Yoo! Hey everyone! Ah, just so you know, I'm FINALLY back home (in Croatia), lush green trees, the forest a few steps away…just wonderful and breathtaking *.* I get so easily fed up with the city it's crazy . While the city has its perks, nothing can beat good old nature! :D Especially at night…it's such a peaceful silence…the only things you may hear occasionally are barking dogs or cockroaches but otherwise…nothing, haha you sleep like a baby :3
Right…the story…sorry I'm just so unbelievably that I'm back home after so many long months! T_T
ANSWERS TO WONDERFUL REVIEWS:
Anonymous J: Thank you buddy! ^_^ Like I said, Greed's one of my fav characters of FMA (and hot as hell lol) I had been distracted by simultaneously writing the protocol for school and my stories so I hope I managed to pull it off well, I'm thankful to have such good and faithful readers like you and everyone else! Really boosts my motivation quite a bit! J Happy Independence Day to you too!
Panic: Hihi thank you lots! :D (waterfall tears) I'm always so glad and happy to hear my stories actually brightened someone's day! :3 Thanks for the compliment! I always answer to reviews whether through PM's or on my chaps! Really? Gluttony? Wow, never thought I would write Gluttony good, I'm not too sure if I captured his character all that well :P Ohoo, those are some pretty good ideas! Well, here's a Envy-centric one for you and the rest! I hope I captured him good and that he isn't too OOC. Enjoy! :3 P.S.
Enjoy reading everyone!
Envy Inside Us All
Envy, one of the seven deadly sins, has existed even before humans first began to walk the earth. It had existed in the early eras, the stone age, the dinosaur period, when primates and other mammals were the main rulers of the earth, when "Earth" was then known as "Pangea" or "Gaia" by some.
Envy has existed since the beginning of time and it has always been there.
When one feels envious, he also feels greedy, greedy for the things somebody else may have that oneself lacks, he feels anger that he lacks those things or abilities and pride when he does acquire them.
When one feels envious it could be with such a hunger to swallow the whole world, which in turn succumbs to greed itself.
Envy has always been envious of Greed, Lust, Pride and Wrath. He didn't much care for Gluttony or Sloth, they were dim witted either way.
Greed had had everything he desired; money, power, fame, women and his underlings.
Lust had a killer body that any woman would kill for, possessed impressive combat skills and knew how to wrap every male with a powerful position around her little finger, basically opening all doors for her.
Pride was powerful in his own right, while taking the form of the child Selim, King Bradley's son, he had control over his shadows, crushing anything that was in their path, their razor sharp teeth cutting event through steel.
Wrath…Wrath was possibly one of the – if not the strongest – Homunculi. He had taken control over King Bradley's body, he possessed exceptional swordsmanship skills, capable of killing a foe within seconds with pinpoint accuracy and able to hit the most vital spots in the fragile human body. Aside from his swordsmanship skills and superior physical strength, he also had the Ultimate Eye, making him see through every move his opponent would make beforehand, managing to counter accordingly. He was practically unstoppable.
Envy…for one he didn't know what gender he even had…if he even was a "he" or not. He could take on many forms, many faces and bodies of people he saw, using them to his advantage, for example killing that annoying lieutenant that tried interfering with the Homunculi…what had been his name? May? Hughes? Something like that.
While he was capable of transforming himself into a green monster larger than a building, consuming the agony filled souls of the deceased, swallowing them and gaining strength, he was vulnerable otherwise, though he would never admit that.
Though the time when he truly realized just how weak and fragile and human he was…that was when Mustang had almost burned him to death.
It was that woman, Hawkeye, that stopped him, then Scar and the annoying Edward came as well. Envy had thought he could still pull through, escape, but Edward had gripped him tightly in his hand, until Envy had bitten him.
He tried turning them against each-other, tried to reopen old wounds and make each of them go in a frenzy at each-other, as he knew humanity was doomed to destroy itself, as they had throughout history, time and time again.
What shocked him the most was how everyone accepted their past sins so easily, even Mustang didn't try to fry him again.
It had greatly disappointed Envy, made him angry but most of all he had been frightened, terrified even.
There in his weakest and truest form, his pathetic small green form, with an eye and a mouth. Envy had sensed his end drawing nearer, but he didn't want to believe it, couldn't, because he was supposed to be the all powerful Homunculi Envy of old, having existed for millennia, he didn't want to believe this was how he would end.
In his final moments of life, before his upper body was completely disintegrated, he thought of Elric's earlier words. He had been right, this was Envy's true form, weak, small, pathetic.
He was Envy, envious of humans, a race he had deemed far beneath his Homunculi brethren, something they used as entertainment and toys, not something to be envious of.
But he had realized, far too late, just before his death, that humans had many qualities the Homunculi and essentially Father, lacked.
They had feelings that made them stronger, capable of forming lasting bonds that grew in intensity and strength the longer they lasted. They worked together to ensure each-others survival and safety, they created families together and shared many happy and sad memories.
They had hearts. Hearts that beat in tandem with their feelings.
They had stones. Philosopher Stone's that pulsed in tandem with their regenerative abilities.
It wasn't fair, Envy had thought, but then again, was anything in life fair? Had it been in Envy's? He wasn't sure, he couldn't remember, now that he was floating in the eternal abyss of darkness that threatened to consume his consciousness.
He didn't know where he would go, he was sure he had no place in heaven, but he had done far worse things in his life that he was sure that even Satan would turn his back on him.
Was there a world in between? A place for Envy to call home? He remembered the older Elric talking about how important it was to have a home one can return to.
Envy didn't remember ever having a home.
A single tear fell into the seemingly never ending void of darkness, erasing its existence as the first tear Envy released which he poured his entire feelings into.
Envy didn't have a home. He never had one.
Done! PLEASE tell me what you guys think of this! Don't worry! Happier one shots will definitely come! :D