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My eyes opened to find myself in blackness, sitting in some kind of liquid. I popped up and shivered. This must be Gluttony's stomach, I thought uneasily, grabbing a big stick. I used the fire for light as I lit the stick, since I didn't have the materials for a torch.
"AHH, so tired~" I complained to myself as I walked a bit. It was then I found a particularly large lump of rock, and when I ran my hand over it, I felt the smoothness of the surface. My eyes were drooping from being so barely awake, so I climbed on the rock and found a comfortable place to sleep.
I laid there, curled up, using my arm as a pillow, taking a nap while the blood that had soaked my clothes dried up, the fire illuminating the area I was in. I was resting perfectly, surprisingly not the slightest uncomfortable.
I got to stay like that for about two hours, well, until my little nap was interrupted by a tremor in the ground and an extremely loud roar.
"Who dares to interrupt my nap?" I muttered darkly, but the tremors slid me down from the rock and into the blood below.
I stood up slowly, wringing the blood out of my hair and my clothes before I walked toward where the noise was coming from, grabbing my lit stick so I could see.
I came just in time to see Envy, in his giant monster form, about to eat Ed. I didn't care much about that, but I was going to murder Envy for waking me up.
I climbed to the top of a nearby tall rock, standing at the peak with a dangerous look on my face.
"YOU... I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" I snarled loudly, bringing Ling and Envy's attention to me. Ling approached my rock, but I ignored him.
"YOU DAMN BASTARD!" I shouted, taking out one of my guns and shooting Envy in the eye multiple times until my gun ran out.
"DIE!" I roared, clapping my hands together and using the rock beneath me to make an extremely large crossbow. I clapped my hands again to use the rock below me to make a pillar, boosting up a bowl of blood to me. I clapped my hands to use the iron in the blood to make three razor sharp arrows, which I proceeded to launch one by one at Envy, causing him quite a lot of pain.
"What's got you so mad?" Ling shouted up to me. I looked down at him, and he saw the kind of black look I sported.
"He woke me up from my nap." I said blackly, making Ling sweat drop. But from where I was, he looked like a small action figure. Meaning he was far down.
But I was so caught up in how pissed off I was, I ignored him and used a pillar of the rock to let me off the rock, then proceeding to use all the rock from the surrounding rocks to make a gigantic doorframe-like thing big enough to fit Envy's monster head in, which Envy's head was currently stuck in. I laughed evilly, enjoying the revenge as I proceeded to use the iron in the blood below to make a ginormous blade to fit in the makeshift guillotine, which easily sliced Envy's head off.
Ling was soon at my side, looking at me like I was insane. I pretty much was, because then I turned to him, pointed to the now-headless Envy, and smiled.
"That's what happens when someone wakes me up during a nap." I said gleefully. Ling paled and took a step away.
"How did you... Is that even possible?!" Ling asked, shocked. I nodded sweetly.
"Just takes a lot of vigor to make something that big." I said, walking over to Envy's head, which was fading into ash, leaving a busted-up Ed lying on the ground, the blood soaking his clothes. I clucked my tongue and lifted Ed up into my arms. He was surprisingly heavy, probably due to his automail and the fact he was bigger than me, so it took some strength to move him to the rounded piece of rock where there was a fire in the center. I laid him down near the fire, sitting by him.
"Ed? Are you alive?" I asked, poking his face. His face twitched, and then his eyelids rose for his golden eyes to gaze at me.
"Ling! He's alive!" I said to Ling, who cautiously approached the rock. I looked at Ed and tucked the hair out of his face, using my thumbs to wipe off most of the blood that lingered on his face.
"Lynette." Ed said, trying to sit up. I gently pushed him down, smiling at him.
"I'll be right back." I winked, and got up, looking at Ling, who had sat near me, "Ling, watch Ed. I'm going to talk to Envy." Before either guy could stop me, I strode over to Envy's body, which had almost healed its, heh, head injury.
I used a rock pillar (also making safety railings) to get up far enough to look Envy in the eye.
"Why you..." He growled. I shook my head at him.
"Father's gonna kill you~" I sang cheerfully, but my gaze quickly sharpened and I gave him a scary look, "If I don't kill you first."
"We're not gonna get out of here, so what does it matter?" Envy said. I rolled my eyes.
"Moron. That's why I'm here. All guys are idiots if you can't realize the way out." I sighed exaggeratedly.
"You know a way out?!" Envy exclaimed. I sighed again.
"Well, I have an idea, but it's not entirely complete." I said, "I'll need a few things and some time to brainstorm with Ed." I said.
"What do you need?" Envy asked. I took out my notebook, lucky I had sealed it in a waterproof cover. I wiped blood off my hands and took my notebook out, opening it to the page where I had sketched the transmutation circle from the Xerxes ruins, showing it to Envy.
"I want you to fetch the missing pieces of the transmutation circle in this picture." I said, pointing to my sketch, "I know for a fact the fragments are in Gluttony's stomach. I saw one, and the rest are likely hidden in the direction Ling and Ed came from. Please get them." I said.
"Are you sure this'll work?"
"I'm almost a hundred percent sure."
"Almost?"
"I've only done this once, and it was sucessful, so we got a good chance. Now, shoo, get the fragments." I said, shooing Envy off. He started to turn, but I made him pause for a minute.
"Envy," I said, "When you're done, can you please change out of that disgusting form? I now see why you refer to your other form as "cute", because that monster form is just so damn ugly." I said, hurriedly clapping my hands and lowering the pillar to the ground. With that, Envy stomped off, probably pissed at my last comment.
I jogged over to the stone where Ed and Ling sat, and I took a seat next to Ed.
"My pocky survived!" I shouted gleefully, taking out a beat up cardboard box from a pocket on the inside of my sweater by my chest. The box was beat-up and soaked with blood, but the pocky itself comes in a protective bag. So it was perfectly fine.
"Is that ok to eat?" Ling asked uneasily. I nodded and took out the unopened bag that contained pocky, flaunting it in the guys faces.
"I'll give you one pocky stick, but that's it. The rest is mine, because I haven't had any food. You two have had a leather boot stew, and I'm starving." I said, handing them both a stick. It was quickly gone, and both guys sighed contentedly.
Ed shifted on where he laid, uncomfortable. I rolled my eyes and scooted closer to Ed, gently lifting his head and letting it rest on my lap.
"Moron." I flicked Ed's head, and he winced. I looked at Ling, who had his lips pursed, displeased. For a moment, I mistook it as jealously, but I shook that idea off. Nah, I'm just overestimating my beauty.
"Now, Ed, Ling, you must've realized this was a defective portal of Truth." I said. Both looked at me, shocked.
"How do you know about that? And about the stew?" Ling asked, alarmed. I shrugged.
"I think, instead of contacting Al with your telepathy, you contacted me in my sleep," I joked, looking down at Ed, who was blushing furiously. I hid a smile at his cuteness, mentally squealing. Puppy love~ the voice said. I am not in love, he's just adorable. I shot back. Don't forget sexy~ the voice drawled. WILL YOU QUIT WITH THE SEXY! I growled back at it.
"So," I continued, ignoring the voice in my head, which I deemed was not normal, "This is between Truth and Reality. So, imagine there are these two doors, and a hallway connecting these two doors." I said, using my hands as an example for the two doors. "We're here," I said, pointing to outside the door I referred to as Truth. "We're outside the doorway of Truth. And, reality is on the other side of the hallway. We have to pass through Truth to get through the hallway and into reality. Do you get it, Ed?" I said. Ling looked a little lost, but Ed was following along perfectly.
"But to go through the Gate, we have to do human transmutation." Ed said. I nodded.
"Right. But, this time we don't have to make a human. What is the process of alchemy?" I asked. Ed looked at me cautiously.
"Comprehension, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction." Ed said. I grinned.
"Right now we're comprehending, so all we have to do is deconstruct ourselves here and reconstruct ourselves on the other side. And we can use this transmutation circle." I said, showing Ed my notebook page with the sketch on it.
"The transmutation circle from the Xerxes ruins," Ed said, surprised. I nodded again.
"Exactly." I said. Ling gave me a suspicious look.
"How do you know so much?" He asked. I laughed sheepishly, trying to hide the little twang of pain I felt in my heart.
"I was going to use this method to go home." I said, surprising Ed and Ling.
"Oh," Ed said sadly. I looked down at him.
"What if we all end up in your world?" Ling asked, shocking me. I looked at him, speechless.
"That'll be interesting," Ed said. I paled greatly, sweat beading on my forehead.
"My mom must have the whole military out searching for me," I said, extremely nervous and scared, "She's seriously going to murder me when I get back." From the look on both guys faces, I could tell they didn't want to run into my mother.
"Anyway, I have a question," Ed said. I gestured him to go on.
"You said you were in love with someone. Who?" He asked randomly. My face lit up beet red and I choked on my pocky for a moment, before calming down and swallowing.
"It just slipped off my tongue," I tried to excuse my words, but Ed persisted.
"Is it the same as you're fangirl crush?" He asked. I denied it quickly, almost too quickly.
"You have to tell me anyway since I won the bet." Ed said. I looked at him in shock.
"How do you know?"
"Scar said he was looking for me, not you." Ed said.
"So? Doesn't mean you're more popular! It just means the gossip with you was in his area!"
"No, the gossip about me reached him first. Tell me."
"I'm going to check when we get back, then I'll tell you if you actually had won." I said. Ed huffed.
"Fine. But that still doesn't answer my first question."
"I THOUGHT I MADE IT OBVIOUS I WASN'T GOING TO ANSWER YOUR FIRST QUESTION, DUMBASS!"
"Stop arguing!" Ling said, pausing us. He looked at me with narrowed eyes, and my instincts told me that he was about to say something that would be very harmful.
"What connections do you have with the hummonculi?" Ling asked. Ed was shocked as he looked up at me, and I felt the same kind of pressure as I did when my parents got extremely pissed at me and threatened to take away my sweet Internet. I gulped, and sighed.
"I guess I owe you two the truth. Ling, promise you will tell Lan Fan for me, because I promised her the truth too." I said to both guys's extreme shock. Wow, I guess the more people found out, the more shocked they'd be.
"Please understand. Under certain circumstances, I was forced to work with the hummonculi." I said. Ed pushed himself off my lap and looked at me, betrayal on his face.
"You..." Ling said, jumping into attack position. Ed joined him, and both emanated a betrayed feeling.
"Why?" Ed's simple question stung like hellfire.
"They did something for me that you hopefully won't find out until much, much later in your life time. They protected someone special to me, someone I'd put my life on the line for, so I did. They helped me figure out how i could get home, and who brought me here. They were threatening Gracia and Elicia, too." I got on my knees, and put my head in my hands as tears rolled down my cheeks. "I'm too weak to defeat all of the hummonculi by myself. There are too many things I'd ruin. I'm too weak to fight them off, and I couldn't ask for your help. But, besides fighting, the only other way to guarantee their safety is to protect you guys from the inside. I know everything about your world, it's past, present, and future. I know much more than you can ever fathom. And the best place for me to be right now is by the hummonculi, where I can protect everyone from the inside of the source. I'm useless in fighting, so this is the only way I can help. Besides, I've only helped you so far. I'm going to get myself killed, but my attacks from inside are the most effective. I'm sorry if I have lied to you, and I understand if you don't trust me. But I didn't want your trust in the first place." I looked up, into Ed's eyes, "You promised," I hiccuped, "You wouldn't trust me. I didn't want to hurt you, or you, Ling. I'm sorry, but I guess I have to get my hands dirty to be of some use to you." I took deep breaths, stopping my breathless sobs. I wiped the tears from my eyes and staggered to my feet.
"Let me get us all out of here. Then I'll go back home. There's no use of my presence here if you guys hate me. The only reason I've stayed so far is because of you, Ed. I promised, and I've kept that promise so far, and will continue to keep it until you discard me. I'm sorry, I'll go help Envy move the things now." I said, wiping my eyes as I walked over to the edge of the stone. Truthfully, I was heartbroken. Seeing Ed give me that betrayed face, it hurt more than anything I've ever experienced. My chest throbbed painfully, but I tried to ignore it, about to step off the rock.
That's when two arms wrapped around my waist, holding me firmly in place. One was metal, one was flesh, both together had an iron grip. I struggled, but in vain.
"Why didn't you tell me before?" I heard Ed whisper to me. "You were suffering all this time, why didn't you tell me? It's alright, I understand." Ed said. My eyes widened as I jumped out of Ed's grip, into the blood. I got up and climbed back on the rock, standing up to face Ed.
"Since when were you so mature?" I asked, alarmed. I narrowed my eyes and poked Ed. "You don't usually handle things this well, shrimp."
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MIDGET SO TINY YOU COULD STEP ON HIM?!"
"Ok, that's Ed. I still don't understand why you're so cool about this. Ling," I said, turning to look at him, "Don't you at least want to kill me?"
"Truthfully, no. You've done so much against the hummonculi, and it looks like you're only doing that to protect the people you care about." Ling shrugged. I glanced back and forth from both guys, dumbstruck.
"I think you guys hit your heads too hard. Now, go and sleep. I'll wake you up when I got the transmutation circle all done." I said, pushing Ed gently over to where Ling stood, making them both lay down. They both laid there quietly, and I wiped the tears from my eyes, a smile coming onto my face as I moved to the opposite side of the fire.
They understood, the voice said, amazed. I know, I didn't think they were that mature, I replied. But, it turns out fine in the end, no? The voice said. Yeah, I thought, they accepted me, through my mistakes. The voice giggled all girly like, You admit you're falling in love with Ed? I blushed. I STILL REFUSE! The voice huffed, Aww~
"Here you go." Envy said, setting down a fourth giant fragment. Now I had all the missing pieces. Yay!
"Okay. Awesome, thanks!" I said as Envy's form was enveloped in red lightning, soon to reveal he was in his casual palm tree form. He peeked over my shoulder as I sketched the remaining fragments on to the paper, piecing it together like a puzzle.
"Perfect!" I said, looking at my finished product. I retrieved a stick from the fire, then used charcoal to make the human transmutation circle. To draw it big enough to fit all of us took me a while, and since I'm somewhat of an artist, everything had to be to scale and absolutely perfect before I ushered everyone over to it.
"Envy," I said, turning to the hummonculus, "I'll need to borrow some energy from your philosopher stone." Envy nodded and I had him step in the middle of the circle, and everyone else stepped in after me.
"Are you sure about this?" Ling asked cautiously. I smiled at him.
"Would you rather be stuck here and rot until you die or come back with us?" I said, making Ling hurriedly get in the circle. I looked unsurely at Ed.
"Can you do the transmutation?" I asked, "I'm nervous I'll mess something up. I've never attempted human transmutation, even if I have seen and gone through the Gate." Ed shrugged and got into my place, and the air was tense with anticipation as we all watched Ed clap his hands and kneel down.
"Here we go." He said, placing his hands on the circle. It started to glow blue, soon changing into a bright purple as a giant eye opened up underneath us. It startled me, having not seen the eye before, but I forced myself to stay calm as little black hands started to grab me. I squeezed my eyes shut, letting the hands take me away, all because of my trust in Ed.
"Welcome back." I heard Truth's voice say. I popped up, fully awake, looking at Truth gleefully.
"MY WORLD DOMINATION BUDDY!" I cried happily, running over and glomping Truth. It sweat dropped at my cheeriness.
"Thank you a lot for the memory-erasing thing with Hughes." I said, letting Truth go. It nodded.
"You're welcome." It said.
"So, I'm sorry I have to cut this reunion short, but I really need to get back with Ed, Ling, and Envy. You've been an awfully wonderful me/friend so far, so thanks!" I said, daring to kiss Truth quickly on the cheek, before drawing away and waiting in front of the Gate. I knocked on it hard.
"Hello? Little black hands? Come and get me!" I said just as the door opened widely. I turned back to Truth and grinned as the black hands wrapped around my body.
"Stay cool, myself! Bye bye!" I waved until the door closed on me.
I was suddenly falling, falling, and this time, I boredly sighed as I waited to reach the memory stuff. My brain was soon filling up with information, a headache arriving as my head got more and more and more full, until my headache worsened to the point of blowing my head apart.
I reached the Truth, and suddenly everything made sense. It was all not as thrilling to me, since it was the second time, but I still somewhat enjoyed it. Soon it was over, and everything went black.
More sleep for me!
My head was pounding as I groaned and propped myself up on my arms, yawning. Tears of sleepiness gathered in my right eye but I wiped it away, rubbing my eyes and stretching my arms and legs.
But something didn't feel right. I looked to see all the guys lying beside me, unconscious, so I wasn't missing anybody. So what's wrong?
I squinted into the light, my eyes adjusting quickly to the brightness. I looked around, and the truth struck me hard.
I was in my home town.
Hey guys! OH MY GOD YAY! I really wasn't planning this, but Lynette is back in her world! With Ed, Ling, and Envy! WOW! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! MAJOR CLIFFIE! I'm not going to say too much :) how do you think the story is? IT'S AWESOME RIGHT NOW IN MY VIEW!
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