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Chapter Eleven: Escape
The sun was high in the sky, its' rays mercilessly raining down on the bare backs of thousands of slaves and convicts. They were all a considerable luckier having darker skin that was able to withstand the rays better, Edward on the other hand burned like paper. He had been sentenced to work in 'The Pit', that was the name it was given, forced to make slip that was used to build the pyramids and countless temples. Slip was a nasty substance, being both insanely slippery and ungodly sticky.
Having been there for five days, Edward was starting to show signs of mental and physical deterioration. His back and left shoulder was red from sunburn, though the Ouroboros was as jet black as it ever was. His auto mail was starting to get in pretty bad condition as well, the sand was starting to take its' toll on both the outside and the inside. Ed mulled his bare feet around in the slip, he noticed that he was having a hard time moving his left foot.
"Damn slip…" he cursed "Damn priests, damn Pharaoh!" he continued cursing. Normally Edward wouldn't curse this much over such a small thing as getting slip in the gears of his left leg, well he may have but not this much. That was because he wasn't, in a sense, Edward. It was his darker half, him if he was a homonculus. He hobbled his way over to a dry patch of sand and sat down pulling his left leg up and placing it on the dry sand. He started to wipe the slip away from the gears and wires and grumbled,
"How the hell does that weakling live with these damn prosthetics?" he paused for a moment and looked at his left arm, it was just as sun burnt as the rest of him that wasn't covered with close. He'd also lost a lot of weight and looked rather unhealthy, this bothered him considerably. If this kept up he'd die of fatigue before he was able to do anything. That's when a large man came forward and shouted,
"Get back to work!"
"Shut up! I'm moving…" Ed hissed back. The man, with his foot, shoved Ed into the slip and it got all in his automail again. Staggering to his feet Ed shot the man a poisonous glare and went back to work, all the while his right arm and left leg making creaking noises.
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It was soon nighttime and the hot desert air was soon cooling for the approaching night. If there was anything Ed was thankful for now, it was this. He made his way back to the living confounds of the slaves and convicts when the ground shook violently. Staggering back slightly, Ed looked around quickly to see what was going on. That's when, a huge beam of radiant white light shot out from somewhere in the Pharaoh's palace. It lingered for a moment then vanished.
"What…was that?" he muttered, much to his surprise someone answered.
"That was an energy beam…" it was a faint voice and only just audible.
"Oh…it's you…so, you're not dead yet?"
"Afraid not…I'm not that easy to kill when I have all my memories." Edward said faintly.
"Ha! But you've been forgetting thing…simple things. Is your mind slipping or are you just stuck in some delusion that your memories are permanent and it's not possible to lose them again?"
"…"
"I'm getting out of this stupid place, with or with out your brother and girlfriend."
"…"
"Also, I'm going to find out where that beam of light came from."
"Who are you now?" Edward suddenly asked.
"What?"
"Now that you're a mature homonculus…in mind anyway…you need a name, all the other ones have names." Ed pointed out.
"Hmm…you're right…surprisingly. How about I take one of the names of the homonculus that you've killed, yeah…"
"Whatever…" was all Ed had to say to that.
"Why not something that suits who I am…how I am…yes…Pride would work well."
"…"
"Pride it is then!" he liked the sound of his new name. He looked around to make sure no guards were around, he then slipped off into the darkness. It was just too easy, his lighter half seemed to be acting off though. He just figured it was due to the fact that he'd been shut out of everything and his mind was slowly dying, kind of like when you buy a pet gold fish and just leave it in its' bowl and never feed it, or clean the bowl, or anything. Eventually it will die and that was good enough for him.
Buy now, he'd actually made it all the way to the Pharaohs' palace and was looking around in the general area that the beam seemed to come from, nothing. That's when some men, one of which was Priest Seto, came walking down the hall. Pride ducked behind a pillar and watched from the shadows. Priest Seto was carrying a girl, she seemed unconscious. She had long pale blonde hair and very pale skin; she looked kind of a less then healthy thin.
Priest Seto walked into a nearby room with her then came out a minute later. He locked the door and left, followed by the men he was with. Taking this chance, Pride slipped out of his hiding spot and slid up to the door. Examining the lock he concluded the only way he was going to open this lock was if he used alchemy. He was only a homonculus in mind, that ment he could probably use alchemy.
Pride clapped his hands together and touched the lock; there was a faint flash of alchemic light and a click as the lock unlocked. He just smirked and opened the door, peeking inside he found that she was lying on a bed on the far end of a medium sized room, she wasn't alone either. What he saw with her nearly made him slam the door shut and locking it again. There was a monstrously large white dragon sitting near the girl, that must have been her Ka.
"Who's there?" came a faint voice, one that wasn't inside his head too! Pride hesitantly looked up and noticed the dragon was gone and the girl was awake.
"Who's there?" she asked again.
"I am…who are you?" Pride answered.
"Kisara…but…who are you?" she asked.
"That doesn't matter…did the bright beam of light come from you and that white dragon?" Pride asked.
"What? I…I don't know what you are talking about." Kisara said questioningly. Pride just huffed and started to close the door, it had to have come from her but she didn't know what was going on. How stupid, he'd wasted valuable escaping time to find out that the source of the light didn't even know it happened.
"Wait…what is your name?" she asked quickly.
"…" Pride paused for a moment then said, "Edward…" he quickly shut the door and locked it before she was able to ask him any more questions, she was really strange. He started walking quickly towards the palace exit, which was surprisingly close by, when a sound caught his ears. It sounded like foot steps, running from behind him, Pride spun around and found he was in the path of a man running full speed not looking where he was going. He was laughing too; the one thing though that caught his eye was a gold ring like pendent that hung around his neck.
The man crashed smack into Pride, both fell to the ground. The man looked up and around franticly as if not expecting there to be anyone here at this time, when he spotted Pride he glared menacingly and snapped,
"Who are you?"
"I should be asking you that!" Pride snapped back getting up, he looked in the direction the man had come, there were several of the palace guard running towards them, "Aw crap, we've got company!"
The man jumped up and started running again, Pride followed him figuring he knew where he was going and would be able to lead him out of this place. This was going to be interesting, how had that man come across that Millennium Item? It had belonged to one of the priests from the trial; this couldn't be the same man. This man had a very mean look about him and had shoulder length white hair and a scar down his left eye and cheek, this added to the meanness of his disposition.
-To Be Continued-
Ok! I'll admit it! I'm sorta in a short chapter mood! I can't help it, for some reason these parts of the stories just…don't…I don't know, have long chapter material or something like that…but anyway! I hope ta have something 'fun' in the next chapter! Not that this chapter isn't fun…sorta…I'm just gonna stop talking now and let you guys review! Oh and when I spellchecked this story I may have over shot one or two words so if they are the wrong words or they're misspelled sorry!