Hello everyone! I do hope you all enjoy this chapter of mine too!

NOTE: Sorry about this unannounced one shot! I just had the strong urge to write this and I had to! . Don't worry if everyone agrees, I'll write off your requests first before any of my ideas (again) .

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Daughterofapollo12345: (giggles) Yup ^^ Ah btw: Lust stabbed Father not Hohenheim when making her grand entrance :3 hihi...gotta have more of these badass scenes

Panic: (scratches neck) Eh, it was LONG overdue! I'm really sorry for writing it NOW and not MONTHS back . Yeah, I think so too, I was thinking of incorporating those sides in other one shots too. (grins) Thanks! :3 I got the idea for the chapter name "Band of Seven" from the anime (one of my FAVORITES) "Inuyasha" original "Band of Seven" (seven mercenaries not related by blood but share a sibling-like bond) they are ALSO powered by a stone called the Shikon no Tama/Sacred Jewel Shard. Ohh the similarities...

A Selfless Fool

A selfless fool who thought he'd save us all...

"Mama..." the little girl in her arms tugged gently on her pants leg, stretching her little arms out for her mother.

Lena smiled and bent down, picking up her daughter and settling them on the couch, adjusting her on her lap, "Yes Emi?" she looked at her curiously.

Violet eyes blinked, "Can we visit papa today?" the question startled Lena and it struck something within her, a serene but sad expression crossed her features before she replaced it with a small smile.

"Sure, sweetheart, let me just get your sister," Lena carefully settled her eldest on the couch before she walked in the kitchen to retrieve Avaritia.

Emi lazily kicked her feet into the air, patiently waiting until her mother and sister returned. Ava was already running toward the clothes rack, impatiently putting on her shoes, Emi jumped down from the couch and followed suit.

Lena stood there in the living room and observed her two daughters, various thoughts running through her mind because of Emi's sudden question, "We've visited him last week, is something troubling her to want to see Greed now? She usually wants to see him more often when she's bothered by something," Lena frowned and put on a jacket and helped her daughters into theirs. She took her bag and placed the small bouquet of flowers inside.

The brunette locked her door and took each of the girls by the hand before they descended the small steps down from the porch and onto the dirt path ahead.

The walk was unhurried and mostly quiet, save for Emi and Ava talking in hushed tones or Lena adding her input to what they would be eating for supper today.

However, again, Lena was startled by Emilia's question, "Mama..."

"Yes, sweetheart?" she looked down at the top of her daughter's head, the dark shoulder-length hair gently bobbing and swaying with every step she took.

"Is daddy a hero like uncle Eddy?" her violet eyes shone with curiosity and Lena found herself giggling.

"Yes he is sweetheart, why the sudden questions hm?" she smiled, intent on keeping a calm appearance.

Emilia faced the earth beneath her feet, "Well...I was just curious..." she looked back up at her mother after several long minutes, "Mama...can I talk to papa?"

Lena's eyes widened in surprise, "Why of course you can Emi! Please don't ask such things! Of course you can honey he's your father!" she looked incredulously at her young daughter, trying to figure out what was culminating inside her little head.

She nodded mutely and looked forward. When Lena looked forward, she noticed just how fast they have arrived.

She opened the small gates and waited until Emi and Ava passed before she closed the gates behind her and bypassed all the other standing stones, a small bouquet of lilies and a single red rose in the middle in her hands.

She smiled when she spotted him and walked a bit faster, with her daughters standing on either side of her Lena smiled a small smile, her voice soft and quiet, "Hey there, sweets,"

The atmosphere was quiet and almost serene, the wind softly disturbing the small bouquet of flowers already resting on the grave. Lena knelt down and placed the second bouquet next to the first one, stroking the smooth polished stone softly.

Emi knelt down too, bracing her little hands against the stone, looking with determination at the name written there, "Beloved Husband and Father and a Badass Friend," Lena giggled softly at the memory, thinking Greed would have liked it.

"Papa...you...you don't have to worry ok?!" Lena froze at hearing these words from her daughter, "I-I'll be a good girl and help mama around the house! I'll be nice to everyone too! And I won't lie! Nu-uh! Lying is for losers! I'll always tell the truth! And I won't pick fights! And...and..." her voice trailed off at the end before, after several long minutes of staring at the stone, she found her fervor again, "And I will protect everyone alright?! I promise papa I will!" tears began to pool in her eyes, "I'll make sure to eat my vegetables, even the ones you didn't eat papa! And I'll drink my milk unlike uncle Eddy! I'll train hard to be as strong as you too!"

After her initial shock had worn off, Lena soothingly rubbed her daughters back, but instead of breaking down into tears, Emilia continued with a big grin that Lena knew all too well, "Because...mama said you're watching us right? So...watch me become the best alchemist papa!" Emi ran to the front of the standing stone and rubbed her little hands over it and for a brief moment, Lena thought she had seen the image of her late husband, how Emi was cuddling him, before it vanished within the blink of an eye again.

"No!" Avaritia suddenly shouted loudly, causing Lena and Emi to look at her in surprise. What...was Ava angry? But why?

Boldly, the younger sibling stepped forward, pointing a finger at her sister, "I'll become the best alchemist and Human-Homuncu...-cu..."

Lena smiled happily, supplying helpfully, "Homunculus?"

"Mhm! Yeah! That too!" Ava nodded vigorously, laughing joyously and hugging a satisfied Emi, who rubbed her small tears away and hugged her sister back.

Lena smiled at the scene, her eyes drifting over to the letters set in stone.

"If only you could see them now Greed...they're the perfect mix...they have your spunk and my determination I guess..." Lena giggled, tears prickling at the corners of her eyes as she looked up at the sky, "It was too early for you to leave you idiot...there were so many things to be done...you were so happy when you found out about these two rascals...you were so happy to become a father that you sacrificed yourself in order to let them have a chance at the life you were denied..." a tear slid down her cheek and she rubbed it away.

"I suppose...life works that way. You have your future all planned out, or at least, your shared future and then...it's just...taken away from you and you...you just stand there empty handed and...don't know where to go from there..." Lena closed her eyes, taking a deep, calming breath, "Mhm...that's the way things work... I just wish it didn't have to be you Greed...But Ling was right you know? You were a idiot, a idiot for not waiting a bit longer until we found another way to defeat him...you just had to be you and sacrifice yourself!" Lena opened her eyes, brimming with tears, a small smile adorning her face, "But...it was one of the things I loved about you... you stupid, greedy man..." Lena placed a hand on Ava and Emi's head, gently, soothingly, stroking their hair.

"Do you want to stay here longer with papa?" Lena smiled serenely, her eyes soft.

Emi and Ava looked at each-other before shaking their heads, "Nu-uh! Nope!" both shouted out suddenly and it startled Lena enough to look down at them in surprise.

Both of her daughters were grinning up at her, Emilia nearly shouted in her determined state, "I'll come back and see papa when I become at least half as strong as him! Right Ava?" she grinned at her sister, Avaritia grinned back, giggling.

She nodded reassuringly at her mother, "Mhm that's right! We can only face dad again if we show him he's got something to be proud of right mom?" she flashed her teeth at her, small teeth that reminded her of a certain someone's.

Lena let the words get processed in her head before she willed herself not to cry and smile instead, "Yeah...you're right kids. Why don't you go until the gate and mommy will come along too alright? But only until the gate! Don't try to go on any of your adventures alright?" she warned semi-playfully, her two daughters nodding before they chased each-other until the gates.

Lena sighed, shaking her head and kneeling before her husband's grave, "Well...that went well huh?" her smile was dry but kind, "If anyone had known you just a bit they would immediately know whose kids they are...sometimes I'm annoyed at you for leaving us so soon but...other times..." dark brown eyes glistened with tears, "Well, you know the answer to that...hm?" she lovingly caressed the stone as if physically reaching him, "Don't worry about the me and the kids alright? I know how much of a worrywart you can be," she giggled and stood.

"Greet Fu, Buccaneer and Kimblee from me alright?" she smiled and turned, walking back to her smiling children.

"I'll grow an Ultimate Shield sooner than you!" Ava stuck her tongue out at her sister, pushing against the older girl.

"Dummy! You can't grow a Ultimate Shield! I'll beat you any day you piss ant!" Emi pushed back, her violet eyes glowing.

Lena's eyes widened, "Emilia! Where did you pick up such words?!" she ran after her bickering daughters back to their house.

Greed wiped a proud tear away from his eyes, "That's my badass wife..." he willed himself not to cry, "Did you hear that? She called her little sister piss ant..." he froze in realization, leaning over the image of his family he saw through some pool-like thing, "Hey! No calling your sister such bad names! Call uncle Ling that not your sister! Emi!" Greed shouted as if his family could actually hear him.

Fu shook his head, "She has grown into a lovely young woman indeed..." despite himself, he smiled warmly,fatherly.

Greed sighed, his eyes warm, "Yeah...my three beautiful girls..." he crossed his arms, pride and affection swelling in his chest.

Sniff...sniff...

Greed rose an eyebrow, turning his head to see none other than Buccaneer with a blush on his cheeks and small tears at the corner of his eyes, "Hey what the-?! What are you crying for?!"

Buccaneer flushed, "...I can't...I can't believe it..." he furiously wiped at his eyes before he delivered a powerful automail fist straight at Greed's face, sending him crashing to the heavenly white ground as if a bear mauled him, "WHY DO ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN CHOOSE SUCH IDIOTS?!"

Greed's head was up in seconds, eyes blazing, "HEY! WHO'RE YOU CALLING AN IDIOT?! AND STOP OGLING MY WIFE DAMN IT!"

Buccaneer snorted, crossing his massive arms, "It's not fair...the world isn't fair..."

"You wanna fight ice bear?" Greed ripped off the sleeves of his coat, growling as Fu tried to stop him from starting a fight in heaven.

"Even if I fight you Homunculus, it will not change the fact that this world continues to be unfair!" Buccaneer threateningly raised his claw-like automail arm in the air.

The gentleman in white rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "Hm..." a small smirk grew on his face, "It appears to me your wife seems lonely Greed..." Kimblee grinned and what Greed saw in his mouth...oh he will-

"A Philosopher's Stone?!" Buccaneer and Fu exclaimed, momentarily forgetting about Greed.

"If by chance I am able to resurrect myself, I would like to volunteer to keep the lovely Miss Lena some company-"

Greed's Ultimate Shield covered fist was faster in his face than Kimblee could clap his hands, "DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL YA PERVERTS! HANDS OFF MY WIFE! YOU SHOLD HAVE BEEN SENT TO HELL WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING HERE?!"

Kimblee rubbed his sore jaw, thankful he couldn't suffer any drastic injuries, he was dead after all, "Interesting question indeed, you see, I've helped in defeating Pride in the last battle so I suppose dear Truth has proposed to overlook some of my mishaps,"

Greed deadpanned, "You call initiating a genocide "mishaps"?" Buccaneer comically crashed to the ground, muttering how life was unfair.

Kimblee scoffed, crossing his arms, "That alone is a question of perspective..."

Greed opted to show him through his fists alone what his perspective on the matter was.

Nobody makes goo-goo eyes at his wife and gets away with it, be it heaven or hell.

A little short something! Hope it was enjoyable :)