Lily: KONNICHIWA MINA-SAN! WELCOME TO CROSSING WORLDS CHAPTER 6!
Snowfur: Yay. Time to get killed.
Ed: I'm glad I'm finally going to get some screen time.
Arin: Lucky you.
Ed: Shut up and let me enjoy this moment.
Lily: I'm excited to kick some homunculi in the face!
Myra: YAYYYY! :3
Al: *meow emits from his armor* Hehehe...
Ed: ALPHONSE! DID YOU PICK UP ANOTHER CAT?!
Al: Maybe...
Snowfur: Al, I like cats as much as the next person, but you've got to stop this! There are-
Lily: OVER NINE THOUSAND!
Snowfur: *sighs* -cats in the recording office.
Arin: We're going to have to get rid of them.
Myra: But they're kawaii!
Al: *sniffs* YOU GUYS ARE MEAN!
Arin: Ed, do the disclaimer while we take out the cats.
Ed: Okay. A-HGaming does NOT own FMA. Funimation and other important people do.
Lily: *sneezes and blows away cat hair* ENJOY THE CHAPTER!
The three just stare blankly at the murderous suit of armor blankly, and Al punches him in the side of the face. 66 falls to the ground with a loud crash. Myra bursts out laughing, and Arin lets a small smile slip. Al continues to stare blankly as the other suit of armor gets up slowly and looks over to them. "Why you…" he says and gets into a fighting stance. "Why won't you let me cut you up?!" 66 lunges towards the three and they scatter in different directions. "You jerks!" 66 yells, swinging at Myra, catching her off guard. Arin snaps and knocks him over, giving Myra time to get away. The armor gets up again and this time heads for Al.
"What do you expect me to say?" Al asks, blocking his blow. "Al, look out!" Myra yells as Al backs into a stone, knocking him clean off of his feet. 66 cackles and raises his knife to get a hit on Al. Myra growls angrily. She reaches down and grabs something off of her belt; a water gun. Her signature fighting weapon is a water gun. It may not seem too effective, but she while shooting, she uses her alchemy to make the water denser, strong enough in fact to cut through steel. She cocks the gun, and puts a finger to her transmutation circle shaped earring. Lightning crackles and she shoots, hitting 66's helmet and knocking it straight off.
Of course, the two girls knew that there was no head underneath the helmet, but Al had no idea. He stands up as the armor turns towards Myra. "You b*tch! You made my helmet fall off." Arin steps in front of Myra in a defensive stance. "Your body is…" Al trails off, staring at 66. He laughs and says, "You see, there was a little incident that occurred a little while ago. Let me tell you the story of a butcher named Barry." The armor says. The battle had come to a complete standstill. "Once upon a time, in Central City, there was a butcher named Barry. Barry loved cutting meat up more than anything in the world. But Barry got tired of chopping, so he found something new to cut up; humans." Al lets out a small gasp. "Eventually Barry was caught, but after he had killed 23 victims! Barry was sent straight to the gallows for murder and everyone lived happily ever after! At least, that's the version everyone knows." Arin spots Al shift, and she realizes that he was starting to piece it together.
"But there's more to this story. Y'see, Barry didn't actually die at the gallows like he was supposed to. Some people spared him on the condition that he'd guard a certain building. They took away his body and trapped his soul in a metal body." Myra tenses as 66 laughs. "That's right! He's standing right in front of you! I'm Barry the Chopper!" he yells. Alphonse tilts his head slightly and asks, "Who?" Barry just stares at him in shock. "I'm from a small village in the east, so I don't know about famous murderers in Central." Arin smiles and decided to play along. She drops her stance and says innocently, "I was off training with Myra, so I probably wasn't around when you were popular." Myra nods, making Barry even more depressed. "…okay, so maybe you haven't heard of me, but aren't you all a little surprised by my body? It's not every day you see a living suit of armor!" he exclaims. "Yes it is." Myra says, as Al takes off his helmet. Barry screams and yells, "AAAAAAGH! HOW'D YOU DO THAT?! YOU'RE A FREAK!" Al sweat-drops. "Hey…you're hurting my feelings." He mutters. "Oh! So you're just another inmate. Don't scare me like that!" Barry says, sighing. Myra laughs as Al fumes. "I'm not a criminal!" he yells.
"You're not? Then what happened to you?" Barry asks. "When my physical body was lost, my older brother bonded my soul to this suit of armor." Al explains, not getting into too much detail. Barry stares at Al for a few seconds, and then bursts out laughing. "HAHAHA! A brother! That's…AHAHAHA!" Barry dissolves into laughter as Al shifts. Arin and Myra tense, knowing exactly what was about to happen. I can't let him believe that…There's no way I will! Myra thinks, and glares at Barry. "Sorry, it's nothing. By the way, do you trust your big brother?" he asks, and Alphonse immediately responds, saying, "Of course! He risked his life trying to save me!" Barry lets out another laugh. "My my, ain't brotherly love beautiful…even if that love isn't real!" he exclaims with an evil glint in his soul-fire eyes. "Wh-What do you mean?" Al asks hesitantly.
"Well, are you really brothers?" Barry asks. Al huffs. "Of course! Though…our personalities are totally different, and even though I'm the younger brother I'm latter than he is, but-!" Barry cuts him off. "No! That's not what I mean! What if…" he pauses dramatically for effect. "What if your personality and memories were all created by your 'big brother?'" Al suddenly freezes in place, letting the thought sink in. Myra steps forward, seething with anger. "How dare you even say such a thing! Ed loves Al-kun very much, and he sacrificed so much for him! No matter what you say, they'll always be close brothers!" she yells. "M-Myra's right! And that's not possible! There's no doubt that I'm a human being named Alphonse Elric!" Al yells, pointing at himself. Barry laughs again. "What the hell is a 'soul' anyway? We can't even see it, so how can you prove it's real? Maybe everyone around you is lying to you! Think about it. What proof do you have that you were even human! Where's your meat?!"
~~~POV CHANGE~~~
And so, the two sides clash. Lily runs forward and activates the circles on her hand, lessoning the gravitational pull underneath her feet and jumps above the homunculi and lands behind them. Snowfur, on the other hand steps back and aims carefully. As expected, the homunculi turn behind them and lash out at Lily, and she manages to block Lust and Envy's attacks with her two daggers. Gluttony heads towards Snowfur, who readjusts her aim and fires at him. The arrow hits him in the arm, and light crackles on the head as her all-familiar blue flames start to spread on his body. He cries out in pain as he tries to pull the arrow out of his arm. Before the fire could spread too far, Snowfur launches herself on top of Gluttony's head and nocks another arrow. She jumps off of his head and aims for the ground between Envy and Lust. She shoots, and fire spreads underneath the two homunculi's feet. They both jump up to avoid the flames and Lily jumps after them, slicing right through their abdomen with her two blades. The two girls land right next to each other and Lily smiles. "And that's how you win symmetrically!" Lily exclaims.
"Ow! That hurt you bastards!" Envy exclaims as he rises to his feet, fully healed. The other two homunculi rise as well, also fully healed. Lily and Snowfur go into a defensive stance as the homunculi attack.
Lust extends her nails and aims for Snowfur. Snowfur ducks under the nails, and shoots a line of cold flames at Lust. She gets up, only to be greeted by pain. White hot, burning pain. While distracted, Gluttony had gone after her and sunk his teeth into her shoulder. She lets out a bloodcurdling scream. Snowfur touches her wristbands together and shoots more fire at Gluttony. Her releases her shoulder and steps back, the fire spreading over him. She staggers back, her other hand on her shoulder to try to minimize the bleeding. Her back meets a wall and she leans against it. A very familiar fingernail extends at her, barely touching her throat. Snowfur looks in front of her and sees Lust, who was smirking.
Meanwhile, Lily was fighting off Envy. They were slashing at each other with equally matched blows. Lily jumps over Envy again and slashes down with her daggers, and Envy transforms his arm into a blade and blocks her attack. Purple lightning trails from the circles on her hands to the point where the two blades meet and it creates an ear piercing screech. Envy immediately steps back and covers his ears as the sound starts to dissipate. Lily steps back as well, only to be met by Gluttony, who was still on fire. He rams into her, the fire now on her as well. She could feel the fire burning into her skin. It felt as cold as ice, but the fire still burned her instead of freezing her. She yells out in pain, clutching her arm. Red sparks start to appear around her arm, but it didn't heal fast enough to stop the fire from burning. Gluttony was engulfed in the flames, now starting to turn into ash.
Then, Lily gets an idea. Her alchemy was specialized in manipulation, specifically in waves. If she used the radiation coming off of the fire to her advantage, she could 'throw' it at Envy. She activates the transmutation circles on her hand and attempts to use her idea. Lily had only tried this type of her alchemy a couple of times before, so she hadn't perfected it. She extends her hand out and she could feel the radiation building around her. She lets out a small cough; she knew that intense radiation could cause serious illnesses. I don't think I can hold it much longer… She thinks. So, Lily decides to take a chance and throws the radiation at Envy.
As soon as the radiation hits him, Envy cries out. Burn marks and welts immediately starting forming on his skin. Red sparks emit form him and the burns heal. Envy curses at her. "You two are going to pay." He says through gritted teeth. "Calm down Envy. We aren't supposed to kill them. You don't want to get Father angry, do you?" Lust says, retracting her nail. Snowfur takes large breaths, trying to calm herself. Envy glares at Lust. "So I can't eat them Lust?" Gluttony says, now fully healed. Lust shakes her head. "No Gluttony, not now."
Envy walks up to Lily and kicks her in the side. She yelps and coughs, then glares at Envy. She didn't have enough strength to fight back. The fire had spread over nearly all her body, and it took all of her willpower not to faint. Envy laughs. "Come, they don't have enough strength to fight back. We can leave to take care of the Fullmetal pipsqueak and the rest of his entourage." He says. Lust nods and calls Gluttony over, and the homunculi leave the room.
Lily looks over at Snowfur and gasps. "Are you alright?" She asks weakly. Snowfur laughs and says, "You're one to talk." She shakily raises her hands and touches her wristbands together, and the fire that had spread on Lily extinguishes. Lily lets out a breath. "Th-Thanks." She says, and slowly raises a hand to give Snowfur a thumbs-up. She crawls over to her friend, and takes a good look at her wound. "Gluttony did a number on you, didn't he?" She says. Snowfur nods. "Thankfully he didn't cut all the way through. I got him before he was able to bite all the way." She says. Lily then gets an idea. She takes off her cape, and motions for Snowfur to move her hand. She takes her hand off the cut, and Lily wraps the cape around the wound and ties it tightly. Blood quickly soaks into the material.
"It's the best I can do." Lily says sheepishly. Snowfur looks at her friend and smiles. "You didn't need to do that." She says. Lily shakes her head. "Yes I did! You could die from blood loss with that cut. And I don't need it; I am immortal after all." She says, smiling at the last part. Snowfur laughs. "Alright, Miss Immortal, let's go to the others outside the lab. Envy's gonna blow it up soon." Snowfur says and attempts to get up. She staggers back as her vision gets blurry. Lily catches her and puts her uninjured, automail arm around her neck. She chuckles. "Don't be in such a rush." Snowfur blushes in embarrassment. "Yeah, I'm not used to nearly getting killed yet." She says. Lily furrows her eyebrows. "I don't know why you're so surprised. This is anime after all." She says and the two start to exit the laboratory and head to their friends.
~~~YAY! IT'S ED'S FIRST POV!~~~
"As I told you before, I don't know much about alchemy or the philosopher's stone." 48 says, as a helmet on the ground. Ed growls in frustration. "Then what's the point of talking?!" he snaps. "I don't know about the stone, but I know about who made it." The helmet says, and Ed lets out a small gasp. "Who are they?" He asks. "They are-,"
48 gets interrupted by two long spears bulging into his blood seal, silencing him. Ed's eyes immediately dart to where the spears came from. "That was close." A woman says, with pale skin and dark flowing hair. The spears were coming out of her fingers. Wh-What's with that woman?! Ed thinks, his eyes widening. "48, you shouldn't talk about things you aren't supposed to." The woman says with a grin. "Man, what's the Fullmetal pipsqueak doing here?" A man? Boy? Ed couldn't tell the gender. He also tenses at the short remark. The man/boy/thing sighs. "Well, we'll have to fix that, won't we Lust?"
"Yes we will Envy." The woman, now identified as Lust says. She sighs. "What a troublesome child." She says, and throws the helmet to the side. "B-Big brother!" 48's brother says from the chest piece of the armor. "Damn you; we can still fight! Give us a new body!" He yells. Envy smirks and picks up the sword they used in the battle. "Give us a new body! Give us-!" the pleas were silenced by Envy stabbing the blood seal with the sword. "Just shut the hell up before you say something else you'll regret!" Envy yells, now annoyed.
"God, do you realize you almost gave us away? And you nearly killed two of our precious human sacrifices! You don't have any clue what that means, do you?! You complete moron! Say something!" Envy exclaims, furiously stabbing at the seal. Lust clears her throat. "Envy, he's already dead." She says. Envy drops the sword and crosses his arms. "Figures. He had no backbone whatsoever." Envy turns to the empty armor plate. "Really. He's so weak it makes me sick." Ed just sits on the ground, watching the entire thing happen. Who do these people think they are? They just killed two lives! How dare they! Ed screams in his mind. He sends Envy a nasty glare. Envy sees this and chooses to ignore it. "Well, it's nice to meet ya, Fullmetal runt." Envy says. Ed tenses. "I gotta hand it to ya for making it this far. But you saw some things that you shouldn't have." Envy leans in closer to Ed, and Ed backs farther into the wall. "Maybe I should kill you after all." Ed curses and stands up using the strength he has left. He throws a strong kick at Envy. Envy takes a step back. "How cute, the little guy has some fight in him." Envy smiles. "Too bad we have to fight him now. I didn't wanna get hurt." Tick marks appear on Ed's head. "QUIT CALLING ME SMALL!" Ed yells and claps his hands. "YOU STARTED THIS FIGHT, SO I HOPE YOU'RE-!"
Pop! Ed looks down at his automail arm to see that it had gone limp. "Wh-WHAAAAAT?!" He yells. At a time like this?! He screeches internally. "Looks like your automail's busted." Lust comments. Ed deadpans. "Lucky me!" Envy says happily. He then kicks Ed in the stomach and Ed staggers back and falls to the ground, spitting up blood. "You should be glad your arm fell off. It spared you from getting the crap kicked outta ya. Don't ever forget that we let you live." Envy says and Ed's vision turns to black.
~~~POV CHANGE BACK TO LILY AND SNOWFUR~~~
Lily and Snowfur trudge through the hallways of Lab 5, heading to the exit. Lily was starting to get worried for her friend. Snowfur's breathing was getting heavier and more pained. Lily tries to walk faster without hurting Snowfur further, when she hears a voice. "Ooooohh….I smell food." Gluttony says, stepping out of the shadows. Lily deadpans. "AND THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!" Lily yells, completely enraged and done with this. She carefully sets Snowfur down and turns back to Gluttony. She growls angrily.
"I. AM. DONE! I AM COMPLETELY DONE WITH YOU STUPID HOMUNCULI, AND YOU INTERRUPTING EVERYTHING! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I AM BUSY HERE?! OR ARE YOU TOO STUPID TO FIGURE THAT OUT? HUH?" Lily screams. Gluttony puts his finger in his mouth and tilts his head to the side. "But, you smell like food! I'm hungry!" He exclaims and lunges for Lily. She easily dodges and gets out her daggers. She was still a bit sluggish from getting burned, so she didn't have as much strength as before. But she was still determined to put up a fight.
And so, Lily runs at Gluttony and slashes at him with her daggers, causing him to cry out in pain. He turns around and goes after her again. She leaps up in the air using her alchemy and lands behind him. Gluttony looks around, confused as to where Lily went. While he was distracted, Lily slashes at him from behind, doing good damage on him. The process kept repeating, because Gluttony wasn't catching on to her pattern. However, the pattern was broken by Gluttony tilting his head in the air and sniffing.
"I smell more food…" Gluttony mutters and turns back to Snowfur. Lily's eyes widen as she realizes what was about to happen. Snowfur groans and looks up. Gluttony steps closer, with a wide grin on his face. Drool was dripping down his chin. Gluttony lunges towards Snowfur and she screams, expecting pain. However, that pain doesn't come.
Lily jumps between Gluttony and instead of her friend getting hit, she was. Gluttony bites down onto Lily's arm and yanks it off. She screams out in pain, blood pouring out from her wound. The arm starts to turn to dust in Gluttony's mouth as red sparks start to from around it. The arm slowly reforms on her, and Lily rubs her shoulder. She cracks it back into place, panting. She had broken out in a cold sweat. "Lily…" Snowfur mutters. "Shut up. I'm not letting you get hurt any more than you already are. I automatically heal so I don't need to worry about myself. You, on the other hand, don't." Lily says through gritted teeth.
Suddenly, the building starts shaking. "Damnit! It's gonna explode!" Lily yells and grabs Snowfur's automail arm. Gluttony notices the shaking and retreats, yelling, "Lust!" The building starts crumbling around them and Lily yells, "RUN!" And so, the two bolt down the hallway like mad, heading towards the exit.
As they near the exit, the walls start crumbling around them. It was clear to Lily that they weren't going to make it on time. Outside she could see everyone else gathered, staring at the building. "MYRA! ARIN!" She yells. "ED! AL!" Snowfur screams between breaths. Lily could see Myra perk up and look inside. "Everyone! There's Lily and Snowfur!" she yells. Alphonse immediately runs over to the door and gasps. Lily stops running suddenly and blocks a piece of rubble with her dagger. It falls right next to her, creating dust clouds. "Al! We aren't going to make it in time!" She yells.
"I won't let you two die!" Al yells and runs inside the collapsing building. Snowfur lets out a cough and shields her mouth. It's getting dusty in here… Lily thinks. She starts running towards Alphonse, dodging pieces of rubble. She looks back and motions for Snowfur to follow. However, that was a big mistake. A giant piece of rubble was about to fall on top of her from behind. Al and Snowfur simultaneously yell, "LILY!"
Then, a snap resonates around the area and the rubble around them explodes. Lily turns around to see Arin, with her fingers positioned to snap. "Arin!" Lily exclaims. "No time for talking, get out of there!" Arin yells. They nod and run out of the building as the last of it crumbles to the ground.
Lily: HAHAHAHAHA! Lily 1, homunculi 0!
Snowfur: But you are a homunculus.
Lily: ...oh.
Ed: YOU ARE?!
Arin: I think we made a mistake.
Al: BUT HOW?
Lily: Chapter 5. Read it. *hands papers*
Ed and Al: *takes papers*
Ed: But I thought it was fake!
Myra: ...I don't have anything to say to that.
Lily: *coughs awkwardly* AND ON TO THE REVIEWS!
Ed: Our first review is from BlackMidnightWhite. *reads review and turns bright red* Oh GOD NO!
Al: Gimme that. *takes review and reads it* Ohhh Brother~
Lily: You have to answer it.
Ed: *sighs* I know. She said:
what if Edward had no bangs and short hair? god, he'll look weird. good thing he looks forever sexy! shoot. i just said that. um, uh. what was i doing? oh yeah! Edo-Kun~, which one of them would you hook up with? just saying. unless you prefer WINRY of course. hue hue...
Ed: *face starts burning* Well...uhm...
Snowfur: *nudges Ed* Answer it!
Ed: Um...ya see...I would...uh...
Lily: Come on!
Ed: *says something quietly*
Lily: *face blanches* OH HELL NO. THAT'S A SPOILER.
Arin: I didn't hear you Ed~
Ed: I SAID-
Lily: *knocks out Ed*
Snowfur: Why did you do that?!
Lily: It's a spoiler. NEXT REVIEW!
Al: I guess I'll read it. The next review is from SakuraChara. She says:
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA~! YES~! ALL SHALL DO MY BIDDING~! FOR I AM BOTH THE QUEEN OF AWESOMENESS AND MELON LORD~! HAHA~!
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Oh my fudge, you have NO IDEA how many times I've checked this story to see if it was updated yet! I almost sent Olivier Armstrong, Alex Armstrong, AND Izumi!
But, now I won't 'cause you updated, and this chapter just made everything tie together even MORE~! You need to hurry up and update, so I don't decide to send in the Armstrongs/Curtis'~!
SEE YA LATER~!
~Kura
(PS, Merry Christmas~!)
Lily: Phew. You don't know how close I came to getting killed by Armstrong yesterday. He literally almost broke my neck.
Snowfur: It was hilarious!
Lily: NO IT WASN'T! And arigato Sakura-san! Believe me, this chapter was SUPER HARD TO WRITE. But it was worth it!
Myra: Give it to me I'm worth it!
Arin: NO.
Al: *sigh* Our next review is from NYAN CATKAWAII.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NYAN CAT!
Oh. Wait you can't kill Nyan Cat , ,
Lily: Y-YOU CAN'T?!
Nyan Cat: *bursts through wall* NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN!
Snowfur: NOOOOOOOOO! HURRY AL! FINISH THE REVIEWS!
Al: Our next review is from A Fan.
Moar pls
Lily: Here you go! And here's some candy! *hands chocolate bar*
Nyan Cat: NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN!
Al: The next review is from gsunny6.
(I read this awhile ago, and I just forgot to review)
More traumatized peeps. Fanfic authors really like traumatizing their peeps, don't they. But hey, it makes life interesting.
Do any of you know what and emulator is?
Lily: MWAHAHAHA! TRAUMATIZING PEOPLE IS MY STRENGTH!
Snowfur: By the way, Lily looked up what an emulator was.
Lily: SHUT UP. I'd heard to word before, I just didn't know what it was!
Arin: U STUPID.
Myra: NYAN NYAN NYAN!
Lily: NOOO! MYRA-CHAN! YOU GOT INFECTED!
Al: And our final review is from A Fan.
Are you still working on this fanfic?
Lily: *glares*
Snowfur: ...
Myra: NYAN NYAN NYAN
Arin: KILL IT!
Nyan Cat: NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN!
Mustang: Okay, guys I really need to do work and- *looks up and sighs*
Lily: MUSTANG PLEASE!
Mustang: *snaps*
Nyan Cat: *dies again*
Ed: *wakes up* Huh? What happened?
Snowfur: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Lily: And that's it for this chapter! Man, this responding to reviews thing is loooooong. Whatever. BYE EVERYONE!