鋼の錬金術師 (FullMetal Alchemist)
Chapter 10 The Deepest Desire.
Scar drove them to the fire station. He was about to leave them all there, but Ed stopped him.
"We need your help".
"What for?"
"All the Homunculi are here, and after us, as you have seen. We need every bit of help we can use to get rid of them".
"I'm only a servant to God".
"You were a servant for the Homunculi without knowing. You transmuted my Brother into the philosopher's stone, and I have already forgiven you. I believe you owe this to me".
"Fair trade…". Al interveined.
"Do you promise that you'll help me cross the door?".
"Of course".
"Okay… Everyone must be ready to fight… And I mean it. You all have to do your best. Your lives depend on it". Scar said to everyone.
"Lets transmute some weapons for those of you who don't use alchemy". Izumi said.
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The sun was raising. Envy woke up, and looked at the shore.
"Way to go, Sloth". He said.
Crime was waiting for them. Half of his legs were made of sand. Envy saw him, not sure if he was glad or worried about seeing him.
"What's wrong?".
"They have gone strong, Envy. They will oppose us, and it will be very hard for us to stop them".
"Oh, don't worry… According to my plan, all we need is for them to be with us at the right time. Fighting them is not necessary. And, besides… We have our whole family here now". He said pointing at Despair, Poverty and Hope.
"May I see the Ouroboros that prooves you are Homunculi?". Crime said. "You look a lot like the FullMetal kid to me".
"Our Ouroboros is unique. And that's because they left some bodies behind when they came here".
Poverty and Despair rose their left and right hand, respectively, showing their palms. There was half an Ouroboros in Poverty's hand, and the other half was in Despair's.
"We are the Twin Homunculi. Not only we share the Ouroboros, we are also the only ones that can use alchemy in a propper way". Despair said.
"And who's this Hope guy?".
"He doesn't talk much. His Ouroboros is here…". Envy said, lifting his shirt and showing Hope's belly button. The Ouroboros surrounded it. "He could be called the Birth Homunculus. I think it's not a coincidence he has the Ouroboros around his belly button. I'm not pretty sure what his power is. I think he can make people crazy by keeping silence. I'm quite closer to madness now than a couple of hours ago".
"Well, I'll transport us now. Where do we go?".
"Take us to the Enterprise's building. I think that my plan will conclude fine there. It's high above humanity, and it has some privacy to it". Envy answered.
o0o
Izumi, Al, Ed, Mei Yang, Armstrong and Mustang made weapons for everyone. Al gave Ran Fan some Kunais for her to use (the knife ninjas use to throw). Ed improved Ling's sword by making it stronger and lighter. He also hgave Winry a big hammer. She had to use both of her hands to lift it, but she had proven to be very skilled with blunt weapons. Izumi made a pair of big axes for Sieg. For Breda, Fuery, Falman, Havoc, Hawkeye and Armstrong's sister, they made a lot of guns and ammo.
"Ok… We're armed… Where do we go?". Breda asked.
"They'll probably be at Ling's company building. Lets start charging up the truck. I guess the best way to get it empty fast is to set off the fire alarm. Roy?". Ed said.
"I can crush the second floor into nothing".
"Just a little fire will do. We only need the censors to activate". Al said.
As they kept commenting on the plan, Ling, who was in the back, patted Ran's shoulder, and she turned around.
"What were you about to say?".
"Oh… Nothing… Never mind…".
"Aww… Come on, Ran".
"Let's go!". Izumi yelled.
They left the station, and headed towards the building.
o0o
"Kimbley! Come here!". Envy shouted.
Kimbley moved aside of the group, and crossed the office to talk to Envy.
"About the specifications on the circle… Is everything clear?".
"Yeah… That text over there is-".
"Shhh… Remember my plan. I will only need some of them. I think that we can let some of them live on".
"Which?".
"As you know, I have some specific witnesses that I want present, and some specific people I want to make suffer…":
"Envy, come on, who?".
Hope was sitting on the floor. He already knew what Envy was going to do. He didn't want to tell the other Homunculi, because it wasn't the right time. He had to wait for Edward to arrive. He had the memories of his tales engraved in his memory. He didn't want to help on his destruction. And he was ready to fight if it was necessary, but not in front of the Homunculi. He needed them to believe he was useless.
"Ok?". Envy said.
"So, it's them?".
"I have told you my reasons. I didn't tell you sooner because I know you. You would have betrayed me. You have a rotten little soul, Crimson".
The fire alarm started making it's awful sound, and the sprinklers on the roof set off.
"That must be them". Greed said. "How to we turn this shit off?".
Poverty clapped his hands, and the water dissappeared. He had turned it into gases.
"So, that's just the beginning of my powers?".
o0o
They all ran towards the elevator. Once it started going up, their hearts started pounding harder.
Roy was getting very worried. His mind started jumping, and he couldn't stop thinking. He was having ten thoughts at the same time. Suddenly, one of them made him relax, and chill.
"Hawkeye".
"Yes, sir".
"I've come to think, and I have chosen this exact moment, while we are dancing for the death, to tell you that I love you".
"I… Love you too, Roy". She moved next to him, and kissed him in the cheek. "If we survive, it'll get better". She said.
Everyone was surprised, but remembered their situation, and got ready to fight.
They walked into the office, where all the Homunculi were waiting.
"Welcome, FullMetal pipsqueak". Envy said with a wide smile.
Ed lowered his head, clapped his hands, and transmuted his arm into a blade.
"I can't believe you don't learn…". He said, starting to walk towards Envy. He walked faster by every passing second, and then he was running.
"WHO DID YOU CALL AN INCREDIBLY SMALL MISTAKE OF NATURE THAT CAN EVEN LIVE IN A DOLL HOUSE!".
Envy started running at him.
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID!".
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Envy jumped above Ed's head, and Lust appeared in front of him. He dodged her spikes, and pierced her chest, where the heart should be.
Scar jumped and grabbed Envy's head. He smashed it, and left him laying on the ground. Envy stood up to get his right arm chopped by Ling's blade.
"Mother fu-!". Al transmuted the floor underneath him into a fist, and smashed him against the ceiling.
Lust stopped fighting when she found Scar. He also stopped. They both turned around, and fought other people. Scar wasn't sure of the feelings he had for this woman, but he was sure he loved Rose. He wanted to go back, and it didn't matter what happened to him here.
Lust stopped fighting. She didn't want to kill anymore. She remembered her feelings. She remembered her last day. Her last breath. Her last opportunity to be a human. She had been betrayed by Dante. She sat down, and looked at the battle, hoping for the best, for Envy and Gluttony, her real brothers, the ones who were with here all the time, and for Scar… The man she loved.
Armstrong was having some problems with Greed. He couldn't break him, and he had already received some hard fists.
"You can change his density with alchemy. He is made of carbon!". Ed shouted when he passed by, persecuting Sorrow.
"Oh, fucking FullMetal pips-". Armstrong laid his hand on Greed's head.
"He doesn't like to be called that".
Greed's skin got broken, and then Armstrong punched him with all his might. At least for a couple of minutes, Greed was out of combat.
Sloth was giving Roy a lot of trouble. He had to dodge her mass, and it had proven to be hard. His flame alchemy was useless.
Mei Yang transmuted Sloth into ice, and she was left out of combat too.
Wrath was fighting Gluttony. He cut off Gluttony's arm with his teeth, and took part of the stone that was dripped. His arm grew again, but Wrath had eaten the stone.
"You had bad luck the last time I did this".
Gluttony just let his tongue hanging, and tried to eat him, but Wrath smashed his head into his body, and then tied his arms with his tongue.
"Now get rid of that". Wrath said with his newly acquired assasin smile.
Gluttony started rolling around, trying to untie himself.
Izumi walked right up to disease. She only fought him for a while, and then joint him to the floor. Since all he could do was get people ill, and his fingers were unnabled to be snapped, he was screwed.
"I hate my stupid powers".
Ed and Al found themselves. Poverty and Despair were looking at them, and transmuted the floor under them into a hole. They jumped back in the right moment, and rolled in the carpet.
"I have a plan". Ed said.
He ran towards Despair, and transmuted his clothes into some exactly as Al's. Then turned to Poverty and did the same thing with him and his own clothes.
Al came running, and started switching places. After a while turning around, they were completely lost. Al saw Poverty's half Ouroboros, at the same time Ed saw Despair's. They transmuted the floor under their former bodies into a lot of spikes, and the Twin Homunculi were done with for the time being.
Ling, Ran Fan and Mei Yang faced Sorrow. It was very hard to get him, and while Mei tried to trap him into glass bubbles she transmuted of the floor, Ran and Ling tried to hit him.
"I think it's not the best time to say it, Ling-".
"Neither do I". Ling said, cutting in. He moved towards her and kissed her on the lips.
They splitted just in time for Ran to pierce Sorrow's forehead with a kunai. He was paralized, since his Ouroboros was cut. Mei transmuted the floor around him into a metallic box hermetically sealed.
Roy and Ed started fighting Pride. He moved backwards, blocking all of their attacks with his saber. When Roy created a flame, he moved the sword so fast that the wind created made it dissappear.
He kept walking backwards until he was pierced in the head by Ling's blade. His eye, and therefore, his Ouroboros, were destroyed.
The last one was Crime. While Ed and Al chased after Envy, they all started fighting the giant Homunculus at once.
Only Riza could stop him, by sliding on the floor under him, and shooting his tattoo under his chin. He fell back heavily, breaking the floor.
Envy fought the Elric brothers alone.
They were chasing after him, and couldn't stop. Ran Fan took advantage of his distraction, and tossed a kunai to his right leg. She hit the tattoo, and Envy was immobilized. Ed pierced his chest through the center, dividing the stone that was the core. Envy became paler than usual.
"Now you can't do a thing".
"It's not… Always… About you… Ed…". Envy said.
"Do it, Kimbley!". He yelled.
o0o
Kimbley appeared from underneath the desk, and clapped his hands. A circle shined on the floor.
All of the fallen Homunculi started floating. They were turning around the circle, one by one. Lust was rose from her spot, and joined the circle too. Envy and Kimbley walked to the center of the circle, and started talking on what to do next.
Envy walked up to Gluttony and Lust.
"You can go… I really think of you as my brothers". They both stopped floating, an walked away of the circle.
Envy walked around, and stopped at Hope.
"I don't see a reason to kill you". Hope ceased to float, and walked up to a surprised Ed.
Envy kept walking around, and stopped again at Greed.
"Greedy one… My brother… Haven't you wondered why I woke you first?".
"What are you doing, rotten hair?". Envy punched him, and a serious deal of blood dripped from his mouth.
"I woke you first to make you feel a part of my plan, as if I cared about you… But no… I woke you first, so to make you a protagonist, and then tell you the truth".
"I curse you, asshole".
"I woke you first, and most of you, brothers…". He said, turning around, and talking to everyone. "…To get rid of a little annoyance… To pay the price to bring Hohenheim, the real Hohenheim back. And kill him, in front of his beloved kids eyes. I just wan to fullfill my heart's deepest desire".
He turned around, and smiled at Greed.
"And as a little bonus, see Greed die in all his regret and pain, for helping me fullfill my dream, seeing how much we hate each other".
"You son of a bitch! You used me as a puppet!".
"I didn't use you. You offered yourself very kindly to help me. You should have known better, that you don't mess around with The Ancient Homunculus. The ShapeShifter. Envy". He said, as he transformed into the big snake.
"I'm completing my desire and I'm killing you in the process".
Greed's face contorted in anger. His body started dripping philosopher's stone as if he were bleeding. He didn't stop cursinf the snake, which started laughing. Once again, it became Envy, and walked away from greed.
"Now… Anyone else?". He said, walking around. "Sloth… I can't stand you… Wrath… Yeah, you can go, you are nothing to worry about". Wrath laid his feet on the ground and ran to Izumi, who hugged him, scared.
"Pride… Ashhole…Crime…Useless…Poverty…Pipsqueak…". Ed started cursing him too. "Despair… Don't want you… Sorrow… So sad… Disease… You make me sick". He ended up saying. Kimbley and him laughed at the joke.
Envy walked to the center of the circle, and looked at all his brothers one last time.
"You have been sooooo kind". He smirked.
Kimbley laid his hands on the floor, and the circle shined. All of the Homunculi shined, only they were red. Their veins could be seen, with the stowing flowing in them. Their chests were specially shiny, and they all started shaking, as if they were trying to set themselves free of some chains.
Finally, the Homunculi just became a mass of red stone above Envy. He looked up at it, and started laughing evily. From his mouth, emmanated some sort of fog. It was light blue, and it was being absrobed by the stone. A piece of th stone was detached, and floated slowly to the ground, taking the shape of a man.
It got taller every passing second, until it was a bit taller than Envy.
Hohenheim, the creator of the first philosopher's stone, was in front of them.
o0o
The circle ceased to shine. Envy was laying on the floor, agitated. He stood up heavily, and looked at Hohenheim. He also turned around, and looked at his son.
"I have you finally here, bastard".
"Envy… You have been only wishing to kill me since you were born".
Envy moved towards him, and put his hands on his coat. He tried to lift him, but was unable to.
"I was never born… I was killed and resurrected, but you never loved me… You just kept on concentrating on yourself, more by every passing second".
"So… That's it… I have been an idiot…".
"Shut up! You don't have the right to talk to me like this!".
"You only wanted attention… You only wanted to be loved by your parents… Envy…".
"I told you to SHUT UP!". Envy yelled. His eyes were tearing. "You never cared for me, and Mother only cared for you loving her! You only loved yourselves! I died because of you, and even when I was revived, I meant nothing to you! I was just a failed experiment… Your lives mistake…".
"You are envious of the wrong person… I didn't pay much attention to my other family either…".
Envy kept crying.
"That was my mistake, Envy…I left you all alone… Even when I gave myself time to love and care for someone, I ended up worrying more about myself… In my selfishness… I kept on living even after you destroyed me…".
"Not this time, old man…". Envy said, shaking softly. "You are not loving anymore… I'm going to kill you, and this time you cant stop me!". He moved away from Hohenheim, grew his arm into a spike, and tried to attack him.
Hohenheim didn't move. He justed looked at Envy, who's tears were falling to the floor. A giant hand grew from the floor, and grabbed him.
"Now, Envy… You never faced me in a battle before. The one time we met, I was wounded, tied up, and you were a gigantic snake… I was in my whole dissadvantage".
His eyes were covered in shadows. He was very angry at Envy, for having made suffer Ed and Al.
"I will punish you for misstreating your younger brothers, Envy… You shouldn't do that… You are family".
"I HAVE NO ONE!". Envy said, transforming into the snake.
He tried to bite Hohenheim, but he just stood there. Envy opened his mouth widely, but a crystal suit of armor grew from the floor, and hold Envy's mouth open. Hohenheim jumped inside, and touched Envy's tongue. He immediately shifted back to his pale body.
"I… Have… No one…".
"You do…". Gluttony said, coming close to him.
o0o
Envy looked at Gluttony, amazed of what he was hearing.
"Shut up, idiot!".
"We had fun… We killed… You killed… I ate…I thanked you…It was fun". Gluttony said, tearing a bit.
"Envy, you were always our little brother". Lust said. "Always out of control, always in the need for help… An we always helped you…".
"Envy…". Al said, coming close to the Homunculus. "You were our friend for the past days. You were our brother… Remy…".
"Shut up… I hate that name". Envy said, smiling a bit.
"Envy… Homunculi are artifficial humans, but are humans after all" Ed said. "We shared our lives, and you shared yourself… You didn't need to kill Hohenheim… You were only you, with no need of anyone else".
"This is it, Envy… Think of it… You didn't need to kill father to be happy". Al said. "We are brothers".
"We are…". Gluttony said.
"I can be happy… I just… I needed revenge".
"Come on, Envy… You bit him in half! What more revenge than that do you need?". Ed said.
Hohenheim lowered his head. "It hurt a lot, you ungrateful son".
Envy smiled sincerely for the first time.
"I even dare say it was tasty!".
o0o
Ed was drawing a circle in his head and in his chest. He made the same circles for Al, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Wrath and Scar.
"This circles will split us. Half of our souls from Amestris (I'm only using it as a reference, Scar) will remain here, and half of the souls of the rightful owners in this universe will come with us. We will be split in half, and probably dream our lives in each side of the door".
"So… you are leaving, Ed?". Winry said, sad.
"Well… Sort of… I will remain here in a way… I'll never stop loving you". He kissed her.
"Ed…". Ling called him. "Can't you make a circle that gives us half of our souls of the 'us' in your world, and half of the souls of 'us' in your world?".
"Uh… Technically speaking, I'm only transfering some parts of the mind… I could trade the minds of the 'you' in my universe".
"Do so, please… I want you to promise me that you'll find me in your own universe. I'll be sort of lost without you around".
"Well… I don't know… Maybe…".
He draw the circles on them. Everyone was going to share something to those on the other side of the door. At last, Wrath and Izumi, sitting together, were ready to transmute Izumi's liver.
"Oh, no… With such a big stone, I don't need your arm, Wrath". Ed said, pointing at the stone that was created by Kimbley.
"Where's Kimbley?". Mustang asked.
"He must have run away…". Envy said.
"Never mind, I'll chase him later".
Ed used the stone and gave Izumi a new liver.
"Hey, Ed… Can you use the stone in Liesenburgh to give mother her organs?".
"Of course, Wrath".
At last, before taking them all to the door, and turn it around, Ed walked up to Hope.
o0o
"Hi, Alphonse".
"So long, Ed. It's been so long".
"Thank you for the rocket… It helped me to solve some issues…".
"I don't know what to do… I think I have no reason to stay here or to go with you… You already have a lot of brothers".
"Well, Wrath is my little brother. So is Al… The others are older than me. Lust, Gluttony and Envy… And you. You helped me when I needed it. You guided me, and we lived a lot together. We are brothers. Alphonse".
"Ok, ok, I'm going to go see your world… But don't leave a trace of me here, please".
"As you wish". Ed said smiling.
Ed, Al, Hohenheim and Izumi clapped their hands. The were surronuding the philosopher's stone. A great circle was formed, much more complex than any other Ed had ever seen. The door appeared, and they went through.
While they were floating in the tornado of alchemy, Hohenheim talked to Ed.
"You did remember to pay for the new bodies that need to be created?".
"I'm the first alchemist to ever achieve a succesful human transmutation, dad. Respect me!".
The green hills of Liesenburgh appeared in front of them.
o0o
Winry was asleep. She had fallen asleep without wanting to do so. Wrath was still in the bed. He opened his eyes, amazed and glad to be back. Winry woke up at the same time, and looked at him. She had all of her memories and some new ones of having kissed Ed being drunk. She didn't know how… But she knew Ed and herself were already together.
Wrath jumped off the bed and looked through the window. Not being able to hold himself, he jumped, and ran towards the ruins of the Elric's house. Winry joined him when they arrived at the ruins.
They were all, lying there, on the floor.
Ed stood up, and when he saw Winry, he immediately kissed her. She wasn't surprised by this.
"I love you, Ed". She said, out of no where.
Wrath was hugging Izumi, who was already cured. Hohenheim hugged his three sons, and then looked at the ruins of his old house.
"I will build it again".
"Will you transmute it?". Scar asked.
"The result of my effort to build it will turn it into my home, not my house".
The Homunculi were glad to be back in their home world. For some reason, she wasn't in love with Scar any more. At least not in this world.
"Ed… Your hand is auto mail!".
"If it wasn't for this metal limbs, I wouldn't really be me. I'ts part of my punishment for having done what I wasn't ready to do. Now that I have done it, I just got used to having them. And, besides… It gives me a reason to return to you". He said, kissing Winry again.
o0o
Izumi arrived at Dublith later that week. Seig was expecting her. He had some weird memories of some building and a fight against the Homunculi. He received a smiling Wrath as if he were his son. It was perfect for Izumi, and so was for him.
o0o
Roy Mustang woke up with some strange memories. Riza also had simmilar memories, but it didn't matter. They were together.
When they arrived at the military office, everyone had the same memories. It had happened, and they knew it. It was like a shared dream. Only Hayate didn't understand what was going on. But he only barked.
o0o
Scar traveled to find his son. As soon as he arrived at Lior, Rose came up to him and kissed him. He was very glad to meet his son, and for the first time, smiled.
o0o
On the other side of the door, the life had gone back to normal. Envy had gone back to being himself. Some of the teachers had been fired. Kimbley wasn't caught, since he was harmless, now that the door had turned again.
Ed and Winry's relationship kept moving forward. Ran and Ling got closer by every passing day. Roy Mustang had been promoted to head of the fire department.
Izumi was considered to be a medical miracle. She never told her facts of the story. Wrath was happier every day, and he felt better at school. He didn't fight any more. No one wanted to hate him any more.
Lust and Scar started dating. Ed had left all the love she felt for him in this world, and had left all of Scar's love for Rose in the Ishbalan.
They all lived on.
o0o
"Where are we going now, brother?". Al asked.
"Well, I'm thinking to go on a family journey to Xing. All our brothers invited. I promised Ling that I would find him".
"A promise is a promise". Hohenheim said.
Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Hohenheim, Hope, Ed, Al, Winry and Pinako were inside the wagon.
Roy, Alex and Riza had came to say good bye.
The wagon started moving.
The last ones to wave were Ed and Al, very happy to be back in their home world, where everything seemed to be comlete.
"Don't kill anyone!".
"Screw you, Mustang!".
o0o
After sleeping for a couple of hours, Ed woke up to go to the bathroom. All of a sudden, the train stopped. In the megaphones attached to the wall, the voice of an old man started claiming for all the money.
Ed woke Al up, and made him climb by the side of the train. Once they were on the roof, Winry took her head out of the window.
"I know it's easy for you, but be careful!".
"Winry… Come on!". Al said.
"I have told you before!".
They kept walking.
A bunch of men climbed to the roof of the next wagon, heavily armed.
"Stay back unless you wish to get killed, pipsqueak!".
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING AN ICREDIBLY SMALL GERM THAT CAN'T BE SEEN WITH A MICROSCOPE?".
"WE DIDN'T SAY THAT!".
"Who are you, anyway?".
Ed clapped his hands and transmuted his auto mail into a blade.
"I am the FullMetal Alchemist!".
鋼の錬金術師/FullMetal Alchemist/Hagaren Renkinjutsushi
First of all, I wanna thank GreedyGreed and Kanashii.Umi. They both helped me a little bit. It was Kanashii.Umi's idea to get Kimbley in (I did what I wanted with him) I hope you enjoyed this Fic. I felt that conqueror of Shambala was absolutely inconclusive. Nobody ended up in love with anyone (although that must have been decission of Arakawa-sensei -kneels-). I wish that you feel this is a completion to the story. I only hope it levels to what Arakawa does. As long as you liked it, I'm happy. I had a lot of fun creating this story, and I feel that the final twist I gave to Envy's plan was very good. Kanashii was right. Envy had died in Conqueror in an embarrassing way, as did Hohenheim.
I added my favourite characters from the Manga, and Invented some. I wanted some more Homunculi, and I hope you liked the ones I made up. Please, review and tell all your friends to read this fic. I'm very enthusiastic about it.
Sincerely not yours, Mine:
Leandro.