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INFO ON CHAPTER: So, this is the continuation of Homunculi Children! I hope you will all enjoy it!

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Homunculi Children Part 2

Every time I walked passed dad's picture on the desk, I stopped to look at it. It was funny, I knew what dad looked like, at least from the photo, but I never got to know who the man was behind it. Mom had talked fondly of him of course, but she never went into detail and we never asked. We only knew that dad didn't have the loving family we do, but the question we were afraid to ask mom was; why?

School was going good for me, but Ava still had difficulties fitting in and not using her powers. Mom had said dad had liked to show off what he could do, but he refrained from showing his powers to other people. We had secretly sworn to never use our powers for evil or to harm anyone with them, but...that night...

"Ava! Emi! Come on down, dinner is ready!" Lena called out as she placed an extra plate next to the picture of her beloved, smiling at his ever present grin.

She smiled warmly, looking out at the snow falling softly down the sky, "Merry Christmas dear..." she bent down and kissed his picture, briefly wrapping her arms around herself before she quickly straightened up when she heard the footsteps of her kids coming closer.

She was sure if he were still alive today, he would be the most doting father in the world. The fact how caring and careful he had been when they were born was proof of that, not to mention all the times he kept fussing about holding Emi and Ava when they were just babies, afraid of not holding them properly or that he would drop them. Or checking on either of them every five minutes at night to make sure they breathed properly or weren't hungry.

Lena smiled at the memory, wiping away a stray tear that managed to find its way out of her eye just as her precious daughters came running into the room. Two years passed and both her girls were 16 and 17. They were as boisterous as ever, but lately, Avaritia had changed a bit, Lena didn't think too much of it, she deemed it as a normal adolescent process or phase, but it had started to worry her.

She smiled at her daughters, patting each of them on the head affectionately as they all took a seat. She could see Ava was frowning, not being her usual boisterous self, Emi was frowning as well but she seemed more calm while a deep seated ferocity dwelled inside of Avaritia for some reason.

The family ate quietly, the tension growing thicker by the minute. Lena grabbed herself some bread before she decided to break the ice and tread on ice cold water, "Anything you would like to talk about?" she looked at her daughters, who tensed at the sudden breaking of silence.

Emilia spoke first, lowly, "I don't really feel like talking mom, sorry," she sent her mother an apologetic smile, Lena frowned in concern.

What was wrong?

She leaned a bit forward, tilting her head, "Ava dear?" her worry increased.

Ava's hands shook and Emilia tensed from beside her, "Ava what-" Lena was cut off.

"You wanna know what's wrong mom?! Is that it?! Well let me tell you! Emi keeps telling me to study and to try harder in school! What if I don't want to?! What if I want to find out more about who I am? What I'm supposed to do?" Ava's eyes, her father's eyes, shone with anger.

Lena faltered, not expecting this sudden violent outburst, "A-Ava, what are you talking about? What do you mean who you are?"

She growled lowly, "What am I mom?! What are we?! Are we Homunculi or human?! Emi keeps saying she's a normal human but I disagree! We aren't normal, our family isn't normal!" she turned her glare from her mother toward her older sister.

"Stop this nonsense! We are human and that's that! Just because we have unique abilities doesn't make us into Homunculi!" Emilia argued back, standing from her seat as well.

"Well, I'm not human alright?! I'm a Homunculus and I always will be! You can't tell me what I am!" argued Avaritia, who growled sharply at her older sister, who looked ready for a fight.

"Oh really? What will everyone think? You never finished school, you didn't even attempt to make friends! You just pushed aside your humanity for what?! For being a creature that relies on a stupid stone to live on?!" barked her older sister Emilia, who had a disapproving look on her face. Lena's eyes widened.

"What? Y-you dropped out of school? What are you saying?" she covered her mouth, shock written over her features.

Emilia turned briefly to regard her stunned mother, "She didn't drop out but she stopped coming to school since a week ago. She goes out training instead of studying!" spat the older sibling, looking disappointed and angry.

Avaritia's eyes glistened with tears as she shouted out her next sentence, "Dad was a Homunculus too you know! It's his race you're not giving a damn about you know that?! How could you say that? You're not human either, we both aren't so stop acting like one!"

Lena stood still, shock written over her features as she tried to get a hold of her emotions and the situation. She knew this day would come, whether later or sooner it didn't matter, but she dreaded it all the same. And now it came; the day where her children would reach a certain age where they would start to choose; human or homunculus.

Her hand clenched into a fist as she observed her beloved children fight, when Emilia said, "You're so stupid! I never wanted to be a Homunculus! Homunculi are evil, vile creatures who don't have any human emotions at all! I don't want to be like that, I rather be a human!" that was the last straw for Lena.

She stepped up and raised her voice to overpower the volume of both of her arguing children's, "How can you say that?" her eyes were burning, her heart clenching painfully.

She continued firmly, "How could you say all of this knowing your own father was a Homunculus? Not all Homunculi are evil dear, just like how all humans aren't kind and perfect beings. We all have flaws, we all fail, we all make mistakes, but it doesn't mean one race is better than the other, it doesn't mean one person is better than the other. Whether we are humans or not, we make mistakes and we learn from them. Your father was one of a kind...he opposed his siblings who lived to harm humans and wreak havoc, he ran away from his only family to live his life in seclusion, until I found him one day. He was deathly afraid of telling me what he was, but when he had saved me from a car accident and his injuries had healed right away before my very eyes, I knew his carefully guarded secret." She paused, collecting her thoughts, taking in the stunned expressions of her daughters.

"Mom..." both whispered quietly, astonished. Their mother was very kind and gentle, she rarely raised her voice at them, only when it was absolutely necessary.

"I accepted him and grew to love him despite what he was, despite him being different. He moved to live with me in my apartment in the city instead of out in the forest or the secluded, abandoned buildings he usually lived in. He adapted to life and got a job, he worked hard to bring food on the table, he did long night shifts when I was pregnant with you to make sure we would have everything we needed."

Emotions overwhelmed her as she spoke of her beloved, late husband, "Would you call such a person a monster? A vile creature? You see, despite what he was he...was a good man. He was so very happy when you were born, he called you his princesses. When I was too tired he would always wake up and hold you in his arms so long until you fell asleep and stopped crying...even if it took the whole night. He was so caring, he was a loudmouth at times but he was a gentleman with me, he was rude but he never disrespected me, he cared for me, for us, for the life we led...do you intend to throw all of this away? Just like that? I know for certain your father wouldn't have been happy if he were here right now. He would want you not to fight and choose whatever made you happy, I know I do," Lena finished with teary eyes, smiling warmly down at her daughters.

The two girls blinked slowly, taking in their mother's words to heart. Homunculi weren't evil or at least didn't have to be, their own father hadn't been at least.

Their father, who himself had been a Homunculus, hadn't been evil.

Emilia and Avaritia looked at each-other long and hard, their expressions unreadable for a moment.

However, when their mother spoke again, it seemed like she wasn't done talking just yet, "Besides...you said Homunculi couldn't possibly have human emotions, then...how did you come to be? Your father and I loved each-other very much, we were happy beyond belief when we found out we were pregnant. It had been a great relief to both of us, especially since his father made him believe Homunculi were incapable of reproducing. You didn't see the way your father looked at you after I gave birth to you...I've never seen him so happy and content, relaxed...the sadness that used to be in his eyes had faded, his loneliness had faded." A bittersweet smile stretched across Lena's face, her gaze looking away from her daughters. She kneeled down, placing a calming hand on each of her daughters backs, "Listen Emi, Ava, I know we aren't a normal family, I know your life was and will continue to be difficult, but please... please promise me you will stay together and support each-other? No matter what? No matter who chooses what life to live, because in the end we only have each-other," she rested her forehead against her daughters own, squeezing their shoulders.

Heavy silence fell over the small family, the soft falling of the snow and supper all but forgotten. The picture of Greed was illuminated by the soft light, as if wanting to say everything would be alright.

Slowly, Ava started to cry, releasing all the tears she had wanted to shed as she hugged her mother tightly, kissing her cheek in apology. Emilia did the same, nuzzling the side of her head and lovingly kissing her cheek, sobbing into her shoulder.

Lena's eyes filled to the brim with tears, she closed them, hugging her daughters closer to her, "Oh my little girls...what would I do without you..." the family of three sat there on the floor, content to be in each-other's warm embrace to heal.

It was the first of many more nights where we talked of what the future would hold for us, mom had tried researching as much as she could, but like in the past, she couldn't find any written documents on Homunculi or creatures remotely similar. Even if all seemed lost, mom didn't give up hope, she stayed up late at night to make her own notes and try to think of what would be best for us, in what schools to enroll, college, our further education...how our powers would affect our life...

But that had also been the last time we were ever so disrespectful to our mother and father, back then we didn't know the full story, but mom told it to us a day later. How dad and her met, how he told her what his life had looked like, being on the side of his family for a little while before he quickly realized it hadn't been a life he wanted to live. So he left and he had been chased by his own siblings. Mom told us how one of them, the sin of Wrath, had come to get him when they were together and mom was pregnant with me. Dad had grown angry, transferring his shield onto mom to protect her and covering himself with it fully, dad said Wrath had been a very powerful Homunculus, nearly the strongest and by far deadliest. But what dad hadn't known then, Wrath had a family he needed to protect too. Wrath had left the family just two years after dad did, he met a woman and had adopted a child, Selim Bradley, who dad discovered was in fact another one of his siblings, Pride. They shared the relationship of father and son, rather than of siblings, but it worked for them. Wrath had come not to hurt dad or mom, but to warn them of Father's plans. How he intended to destroy humanity, so dad left for a short while and after he returned, unscathed mom had never been happier.

We thought dad had been the only one left back then, but that day we knew the full story. How dad and the others fought their father, their creator to protect the ones they loved. They succeeded in the end but not without a price to pay. It was two days after Ava was born that men had come to take dad away, mom knew they would kill him if he went with them. But he told her it was alright, because he was finally able to satiate his ever growing avarice inside of him.

He had the chance to have a loving family of his own and experience the joys of life he could only ever dream of. Mom said dad was smiling as he left. When we asked why, mom said it was because he had nothing to lose because we were ok.

Lena smiled, "Are you sure?" she was holding flowers in her hands.

Ava grinned widely, nodding, "Yeah I'm sure mom." She smiled and looked down at the gravestone where her father rested, it wasn't much but a symbol that he had walked this earth and did good before he departed.

"Alright then...you know I love you and I wish you the best of luck, you can always come to me if you need anything at all," she hugged her adult daughter of 24 years tightly, before she let her go and placed the white lilies in front of the stone.

Avaritia smiled softly, affectionately patting the stone and placing a single red rose in the middle of the bouquet of white lilies, "Take care dad and I hope I made ya proud," she grinned.

"Mom...thank you for everything..." she wiped a tear away and hugged her mother again, the tightest hug she ever gave.

Lena nodded and smiled, "Of course dear, of course. Remember to call at least a few times a month so I know you're doing fine," Ava grinned widely, nodding and walking in the opposite direction, toward the landscape.

She waved at her mother who laughed and waved back, Ava had decided to live in a village for a while, perhaps in the woods and make herself her own cottage, before traveling the world and exploring everything and anything she could.

As for me...well...I found what I was looking for in life I guess.

Emilia had finished school and studied at the university of Oxford, succeeding with top marks and working with high class scientists on improving the economical and social state of poor countries around the world, she often traveled to these countries to see for herself what could be improved, she often liked to interact with people there, actively helping them and constantly thinking of new ways to improve the understanding of other people on these countries and their needs.

And Lena...she enjoyed spending her time in Resembool, interacting with her friends and neighbors, building a garage for herself, learning new things each and every day and involving herself in the board to listen to what the people of her village and other neighboring villages wanted and she did her best to follow through.

But she enjoyed her freedom, the freedom her husband himself had always longed to experience. She enjoyed spending her final days with him at her side. She died peacefully, her daughters and their families gathered together and the picture of her beloved securely tucked in her arms.

"Greed...? Is that...you?" Lena slowly blinked, trying to get used to the suddenly bright light. When she looked down at herself, she was young again, the same age where she met Greed.

The man himself grinned at her, just a few steps away from her, "Hey there sweetheart, missed me?" she launched herself at him, laughing.

"Of course I did you fool!" she hit his arm and laughed, hugging and kissing him. He returned the gesture, kissing her like a thirsty man longed for water.

"You did such a damn wonderful job...with the kids...with everything..." he nuzzled her face, grinning.

She smiled, rubbing his cheeks, "Oh I was terrible...but we pulled through, right?" he chuckled and nodded.

"You sure did...you sure did..." Greed whispered.

He shut the book closed, waterfall tears running down his face in rapid streams, "Oh my god! That was such a sad but wonderful story! Greed you cheesy man! Come and hug me brother!" Ling shot up from his chair, arms spread out wide to hug his brother.

"What the-?! Get the hell away from me! That's my badass life you've been reading there!" he shoved the prince off.

Lena sighed, "Hey...stop calling my husband cheesy...he only allows me to call him that," she winked, smirking. Greed rolled his eyes, kissing her cheek.

Ling wiped at his tears but they still kept coming, "That was...such a..good story! Lena you're a master writer! I bow before thee! I VOTE FOR CHEESINESS!" Ling bowed rapidly, knees on the floor and hands clasped together.

Lena giggled, smiling, "Yeah well...I had some help," she looked meaningfully at Greed.

He grinned like a Cheshire cat, "Not to mention, these two troublemakers," he gestured to his two daughters which were glued to his legs, chuckling he picked them up in his arms, they were both watching him innocently and sucking on their thumbs.

Lena laughed and caressed their soft, chubby baby cheeks affectionately, "Mhm...who knows what the future will bring huh?" Greed nodded, smiling at the family he had now.

"Still...I'm the better parent," Greed grinned widely before Lena jabbed him in the ribs sharply, "Alright, alright...we are badass parents,"

Lena smiled.

Phew...yeah...I don't know what's wrong with me...these cheesy endings...meh ^,^ So how did you guys like it? What did you like? Should I change it? Improve something in general on my writing? Would you guys like for me to try for a different writing style?