Next chapter! Enter everyones favorite palmtree!

Envy: I am NOT a GODDAMN PALMTREE!

Ed: I think it's time you just excepted it Envy.

Liz: Yes, it'll make you feel better.

Envy: Pipsqueaks!

Liz: GO DIE!

Ed: I'M NORMAL SIZED NOW DANG IT!

Envy: Not in my eyes chibi san.

Ed: Screw you!

This is where some of my creative liberties come in by the way. I'm taking a different direction with sort of a loop holeish explanation but OH WELL!

Oh and also, the answer to that trivia is five. Al Hiedrich, Hoenhiem, Envy, Gluttony and Wrath... in a ten minute segment, five major characters died. Happy right?

Al: Review!

"Are you really sure it's allright I stay here?" Noah asked Al and I when we were sitting at breakfast the next morning.

"Ugh, stop asking that." I muttered.

"They're looking for you right?" Al reasoned. "This is the only option." He smiled. "Besides I'm glad, this is the first time Ed's ever been interested really in a girl."

I resisted the urge to yell about the fact that Ed was meant to be with Winry because... I didn't want to look like a psycho.

"I'm not saying Ed is anti social or anything... he just never get's attached to anyone." Al continued.

"What about Liz?" Noah questioned. "He seems close to her."

"Well not like that." I blanched. "He's like my brother... and since we come from the same place we already were attached to eachother." I looked at Al and grinned. "And yeah, Ed and I our kind of anti social... you don't have to try to cover for us."

"Right" Al smiled and pushed his plate away before hefting his bag over his shoulder and starting twoards the door with an excited grin "I'm goind now! Let Ed know when he wakes up! I can't believe we have our own factory now!" and with these words he left.

"What about you?" Noah asked quietly. "Do you keep yourself detached as well?"

"Kind of" I smiled sheepishly. "Old habit... the closer I get to a person, the more likely they are to get hurt..."


Third person!

"What an annoying town" a lone figure sighed from an alleyway, his voice tired even though he himself was not. "Humans everywhere. And I'm camoflauged as one of them... laughable." Not that he hadn't always camoflauged himself back in Amestris but this world was different. No one knew of alchemy, or anything like that. And he didn't have a set goal in mind as he walked around as one of them.

...Well, he had one goal... but after two years at had become seemingly hopeless. This world was huge, there could've been any number of places where he could've turned up. The burning resentment remained, it always would.

He hated having to walk around in this body... the other three alternatives were worse, or at least would never suit this world. But it was a constant reminder of him. His so called father. It looked like him, and he hated it.

He heard a voice suddenly, one that he picked up from all the other voices in the crowd, a familier voice saying "Come on... ignore them." He lifeted his head and peered with gold eyes at a familier blonde pipsqueak walking through the crowd, another girl with dark skin and hair behind him. He was taller, his hair was in a different style, his clothes were different but there was no mistaking him.

"Well little brother... fancy seeing you here." Envy murmured, a smirk drawing across his face.

This would be fun...


Third person with Ed!

"Come on, we'll avoid that crowd. This ways less crowded anyway." Ed told Noah, angry at the men back there for belittling her.

"I'm fine Edward, I'm use to the words" Noah murmured with a slight smile. "Ed, do you think Liz is ok?"

"She wanted to wait at the inn, she'll be fine" Ed shrugged.

"You worry about her?" Noah asked quietly.

"Every damn day" Ed sighed smiling a bit. "Come on."

"Edward Elric."

Ed whirled at the voice behind him. A few yards away was a tall man with shoulder length blonde hair and gold eyes, accompanied by an achingly familier smirk. He had seen that face before... where had he seen that face before? "How exactly do you know my name?"

The man laughed "I'm suprised you forgot about me so quickly... little brother."

The two words made Ed's blood run cold and his eyes widened for a moment in shock before narrowing in a threatening glare "Envy...then you crossed the gate..."

"Your deductive skills amaze me" Envy sneered, his glare just as venemous as Ed's.

"Edward?" Noah was staring from him to the homunculus with a mixture of confusion and fear.

"Noah." Ed said through his teeth. "Go back to the inn... now."

After a pause she obeyed and left.

"Was that your girlfriend?" Envy smirked and Ed growled.

"Can it! More importantly what are you doing here! And... why do you look like that!" Ed demanded.

"Think about it this way Fullmetal pipsqueak" Envy said, enjoying how Ed twitched at the long un used nickname. "Can you do alchemy?"

"...no." Ed muttered.

"So how flexible exactly do you think my shape shifting is?" Envy raised an eyebrow, prompting the boy.

"...you're stuck in that form." he realized.

"Close... but you're on the right track." Envy shrugged. "I was in four different forms while I was in the gate. This is one of them, another was my usual form, the third was you and the fourth..." he smirked. "Well that's not too important."

"So then why this form!" Ed demanded. "I thought you hated it. It's the reason you hid it so long!"

"You may have noticed anyone who looks different in this place tends to be a target of unessasary attention" Envy pointed out, his lazy smirk never wavering. "This rules out my prefered form and I was certinly not going to go around as you... I suspected you ended up here anyway and I hate you. This form was the only option."

Ed found it interesting that no matter what face Envy wore, it still looked like him. Maybe the smirk always stayed the same... or maybe just the same glint of hate in his eyes... or the un failing ability to piss Edward off.

"So now what?" Ed's eyes narrowed, his fists clenching.

Envy's eyes flashed "You wouldn't happen to know where our father is, would you pipsqueak?"

It still suprised Ed how much hate Envy could put into one word. He was also suprised to realize that he possibly hated Envy more in this form... the form he turned into right before Liz had pushed him out of the way. The form of his half older brother. He looked like a younger Hoenhiem... he looked like Ed too. That's what Ed hated the most... the profound simalarities between him and the homunculus he loathed so much.

"Even if I wanted to tell you, I couldn't" Ed growled. "He dissapeared a year ago."

"Just like him" Envy mused before looking back to Ed with a malicious grin. "Well, I guess this conversation is over then." Then he lunged.

Ed gasped as Envy sunk his fist into his stomach, knocking the wind right out of him. He doubled over and fell to his hands and knees, gasping for air, pain making his vision a little fuzzy. Envy was still strong as Hell even in this world.

"That was pathetic" Envy sneered, walking over and grabbing Ed's pony tail, yanking his head back so that the younger boy was forced to stare up at him. "You've gotten a little sloppy haven't you little brother?"

Ed curled his right hand into a fist "Don't. Call me. That." and he swung his fist up, manageing to cuff Envy across the cheek, causing the homunculus to stumble back a bit. Ed rose back to his feet, knees bent in antcipation of the oncoming fight. "I'm not your brother!"

"Huh, hate to break it to you pipsqueak but you are" Envy's smirked, wiping blood from the corner of his mouth.

"You really want to push your luck Envy." Ed growled. "If you can't shift any more I bet that means you can't reginerate. And that means you're not immortal any more!" without waiting for the homunculus response he lunged at him, his fist cocked behind his head.

"Maybe not but..." Envy side stepped and twisted to the side as Ed shot past him. "I'm still stronger than you!" he caught the younger boy in the back with a smooth round house kick. Ed rolled forward to break the fall and was up again in an instant.

Envy smirked at the still determined look in Ed's eyes "You think you have a chance? I've had four hundred years of practice pipsqueak."

"And I had the best teacher in the world." Ed snapped back.

"Yeah? You ever beat her?" Envy countered snidely.

Ed flinched, obviously not factoring this in and Envy cackled.

"Yeah, I didn't think so." He grinned. "But if you really think you can beat me then quit stalling little brother."

And that was all the encouragement Ed needed to lunge.


First Person!

I sat in my room, lying on my bed in silence, staring blankly up at the celing. The celing wasn't very interesting but I found myself un able move onto a more interesting activity anyway. I just felt like laying there and letting time pass.

"Come on little human." Truth coaxed. "You should get up."

"I don't want to..." I sighed.

"So lazy" Truth chided. "You should do something..."

"There's nothing interesting to do."

"More interesting then staring at the celing."

"Your point has merit but as usual I'm going to ignore you. That would require me moving."

I heard the door slam open from down stairs and Noah call "LIZ! Are you there? Come quickly!"

"Oh yes, things are about to get very interesting" Truth giggled gleefully, which was not at all comforting.

"Liz" Noah panted appearing in the doorway and I sat up quickly.

"What's wrong Noah?" I looked around. "Where's Ed?"

"That's the thing... we ran into someone in the street, trying to avoid the crowds" she explained quickly. "And Ed... he got really angry. It looked like a fight was going to start. I didn't like the look in either of their eyes."

"What? Someone call him short?" I asked quizically.

"He isn't short" Noah seemed suprised by my comment. "And no. I think they knew eachother."

"That's funny... getting into fights is something Ed has never" I paused. "Really avoided... but you say this looked bad?"

She nodded wordlessly.

"Ok, I'm coming." I rose to my feet and grabbed my knives. "You remember the way?"

She nodded and gestured for me to follow "Hurry!"

I followed Noah down the streets, ignoring the shouts of "The gypsy is runnin! Probably stole a wallet! Parasites!" When she skidded to a stop I saw that a small crowd had formed, watching whatever was going on take place. I could hear the un mistakable shouts of Ed though.

"Oh this doesn't look good." I muttered dashing for the crowd. Unfortunately... I'm short. It sucks to be me. With a growl I pushed determined through the crowd. I had to get to Ed...


Third person again with Ed!

Despite the fact that Envy didn't have endless energy anymore, Ed was tireing faster and the homunculus knew it. He was just toying with him, dodging every attack he threw at him gracefully before coming back with a hard blow. He wasn't trying. Ed was still able to dodge the majority of the blows but the ones that he couldn't hurt like Hell. His lip was bleeding and he was already bruising up. He wasn't going to last much longer. To make things worse a crowd had gathered to watch, doing nothing. Just watching. Brawls weren't un common, brawls were actually a form of entertainment for some people.

Then Ed took a wrong step, a move he knew was going to cost him the fight as soon as he took it, but it was too late by then. With lightning speed Envy swiped his feet out from under him. As he fell he felt a hand wrap firmly around his neck and slam him down to the ground hard, causing stars to briefly dance across his vision and just second later he was staring up at a very triumphant Envy.

The hand tightened around his neck and he found breathing suddenly difficult. Ed gripped at Envy's wrist, trying to pry the hand off but it was a vice like grip. The malicious glint in Envy's eye was un mistakable.

"This is the part where you give me one good reason not to kill you little brother" Envy hissed venemously, his eyes narrowed, his lips twisted into a snarl. The hand tightened a little bit more around Ed's neck. "And I most likely don't listen."

"...Liz." Ed managed to choke out.

The malice faded from Envy's eyes for a moment as he stared blankly down at Ed, his grip loosening just a bit. Ed almost felt sorry, it was a low blow and he knew it. It was obvious that Envy had been trying his hardest to push the event of her death from his mind.

"Have you... forgotten Envy..." he continued hoarsely. "Why she jumped... in front of the blade..." He didn't tell him that she was alive... he would think that he was lieing... he would kill him faster. And Ed didn't even want him to know that she was alive... not really.

Envy stared at the younger boy for a long time, as if trying to decide what to do. For a minute, Ed thought the homunculus was going to let him go until the grip tightened once again "Liz is dead Edward" Envy stated dully.

Ed tried to say something more but breathing was no longer possible, much less talking. 'Damnit!' Ed thought. 'Why is no one doing anything!" Then a voice broke through the crowd, one that he was glad and worried to hear at the same time.

"Ed!"

Envy froze at the voice. Ed managed to turn his head to the side to see Liz, standing at the front of the crowd looking confused and pissed off "What the Hell?"

"Liz" Ed choked.

Envy's hand left his neck and Ed rolled over drawing in deep gulps of air, coughing in between breaths. Envy was staring at Liz, with a blank expression, almost as if he was trying to figure out whether or not he was halusinating.

Liz stared at him for several seconds in confusion, as if she recognized the face as well until the light dawned on her and her eyes widened, her mouth dropped open slightly to draw in a sharp breath of air. She knew.

"En..vy?"

Envy said nothing, he seemed almost in a state of shock.

Recovered from almost being strangled Ed took the oppurtunity to lunge at the homunculus. With a speed he didn't think possible Liz lunged forward and caught Ed's wrist yanking him back from his attack.

"STOP IT!"

Then her face twisted suddenly in agony and she dropped to one knee, clutching at her abdomen where Ed knew the scar was. A cry slipped between her clenched teeth though she tried to stop it without success.

"Liz!" Ed forgot about Envy and dropped down by her side.

"I'm... fine..." she hissed before she winsed in pain and curled in on herself.

"Like Hell you are! Someone help!" he called, worried for his friend.

He heard Hughes's voice breaking through the crowd "Out of the way! What the Hell is this!"

Liz gave a shudder and fell back on the ground, out cold. It was a bad one.

Ed turned back to where Envy had stood a moment before but the homunculus had dissapeared.

"Damnit Envy" he whispered rubbing his neck, where he knew there would be finger marks.

"Damn you..."

Third Person with Envy

Envy stopped running after a few blocks and turned into the alleyway before leaning against a wall, his head lowered. Thoughts were jumbled inside of his head. Was that really her? Or just her double, the fake.

'No' he thought. 'She saw me... she knew me...' he had seen her say his name too. 'The tin can's alchemy did work...Liz is alive.'

And for one of the rare times in his life Envy tilted his head back and laughed.


If I do say so myself, a pretty intense chapter...

Envy: Hooray, I'm back...

Ed: Oh yippee...

Oh and for those of you who wanted to know there is EnvyxLiz in the next chapter :) So REVIEW!

Liz: Oh good, my life isn't completely emo and depressing...

Quit whining... REVIEW!