A/N : chapter 11 :D really, thanks guys for the reviews, favs and alerts. Oh, I always forgot to say this : this story is unBeta'ed, sorry if there's any mistakes.
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"So that's the homunculus?" Allen asked as he, Lavi and Kanda looked at the captured Gluttony.
Lavi rubbed his cheek. "He's... fat.." Lavi pointed out.
"Yeah... Thanks for the intelligent observation, idiot." Kanda rolled his eyes.
"No prob!" Lavi said, smiling at the raven haired man.
Ed sweat dropped at their antics and looked at Allen. "So.. what do you think?" he asked.
Allen narrowed his eyes at the homunculus and tapped his chin. "He's..." he trailed off.
Roy raised an eyebrow. "Yes?"
"He's kinda cute." Allen said, eyes wide and sparkling slightly.
Ed slapped his forehead. "What the hell. Allen, we're asking if you're feeling anything different from him!" he pointed at Gluttony. What's with them? Are all the exorcists this weird? He hope not.
A laugh came from behind him. "I like him already! I'm Ling Yao, prince of Xing. Nice to meet you." he bowed and offered his hand to Allen.
Allen blinked and smiled at Ling. He shook Ling's hand with a smile on his face. "Pleasure to meet you. I'm Allen Walker. He's Lavi and Kanda." he pointed at Lavi and Kanda.
Lavi grabbed Ling's arm. "Prince? You mean, the real prince? Wow! I didn't expect the prince to be here!" Lavi said, grinning madly.
Ling grinned too. Just then, Roy coughed. "Excuse me for the interuption but.." he gestured toward Gluttony. "We really need your opinion about this." he said, raising an eyebrow.
Allen blushed. "Oh, right. Sorry."
"So? What do you think?" Ed asked.
Allen straightened up. "Well, we do feel something different about him. We feel the same thing when we met Bradley. It was like.. not human. I don't know how to describe it." he sigh.
Kanda crossed his arms accross his chest. "They didn't feel right at all. It was like something is crawling inside them, screaming for help. Not to mention the aura around him." he said, leaning againts a wall.
"That must be the philosopher stone." Ed said, thinking. "The philosopher stone.. A monster created with it as the nucleus.. Homunculus." he muttered.
"Wait! Didn't homunculus created from failed attemp of human transmutation? That's what you explained to us too." Lavi said, raising a hand in front of Ed's face.
Ed's eyebrow twitched, annoyed. Not only the red head had interrupted his train of thought, he had raised a hand in front of his face too. Annoying. "Yes, I do said that, because that's what the general idea of what homunculus is. Every book you read about them will say that too. But in this case, it's different."
Lavi raised an eyebrow, oblivious to Ed's annoyence toward him. "How is that?"
"At first, I have thought homunculus created by failed attemp, but after I saw Gluttony closely, it was like he was created purposely. Like there was someone we didn't know that created homunculus on purpose." Ed explained.
Lavi opened his mouth. Ed saw this and raised his hand, stopping Lavi from talking.
"I'm not done yet. I have just told you guys about it because I'm not sure yet. But now, I'm a hundred percent sure. How I know they're created that way? Because it's the only way to do it beside failed attemp of human transmutation." Ed said.
Lavi whistled. "You're a genius." he clapped his hand once.
Al would have smiled if he was not trapped in an armor.
Ed rolled his eyes. "No need to tell me." he smirked.
Roy raised an eyebrow at Ed. "So you're already sure about that theory?"
Ed nodded. "Yeah.. But we need to find the one who make them." he pointed toward Gluttony. Meanwhile, Gluttony whimpered and rolled a bit on the ground.
"Have any idea who is it?" Allen asked, glancing toward the rolling Gluttony.
Roy nodded. "Yes, as you have know, Bradley is a homunculus."
Ling perked up. "You have confirmed it?" he asked.
"No. We haven't, but if we believe in what you have said and what they sense, then he is a homunculus." Roy answered.
Ling looked at the exorcists curiously. "How did you guys sense it? I couldn't sense any inhuman aura around him like other homunculus do."
"Really? Now that I have seen Gluttony, he do have fainter aura around him than Gluttony. But it is there." Allen said.
Ed clenched his hands. If Bradley is homunculus, then the one who killed Maes must be one of the homunculi.
Roy glanced at Ed. He put a hand on Ed's shoulder. His piercing onxy eyes bore into Ed's golden one. Ed stare at him for a while. "Mustang." Ed muttered.
Roy closed his eyes and let Ed's shoulder go. Just then, Gluttony muttered something in his breath.
"Mustang... killed Lust.." Gluttony muttered. Allen turned toward Gluttony, feeling something strange. Lavi and Kanda glanced toward the homunculus from the corner of their eyes.
"Mustang.." Gluttony said, louder. The binding around him had loosening. This time, the Roy, Ed and Al heard him and turned toward the homunculus.
"Whhaaa.." Roy said, confused. The exorcists are all on alert now, changing into battle stance.
"Mustang killed Lust!" Gluttony roared. Suddenly, there was a blinding light surrounding them and an explosion.
Ed opened his eyes and searched for the homunculus. His eyes widened when he saw him. His appereance has change. His stomach seems to have been opened into two with a large eye, strangely similar with the one in the gate, making Ed shivered. Beside the hole on his stomach, his ribcage has extended to be seems like a set of long fangs.
Ed glanced to the side, seeing Allen, Lavi and Kanda had jumped to the other side. They seemed to be okay. Not too far from them, Roy, Al and Ling stood. Roy was clutching his side. Looks like his wound had opened as Ed saw blood sheaped through his shirt and jacket.
"Mustang..." Gluttony growled out. Ed snapped his attention back to him. "Must.. kill.. Mustang!"
Suddenly, there was some kind of orb on his stomach. He aimed it toward Roy. Ed turned toward Roy, gritting his teeth. "Watch out! He's aiming for you!"
The orb extended toward Roy, the ground beneath the orb had gone. Al grabbed Roy and jumped to the side, just in time.
"Colonel!" Riza shouted and ran in front of him. She aimed her gun at Gluttony and shot but the bullets just vanished in front of his stomach.
"What?"
"Get away! He's aiming for me!" Roy shouted, pushing Al back.
Gluttony attacked him again, and he manage to dodge it. Gluttony keep attacking him until they reach the forest.
"Al!" Ed yelled. Ed, Al and Ling ran toward the forest. Meanwhile, the exorcists watch the event with calculating eyes. When the Elric brothers and Prince had gone to the forest, they looked at each other and ran toward the forest. Each of them jumped into the tree, observing their surrounding.
There's an explosion again and a yell. "Gahhh!" Ed shouted. He looked at the exorcists on top of the trees. "Why don't you help us?" His automail arm had been transmuted into a blade. He was crouching on the ground.
Lavi looked at him with his calculating single green eye and grinned. "It's not our job to help you defeat the homunculus. Didn't we have already said it? We only help you if it was really necessary or will give us some advantages."
Ed growled and glanced toward Allen. The white haired boy was smiling nervously at him but he didn't show any gesture to help him. "Fine!" he shouted and ran deeper into the forest.
Allen watch Ed go and turned toward Lavi and Kanda. "So... He's mad now." he scratched his cheek with his finger.
"Che. Stupid sprout." Kanda said and leaped into another tree, following Ed to observed.
Allen sighed and jumped into another tree too, following Ed and Kanda. This is turning out worser and worser.
"Hey! Allen." Ling called out from another tree, grinning. Allen turned toward him. "Oh.. hey Ling." he greeted and turned to observed the fight below them again.
Right now, Ed and Al was trying to fight Gluttony. Before, Roy had tried to burn the homunculus but Gluttony just ate all the fire. Riza had taken Roy outside the forest while Ed and Al distracted him.
The exorcists, just like what they have said just observed them from the trees.
Ling looked at him curiously. "You wouldn't jump down and help, don't you?" it was more like a statement than a question.
Allen laughed lightly. "No. It's not our job. We wouldn't get anything even if we help, right?" Allen said, still looking at the fight.
Ling shrugged and jump down, helping Ed and Al. He slashed his sword at Gluttony, but Gluttony dodge it. He flipped back and land on his feet near Ed and Al.
"Oi, bean, need any help?" Ling said, grinning.
"Who are you calling a bean?" Ed yelled.
Ling laughed. "Come on, let's get this over." he positioned his sword, ready to attack.
Ed growled at him and clapped his hands. He crouched down and transmuted the ground to attack Gluttony but it just vanished. "What the hell happpened? All of out attack just vanished." Al asked, shocked.
Just then, Allen called out from the tree. "You might wanted to retreat now. He ate all of the attacks." he informed.
"What?" Ed asked, confused.
"You heard him, bean." Kanda said from another tree.
"I am not a bean!" Ed shouted at Kanda and clapped his hands again. He make a wall separating them and Gluttony.
"Come on, we're retreating. Let's see the colonel." Ed said. Al and Ling nodded and ran. The exorcists looked at each other and chase after them. Before they retreat, Allen glanced at the wailing homunculus for the last time and jump to another tree.
A/N : okay, I'll stop it here.
While I was writing this alone in my house, I got a creepy messsage from my friend -,- It's about a little girl that got killed and wanted to play. I just read this line 'you'll play with me right? right now I'm just beside you' and suddenly all the lights in my house shut off. Me being me just said 'huh?' and looked around. I just sat there on my chair for a long time until my parents got home and turn on the light again.
*sigh* sometimes I just wish I could react like my friends. You know, like normal. Maybe scream or go WTH? O.o
