Ok. First of all, this story isn't mine. Not yet at least...My friend wrote this, but according to her, she doesn't feel like finishing it, and therefore doesn't care...so I'll post what she has before continuing it. Fun!
Discliamer: Neither of us owns FMA.
"So this is Wrath?" said Greed skeptically, he actually raised an eyebrow at the sight of her. "Doesn't look very intimidating…" muttered Lust, appraising the girl.
Envy remained silent, he was thinking the same thought as Greed, but the sight of the newest addition to their family unnerved him. It looked exactly the same as the blonde girl he and the others had chased around the entire country. Well, she wasn't an ordinary blonde girl. She was a Nationally Certified Alchemist, by the name of Rena….Rena something. He had never bothered to learn her last name. Anyway, he mainly called her Shirou-chan when they had captured her. He had enjoyed seeing her get mad at him for calling her by the stupid nickname. "Why are her eyes different?" asked Envy finally, staring at the girl. Unlike the rest of them, she still retained her original eye colour of gold, although her eyes were dulled. Normally, upon consuming Red stone, a Homunculus' eyes turned purple and the pupils became slits.
Father looked mildly surprised by his observation.
"As I created her using the original body, she isn't a Homunculus like the rest of you. She is, slightly different."
"Okkaaaay…"said Greed, "So what is that difference, old man?"
Father sniffed disapprovingly at the name Greed called him, but didn't immediately reprimand him.
"Wrath here, can use alchemy. Very useful as you will soon see," he said putting an arm on the new Homunculus' shoulder.
"So the array is to control what she can do?" said Lust.
From the neck down, in blood red, on all visible skin, the girl had an exceptionally complex alchemy array written into her. Her right arm was exceptionally heavily marked. "Partially. I've actually put onto her, the very own alchemy array she herself created," said Father proudly.
"So you're saying you mooched off the brat's research," grinned Greed.
Father glared at the middle-aged Homunculus. Greed was of all of them, the most insolent and insulting towards Father.
"That's NOT the point," he growled.
Envy snickered. Father was SO losing it. Lust sighed and actually walked away. Gluttony had left an hour ago to go eat and Sloth was sleeping.
"Well…anyway…Envy, you are going to be paired up with Wrath."
"WHAT!"
"You're the oldest, she's the youngest. It balances out."
"Not to mention the fact she has the same outfit as you do…"snickered Greed.
"Is there something wrong with what I wear?" growled Envy dangerously. Wrath did wear the same outfit he did, just that it was a bit longer. He wore a tight black sleeveless shirt that started at the neck, and ended just below the rib cage, black shin protectors, tight black gloves, and a tight black skort. The short part of the skort was tight. The skirt bit wasn't. On him, it didn't even reach his knees, on Wrath, it did.
"Your job Envy, will be to train her, teach her, and in some cases, possibly protect her. She's Your little sister now," smiled Father.
Lust breathed a sigh of relief.
"Finally, someone else those two get to pick on…"
"What was THAT!"
YAWN…Sasuke stared at his clock as he woke up. DAMN, he'd be late again. Then the date hit him. How long had it been without her? Two weeks? Felt more like two years. His little sister Rena, or Shirou-chan as he sometimes called her, had gone missing. Disappearing from a completely impenetrable military building, where she worked as a State Alchemist; well secretary was more like it, but she had the qualifications. Sasuke ate hurriedly. If he was late, he'd be getting hell from the General. He could almost hear the old man's voice, shrieking at him.
'MAJOR! WHAT THE HELL! YOU'RE LATE! Why can't you be more like Colonel Mustang? He's Always on time!'
Sasuke growled as he ran out the door of his apartment. Damn Mustang, the goody two shoes. He was always just ahead of him by just barely. He was 1 year older, 2 ranks higher, 1 inch taller, 1 tiny bit more popular and in every test, beat him by .1. It drove Sasuke mad. How was it possible to beat 100 on a test when there were no bonus marks! God Damn it, he thought as he rushed to towards the office buildings of the military.
Grumbling to himself, Sasuke sorted through the mail. It used to be Rena's job, although she was overqualified to do this kind of work. She had been firmly convinced that it was because she was Eastern and blonde that she had been given such a dumb job. She had hated dumb blonde jokes, and most people got hurt if they made one. Being undercover REALLY sucked. Sasuke himself was a Nationally Certified Alchemist, and was currently stationed in Eastern Headquarters to supervise the doings of the General. He hated this job, he hoped something would happen so that he could quit the charade, and beat Mustang to a pulp. Much to his surprise, part of his wish came true within two seconds of his thinking it. An explosion rocked the building. Shocked, Sasuke jumped up immediately, and ran over to a window to see what was going on. Thick smoke was coming from the direction of the secondary office buildings. A flash of yellow light came from that direction as well. Sasuke squinted at them. "Alchemy?" he murmured, observing the light. He was pretty sure he could see the electrical sparks of energy that accompanied a transmutation.
"Major! Remain where you are!" shouted Mustang running past him. Would it KILL the man to learn his last name? Was Kusanagi REALLY that hard to pronounce? Sure it looked intimidating on a sheet of paper, but it wasn't that bad…was it? Glaring at the man, he waited for all the soldiers to pass by. Then glancing around, Sasuke climbed out the window. If an alchemist was involved in whatever the hell was going on, those men wouldn't stand a chance.
It was so, unbelievably hard to get anything done right with Wrath. You had to specify every little damn thing with her, you also couldn't leave her alone for more than a second, without something horrible happening. It was hard to believe that she had been a genius. This entire mission's point was to do it quietly. Greed and Envy had been going over the finer details, when Wrath blew up the building with her destruction array marked right arm.
"No you IDIOT!" yelled Envy, slapping the girl's face, "You weren't supposed to blow it up!"
Wrath stared at him with her lost, blank golden eyes.
"Oh…"
She clapped her hands together and touched the ruins. In a flash of yellow light and crackle of electricity, the building rebuilt itself.
"I didn't say to put it back together, you moron!"
Wrath blew it up again.
"NO!"
It went back together.
"G..GO STAND OVER THERE!" he yelled at her.
She did as she was told.
Greed sighed.
"We should've left when she blew it up the first time."
"Urusai…"
"Picked it up quickly didn't you?" commented Greed.
"It's not that hard a language you baka…"
"I'm not dumb Envy, I understood that."
"That's not the point, I told you to shut up."
"I'm not going to."
"I said SHUT UP!"
"Why should I?"
"Because I'm older than you!"
"SO?"
The two Homunculi were glaring at each other so intently, they didn't notice the approach of a soldier.
"HEY! You two there! Stick'em up!"
The idiot human…he hadn't noticed Wrath.
"Boy, what a bummer, we've been spotted," grinned Envy maliciously. He couldn't wait to see that guy's guts all over the floor.
The man was smart, he got the idea that they were going to try and kill him; so he thought. Try was not what they were going to do; they were going to massacre him. The man fired point blank at Envy with a machine gun. Blood gushed out of Envy's mouth, as the green haired youth fell back.
"ENVY!" shouted Wrath, charging forward. The man opened fire on her. Greed smirked. On top of being able to use alchemy, Wrath also had another special ability that was unique to the Homunculi.
Each one had their own special ability:
Envy could shape shift, Lust could extend her nails into claws that could cut anything, Gluttony could eat anything and he ate everything mind you, Sloth…well she never did anything so who knew, Pride could see almost everything, even the flows of air and possibly through walls, but the jerk was so proud he never said anything about his abilities. Greed could turn his skin into an impenetrable armour, and Wrath…Wrath could move faster than anyone could possibly imagine.
The teenaged girl dodged through all the bullets and had grabbed the man's face with her right hand before he could blink. Greed winced in mock sympathy with the man. He was about to die a very, very messy death. The man's head exploded, blood gushing out of his ears, nose mouth and the back of his head. He was dead before he even hit the ground.
"Wrath…what the hell was that for?" asked Envy getting up, bullets popping out of his skin around him. Another trait of the Homunculi: They couldn't die.
It was thanks to the Red stone that this wonderful property existed. Even if they were stabbed straight through the heart, brain or any other vital place, they wouldn't die. They simply lost a life, out of the hundreds of thousands of millions that were contained inside a single Red stone. On top of having multiple lives, the Homunculi also had regenerating powers. If they were severed in half, for example, the larger half would re-grow the missing part of the body, including the clothes, quite convenient actually.
Quite suddenly, a large spike pushed itself out of the ground to impale Greed. He was only mildly shocked, to have been caught off guard, and was only slightly peeved that he had lost a life.
"Oh my God…it's a palm tree wearing a skirt…"muttered a male voice shocked staring at Envy. Greed couldn't help but snicker. 'Palm tree with a skirt' that's a good one…he thought. Through the corner of his eye he could see the alchemist who had killed him. A young man of about 18 years wearing a blue military uniform was kneeling on the ground, hands placed upon a transmutation circle drawn on dirt. The kid was skilled, to have drawn such an effective circle so quickly. Greed shattered the spike with his hands, and began to dust of the bits of rubble on his jacket and pants. He looked towards Envy. He really did look like a palm tree with his crazy long green hair!
"Hey palm tree!"
Envy glared at him.
"Let's go, we'll blow it up on the way."
Envy nodded slowly, he hated taking Greed's advice, even if it was good advice.
"Yeah, let's. Wrath!" he called over his shoulder.
Wrath came running from where she had been hidden in the shadows. The boy alchemist gave a gasp of shock as she ran by him.
"Blow it up," ordered Envy.
Wrath punched the building with her right arm and it exploded. The three Homunculi left, unconcernedly, walking.
All he could do was stare after them. It was impossible to get through that rubble, even with alchemy. His mind was blank fuzz. That…that couldn't have been her… That was just impossible. Impossible, Rena was missing. That couldn't be her. It looked nothing like her, he had been hallucinating, all he had seen was a girl of about her age and height, with a very, very similar hair colour. Yes that was it. He had seen who had looked very similar to her, but it wasn't her. WHO WAS HE KIDDING! THAT WAS HIS FREAKING LITTLE SISTER! But Rena didn't have an Uroborus tattoo on her left shoulder. She had spoken about it once, over dinner, while talking about her research into ancient legends. A winged serpent/dragon monster thing eating its own tail with a six pointed star symbolising alchemy in the middle of the circle. The Uroborus: a symbol of evil, and dark eternity according to the religious Western texts. Here in the East, the symbol represented eternity, time and immortality. Come to think of it, that mark was also on Palm tree and the other guy as well. Palm tree's leg and weird guy with sunglasses' hand. Interesting.
"What the hell were you doing there Major…Major!" asked Mustang sternly. Sasuke ignored him. Until he used his name, he was not going to answer, he decided stubbornly. Mustang should realize it soon, the implications of not using a person's name in the East. That guy was from Central, he wouldn't know of the importance of a person's name. "Major…K-…Major Kusana…Major Kusanagi…?" said the colonel after a few attempts. Sasuke looked up.
"Ah, I got it right! Well then, do you have an explanation Major?"
Sasuke pretended to seriously think about it and then said:
"No."
"What…?"
"NO, I do not have an explanation for why I was there, sir."
"Ah… so…Did you kill that man?"
"Wha-?"
"Did you or did you not kill that man?"
Sasuke looked surprised/
"You think I killed that man?"
"You were the only one found there! A magic circle was on the ground! The coroners report he died from alchemy! Reports of gold yellow sparks were heard from dozens of people!"
"Sir…no respect intended," started Sasuke, Mustang's eyes widened at that.
"But you know nothing of alchemy."
"Huh?"
"Alchemy requires a written equation within a TRANS-MU-TA-TION circle. For that man to die, a transmutation circle would have to be drawn on him or on whatever killed him."
"I presume you know something of alchemy?"
"I studied it before, in my childhood. What I told you is a principle component of alchemical practice."
"So what else is there to alchemy?"
"T-That would take some time to explain sir…I've been told that I could bore rocks to death with my explanations…"
"Don't worry, we've got plenty of time and I've heard boring people give speeches."
Alchemy : The mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art and science. However since it is a science, the laws of nature, physics and the world still apply. You cannot make something out of nothing. To obtain something, something of equal value must be given in return. This applies to every day life as well. In order to get somewhere in life, you must work. You sacrifice time and energy. Sometimes the sacrifice can even be on an emotional level. To kill, it takes a piece of you with it.
"Envy…" he glanced up at the use of his name.
"Hmmm…?"
"What is a question?"
Of all the... "You're ASKING one!" he exclaimed lying back down.
"But what is it?" If he wasn't annoyed, he'd be amused by the sight of a sixteen year old girl sitting as if she was only 5, asking such a dumb question.
"A question is what you're asking me right now."
"What…am I doing…right now?"
"THINK!" What did go on in that blonde head of hers?
"I…I don't know…Envy…what am I doing?"
"You're bugging the shit outta me!"
"Oh" Silence.
"So what is a question?"
"ARGH!"
"Envy…?"
"A question is a thing you ask when you want an answer! Idiot Shirou-chan!"
A slight frown crossed her face but was gone quickly.
"I'm sorry Envy…"
Envy sat up. No point in trying to sleep now. Wrath quickly occupied the space he had been lying down on and put her head in his lap. He stroked her soft pale blonde hair absentmindedly. Strangely he recalled Father's words: 'She's Your little sister now.'
Isn't it good? Yes? I'll post her next chapter sometime soon...
