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"Ling!?" Yumi let out a groan of pain as she struggled to sit up, blinking open her eyes to see an old man attacking Al with these gray tube like wires. Her brows furrowed in confusion as she slowly looked to the side to see Envy, still in his monster form, fighting Ed. "What the fuck?!" She questioned but froze when she heard a familiar voice.
"You mean that little brat I took this body from." She slowly turned her head around and gasped as she saw Ling, except he wasn't acting like himself. His voice was different, his eyes had changed from black to violet, he had slightly sharper teeth and on the back of his left hand was a tattoo of the oroborus.
"Sorry. But your friend just check out and left Greed this body." Her eyes widened even more and a single tear rolled out of her eyelid and down her face.
"...Greed?"
Failure concentrating
Body/motor responses hesitating
Soul/ego shaking
Blur between daydreams and awakening
Loss of control and perpetual
Sense that luck and light are fading
No more ruminating
Shake the strife off your life or keep on waiting
That's my situation
Can't escape 'cause to run is degradation
No expectations
Still I fight to bite temptation
Got to be brave as I unenclave
Find the prize is my fixation, I'm
Still holding onto my pride, Oh
Is this the shine of a wine-toasted victory
Or is it just a sad bitter sigh of defeat?
I'll take it either way. If fate is just a play
I'm tying the strings up starting today
Sound the chime, golden time
Steal perfection in its prime
Take your place, poker face
Ready for the race
I will choose to refuse the illusion
And shatter the nightmare
Faking tame, pressure game
Win or lose it's all the same
Pay the fine, border line
Hapless to divine
If there's any how many and when
Will these games find an ender?
What's the last thing I want to surrender?
"So then...are you the Greed from before..?" Ed questioned him as Greed came over to stand next to Ed's trapped form, but Yumi wasn't really listening.
"Greed...? What..? It...can't...be..." Her eyes widened and she didn't even react when Wrath suddenly came out of nowhere and pinned her face down onto the floor with his blade pressed against her throat. She couldn't take her eyes off of him.
"Oh no." Al said gravely.
"What is it, Al?" Ed questioned.
"Remember Yumi's reaction when Greed died?" Al reminded him.
"Oh yeah, her meltdown. My face still hurts." He grumbled.
"Well, he's technically alive again now." Al said pointing to where Yumi was hyperventilating and barely breathing.
"Uh oh." Ed muttered.
"It's not possible. It's not possible. It's not possible. It's not possible. It's not possible." She kept on repeating over and over as she stared at Ling's body. His face. It was so different. But the way his eyes were open. The color. The confident way he talked and moved. There was no doubt about it. Greed. Was. Alive.
It was everything she had dreamed every day since his death. And yet, she still wasn't satisfied. She wasn't happy. 'Why am I unsatisfied? This is what I wanted! This is everything I've wanted for I don't even know how long! So what's changed!? What. Is. Different? He seems different. That's what's changed. Why? What's different? Come on, Yumi. Think. Think. Think hard. Think until your brain bleeds.' Her eyes widened as she heard a conversation between Greed and the old man.
"You must have met some different Greed." Greed said as he pointed a finger at Al causing her eyes to widen. 'Different Greed? That explains it.'
"He was my avarice before you." The old man stated. 'Yeah. And then he wanted a small taste of freedom. To be let off of your damned leash. So you motherfucking killed him, motherfucker!' She thought to herself in anger.
"Oh. That makes sense. But if you want to hear it from me, no. I'm not the Greed you knew." His words felt like a thousand arrows piercing through her heart.
The doors suddenly opened and due to her jumbled thoughts she couldn't quite pick up what they were saying or who they were. Suddenly this baby panda tackled the smaller of the two. It reminded her of... "Shiro!" Her eyes widened in shock as the whisper escaped past her lips.
"Yo~ Now that is a touching reunion, right there." Yumi's eyes widened and she found herself smiling slightly as she thought of the first Greed and how he probably would've said something awfully similar.
"YOU'LL SUFFER FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE! ALL OF YOU!" Yumi narrowed her eyes in annoyance as Wrath jumped out of the way, leaving her to deal with the gray fist coming out of the earth. She smirked and quickly got to her feet, spreading her arms out in order to keep her balance before she front flipped out of the way and landed lightly on her feet behind the little girl.
"Okay, dude, take a chill pill!" She snapped in irritation.
"Gluttony, take the newest candidate next door." The old man ordered.
"Okay!" Gluttony said and obediently snatched up Yumi.
"Hey! Asswipe!" She gritted her teeth and swiftly pulled out her gun before she shot Gluttony right through the brain causing him to fall down. She landed lightly on her feet and narrowed her eyes as she turned back towards Ed and Al. Her eyes widened as Scar sent a attack towards Envy, Ed, and Al. Unfortunately, Yumi was right in between them. "Ah shit." She muttered before she quickly jumped in the air, quickly rolling away from the enraged alchemist to land beside Ed behind a rock.
"Uh, Yumi about Greed-"
"Yeah, I know. I heard your whole conversation." Her eyes narrowed into tiny troubled slits. "And I couldn't give a shit."
"Greed. Bring the candidate, the Elements alchemist, the girl who finds it amusing to harm my children into the next room please." The old guy ordered.
"Sure thing," Greed said as he sprinted in her direction.
"Yumi..."
"Not now Ed." Yumi growled at him as she quickly flipped her gun three times around her finger before catching it in her hand.
"But can you really fight him?" He persisted.
"Are you kidding? I'd love the chance to vent all of this pent up anger on someone. Might as well be the cause. Now, my other gun, please." She held out her hand and smirked as she felt the hard metal object hit her hand. She slipped it into the holster on the side of her skirt before she tightened her grip on the gun in her right hand. "See ya later, kid." She saluted mockingly before she back flipped a couple of times before she did a quick sideways flip up onto a ledge where Greed appeared a moment later.
She didn't say a word. She was torn between wanting him to be the Greed she loved or Ling, the idiotic prince she hated at times but found quite amusing at other times. "I know you're still in there." She muttered under her breath, deciding then and there that the Greed she knew was gone. And nothing was going to change that. "Ling."
"Nope, just Greed." She narrowed her eyes slightly before she tightened her grip on her gun and placed her other hand on it, preparing herself as Greed rushed forward, both hands now pure black.
"Well that's a relief." She retorted as she ducked under his first attack. "I'd hate to have to shoot that idiot again. He always makes such a big fuss." She smirked at him before she quickly started firing at him quickly with almost perfect precision. He forced his way through her attacks and knocked the gun out of her hand before he swiped at her.
She grinned and ducked again before she dodged to the side and jumped back several feet. "This is almost as much fun as before." She giggled before she swiftly flicked her wrist, causing her second gun to go flipping up into the air before it came plummeting back down where she caught it easily. "What? Did you honestly think that after fighting one Homunculus I would go anywhere else without having at least one spare gun?" She questioned mockingly as she pulled a packet of bullets out of her jacket pocket, slipping the packet easily into her gun before she started to run along the side of the ledge while firing at him.
He made his way through again and Yumi narrowed her eyes before she tossed her gun up into the air and kicked him hard in the torso, wincing slightly as she heard one of her bones crack. "Woah, that was a good solid kick! This will be more entertaining than I thought." Greed commented causing Yumi to smirk.
"I'll take that as a compliment, bro." She said before she jumped up high in the air and caught her gun in her hand before she dropped back down to the ground.
She brought her arms up swiftly to block his attacks before quickly shooting at him. She narrowed her eyes a jump back, doing a one second one hand, hand stand before she pushed off with her hand and landed on her feet, skidding back slightly thanks to all the rocks.
Her eyes darted around, not being able to spot Greed anywhere. A moment later she felt like an idiot as she felt a sharp pain connect with the back of her head as she felt to the ground she couldn't help thinking, 'I'm always falling for that.' Before everything went black.
She gritted her teeth and hissed at the old man as he approached her from way she lay on a metal table strapped down. Yes, that's right. Hissed. She narrowed her eyes as he examined her.
"Why must all of my sacrifices always be this rambunctious?" The old man sighed. 'Sacrifices...? !.! Wait a minute..!'
"You did human transmutation like Ed and Al?"
"Yes." Izumi retorted.
"You see, my father is after sacrifices." Greed explained.
"Well why would he think that I would make a good sacrifice?" Yumi retorted as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"I dunno, doll face. You've gotta open the portal of truth just to qualify,"
"Don't worry, Greed. I'm pretty sure I won't be opening the portal of truth."
"How can you be so sure, doll?" Greed retorted.
"Because. Honestly, how am I being roped into explaining this to you AGAIN!? You should know better than anyone that nobody can convince me to do something I don't want to do! And besides! You really think I wanna see that creepy ass eye? No thank you." Greed laughed lightly at her.
Her eyes widened and she gritted her teeth in anger. She glanced around a noticed that he was alone with her in the room. He was that confident that if it came down to it he would win in a fight.
"I would NEVER open up the portal of truth!" She snapped at him.
"We shall see."
"No. We shall not. You have nobody to use as leverage. You killed Greed. You turned Ling into a Homunculus. And you won't kill Ed and Al cause their your precious sacrifices." She ranted with a glare. "You. Have. No. Leverage. You have nothing to use against me. NOTHING THAT COULD ADD TO MY MISERY!" She found herself screaming in his face.
"I see. You certainly are strong willed, aren't you? Well, perhaps it is time for a new pawn." Her eyes widened as he pulled out a vial with bright red liquid in it, "Let us see how strong your body really is."
The pain was agonizing. The old man had dropped the philosopher stone into the sill open wound in her shoulder from her fight with Bradley. She screamed and thrashed around as the electricity amplified her strength and regeneration properties appeared. She could feel her body being torn to shreds again. And again. And again.
When she opened her eyes she found herself in a bitch black room with navy floor flooring and not a single door. Or window.
"Hi~" A child's voice shocked her out of her gazing and she turned around to find a child, not very much older than nine approaching her. "Do you want to play with me-" Before the child could finish her sentence though Yumi grabbed her by her throat and slammed her body into the ground with anger blazing in her blue eyes.
"What is this place!? Who are you!? What are you!? Drop this child drama!" The child smirked up at her.
"As you wish." Al of a sudden the girl disappeared like sand, slipping through her fingers and appeared behind her, kicking her onto the ground. "What an interesting soul. I suppose if I were to pick a body, then this one is as good a body as any." The girl had changed into what she truly was. Before Yumi could see however black feather fell from the sky, blinding her from seeing the girl.
"Who are you?" Yumi snapped.
"I'm so glad you asked. I am you. I will be taking your body for my own!" The girl's voice had gone from sweet and innocent to melodramatic and psychotic.
"No!" Yumi retorted.
"Oh. But here is the best part. You won't have a choice." She laughed loudly causing shiver to go up and down her spine. She looked around to locate the voice but couldn't find it anywhere. "O-ver- here~" She sang from above.
Yumi's head shot up and she screamed as the face of a mangled, almost zombie like raven lunged forward. The last thing she saw, before everything faded away, was that mangled black raven's face, and the last thing she heard, was the sound of that childish laughter.
Her eyes shot open. Her once kind deep blue eyes were now a hard, almost cold violet color. She slowly broke the restraints with ease and sat up slowly, a bright smile on her face. Electricity crackled on the wound on her shoulder and at her abdomen and foot where the broken bones seemed to heal themselves. She slowly brought her hand up and examined them before a wide grin spread across her face as she spotted the familiar tattoo of the oroborus on the palm of her right hand.
She laughed childishly as the holes in the silver skirt and tight and her shirt slowly started to close. She grinned over at the old man standing in the doorway.
"Hi Daddy~!" She sang sweetly.
"Hello, my child." He grinned widely. "Yes. My child. Mine to do with what I please. My Despair." His grin widened even more as he looked upon her face seemingly childish face before he took a step back and outstretched his arms dramatically.
"My Misery."
No matter how many times we're reborn
I want to meet you here again
I'll hold your hand so we're not separated
We talked until the sun came up in the morning
We held hands until the sun went down in the evening
Let's spend tomorrow and the next day like this too
Shadows and light
Now I wonder
What do you carry in your heart
And what world did you live in?
You can't find warmth alone
Looking at the town with lonely eyes
When I met you
I learned for the first time
Just how much strength love gives you
No matter how many times we're reborn
I want to meet you here again
I'll hold your hand so we're not separated
I can't sleep alone, because I can't dream
On starless nights, I'll keep shining on you
And take you to a place where no anxiety can reach you
I can go anywhere if I'm with you
Even roads that I couldn't walk alone
With you I can walk them, humming as I go
As long as you're here, I'm happy.
-cringes away from beta reader.- Uh heh heh. -laughs nervously- Please don't kill me! Nobody, please, nobody kill me! It had to be done! I'm sorry! -runs away-
Yumi: *sigh* Honestly. How on earth did she think it would be wise to make me into a Homunculus. And have that Homunculus be fucking Misery!? I'm not Miserable!
Greed: Heh heh. But didn't you say you were, earlier, doll face.
Yumi: ... Shove off, Greed!
Me: Lol XD I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter~ Again, REALLY sorry for what I did to poor Yumi, but at the same time I'm not sorry at all. Lol XD. I ended up pulling an all nighter to get this up. Ugh! Oh well. Who needs sleep, right? Lol XD
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~The Goddess of Darkness.