"Greed!" Envy said impatiently."Either you tell me now or I feed you to Gluttony and you'll be stuck in his bottomless pit forever"
"That was mine," Lust said.
"Envy, do what you want because I'm not telling," Greed said patiently.
"Why do you always act so calm?" Wrath asked him."You're never intimidated by Envy"
"I'm used to him. He's mostly just talk," Greed replied.
"What do you mean 'all talk'?" Envy said, infuriated.
"I mean that you don't do a lot of what you say you're going to do," Greed said.
"Envy, why don't you settle down? You're always mad at someone or something," Lust pointed out.
"Burn in hell, Lust!"
"Wanna try saying that again?" Lust said, extending her fingernails.
"I'll be back. I need to let off some steam..." Envy said as he walked off.
He went into the forest and didn't return for at least an hour.
"What were you doing?" Wrath asked him.
"None of your buisness, kid," Envy replied, looking very tired and worn out.
"Probably getting us dinner," Gluttony whispered to Wrath.
"You think? Because I'm really hungry..."
IN THE MYSTERIOUS PLAIN...
"Pain, please stop! You're going to kill him!" Al yelled.
"That's the plan," Pain replied.
Suddenly, they heard yells and they turned to see Colonel Roy Mustang and First Leieutenant Riza Hawkeye running towards them screaming Ed and Al's names.
"ROY! RIZA!" Ed yelled.
"Damn, the military has to get involved? Pain, let's go," Torture said.
Snap. The both of them were gone in an instant.
"Roy! I'm so glad you're here! Did you see those two himunculi?" Al said. Riza pushed hard on Al to get him unstuck.
"I'm guessing those two were Pain and Torture?"Roy said.
"You guessed right. Torture can take over and control other people's minds. He also has razor-sharp teeth and claws. Look what he did to my back," Ed said as he pointed to the deep, bloody wound on his back."He also chopped off my metal right arm. Winry is gonna be so pissed"
"He sounds like one tough cookie, at least now we know what we're up against," Roy said.
"What do you mean 'we'?" Ed said slyly.
"You're right; he's your enemy. You fight him and get killed"
"Shut-up, Roy"
"Colonel, I can see the two markings on Edwards left arm that seem like himunculi symbols," Riza said.
"Very good obsevation, Riza. I see them, too," Roy said as he examined Eds arm.
"Get off me, Roy!" Ed exclaimed.
"I'm not on you. I'm only looking at your arm"
"Well, look with your eyes not your hands. I don't want you touching me!" Ed said."Just get get me a train back to Risembool. I need a new arm"
"If you wish..." Roy said as he sighed.
AT THE TRAIN STATION...
"Ed, I wish you good luck on your journey," Riza said.
"Thank you, Riza," Al said.
"We'll be seeing you, Riza," Ed said as she walked away.
They got on the train and sat down next to an old man who seemed to be sleeping.
"We'd better keep quiet..." Ed whispered to Al.
"Do you really have symbols on your arm?" Al asked him.
"I don't really know. I haven't looked. Could you pull up my sleeve?" Ed asked.
"Yeah..." Al said as he pulled up his sleeve. Ther indeed were two markings; on looked like an oroborous and the other looked like a symbol they had never seen before.
"I wonder why I have these..." Ed said to himself. He stared down at the two marks.
"Do you think maybe these came from when Torture was inside of me?" Ed asked Al.
"I don't know. It's a strong possibility. He is a himunculous, of course," Al responded.
"We'll see what Winry says when we get there..." Ed said as he drifted off to sleep.
Ed awoke at the sound of a train whistle. It was nighttime. They were at the Risembool Train Station.
"RISEMBOOL! LAST STOP OF THE NIGHT! RISEMBOOL!" the train conductor yelled.
"Ed, you're awake! Let's go," Al said.
They got off the train and started walking to Winry Rockbell's house.
"I sure hope she's home..." Ed said to nobody.
They walked for about thirty minutes and they finally reached Winry's house. They knock on the door, hoping somebody would answer. They were in luck, Pinako answered the door.
"Edward? Alphonse? What are you doing here?" Pinako asked them.
"What, we're not welcome here anymore?" Ed said jokingly.
"Grandma, is someone at the door?" Winry yelled.
"Yes, Edward and Alphonse are here," Pinako yelled back at Winry.
They immediately heard running footsteps and they saw Winry coming around the corner.
"Yay! I haven't seen you guys in-" she stopped mid-sentence at the sight of Ed's arm, which wasn't there.
"EDWARD ELRIC! WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR ARM!" Winry yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Winry, I can explain. Torture cut it off in battle"
"And who is this Torture? Just some made-up character of yours!(no, mine! LOL!) Winry said angrily.
"Winry, please settle down! We have a guest, might I remind you," Pinako said.
"Who is it?" Al asked Pinako.
"She said her name was Juliet," Pinako replied.
They walked into the kitchen where "Juliet" was.
"What was all that yelling?" Juliet asked.
"Oh, nothing!" Winry said, trying to be innocent."I'll work on your new arm in the morning, Edward.
"Sit down and have dinner with us," Pinako said to the Elric brothers.
After dinner, Ed went to his old bedroom and layed down, deep in thought.
"That 'Juliet' or whatever, looks so much like my mother...I wonder where she came from..." Ed said as he started feeling sleepy.
"Al, who was that woman that was at dinner"
"I know what you're thinking. She looks so much like Mom," Al said.
"I know...I want to know more about her; maybe she's Sloth..." Ed said.
"She could be..." Al said.
"Well, I'm tired. Good night, Al"
"Good night, Brother."
The next morning, Ed awoke and went downstairs to find Winry working on hi new automail arm.
"Good morning Ed!" she said a little too happily."I'm nearly finished with your new arm"
"Winr"
"I talked to Al last night. He told me about your other arm and Torture. Sorry for accusing you about him being unreal," Winry said.
"It's okay. I don't really know what's going on anymore...By the way, what was up with that one lady, Juliet?" Ed asked.
"She's just someone who came up to our door ysterday before we started eating. She went out this morning for a walk. She said she doesn't remember anything about her past. I told her a lot about you two because she looks like Trisha so much, I thought she might actually be her. She took a lot of interest in you two." Winry said.
"Well, thanks for telling me that. I'm going out to train."Ed said as he walked out the door to the field outside of Winry's house. He saw Juliet and walked up to her.
"Who are you?" Ed said shakily.
"I'm who you think I am. I'm your mother." Juliet responded.
"How can you be? You're not as kind as she was," Ed said.
"That doesn't prove a thing," she said.
"It proves that you're not her!" Ed said.
"I am," she said as she turned around,"but I'm also you're worst enemy"
"What the hell does that mean?" Edward said, starting to get angry.
"It means that..." her sentence trailed off as she tore her turtleneck off to reveal her oroborous."...I am also the himunculous"
"I knew it!" Ed said.
"ED!" Winry yelled out to Ed."YOUR AUTOMAIL'S READY TO BE PUT ON"
"I'm coming!" Ed yelled back at her."I'll be back for you"
"We'll see," Sloth said.
Ed ran back to the house and saw Winry in the corner.
"Winry, what's wrong?" Ed asked.
"I saw the oroborous. I should have known! How could I have been so stupid!" Winry cried.
"Winry, you're not stupid. Just put my automail on and we'll take care of her," Ed assured her.
