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"DAMN." I cursed, clapping my hands together and putting them to the ground. I made a giant pillar of earth come up to the building, and jumped on it successfully, speedily shifting the pillar to another building roof, jumping off it when I was only a few feet from the roof.
I zoomed after Ling, quickly appearing by his side next to Lan Fan. It only took one look to see that her arm was badly sliced open. It'd be useless.
"Ling, let me carry Lan Fan." I said, pushing Ling's hands away as I picked Lan Fan up gently so I could give her a piggyback ride.
"Let me-" Ling said until I gave him a black look.
"Due to inconveniences, I am unable to fight. Besides, he," I said, throwing my head to motion at the approaching Wrath, "Is too strong for me. Let me do something. We have to her away!" I whispered to Ling in an extremely harsh voice.
"You think you can get away?" Wrath said, coming at Ling with his drawn sword. I did a speed-walk as Ling and Wrath fought behind me, always moving closer to Lan Fan and I. So I hurried along as fast I could.
"Oh, I see you're no stranger to combat." I heard Wrath remark behind me, obviously to Ling. it was followed by more sounds of clashing swords and more fighting.
"Gluttony!" Wrath commanded, and I heard Gluttony's eerie laugh a few moments before Ling was knocked into me, extremely hard. I let out a cry in pain as I felt my lung wound open slightly, and a little blood came out of my mouth as Ling, Lan Fan, and I were knocked off the roof and through the windows of a neighboring building.
"AHH, hurts like a bitch." I complained, wincing as I picked myself and Lan Fan up. Glass poked through my skin, and I winced, glancing at Ling, who had amazingly landed on his feet.
I had apparently blocked most of the glass and cushioned Lan Fan's fall, so I wasn't feeling so hot.
"Now then." I heard Wrath's voice, and spun around to find him already next to the window, "No one can see us in here. How about answering some of my questions?" I grit my teeth, trying to hold myself together. Blood had stained my bandana that covered my face, and it was uncomfortable.
"Who are you people? And how do you know what's inside Gluttony? And why are you with them, Lynette?" Wrath asked. Ling looked at me in a mixture of surprise and betrayal.
"Damn." I said, tearing off my bandana from my face and wiping the blood off, "Wrath, stand down. I don't want you to hurt these people. These are my friends." I gasped, walking in front of Ling and narrowing my eyes to Wrath.
"But we have no use for these humans." Wrath said. I snarled at him.
"Well these "humans" are my friends, and you'll have to kill me before you kill them. I don't think Father would be happy about that, seeing as he is already missing Greed and Lust. Let me escape with them." I snarled.
"Let go of the girl. She is excess baggage. If you do, you'd have a better chance of escaping." Wrath said. My eyes widened in fury and anger until Ling stepped beside me, fuming with rage.
"Excess baggage?" He asked, "You are the highest person in all the land, correct? Fuhrer King Bradely, wasn't it?" There was a slight pause before he continued, "A king is to be for his people! There is no long without his people! King Bradely, you will never be a true king!" His voice clearly showed the rage he was feeling, a feeling I shared.
"Naive fool! There are no true kings in this world!" Wrath said, a sharp edge to his voice. I threw my head to look at the door to my right.
"Go." I whispered, and Lan Fan tossed a smoke bomb over my shoulder to land between Wrath and Ling and I. I grabbed Ling's hand and pulled him toward where I remembered the door was, praying to the gods my directional sense wouldn't fail me now. As the smoke faded, my directions were found to be accurate. But just as I got near the exit, a sword was throw right in front of me, almost hitting my left arm. I breathed a sigh of relief, well, until I realized that was Wrath's sword. I turned my head to look at Wrath uneasily.
"What's the matter?" He asked, a hand over his eyes. He soon removed them to reveal his hummonculus mark which was located on a scarred eye. "This eye still works!"

"Damn, he's relentless," I panted heavily as Ling and I ran through the streets, while I carried Lan Fan. My stamina might have increased over all the wandering around Central I've been doing, but that didn't help me when I was carrying maybe a hundred ten pounds of weight on my back. Gluttony had been following us, and I saw him behind us every now and then.
We had finally gotten into a narrow alleyway, where I pushed myself to go on, but I was slowing, anyway.
"My left arm..." I heard Lan Fan mutter.
"What's wrong?" Ling asked, worry in his voice.
"Young lord, I am no longer of any use to you." Lan Fan cried out, and I could feel she was in pain. On the other hand, I was a bit insulted, because I was the one going to get killed with her if we got behind.
"What are you talking about?" Ling demanded.
"If you keep concerning yourself about me, Young Lord, then you will fall as well." She gasped. I grit my teeth.
"There is no king without his people, "She continued, "But without their king, the people will have no where to go. Young Lord, you must live for the sake of our clan."
"I'm not leaving you behind!"
"There are any number of things that can be left behind, so for the greater good!" Lan Fan said. I heard her move her able arm to take out a kuni, aiming it at herself.
"Lan Fan!" Ling shouted as Lan Fan tried to stab herself. I knocked the kuni away, pissed off.
"YOU DUMBASS MORON!" I scolded, "NEVER GIVE UP! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!" Lan Fan flinched at my voice, which was neither too loud nor too soft.
"If you want to kill yourself that bad, that won't help at all!" I said fiercely, "Ling and I will still have to escape! That's actually really hard when we're talking about hummonculi! So, I have a better idea." I said. Ling looked at me urgently.
"What is it?!" He asked.
"Even if you're displeased with it, I will do it myself!" I said, afraid, "But Lan Fan, you remember how Edward Elric caught you?" I asked.
"You mean the arm?" She asked, alarm in her pained voice. I pointed to a dog up ahead.
"I have some rope with me." I said. Lan Fan nodded, while Ling didn't know what we were talking about.
I ran over to the dog and stopped in my tracks, calling the dog to me. It faithfully came to my side and I let Lan Fan down. I had tears in my eyes as I looked at her.
"I'm sorry." I choked out, taking out the rope from inside of my bloodstained, cut up uniform.
"I'm sorry."

"Please bear with it for now, I'll get you some medical aid as soon as I can." I promised, biting my lip. I had tied Ling's jacket to Lan Fan's now stub of an arm to keep the blood from gushing out, and we were currently in a sewer which we had escaped through. She looked at me.
"We fooled that monster." She said in her raspy, hurting voice. I nodded.
"Of course we did." I said. Lan Fan narrowed her eyes at me suspiciously.
"How... Did you know those monsters?" She gasped. I looked at her guiltily.
"I can't be all bad if I saved you guys. I promise, I'll explain soon." I said, "But for now, do you have any other injuries?" Lan Fan shook her head, shifting slightly in her sitting position. I coughed slightly, more blood coming out in little drops.
"You should tend to yours now." She said. I have her a pained smile and sat down next to her, proceeding to remove the remaining glass from my body. I winced as I pulled each piece out, especially when it came to the big pieces. I tore off the end of my white camisole I wore underneath my military uniform, turning to Lan Fan and wiping off all the blood on her face and on her hand.
"Better?" I asked, setting down the blood-soaked cloth and lighting it with the lighter I had received from the Colonel. Surprisingly, it wasn't damaged at all.
"Why are you helping me?" She asked. I smiled at her.
"Because I consider you a friend, and friends help each other." I said to her surprise. "Because if friends didnt help each other, who would?" I added the last part quietly, though I'm sure Lan Fan heard it.
"Yes." Lan Fan said in a very soft voice, "We humans only have each other."

I sat next to Ling, my hands over my ears and my head down. I felt horrible, hearing Lan Fan's muffled screams of pain while Doctor Knox tended to her arm stump.
We had currently been moved to a run-down abandoned house, where we had hid from the hummonculi.
"I'm sorry," Ed said, but Ling interrupted him.
"Don't misunderstand," he said, "I'm the one who decided to help you. It was in both our interests, so I worked together with you, that is all. I left the country knowing if I was going to seek immortality, I would have to be ready to make certain sacrifices." Ling clenched a fist, and I curled up tighter, my hands pushing on my ears so hard it hurt.
"No, I wasn't prepared for this." Ling said, "Lan Fan was."

We were all waiting by Lan Fan's bed even since she started to show signs of consciousness. Finally her eyes opened and me, being the closest to her, sighed heavily in relief.
"Lan Fan," I said, tearing up, "How are you feeling?"
"The trap wasn't all that bad," She said, smiling slightly at me, before turning her head to look at Ed, "But unlike you, I'm useless without my arm. I'll need a replacement."
Ed, apparently realizing what she was talking about, nodded, happy to oblige.
"I can set you up with a real good automail engineer," he said, flexing his automail hand. Lan Fan smiled at him.
"Good." She said. The Colonel left the room, and my eyes followed him for a slight moment before I saw Lan Fan turn to me.
"Thank you for looking after the Young Lord when I wasn't able to." She said. I shook my head.
"You were the one who saved us. I should be thanking you. So thank you. If there is anything I can do for you, please don't hesitate to ask." I said. She nodded ever so slightly.
"I believe you are not a bad person. Please keep an eye on the Young Master for me." She whispered, so only I could hear. I nodded, and changed the cloth on her forehead, letting my hand linger for a bit.
"Rest. You've done very well." I said. She nodded lightly again before closing her eyes, and I ushered everybody out of the room after pulling up the fresh sheets to cover Lan Fan.

"What is that?" Knox asked, looking over my head. Mustang, Ling, the Elric brothers, and I had gathered around a doorway to a room where we kept Gluttony. We were currently staring at Gluttony, who was pretty much a chubby lump wrapped in steel wires. I hid behind Ling, just in case Gluttony saw me or heard my name.
"It's a hummonculus, named "Gluttony"." Ling replied. gave him a weird look, but he ignored it.
"Apparently," Mustang said, "These guys have ties within a portion of the military senior staff ." Ling turned abruptly to face Mustang.
"Just a portion?" Ling exclaimed, "Far from it." Mustang turned to look at Ling curiously, his attention caught.
"There's a possibility that your leader, King Bradely, is a hummonculus." Ling finally said. I gulped. When Wrath knew I was here and that I let the word out, I'd be in even worse trouble. Damn, I see why he wanted to kill Ling now.
Everyone gasped at Ling's conclusion.
"There is an ouroboros tattoo on his patched eye." Ling said. I sighed. If I was going to get caught, might at well say something.
"He came at us with Gluttony." I said.
"It can't be!" Ed unconsciously gasped again.
"The head of our country is a hummonculus?" Al said, shocked.
"Then again..." Ling interrupted their panic, "Bradely doesn't have the same inhuman presence as Gluttony. His is the same as a regular human."
"But then... If the Fuhrer is a hummonculus, how is it he has a son? In the book it said hummonculi have no reproductive abilities." Al pointed out.
"But," Doctor Knox said, "Selim Bradely is adopted. Him and the Fuhrer have no blood relation." Everyone except me was shocked once again. I shivered, crossing my arms over my chest. I had changed into fresh clothes that Hawkeye had been kind enough to lend me, which were some casual easy to move in black pants, a red tanktop, and a thin black sweater. Note to self: when you get a chance, take Hawkeye shopping for new clothes to replace the ones I was wearing.
"Well, human or monster," Mustang resumed the conversation, "This'll just make it easier to pull him out of his seat." There we go, Mustang's goal to be Fuhrer. Classic.
"First," Mustang continued, "We need to get some information out of this guy. I'll take his philosopher stone too. It may be useful in treating my man." That's when everyone got riled up.
"Hey! Lan Fan lost her arm to obtain him!" Ling protested threateningly, getting closer to Mustang. "He's the lead to gainin immortality! We're taking him back to Xing!" Ling said. I saw no point in hiding myself, so I just stood there, watching them.
"Hey! We've been looking for a long time for a way to get our original bodies back ourselves!" Ed argued, getting in the little fight. "There's no way we'll let you run away with him!"
"That's right, Ling! You're an illegal alien!" Mustang said. The squabble continued until groaned, but no one paid attention to him except me.
"Ah, I can't keep up with all this anymore. Mustang, I'm going home." Doctor Knox said, exiting the house.
"Mustang?" I heard Gluttony say under the argument of Ling, Mustang, and the Elric brothers. Pissed off, I got I front of them.
"YOU DAMN IMBECILES!" I yelled, smacking them all upside the head hard, "STOP ARGUING! ALL OF YOU SHUT UP OR I'LL MAKE YOU ALL ICE CUBES TO PUT IN MY ICED TEA!" My little explosion silenced all of them, and they all looked pretty alarmed. I was just another terrifying woman, after all.
But, I think it was the thing behind me that scared them most.
"Roy Mustang!" I heard Gluttony's vengeful cry, and felt a shiver down my spine as I turned, only to see a portal open up on Gluttoy's stomach. I just sighed, trying to keep myself calm as I could feel the distressed, shocked, and fearful feelings from the people behind me.
That was when Gluttony took off pretty much half of the house in his portal along with the wires that bound him. I pushed everybody out of the doorframe and into the hallway, blocking the door with my arms.
I have to admit, Gluttony had reached max freakiness, especially with his ribs poking out. But my observation was interrupted by the second floor of the destroyed part of the house falling on us, but not really injuring anyone. But that'd make anyone soar in the morning, I thought as I shifted the boards off me. Luckily my cast was super strong, so it didn't break under tension.
"Lieutenant!" Mustang exclaimed, prying off Shao May, who had clung to his face, "Don't provoke him! He's after me!"
"Mustang!" Gluttony cried again, sucking up more with his portal. I gave a great shove to Mustang, Ed and Al, pulling them with me as we barely escaped from Gluttony's suction area. Ling was probably going to get Lan Fan.
"We've got no choice but to bring him down." Mustang said, pulling off his regular gloves to replace them with his striking gloves.
"But we went through so much to catch this hummonculus!" Al protested.
"We have to survive to make a change." I said, standing up, "And he knows our names and faces anyway. If we don't obliterate this meat bag, we're screwed." I said, saving the Colonel some breath.
"A rather blunt way of putting it, but yes." Mustang said, snapping his fingers and sending a fireball at Gluttony. I raised my left hand to cover my eyes at the brightness.
"Wow," I said, "That's gotta hurt."
But, as I expected, Gluttony inhaled the fire, perfectly fine afterward, leaving the brothers and Mustang dumbstruck.
"He swallowed..." Ed trailed off.
"The flame?" Al exclaimed. I nodded.
"NOW LOOKS LIKE A GOOD TIME TO RUN!" I yelled, leaping out of the way as Gluttony tried to vacuum in us, with everyone else close behind me. Mustang, Ed, Al and I took off to sprint to the forest.
"You're useless!" Ed yelled to Mustang.
"Well, then you try doing something!" Mustang shot back.
"For that matter, keep away! He's only after you, Colonel!" Al shouted.
"SO SPLIT UP, MORONS!" I yelled at all of them. So, we did. I followed Ed, choosing to distance myself from Mustang. I still treasured my life, after all.

"We fooled that dumbass." I chuckled as I heard Gluttony yell in the back ground. I helped Hawkeye lift Mustang into the car, attempting to set him down gently.
"Stupid Colonel." I said, paying no attention to the yells of rage from Gluttony.
"Sounds like he's really ticked off now." I heard Al say.
"Lieutenant, over here," I said, "Please take care of Lan Fan."
"You're telling me to tuck tail and leave, under these circumstances?" Mustang said, his voice coarse from the pain of his old injury.
"You're just going to slow us down!" I yelled at Mustang, pissed off.
"LEAVE!" Both brothers said simultaneously, also pissed.
"Seriously, you won't be of any use here." Hawkeye deadpanned. Mustang slumped dejected, and I snickered slightly.
"You half-brained Colonel. You have some business to take care of. We just can't let a hummonculus parade around as the leader of Amestris, now can we?" I said.
"The Fuhrer... Is a," Hawkeye said, shocked, but interrupted her.
"We'll talk about it later," said, before turning to Ling, Ed, Al and I, who stood outside the car, "Hurry and get in!" We all looked at each other and nodded.
"The car is full, right? Go on." Ed said easily.
"DUMBASS!" Doctor Knox exclaimed.
"We can't just go and leave you children on the battlefield!" Hawkeye retorted.
"Oh, so NOW I get treated like a child." I muttered under my breath.
"The people you're fighting are the military senior staff, right?" Ling said.
"We have to get some information out of that Gluttony guy." Ed stated.
"We're staying here and fighting him." Al said.
"The fact we're children has nothing to do with it." I added. Really, I was the only child here. The rest were already adolescents. It made me feel small.
"We were the ones who brought up this mission in the first place." Ed said, "Thank you for all your help up till now."
"Ed, Lynette," Hawkeye said, putting ammo in two guns and holding them out for Ed and I. I took mine without hesitation, making sure the safety latch was secured as I shoved it in my gun sheath Hawkeye had given me as a present to go with my uniform. I now had two guns, and both of them gleamed brightly at my sides.
"Take this with you." Hawkeye said to Ed, seeing his hesitation, "You know how to use it, right?"
"That's something to kill people with." Al said. I clucked my tongue.
"It's something to protect yourself with. Don't be an idiot and take it, so you won't get yourself killed if alchemy fails." I said, making sure my guns were all set in their sheaths. I had one on my left hip and another in a shoulder strap sheath by my chest. All set.
"I'll make sure to keep it with me." Ed said, taking the gun after a moment's debating. That's when we heard Gluttony go into another explosion of suction with his portal, sucking up trees fairly close to us and startling us.
"Come on guys, I want to kick me some hummonculus butt!" I said, taking off first to the woods. The rest followed soon after, Ling being last after telling Hawkeye to take care of Lan Fan.
But now, my blood was pumping quickly through my veins, and adrenaline raced through my system. I grinned to myself. This was going to be fun.

"Yeah, we said we'd fight, but that thing is seriously freaky." Ed announced quietly. We were currently hiding behind some bushes and trees, watching Gluttony's rage. I shrugged.
"His personality is different, too." Ling said, shivering slightly.
"Pfft. This is pathetic. I was more scared of my mom when she found out I had three C-'s than I am of this lump." I said boredly. Ed looked at me, surprised.
"I knew you came from a freaky family." He muttered. A vein in my head bulged as I gave him my ultimate black look of death.
"Say that again." I growled threateningly. He gulped.
"But how are we going to catch him?" Al interrupted out mini quarrel. Suddenly there was a rustle of bushes behind us, catching our attention.
Ling was immediately ready with his sword, me with my gun, but Ed and Al turned slightly slower.
"What is it?" Ed asked in a whisper. I cursed. At the top of a small hill behind us stood a dog, which seemed to have the body of a Doberman, yet it's fur was completely dark brown, lacking the pattern Doberman's usually had. I took the safety off my gun.
"Stop, Gluttony," The dog said in a loud voice, causing Gluttony to pause in his rage.
"I-it spoke!" Ed said. I never took my eyes off the dog, always keeping my gun pointed at it.
"Hey," The dog said as red lightning crackled around it, "Long time no see." It turned into Envy, who grinned eerily at Ed, "Fullmetal pipsqueak."
Ed ran at Envy, and jumped up to kick him.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A PEA-SIZED SHRIMP!?" He yelled in fury, but Envy easily dodged.
"Hey! Hey!" Envy said, waving frantically, "I didn't come here to fight. I just wanted to get Gluttony back. I have no reason to fight a pipsqueak-"
"THAT'S THE SEVENTH TIME!" Ed shouted, punching a tree hard enough to bend it. Envy dodged the attack, surprised, and landed on a tree branch of a neighboring tree.
"What are you talking about?" Envy asked.
"Two times here, and five times at the fifth laboratory you've called me a pipsqueak! You can't tell me you've forgotten!" Ed said vengefully, extremely pissed off. Envy sweat dropped and mumbled something under his breath before jumping off the branch and landing neatly on the ground as Gluttony approached him.
"WAIT!" Ed yelled.
"You're becoming a nuisance." I heard Envy say to Gluttony as I snuck up on them.
"Mustang was here! Gonna avenge Lust!" He said determinedly, "Swallow, swallow, swallow them all!"
"Not the Colonel, or the Elric brothers." Envy said to Gluttony. Our small group of Ed, Al, Ling, and I gathered in front of Envy and Gluttony a few yards away.
"You really need to include me in that list, too," I said, walking to the front of our group, "Because almost every time I end up in the hospital is because the hummonculi beat me up. I am a sacrifice too!" I said. Envy looked at me.
"And why are you here?" He asked. I smiled.
"Because I want to be, dumbass." I stuck my tongue out at him immaturely, using my left hand to pull down the bottom of my eyelid, in a taunting gesture.
"Flat-chested baby."
"I AM NOT FLAT CHESTED, YOU CROSS DRESSING FREAK!"
"Little girl."
"Transexual creep."
"Loud mouth tomboy."
"... I can't deny that." I sweat dropped, "But that doesn't make it any less true you have your own gender, because you're obviously not a guy or girl." I said, "And what's with that green hair? Are you cosplaying as a palm tree or something? And that outfit! Hideous!" I laughed obnoxiously, pissing Envy off.
"And what's with you? A dense, aloof tomboy girl with no sense of femininity! You're brain is seriously messed up! Your memory fails completely with directions! And not even to mention your weaknesses to care about people you don't even know that well! Talk about pathetic!" Envy said. I scoffed.
"I do have a sense of femininity! I just don't show it!" I protested sharply. Envy raised his eyebrows.
"Really? Since when?"
"Since I've fallen in love with someone!" I said mindlessly, surprising everyone. Hehe, I got control for a moment, the voice in my head laughed. My face got red as everyone stared at me blankly. I hid behind my group and pushed Ling forward.
"You have something to say, right? Ok, now say it!" I said, embarrassed as Ling walked forward. He sighed, but his gaze sharpened when he looked at Envy, changing the mood more serious.
"I've sensed this before," Ling said, "How many people are in you, hummonculus?" Envy's gaze hardened.
"You're the kid that crossed swords with Wrath, right?" Envy asked, leaning on Gluttony.
"Who are you calling "kid"?" Ling asked, his sword ready, "I am the twelfth son of the emperor of Xing, and my name is-"
"You can eat him." Envy said carelessly, patting Gluttony on the head. In a better mood, Gluttony started to chase after Ling, who ran away, freaked out by the monster chasing him.
"WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT!" Ling yelled as Gluttony chased him away. The Elric brothers and I merely watched him run away.
"I get it," Ed said smugly, cracking his knuckles.
"It looks like they can't take any action against us." Al said, also pleased. I laughed.
"In that case..." I said, watching as Gluttony chased Ling in front of us, clapping my hands and placing them on the ground to create a wall between Gluttony and Ling.
"Come on!" I said, dragging the Elric brothers with me as I approached Gluttony's side of the wall. "Ling! Take care of that palmtree for me!"

"I'm not allowed to eat you!" Gluttony said, constantly dodging the attacks of the Elric brothers. I just watched them, preserving my strength.
"I wanted to eat that closed eyed guy earlier!" Gluttony said, just as Al trapped Gluttony by holding his arms back.
"Caught you!" Al said, but Gluttony flipped Al over and flung him to the wall, exactly where I was standing.
"HOLY SHIT!" I yelled as my jacket was caught by Ed, who Al had knocked into. All three of us crashed through the wall, landing on the other side where Envy and Ling were fighting.
"Hey! Stay out of my way-" Ling started, but was interrupted by Envy attempting to punch him. Ling dodged and sliced off Envy's let with his sword, and Envy landed back-first on the ground a few feet from us, making the ground shake. I pulled myself up, uninjured because luckily Al made the hole that I flew through, so the only thing I felt was landing on the other side.
Envy grinned and transformed in a flash of red light to look like Lan Fan as Ling was about to stab Envy. Ling hesitated, giving Envy a chance.
"Gluttony!" Envy yelled in Lan Fan's voice. Gluttony appeared in front of the heap Al, Ed and I were laying in. Alarmed, I ran at Gluttony from behind as the Elric brothers ran around Gluttony.
I can do this, I told myself as I ran. I had only done a risky trick like this successfully once, and that time I almost took my head off. But, I think it was my adrenaline that made my next move possible.
I leaped in the air and vaulted off Gluttony's head, flying over Gluttony and landing by Ling just moments before the Elric brothers reached Ling. We all tried to get away, but it was no use. Envy saw that, and grabbed onto my leg in attempt to pull us out, but Gluttony's suction portal sucked us up in the blink of an eye, leaving Gluttony, Al, and the bottom half of Envy's body behind, silence drifting through the air.
Then, all was black.

Hey guys! HOORAY FOR LONGER CHAPTERS! WOOHOO~ Finally! It's getting exciting! Action!
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