鋼の錬金術師 (FullMetal Alchemist)
Chapter 5 The Battle Within
The whole place started shaking. The font was floating in a sea of what seemed to be blood. Ed and Al had to examinate th circles and the symbols, in order to change whatever was necessary, in order to escape from inside Gluttony.
Greed tried to fight Envy. He only sent him away flying with his tail, and attacked Gluttony.
The three heads started chasing him, but he dodged them, curling and moving. Gluttony ran after him wildly, and Envy curled himself, and jumped on top of him. After this, he tied himself tightly to all of the heads, leaving Gluttony trapped.
"This'll give me about a minute to think what to do next". Envy said, compressing Gluttony's stomach.
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The stomach's walls were moving, as if a rope had tied them form the outside.
"Well, Envy seems to be doing good… Ready, Al?".
"Yeah… But this font won't be enough to empty Gluttony".
"What can we do?". Lust asked.
The blood started moving back and forth, curling in waves. Lust's feet got dirty, and she moved back, next to the Elric brothers.
"I doubt this is good". Lust said, growing her fingers into spears.
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"Granny Pynako… Please, you must go!". Winry yelled.
"Why would I leave you in such a dangerous place?". She answered.
"I must stay to help Ed with his auto mail!".
"Geez… I'm to old for this… I'm taking the train". She said, lowering her head. "I'll warn the military what's going on. Don't worry". She said.
After a while, Pynako took the train. Mei Yang, Hope, Winry and Ran Fan ran back to the palace.
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Gluttony bit Envy's neck, and started crawling, stomping all over Envy's snake body. He vomitted some blood, and shifted back to his regular body. He coughed some more blood up, and covered his mouth.
"This are big stains. I gotta be something else… Hmmm".
Gluttony turned around, and gave a punch to the floor where Envy was standing, creating a hughe crater.
Envy laid under Gluttony's gigantic hand, in the bottom of the crater, holding his arms and legs widely stretched, using all his strength to stop the big fist from smashing him.
"Ok, I know!". He shifted into the gigantic shape of Gluttony, who became confused. Envy smashed his now monstruous hand into Gluttony's head, breaking his jaws, and knocking him out.
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A stone floated in the air. Pieces of body started smashing themselves together, covering the stone, and forming one monster with red eyes.
"That's not good". Ed said, terrified.
"Is it an Homunculus?". Al asked.
"I doubt it, but lets not take things for granted". She jumped forward, and cut the monster in half. Both halves moved away, and developed extra limbs. The new beings were smaller, but where exactly the same.
"Ok, I'm scared". Ed said. Al clapped his hands, and touched the dragon statue. It started moving as if it were Envy, and dashed towards the monster, crashing them both in half.
The only problem was that they grew again.
Ed grew a blade from his auto mail hand, and kept cutting pieces of the monsters. Lust and the dragon statue did the same thing. For every piece they cut, another being was formed.
Soon, there where thousands of little beings crawling up their bodies.
"Take them off me!". Al shouted. The dragon went back to it's circle position.
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Envy shifted back to his pale body again, and looked for Greed.
"That son of a bitch ran away!". He said, looking around.
He saw Xiao Mei running past him, and went after him.
"Hey, Xiao, don't go near the big bad mons- ". Gluttony rose from his fainting, and looked at Envy.
"-ter". He barely had time to dodge the head that tried to eat him. He rolled underneath Gluttony, and grabbed Xiao Mei.
"Ok, Xiao… Let's make him swallow a lot of air, and then go into his mouth, touch his uvula, and make him burp, or vomit, whatever happens first".
Envy hanged Xiao Mei on top of his head, and turned into a giant white bird. He flew up, dodging Gluttony. He tried to catch the bird, which went upwards very fast, so he jumped to one of the towers, and started crawling up it.
He jumped very high, near the bird, which winged heavily, filling his stomach with air.
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A great wind blew inside the monster, almost blowing Ed and Al away. All of the tiny little beings crashed into the font, and started gathering again.
"Ok… That thing… Only one stone is it's core. Let's destroy it".
"Ready!". Lust said, aiming her hands at the monster.
Ed and Al grew a big hand that tossed Lust to the monster. She pierced it's chest, in a bloodbath, and got hold of the stone.
The corpses started falling to the floor.
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Xiao Mei jumped off Envy's head, and fell through the air as fast as he could. Gluttony was still falling, with his mouth widely open, and he had to reach him.
As soon as he was close enough, another blow of wings by Envy pushed him in, and he got a grip in Gluttony's uvula.
Xiao tried hitting it, and rubbing himself to hit, so he ended up bitting it.
Gluttony roared, spitting the little panda out, just in time for a smaller bird to catch him.
Gluttony reached the floor with a loud bang, and his neck started shaking and curling.
The font, Ed, Al and Lust, came out, accompanied by a giant burp that blew them off.
Greed appeared on top of Gluttony's gigantic head, and pierced a spear through it.
"This'll keep you calm".
Lots of servants came out as if from no where, and Glutony was soon trapped.
"Take him in, and start assembling the Army".
As thousands of more servants came out of thin air, and dragged Gluttony to the Symbol's Room.
"Pretty fine show you displayed here, fellas". Greed said.
"Oh, Greed. You are full of yourself".
"You know that, huh, Envy?".
Yeng came walking, with a little red stone in his hand. His sight had changed. He looked a lot like…
"You are dangerously simmilar to Kimbley". Al said to Yeng.
"He's a lot like the damn bastard, too". Greed said.
Using the stone, the floor where Envy, Ed, Lust and Al were standing was sent off flying.
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Winry, Ran, Mei Yang and Hope ran to the palace.
"Wait!". Hope shouted.
"What is it?". Ran Fan asked.
"It's over… They're coming here".
"Who?". Winry asked.
Something very heavy fell near them, creating a cloud of dust. After it was blown away, Ed and Al coughed, and stood up heavily. Winry ran towards Ed and kissed him, crying.
"I thought you were dead! I was so worried…". She said.
"Winry…". Ed hugged her softly, with his auto mail hand broken by the fight and the fall. "Sorry to have you worried… I'm sorry". He kissed her, and hugged her strongly.
"So… Ling…". Ran Fan said, tearing.
Everyone lowered their heads, but Envy. He looked at the palace, worried.
"He said he was assembling an army".
"What?". Hope shouted.
"He's probably going to start a war against Amestris. Now that the military left the power, and the army has weakened, a power like Xing's won't be easily stopped. After all, that's Greed itself". He said, darkly.
"Well… We need to stop him. He's got Gluttony. We must do something to bring Ling back". Ed said.
"We also have to release father. We don't know what they might do to him". Al said.
Xiao Mei landed on Ed's head, and bounced off to Mei Yang's lap.
"Xiao! You're alright!". She yelled.
"THAT DAMN TEDDY BEAR!". Ed shouted.
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Xiao Mei started performing some kind of play. He moved here and there, showing his teeth as if he were Greed, and using his fur to represent the Emperor's mustache.
"What's he doing?". Winry asked.
"He want's to tell us something". Mei Yang answered.
"Is there a way for you to understand him?". Hope asked.
"Yeah… I can use Rentajutsu to join our memories, and I can see what he remembers". She draw a little circle on the dirt, and made Xiao stand in the middle of it. She claped her hands, and touched the little bear's head. The circle shined, and after some seconds it stopped.
Mei Yang's look changed. She looked rather sad and worried.
"It looks like Yeng betrayed us, and killed my father. Ling has become a monster, and now he is rightfully the Emperor".
"Classical Greed". Lust said.
"Well… Granny Pynako is going to Amestris. She's gonna worn the military of what's going on".
"There's few we can do now". Al said.
"On the contrary, brother". Ed said. "If there's a powerful enough alchemist alive to take over Greed and Yeng at the same time, that's Hohenheim. We must rescue him, and we will be able to keep peace between Xing and Amestris".
"How come he was paralyzed and didn't help us fight Gluttony?". Al asked.
"Yeng stabbed him in the neck. That must have cut his nerv system, and he couldn't move anymore". Hope answered.
"Mei Yang… You do have some power as a princess, right?". Ed asked.
"Uh… Yeah, I guess…".
"Could you find someone to storm into the palace without being noticed?".
"I know someone… My master in this world, apparently. He served as a ninja, a spy and a murder for the Yao family. He knows the palace better than anyone. He can help us in". Ran Fan said.
"Take us to him. Winry, get ready to repair my auto mail". She nodded, and they walked away from the place.
A loud roar let them know that Gluttony had just awoken.