Sinful Creations: Chapter Eight
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Full Metal Alchemist. I own Nirvana, Neko and their children. Oh, along with all the virtues. I own Diligence, Patience, Mercy and Charity.
Author's Note: It's at the bottom.
Warnings: Nothing in this chapter.
LAST…
(((( Neko watched in a distracted daze as her sister was buried into the ground. 'I could bring her back… she'd be a Sin… It could work…'
Mustang had his arm around Riza, one hand on his son, Sousuke's head. His one eye was cold, his jaw twitching as he saw Envy's eyes lock onto the grave. 'Don't do it Envy... don't risk it...'
Envy got up, picking up Tessa, his amethyst eyes red and his cheeks wet. He walked away from the grave and turned to their small Rizembul house that Jean and he had built years ago. He looked upon it and tossed a piece of chalk in the air. He caught it and gave a choked laugh. "Tessa, there are a few things that I need to teach you very quickly." ))))
NOW…
(((( TWO MONTHS AFTER NIRVANA'S DEATH: VIRTUE HOMUNCULI LAIR ))))
"What are we supposed to do now? Liberality here had to go and ruin our damn plan by killing that one alchemist who could start the damn array!" Diligence growled furiously as he shot a scathing glare towards Liberality who was idly tracing the tattoo on the palm of his hand.
"Diligence… Diligence… it is a pleasure to hear that wonderful voice again." A smooth, motherly tone whispered as every virtue in the area suddenly snapped their heads towards the stairs where a tall, elegant woman stood.
"Charity?" He asked, confused as he stood up, watching the woman slip out of the shadows. She had dark blonde hair—almost brown—that fell over her shoulders in waves of curls and bright amethyst eyes that looked familiar to many of the homunculi in the area. And Oruborus was on the middle of her chest where the white dress that she was wearing split open.
"Ahh… you remember me!" She glided down the rest of the stairs and enveloped the surprised Virtue in her arms. "Now… what's this about an array and killing some alchemist?"
Chastity walked foreword, scowling heavily. "What are you doing back?" She snapped, crossing her arms over the light blue sweater that she was wearing.
Charity raised an eyebrow, not at all fazed by the obviously pissed off woman. "I felt that the rest of the group needed help. Now… tell me what's going on."
Diligence growled softly to himself. He too, did not want Charity to come back into their plan. She was a witch when it came to the rest of them. That was the reason they had banished her in the first place. But she was the oldest and they had to listen to her when it came to some things.
"We found a way to turn us human." Patience said, walking up, her unearthly voice scaring Charity a little. "By use of a magic that was forbidden."
"Such as?" Charity snapped.
"Necromancy." Mercy finished, rubbing Liberality's dark blue hair through her tiny fingers as she sat on his lap. "We needed an alchemist who had acquired certain powers of a homunculi to activate the array and then have either a Sin or a Virtue sacrificed to open the Gate."
"And I killed the alchemist who had acquired these 'certain powers.'" Liberality finished with a feral grin in Diligence's direction.
Charity laughed, throwing her head back. The Virtues stopped and stared at her, raising an eyebrow. "My son is still alive. And he has a daughter. The daughter had 'certain attributes' of a homunculi and she knows alchemy. Anymore questions, children?"
Liberality growled under his breath and stood up, setting Mercy down on the chair he had been occupying. He walked over to the stairs and started to climb them, ignoring the others.
"Oh, Liberality?" Charity called, sugar coating her voice. The bomber stopped and clapped his hands, turning around as he did so.
"Shut up." He growled and turned his palms upwards as wild sparks shot from them, a bomb forming on Charity's skin. She screamed as she was blown up. "I hate that hag already." He disappeared in the blue Oruborus on his thigh and Diligence laughed.
'I guess not everything is in vain…'
(((( LaMOREA ))))
Jean Havoc sat on the back porch, a cigarette hanging limply between his lips as he watched Envy sit with Tessa on the ground, a piece of chalk in both of their hands. He watched as a wooden horse was successfully transmuted then a broken plate fixed and then…
He stood up, finally realizing why Envy was teaching Tessa alchemy. 'Why couldn't I see it earlier!' He walked inside, intending to find Edward and Alphonse and to demand all they knew about Human Transmutation.
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Envy watched as his daughter created a moving puppet, alchemy sparks crackling from her fingertips. His amethyst eyes were drawn to the red spark that kept appearing on her right thigh every time she did alchemy. "Tessa, what's on your thigh?"
She stopped and lifted up her sundress a bit to show him the red Oruborus that was glowing softly on her hip. "It showed up a bit before mommy died…" She whispered quietly and then clapped her hands, setting them on the ground, forgetting to pick up the chalk.
'No transmutation circle!' He grabbed his daughters hands as she finished completing her plate. "Tessa… try an create the biggest thing you can imagine, okay?"
She looked confused but did as he said. She clapped her hands, without realizing that she was no longer using chalk and sat it on the ground as a giant statue started to form, taking the shape of a large Oruborus. "What is that, daddy? It's on my leg and yours too!"
Envy stood up, picking up his daughter as he stared at the Oruborus. "It's called an Oruborus. A sign of the infinite. I'll tell you more about it when you get it older." His eyes flicked to the porch where Jean had rushed inside and then they fell on his daughter's eyes… eyes which had aged so much in the past two months since her mother's death.
"Are you ready?" He asked his daughter and she nodded her head swiftly.
"I want her back, dad." She said sternly and Envy nodded, disappearing in a swirl of red, morphing into a crimson serpent with wings as he flew across the fields, amethyst eyes staring ahead.
'Can she do it? Can she really bring back Nirvana?'
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Envy coughed, falling back as they landed in the mine where Nirvana had found him years ago. A large circular area was cleared out, small gas lanterns lit up around the area. He sat Tessa down and she stared up at him in shock.
"What? What was that?" She asked, twirling her finger around. "That snake-ride thingy! What was it?"
Envy fell to his knees, grasping his daughter's shoulders. "Tessa… I didn't think I'd have to tell you this until you were much older. But…" Envy's body shifted out of the white shirt and cargos he'd been wearing to his old skirt and tanktop. He pointed to the Oruborus on his thigh. "I'm a Homunculus. An artificially created human."
Tessa's eyes widened dramatically. "Homunculi are created when an alchemist—like Edward or Neko—tries to recreate life… and they fail."
"What?"
"Let's say that Neko wants to bring your mother back as a human—but fails. Your mother would be brought back, but as a failed transmutation—a homunculus. Born with a near-immortal life and powers a human can never dream of."
"So… you're not my real dad? Just a homunculus of my original father?" Tessa asked, stepping back fearfully. Envy shook his head.
"No. I was created hundreds of years ago." He said off-handedly. "Your mother met me and we fell in love. She had you—you are my child!—and somehow you inherited some of my abilities. That's why you have the Oruborus here." He pointed to the one of her thigh.
Tessa looked at the chalk in her hand and then back at her father, a bit of confidence sinking into her depths. She took a deep breath and looked at him. "What do I have to do?"
(((( BACK AT THE HOUSE ))))
"Envy!" Jean called as he walked back outside, fuming angrily. Ed and Al had told him everything they knew about Human Transmutation—the sacrifice, the Gate and the death that somehow weasled its way into.
Now he knew how a homunculus like Envy and the others were created.
His blue eyes darted around the yard, seeing no sign of his surrogate daughter or male lover. "Damint!" He cursed and ran out into the yard, picking up the chalk that was on the ground.
"Where the hell would they go to do a damn transmutation?" He growled to himself and suddenly stilled, shivers running up and down his spine. He turned around slowly, facing the mountain that held the mines where Nirvana had found Envy.
Purple and yellow light was leaking from one of the open gates in the mountain. "No…" His mouth fell open in a silent scream before he spun around, lunging up the porch steps and running into Edward and Roy.
"Recognize that light!" Havoc demanded, pointed over his shoulder at the light. Ed's mouth dropped open and Mustang's face became grim.
"I'd recognize that energy anywhere." Mustang growled, a faraway look to his eyes before he grabbed Havoc and spun him around. "Let's go. If it was anything like the Elrics' transmutation, they could use some help."
(((( BACK IN THE MINE ))))
'Did I do it? Is she back?' I opened my slitted eyes, searching around the darkened mine. That last thing I could remember was clapping my hands and smiling in my father's direction, before I activated the array.
I sat up… or at least tried to until I noticed that I didn't have any arms or legs. My heartrate sped up and I opened my mouth, screaming loudly.
"TESSA!" Envy shouted, barreling out of the darkness, his left hand a beautiful glow of flowing flames. He fell to his knees in front of me and raised the flame, eyes staring in disbelief at the missing appendages.
"Daddy! Where… where are my arms and legs!" I shrieked, tears coursing down my face continuously. Envy pressed a finger against my lips, staring at one of the gaping bleeding holes.
Suddenly white light erupted from my stumps and another scream escaped my throat. 'What's going on?'
The white light dimmed and I threw myself into Envy's arms, not realizing that I had arms that were wrapped around my father's neck.
Ba-bump…
"Tessa… you regenerated!" Envy exclaimed pulling back to touch my arms and legs with awe. I stopped crying and stared at them in shock. "You are a homunculus…" He murmured. "A human homunculus… unbelievable…"
Ba-bump…
"A… human homunculus?" I asked fearfully and Envy looked at me with a smile, his hand lighting back up again.
"That's not a bad thing, Tessa." He stood up and I go up, holding onto the black skirt that he wore. "Stay here. I don't want you to see this."
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Envy walked to the middle of the floor, leaving Tessa on the edge where she had activated the array. He stopped when the smell of decaying flesh hit his nose, bringing back semi-painful memories of when he and the others had been created.
Ba-bump…
He looked down, his immediately turning away. Something was there… inhuman definitely. Blood washed around his bare feet and it brought back a hidden pleasure that he had tried to banish when Tessa came around. But it was still there, the absolute glory when he felt blood just swarming around him.
He crouched down, lighting his hand again as a deformed face, vaguely resembling Nirvana's turned back an unearthly screech coming from her mouth.
"DADDY!" Tessa screamed and he heard her little footsteps start to run.
"Stay where you are!" He shouted, standing up and kicking his foot foreword, knocking the head off. It rolled around before coming to rest in front of him, staring up at him with matted hair, insides on the outside, blood pouring out of its heart as the thing continued to try and live.
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Edward, Havoc and Mustang ran through the first mine shaft, the same question floating through their heads. 'Did she succeed?'
"Edward… If she did succeed… which one would have been created?" Havoc asked, panting heavily.
Ed's snarl became prominent. "She was killed by Liberality, right?" He asked and Havoc nodded in the dark, his cigarette lighting up his face.
"Diligence probably finished it." Mustang said, sliding into Shaft Three.
"Sloth or Greed will be her Sin." Edward finished and they finally arrived outside the alchemy-sealed door. He clapped his hands and busted it open, running in the torches suddenly lighting.
Envy scrambled back out of the area where the white light was exploding around the room. Tessa screamed again and Edward ran foreword, recognizing the familiar power of the Gate.
The loud pounding of a heart suddenly stopped and an unearthly silence fell over everyone. Envy stood up, clutching his thigh were the Oruborus lit up in a bright white.
"Damn…" He cursed and the lit dimmed.
"Where am I?" A musical, sultry voice filtered out and Envy rushed foreword, spotting a woman standing there. She was in a pair of leather pants and a skin-tight muscle shirt, knee-length dark blue hair running down her back. She turned around and blue human eyes stared at Envy. Her flesh arms had twirls of red designs going up her arms, stopping at her collarbone where two small red arrays were.
An eye patch covered her left eye and there was a barely distinguishable scar on her cheek.
"Mommy?" Tessa asked and started to walk foreword, tears appearing in her eyes.
"Stay where you are!"
He looked at the being's hands and saw a red Oruborus on the back of her left hand. He smiled grimly and looked to the creature.
"Hello, Greed."
Merry Christmas to everyone! I made an extra long chapter just for a present.
Love all of ya!
TBC…