Pride

Have you ever been hauled out of your room by a fellow companion, thrown into enemy territory, and was asked to join them? Well…guess what? That's what happened to me, but… it was how I met a new homunculi, Pride.

It was a cold winter morning, the snow fell hard, and heaters would not work against out icy undead skin. D-damn! I'm f-freezing! I looked at Wrath who was to the left of me near one of the most powerful heaters. He was covered up by layers of blankets, shivering like he'd just seen a ghost. I sat next to him rubbing his back to see if any warmth would enter his body.

"S-sis, w-w-when will this cold s-s-stop?"

"S-soon…v-very soon." I lied. I was not a weather foreseer so how would I know, but this much amount of snow would freakishly turn us into popsicles. I really do hope this hard weather would stop… I quietly thought to myself, wrapping myself up in Wrath's blankets. It stayed like this till Envy entered the room. He was wearing his ordinary outfit. I turned pale as I saw him. His bare arms and legs open to the cold, so inhuman…

"E-Envy, h-h-how could you s-stand this cold?"

"Years of practice, dear, come with me, I need your assistance," I got up, ignoring the freezing cold, and followed Envy with Wrath quickly behind me. Envy lead us to a dark part of the church where it felt like a dungeon more than a hallway. We stopped to see an old door right in front of our path. It was wooden with burnt engravings, but something was unavoidable to the eye. On the center of the door was a circle. It looked like one of the circles that I saw when I went with Envy to Lab 5… but this one was different.

"Envy? Where are we going?" He looked back at me, giving a tiny chuckle.

"Heh… you really want to know? We are going right into enemy's hands,"

"W-why?"

"You'll see…" the thought of that made a shiver run up my spine, and all the hairs one the back of my neck went straight up. Should I really go? We had a run-in with the enemy once; I don't want that to happen again… I turned to stare at Wrath, he had a blank look in his face, but I could see through his eyes that they held fear… This was our chance to refuse the offer, to run, and never wish to take this job no matter how many times it was offered, but we changed. Since the day I found Wrath, Envy and I watched over him as if a sibling. The day where we were attacked was not a memory to forget, but I learned something that day. That no one should run from their fear, and that they should face them with bold hearts, and determined minds. That was when… I learned an unexplainable power. Ever since then, I wasn't able to attempt it again, until now…

"How are we going to-" before I could continue, Envy was behind me gently holding my hands in his. His chest was on my back, and was pushing it so he could control me into moving to the door. His lips went to my ear as he pushed me. God! He's trying to melt me!

"Apathy, place your hands on that circle." Although my body couldn't move from Envy's voice, he moved me with his hands. He placed my hands on the door.

"Good," he whispered, "Now, think of the dark alleyway where you were caught." How did he know about that? With a thought of the alley in my mind, my hands started to shine brightly, warmth flowed inside me, and sparks began to fly everywhere. Soon enough, Wrath, Envy and I were at the alleyway. People didn't notice which was good for our cover.

"Nice job Apathy-chan…" Envy cooed as he snaked his arms around my waist.

"N-no Envy…not here," I blushed. Envy then moved his lips to the crevasse of my neck, and started kissing, and sucking. This caused me to hesitate, he was going to have his way, but Envy's fun ended as an angry Wrath interfered. He grabbed Envy, and snarled at him.

"Stay away from her!" he barked. Envy grinned pleasingly. He knew something that would tease the little boy.

"Awww… you want her too, is that it?" He poked Wrath's stomach with one of his finger. Humiliation was what poured into Wrath's mind. It then made him go crazy with the anger of his name.

"Don't touch me!" Wrath slapped away Envy's finger as he scowled with shock that Wrath would lead to this sort of violence. Ignoring what Wrath said, he grabbed a part of his shirt.

"You want to fight little brat? After all that I've done for you?"

Wrath grunted, and moaned trying to break free, but was raised up from the ground, suffocating him. I began to get jumpy with nervousness, and I grabbed one of Envy's arms before it got too out of hand.

"Envy, please stop! He shouldn't be harmed in this sort of violence." He looked at me with the plum eyes of a ruthless killer. He then smiled and released Wrath from his grasp. Wrath collapsed to the floor, returning breath into his lungs.

"You should be lucky that I didn't kill you," he chuckled, turning his head to lock his eyes into mine.

"Now here's the thing, we go into that huge building over there," Envy pointed one of his fingers toward a building that looked surprisingly weird to me. Reminds me of the place that I went to when I had to kill that man… Marcoh I think.

"…then we enter the Furher's room, that is where we meet our "other" friend…Pride." Envy smiled as usual. I then found out, that there might be blood involved… IF we are not careful.

"First, we transform ourselves,"

"Into what?" I asked, walking towards Wrath who grabbed onto my waist just as I got to him.

"Into military officers, what else?" A lump instantly got into my throat, the fear of getting caught… I didn't even think of the trouble that might occur, but if Envy was here… what is there to be afraid of? Envy was the first to transform. Bright, flickering light covered him like a veil. From the feet up, he slowly showed his transformation. Black boots, the blue uniform, but the face was what got me the most. His eyes and hair were the same pitch-black, and he held a familiar smile.

Roy Mustang? How did I know that name? With more confusion in my head, a picture popped into my head. There were blurry faces that I couldn't figure out what they look like, but Roy Mustang was one of those faces that I could notice.

"…urn,"

"W-what?" I stuttered as I came back to reality.

"It's your turn Apathy-chan," Envy told me chuckling. Wrath stared released me, and allowed me to transform, and so I did. The light that was on Envy before was now covering me. I clearly pictured the uniform, as the light got to my waist. I could feel the difference of the outfits. The fabric was less soft, and was heavier. With the picture still in my mind, I added something to the uniform so that I could hide my ouroboro mark. A turtleneck. Other than that, I added a hat so that I could hide my eyes (What's to hide, the Full Metal has the same eyes that I do).

"Nicely done, now you Wrath," He took his eyes off mine to focus on Wrath. The young Homunculus hesitated.

"I-I don't know how," he whispered. Envy's smile melted away.

"Then try something that can hide yourself from the public. We don't want a weird, tiny kid running around." Wrath blushed in embarrassment, but was able to change into something that sort of looked like a… rock. It looked stupid in my point of view, but I dare not say that aloud. I picked up Wrath (that's a…rock) and placed it in a random pocket.

"Grand," Envy smirked; "Now we're ready."

……………

We entered the slightly packed Headquarters. All these officers running here and there, they started to make me dizzy. Phones were stacked up one against another, and there wasn't any moment of silence as we walked.

"They're talking about us…" Envy told me as I continued to look at the fidgety people who were acting like ants.

"And another man that goes by the name of Scar,"

"Scar? Who's he?" I asked wondrously. Before Envy could answer me, a man with blonde hair came up to us as if he was going to ram us over.

"Chief, have you heard?" I didn't know what the man was talking about, neither was Envy, but because he was this man's so-called "Chief" he had no choice but to interfere.

"What is it?"

"It has been told that Full Metal has been taken back to his teacher's village, and is to stay there for quite a while."

"Fine, excuse me, I have to see the Furher,"

"For what reason Chief?" Envy stopped before we could continue to our destination. The blonde man held a cigarette in his mouth as he stared into Envy's eyes.

"This girl right here has amazing alchemic abilities. I want the Furher to see," Great Envy! Get me in more danger while you're at it. The man leaned forward to be able to see me eyes. He was somehow strange, but (In some ways) he was cute.

"Nice to meet you young lady, the name's Havoc. Lieutenant Havoc." I blushed, as he smiled at me with soft eyes. Not like the eyes that I've seen with Greed or Envy.

"A-Amanda, my name is Amanda Wilson," That was the only name that I could think of to hide my fact as a homunculus. Havoc gave an even bigger smile as he placed a hand on my hat.

"Nice to meet you Amanda," With a salute to Envy he then left, leaving me blushing.

"That was great Apathy! Quick thinking on hiding your cover!" Envy whispered in my ear as he placed a hand on my shoulder. The tap on my shoulder instantly made me think of Wrath, and how he was doing. I got him out of my pocket. He stayed the same, a rock that showed no movement. I began to worry, thinking that he might no be able to change back. Placing him back in my pocket, we continued to go to our destination.

"Well…here we are," Envy sighed, looking right at a huge door. It was a pure white with golden engravings. Envy knocked on the door, it echoed loudly. We stayed there till a female voice told us to come in. We opened the door. The first thing that I noticed was Sloth looking at me with her ordinary lazy grin. My pocket then started vibrating so I reached into my pocket to bring out Wrath. Before I could fully bring him out, he changed back into himself, releasing pressure that made me doubled over.

"Mommy!" Wrath screamed as he raced toward Sloth. He embraced her around the waist. Sloth laid a hand on Wrath as he sobbed in happiness, knowing that he was once again with his mother. Wait…his mother is SLOTH! Doesn't that make me his aunt rather than his sister? Oh forger it… Envy then changed back to his original self. He moved forward…to another person that was sitting down.

"We meet again Pride," The man's face became clear, and I could see his facial features. He was a man, possible in his late fifties. He had coal black hair as both a mustache, and hair. He smiled brightly with the mustache not really showing his mouth, and an eye patch that covered his left eye. What is he hiding? I wondered as I stared into the man's eyes. The man then stood up.

"Ahhh…you must be Apathy…pleasure to meet a beautiful lady such as yourself. My name is Bradley. Furher King Bradley, however, you know me as Pride. Please… make yourself at home," The man gave me an unpleasant feeling as I stood there. I refused to sit, so he just sighed, and remained with a smile.

"Very well… it's okay. And how is the two other boys that I kept a good eye on?" Envy shrugged, showing a small smirk, and Wrath refused to talk, and only hold on to Sloth as he rocked him back and forth. The man gives off a pout.

"Boy, what a crowd this is," He looks back at me, staring with his one eye.

"Well Apathy, Envy told me a lot about you… he said that you know alchemy is that correct?"

"A-Alchemy? What's that?" Almost everyone was shot back in shock, including Envy (he was just teasing). Recovering back to his senses, Pride coughed.

"Alchemy is what humans use that involves science, and wits. In a way, alchemy to the people is power that is waiting to unfold deeper, and deeper."

"So why is it so important that I'm able to create alchemy?" Pride laughed:

"Because you are a homunculus. We don't usually use alchemy to do our bidding, and we can't use it even if we wanted to. You are special to us. Very special indeed," This irritated me a little… to think that I'm a tool for the homunculi, how dare you!

"Speaking of your special ability, we have something to ask of you,"

"And what is that?" The man got out of his chair to stare into the window that was right behind him.

" I would like for you to join the military," The thought of it sounded fishy. To think that this so-called "Furher" would want me to become his lab rat and fight alongside humans, better yet help the humans when they are in need… who does he think I am?

"Why?"

"Inspection, look after them, and see if they are up to something. If they find out about us, I want you to tell me so the situation can be rightfully fixed,"

"So then you would what, kill them?" The man turned his body around and stared at me with his one eye. It made me think that I was paralyzed by his sight. He grinned, pulling the ends of his mouth to his ears.

"Exactly," A chill ran up my spine. The man I faced was sadistic; he doesn't have any care for his comrades! At that moment I moved towards Envy. His eyes grew wide as if I was going to attack him. When I got close enough to reach his ear, I whispered,

"Envy, this guy gives me the creeps, do I have to take his offer?" Envy patted me on the back.

"Don't worry, he works for me, take his offer," I tried to argue, but with Envy's "good ideas" he left me with no choice.

"Fine, I'll accept the offer,"

"Grand!" King Bradley's eye darted towards Sloth who still held Wrath in her arms.

"Make sure that this girl is assigned to Mustang's group, you know, for safety's sake," Sloth nodded.

"Come on Wrath, let's go sign some papers," Wrath, happy in Sloth's arms, yays in joy as they exit the room. The Furher's eye goes back to me.

"Listen Apathy, do not tell anyone about me or the homunculi even if it means a lie detector. Understand?"

"Yes," Envy walks me out of the office, holding me close.

"You did great," He whispered in my ear as we entered the door that lead us back into the church.