Military officials lined up in two rows in front of the building.

Fuhrer King Bradly, a 50-year-old man with an eye patch over his left eye walked towards the building, in between the lines of officials.

Melita watched him enter the building from a room which was assigned to him. She waited and waited. It was already night when he entered his room.

"Good to see you are here, Sloth."

Melita only nodded as she stood in the corner of the room.

"Why so gloomy? Oh right, you have a friend here." He looked out the window, "I had to dispose of an intruder, unfortunately, he got caught up in the mix."

Melita saw him looking outside. She stepped forward and looked, too. In the center of the quad was a suit of armor with many other officials. They were all familiar… Mustang's men. They were cleaning him out. A body was near Alphonse. Melita frowned.

"I'm aware you told Lust what to do?" Melita nodded. There were some heavy thuds and the room burst open. Melita and Bradley turned back to find Gluttony carrying Lust.

"Lust is… Lust is…" Gluttony was panicking. He set her on Bradley bed and Melita closed the door.

"How did this happen?" Bradley asked.

The Ishbalan showed her this thing… and she fell…" Gluttony said.

"A thing?" Melita spoke.

"One things for sure, she's not dead." Melita looked at her face. Lust had a frightened expression. It was mixed with pain and anguish. What had he showed her.

"She was close to remembering who she was." Bradley said, "In other words, that thing he showed her is from her previous life. You must try to avoid it at all costs."

Melita stayed with Lust in the room as Bradley went to tend to other business. She slowly woke up.

"Lust!" Gluttony jumped with glee.

"Where am I?" Lust asked.

"In Ishbal," Melita said.

"If you're here that means Wrath is here too?"

Melita nodded, "Lust… Have you ever wondered… Where we come from? Or where we go when we die?"

Lust was shocked at her question. It was something she would say.

"That thing that you saw… I'm sure it was a treasure from your past life. It triggered some memories… didn't it?"

"How do you know so much?" Lust asked.

"I'm a live homunculus. I was transformed into one." She said, "I was born a human… but am I destined to die a homunculus… or will I be used for something else? Being made a homunculus means you have to work to achieve something… You have a wish… to become human… But I already am… So why do I have to suffer so?

"Lust, help me… Help me slip out of her grasp. I don't want to be her toy anymore… It was painful enough being made into a full homunculus."

Lust only stared at her. Her stare was full of pity. How did she get trapped in the spider's web?

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Alphonse sat in the quad alone. He stared at the spot where he had been all night.

"Hurry up." He heard a familiar voice. Alphonse looked up to the corridor across from him. He saw a figure standing there. A woman in a long cloak.

Alphonse stood up as she met another person with a cloak. She hurried along with the newly found person.

"That's…" Alphonse recognized the two… Melita and his teacher's son, "Melita!" He called after her but they ran. Alphonse followed them into the desert. After hours of walking alone, he got an idea of where he was going… Liore.

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Melita and Pride walked in an underground tunnel. This would be the fastest route to Liore. As they walked further and further, they heard footsteps and a few voices, ones that weren't their own. Pride stopped.

"What?" Melita asked. Pride was looking down. A mad smirk grew on his face. This frightened her.

"He's here…" Pride picked up a rock that was nearby. It had merged and transformed into a sharp spike. This surprised Melita. What she noticed is that the transformation happened on his right arm, not his left. In a matter of seconds, he ran off.

"Pride!" After his disappearance, screams followed.

Melita ran towards that direction.

Strange. No matter how far she ran she didn't seem to get any closer. Her legs were becoming heavy. This was a strange sensation… Almost as if she didn't want to get there. In the end, she did. What she found was a bunch of corpses. This frightened her. She check every single one. They were all dead. Stabbed in the chest. Upon closer inspection Melita realized these were the people from Liore… That meant… She looked up. There was a sound of a child crying.

"SHUT UP!" He screamed. Melita ran. Once again, her legs became heavy, as if she could not deal with this pressure…

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Edward was in too much shock to move.

"EDWARD!" He heard Rose's voice. He looked over and saw Pride lunging himself towards her. He knew he wasn't going to make it.

A shadow slipped by him and in front of Rose. It shouted, "Pride!"

Edward stopped as Pride's spike had penetrated their body. It became silent. The child that rested in Rose's arms began to cry again. Pride fell back with a regretful expression. He screamed. He had pierced them in the chest with his spike. They coughed blood.

"S… sis…" He whispered.

Edward took a good look at this person who had saved Rose. It was a girl with red eyes and black hair. She had a scar on her neck. Blood that had the same shade as her eyes seeped from her mouth…

"Melita…" Edward gaped.

"Pride." Melita looked stern.

Pride scooted back. He quickly got up and ran away.

"Melita…" Edward stepped forward. Melita fell to her knees. Blood from her wound met the ground. He watched as slowly, her wound closed, "Don't tell me you're… really one of them…"

Melita looked up him, waiting for judgment.

Edward remembered the previous Greed's words; To save the one they called Sloth.

"Why now… Out of all times… why did you have to come back now…?" Edward sounded upset. Melita couldn't answer, "Answer me!"

"Ed…" Rose said. She watched as Melita got up and wiped the blood from her mouth.

"I didn't have a choice. I'm a puppet like all of them…" Melita began to walk when Edward stopped her.

"So you're a homunculus… A created human being?"

Melita shook with frustration. She said angrily, "I didn't ask for this! I was born a human and made into a homunculus! I wasn't born from a failed attempt of human transmutation! I was born a damn… human…"

Melita looked down. There was a pause.

"Greed… Is the new Greed really out there…?" Edward asked, afraid of the answer.

Greed… Not the man who Dante had killed… but the one who she had killed.

"I… killed her…" Melita said with full regret, "I killed the homunculus that was your mother…"