"… Ta…. ey… Mel… ta… Meli… Can… hear me?"

What was this? Melita was feeling very sluggish. Someone was calling her. It was a familiar voice. Melita forced her eyes open to find Edward holding her in his arms.

"What happened? Where's Al?"

"Al…" Melita tried to pull herself together, "After you left he made a phone call… Then he left. I was going to go after him, but… I lost consciousness."

Edward helped Melita onto the bed. He stood up and cursed, "Don't even think about it."

Melita looked behind him to find Lust pointing her sharp finger at him.

"You're looking well, for a fugitive of the military."

"I already know who you are."

"I am nothing but myself."

Edward pulled out a pendant from his pocket and threw it at Lust. It got caught in her fingers. She froze. Melita had seen that expression before. It was that night when she arrived at Ishbal.

Edward hoped over towards the wall.

"I told you, I know who you really are!" Edward transmuted his arm into a blade and headed for Lust. He was stopped when Pride jumped in front of him. Pride grabbed Edward by the arms.

"Today's the day when I'll finally have them!" He tightened his grip on Edward's real arm.

"Sorry, but my arm's not for sale!" Edward kicked Pride away but he failed to let go of his automail.

"Let go!" Pride did as he was told, but when he did, he ripped off the metal hand that belonged to Edward. Pride attached it to himself, making a chest guard. Pride pushed Edward onto the bed and began to choke him.

"Okay, Pride…" Edward strained to say.

"Don't bother begging for mercy."

"Take whatever you want... In the end, it's our soul that make us human... and that's something you'll never have!"

"What!?" Pride was suddenly pulled back. Edward looked up to find Melita strangling Pride with a thick piece of wire.

"S… Sis…" Pride tried to say. Melita's eyes were filled with bloodlust, she paid no heed to what this mongrel was saying, "I…"

There was a snap. Pride fell to the floor.

"Edward, let's go!" She said. Edward nodded and jumped out the window with Melita following close behind. It didn't take long before Lust followed them outside. She blocked one side of the alley while Pride blocked the other side with a bit of delay.

"Why would you kill me, sis?!" Pride asked Melita, "Have you betrayed us!?"

Melita hesitated to respond. She didn't want to be classified as a Homunculus… She didn't want anything to do with them. Now he's acting as though she's his blood relative or something…

"Kill him, Lust!"

"I guess you want to become a human too, now don't you?"

"If there's a Philosopher's Stone, yes. Your little brother went off to Tucker's place and is currently learning how to do it." Lust paused. Melita looked at her, giving her all the empathy in the world, "Let's say you did know how to use it."

"Lust, what are you telling him!?" Pride spoke in a superior manner.

"Would you… make me human?"

"Traitor!" Pride started running towards Lust when she pushed him back with a stroke of her fingers.

"What the hell are you trying to pull here?" Edward said.

"I already told you."

"Lust…" Melita stared at this woman. Was she rebelling? Was she trying to do the same thing Melita was doing?

"Do you honestly think I'm gonna make you human? Why don't you ask your master to do it, instead?"

"Why wouldn't you?" Lust said. "If you were to make us human then you wouldn't have anyone chasing you anymore."

"Traitor traitor traitor!" Pride got up and attacked Lust. She fended him off but was defeated when one of her fingers pierced the pendant. She fell back.

"You just couldn't be patient. Didn't she already say she was going to make us humans once we find the Philosopher's stone for her?"

Pride put his foot right in between her boobs.

"I don't believe it. She only wants the stone to keep on living. For that reason, countless wars have been fought. You know our master has no intention of making us all human."

"Well, I don't really care if she helps me or not," Pride grabbed one of her fingers and broke it off. Lust screamed in pain, "I have my own way of becoming human. I guess it's just like our master said, you can't be trusted."

Pride used alchemy to attach her finger to his hand.

"I guess I'll be doing us all a fav- agh!" Melita has transmuted and used her palm to destroy Pride's armor, pushing him back.

"Why… sis…?" Melita frowned when he said that, "Why have you betrayed us…?!"

"Don't lump me together with you." Melita walked closer to him. She stopped right in front of Lust. Pride got up. He saw her holding the pendant in her hand. He gasped as Lust's fingers pierced his shoulders, pinning him down. The only one that remained small was the newly regenerated one. She waited for him to look at her before piercing his forehead with it, thus, killing him.

"Let's go." Lust began to walk.

"Melita…" Edward stared at her. She looked at him and tossed the pendant to him. He caught it and looked at it before putting it in his pocket.

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The three ran through the empty streets in the dead of night.

"Do you know where Al went to meet Tucker?" Edward asked.

"He's in the laboratory where he worked before becoming a state alchemist. Though, we have to hurry. Greed is going after your brother." Melita's eyes widened. She stopped running…

"N… No…" Melita stuttered. She couldn't believe it… She did it… She killed Greed right before she met Pride, "There's no way… Greed is…"

The other two stopped. Edward looked at her with a confused expression. An expression hoping to be proved wrong.

"I thought… you said you killed her…"

"I… I did…"

"No. You didn't." Lust said, "What you killed wasn't Greed… It was another failed attempt at human transmutation."

Melita and Edward stared at her with the same shock.

"W… Wait…" Edward tried to ignore the new information and pursue the old, "Why are you doing this? It's not like I promised you I would do it."

"Why?"

"I should be asking you why! You guys are immortal aren't you? You guys don't even age at all from what I can tell. You can't be hurt and you have powers no other human being could top. So why should I believe you when you say you want to give all that up?!"

"You don't know how cruel you're being, do you?" Lust said calmly as she looked back, glancing behind him. Edward held his breath as he turned to look at Melita. She was looking away from him.

How could he say such a thing…? He told her that he was going to find a way to make things right again… What difference would it make if he made Lust human as well as her? That would be setting things right…

"Why do you want your brother to return the way he was? He's practically immortal too, you know." Lust began walking again. Melita followed without looking at Edward. She didn't want to look at him.

"Hold it… The person you referred to as master… Is it by any chance someone that I know…?" Edward asked.

"Tell you what. You make me human and I'll tell you what you want to know."

"Don't forget, I'm holding that pendant of yours!" Edward tried to win their quarrel.

Lust didn't stop, "No, Edward. There's no possible way I could forget."