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IIIII

It all happened so fast Edward wasn't sure what was going on around him anymore. As he ducked and tried to find a single moment to use his alchemy on his arm, the people that were in the common room ran away screaming, while the drunks in the bar tried to stumble away. It seemed everyone heard the fighting as the people from the other floors started clearing out also. Edward just hoped that everybody got out of the way because the whole place was going to shake in a bit.

Edward jumped, avoiding a lower kick, and he planted a punch of his own right on her face. She slid back a couple of feet. Edward clapped his hands together and grew out a dagger-type weapon from his arm. Cahts sat up and wiped the blood away from her mouth. She felt a deep scratch right about her upper lip, so it must have been his automail arm he had hit her with, ripping into her face like that. Cahts knew Edward would be furious but the look in the boys eyes...it was kind of frightening.

Edward charged forward, slashing at Cahts's chest, but she narrowly escaped it when he jumped back. He and Cahts kept fighting this way without any real results. They were both so fast that they couldn't catch the other and when they did it was only a scrape or small bruise because the other would get quickly out of the way.

I'll never win at this rate, thought Edward. He looked up toward the stairs. That was the only way to Al. Forget her, I need to get to Al and Elisia!

He made a dart for the stairs. Cahts wasn't sure what he was during, she thought he was running at first, but she knew that she couldn't let him up there just yet. She wanted to play a bit.

"Oh, no, Mr. Elric! You're staying down here!" Cahts said as she went after him.

Cahts quickly grabbed onto Ed's hood and pulled him back. Edward slipped out of his jacked but tripped forward, landing right on his face. He groaned as he sat up, looking at the Albino woman who held up his jacket in front of him, like it was a big victory she had gotten a hold of it or something. Edward stood up and turned around to go up the stairs but Cahts used the coat more or less as a suffocation device. She wrapped it around Edward's head as tight as she could.

Edward couldn't see nor breathe. His hands scratched at the fabric and he could feel Cahts pulling him down to the ground. He tried to stand back up but everytime he did Cahts would kick the back of his knees, thus making his knees give out on him. She laid him down on his stomach, sat on his back, holding the end of the coat tightly at his neck.

He coughed, struggling to get what little air was left. Cahts smiled both on the outside and the inside. When his arms fell limp at his sides she let go and pulled it off of him. Edward wheezed as his lungs tried to get air in quicker then he could breathe.

Edward was much to busy trying to get his breath back to realize anything that Cahts was doing. Cahts had a sadistic smile on her face as she threw the coat to the side. She put a hand on his scarred shoulder, and wrapped a hand around his upper automail arm, then without much warning to Edward, except for a slight chuckle from the woman, she pulled that automail out.

The cry of pain from Edward was deafening. Cahts held the arm and looked at it for a minute. She shrugged then threw it over her shoulder.

"Now, Ed, how about the foot?" asked Cahts.

Edward tried to move but not much leeway was allowed with her sitting on his back. His breath was shallow as he tried to regain his composure. He couldn't do much. He needed both hands to do alchemy. The weight of her on his waist, putting pressure on his hurt side, made it all the more hard to move around.

Edward took in a deep breath and twisted around. Cahts was thrown off as he used his extra arm to smack her in the side. The blonde jumped to his feet with his eyes scattering around for his arm.

"Dumb little boy!" Cahts shouted as she clapped her hands together. She placed her hands on the ground and two large vines seemed to pop out of the ground and started moving towards Edward. "You better run, Mr. Elric, or you're going to get caught!"

Edward took her advice and started running. The vines stabbed at his feet but he was a bit faster. He lowered his body a bit and grabbed his metal arm that was near the doors. He placed his back against the glass doors, and spun onto his stomach as the vines punctured the glass.

He jabbed his automail arm into his rightful place. He once again cried out in agonizing pain. He felt one of the vines wrap around his ankle. His eyes widened and he clapped his hands together, ignoring the extreme pain consuming his shoulder. He touched the vines and they broke into many pieces wriggling on the floor.

Edward felt sort of like dropping right there. He could feel sweat pouring down his face, his eyelids getting heavy. He shook his head, trying to still regain his breath since he hadn't had the proper time to do so. Cahts stood there as if she was waiting for him to charge at her. Like he was going to. He wasn't about to run at someone who probably had orders to kill him. He may have ran at her before but he was pissed.

"Tell...tell me where Al is..." Edward ordered.

"You sure you want to know? You don't want to find him and that girl dead...because for all you know, they could be," Cahts said.

"They better not be," Edward regained his composure of standing straight with a determined look. "It's room 606, isn't it? Dang. That's probably on the fifth floor, right?" He asked, almost expecting her to answer. Instead she just pretended to be interested in the painted ceiling instead of listening to him. Edward's eyebrow twitched. "Hey! Listen to me!"

"I guess you could go up now. They probably heard the commotion and know your here and are waiting for you. I shouldn't keep you to long if that's the case," Cahts said after sitting down. She said "Then again, I don't want you rushing to your death."

"You wish," hissed Edward as he began walking past her.

"You know, Mr. Elric, I am surprised you are up. That shot I gave you..." she continued talking as he headed towards the stairs "...was supposed to keep you asleep for six days. This is only the third. Good job, shorty."

"Shutup," Edward said heatedly as he made a run up the stairs.

IIIII

Of course, Envy, Lust, and Gluttony were fully prepared for Edward as he rushed into the apartment. They had heard the commotion, not to mention his screams of agony, from downstairs.

Edward looked around and asked "Where are Al and Elisia?"

"Aw, you aren't excited to see us?" said Envy in a mock-sadness. "Come on, Full Mini, you look so angry. Calm down. I can assure you that they are not harmed. We even fixed your brother's arms...as for the girl..." Envy pulled Elisia from behind him, a firm grip on her arm.

Atleast Elisia's okay...for now... Edward thought in a bit of relief. He knew that Hughes's heart would shatter if anything were to happen to his little girl.

"What? But how? I'm the only one that can fix Al," Edward replied.

"I guess you were wrong," shrugged Envy.

"Alright, Elisia is fine, but where's Al?" Ed looked around but there really wasn't much going on. He shouted "Al! Al! Where are you?"

"He's in the bathroom. Go ahead, go check on him," Lust pointed towards the bathroom door.

Edward very cautiously made his way towards the bathroom door. He looked over his shoulder every few seconds just to make sure they wouldn't do anything underhanded like they usually did and attack him while his back was turned.

He opened the door and found Al standing there, in front of him, and there was cry from Elisia of "Run!". Edward was immediately confused.

"Run, Ed! Run!" Elisia cried, tears streaming down her face.

Envy threw her into the wall, knocking her out of breath, "Shutup you little brat! Did I tell you to be quiet? God. Children."

Al raised his fist. "What are you doi--" He couldn't even get out a full sentence as the metal hand connected with his jaw. Edward was forced to take steps back, rubbing his throbbing jawbone. "What in the world was that! I've come to save you from them, not fight you!"

"I-I'm sorry brother..." Al said as he towered his older brother.

"That's right..." hissed Lust under her breath "Get him, Little Elric. Torture him. We want blood."

Al nodded as the blonde boy walked backwards into the couch. What was going on? Why was Al fighting him?

Edward turned his head to the sins with a fire in his eyes, "What did you freaks of nature to do Al? What did you say to him to get him to do this!"

"Persuasive people, we are," replied Envy.

Gluttony looked up at Lust, "Can I eat him now? Please, Lust? I'm starving! I'm staring!" He jumped up and down in excitement at the new raw meat that just so willingly walked in.

"Just watch the fight," Lust said.

Al kicked at his brother, Ed was dodging it easily, until Al thrust a hand forward and grabbed him by the shirt. He picked him up high into the air. Edward's feet dangled as he tried to get his hands off of him.

"Al! Put me down! This is crazy! You can't fight me! I'm your brother!" objected Edward.

"I know...but...I-I don't know what else to do!" Al punched Ed in the gut, causing his older brother to loose his breath. He whispered so only he and Ed were able to hear, "They said they'll kill Elisia if I don't fight you. If she gets out safely I can stop but...Envy has her and won't hesitate to snap her neck. I know he won't!"

"Then let me get her and we'll run out of here!" Ed hissed.

Al let his brother drop to the ground, onto his back, and Al placed a foot onto his brothers chest. "It's not that easy..." Al said "...they've put a bomb inside of me. I-If we just run off without warning then they'll set it off. Brother, I don't know what else to do."

Edward's eyes widened at the news. Lust ordered "Little Elric, crush him! Now!"

Al said to Ed "Brother, help me. What do I do?"

"Where's the bomb?" Ed managed to get out, his breathing turning into shallow breath's. "Stop it Al! I...can hardly breath!"

"Keep going. Don't listen to him," without skipping a beat Envy said. "You should enjoy this while you can Little Elric. He's the one who put you in that body. You must hate him, don't you?"

"Shutup!" Al snapped. "That's not true!"

"Al!" yelled Edward in pain, trying to pry his leg off of him.

"He's the reason you're an empty shell!"

"Be quiet! You don't know anything about us!"

"More then you know, Little Elric."

"Stooop!" Edward ordered and all remained silent. He clapped his hands together and put his hands on Al's leg. "Forgive me Al..." he whispered as it shattered.

Al fell backwards and Edward shot up. He looked at Elisia who was cowering at the wall, crying hysterically at seeing two of her best friends fighting. He raced towards the girl but Envy stood in his way.

"Move," said Edward in a dangerous tone.

"Make me."

"Gladly."

Edward grabbed Envy's arm and threw him into the wall next to Elisia. There were whimpers from Elisia as she felt a shiver of fear go down her spine.

Edward clapped his hands and put them on the floor. He then formed a large, solid metal cage around Lust and Gluttony. That should hold them for atleast a couple of minutes, if not more. He noticed a sudden movement from Envy and decided not to risk it. He punched Envy in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him.

Envy looked up, his eyes blurring from the lack of air to his brain, and saw the golden eyes with such fury he wouldn't have thought it to be Ed if he didn't know for a fact it was him. I never thought he'd be so powerful from this anger! He's moving at a pace that none of us seem to be able to control!

Edward looked at Elisia who had run into the corner. He ran over to her, the fury completely gone from his eyes. When he reached to her to pick her up she shivered away from his touch.

"W-What's wrong, Elisia? It's me. Ed."

"Y-Y-You can't be Ed! You're mean! You're going to hurt me like da' others!"

"I wouldn't hurt you."

"But you hurt Al!"

Edward remained silent for a moment. Then, a tremendous pain shot through his shoulder. He looked to see that Lust had obviously gotten out of that metal cage and stabbed him with her finger. She wretched it out, causing him to hold his tongue so he didn't cry out in front of Elisia, cause that would only scare her more.

"Now, now, now Full Mini. It's time to go," said Envy as he, Lust, and Gluttony started surrounding him. He soon had nowhere to go. "Painful or quick? Your chose. Choose wisely."

"I..." Edward began but soon found Envy being the cruel man he was. He didn't even let Ed begin as he kicked Ed's bleeding shoulder. "Jerk!" Ed spat at his feet. "I'm not going to go down as easily as you think!"

"Same to you," Lust smile, extending all five of her fingers. With a smile she slashed down at Ed who curled up over Elisia. Deep gashes were engraved into his back as a result. "Aw, you're becoming my little canvas. Tell me did I do this to you in those nightmares? I like drawing in flesh to tell you the truth. Especially of those I hate."

"You're sick!" cried Al from the other side of the room.

Envy pulled out a switch from his pocket, waving it at Al in a threatening manner, but with a wide grin on his face. "Don't want to talk back to us, now do you?"

"But...you'll die with us!" Al said. "You wouldn't be that desperate to kill brother would you?"

"Don't be ridiculous," Lust gave a small chuckle. "We aren't desperate to do anything."

"Is that so? Then why'd you have to kidnap Al? Why did you have to poison me? I'll tell you why," Edward looked around and shouted, "Because you knew that without doing that I would beat every single one of you into the ground! That's why!"

"You little...!" Lust raised her hand again but Edward was prepared this time. He raised his metal arm and stopped the attack. He slid to the left and then moved forward as quick as he could. He thrust his daggered arm forward into Lust's stomach.

The two fell to the ground in a mix of blood and sweat. Edward stood up with a victorious smirk as she gagged on her own blood.

"Do you want me to blow up your brother! Huh? Because you just ruined your last chance! Say goodbye!" Envy snapped as he held out the switch.

Edward eyes widened. Nothing happened though except for Envy dropping the switch. Ed looked down to see that Elisia had bitten into Envy's leg, causing him to concentrate on that. She picked up the device and threw it towards Edward.

Envy stomped his foot into the small girls back, making her scream for her father once again.

Edward looked at Lust who was trying to get up but he wouldn't let that happen. He stabbed her once again, this time in the chest. He wasn't sure if she would die but then again he didn't care. It was time for payback and he was going to get it.

IIIII

Yep. End of chappy. What will happen? Well, you'll see. There will be two alternate endings. That's all I'll say. Please review!

'And this life sentence that I'm serving

I admit that I'm every bit deserving

But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair' - Be My Escape, Reliant K