WARNING: VERY LONG CHAPTER.
Like 3000 words or something and like 10 pages, I think. Squee-san and I would like to thank all our reviewers highly. and please ask those who added them to their faves to review. Cause I mean you're gonna read the story anyways right? Whats a review? .
There will be no more Greed/Envy either. Why? Because basically its no the plot and well... I dont want any more Greed/Envy in it haha XD
This chapter also might be a wee confusing but hopefully you'll stick with it.
So far there is a Gluttony A Greed An Envy and another Homunculi.We may find out this chappie we may not. ONWARDS
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Chapter 5 : Envy
In the dimly lit room of Dante's library, Gluttony sat sucking his forefinger, hungrily looking at the stones his mistress was feeding the squelching mass of new homunculus on the floor. In Gluttony's small opinion, it looked quite icky, unaware of the fact that only days before he had been the same. Gluttony sucked his finger harder, aching for the small scarlet stones Dante was feeding to the other being. She must have noticed his discomfort, as she looked up at him and gave him a cold smile, holding some stones out to the large homunculi and watching as he ate hungrily.
Sighing, Dante turned to the other Homunculus, "Gluttony I will have none left if I keep feeding these to you, now will I?"
"Gluttony hungry." He replied simply, once again starting to suck on his finger.
Dante scowled. "Go to the kitchen and find food. You will get no more stones until you need them, just like your siblings."
Gluttony gave Dante a sad expression, before swaggering out of the room on his short stubby legs. He was greeted at the door by Envy, who had thrown the double doors apart with all the strength he could muster. He passed Gluttony, ignoring his younger brother as he stalked angrily toward Dante.
"Gluttony scared." The larger being muttered to himself as he walked from the room, closing the doors quietly behind him.
Dante's face feigned concern as she looked up from her newest creation to the green haired homunculus storming towards her. "Envy, whatever is the matter?" She asked.
"Why has Greed not been punished?" He half yelled in anger, his pride damaged, "You know what he did, Dante-sama? Why no fucking punishment from Hell?"
Dante sighed, "Well Envy, you see, after the incident involving the child, Greed-"
Envy cut her off angrily, glaring at her as he slammed his hands down on her chairs arm rests. "GREED WHAT?" He yelled.
Envy was not one to get angry at Dante – aside from being his mistress and a powerful enemy - she was also a great dealer of punishments. Envy had been looking forward to Greed suffering at Dante's hands – perhaps even sealed for a little while.
His anger overwhelming, Envy had failed to notice the mass he was almost stood on.
To Envy, Dante was overwhelmingly calm, something that resulted in either one of two things. Either one, she had found a new lover of which to fling with, or two……. Envy looked down in disgust. She had created another homunculi. Glaring at the thing below him he yelled in anger. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?"
Dante stood up and forced Envy away from her. Even though she was in a teenager's body, Dante's power and force was still scary, even to her eldest 'child' she was not someone to argue with or to take lightly. Envy backed up a little, however still keeping the same scowl on his magnificent features. Dante bent down to feed a few more of the precious stones to the being, stones Envy eyed in jealousy.
"Greed returned with this child, quite guiltily mind you, but he still did it. Felt like she was an unnecessary death and wondered if perhaps I could use her."
"Her?" Envy retorted.
The homunculi turned towards Envy, the last moments of it's former life remaining in it's brain. Remembering the girl's pretty features, the newborn homunculi squelched towards Envy, who backed off in disgust.
Dante, however, smiled. "Your new sister likes you at least-"
"Fuck that." Envy said, backing off again.
The Homunculi however was not to be deterred away from it's target and squelched further towards the Green-haired one. Again Envy backed off from the being, getting quite annoyed by its attitude towards him. Glaring at Dante he commanded to her, "Call it off."
Dante sighed as it continued to follow Envy around the room. She could see Envy was getting aggravated, but she didn't have any immediate control over any Homunculi until they had eaten a substantial amount of red stones. Feeling sorry for her newest creation, she waited patiently for the result she knew would eventually come.
Indeed, Dante didn't have to wait long as Envy gave a loud cry and forcefully kicked the creature away from him as hard as he could. It sailed across the room before landing on the hard wooden floorboards with a sort of splattering sound.
Joshua studied the crumpled piece of paper, returning it to his pocket momentarily with a steady sigh. Stood before a red brick wall, he observed the words engraved into the plaque that was set there, nodding as they correlated to those on his paper.
Still clad in the robes that he wore for work, the Priest pushed open the gates to Dante's estate, his smart black shoes disturbing the gravelled driveway.
Making his way up the decorative and expansive front garden, Joshua Hooper clasped warm hands around each other, wringing them gently in a concerned and nervous manner. Although only in his late twenties, the Father had an elderly and wise way about him – even his posture and the way that he moved was slow and deliberate, careful and gentle. Although this lead to him being highly popular and adored within the town, it also corresponded to him being single.
Finding the entrance to the posh house, Joshua pressed the bell, awaiting a reply from the house. He sighed once more, chewing a little on the inside of his lower lip as he pondered the mystery of Lucy Parker. Since the Funeral, nobody had seen her, and without any relatives, it was his responsibility to question as to her whereabouts.
Timely, a tall figure opened the door, his black-clad form stood with head to one side; eyebrows raised at the Priest.
Explaining himself, Joshua started, "Good morning, sir. I'm Father Hooper, the local Priest. I was wondering if I could speak with Lady Dante?"
Greed nodded slowly, murmuring in a lazy tone as he turned away from the Father, stalking up an extravagant staircase and leaving Joshua at the door.
While waiting, Hooper took the liberty of peering inside the entrance, eyeing the clean and polished surfaces inside. It was a rare opportunity for him to see such an elaborate house, and it surprised him that the owner of such a house would bother herself with a Church all the way across town.
Surprise was reflected in Joshua's handsome features as another black-clad figure came into view from inside the house – this one round and dumpy. The comical form waddled toward the Priest, his empty, forlorn gaze regarding the taller man.
"Hungry…" Gluttony murmured, continuing to near the holy man, one giant finger dipped inside his insatiable mouth. Joshua stared back in surprise, his memory failing to pinpoint where he had seen the overweight man before. Addled by knowledge he could not recollect, Hooper had little time to study Gluttony's odd red markings before their meeting was interrupted.
"Father, may I help you?" Dante queried from the bottom of the winding staircase, her fine dress swaying as she stepped toward the front door. The round man quickly became deterred, and waddled back the way he'd came from.
Joshua turned to face the speaker, only to find himself another surprise.
"Lucy! Everyone's been so worried!" The Priest wrapped his arms around the teenage form briefly, patting her back before stepping away, holding her in his gaze, "How is life treating you?"
Dante returned the stare with green eyes, the passing confusion she felt inside masked perfectly with a warm smile, "Oh… I've been coping, Father."
Joshua shook his head softly, warm smile spread across his broad cheeks, "Now Lucy, you've known me long enough to know that you're welcome to just call me Joshua." He paused, and then questioned, his voice softening, "Why are you staying here, anyway? I wasn't aware that you knew Lady Dante."
"Oh, we were briefly acquainted…" Hesitation was present as Dante trailed off, restarting with a new enthusiasm, "She was kind enough to offer me to stay with her while I readjusted…I'll just get her!"
"Greed-kun!" The young woman called up the stairs, turning to face the somewhat bewildered man with a small smile.
"Greed…?" Joshua queried, confused by the odd nickname. Dante offered him nothing but a smile in reply, simply waiting as Greed began the descent of the staircase.
Calm, the tall man known as Greed regarded the redheaded woman through tinted glasses, unusual eyes showing curiosity.
"Greed, would you be able to show Joshua in?"
Dante sighed wearily, petting Gluttony's bald head slowly as she sat, petite form resting against the sturdy carver chair. One jewelled hand propping up her head, she addressed the four homunculi that sat, stood, and squelched before her.
"This has become somewhat messy, my children…" Dante said simply, an especially serious tone in her voice.
Greed, who sat back at one side of the fine table with feet propped upon it, was the first to answer her, his reply casually curious, "How so, Dante-sama?"
"You could just kill him." Envy resolved, his lithe form sat at the table, slim legs hanging over the side. Raised from floor-level, Envy was out-of-reach of the attached newborn homunculus, whom had positioned herself faithfully below the table.
Dante shook Lucy's beautiful red curls, equally exquisite features locked on Envy's own, "It's not that simple. For a while now, my goal has been to test the theory that all seven of you present at once would increase your power," Dante removed her delicate hand from Gluttony's skull, placing it on her lap as she continued, "Such has never been obtainable before, but with all five of you present, there are only two left." Her eyes narrowed as her tone became stronger, "I must reach my goal."
After a moment, Envy nodded in understanding. Greed was not so quick to piece together the facts.
"But what does this have to do with your goal, Dante-san?"
"I would like to turn young Joshua into one of you, but the problem lies in the Alchemic process. Last night, I was miraculously fortunate, and suffered no major damage bringing your little sister into the world. It was a risk to begin with, and I was incredibly lucky. I highly doubt that I will have the same luck this time, and so it seems this body might be expiring already."
"In other words," Envy evaluated in an arrogant tone, "She needs a new host body on standby."
Dante's arms remained crossed as she waited for Envy to return, wondering if she had made the right decision on whose lives to take. Normally, Dante preyed on orphaned girls or divided families, but this time, she had been tempted by an easier option. Nearby, in a neighbouring estate, lived a three-person family with no close outer-relations. The mother was a powerful sort of woman – a perfect candidate. And as for the daughter…She was beautiful, absolutely suitable for a new host body. Perhaps this would be a more successful homunculi than Dante's two newest creations – Gluttony had still not grown much mentally, and the youngest seemed downright defective. As if incapable of learning, the little homunculus followed Envy around like a lost puppy, only to be ignored – or, more regularly – beaten away. In the hours that the newborn had been incapable of accessing Envy, Dante had sped up her growth by feeding her, in the vain hope that such a leap in growth stages would deter her from her unsociable brother. Dante's emerald gaze shifted to the sulking, deformed figure – its human-resembling state almost more disturbing than when first born. Still, this child was not fully grown, but Dante could now make out limbs and features. Unusually, the newborn's ouroboros sat between its wide, incomplete eyes; circular symbol marring what was once a pretty child's face.
Almost pitying the thing that waited so patiently for her older brother, Dante extracted a few more stones from her pocket, leaning toward the mutated humanoid and letting it eat eagerly from her hand. A sudden pain in her abdomen reminded her of the minor – but present – damage caused to her form, and the need for a new body.
As if timed, the sound of the front doors being slammed open rung through the house. Ignoring her pain as best she could, Dante followed the eager young homunculus as it's awkward crawling led it downstairs. By the entrance, a heavy-set stony creature stood, with two forms under each arm. Envy dropped both on the floor, before turning back into himself and smiling triumphantly.
"Killed the father and dumped his body in the river." He said, adding with a kick to the larger of the two women, "That bitch didn't take it well." He sneered, "Scratched me on my cute face."
Dante smiled a bit. "Well, she'll be dead soon, Envy." She bent down and examined the being. "Oh! She's older!"
"Eh," Envy shrugged rudely, "You gave me the family name – I went. There were only two women there. This girl and her mother."
Dante fingered the short chestnut coloured hair of the unconscious girl with admiration, deciding eventually, "She'll do."
"The only problem I see is her trying to help her mother when she's killed," Dante frowned, shrugging gently, "But no matter."
Dante stood, instructing Envy sternly, "Run upstairs and get your younger brother, we need to move them before they wake up and as the event with this body has happened so fast I haven't had time to prepare any remedies to sedate either of them."
Envy smiled too evilly for his pretty features. "But Dante-sama, that makes it so much more fun." Envy ascended the stairs, followed quickly by his younger sibling. A depreciating growl from the effeminate boy did nothing to discourage the obsessive homunculi, and Dante could only sigh.
Envy opened the door to Greed's room and walked in, smirking as if he owned it. Greed, who was sat reading a magazine, looked over, not amused, and raised an eyebrow, however not at Envy. Their younger sister had successfully made it up the stairs.
"Nice pet." He commented.
Envy growled and shrugged "Whatever, Dante wants you, I bought back the newest victims."
Greed sighed and stood up. "All this killing, it's really ridiculous, we could be doing much better things."
"Like what?" Envy scowled and folded his arms "What's more fun than taking the lives of idiot humans?"
Greed shrugged. "How about living your own damn life instead of doing someone else's bidding? The only life goal you have is to kill Hohenheim, what will you do after that?"
Envy thought about it for a moment and shrugged, "I don't care, as long as I kill Hohenheim I'll be happy."
"Right." Greed raised an eyebrow before looking down at their sister. "Do you think there's something wrong with it?"
"Yeah, it's retarded."
Greed scowled before walking out of the room, "I don't see why you get one and I don't. I don't see why she likes you so much anyways."
Envy ignored the taller homunculi's words, boring hatefully into his back as he descended the spiralling stairs.
Dante nodded in greeting to her younger, taller 'son', directing emerald gaze toward the two females after she had done so. She stood, with Gluttony gawping aimlessly beside her, and addressed the two most capable homunculi;
"Okay, Greed, I want you to take the daughter to the pantry. Lock her up there, and bring Joshua to the Library. There, Envy, Gluttony and I will be waiting, with another sister for you." Dante nodded vaguely toward the older of the two women; greying brown hair obscuring her average features.
"Oh, great," Envy sneered, "I don't know who I dislike more. Old hag or this thing." He motioned his green head in the direction of the incomplete homunculus beside him.
"Envy!" Dante snapped, aggravated by her oldest's arrogant nature.
Any verbal conflict was quickly interrupted by Greed, who stepped back from the two women with surprise, eyeing the younger of the unconscious forms, "Oh man, Dante, this one's pretty."
"Suitable, ne?" Dante grinned lightly with Lucy's pretty face, stroking Gluttony briefly, "Although it's a shame I didn't get to keep this body for longer."
Greed frowned somewhat, taking in the features of the young girl. With a sudden decision he straightened his posture, levelling his gaze with Dante's as he said, with the most serious of tones he possessed,
"I want to keep her, Dante-sama."
Dante was speechless for a moment, the petite hand that stroked Gluttony's skull freezing as she queried, a dangerous tone to her voice;
"Excuse me, Greed?"
"I want to keep her as a pet. If Envy gets one then it's only fair that—"
"EXCUSE ME? I didn't get one!" Envy interrupted, voice raised as he snapped, "I don't fucking want it! It's because of you that it's here in the first place! It's more yours than it is mine!"
As Envy's rage cooled somewhat, a small voice came from beside him; pronunciation unsure and voice rasping;
"Envy…"
A horrified expression crossed Envy's features as his ears recognised the sound; lilac eyes shifting slowly toward the youngest homunculus.
"Greed," Dante started, saving the youngest homunculus the trouble of dying, "She's not Envy's pet – I thought that much was obvious. She's your sister, just as this woman will be. You needn't lust for that girl. I will have her form, and you can lust for me, instead," There came a knowing smirk to Dante's lips, "It's much easier that way."
Greed sulked for a moment, shaking his head, "No. Can you really say that you're going to be able to stop that thing from becoming Envy's subordinate? It's only fair that I get one, too! What does it matter to you, anyway? Either way, you'll be getting seven of us." His expression was stern, before he insisted, "I want one."
Dante growled impatiently, glaring with irritation at Greed, "Fine. Have it your way. Have your cursed subordinate. Disobedient child." Her voice was almost a hiss, as she turned toward the front door, barking orders;
"Envy! You get the girl. Bring her to the Library. Greed, I want you to ready Joshua for the process, and lock that woman in the pantry when you're done. Meet us in the Library, and bring Joshua's corpse."
A horrible smile crossed Envy's lips as he shoved the youngest away from his slim leg, regarding Dante with hope, "Does that mean…"
"Envy." Dante warned, opening the door.
This chapter is called Envy simply because Greed is Jealous of Envy through mostly everything lol and he's Greedy too but this chapter is still Envy
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