Chapter 7: The disapearing city
"Hoinhiem! Where are you?" Dante said in a harsh tone." Come here now."
But he didn't come. She wondered where he was and decided he went home. She
turned to Envy and said,
" Hello, I'm sorry your father isn't here to greet you." The juvenile
homunculus thought for a second, then said in perfect english," It is fine, he must
of had something important to do." So innocent, she thought,but I can fix that. "No,"
she said evily," he just didn't want to see you. Here have some of these." She handed
him some red stones, which Envy gobbled down. After he was finished, Dante took
home. But, when they came to the house,Peace wasn't there either. Instead, a note
was on the table.
Dear Dante,
Remeber when you pulled me from the gate? I was a heavenly
trait. Not some sin incarnate. You keep going on about being the homunculus'
mother and me being it's father. Dante, I'm a heavenly trait, I can't be a father
to an abomination such as Envy. I'm sorry. Good bye forever.
Peace.
Dante only frowned at the note, then gave it to Envy with a simple, " I
told you so." When the child-like creature read the note, he began to cry." Oh
grow up. Your a mere souless presence in the world. You have no feelings. Your
just humanoid." Envy cried harder after that. Hmph, thought she, good job
Dante. She knew that Envy already hated her. Afterwards, she went back to
the opera house and clapped her hands. She placed them on the cold floor.
The result was an earth-shattering rumble. The city slowly began to sink,and
the ground closed above the city." Hmph, the plan is complete." With that, she
walked home to very frightened Envy.
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Ten years later
Envy is grown and and has discovered his power. He now uses his palm
tree form. He hates Dante severly, but won't do anything because she knew
alchemy. This is his first time to the surface with Dante.
"Dante," Envy whined," Why do we have to go to the surfaceDante? I'm
happy down here in the city." Dante growled a reply," Because you need to learn
about people and their customs before joining them. Change into a muscular man."
Envy obeyed. " Now then, when we get to the surface, I'm going to switch bodies
with a beautiful woman on the surface, and act as your wife. You have got to play
along perfectly." " But," "Perfectly, period." Envy sighed. When they came up to the
edge of the under-ground city, Dante transmuted a set of stairs staight to the
surface. After a long and tedious climb, they finally reached the surface. "Envy,
step back for a minute. I'm going to transmute a house to cover up the hole." With
a flash of light, a beautiful two-story appeared. Lucky for them, Central city was
just being built. Only then it was called Lara. When the town builder's saw a
flash of light in the woods, they went to investigate. What they found was a proud
Dante admiring her handywork. She turned and became a sheet white mass of
human." Oh,oh,um...hello, I'm Dante and this is Emanuel." Envy smiled," Hello."
The men looked puzzeled, then one one's face brightened," Say,would you be
one those alchemist?" He ,of course was talking to Envy. Dante quickly corrected
him by saying," Yes, I'm an experienced alchemist.I could help a little with town."
The foreman said," That would help us greatly. When can you start?" " Let me get
everything in my house in order, then I'll see what I can do." The crew left with a
series of good-byes and thank-you's. Dante turned to Envy and said," Look's like
we will be staying longer than I thought, eh Emanuel?" For the next few days
Dante transmuted furniture and other various things for the house, then helped
Envy move them into the house, afterwhich Dante went to town to help. The
crew men greeted her and took her to their foreman. " Hello Mrs. Dante, how
are you?" Dante replied as sweetly as she could," Fine thank you." The foreman
then became serious. " Now then, since the pleasentries are over, we need to
discuss schedule and payment. How would you like to be payed?" Dante thought
silently,then replied," When your through with the town, I get to to own the general
store." The foreman smiled and said," You drive a hard bargain Dante, but if that's
how you want it, that's fine with me, but you need to hurry and build before another
merchant comes and takes advantage of the situation here." The only woman in the
the meeting simply said," Then that will be the first thing I'll begin on. Goodbye."
The foreman smiled and said," Get to it."
Dante went home and brought Envy to town. When no one was
looking she turned to Envy and said," I'm going to transmute a store. While I'm
working, you will run the store. When I'm through transmuting building's and
building material's for the other builder's, you will help me run this store. Don't
worry, I'll teach you how to do both.
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A year has past and Lana ( Past name of Central)
has grown tremendiously. It's pop. is around ten-thousand, thanks to Dante.
But their is a problem; Dante is bored again.
Dante was walking to her home in town when she had an idea.
Why didn't she make another Homunculus? After all, life here was boring,
and it would give her something to. She began formulating a plan. By the time
she arrived home, she was through planning. She would first start the rumor about
the underground city. Then, she would reveal little by little where the entrance
was to the city. She would move to the mountains afterwards and transmute her
house into a chapel or something as a good-bye gift for the town. She would switch
bodies with an old lady and lure people to a secluded area and turn them into a
philosopher's stone. After which she would switch back to her normal body she was
using. Perfect she thought, now all I have to do tell the town. Dante decided to ask
the city counsel to call a meeting for her the next day. All she could do was giggle
evily on her way home to tell Envy. He would be so angry.
After Dante arranged for the meeting, she also made arrangements
for a good-bye party the next day, and the unnveiling of the new chapel. She told
all of the prominent citizens of Lana to come to the party. All promised they would
and that they would love to see the surprise afterwards..
After making arrangments for moving and telling the counsel she
was moving, she made the house as nice as alchemy would allow. Everything was
going perfectly. The guests began arriving shortly afterwards. They all wondered
what the surprise would be.
Hahahahahahahaha. You'll know in a little while.But you probably already know.