I always knew that you'd
Come back to get me
And you always knew that
It wouldn't be easy
To go back to the start
To see where it all began
Or end up at the bottom
To watch how it all ends
You tried to lie and say
I was everything
I remember when I said
I'm nothing without you
Somehow I found
A way to get lost in you
Let me inside
Let me get close to you
Change your mind
I'll get lost
If you want me to but
Somehow I found (somehow I found)
A way to get lost in you (a way to get lost in you)
Three days Grace- Lost in you
Chapter 24- Inside the Belly
Nobody's POV
Envy walked into a cell room with a food tray in hand. The guard dogs perked their heads up and watched as the Homunculus walked to the table nearby a bed. On the table was the tray of food from before which was untouched. "Oh no. Not again." Envy grunted. "We've told you, your an important candidate for sacrifice " Envy then sat down nearby the bed with a grin. "We need you to keep your strength up. So, dig in, Doctor Marcoh."
Marcoh's head was bowed low not even glancing at Envy. "You what? I've been sitting here for a while, trying to decide what you meant by sacrifice. Trying to figure out why I'm here. And what exactly it is you want." Marcoh whispered now looking up to Envy. "I'm fairly certain that what your doing right now is using this land and it's people to form one giant Transmutation Circle. And you hope that the end result is the creation of a Philosopher Stone. Am I wrong?"
Envy turned to him with a sinister stare. "So close, not quite. But your on the right track."
"Then what is it?" Marcoh edged.
Envy stood and stretched "The question is, are you going to cooperate with us or not? If not, the Village is history." An image of the village that Marcoh stayed in flashed in his mind which made his eyes go wide in horror. "Lust told me about your arrangement If we agree to leave the village alone, then you'll do what we ask." Marcoh looked down and his grip on his hands tightened. "Which is it? Agree to work with us and kill everyone in this country, or refuse to work with us and watch everyone in your beloved village die?" Marcoh trembled with tears in the corner of his closed eyes. "Fool! You just have to forsake one little village to save an entire country. To bad you don't have the stomach to do the logical thing." Envy laughed and stood tall. "Ha! I shouldn't act so surprised that's all you humans are! You put emotions in front of common sense!" He then grabbed a fork from the tray he brought in. "I killed a man who was like that once. All I had to do was look like his wife and he was helpless! He couldn't even fight me! Then there was a woman I killed who was just like him. All I had to do was look like her daughter and she got on her knees!" He then stabbed the piece of steak which made the plate crack and the table shake. "Humans are so easy to take advantage of! Lucky us!"
Athena's POV
"Colonel! What's going on!" Riza and Sam exclaimed running towards us with their guns.
"Hawkeye! Samantha! Stop!" Roy ordered as a wave of air sucked the top part of Riza's gun clean off. Riza and Sam stared at the gun in shock.
Then there was cracking above me which made Hate and Kaley grab me and drag me out of the house before a part of it collapsed. Gluttony now had his mouth extended to his feet with teeth poking out from each side. Ultimate chuckled and stood. "You guys are so screwed." His comment made Sam and Riza pull out their guns. Al, Roy, Doctor Knox and Ed climbed out from the ruble of the house with the Panda Al found clinging to Roy's face.
Roy pulled the Panda off his face and tossed her aside. "Don't you two provoke him! I'm the one he wants!" Roy demanded at the two girls.
"MUSTANG!" Gluttony growled like a dog before starting to suck in the closest objects nearby.
Al ran to Kaley to make sure she was okay while Ed pulled me protectively behind him. 'Alchemy can make something like this? It's disgusting...'
"Let's go! We have to bring them down!" Roy muttered taking off the gloves he had on.
"But we worked so hard to catch two of them!" Al argued.
"Survival is our first priority!" Roy stuffed his ignition gloves as he spoke. "Besides! They know our name and faces! It'd be foolish to let them leave alive!" He then snapped making flames dance all the way to the two homunculi. Gluttony let some of the flames into his mouth with Ultimate clapped his hands and burnt out the flames in front of him. Gluttony let out a burp which made smoke come out of his mouth.
"He swallowed it?" Ed and I sighed.
"Uh oh..." Al, and Kaley groaned.
Gluttony then attempted to suck us into his stomach which made us jump out of the way quickly and run into the forest. We ran through the trees and never looked back. "Hey! That worked well!" Ed exclaimed as we ran.
"Think you can do better!? Be my guest!" Roy suggested.
"Why don't we leave you behind? Your the one he wants!" Hate countered. We then ran into a clearing with tree separate ways to go. "The trees! Split up now!" Hate went with Roy, I went with Al, and Kaley went with Ed.
Hate's POV
Roy and I ran through trees and bushes just to get away from Gluttony. But unfortunately he found us. Before he could try and swallow Roy we heard gunshots. It was Riza and Sam. He then tried to swallow us again which made Roy and I roll out of the way. He then knelt over in pain which made my attention direct to him. He was holding his side in pain. "Brother!" I heard Sam call over as she ran to us.
"You idiot! He'll hear us!" I whispered in a harsh tone.
Sam then toke off Roy's jacket and my own jacket and set them to her side. "Not if your not here." She answered with a sly smirk. She then drew a two transmutation circles in the ground at the speed of light and activated them both at once. The place her hands were placed now had decoys. She set our jackets on each one of them and cocked her head to the side. "Come on. Let's move."
Roy stood up with my support. "You still use alchemy?" Roy asked.
Sam nodded. "Only when I need to. I practice simple alchemy and medical alchemy. Now we should move."
Nobody's POV
After the trio left the scene an enraged Gluttony and calm Ultimate showed up. "MUSTANG!" Gluttony screamed.
"Go on Gluttony. Eat him." Ultimate taunted with a smirk. "Roy and Hate." He then started to swallow them but eyes widen in shock. Ultimate growled. "Why did you stop!?" He yelled walking in front of the two 'people' and what he saw shocked him. Decoys made out of the ground. It was decoys that had it's tongue sticking out. In his mind it spelled out 'Suckers!'.
Athena's POV
"NOOOO!" I heard Gluttony scream loudly in the distance.
I smirked and turned to Sam. "Nice work. I didn't know you knew alchemy."
Sam gave me an embarrassed smile and chuckled. "Right... But Gluttony doesn't sound happy..."
"Alright!" Ed started as he pushed Roy into the car. "Now get in the car!" Sam chuckled and sat next to Roy.
"Lieutenant. Can you take care of the Colonel and Lan-Fan?" Al requested.
"You except me to run away and leave this to you Elric?!" Roy barked.
"If you stay you'll just in our way!" Ed exclaimed.
"Yeah! Leave!" Al added loudly.
"Firehead you know they're right." Sam sighed.
"You won't be any use here. Sorry." Riza continued which made Roy collapse on the car seat in depression. Ed and I stared at him in shock. He made Colonel? How and why?
"Don't you have a job to do Roy?" Kaley recalled. "The head of the military is a homunculus. You should do something about that!"
Sam gasped. "The Fuhrer?!"
"We can talk about it later!" Doctor Knox growled irritated. "Now get in!"
Ling, Al, Kaley, Ed, Hate and I exchanged looks. "Well there's one more spot left... So..." I trailed off before pushing Kaley in and closing the door behind her.
"Hey! What the hell do you think your doing!?" Kaley cursed while banging on the glass.
"Sorry Kaley you'll thank me later." I yelled over her. I turned to Knox and smiled. "The car looks full now, you go ahead."
"You dumb asses!" Knox scolded at us.
"You can't really believe really we'll let a couple of children fight this battle for us!" Riza yelled.
"With the senior staff involved in this, your gonna need all the help you can get." Ling explained.
"And that would include getting what information we can out of Gluttony and Ultimate." Ed added making me turn to him. He actually didn't had so much anger to the mention of Ultimate in his voice! I'm proud! I think...
"We'll stay here and find out what we can." Al reassured.
"Plus I'm a homunculus myself. So I know how to hit the Homunculi where it hurts!" Hate boasted with a grin.
"Just leave this to us and we'll handle everything." I continued. "And if you ask me it doesn't matter if we're children. At least we're getting the job done."
"This was our mission to being with and we're going to see it through. We appreciate the help till now though." Ed finished.
Riza and Sam pulled out their guns and handed one to Ed and me. "Here you two." Riza muttered as I stared at the two guns pointed at us.
"You two know how to use it right?" Sam questioned.
Ed and I stared at the gun nervously. "It's a weapon... For killing people." Al answered.
"Yes, but it's also a weapon for self defense." Riza restated making me hold my breath for a bit. Ed and I reached out fro the guns with tension. I grabbed the one Sam extended to me while Ed grabbed the one Riza extended.
I nodded nervously. "Alright... We'll take it." We then heard sucks of air in the distance which made out attention snap there.
"Look out for Lan-Fan." Ling requisitioned before we ran into the forest.
Later
"He killed Lust... MUSTANG!" Gluttony screamed as he engulfed trees that were twice his size. I gulped as Ultimate looked around with a sharp gaze. with Gluttony eating trees nearby. This was not going to be fun at all!
"I know we said we'd stay and all. But that's seriously freaky..!" Ed whispered.
"He seems a bit angry." Ling stated.
"Nah, really? I would have never guessed." Hate sarcastically remarked.
"Shut up or he'll catch us." I hissed lowly.
"How are we going to catch him?" Al asked.
We then heard rustling behind us making our heads quickly snap back. In a matter of seconds Kaley showed up. My anger started to boil. What was she doing here?! Before I could scold her Hate grabbed a stone, turned it into a dagger, covered Kaley's mouth and set it on her neck. Kaley let out a gasp. "Alright? Who are you?" She growled. "Envy... You can't fool me."
I set my hands on Hate's shoulder. "What are you-?"
"No. There's a homunculus I remember that can change it's appearance. He might be trying to trick us." Hate snarled in a low voice. "If your Kaley then how long have I been alive?"
"I dunno. You never told us that." Kaley answered in a muffled tone. Hate pursed her lips and set the dagger down on the ground.
"Okay... We're good." She sighed now looking up. Her eyes stopped and went wide.
"Hate?" Kaley questioned as Hate pointed up to a Great Dane with red eyes staring down on us.
"A dog?" Al asked.
"Stop it! Now Gluttony!" It ordered making my eyes go wide. I knew that voice! But from where?
I heard Ultimate groan. "It's about time you got here! He's probably going to have splinters in his stomach!"
"A talking dog?" Ed asked.
The dog turned to us and smirked a little. "Hey, long time no see." He then started to change back into a human. A boy with green dreadlocks for hair and purple eyes. "How are you Fullmetal and Frosted Fire pipsqueaks?" My eyes went wide. One that can change appearances... A voice like that. The natural taunt in his voice. I understand. He did it. He was the one that killed my Mom.
Ed then stormed to Envy with a furious look. "Damn it, I told you before. Don't call me SHOOOOOORT!" He then kicked a tree and missed Envy.
Envy put his hands up for reassurance. "Hey! Calm down! I'm just here to get Gluttony back; nothing more than that! I don't want to fight you, Pipsqueak." He then dodged Ed upcoming attack.
"That's FIVE now!" Ed yelled.
"What are you talking about?" Envy growled jumping far away from Ed.
"That's five times! You called me pipsqueak twice here, and three times in the Laboratory! And don't tell me you've forgotten already!" Ed snarled.
"Wow, I'm impressed." Kaley gasped.
"I know, right." I replied.
"You've got a short memory there." Envy sighed turning to Gluttony and Ultimate. He then jumped in front of them.
"Wait!" I called out.
"Your becoming bothersome." Envy told Gluttony.
"I've told him and told him but NO!" Ultimate grumbled.
"Mustang was here! Mustang killed Lust! Swallow! Swallow!" Gluttony obsessively repeated.
"You don't get the Colonel." Envy told Gluttony. "Or the Elric brothers."
"Or Athena!" Ultimate added.
"Why not?!" Gluttony whined.
"I got her to commit the taboo!" He answered with a smile.
"More like forced!" I corrected annoyed.
"I could sense this before." Ling stated walking out from behind Al. "Now how many people are inside of you, homunculus?"
Envy glared at Ling and set his elbow Gluttony's head. "I know you. You're the kid who crossed swords with Wrath, aren't you?"
"What do you mean 'kid?!'" Ling asked enraged. "I happen to be the twelfth son of the emperor of Xing. My name is-"
"Eat him." Envy ordered at Gluttony. This of course made Gluttony chase after Ling.
"No! No! No! Noooo!" Ling yelled in the distance as he ran.
Kaley sighed in relief. "That was close."
Ed, Al, and I smirked. "Now that answers our question."
"You thinking what I'm thinkin?" Ed asked as he cracked his knuckles.
"They really aren't aloud to do anything to us." Al answered.
"And that is the only really good thing about this!" Hate added with a smile.
I smirked as I cleared the carved circle off automail. "If that's the case..." I trailed off before clapping my hands and setting my hands on the ground. But instead of the sparks being blue, they were white. A wall then appeared which separated Gluttony and Ling. "Ling, Kaley! You get Envy!" I demanded as Ed and Al ran to Gluttony. I smirked and turned to Ultimate. "As for me."
"Picking another fight with me? Pathetic!" He hissed charging for me. I clapped my hands, set them on the ground, which created an ice wall. "Your using the dew on the grass to help you! Dammit that's clever!"
Yeah, since there's a lot to go around this fight should be easy!" I boasted turning the ice wall into a war hammer.
He scoffed. "Your fighting your trainer! Don't get too cocky!" He demanded attacking me again.
Kaley's POV
"You two aren't that bad!" Envy replied as Ling and I attacked him. I was using my smoke bombs and clawed gloves. "You really know how to use that thing!"
"Thank you for the compliment!" Ling answered not even breaking from the fight.
He threw a punch at me which I blocked and dug my claws into his side. "You fell for it!" Envy answered before turning his hand into a snake and wrapping it around my arm to my neck. I gasped a the grip got tighter. "Good isn't it? You humans can't do anything like it!" The snake hissed making me whimper. "So what will it be? Strangled to death? Bitten to death?" He questioned as he turned his hand into a sickle. "Or cut up into little pieces?"
"None of the above!" I growled as I kicked Envy and used the sickle Envy used to cut the snake off of me. Ling then came up and slahed Envy's chest. When Envy was pushed back his foot was buried in the ground. Well, that's weird. Ling and I stared at that in astonishment.
"That was a dirty trick." Envy snarled. "That's not playing fair!"
"Well, when I trained for the military I didn't care if I fought dirty or not." I answered.
"People have been trying to assassinate me since I was a kid. Under the circumstances, you can't blame a guy for learning how to fight dirty." Ling explained walking to Envy with me. "So have you had enough yet? Are you going to come quietly with us? I just want the information on how to be immortal. Or shall we go again?"
Envy raised his head in anger. "You scum! Mere humans like you two can't condescend to me!" Envy growled.
"Underestimating humans I see." I sighed.
"And that's a mistake!" Ling yelled. Before we could strike again Gluttony, Ed, Al, and Hate flew through the wall. "Stay out of our ways guys! We're busy!"
Then Ultimate landed on top on Envy with a loud thud. "Oww..." He moaned. There was a loud whistle which made Ultimate raise his head. "Oh damn!"
"Hey Ultimate! We're not done here!" Athena barked raising a war hammer. She then turned the hammer into a long Katina blade. ((AN: It's Sephiroth long! Final Fantasy VII fans will get that!))
Envy then tried to attack Ling which made Ling quickly react and knock off his leg. Envy yelled in pain as he landed. Ling then stood over him ready to strike. But before he could he turned into Lan-Fan. Now that is dirty. Ling's eyes went wide as 'Lan-Fan' smirked. "Go for it Gluttony!" Envy now ordered.
Athena gasped and turned to the scene. "Ling!" Ed and Athena now called running to them.
"Wait Gluttony! No!" Ultimate yelled.
Ed ran to push Ling out of the way as Athena came around and quickly shoved me away. "NO!" Hate and I screamed. But what happened afterwards is what I didn't catch. When I stood I gasped. No way! Gluttony swallowed Athena, Ed, Envy, Hate, and a part of Al's arm.
"Swallowed them?" Gluttony asked.
Ultimate, Al, and I stormed to Gluttony and pushed him to the ground. "Brother! Athena!" Al called out trying to open Gluttony's extended mouth.
"Ed! Athena! Hate!" I screamed.
"Spit them out right now Gluttony!" Ultimate demanded.
"I can't... I swallowed them.." Gluttony answered as he's body returned to normal. Well... Sort of. The mouth on his stomach closed up and turned back into skin. I was breathing heavy at this.
"Oh god! He's gonna rip out my stone! He's going to kill me!" Ultimate bawled in panic. "As soon as I find a sacrifice I had to lose her!"
"No..." I whimpered.
"Impossible..." Al whispered. "It can't be... Brother... Athena..." He then punched the ground and screamed.
Ed's POV
When I awoke I saw nothing but black. I couldn't see much of anything. I sat up. "Where am I?" I asked myself as I now noticed what I was standing in. It was like a sea of blood. "Blood?" I then stood up and looked around. I didn't see the forest we were in, or Athena, or Al. "What is this place? Al? Athena? Hey! Is anyone there?" I called out while breathing heavy. "WHERE THE HELL AM I?!"
Let it out- Miho Fukuhara
Chapter 25- Doorway of Darkness