Chapter fifty-three: Uroborus tattoos
"Mars! Don't move a muscle!" Edward bust through the door, just in time to see Pyra snatch up her staff.
"Mars? I don't know what you're talking about!" Pyra giggled. She morphed her outfit back to original. "I go by many names. Mars, Pyra. My true name, which you will never discover. I'm sorry, little man, but you're out of your league!"
She jumped out of a hole she made in the roof. Edward got a quick glimpse of her heels; there were uroborus tattoos on the soles of her feet!
"So that's how you run and jump so fast!" Edward shouted after her. "HOMUNCULUS!"
But her staff… Edward thought. Is it made of… A Philosopher's Stone?
Roy, Alphonse, Hawkeye, and a number of other military personnel burst into the room. "Brother?" Alphonse exclaimed. "What happened?"
"Well, it seems that Roy's girlfriend is really a homunculus. True name, unknown."
"Pyra? No way." Roy muttered.
"Oh yeah. Pyra is Mars. I know not what her homunculus name is. I don't even think she's one of the seven homunculi sins. But her name has got to be something evil like that."
Coniniaue stared at her husband for several moments until Edward got irritated and said, "What?"
"You just… Sounded so grown up there, Ed. I know you hate it when people say that, but you did."
The next morning"Colonel, sir?"
"Edward? Why are you calling?"
"Sorry, sir. But I have to ask you something."
"Shoot."
"Well, I want to research the Mars case. She's a homunculus, and her staff could be made of a Philosopher's Stone. She has uroborus tattoos on the soles of her feet, which enable her to run and jump in the blink of an eye. I still have to work on her power. What do the uroborus tattoos do for her other than make her fast? Please, colonel, I need this research!"
Roy sighed. "If it's that important to you…. Yes. Edward Elric, I will assign you the Mars case. But really, this is more an issue for the police of Aquroya."
"I don't really care about that anyone, colonel." He hung up and went into Coniniaue's study, which was now his too. Three walls were lined with books on alchemy, and one of them was lined with books on snakes. Kiwi had a strong interest in them, and Coniniaue wanted to provide reading material for her.
He pulled out a book that read 'The seven sins.' "This might have information on the seven sins and maybe some extras…" He muttered. "All these pages can't be about just seven things total."
He opened to the index and scanned through the chapters: Lust, Gluttony, Envy, Pride, Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Chaos, Death, Renkinjutsu. He flipped to the first page.
"There are only seven original sins. Be we thought you should learn the true ten."