鋼の錬金術師 (FullMetal Alchemist)

Chapter 3 Deconstruction

Greed, in his new body, moved up to Envy. He punched him, but Envy grabbed his fist, and tossed him above his head.

Greed flew away, and landed on his feet.

"Hey… This body is way lighter than the other one!". He started shifting himself into his perfect shield state, and went towards Envy.

Envy shifted into the giant snake, and dragged his heavy body to Greed. He suddenly stopped, as if he had crashed against the wall.

Greed was holding his mouth open with his hands.

"I've been learning…". Greed said. He, surprisingly, lifted Envy by the fangs. The body of the snake curled, and flew off to the door, cracking it open. Yeng was looking at the fight, paralysed. He remembered the words of his master, and ran away.

Everyone but the emperor ran to the garden. Dust was rising from the forest, where Envy chased Greed.

"Come after me, you scaled son of a bitch!". Greed said, as he ran. Ling's body was very swift.

Envy couldn't move anymore, since many bamboo canes were piercing his body. He shifted back to his pale self. He was left hanging, with a cane piercing his stomach, in the middle of the clear his dragon body had created.

Greed walked up to him, and grabbed his hairs.

"I can finally get revenge of everything… This body is very useful, and powerful". Greed said, smiling. Envy vomited blood. His muscles were numb. His stone core was pierced, and the stone was cracked. His powers were diminished.

"Seems you're weakened, En…". Greed grabbed the cane, and turned it. Envy was left hanging, looking at the full moon.

Greed tossed the cane up, and Envy went away with it.

The cold air of the night was moving his hair backwards. Greed had really tossed the cane with strenght. Blood spilled from Envy's body, and the moon seemed bigger. He was about to faint.

Half his core stone was trapped inside the bamboo. He could barely stay awake. The cane left his body, covered in blood, still holding half the stone, and he started falling. The wound left by the bamboo closed much more slowly than it used to.

Envy tried to shape shift into some sort of winged being, but he wasn't able. Wings grew from his back, but it was too late. One was bat-like. The other one was crow-like. Both were black.

The floor crashed him. A lot of blood came out of his mouth, and other new wounds opened up. To make matters worse, he felt Greed's heavy pases walking up to him.

"Are you feeling weak, Envy? Are you? You deserve it! I have been fooled by you too much, and the third time is the last time! I will live forever now!".

Envy felt a hard kick twisting his head. The pain would have been unbearable, if he hadn't been used to it. What was hurt was his pride.

Greed, that useless whimp, had finally beaten him.

o0o

Ed came running. He clapped his hands, and touched Greed's shielded chest with both of them. The shield broke, and fresh muscle could be seen. Ed was about to pierce him, when Greed grabbed him from the neck, and lifted him. He also grabbed his auto mail, and crashed it.

"Hello for a third time, Full Metal shrimp".

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A-Ghhhhhh!".

"IN CASE YOU HADN'T NOTICED, I HAVE YOU BETWEEN MY HANDS, AND I COULD FINALLY GET REVENGE FOR HAVING KILLED ME BACK THEN!.. But… You wouldn't want to kill your dear friend, would you?". He said mockingly.

He changed back to Ling, and let go of Edward.

"What… What happened? Ed! You have to help me!". Ed was about to believe him, but he was already used for Envy to behave like that, so he knew it was a joke.

Envy came running, and tried to punch Greed, but the part of his face that Envy tried to hit had turned dark blue again.

Greed hit Envy with his knee, and then clashed him behind the head.

"HAHAHAHAHA! I'm so glad to be back!". Greed shouted.

"Are you?".

Hohenheim walked up to Ed, and helped him stand up. Greed's face completley changed.

"It can't be you…".

"Envy used you to revive me, and in the end, he couldn't kill me".

"Son of a-". A gigantic fist crashed Greed's head. He fell back heavily. Hohenheim was the only alchemist alive that didn't even have to clap his hands.

"It was expected that you would come up to fight". Yeng said, from behind Hohenheim.

He stabbed a knife in his neck from behind. This way, Hohenheim's nerv system was interrupted, and he fell to the floor. He couldn't move his muscles.

Greed rose from the floor, with his newly grown head.

"Oh, damn it. My plan was coming out well… Oh, Yeng! You did as I told you to".

"Yes, master".

"Good thing… Where's the Emperor?".

"In there". Yeng said, pointing at the dining room's gate. He lifted Hohenheim and took him away. Greed started fighting with Ed and Al, so he couldn't be stopped.

Lust grew her spiky fingers, and pierced Yeng's shoulder.

"Going anywhere? Eat him, Gluttony".

Gluttony jumped over Yeng, opening his mouth widely. Out of nowhere, a stone column grew from the ground, and entered Gluttony's mouth. The stone started filling him, and he started growing his size.

"This monster will became dangerous in the end…". Yeng said. A spike grew from underneath him, and pierced Lust. His shoulder got free, and he walked away.

Gluttony's bottomless stomach kept receiving more food, and his clothes ripped open. His giant belly grew, and three mouths seemed to come out of his back. They started growing as worms, and developed necks, that grew even more.

Greed stopped fighting, as did Ed and Al.

Hope was terrified. He hadn't seen this coming.

"He's raising… The beast is raising…". Al said, almost in a whisper.

"Winry, take Pynako and leave the palace!".

The column stopped growing, and a gigantic mass of flesh fell to the ground, with a loud smash. Gluttony rose his head, and smelled the place. He found Al's familiar smell, and ran after him.

He and Ed ran away, followed by a weakened Envy.

"We have to fight him!". Ed shouted.

"We can't kill him! We need to empty his stomach!". Al said.

"I need some stone, I only have half of it, and my powers are reduced!".

"Then we go back!". Al shouted.

He turned around, and rolled under the monster. It's three heads chased him, surrounding his arms, and Gluttony tripped. The main head was left in front of Ed and Envy.

"Uh…". Ed whined.

The monster roared, and shook his head trying to bite them. Envy caught his brother's arm, and tossed him over Gluttony's mouth. He landed on the nose, and the shining, furious red eyes stared at him.

"FIND A WAY TO GET INSIDE HIM!". Were the last words Ed heard. Gluttony finally covered Envy, and ate him together with tons of earth.

Ed ran through the sloppy and bouncy back of the monster, and dodged it's heads to meet his brother Alphonse. The monster stood up again, and turned against them. They ran towards the font.

o0o

Winry was escaping through the labrynth guided by Ran Fan. Mei Yang hold herself tightly to Winry's back, when she realized.

"Where's Xiao Mei?".

"We can't go back for him!". Pynako shouted.

"Don't worry, Mei. He'll probably be helping Ed and Al".

"I hope his alright".

o0o

As a matter of fact, the little bear was running after Yeng. The old man in his back had called him silently.

He ran into the dining room. The Emperor was sitting in his chair, fainted. Yeng left Hohenheim laying on the table, and pulled out the Emperor's sword out of his belt. He hid it within his robes.

In that moment, Greed came in, holding a little glowing rock in his hand.

"I found this within the cane I used to pierce Envy. It'll help my plan".

"Yes, sir".

Greed turned back to his flesh body, and looked at the man who was supposed to be his father.

"Ok, I'll shout, you kill him, he leaves the Empire to me, and that does it, ok?".

"Yes".

"Do it".

Yeng slapped the Emperor.

He woke up, and looked at Ling, who came running, shouting at Yeng. Yeng pulled out a sword from his robes, and killed the Emperor by cutting through his chest.

"…Ling… Kill this man, in order to claim the throne…". Those were the emperor's last words.

"Ok, that does it. I'm the Emperor. Help me take his body out, I gotta check on Gluttony". Greed said.

Xiao Mei hid under the table, too scared to come out. After what he had seen, he ran away, and hoped for the best. He had to run away from the palace and find Mei Yang.

o0o

Ed and Al finally reached the font. They jumped behind the dragon statue, and sat down.

"He can smell us, big brother".

"See the pictures drawn on the font? Deconstruction… We can make him eat it, and then transmute it from outside. With that, we can destruct everything inside him, sepparating it into little particles".

"Where's Envy?".

"Well… We have to be extra careful… Since Gluttony swallowed him".

Gluttony, surprisingly, hadn't attacked them. When Ed noticed this, he turned around to see what was going on.

Gluttony was focused on Lust. He seemed to remember something, for his regular face had returned. Lust jumped back just in time to dodge one of the other heads, that ate a piece of floor.

"Ok, that didn't work".

"Lust, cut that column, and toss it to Glut's mouth with us on top of it. Can you?".

"I wouldn't do it if I were you". Greed's voice shouted. His dark blue body was holding a larger mass within his hands.

"I'm the rightful emperor now, so, just die, will ya? Kill them, Gluttony". The beast reacted, and opened his mouth wider than ever. He ate the font with the whole dragon.

As they were passing through the throat, lots of little philosopher's stones fall on to of them. It was like rain. This stones started gathering in a little pond, and became Envy.

"Gee, I thought I was done for".

"Envy, jump out!".

"What?".

"You must jump out and fight Gluttony, until we find a way to hold him back and return him to normal". Ed shouted.

"What the-?". Lust picked him up, and tossed him upwards.

Envy barely hold himself from a teeth. The mouth was opening and closing, and the tongue was curling a lot like a snake.

Gluttony bit himself, and he started bleeding.

Only it wasn't blood.

Envy caught some of the stone that Gluttony dripped, and put it in an open wound. He felt his former powers come back, and jumped out of the mouth.

As he fell, he kicked Greed in the head, finally knocking him to the ground.

Greed stood up, and looked at Envy filled with rage.

"I was deceived by thinking I had finally killed you…".

"The one who is deceived is a fool".

Envy said, shaping into the giant snake to fight Gluttony.

o0o

The throat ket swallowing Ed, Al and Lust. The font was steady, until they started falling into what seemed to be a bottomless pit.

Finally, with a loud splash, they reached what seemed to be a lake.

"Gluttony's stomach is a methaphysical challenge". Lust said.

Many rocks were floating around in the liquid. Al was terrified when he saw a piece of body. It seemed to be a person's head.

"He must have ate him a while ago". Lust justified.

"Ok, lets calm down. As long as we have the font with its circle, we're safe. Lets start making some arrays, Al. It's gonna be hard to get rid of all of this".

The Elric brothers walked up to the dragon statue, and started studying the circles around it.