Lust ran into the woods where Ed said Envy and Scar had gone, Ed was trailing behind her. Lust didn't bother with the river, she just jumped over it. She ran into the woods has fast has she could. Lust couldn't help shake the feeling of dread that was rising in her. And then she saw him, lying in the ground in front of a tree, in a pool of blood.
"Please no", Lust said running over to him.
Lust got down on her knees and held his body in her arms. She felt tears start to roll down her cheeks and she wept over his body. That was how Ed and Sloth found her.
"Is he…", Ed started.
"Yes", Lust replied through her tears. "He's dead".
"I'm sorry", he said quietly.
Lust eyes went to something on the ground, it was the locket. Lust picked it up and held it to her chest. The man she loved was dead. "Why did he have to die?", Lust thought to herself.
"Lust, it's getting dark, we should go inside", Ed said.
Lust reluctantly stood up with the locket in her hands. Lust put it around her neck and turned to Ed.
"Do you still have my skull?", she asked him.
Ed hesitated before answering, "yes".
"Ed, I'm going to go to Dante, and when I get back, I want you to kill me", Lust said to him.
"You're going after her aren't you?"
"Yes. Dante's taken away the only reason I have to live. I'm going to make her worst fear come true, I'm going to kill her".
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When Lust finally made it out of the forest she stopped and turned around.
"You can come out now Sloth", she said.
Sloth came through the trees, just has Lust suspected.
"Why did you follow me?", Lust asked her.
"Don't do this Lust. Don't throw your life away", Sloth said to her.
"What life? We're homunculus Sloth, we don't have lives to throw away".
"Now you're talking like Dante", Sloth said. "I don't know what it was, but something about Scar changed you. You're more human now than you were before".
"What are you talking about? We're just imitations of life, nothing more", Lust said turning to walk away.
"Lust wait", Sloth said. "Killing Dante's not going to accomplish anything".
"Did killing all those people we killed for Dante accomplish anything? This is no different", Lust replied coldly.
"What would Scar think if he saw you now?"
Lust stopped in her tracks. Her hand automatically went to the locket around her neck.
"Before I came after you I talked with Ed. He still won't accept me has his mother, but it's a start in the right direction. Scar accepted you has a human being, and you came to love him. Don't throw all of that away, and make everything you and Scar went through in vein".
Lust turned around to face Sloth.
"You're right", Lust said to her, "I shouldn't do this. But it feels like the right thing".
Sloth smiled and nodded her head in understanding. "You really did love him didn't you?"
"Yes, I did. We were going to get married", Lust continued.
"You would've made a lovely couple", Sloth said.
"Goodbye Sloth", Lust said to her friend.
"No, not goodbye. It's see you soon", Sloth replied.
Lust half smiled and turned to walk away.
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Back in Rizembol, Ed and Al were debating what to do with Scars body. In the end, they decided to turn it over to the State Military has evidence of Scars death.
"But if we do that they'll know that he was in Rizembol at some point", Al said.
"We'll just say that he came here to kill me and I killed him instead", Ed replied to him.
They had put Scar's body in the basement for now. Ed didn't want to think about that now, it made him think of Lust, and her request to kill her. Any other day he would've done it without a second thought, but now…Ed shook the thought out of his head and picked up the phone. Has he started to dial the number for Roy's office another thought entered his head: What if Lust was playing him? No, those tears were too real to have been faked. "Then why do I feel has if something bad is going to happen?", Ed thought to himself.
"Hello?", Rizas voice said on the other side of the phone.
"Riza, it's Ed. I need to speak to Mustang", Ed said into the phone.
"Hold on just a minute", came the reply.
Ed waited a few seconds until Mustangs voice answered the phone. "What do you want shorty?".
"For once I'm going to ignore that", Ed said into the phone. "Look, um, what if I told you that Scar came here trying to kill me, and he died instead?".
There was a pause on the other side.
"Are you saying that Scar is dead?", Roy asked him.
"Well, unless he can survive a couple of stab wounds through the heart, then yes", Ed said.
"Ed, come back to Central. No, better yet, stay there, I'll be on the next train to Rizembol", Mustang said.
Then the phone hung up. Ed hung up the phone and turned to Al.
"We're going to have company", Ed said walking towards the door that led to the basement.
Ed opened the door and walked down the stairs, Al followed. Ed stopped dead in his tracks when he reached the bottom of the stairs. Scar's body was nowhere to be seen.
"Ed are you sure he was dead?", Al asked his brother.
"Yes. Unless…", Ed's voice trailed off. He had completely forgotten about one person: Envy.
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Lust had finally made it to her destination: Dante's mansion. The only people there were Wrath, and Dante. Lust didn't care about Wrath, she was here for Dante. Lust barged in through the front door making a lot of noise has she did it, but she didn't care.
Lust walked through the halls to where she knew Dante would be: her Library. Has Lust approached the library she extended her claws. When she came to the door that led to the library Lust hesitated before opening it. "Do I really want to do this?", Lust thought to herself. Lust shook the thought out of her head and kicked the door in.
"Lust, how kind of you to come and see me", Dante's voice said.
"You know why I'm here Dante", Lust spat, "come out of wherever it is you're hiding".
"Oh yes, Scar. The man of your dreams wasn't he?", Dante's voice said.
"And Hohenheim was yours. Now I know why he left you", Lust said.
"Honestly Lust, you and I both know that homunculi have no feelings", Dante's voice said.
"That's what you think", Lust replied.
Lust raised her hand and extended her index finger into a claw. Right next to Dante's throat. Dante slowly turned around.
"Lust, you foolish girl", Dante said to her, "biting the hand that feeds you".
"I don't need you", Lust said to her, "I never did".
"But don't you want to become human?", Dante asked.
Lust moved her claw closer to Dante's throat.
"Don't give me that. You never were going to make us human you selfish bitch".
"Selfish? Is wanting to live forever selfish?".
"It is when you manipulate others to do it", Lust snapped at her taking a step towards Dante.
Dante took a step towards Lust.
"You've caused a lot of problems for me with your little romance", Dante said to her.
"My 'little romance', is none of your business", Lust said to her. "You could've just left us alone, and let us live our lives together".
Lust felt her eyes start to water at memories of Scar. Dante noticed this and took advantage of this.
"You miss him don't you?", Dante said to her, "good. Because you'll be joining him soon!".
Dante clapped her hands together and transmuted her arm into a sword just like Ed's.
"I have your lover to thank for this arm", Dante said to her has she stabbed Lust through the heart.
Lust reacted by punching Dante in the face and then slicing off a piece of Dante's dress revealing the quickly decaying flesh. Lust attempted to slice off Dante's arm but she blocked it with her automail. With her other hand Lust stabbed Dante's shoulder. Dante screamed in pain and Lust stabbed both of Dante's legs.
"You took away the only reason I had to live. Now I'm going to make your worst fear come true", Lust said coldly.
Dante raised her automail arm just has Lust stabbed Dante in the stomach.
"Dante", Lust said kneeling down in front of her, "you'd think that after 400 years you'd learn one thing".
"Oh yeah?", Dante said, blood running from her mouth, "what's that?".
"Everybody dies sometime".
Lust put one of her claws at Dante's throat. Her face was cold and emotionless has she just about jabbed her claw into Dante's throat…
"Wait!", Dante yelled, "he's alive. Scar's alive!"
Killa Pat: First off I'd like to say something to Emily W, who's been very encouraging. I encourage you to get your own account, and write your own ScarxLust fic.
To everybody else whose been reading and actually REVIEWING this story, thank you all for reading. Now press the damn submit review button. Peace out.
Killa Pat