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. And the new Greed.
Author's Note: Sorry for the long wait. Is anyone even reading this anymore? Or does it suck that bad?
Warnings:. No big ones this chapter. Mild violence…
LAST…
(((( Ed laughed and pulled her up, resting his chin on her shoulder. "Neko… what would you do if your sister came back?"
She turned to glare at him, nothing but pure anger in her eyes. "You tied me down for three weeks, refusing to leave me alone for fear that I would leave and try to bring my sister back!" She scrambled up from him, glaring at him. "And now you're filling my head with more ideas! Why? Why ED!"
Ed stood up and stuffed his hands into his leather pants that he always wore. He grinned sheepishly at her. "Your sister's back, Neko." ))))
NOW
Greed grumbled loudly as she sat on the back of Roxanne, Envy and Jean walking on either side of the chimera. "Why'd you have to go and say that, freak?" She growled towards Jean who still sported the fan mark on his face.
He face split into a grin. "Because I felt like it. That's why. Plus, Roxanne ought to get to know the real you." The cold winter air blew past his face, his nose slowly turning a light pink color. He gave a cute little whine and rubbed at his nose. "It's getting cold again… I hate the winter."
Greed laughed and rubbed herself down into the thick fur of the chimera, laughing at the look on Jean's face. "It's warm! And I like winter. Mean's Christmas is coming up!"
(((( NIRVANA'S HOUSE ))))
Neko stared at Edward, eyes unbelieving. She finally found the courage to speak and choked a bit. "But.. how could—"
The rest of her sentence was cut off by a shrill scream and then. "EDWARD!" Alphonse's yell came after the scream and Ed barely spared his wife a glance before running out onto the porch, spotting his two children running up towards him.
"Get into the house." He said calmly and clapped his hands, pulling one across the length of his automail, turning it into a thin and sharp dagger. He walked down the wooden stairs to see Al in a fighting stance, his arms covered in steel plates up to his elbows and his fingers hooked into long and thin daggers.
A woman with soft brown hair and bright purple eyes was standing there in a white dress, holding a teary-eyed emerald-haired child in her arms.
"TESSA!" Ed yelled seeing the child. The woman turned to look at Ed as Al took the advantage, lunging foreword with his claws, swiping at her face. She ducked and his leg morphed into a sword, swinging it up and catching the side of her arm before it morphed back and she struck out, her arm turning into a flame that only bounced off him due to him suddenly morphing into nothing but metal.
Ed ran down the steps as his brother transmuted himself back to normal and he lunged, bringing his blade down upon her.
"Who the hell are you, damn it!" He demanded, jumping back as she shot a stream of fire towards him, running a deadly talon beneath the tearing Tessa's chin. Al shifted on his feet, his transmuted hands swinging beside his body.
His alchemy was a miracle in a sort. Because he had his soul transmuted to the armor once, his body had enough iron and metallic elements in it for him to be able to successfully transmute his body into that of metallic forms. Almost like Greed's carbon-like shield.
"My name is Charity, Mr. Pipsqueak." She purred, leaning backwards and then jumping onto the fence, holding Tessa in what could be called a loving embrace.
Tessa struggled angrily in her embrace and then threw her head back. "MOTHER!" She screamed and Al took the initivave again and lunged foreword, clapping his hands and setting them over his forearms, turning them into twin sword that he started to fight the Virtue with.
Charity threw Tessa up and Patience suddenly appeared, grabbing the girl and sitting atop the roof, holding the girl in a deathgrip.
"Let My Brother Go." A slow and angry voice growled and Ed snapped his head to the side to see a woman with leather pants, a black muscle shirt and a black vest with fur around the edges standing on the fench post, black carbon crawling to her shoulders.
"Nirvana!" Neko screamed from the porch and only the children that were around her stopped her from running to her homunculus sister.
"Nirvana?" Ed and Al said dumbly, blinking.
Charity smiled sickly. "Ah, you must be the woman that my son and comrades have spoken of so… sweetly. Is your name Nirvana or Greed, now?"
Greed jumped off the post she was on and stalked towards the smirking Virtue. "Call me Greed. You don't have the right to call me by the name that was given to me as a human. Now, give me my daughter back."
Patience smiled and ran her hand down the emerald locks of the small child in her arms. Tessa whimpered and struggled, her claws leaving marks down Patience's arms. "I'm not so sure we should give this little one back to you. After all, now both of her parents are homunculi. We can't let a human child live with two monsters, can we?"
Charity jumped up into the air and seemed to float next to Patience. She gave Tessa a grandmotherly kiss on the cheek and then smirked at Greed. "I'm sure that Diligence will be more than happy to watch over her. After all, he watches over Mercy, does he not?"
Greed shot up into the air, claws swiping at the black where only two white backwards Oruboruses were. "Fucking bitches!" She hissed, landing back on the ground with a thud. Ed and Al only watched her as Envy and Jean walked up, an odd chimera-like thing next to them.
"Nir-Greed? What's going on?" Al asked, confused. He looked to Ed who smiled.
"Well, Tessa succeeded in brining Nirvana back. As a Sin. As Greed."
(((( XENOTIME: THE TRINGHAM'S HOUSE ))))
"Brother! We got a letter from Alphonse!" Fletcher exclaimed as he ran up the path leading to the farm house that he and his brother ran while studying agricultural alchemy.
Russell looked up, pushing his white work sleeves up as he walked away from the lemon tree he was fixing. "Really? What's it say? That Edward's shrank?" He joked and Fletcher just sighed, shaking his head.
"They want our help. Here." Fletcher handed his older brother the note and went to tend the lemon tree instead.
" 'Dear Russell and Fletcher,
Brother and I have ran in to some nasty business again. Last time for us, was defeating the homunculi in their underground hideout. We didn't get the chance to enlist your help otherwise we would have. This time, it's a new set of homunculi.
They call themselves Virtues. There's Diligence who can use Alchemy. Mercy who can change her body into any object or person. Patience, who is like a fortune-teller of some sort. Chastity who only has daggers instead of hands and they're virtually indestructible. Abstinence who can kill anything with a single touch of her hand. Liberality who has just the ultimate shield that we already know how to defeat and Charity who seems to be the leader of them and she can morph her body into elements.
They are all somehow close to one of us. We would like you to come to LaMorea where Nirvana (who is now a Sin, that will be explained when you get here) is living. If you decide to come, please stop by Western Headquarters and pick up a newly promoted Colonel named Nyoko Shay. We'd like her to help too.
I'd tell you more, but it would not due us any good if this was intercepted. Please come as soon as you can.' "
Russell looked at Fletcher who was looking at him with curiosity. "Are we going brother?"
Russell just nodded simply. "It's the first time they've really asked us for help. It's kinda in for us to go and help the ones in need."
Fletcher nodded slowly and tugged on his brother's arm. "Come on! We have to go to Western Headquarter's to pick up Miss Shay! Come on brother!" Russell laughed at his younger brother's enthusiasm and picked him up.
"Alright, alright! Let me grab a few things, alright? We can't just go charging in there like that shrimp. We're not that good." It was a blow to his ego, but sacrifices had to be made.
(((( Western Headquarters ))))
Nyoko Shay whistled as she polished down the edge of her dagger, something that she very rarely carried around with her. She normally relied on her plants that rather liked to eat the flesh all all the humans around it. Today, they didn't seem as hungry as normal.
"Colonel?" A private called and Nyoko looked up, brown and pink eyes focusing on the private. "There are two men here to see you. They said that Brigadier General Seiga sent them."
Nyoko paled. "Vana?" She shot around the corner, following the Private's fingers. She slowed as she got near to the front office.
Two men were standing there. One was taller than Edward with blonde hair, a white shirt and black pants with the shirt tucked in. He had bright blue eyes.
The taller one had shaggy blonde hair, covering one emerald eye. He wore beige work pants and a white button up shirt that was rolled up to his elbows. He gave a little bow of the head. "You must be Miss Shay. I'm Russell and this is Fletcher Tringam. Edward and Nirvana sent us here to get you. They said they need our help."
She shook their hands and her eyes lingered on Russell for a moment too long before she broke the gaze and moved to get what little she carried; a jacket, her keys and a wallet. Nothing more than that.
"Is everything alright with them?" She asked carefully as they walked outside to the buggy that was waiting for them. "Because, isn't Nirvana dead? I got a letter from Military Headquarter's that she was Killed In Action."
"Sorry, Miss Shay, but we don't even know who Nirvana is." Fletcher said, interrupting her softly and she frowned and continued to chew on her lower lip.
"Well, we'll find out when we get there, right?" Nyoko said, smiling fakley.
Inside, she was confused. Envy had personally sent her a letter stating that Nirvana had died by loss of blood and the wounds she had sustained had gotten infected. No way they would have all lied about the death of the Brigadier General, would they?
Sorry, too long update… geeze, I'm totally sucking with this story right now.
Tell me the truth, so I go back and rewrite it so it sounds better or just give up on it or see it through to the end?