The soldiers had surrounded the building which they had seen the man and woman enter. Roy had just arrived and demanded to be shown who they had found. The soldiers tried to kiss up to them by claiming that they had been watching the couple the whole time, but he brushed them off.

As the couple came out, they had an umbrella and he couldn't clearly see their faces. One man yelled at them to stop, and then the woman dropped the umbrella to reveal a face that did not belong to Lust.

"I told you to be sure it was them!" Roy yelled before going up to the couple and politely apologizing for what happened.

They seemed happy just to get out of the military's way, and then the soldiers began rapidly apologizing once again for having the wrong people. The only thing they didn't notice, was the couple they were looking for, was watching them from above.

"So foolish… It's no wonder we can so easily elude them considering they can't even tell us apart from ordinary humans." Lust began to walk back towards the roof of the department store and was sure to have Gluttony follow.

This time she wouldn't allow him to wander from her sight, and she made sure by promising that he could eat someone later.

> > >

"Here you go ladies, and have a nice day!" Envy smiled as the store owner and when they left quickly closed the curtains and turned the sign to closed.

He was annoyed at the women having to dig around for so long in their purses for spare change. Envy had never fully understood why people have to give useless coins to buy something. As he walked into the room, he saw the carnage on the table and smiled wickedly at his own doing.

He walked over to the body and shoved it off the table, but yelled when the butcher knife went straight threw his foot. "God damn piece of shit!"

Lust dodged the knife when Envy threw it, not knowing they would use that entrance. Gluttony was a little too short for it to matter to him, so he went straight to the bloody body and sniffed it eagerly.

"Can I eat it? Can I eat it?"

"No, we have to leave that for when the military shows up." Envy said as Lust bent down to inspect the body.

"This isn't our young friend, is it?" She wouldn't have doubted if he had gotten annoyed enough, he would've done this to Duo.

"No, I shoved him in the closet over there because he was about to blow my cover with the last customers I had to deal with." Envy pulled out Duo's body and threw him on the floor; feeling a slight ache for doing so.

He brushed away the feeling and remembered that he hated any human being. But for some reason, he felt weaker toward Duo and blamed it on their fight they had when Duo proved how strong he really was.

"Shall we let the military find this place and these remains? Or should we just leave?" Lust wondered as she noticed that Duo wasn't carved up, but he wasn't moving very much.

"They'll find it soon," Envy smirked, "I've already made the arrangement."

> > >

Edward and Alphonse had seen the whole wrong couple incident and had begun looking for Duo on their own. Knowing that there was a big chance that the soldiers could be entirely wrong about their assumption in finding the homunculi.

"Ed, over here!" Alphonse called into an alley and found some women screaming and were surrounded by soldiers; including Roy.

"What's going on?" Ed pushed his way next to Roy who was trying to get answers out of the young women.

"The man in that department store sold us human meat! I didn't realize when he said he had a special type, he meant this!" She threw the package against the wall of the alley and everyone watched the contents spill out. The thing that stood out the most was an eyeball that had been purposefully hidden in the meat so they wouldn't notice when they purchased the meat.

This whole episode began reminding him very much about what happened with Barry the Chopper. He just brushed away the memory and focused on the label that pointed them to a store only a block away from where they were.

Ed and Al read out the name and Roy made all of his soldiers come with him to make sure whoever had done this wasn't doing it to someone else. The three of them had a faint idea of who the culprits were in murder.

The two pulled Roy aside to talk to him privately while the soldiers began to infiltrate the small building. The three were still watching to make sure nothing came barreling out and killing off more innocent people.

One of the men waved for Roy to come in and look. The place looked perfectly normal when you walked in, but in the back room you could see blood all over the table. Ed stopped a few feet away fearing that bloody mess might be Duo.

Roy knelt down and looked the body over and assured Edward this was not Duo.

"The body doesn't have anything that makes it stand out like Duo would have, and plus this man was much bigger than Duo. Even with so much of him missing and spread out," Roy looked around the room at how blood was purposefully splattered across the walls, "it still clear it isn't him."

Al saw his brother relax, but could tell that he still feared for Duo. Looking at what the homunculi did to this poor man, who wouldn't be?

I realize a couple of people might've thought Duo was the one Envy was carving up, but I think it was just a misunderstanding. Anyways, I promise that one of the best homunculi will be appearing soon... Greed!

I'd also like to say thanks to all of my faithful readers! Sorry that I didn't update for a long time between some of the chapters, but for a while it seemed like nobody wanted to read them and I had writer's block on the arc.

Thanks! R&R please!