A/N: Hi guys! Thanks for the support while I was busy with school stuff, I really appreciate it :)

So you know how pissed off you get at a TV show, anime or movie when they kill off one of your favorite characters? I'm currently in this certain state of depression/pissed off-ness at Guild Wars. Why? Because my charr companion Tybalt freaking DIED! (Note: a charr is a feline race. Tybalt was more like a fluffy, apple loving cat). He was the best companion I've ever had and he had to die! I haven't been like this since Ed died in the first series, or when Al gave himself up in Brotherhood! At least they came back! Tybalt was replaced with a stupid plant person!

(SIGH!) Sorry for that rant… ^_^' Well enough of my RPG drama. Now we'll start from Ed's POV a little before the last line of the last chapter. I hope you enjoy the fluffy bits in the middle :)

•••

The three of them all got into fighting positions around the monster Envy had turned into. His warped laugh sounded as he reeled up onto his back legs. When they connected with the ground a shockwave sent the group up in the air. Ed's eyes grew wide when he saw Myra get thrown against a building. A crack resonated as her back and head made contact with the wall.

Ed fell into the sea of blood and struggled to get back up. He turned his focus on his friend. She was collapsed in a heap on the ground, her spear clattering as it fell beside her.

Ed's stomach dropped when he saw the expression on her face. She had paled significantly and her eyes were half open. The fact that she wasn't moving caused him to assume the worst.

"Myra!" he screamed as he turned in her direction. He started to go towards her but Envy stopped him. Ed scowled and raised his automail sword up in preparation for a fight. He froze when he came face-to-face with one of the bodies that made up the homunculus's torso.

"Kill me!" it begged as tears streamed down its face. "Please kill me! Come on, help me."

Forgetting about Myra, Ed's breath caught in his throat at the gruesome sight. It was a person and he couldn't kill anyone, even in this state!

The horror he felt only worsened as another body forced its way up through the mouth of the first one. It cackled maniacally in his face.

He went completely stiff as more voices joined the laughter. His wide eyed expression shifted into one of utter terror.

Before anything else could happen, Ling had driven his sword into the thing's head.

Envy glanced at the boys and let out a loud roar. He started to swing his tail at them but Ling had already gotten himself and Ed to a safer spot.

"Snap out of it!" the prince said fiercely. Ed didn't seem to notice anything that had just happened. He was staring at the ground in a state of shock. "What's the matter with you!? Why didn't you attack him!?"

He shook as he breathed. "Those are people," he said, voice soft. "They're trapped and need our help…"

"No they're not! It's a trick! He's a monster!"

"But…" Ed started to protest. Ling grabbed him by the collar, cutting him off.

"Listen to me! Those things are monsters!"

As if on cue, all of the voices started to get louder. One sound cut through everything.

Ed, Ling, and Envy all turned around to face Myra. The small brunette was coughing madly into her hand. After wiping it against her leg, her disgusted expression shifted into a scowl.

"Okay you ugly monster," she growled as she stood up, taking her weapon in hand. Ed caught a glimpse of the angry fire in her eyes. "This means war."

Envy narrowed his eyes at her and let out another roar. Myra threw the spear at Envy, smiling sadistically as it stabbed through one of the bodies. The monster let out a load roar while she clapped her hands and touched the wall she'd just collided into. Blue electricity crackled as the wall turned into arrows that shot out and skewered the giant monster Envy had become. He screeched in pain and started for her.

Finally coming to his senses, Ed stood up and charged towards the homunculus. The voices started to get louder as he neared him.

"Shut up!" Ed screeched at the bodies as he narrowed his eyes. They grew wide again when one voice stood out more than the others.

"Wanna play?"

He froze once again as memories of the little girl he and Al had grown to care so much about swam through his mind.

"Let's play big brother."

"Ed!" Myra's voice shouted. "Snap out of it!"

He snapped back into reality just in time for Envy to make his move.

"I'm done playing," his warped voice said.

A large green hand reached for Ed and grabbed him. He struggled to get free as the homunculus lifted him up into the air. The hand slammed him down against the platform. The force knocked the breath out of him and a crack sounded as he made contact with the hard stone.

"Edward!" he heard Myra scream as his vision began to falter.

His head turned slightly to see the girl coming for him be blocked off by the massive green monster.

"I'm sorry," he whispered as he felt his strength leave him.

•

The beast that Envy'd turned into cut me off from reaching Ed. I gritted my teeth before clapping my hands and hitting the ground. A large spike shot up and drilled straight through Envy. He let out a high pitched shriek before breaking it off and ramming his tail into me again.

I screamed as I was sent flying. Tumbling as I landed in the blood, I came to a stop when I made contact with a round piece of stone.

Grimacing through the pain in my chest and my flesh leg, I staggered upwards and turned back towards Ed. My eyes grew wide when I saw Envy's massive head hovering above Ed's body. Bodies dripped from his mouth and reached out to grab the unconscious blonde.

"Edward!" I screamed again. "Wake up! Get away from him!"

He didn't seem to hear me as he was lifted into the homunculus's mouth. With a hard snap of his teeth, Ed was trapped inside.

"No!" Ling cried out.

The whole world seemed to come to a standstill. I couldn't breathe or even move. My legs gave out and I fell to my knees.

"No," I whispered to myself in protest. "This can't be happening…"

Angry tears pricked at my eyes as I glared at the giant green beast. "Give him back to me you monster!" I shrieked as I slapped my hands together, ready to unleash hell. I hit the ground and it started to shift into multiple spikes ready to skewer Envy like a kabob.

"Myra! Stop!" Ling shouted. I stopped and turned to him as he continued. "You can't!"

Seething in anger, my hands turned into fists. "And why the hell not!?" I screamed at him.

"Ed might still be alive!" he explained. A sharp pain hit me in the chest at this. "If you attack like that you might kill him!"

I lowered my hands and looked back at Envy. A loud sound resonated from the inside of his mouth. One of his massive teeth was knocked out of his mouth and it looked like Ed's leg was jutting out of the hole that was in its place.

"Come on Envy!" Ed's muffled voice said. "Open up! Your breath is killing me!"

I could have passed out from relief but I didn't. The combination of emotions I was feeling kept me mostly upright.

"I think I've found a way out of this place!" he called out.

We all went completely still, even Envy. My eyes had grown wide and I had no clue how to react to this.

"Come on!" Ed called once more. Things falling back into place, Envy opened his large mouth and I caught a glimpse of Ed's blonde hair.

I got back to my feet and ran over to him as he was let down. "I thought you were dead!" I called as I did so.

He looked down at me. "So did I," he said in a softer tone.

After swallowing the lump that had formed in my throat, I punched his metal shoulder with my still clenched fist. He staggered backwards some while a sharp pain shot up through my arm when I did so. I ignored it and hid my face beneath blood soaked bangs.

"What was that for?" he asked in a confused and annoyed tone.

It took me a second to find an answer for this. Punching him seemed to be the only way to relieve some of that stress.

My voice was soft and breathy as I finally responded to this, but not with an answer to his question. "If Ling hadn't stopped me I'd have killed you trying to get through Envy. I… I really thought you'd died…"

Any and all words left me as I trailed off. There was a certain air hanging over me that made my chest tighten, though it could have just been the fact I'd broken a couple ribs when I'd last gotten tossed.

•••

Ed looked down at Myra, his face starting to heat up as he began to understand some of what she was trying to say.

He had no clue of what to do in this position. He'd never had to deal with people outside of his family until he started working for Mustang. Then Myra appeared and things changed dramatically, and not just for him. He didn't have much knowledge of who she was before he and Al had found her, but she'd clearly changed since then. As for him, he'd been through certain kinds of hell with her always by his side. Even though their partnership was forced, Ed found he was more okay with it at this point. Even though her mood changed without warning, she constantly irritated him, and put him in awkward positions he had grown to care about her. It was only just now that he was realizing this, though.

'It took a near death experience for me to notice how she feels,' he thought, face red at this point.

Myra continued to stare at the ground, as if afraid to look up at him. Ed let out a deep breath and placed his flesh hand on her right shoulder, wincing slightly because it was most likely broken. He felt her tense up at his touch and she looked up slightly at him before directing her attention to his hand. She took it in hers and frowned as he gritted his teeth.

"Envy must've thrown you down pretty hard for your arm to have broken like this," she stated with a smirk as she moved her hand up his arm, trying to find the damaged spot. Ed seethed as she did so, not stopping her. He finally pulled his arm back when she pinched the break.

The girl looked up at him. She'd folded her arms over her chest and was now glaring at him, her face slightly pink. "Come on Ed," she demanded. "Let me help you with that. It'll get worse if you don't do something about it."

He was reluctant but he eventually gave in. He and Ling sat on the platform while she transmuted two pieces of wood to make the initial brace. Ed had given Envy orders to gather all the pieces of the transmutation circle he'd seen.

"Arm," she demanded as she sat down in front of him. He winced as he held his arm out to her.

Myra placed the wood on either side of his arm and held it with one hand as she untied her hair ribbon with the other. Ed watched as her long hair fell around her as she wrapped the ribbon around his arm to finish the brace. He didn't pay much attention as she tied it off.

"There," she stated as she let go of his arm. Ed returned to reality as Ling began to talk to him.

"So how exactly are we going to get out of here?" he asked. As if on cue the giant homunculus had returned with a large stone.

The bodies that made him had gone quiet to a certain extent, so when Envy spoke his voice was clearer than before. "This is the last one I could find," he said.

Ed nodded and looked at the various fragments. Myra had raised an eyebrow at everything and seemed to be trying to figure out what was going on.

"I'd like to know that as well," she stated. "I may have gotten used to the smell of blood, but I'd rather not stick around here for much longer."

He examined the fragments before starting. "Do you remember the broken transmutation circle you pointed out when we in Xerxes?"

"Yeah, why?" she asked.

Ling was the one who spoke next. "Are these pieces all from Xerxes?"

"I think so," Ed answered. "If you look at them individually you don't think much of it, but put them together and it all adds up." He pointed to one piece. "This one has a sun on it. In alchemy the sun represents the soul. That piece has a moon, which represents the spirit. The only thing left is the body, and the stone itself represents that."

"So what?" Ling asked. He obviously knew nothing about alchemy.

Ed looked at him. "I'm pretty sure that these fragments are all from a human transmutation circle."

Myra's eyes grew wide and Ling narrowed his. "I do know something about that," he commented.

Ed nodded. "The only thing missing from this circle is a human being, so I got an idea."

Myra swallowed. "I don't like where this is going," she thought aloud.

Ed ignored this as he kept going. "I thought 'What if I transmute a living human being?'"

All the others went silent when he said this.

He went on. "It's impossible to transmute someone who's dead," he stated. "Myra and I learned that the hard way. You end up having to pay a toll for something that you didn't want. But if you transmute someone that's not dead… what if I transmuted myself?"

Myra's jaw had dropped open slightly. "Transmuting something that already exists…"

"Exactly. You can only get something from that same something, unless you use Myra's trick to change that something…"

"You're still using the same rule," she interrupted him. "The only thing changed is the basic structure of the atoms. You're using those atoms to make another something."

He nodded at this before going on again. "It's still the same rule, so if you transmute something living you should get something living. Also, this is human transmutation we're dealing with. The Gate should open. If Gluttony is a failed portal, then if we go through the real portal of Truth we should get to the right dimension. I'll open the portal, and then you guys jump in in."

Myra furrowed her brows. "Do you even realize how risky that is? It could rebound like before…"

"If it does then I'd be the only one it affects," Ed said, cutting her off. "It only rebounds on the one who opened the portal, which would be me."

"I don't like this," she protested.

He looked up and met her gaze. Her expression was hard to read. He sighed and turned towards Envy. "I have something to ask you."

No one spoke while Ed drew a transmutation circle on the platform that resembled the one from Xerxes.

"This is pretty much what the circle we saw looked like. Above these two dragons…" here he pointed to the symbol. It looked like the military emblem, but with an added head. "…there's a symbol for God, but it's written upside down. In other words, 'bring God down to Earth'. This is what creates the intertwining male and female dragons." No one questioned how he knew the genders of the two, or how he knew any of this information. "The dragons symbolize a hermaphrodite. In other words, a perfect being."

"Bringing God down to Earth seems like an awfully arrogant thing for mere humans to have thought up," Ling commented.

Ed turned to look at him. "Not if all you're doing is talking about it," he said before directing his attention to a fragment with a lion on it. "The problem is this."

Myra frowned as she turned to find what he was looking at.

"The missing piece over here shows the lion swallowing the sun. It's representing the Philosopher's Stone."

She seemed slightly taken aback and confused with this.

"Envy," Ed began in a lower tone. "The stone is made of living humans, right?"

"Yes," came the warped response of the massive green monster. "To be more accurate it's a high energy substance made from extracting human souls and condensing it. The spirit and the physical bodies are just by products."

Ed nodded. "When I visited the Xerxes ruins it was hard to believe that such an advanced society had disappeared in just one night, and there's nothing in the legends saying that they all left."

Myra furrowed her eyebrows. "What are you getting at?" she asked nervously.

He didn't pay attention to her and continued to speak to the homunculus. "You guys turned the entire population of Xerxes and turned it into a Philosopher's Stone, didn't you?"

Envy didn't say anything as the blonde boy continued speaking, his voice starting out rough but gradually getting louder. "I want answers. Who transmuted your body? The entire population was forced into it, along with a large Philosopher's Stone. Who is the one who wants to surpass God? Is it your 'father'!? He's using you and the other homunculi to recreate the destruction of Xerxes in Amestris, isn't he!?"

The homunculus grinned sadistically, caused Ed's gaze to harden into a glare.

"Maybe if you get us out of here I'll tell you," the warped voice said. "Now stop stalling alchemist." He opened his mouth and the bodies slithered out as a red light glowed where they were attached. "This is what you want, isn't it?"

Ed swallowed at the sight, grateful that the bodies weren't talking anymore.

"Come on," Envy continued. "You said you needed a toll, so use it to get us home."

"These are all citizens of Xerxes, aren't they?" Ed said voice softer now.

"Why are you hesitating?" the homunculus questioned as the Stone sank back and he closed his mouth. "You fought Greed didn't you? You must've really done a number on him and clearly you know that he was only able to regenerate using his Stone." He narrowed his eyes and glared down at the alchemist. "I don't want your pity. You're little brother exists only as a soul, so the only reason that you think of these as people is because you want to believe your brother is retaining his humanity. Such a childish notion. It disgusts me to be pitied by a lower life form."

Ed swallowed again. "So they don't have their own bodies?"

"No. They lost their bodies and souls back in Xerxes. They have no memories of their lives or even of what they looked like. All that's left for them is to be absorbed as energy." The arm of one of the bodies touched Ed on the head while Envy continued. "You must think of this logically and not let your emotions get in the way. These souls can never be returned to their bodies."

There was a still silence among the group for a moment. "All right," Ed said, breaking it.

He turned to his friends and said, "If anything happens to me, you guys have to warn people about these guys and that they're planning to use this country for some dark purpose."

Myra opened her mouth to speak, but Ling interrupted rudely. "It's not my country so it's not like I even care what happens to it."

The brunette's eye twitched when he said this. "You little…" she started.

The Xingese prince continued speaking. "There are people waiting for you in your country, right? Then get out of here and tell them for yourself."

Ed nodded and glanced at Myra once more before looking back at the deformed bodies that connected to make Envy.

"I'm sorry," he said quietly. "But I need to use you."

After exhaling he returned to the edge of the circle and the mood changed. "Here we go," he said, wincing as he struggled to put his hands together. He finally clapped and kneeled down to touch the circle. A flurry of sparks shot up and circled around them continuously.

An eye opened up in the middle and Ed held his breath. The black hands reached up started for him and the others.

'I never thought I'd be opening the gate in a situation like this,' he thought.

"Ling!" he called out. "Jump in!"

The prince nodded and stepped in. The hands wrapped themselves around him, pulling him in.

The hands had already caught Envy and the massive beast was being pulled down.

"Myra!?" he called, wondering if she was already gone. He turned to the side and saw her. Her long hair was flying in the wind the portal had unleashed and her eyes were closed. When she opened them he noticed that her violet irises were glowing brightly. The hands wrapped delicately around her legs and arms before pulling her down.

Ed was the last one to go down and didn't struggle as he was pulled through the blinding light.

'No point in struggling,' he thought as he was pulled.

The black hands let him go and he landed on his left arm. He howled in pain as he held it close to his chest.

"Well looks who's here," the familiarly haunting voice said.

Ed turned with a scowl on his face, expecting to see Truth. His mouth fell open slightly and his eyes grew wide.

"Al," he said, practically speechless.

His little brother's scrawny body sat in front of a second Gate. Al turned around to face Ed and looked at him with a sad smile.

Ed scrambled to stand up and started to run for him. "Al!" he cried out.

"Now now," Truth's cold voice scolded. Black hands reached for Ed and grabbed his arms and legs, holding him back. "I'm not about to let you do that."

"I can't go with you," Al said. "You're not my soul."

Ed paused for a second but resumed his struggling as the Gate began to close. "Alphonse!" he shouted. "I'll come for you! I swear I'm going to get you out of here! Just you wait!"

The arms won and dragged him backwards. The last thing he saw was his little brother's sullen smile.

•

"Welcome back, little alchemist," Truth's voice said in my mind.

I opened my eyes and blinked. I hadn't realized that they were closed. They grew wide when I saw the white void. After turning my head slightly I noticed the white figure with my leg. There was an added feature; a pair of dark colored eyes.

Glaring at him, I pushed myself up and frowned at the mess of hair that was enveloping me. I pushed it aside and stood up.

"So what do you want?" I growled, not releasing the glare.

"I wanted to show you something," he said simply. With a wave of his hand, a second Gate was revealed. My jaw dropped at the sight.

My brother was sitting down in front of it, looking almost the same as he did when I'd last seen him. He wore the same clothes, though now they were tattered and the colors had faded. His gray eyes looked at me from behind cracked lenses, and his once short black hair now reached the middle of his back.

"Drake," I breathed, almost speechless.

"Hello little sister," he said with a familiar tight lipped smile. "It's been awhile, hasn't it?"

A/N: Mwahahaha. Cliffy! So who loves me and who hates me? We're in for an intense scene pretty soon, so keep an eye out for when I next update this.

About the little rant at the top, I'm so sorry for that. I mean this is for FMA and not a game, so please forgive me. If not… I don't have a good enough threat so just carry on as you normally would.

Last but not least, please don't forget to review this. I like seeing follows and favorites and such, but a little feedback is appreciated. Thanks for reading and the next chapter will be up ASAP. Stay soft my fluffies *:-{)