Bah! School has started and I got the evil Science teacher, but I may be able to switch out of her class! Yay! I also got this thing on my braces that makes my mouth hurt like hell. Bah. Well, time to reply to my reviewers!

To The Teenage Writer: I'd probably scream like a little girl if I saw that my reflection wasn't there, but then I'd be like 'Sweet!' Thanks for the review; you get a Havoc plushie and a Fury plushie-hands over plushies-

To crazyanimefreak15: I hope that 'O.O' was a good thing xD You get a Black Hayate Plushie –hands over plushie-

To Elric329: I'm glad that you think so. Here's a Roy Plushie –hands over plushie-

Wow, it's already Chapter 3.

Disclaimer: I do not own Full Metal Alchemist, so there!

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Crimson Sin

Chapter 3 – Blood Lust

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"Shit-shit-shit-shit!" Edward cursed as he paced around his room. He had changed in a dry pair of clothes and was currently thinking about what he had just seen. Someone didn't usually take a look in a mirror and find out that they no longer had a reflection. He didn't even want to think about what would happen if someone else found out. Maybe he should tell Al, but he decided not to worry his younger brother while he was taking a nice vacation out in Rizenbool.

A loud knock at the door snapped Edward out of his thoughts and cursing. "Yes?" he said as he opened the door to find 1st Lieutenant Hawkeye standing there.

"Edward, Roy would like to see you in his office," she said, trying to pretend that she hadn't heard Ed's string of curse words.

"Now?" Ed asked. God dammit, of all the times, Roy had to chose this one!

"Yes," Riza said simply and walked away, Edward following alongside her. They were soon standing in front of Roy's office. Ed reluctantly turned the brass doorknob and entered the room.

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Roy was sitting at his desk, admiring himself in a small pink pocket mirror that probably belonged to Hawkeye. "Ah! Fullmetal, perfect timing!" he said as he lowered the mirror to see Edward.

"What do you want now bastard Colonel," Edward said, clearly unhappy to be in the same room as Roy.

"Now now, Fullmetal, don't lose your temper just yet, however short it may be," the Colonel said, saying the 'short' in the sentence louder than the rest of the words.

"WHO YOU CALLING A BRINE SHRIMP EGG SO SMALL THAT YOU CAN'T SEE HIM WITH A MICROSCOPE!" a very pissed off Edward yelled, while Roy just put on a smug smile, obviously enjoying the torment he was putting the shrimp-boy through.

"I never said that Edward. It seems your attention span is as short as your height," Roy said as he examined his fingernails, preparing himself for another of Edward's angry rants.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING A ULTRA HYPER SUPER CHIBI SHRIMP!" Edward yelled again, making Roy's smug smile become even larger.

"Well, enough of that," Roy began as his face became serious, "It has been brought to my attention that you didn't return to the dorms last night and weren't seen till late this morning. My question is, what were you doing last night that was so important that you couldn't return to the dorms?"

"What do you think? I was out trying to get away from you as far as possible," Edward replied, which was true, but not the entire truth.

"So you stayed out for fifteen hours, just to stay away from me? You do realize that I do go homebefore eight o'clock," Roy said; it was obvious that he didn't believe Edward.

"Hey, you can never be sure. I've heard you snoring away in you office at ten o'clock and then I still hear you at ten o'clock the next morning," Ed said as he crossed his arms. Oh top that bastard Colonel!

"Er… Well, that's beside the point! I want to know what you were doing all of last night!" Roy said, slightly irritated.

"Fine, if you must know. I ran into something while I was walking down an alley and got knocked out. Happy now?" Edward said. Well, it was the truth.

Roy covered his mouth with one hand, trying to cover up his laughter. "And what the hell is so funny?" Edward asked. Roy could piss the Full Metal Alchemist off so much in so little time.

"Nothing," Roy said as he picked up the pocket mirror once more and turned around in his chair, motioning for Ed to leave. Ed then angrily stomped out of the room, cursing Roy under his breath.

A surprised look appeared on Roy's face when he saw the door opening in his mirror, but no Edward standing there. "What the?" he muttered and shook his head. The door slammed and Roy was left to think about what he had just seen. "Must've been a trick of the light," Roy said to himself and began to admire himself in the pink pocket mirror once more.

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Edward spent the rest of the day wandering about Central, completely bored out of his mind. He only returned to Headquarters for lunch, where he saw Havoc and Fury. Still remembering the incident that happened that morning, Ed tried to be as inconspicuous as possible. His height sure came in handy there.

It was now dinnertime again and Edward was feeling more alive then ever. He felt as if he had just eaten forty large packs of sugar and then a mountain of sugar cookies. The young alchemist made quick work of his dinner, which consisted of a large bowl of soup and a glass of milk. The milk remained forever untouched. No one knew why Edward hated milk, but he just did. Edward had finished dinner in about fifteen minutes and then started to wander about again.

Seconds turned into minutes, and minutes turned into hours. It was soon almost midnight and Ed was still full of energy, while everyone was fast asleep. He couldn't even believe that it was already that late since he could still see perfectly fine. Even though he wasn't tired, Edward went back to his room and tried to fall asleep.

Edward had been tossing and turning around in his bed for almost an hour before he finally fell into a deep sleep. A pained expression crossed his face as a dream began to play out in his mind.

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"Where am I?" Edward said to himself when he found himself sitting in the middle of a vast field. Poppies and other bright colored flowers covered the ground and the sun shone brightly above in the clear blue sky. A bird chirped off in the distance and Ed turned his head in the direction of the chirp. He saw a large old oak tree, a cloaked figure sitting in the tree's shade, a bluebird chirping happily on his finger.

"Ah, Edward Elric," the person began as they turned their head in Ed's direction, "I've been expecting you. Come sit beside me."

Not knowing whether to trust this person or not, Edward got up uncertainly and took a small step forwards.

The figure saw Edward's discomfort and said, "I won't hurt you."

Still a bit uneasy about the cloaked person, Edward cautiously walked over to the tree and sat down. "Who are you? And what are you doing?" Edward asked as he tried to get a better look at the cloaked person.

"I will not tell you my true name, but you may call me Raith for now," he said, "As for what I'm doing. I'm currently sitting under this tree listening to this bird sing."

"Is this a dream?" Edward asked. This entire place seemed too perfect to be real.

"That depends. Do you want it to be a dream?" Raith asked.

"I don't know," Ed said softly as he looked out across the field, wondering how far it went on.

"You don't have a reflection," Raith said suddenly, making Ed jump slightly in surprise.

"Excuse me?" Ed said, clearly surprised by Raith's comment. He had no clue why someone in a dream would bring that up.

"You have no reflection," the cloaked figure said once more and then continued on before Ed had a chance to respond, "You are not human."

"What?" Ed asked as he quickly got up. How could he not be human?

"You are slowly falling into the darkness, soon no one will be able to save you. You'll be cast out of the human world and forced to live in the shadows; you'll become the shadows!" Raith said, his voice becoming more sinister every passing moment.

The sky turned a dark shade of crimson and the lush valley around him began to whither and die. Even the old oak tree became a gnarled and burnt. Fires sprung up, filling the air with steam. The small bluebird gave out one last hoarse croak and burst into flames.

"You're one of us now! You can't escape your fate! Even now you're loosing your humanity! You're falling into the darkness! Your friends will turn against you once they find out what you are!" Raith said, his voice echoing in Ed's mind.

A strong wind picked up, throwing Ed into the air. The blond boy let out a cry as the wind pushed him over the edge of the seemingly endless field and he tumbled into oblivion.

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"Ah!" Ed cried out as he shot up in his bed. His body was covered in sweat and his breath came in quick gasps. "It was only a dream. Just a dream," he muttered to himself as he got out of bed and walked over to his window. A small sliver of moon hung in the sky, barely illuminating the night, but to Ed, it was as if there was a full moon and dozens of street lamps.

He sighed and buried his face in his hands. Maybe he had imagined that he had no reflection. There was nothing wrong with him. He was a human, not something else. He decided to go back to the mirror and look again.

The young alchemist quietly slipped out of his room and crept down the corridor, his automail leg making clanking noises every time he took a step, though they weren't as loud as they could've been. Stupid leg.

After what seemed like an eternity, Edward Elric reached the bathroom and carefully slipped inside. Flicking on the light switch, Edward closed his eyes and stood in front of the mirror once more.

My reflection will be there when I open my eyes. My reflection will be there when I open my eyes. My reflection will be there!

Edward snapped open his eyes and gazed into the glace. The mirror was still empty. He closed his eyes again and got the same result when he opened them once more. He continued to try this for half an hour.

"No! No! No!" Ed said as he slumped to the floor, "My reflection is there! My reflection is there!"

He then felt a strange feeling inside of him. His skin prickled slightly and there was this strange urge to eat something. He wanted to eat something that he couldn't find in any supermarket, to eat something unnatural. His stomach lurched and he became dizzy. There was a pounding in his head and the room was spinning around him. The last thing he remembered was falling to the floor and the bathroom fading into darkness.

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Where am I? was Ed's first though when he opened his eyes. He was in a dark room that seemed to be a bedroom. There was one window and it was open, the curtains billowing slightly. How'd I get here?

This bedroom was definitely not one of the dorm bedrooms. It seemed to belong to a young child. Ed looked down at the small bed he was standing next to. In the dim light he could make out the outline of a small child, probably seven or six years old. He could also see that there was a dark puddle surrounding the boy's lifeless body, staining the white sheets.

Why is he bleeding?

Ed then tasted a metallic taste in his mouth. It tasted just like blood. He felt something wet trickle down the side of his mouth. Using his hand, Ed wiped it off. The teen then looked at his hands. They were both stained with blood and he could see that what he just wiped off was blood as well.

I-I-I did this? I k-killed him?

Ed's hands began to shake and he took a couple of shaky steps back, crashing into what seemed to be a box filled with toys. The box fell over, making a loud crashing sound. He then heard a woman's voice call out what seemed to be the small boy's name and then the sounds of two pairs of footsteps.

I can't let them find me!

Ed quickly darted towards the window, which just happened to be on the third story, and jumped out. He landed on the ground in a crouching position and quickly took off as he heard a woman scream and an angry yell, which probably belonged to the father.

Oh god! Oh god! I'm a monster! I killed a child! I drank his blood! I'm a murderer!

Edward ran down the street towards his dorm room. He could see the lights from other buildings turn on out of the corner of his eye as he ran past.

If you looked closely at the roof of one of the houses you could barely see two figures standing there, a woman and a man. Both were dressed in long sleeved skintight black clothes and wore a dark cloak. The woman had long purple hair that went down to her lower back and it billowed slightly in the wind. The man had white hair even though he was rather young, probably only twenty-two. The woman appeared to be around eighteen.

"So the boy has finally realized that he's a monster?" said the woman

"It seems so," said the male, "I just never expected him to have to drink blood this soon."

"Neither did I," the female said again, "Though it seems that we have a very special vampire on our hands."

"So it seems," said the male as his lips pulled back into a devilish grin, revealing two pointed fangs.

"I guess we'll have our hands full with this kid. Right, Raith?" she said as she cuddled against his muscular chest.

"Yes, my dear Lilith," he said and pulled her closer, making her close her eyes and smile as well, revealing her fangs as well.

"Well, at least until he's been fully turned, but that will happen sooner than he knows," she said as Ed disappeared from view.

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Wow, it's done! This chapter took a long time. It's like six pages on Word with type 10 xD Well, Roy came in and Ed's realized that there is something wrong with him. There are also those two vampires at the end and one has the same name as the guy in Edward's dream. What do they have in store for Ed? And is there a connection between the dream Raith and the real one?I'm not gonna tell you, so too bad. You'll find out in due time though. Anyways, Ed may have gone a bit OOC here and maybe Roy a bit with his pink pocket mirror (( Sorry I couldn't help myself )), so sorry 'bout that. I'm pretty sure that this will become an EdxRoy fic, but it isn't completely set in stone yet. Don't forget to review!