The Demise Saga
-Chapter 11: A Stunning Revelation
Lucifer's body shook violently at first, his back arched and a muffled cry barely escaped his throat. But slowly the life was draining out of his eyes and he went still. The Elrics were in shock, they couldn't comprehend what had happened right before their own eyes. Blood pulsed slowly around the spear, staining him a dark red. Ed pulled himself out of the cement, his head down, shaking slightly. "How could you..." he said, his voice hoarse. Braen sneered at Ed, "How could I not? This is a world where you kill or be killed, and you all were always on the 'be killed' side. There is no changing that!" Red electricity flared from his fingertips and he took a step forward.
Ed ran forward and attempted to get behind Braen so he could stab him, but he was too fast. Braen's fist smashed into Ed's stomach and he went flying across the room. "Big brother!" Al yelled and he transmuted himself out of the cement and made himself a large spear. Braen turned to Al, "Do you really think you can beat me? You are nothing more than insects! Pathetic and worthless!" Al didn't say anything but charged, and when he was in range, jabbed the spear at Braen, who dodged with ease.
Slash from the right, slash from the left, then diagonal down from right to left, an uppercut, a thrust, Braen managed to dodge everything Al did. Ed pulled himself out of the wall where he had hit and joined the fight after shaking his head clear. "Enough of this foolishness!" roared Braen as he transmuted chains that bound the Elric brothers. He began to laugh hysterically, until another laugh surpassed his own.
All three of them went into shock as they turned to see Lucifer laughing with the spike still stuck in him. Although this wasn't a normal laugh, it was filled with cruelty and malice. "I really must be thanking you for awakening me, it's been so very long since I've had control over this body." said Lucifer. He raised his hand to the spike and with the slightest bit of effort it crumbled away. The gap in him began to fill with red electricity as it completely healed. "Impossible! You... You should be dead!" cried Braen as he stepped back in fear. "I wasn't dead but I was asleep for a long time, forced to see the world through another's eyes." said the Lucifer imposter.
"Well sorry to say this but I'm going to make sure you go back to sleep FOREVER!" shouted Braen as he used the stone to create spears that he propelled at the Lucifer imposter. "So that's how you wanna play eh? Well two can play at that game," fake Lucifer said as he stuck out his hand and obliterated all the spears. Quickly the spears reformed and were shot back at Braen. Said person barely had time to throw up a few walls of rubble before they reached him. He was breathing heavily behind the wall until the imposter quickly appeared before him with the most angelic smile.
Too bad the smile was accompanied by a fierce roundhouse kick that sent Braen flying. The imposter walked casually towards the scrambling Braen. Right before the imposter got close to him, Braen caused the ceiling to collapse on the imposter's head. It hit him with full force although it didn't do so much as even slow him down. "What in the hell are you?" Braen said in fear. "Well isn't that obvious?" said the imposter "I'm a Homunculus." The imposter picked Braen up by his throat, slowly squeezing the life out of him. "One last thing before I kill you though," said the Homunculus.
With his free hand he ripped through Braen's stomach with ease, he searched around for a bit until he ripped his hand back out with the Philosopher's stone clutched tightly within it. He swallowed the stone without hesitation and made an "Ah" sound as it slide down his throat. He gave one more tight squeeze to Braen's neck which was accompanied by the sound of a bone breaking, and then he threw Braen in the corner with no disregard. "You bastard!" shouted the chained Edward. "I presume you're talking to me?" said the Homunculus.
"Damn right I am! You tricked us!" the Homunculus gave Ed a bored look "I wish I could say that but unfortunately I really did have amnesia; trust me, I would have overpowered that fool Lucifer a long time ago if I could have." Ed looked astonished at this news. "But if you're not Lucifer than just who the hell are you?" The Homunculus grinned at this question and replied "I am the Homunculus known as Demise."
Ed looked enraged and broke the chains that bound him. "Give us back our friend you asshole!" He said as he charged Demise. "Ed no!" shouted Alphonse who was now just breaking out of his chains. Ed just a kept on charging though. He swung his automail arm at Demise with all of his strength, unfortunately for him Demise grabbed his fist and squeezed.
Ed's automail fell apart leaving him wide open for a kick to the sternum. Ed was thrown back and coughing up blood, his automail arm now in Demise's hand. "Even the mechanical limbs you humans make aren't any better than you're real ones." Demise said as he began to laugh. This laugh was interrupted by him grunting and falling unconscious to the floor. Behind him was Al with a giant brick that was beginning to crack from where it had hit Demise over the head so hard. It looked like Demise wasn't going to be regenerating any time soon so they were safe; but for how long?
-Chapter 11 END-
AFTERWORD
So I wrote this chapter as well, and how about that twist. If you didn't see it coming oh well and if you did you've officially guessed the easiest plot twist EVER! So as you can see things are about to get interesting, we still have a lot more planned out for this story and even more for the planned sequels! So please leave a review, the more reviews we have the more motivation we get. But you should really keep reading Amanda and I are already planning out the sequels which will be even better! So till next time and here is some random short Amanda created.
WHILE DEMISE WAS ASLEEP
Demise sat in the darkness. That stupid kid couldn't remember him! It wasn't Demise's fault that he had decided to try and see if he would survive jumping off of a ten story building. Okay, maybe it was, but still, the kid was alive at least, which meant that he too, was alive. And ready to kill some people. Until then, all Demise wanted to do was slap Lucifer, watch TV, read a book, and go knit a fluffy pink sweater! "... If you tell that to anyone, I will personally rip out your heart and eat it like a gourmet meal."
