Disclaimer: I do not own Full METAL ALCHEMIST or ENVY (no matter how hard I try). I only own Nirvana Seiga and the title of The Bloodied Alchemist. Oh, and Neko Kirishima. (Well, my sister (Neko Kirishima) owns her—well, Neko is Neko… Ah, you don't understand.) Oh, I also own Envy's subconscious!
Author's Note: (sob) TWO more chapters left! NOOOOO! I can't believe it! I'm actually finishing a story! Okay, now's the time for the all-seeing question—Do ya'll want a sequel? POST IT IN A REVIEW OR EMAIL ME!
WARNINGS: BLOOD AND GORE and all other necessities. Now it's time for ghastly revisions! YAOI IN THIS CHAPTER!
LAST…
(((( Her head shot up, the coldness of the gold jarring her senses. She pulled her left hand back, but Ed held onto it, grinning at her. "Neko Luna Kirishima, will you marry me?
And the saxophones played on. ))))
NOW…
'Where am I?' I slowly sat up, my eyes trying to adjust to the darkness, my neck craning to the side to try and locate anything. 'Why is it so dark?' I could barely make out a white lump shrouded by the shadows to my left.
A terrible throbbing started in my head and with a whimper of pain, I pressed my hand to my forehead, feeling something warm and sticky there. I frowned and tentatively dipped my tongue out and tasted the substance from my fingers.
'Blood?' I rubbed my hands one my jeans, closing my eyes to cover the endless darkness. I felt a bulge in my pocket and froze, reaching in and pulling out a silk band. I ran my flesh hand over the headband. 'Envy?'
With that one thought, it all rushed back to me and I fell backwards, tears pricking the back of my eyes. His headband was clenched between my fingers as his betrayal shook my body, tears threatening to escape, but unwilling to show weakness. The feeling of being empty returned full force as I had not felt it since the first day Envy had raped me.
But I shook my head, sending tears flying everywhere as my eyes suddenly latched on the white lump that I had seen earlier. "Hello?" I tentatively called out and my vision disappeared as blood seeped into my eyes. I impatiently brushed it away and squinted my eyes.
"Ms. Seiga!" Armstrong's strong, powerful booming voice wakened me even further from my blood-induced haze. "It is good to hear your musical voice again!" I stood up on shaky legs and placed my hand on the grimy wall. Something slithered between my fingers and I pulled it back with a yelp of fright.
"Ah, 2nd Lieutenant… I hope you have a plan, do you not?" I walked towards Mustang's voice and his hands gripped my waist tightly. I sighed and he helped me to sit down in the dark. 'Of course he would know to sit here. He's chained.' I thought darkly and settled myself on the cold, grimy floor.
"Where are we? Who's here?" I asked, breathing in the smell of old blood and stale water. The water was a comforting thought… it meant that we weren't too far from civilization. Maybe Neko could find us here…
"You're in the Homunculi's lair as far as I can tell. Major Armstrong, Izumi Curtis, Dr. Tim Marcoh, you and I are gathered neatly in this dank, dirty, unhappy cell."
"What about Al?" I asked, feeling for Edward's brother. He was really nice and did figure out how to disrupt the homunculi's plans.
"Envy took him out after he threw you in." His fingers titled my chin up and I saw his black eyes for a second. "Tell me the truth Seiga; Did you see him while we were still alive?"
I winced and his fingers felt my skin jump. "Sorry, Brigadier General." I said quietly, and bowed my head slightly in a show of respect. The door of the cell was suddenly thrown open in and I scrambled up just in time to see Envy standing there before he threw in Al.
Even though I had only seen the palm-haired man for a moment, I knew something was wrong with Envy. He was covered in dirt and dust except for his cheeks with were smeared as if they had been splattered with water and he had rubbed them furiously.
His eyes connected with mine and suddenly I felt all shields I had so carefully placed up, collapse into oblivion. All the hate, anger, lust, love, passion and betrayal shown bright in my eyes, making the green seem to swim with the emotions I was so unused to showing.
He broke the contact and started to close the door, his head bowed again. "I never meant to hurt you, Chizome." He whispered so quietly I was afraid I hadn't heard it.
But then I shook my head and scrambled to the still form of Alphonse Elric. I scooped his upper body up and settled it in my lap, smelling blood on his forehead. "Alphonse?" I asked loudly and poked his shoulder, hearing him groan quietly.
"Nirvana?" I heard his voice croak and his hand reached up to touch my face. His fingers gently smoothed Pride's eye patch and he laughed lightly. "I guess Brother understood my notes."
I nodded into his hand. "He's supposed to have gone to get Greed's Ashes. Then he'll allow himself to be caught.
Al sighed. "You know, we could use more help." I grinned against his hand.
"When I woke up, there was a bomb missing from my back pocket. It's set to go off…" I lit a very small explosion and I saw my watch. "In about five hours. Let's hope your brother gets nabbed quickly so things can happen."
(((( 5 HOURS TILL BOMB 1: OUTSIDE DANTE'S MANSION ))))
"Ah… here it is!" Ed flung the shovel to the side, sweat rolling down his bare chest as he leaned against the inside of Greed's grave. His golden hair flew from his face as a breeze blew across him. He then leaned down with a grunt and ripped off the side of the coffin, exposing a skeleton that parts of it were already ash. A red glow was revealed as the sun hit it and he gave a slight sneer of disgust.
Then, with a grim smile, he pulled a black pouch out of his pocket and crouched down to scoop out a handful of the ashes into the pouch. He climbed out and cracked his back. "I hope you're okay, Nirvana. Otherwise I won't live to see my own wedding!"
He grabbed his shovel and with one mighty shove, pushed the pile of dirt back into the grave. Then he slipped on a shirt and climbed back onto the back of a horse that he had borrowed.
Ed looked at his watch and kicked the horse's sides, making him go faster. 'Four hours left… and then it'll be night…Tonight's the Full Moon… Damn!'
(((( OUTSIDE CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS ))))
Jean Havoc snarled as he leaned against the stonewall of an alley outside the military building. A cigarette lay smashed at his feet and he continued to glare at a crack on the opposite wall.
The News of Nirvana's death had just reached him and he had saved his anger until he was outside and safely away from the rest of the military.
"Miss the cute little Chizome Onna?" A voice teased and a pale body with green hair appeared in his line of vision. Envy backed him into the wall, smiling tauntingly. "Do you?"
Jean stared at him indifferently until Envy leaned foreword, brushing his lips past the blonde's whispering in his ear, "I can help you get her out… I know where she is…" He breathed, delighting in the shiver he caused.
"She's dead." Jean bit out, his normally bright blue eyes dead with emotion.
"Not dead… merely used as a sacrifice… just like the Flame Alchemist… they're all alive, you know."
Jean, who hadn't moved a single muscle, spoke up. "How?" He asked as Envy trailed open-mouthed kisses down the blonde's neck, his other hand slipping under the military uniform and caressing the lean, washboard stomach.
"In a few hours, the Full Metal Pipsqueak will be showing up from wherever he took that little trip. That'll give you time to organize a team and follow the track's I leave. Starting at the Train Station."
Envy claimed Jean's lips in a fierce kiss and then left in a flash of alchemic light, leaving the military official with his eyes closed, and his shirt in a disarray. He then calmly closed his eyes again and lit a new cigarette, pulling a drag long on it. "I need to find Nirvana—I'm afraid he'll show back up and then I won't want him to stop."
(((( HOMUNCULI LAIR ))))
"Sloth? Has Wrath finished the transmutation circle yet?" Lust asked bitterly, even though the thought of humanity was actually now within her grasp for real now.
Sloth looked over her shoulder at Wrath who was crouched on the golden-colored floor, a long black-tipped paintbrush in his hands. "He shouldn't be more than an hour more at the most." She said calmly, brushing her hair back from her face with a delicate hand.
"He better hurry! It has to be finished by the time Envy gets here with the Full Metal Boy. The blood has to be fresh you know." Lust said, crossing her legs as she sat on Gluttony's large shoulder.
Sloth only stood up gracefully, her brown eyes closed. "I should go check up on the prisoners." She walked down the hallway, passing Wrath who looked up at her with something akin to fear. She stopped at the end and produced a key from her left coat pocket.
She pulled the door open and a stream of light fell onto two figures at the front. Izumi moved first and opened dark coal eyes, and startled to struggle as soon as she noticed that her hands were chained together. "Free me Woman!" Izumi snarled and Sloth just silently walked foreword to grab a cold automail arm.
"Come, Second Lieutenat." Sloth said and pulled the protesting alchemist out.
"Fuhrer Douglas?" Armstong stumbled into the light just as Nirvana was hauled out and the door was being closed.
"Good-Day, Major Armstrong and Brigadier General Mustang." She said and the heavy metal door swung closed.
"What do you want, Traitor!" Nirvana snarled, blood still dripping down her forehead. She brushed it off impatiently, but her tongue cleaned up the rest that escaped her hand.
Sloth then elegantly leaned against the surprisingly clean wall, her eyes still closed. "You have a plan." It was a statement, not a question. "Don't be frightened. We are an anomaly and shouldn't be alive. Don't you agree?"
Nirvana, who was unprepared for this type of assault, blinked and then snarled. "Why should I tell you anything!"
Sloth calmly opened the door again. "You ought to explain it to them now. When Edward arrives, you will be pulled into the Area. There you will be used. There is no time to spare. Hurry my child."
She shoved the automail woman into the cell and this time Al grabbed her arms and pulled her to the group that had sat down. "We need to explain it now." He said urgently.
"Yes. Is Izumi here?"
"I'm here. Chained, but here."
Nirvana then took a deep breath. "From what Al had drawn, there will be seven pentagons, each used to hold us. Since there are only four of the homunculi's left, I'm taking a wild guess here that Sloth will be the homunculus that watches over Al and Ed, Wrath for Izumi, Lust for Marcoh and Roy, Gluttony for Armstrong and then Envy for me.
"So, when we are pulled to our areas, they'll use our blood to make the pentagons which we will have to stand in. Here's a pentagon." Nirvana drew one on the ground and Roy made a flame to look at it. She pointed to the top of it. "This is going to be the one to our backs. If you erase this—"
"—The homunculus will be used as the sacrifice." Al picked up. He then pointed to the one on the bottom. "If you erase this, the homunculus will not die, but pay a price to the Gate like Brother paid his arm and leg. When your blood dries and that will most likely be the time Wrath will activate the circle, reach back with one foot and scrape a gap in the back of the pentagon."
Nirvana looked at her watch again. "Two hours at the most and everything should be in order."
"Three hours till night." Mustang put in, with a grim smile. "Good luck."
Nirvana bit her lip, her eyes locked on the bottom of the pentagon. 'The Homunculus will not die, But pay a price to the Gate…'
(((( WITH NEKO ))))
"Are you coming, Jean?" Neko asked as she slipped on her black gauntlets, her red hair pulled up tightly from her face. Jean, who was slipping his pistols into his holster, and Riza who was ready and alert with Sig Curtis all nodded sharply.
"Let's go. Envy said he was going to get him by the train station, on the outskirts near the desert." Jean said, standing up, dressed in a pair of jeans and a shirt to seem less inconspicuous.
Sig went first and they immediately found the bloody and mangled body of Edward Elric. Neko, even though she knew it was a fake, suppressed a scream and continued to track the small drops of blood that ended at the end of the city where the edge of the desert seemed to stretch on.
"Watch out for anything that seems odd." Jean cautioned and then everyone was in the heat of the desert, even as it slowly cooled to allow the nighttime animals to escape the sand. Neko's eyes kept flickering up to the rising moon which was a full as it ever seemed to her 17 year-old eyes.
"Do you think we'll get there in time?" Riza asked, her gun held loosely in her right hand. Neko walked next to her, nodding continuously, trying not to stop her mantra of, He'll be alright…He'll be alright…he'll be alright…
"We will. The transmutation can't go until—"
A loud explosion rocked their ears and the sand as a giant flurry of sand shot up about 600 yards up ahead. Neko's eyes perked up and she started to run. "Neko!" Jean called after her. "What's the matter with you?"
Neko grinned over her shoulder. "I recognize that smell! It's mint! Nirvana's the only one who uses mint in her homemade bombs when she can't blow up her own things!" Jean grinned and took off after her, his gun pulled out at his side.
"Hawkeye, Sig! Come on!" The two called as they followed the minty-ash smell.
Neko grinned half-heartedly. 'We're coming, ya homunculi bastards! So be ready… Especially you Envy… For what you did to my sister…'
(((( IN THE CELL ))))
"Al… I hear someone… I think it's Ed." Nirvana pulled herself upright, her green eyes bright and glittery in the darkness. The door swung open and Ed was thrown in, his body colliding with his to-be-sister-in-law's. "Ouf!" She groaned and her head hit the wall. "Hi Edward. Glad to see you."
The door swung close for a moment before it reopened and Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, Wrath and Envy stood there in the light. Al, Ed and Nirvana looked at each other.
"You ready?" Ed asked as Sloth laid a commanding hand on his and Al's shoulders. Nirvana was picked up by Envy and no struggles escaped her. She connected eyes with Ed and grinned upside down at his as she was once again, given the pleasing view of the homunculus's rear end.
"As ready as I'll ever be, Full Metal." Envy's hand rested on her leg as he carried her to the golden-colored area with the large transmutation cirle.
'I'm ready… but can I carry through with what I want to do?'
That was chapter Fifteen. There is two more chapters left. Can you believe it? I can't… please? Reviews?
