Next up! Rose's sister! Shadow

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Shadow

"Aw…" the 30 year old woman with rose red locks smiled at the girl, "Isn't she cute, holding her little sister like that." The blue eyed woman smiled at the girl just beside her on the couch, holding the bundle.

"So I'm a big sister now?" the dark haired teenager sighed, "Perfect." She muttered looking at the blue eyed baby, "Just perfect." She sounded sarcastic, but the parents didn't seem to notice the ten year olds words. But she was being serious; she didn't think having a little sister would be all that great…she was right.

The baby started crying and Shadow glared, her mother taking the crying child from her arms. The dark haired girl removed herself from the family circle. Without a word she made her way upstairs.

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"Shadow!" the female voice called, "Rose!" it called the second name once more out to the country side field.

"Momma says we have to go in." the four year old looked at her sister, with the biggest blue eyes.

"I heard, I heard." she muttered groaning. Getting to her feet and clearly towering over her sister by a good ten year difference, "Come on, sport." she muttered.

"Shadow…" she said the child, "You hand is beeding." the said with her finger in her mouth. Shadow blinked curiously, at the wound on her hand.

"Yes I suppose it is, would you like to know why?" she said turning to the younger girl.

"Yesh." she said nodding.

"It's a secret, just between you and me." she said kneeling down, "This is a transmutation circle." she showed her bleeding palm to the child, "It makes amazing things happen." she smiled, "And one day, I'll teach it to you." she said standing.

"Really! You would?!" Rose's mouth widened and her eyes glistened.

"Yes, I would." she smirked, "But shh." she placed a finger to her lips. "You can't tell mommy or daddy about it okay." she smiled, "This is our secret."

"Right!" the little girl nodded her head. Smiling brightly at the fourteen year old, Shadow merely scowled as the child ran off to her mother.

"Useless little brat." she sighed. Glaring at where she had to return too, "Such a precious angel…" she muttered putting a black glove over her hand, "I'll show'em who the real 'angel' is." She stepped into the house, with a smile.

xxxxx

"You're too slow."

The red head straightened up, panting, quite tired.

"Faster, come on." the shadows lurched out from under her feet. But the red head was quick to react. Faster and faster, her reflects responding perfectly to the jumping shadows.

"I don't believe that's the best you have." the elder voice growled. The blue eyed girl kept going. Moving left and right then breaking into series of back flips sliding back and smacking her hands to bring herself to a stop. She quickly drew a circle, and a solid block of ice rose from the ground. The red head panted staring at where the shadows could not reach. The eight year old gained a smug look.

"Got ya." she said wiping the sweat from her brow. The ice block feeling quite nice at the moment. There was a sudden THUD. And the block of ice shattered the seven year old falling upon its shattered remains. Giving a cry of utter pain, it wasn't exactly a soft landing. She felt blood drip from several places on her body.

"You can't let you're guard down." the woman shook her head. Seventeen years old and she was filling that stealth suit quite nicely. An interesting device covered her right eye, a glowing red scope zooming in and out at the child. She glared.

"H-Hey that wasn't f-fair." the red head muttered glaring up at her sister.

"All is fair in love and war, peachkins." she said grabbing Rose painfully by the arm and pulling her up, "If you like it or not, no one really cares." she began to pull large chunks of ice from the girls body.

"Ouch! Hey!" she whimpered twist slightly.

"Damnit Rose! Stay still you stupid runt!" Shadow hissed, "We can't let mom find out I'm teaching you this stuff."

"Why not? It's just alchemy, she does it." Rose winced. Shadow smiled.

"Because I said so, disobey me and I'll feet you to the shadows." she muttered finishing off the last chucks, "The rest should melt when you shower. The scratches aren't too bad, kid." Shadow smacked her out the shoulder and Rose gave a cry of pain. With a simple laugh Shadow waved her hand.

"Sorry, sport." she said, "Go home, I'll clean this up."

"Alright." Rose nodded, "Be home for supper, Nee-san!" she hurried off.

"Be home for supper, Nee-san," Shadow mocked, "Ugh, stupid, ignorant, retarded child…" Shadow kicked a chunk of ice and raised her hand, a black swirl of shadows crushing it to nothing, "So Miss Goody-Goody." she kicked another chunk to be swallowed by the shadows. "Too bad she doesn't know the bad side of the array I designed her. She'll be fighting with herself so bad she'll kill herself." Shadow laughed, "Ah man, that plan is brilliant. She thinks I care about her, want to teach her all I know." she kicked up another piece, "Foolish little sister." she rolled her eyes, "I hate you since birth, since I was brought into this family, and something told me to hate it…." she shrugged, "Oh well" she grinned turning to the house. Oh well, Oh well indeed.

xxxxx

"What were you THINKING?!" the red haired mother exclaimed, "Do you know the dangers of that array you gave her?!"

"Oh no mother, of course not." The eighteen year old rolled her eyes, eye twitching.

"You did! You did and you taught her with it so- She's your sister!" the woman barked.

"Oh mother, please, whatever will I do to appoint for my sins." she rolled her eyes once more.

"Young lady, I can hardly believe you! What did Rose ever do to you?!" The man yelled.

"She was born." Shadow examined the transmutation circle on her hand, "I'm heading out."

"You'll do no such thing!" The man stepped in front of the door. Shadow grinned.

"I've been wanting to do this for a LONG long time." she raised her hand and shadows crept around the man's body. Twisting and twinning around his neck, snapping it and ripping it off tossing it away. Shadow turned to her mother, smiling ever so sweetly at the daggers her mother had raised to her own daughter.

"You know, I taught Rose how to do that…but just with a BAD array." she smiled, "You'd be surprised, she's very promising." Shadow raised her hand the shadow carrying the head of her father to her mother, "Oh dear." she mocked him, "Our daughter Rose is so perfect, but we didn't do shit, it was Shadow who did it all." Shadow gave a cheese thumbs up, "Thanks dad!" She tossed her hand behind her head and the skull cracked on the door, leaving a blood splatter. Shadow's mother stared, tears streaming down her face.

"W-Why?!" she muttered, "What did I do wrong?!" she slid to the floor with her back to the wall.

"You had me, that's what." Shadow grinned, teeth showing how white they were.

"P-Please…do what you want to me, but don't hurt Rose…" the woman sobbed.

"Oh mother, please, you honestly think I would destroy my work of art without seeing it bloom. Of course not, there are other Mustang's in the sea…Oh wait." she laughed, "I killed them too."

"Gran and Pa?" the mother stared, "Y-You killed them?!"

"Oh yes. Dad's an only child and his parents are already six feet under. So it's just you, me, and Rose." the woman laughed. Shadow scowled, "What's so funny?!"

"There's one more." she smiled, "And I won't tell you…"

"Roy Mustang."

"How'd you-"

"Just a guess, mother, that's all you and Rose would talk about," she rolled her eyes, "How great he's doing in Central."

"Don't you dare go near my brother!" The woman was smacked against the wall, being pinned by a dark blanket.

"What if I do? What are you going to do about it?" she smirked, "Tsk, tsk, Mother I am surprised." she folded her arms, "Isn't the parents suppose to have the upper hand on the daughter?"

"Not when the daug-"

"Momma?" the red head glanced around the living room, "Momma, Dad, Shadow?" she blinked, "Why are all the lights off…Hello?" she walked into the kitchen, seeing her dead father, and her mother pinned to a wall. Glancing at Shadow with utter terror.

"ROSE RUN! GET OUT OF H-"the woman's words were cut short, as the shadow pierced her body. The blood splashed Rose in the face, and the nine year old just sat there. Shadow smiled walking over to her.

"Hello, sister." she said smiling down at the younger sibling.

"W-Why…" Rose asked, her tears mixing with the blood, "Why'd you kill Momma and Dad?" she said looking at her, "Why!? What did they do?!"

"They had you…" Shadow frowned, pulling a blade from her pocket and lifting Rose's chin up, "All because of you."

"M-Me?" she stuttered.

"Because they had you, and you told mom about the array!" she cut Rose's cheek and glared, "I told you not to tell!" she hissed, kicking her sister into the other room, "No be a good little girl and STAY." she hissed putting the blade back to her side. Turning to the stove and turning all of the burners on. Placing the oven on and open, taking all the towels and paper bags from the drawers and placing them over the burners and smirking as the kitchen set fire.

"If you survive!" Shadow called to the living room, "Little one!" she saw Rose open the door, and the burners burst a barrier of flames between them, "If you survive little one. Return here!" she grinned, "And challenge me to avenge you're parents! I promise you, I'll be here." she turned, "I'll be watching you, sport." she smirked, "Don't sleep too lightly."

xxxxx

Stretching out on the roof of the burned house she sighed, it had been a slow week, only three kids she killed today. She loved it when kids thought places were haunted, and then their parents told them not to come, but they did anyway. She gave a happy sigh; it's what made her day. Glancing upon the clock she frowned, there was nothing else to do today unless more children decided to be stupid; jumping from her perch she stretched once more. Glancing at what the news had to bring, she picked up a paper, making sure it wasn't out dated.

"Hmm, State alchemist Edward Elric." she smirked, "They're letting puppies be dogs." she laughed, her laughed faded, "That person…in the picture." the picture of the person she was staring at wasn't very clear, but it was clear enough.

"You survived my little duckie….now come challenge me…" she grinned tossing the paper, and returning to her perch.

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D I like how Shadow's came out.