! Nero's in the open...Nail him!" shouted Havoc. Nero aims his demonic hand at the people chasing him with electricity crackling through it.

"What is he doing??" asked Alphonse. The energy channeled to the palm of Nero's hand; forming an energy ball in the process.

"He's aiming at us! We gotta move out of the way!" cried Hawkeye in panic. Lady fires her handgun at Nero, but her efforts didn't phase him, nor stopping the charge attack. She continues to fire at Sparda's descendant, aggravating him to the point of firing the beam of energy at her.

"You stupid...Devilbringer!!!" Nero yelled out, firing the energy at Lady. As expected, she maneuvered out of the way. A large debris flew towards the car on the left side, directly at Roy. "Heads up!" she called out. Roy knew it was 'His' turn to turn the tides for them. Mustang gets out of the window back in the car, and Armstrong takes his place, opening the door.

"Allow me to demonstrate the technique in alchemy that's been passed down in the Armstrong family for generations!" Armstrong said as a sparkle appeared above his left eye. Using his left fist, equipped with a special alchemy gauntlet-like brass-knuckles, he punches the debris back at the getaway car; turning it into a sharp ended stone arrow.

The arrow nailed the car, damaging it to swagger left and right like a drunken driver. Nero hits the wall with his head as the car swaggered left, knocking him out cold. "Get Nero in here! Quick!" cried Vergil. Dante and Trish brought Nero back in the car.

"Nero...I guess it wasn't enough...Don't worry, you will get stronger in time, just like me," Vergil said to an unconscience Nero. "Good going, Armstrong!" cheered Al.

"My turn..." Ed said while glaring at the car ahead of them, "Roy, can I borrow one of your gloves?" Roy nodded, then took off the left pyro-tex glove and handed to Ed.

"Thanks!" said Ed. Edward situated himself out the window, then yelled, "Lady! Move!" She moved to the left, and Ed continuously snapped til he couldn't snap anymore; hitting the car with everything the glove had to offer. The major damage to the car was done, it then swerved to the left into a town square area, large enough for a battle to erupt and plenty of room for combat. The car crashes into a fountain; ending the chase. The worst was yet to come. Soon, the Elrics, and the others with them are about to have their souls taken away from them by a demonic witch of darkness.