A/N- Well this chapters a little shorter... (Sad face.) Sorry...

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Chapter 5- Rebirth of the Sins

Ed took his first step off of the train, with his left leg. There was still some pain in his arm from the cut, and the dryed blood that was causing the red trench coat to stick to the wound only made things worse. Al clearly knew there was something wrong as he took Cassidy's hand and helped her down the stairs. Cassidy, who shared the same apperence as Nina, also shared around the same voice, and the same personality.

"Little big brother, is something the matter?" Ed bent over to achieve the same level of height as Cassidy. Al laughed.

"What?" Ed asked, giving Al a scowl. He stopped laughing soon afterward, keeping the thought, 'He doesn't even need to bend over to be her height,' Safely into his head. "No, everything's perfectly fine." Knowing it would probably best to take some time and acknowledge the voice in his head, Edward looked to his younger brother in content. "Hey Al... I wrote this while we were on the train. Would you mind taking it up to Mustang for me?" He handed Al a page in some messy handwriting. Obviously, Ed had written fast, without a care in the world taken towards the report.

"Sure Ed, but where are you going?" Ed took Cassidy's hand in his own, and prepared to walk away from his brother.

"Just want to take Cassidy for a spin around the town... You know, let her see what it looks like and get aquainted with it and everything." He flashed Al a huge smile and waved to him, quickly dragging Cassidy away, almost against her will. Al had opened his mouth in protest, but hadn't managed to get anything out by the time his brother had dissapeared around the corner. "Alright, Cassidy, we're going to go visit a place that's uh..." He had to think of a lie. "Very important to me, okay?" Cassidy nodded at him.

Hurry now, Edward... We need you more than ever.

'Who is this we?' Ed thought to himself as he led Cassidy towards the north end of Central.

Sure enough, a broken down building was awaiting him there, and the door was off the hinges. "How inviting," Edward said, walking towards the open doorway with a slight fear growing within him. Inside, he stared around at the dark, completely oblivious as to what was lurking to the right side of him. Cassidy moved closer to him, for fear someone would lash out at her.

"Well Fullmetal, it certainly is a joy of mine to see you hear..." And as soon as Ed caught sight of who moved out of the darkness, his pupils grew small once again. Cassidy gasped.

"You're the one who killed all my friends!" She cried out, tears suddenly coming to her eyes.

"Yes, dear, that was me," Envy replied, inching steadily closer to the two. "So Edward... What brings you here? Mysterious voices in your head? Limbs returning to you? Red markings all over your body?" At this, Ed seemed suprised. Surely he would have noticed if there really were red markings on his body... It was only then that he pulled up the sleeve of his red trench coat to see them there.

"Envy, what is this!" He yelled, stepping in front of Cassidy. "What the hell do you want! With me and Cassidy..."

"Fullmetal, you really have gotten quite stupid in those absent years on the other side of the gate, haven't you?" Envy laughed out loud to himself, but stopped, knowing there was an audiance awaiting him. "My lovely little Cassidy... Or shall we say, Nina?" Ed flinched, and looked down at the girl to the side of him. "I see your eyes have since turned red... The process is going along quite nicely, for both of you."

"What process?" Edward questioned. Envy gave him a smug look.

"Can't you feel it? Nina here, after I brought her back to life, is turning into a sin! And so are you, Fullmetal..." Ed allowed his arms to drop to his sides in defeat. Only once had he ever felt this, horrible churning feeling in his stomach, signaling the fact that he indeed was changing, inside and out. When he was a sin, he allowed emotions to take over him, but found himself, in his wake, emotionless. "And so is..." Ed looked up. "This young lady." Winry stepped out from the darkness, her hair no longer blonde, but turning a weird dark brown color, probably going to turn black after a while.

"Winry!" Ed yelled at his childhood companion. There was no emotion in her eyes as she stared at him, quite blankly.

"Fullmetal, allow me to demonstrait just how much control I have over her at this moment." With that, Envy snapped his fingers, and Winry stepped forward, even more into the light. Ed could still see some feeling in her face. She wasn't quite gone yet, but how to save her... "Lust, why don't you show the little brat to her room?" Walking towards Nina, Winry still had no sensability in her eyes.

Ed stood in front of his young companion, now wishing he wouldn't have left Al back at the train station, praying to God that his brother might somehow realize he was in trouble. It was pretty hopeless. "Winry, please, listen to me!" For as weak as Ed had always thought Winry to be, she was able to push right past him, knocking him on his side in the ground. He coughed a little when she kicked him in the stomach, but panicked even more when she had to overtake Nina by force. Not giving up, Ed grabbed at Winry's skirt and caused her to topple to the ground, Nina finally breaking away from her strong grip and running through the front door, tears streaming down her face in fear and worry. She didn't even stop to think about Edward, even though Ed was glad she was just safe.

"Come on now, Fullmetal, that's no fun!" Envy said, snapping his fingers once again. The once peaceful feeling Ed had felt in all of his limbs was gone, dissapearing with a snap. Pain set in, a constant burning feeling that caused Ed to wretch in pain, rolling around helplessly on the cold concrete floor. Winry stepped away from him, and then fell over, apparently broken out of Envy's control. "You see, Elric, I can control you as well as her... Though I can't control you forever quite yet, it's a good start, don't you think?"

Ed couldn't answer. He was in too much pain to speak. He'd attempted crawling towards Winry before blacking out, but it didn't make much difference. She was long gone by now, in some dream world she wouldn't awake from until Envy allowed her to. And Ed was about to do the same.

A/N- Like I said, pretty short, but I didn't have that much time tonight, so I apologize. I promise the next chapter will be EXTRA LONG, okay? Please and Thank you for reviewing!