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Capture and Escape, Chapter Six

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Getting ready for the ball was a tad easier the next day. Al already had well more like was assigned a dancing brunette partner named Mina, who was wearing a bright green dress. Mina was Sarah's most trustworthy servant, and it was fortunate that she was brave enough to dance with Al. Apparently, Sarah had invited basically all her friends, and her mansion was teeming with strangers that the Elrics had never known. There was a bald corpulent man literally round as a basketball, and woman with waist-length wavy hair. Al double checked a lady who looked in fact like his mother, but he shook aside the idea, and continued dancing with Mina. Next to the lady with wavy hair was a blonde man with short hair, but it was spiked in an attractive fashion. The two eldest Elrics were still looking for partners. Elysse was up on the balcony beside the stairs, glancing at the women with wavy hair, and particularly at the corpulent man.

"Theres something about them I still don't get" Elysse muttered. "Somethings fishy and I think I've heard of them they're called they're called"

But Elysse couldn't think of the name. Sarah had been spying on Elysse the entire time from the shadows. "Hmm...she knows about Lust, Gluttony, Sloth, and Envy. Damn, Thank God I put that Be fuddle Spell on the area"

Edward was walking up the stairs, but did not notice Elysse. As soon as he got up, he saw a girl with blonde hair in a bun wearing a red dress, but looking away from him, trying to find someone to dance. He walked up to her.

"Miss, can I-" the young woman crashed into him as she turned around and soon, they found themselves on the ground.

Elysse turned to the young man whose blonde hair was tied into a ponytail, and cried, "Oh dear, are you alright, Sir? I'm really sor-"

The man turned to her. It was Edward. "Ed! I-" she paused and looked away blushing.

"Elysse...you...look amazing!" Edward said also blushing.

"Man I'm starting not to regret having those people dress us every morning! I guess they finally didn't make you wear pink and ruffles today!" Elysse gave Edward a hand as they both got up to their feet.

"Yea so, Al's having fun with his dancing partner?" asked Elysse.

"I guess maybe not his partner" replied a smiling Ed.

An 'ouch!' came from Al's direction, as Al stepped on Mina's foot again. He couldnt help it if his armor was clumsy. Elysse turned back to Edward and grabbed his hands.

"Come on!" she said going down the stairs. "We don't have any partners except us again"

Edward followed and they began to dance. As they were dancing with as little contact as possible, Ed whispered, "That fat man and that lady who looked like our mother, theres something wrong with them but they left the ballroom"

"You' re right" Elysse replied. "That blonde man too, Sarah left too, I just can't think of the name for them, Oh yes-"

But before she could answer, a loud noise was heard as the front door burst open. Sarah flew in and transformed into Patricia, just as the four suspicious people Ed and Elysee spotted split up, surrounding Elysse. Now, the blonde hair man had long green spiky hair. Everyone was screaming, and Edward and Al tried to help their sister, but were caught by the fat man. The two women dragged Elysse to Patricia. Al and Edward started running forward to the evil mistress but was stopped by all four of her henchmen.

"Let her go, lady!" shouted Edward struggling against the man with palm tree hair. "Actually hey palm tree dude! Let me go! Its Envy, you f-!"

"Don't you remember, Full Metal Pipsqueak?"

"ENVY! Bro-Brother!" Al screamed against the lady who looked his mother. "They're the homunculi! There was a spell on this room that made us forget who they were! This lady is Sloth!" Al pointed at the woman attacking him.

"Shut up, Full Metal! If you move one inch...your twin sister here dies!" Patricia pointed a gun at Elysse's head.

The two Elrics narrowed their eyes on Patrica. The fat man, Gluttony, was drooling, and Lust, the lady with wavy hair, slapped him.

"Alright! Patricia! I'll come with you..." Elysse paused, and glanced at the scene.

Sloth was inside Al, controlling his every move, Envy was choking Ed, and Lust and Gluttony were standing next to her. Everyone from the ballroom had disappeared.

"BUT NO ONE GETS HURT!" she shouted. "What the h- in the world are you, now? Patricia? A homunculus? I didnt know you died"

"Yes I am, best friend!" Patricia teased and turned to Edward and Al. "You, Edward and trash can! We'll be at The Forbidden Tower!" Patricia disappeared with the homunculi and Elysse.

"Why did she leave us alone?" Ed pondered aloud, and turned to Al, who was in chibi form. "Dude, whats wrong?"

"She called me 'Trash Can'"

Ed fell anime style.

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Shoving Elysse into a corner of an empty room in the Forbidden Tower, Patricia roughly said, "Here's how it's going to work...I'll give you one minute to run, but if any of my homunculi friends catch you, it's game over"

"Wait, can I ask a question?" Elysse asked, eyeing the homunculi.

"Well, you just asked one, but I guess I'll let you go" Patricia rolled her eyes. "Are you the leader of the homunculi?"

"Out of this motley group yes, but in general no" Patricia sneered.

Envy had anime anger marks all over his head. "I just answered two freakin questions! Now butt off! The race starts now!"

Elysse ran for her life, and she soon encountered Patricia's room. She rushed around, saw Patricia's closet, and knew she needed appropriate clothing other then a dress and high heels.

"Ohh!" Elysse dug into Patricia's closet, grabbed her black pants, white shirt, a red coat, and quickly put them on after taking the dress off.

"She confiscated my CLOTHES? That pervert!" She then began to dig in Patricia's shoe closet trying to find her trust boots.

"Ah ha!" she found them and ran out of Patricia's room after shoving her feet in.

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Ed figured that Elysse was in trouble, and deciding not to take chances of getting lost in the mansion, he ran outside with Al to find a car sitting there in front of him. Now, he was having issues with the car.

"Start already! You stupid car!" Edward shook the wheel violently, nearly wrenching it off.

"Here, Brother" Al giggled as he started the car 'properly'.

"Oh! Thanks Al!" Edward sarcastically laughed, and tore off in the direction of the highest tower.

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"Whoa!" Elysse jumped out of the way, as Lust attacked with her fingernails.

She crashed into Patricia's second bedroom door. "Hmm...I wonder why Patricia would keep a room in The Forbidden Tower. Why would she keep TWO freakin rooms?"

The young blonde girl ignored what she had said and tore down the hall, just as Lust began chasing her again.

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"I hope were not too late..." Edward got out of the car and ran into a door in the mansion, and up the stairs to The Forbidden Tower.

"Wait, Brother!" Al followed.

Elysse ran out of the hall and down the stairs not noticing Edward and Al until she crashed into them. "Ed! Al!" she shouted with happiness.

"Get them!" commanded Patricia, who was actually disguised as Lust.

Edward made part of his arm a blade and was about to stab Patricia, but was interrupted by Elysse.

"Hey! It is time for some singing! Yeah!" the young blonde girl shouted.

She trapeezed over to Al and Ed, and stuck headsets on them. Al stayed silent and Edward sweat dropped and made a...'-.-'...face.

"Get over here, bro!" Elysse spoke into the headset she had on.

While running around, she had stolen these from the music room. She grabbed Edward.

"Just try and sing anything alright!" she whispered into his ear.

"You don't know how to sing!" Edward whispered back.

"Oh? Well if you want to get out of here then at least cooperate!" whispered Elysse; she then turned to the rest of the audience, which of course, were the homunculi.

She gave Al the signal to open some of the doors as Edward and her distracted the idiots.

"Here we go!" Elysse said with a smile.

Patricia narrowed her eyes but then enjoyed as she began to hear the wonderful duet.

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"I'll Never Tell"

Elysse:

This is the man that I plan to entangle

Isn't he fine?

My claim to fame was to maim and to mangle

Vengeance was mine

But I'm out of the biz

The name I made I'll trade for his

The only trouble is...

I'll never tell

Edward struggled to find the right words and soon came up with nothing so he just said whatever popped in his head.

Edward:

She is the one she's such wonderful fun

Such passion and grace

Warm in the night when I'm right

In her tight--

embrace,

Tight embrace

I'll never let her go

The love we've known can only grow

There's just one thing that--

No.

I'll never tell

Edward and Elysse split up and began to curse each other. What else could they say?

Both:

'cause there's

Nothing to tell

Elysse:

He snores

Edward:

She wheezes

Elysse:

Say "housework," and he freezes

Edward:

She eats these Skeezy cheeses

That I can't describe

Elysse:

I talk,

He breezes

Edward:

She doesn't know

What please is

Elysse:

His penis got diseases

From a chumash tribe

Edward slapped his forehead. "Pervert"

Both:

The vibe gets kind of scary

Edward:

Like she thinks I'm ordinary

Elysse:

Like it's all just temporary

Edward:

Like her toes are kind of hairy

Both:

But it's all very well

'Cause, god knows,

I'll never tell

Elysse:

When things get rough

He just hides behind his Buffy

Now look, he's getting huffy

'Cause he knows that I know

Edward got very mad and started cursing her again. This was actually fun, cursing each other within a song

Edward:

She clings,

She's needy

She's also really greedy

She never--

Elysse:

His eyes are beady

Edward:

This is my verse,

Hello? She--

Elysse:

Look at me!

I'm dancin' crazy!

Elysse started dancing and Edward sweat dropped. Edward joined in and they soon start to do the tango and quick step. They soon ended up by a near by door where Al was outside waiting for them and listening to the song. Al had also started up the car. The homunculi had all closed their eyes some out of pure boredom.

Both:

You know

Edward:

You're quite the charmer

Elysse:

My knight in armour

Edward:

You're the cutest of the scoobies

With your lips as red as rubies

And your firm yet supple--

Tight embrac

They danced again and were 4ft away from the door.

Elysse:

He's swell

Edward:

She's sweller

Elysse:

He'll always be my feller

Edward:

That's why I'll never

Tell her that I'm petrified

Elysse: I've read this tale

There's wedding

Then betrayal

I know there'll come the day

I'll want to run and hide

They started to walk forward each other and once they reached each other, they held hands, tricking the others to say "Aw"

Both:

I lied

I said it's easy

I've tried

But there's these fears I can't quell

Edward:

Is she looking for a pot of gold?

Elysse:

Will I look good when I've gotten old?

Edward

Will our lives become too stressful

If I'm never that successful?

Elysse:

When I get so worn and wrinkly

That I look like David Brinkley

Edward:

Am I crazy?

Elysse:

Am I dreamin'?

Edward:

Am I marrying

A demon?

The eldest Elric's put on disgusted faces and soon faded away.

Both:

We could

Really raise the beam

In makin' marriage a hell

So, thank god,

I'll never tell

I swear

That I'll never tell

Edward:

My lips

Are sealed

Elysse:

I take the fifth

Edward:

Nothing to see,

Move it along

The two eldest Elrics ran to the door and looked back at the enemies asleep.

Both:

I'll never

Tell!

Edward and Elysse took the headsets off and threw it in the air, running out the door and away, followed by Al. Patricia and the homunculi were snoring, dead asleep from boredom.