Hello everyone! I'm sorry for my absence, I have a week off from school now and it's full of schedules too . Preparing for future exams, writing notes and sticking them all over the place (lol), research and writing on my final thesis...etc...etc. Basically work, work, work for me T_T

BUT fear not! I found some time to write this quickly and I hope it isn't one of my "weak-ass one shots" which are more of an eyesore than eye candy ^^

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Band of Seven

Greed blocked another strike, just barely so, from Father, whose eyes shone ominously with murderous intent at his opponent as he continued his vigorous assault.

"Hey prince! I don't think I can hold on for much longer! I hate to say it but the old man's a fucking beast!" Greed grunted from the blow Father delivered next, he propelled himself backwards, using the momentum of his fall to bounce himself back on his hands and dodge Father's attack.

"Greed! Just hold on! You can fight him on more even ground since he can't break your defense," Ling clenched his fists, "Look!" Ling's eyes widened at the scene he witnessed.

Greed quickly moved out of the way and froze when he saw who just joined the battle.

It was goddamn Lust.

From where, Greed had no idea. "What the hell?! I thought you were dead!" he pointed a Ultimate Shield covered finger at his supposed deceased sibling, who had a small smirk on her painted lips.

Oh shit.

Father's smile lifted, "Ah, I see my dear daughter has returned from the-" gold eyes widened in shock as he felt multiple nails impaled his midsection at once, to his horror, more souls escaped his beaten body and he desperately tried clinging on to his wavering power.

"Sorry, but I care little for weak old men who kill his children, father," her smile was positively devious as she called from behind her, "Gluttony!"

"Finally I can eat!" Gluttony jumped over his sister's head and launched himself with flailing arms and tongue straight at Father, who tried backtracking only to be hindered by Lust's nails inside of him. He narrowed his eyes and sent a earth coated fist crashing for Lust, who dodged the attack and instead, none other than Wrath sliced the fist to bits with his swords.

Gluttony latched his whole mouth onto Father's head, who flailed with his arms and tried to desperately pry the heavy glutton off himself.

"Let go of me you good for nothing fool!" he threw Gluttony to the side harshly, his eyes wide when he saw Greed right in front of him with a cocky smirk.

"Hell, I don't know what's going on pops, but looks like we are in the rebellious phase huh?" he grinned before he jumped high in the air and wrapped both his legs around Father's neck, slamming his whole weight down to the ground and smirking when he heard he broke his neck and spine.

"Hey! Sloth! I've got work for ya!" Greed quickly moved out of the way just as the earth beneath Father's regenerating form gave way and the large Homunculus emerged straight from it.

"Work...such a...pain," instead of his usual empty expression, there was a small smile on his face as he slammed his joined hands down on Father's head.

"What the..." Ed began, gold eyes wide in disbelief at the scene before him.

"Brother? What's...what's going on?" Alphonse's voice was just as surprised at seeing all the thought to be dead Homunculi beating their own creator to a pulp.

"Hell if I know!" he whipped his head about, "Huh?! And where's Hohenheim?!" he looked around with Al but there were no traces of his runaway father.

"Right here boys," Hohenheim grinned, calmly approaching his two sons while dusting his hands off, as if he had done hard manual labor.

"What the hell did you do Hohenheim?! Did you actually resurrect them?!" Ed grabbed the older man by the collar of his white shirt, shaking him furiously.

"Now, now! Edward you'll ruin my shirt!" Hohenheim gently pried his son's hands away, sighing with a small, tired smile, "I've had the idea, if the Homunculus can create them, then why not another living Philosopher's Stone?" he grinned down at his sons.

Ed was speechless.

"Wait, you mean to tell me you've resurrected them and convinced them to fight on our side? How did you do that?" Alphonse asked completely confused.

Hohenheim chuckled, "Well...there really wasn't much need for convincing them..." he scratched the back of his neck as he watched the ensuing battle, "They bear resentment towards him for not resurrecting them and using them as his pawns instead of his children," a troubled expression crossed his face while looking at his sons.

Alphonse placed a hand on his father's broad shoulder, "Thanks for the help dad!" the armored helmet seemed to smile at him and Hohenheim smiled back, squeezing his hand.

"Wait...that's not all of them...where is-"

Multiple sharp tendrils of shadows zipped right past Edward's head and impaled themselves within Father's stomach, arms and legs, briefly immobilizing him.

With a shell shocked look, Ed slowly turned around to confirm his suspicions.

None other than Pride was standing on a raised piece of transmuted rubble, eyes glowing red and his shadows showing all their sharp teeth, their eyes narrowed in anger.

"P-Pride," Ed whispered in disbelief, remembering the battle not too long ago where he had almost been consumed by the Homunculus.

Father's gaze hardened, "Ahh...so that's where my favorite son went..."

Pride's gaze darkened, "Don't flatter yourself, Father," another shadow raised threateningly over Pride's head like a snake ready to attack, Pride tilted his head, smirk positively murderous, "Even if Gluttony is extracted from me I still feel...hungry," he licked his lips and attacked.

Father roared and created a startlingly blinding light but Gluttony quickly swallowed the hand emitting the light whole, Father growled in frustration and tried to shake the Homunculus off to no avail.

"It seems like we made father angry," Lust commented mockingly as she appeared behind Father and cut off his arm, which immediately regenerated, albeit slower.

She picked up on this and locked eyes with Greed, he nodded and moved in.

"Hey Ling! Think you can handle another round?" Greed inquired the calmly sitting prince inside their shared mind.

"You even need to ask? Let's kick some butt!" Greed grinned and laughed as he slammed a ultimate shield covered leg against Father's back.

Once he bent over with his torso facing Greed, Greed grinned and shouted out, "Now!" and suddenly, Wrath impaled both his swords into Father's pectorals, with Lust ripping off another arm.

Greed panted, rolling his shoulder and looking around, "Now where's that jealous brat when ya need him..." he was quickly greeted with a kick to the head.

"Are you blind prince? I'm right here," Envy grinned mockingly and feigned innocence, "Oh, I'm sorry, seems like it's you Greed. I should have known, I doubt any human can have such a ugly face as you," he grinned sadistically.

Greed straightened his neck and glared at the Homunculus, "Oh? Funny, I thought the exact same thing," Greed grinned saucily before launching himself into the battle again.

Envy frowned and bared his teeth in anger, dodging a fist from Father and launching himself at him.

Father managed to disentangle himself from Sloth's and Gluttony's hold, catapulting his body from the ground with alchemy in order to escape.

"Sloth! Give me a boost!" Greed shouted toward the Homunculus who nodded. Greed jumped on his joined hands and Sloth roared as he threw his sibling as hard as he could at the escaping Homunculus.

"What's wrong daddy? Leaving so soon? But we didn't even finish playing!" Greed grinned and grabbed Father's neck, throwing him straight toward Envy's big, green form.

Envy roared and slammed Father's form into the ground, burying it under his enormous claw.

Wrath looked toward his other siblings and they were all ready in position, he waited until Envy jumped back and positioned himself before he shouted out loudly, "Now!"

All seven Homunculi launched their attacks at the still crumbled figure of Father, creating a large, rapidly spreading cloud of smoke.

"Brother!" Alphonse quickly shielded him from any stray rubble and Ed coughed from the smoke.

"I'm alright Al, but what happened?" the Elric brothers turned around, narrowing their eyes to see beyond the smoke.

Riza's gaze narrowed, "There!" Mustang tensed beside her, his fingers poised at the ready.

Everyone watched with trepidation as the smoke slowly cleared.

"Lieutenant, what do you see?"Roy asked, his anxiousness growing the longer Riza's reply lasted, "Well? Is he finished?"

Several long seconds passed, before Riza slowly nodded, squeezing Roy's shoulder, "...Yes sir, it would seem so,"

The seven Homunculi were approaching the large crater they have created from their combined strength. What lay inside was just a shell of what was once their creator, Father.

He lacked legs and arms, only his torso was still intact, yet crumbling and turning to dust slowly, but surely.

"It seems like somebody has depleted their Philosopher's Stone," Lust smiled.

Pride licked his lips, "Too bad I wouldn't be able to consume him, we wouldn't want a repeat of events," his gaze was sharp.

Wrath smiled, "Killed by his own offspring...what a tragic way to die I imagine," he locked gazes briefly with Pride, who just smiled and chuckled.

"No more...work...for Sloth again..." Sloth seemed satisfied with that outcome.

Lust smiled and patted the Homunculus on the hand, "That's right Sloth, no more work for you for a while," the Homunculus smiled back.

Envy crossed his arms, "Hm...humans are a bitch...but this guy tops the cake," he grinned.

Greed kicked a small rock into the crater, which rolled down to Father's disappearing side, "Heh, hope you ain't too mad pops, I guess this happens when daddy plays favorites, huh?"

Despite his light hearted words, Greed's expression was serious as he calmly watched his creator slowly dissipate.

"No...no..no, no! I was meant to become God! No! I was meant to surpass God's power!" Father squirmed until just his mouth was left and the last words he uttered were, "...my children..."

There was a long silence that stretched over the battlefield, before loud cheers and applause started filling it.

Greed craned his neck and watched how a tearful Mrs. Bradley ran towards Wrath and Pride. Wrath dropped his swords and attempted to hug her, until she suddenly slapped him and hugged him to her, roughly ruffling Pride's hair and hugging him to her bosom.

"Oh man...am I glad I don't have a woman who slaps me..." Ling chuckled at Greed's words.

"Didn't their relationship start-off with her slapping him?" he couldn't help but joke.

Greed shook his head, hands on his hips, "Aw hell, I don't wanna picture the divorce..." he shivered.

Lust petted Gluttony gently on the head, "Looks like it's all over now,"

Gluttony looked hopefully up at Lust, "Can I eat now?" he licked his lips.

Lust giggled, "Let's search for a restaurant," she looked up at Sloth, "You want to join us Sloth?" the lazy Homunculus smiled and nodded.

"Good, I imagine dear old Wrath will be paying for our expenses," she smirked when said Homunculus turned his head toward her.

"...Excuse me?" he blinked in surprise.

"Well, you are the one with the Führer title and the money," she winked and Wrath looked annoyed.

Greed grinned, "Hell yeah, I'm starved! And this prince right here can eat a whole ship full of food if he sets his mind to it,"

Lust turned to Envy, "You coming Envy?" the Homunculus turned to her.

"Just a minute there sister, I need to make my hair," Sloth blinked when Envy carefully and meticulously straightened his palm-tree-lookalike bangs.

"Now that's what I call a family," Hohenheim grinned cheerfully.

"Yeah...or something like that," Ed smiled wryly.

The end for now! Opinions? Wishes for Chapter 100? BTW: I updated Chapter 35 "Ideas for chapters"! The Request chapter will follow soon! :)