Gaining Back My Pride:
Pride kicked the wall, again. "Where is the fuckhead!" He yelled. Envy sighed.
"He's late..." He said.
"Thanks, love, for stating the obvious." Pride snarled a little to coldly. Envy glared for a few seconds, but let the insult go. He knew Pride was impatient from experience. (Wink Wink...) He settled back in his chair and watched Pride kick the wall again, leaving a small crater in his foots wake. Soon enough the person Pride was waiting for showed up and he ran up and picked the man up by the front of his shirt. "And where in hells name have you been?" He growled. The old man held a stern look.
"Put me down Pride." He ordered. The sin didn't comply and instead held the man up to the wall.
"I don't gotsta. I can crush you right now with my own hands. Father..."
The man sighed and put a hand on Prides. "Yes, but then you'll have all the sins behind you to answer to." He said. Pride looked at the rinkled hand and made a face of total disgust. He dropped his father on the ground unceremoniously and snorted.
"I think instead of trying to kill me, they'll be jumping with joy and starting their own little party of 'farewell' for you." He said walking back over to Envy. "Anyway, on with more important matters. What did you call us here for?" Envy looked at Pride as he sat down beside him and sighed. Lust looked like she was about to laugh, but was forcing it back. Probably from what Pride had said about Ho-Ho-Papa. Gluttony was standing beside her oblivious to anything and everything. Wrath was standing beside Greed who was completely ignoring everyone and was instead examining his nails. Sloth was also looking not very interested in anything and was looking out the window. The man, Hoenhiem, sighed and walked out and into the centre of the room.
"I have a mission." He stated. The homunculi looked up with mild interest and waited for the man to continue. "As you know there is a town that has a famous state alchemist from it. That town called Talrio, is going to be invesatigated by Greed, Lust and Gluttony. I want you, Sloth to go in search of the man with Wrath posing as your child. And Envy and Pride I want you two to go to the military's main branch and find out as much information on the man as you can. Then bring all information back here and we will do what we can to get him to make us a full Philosiphers stone. Lust, Gluttony and Greed while you are at the town kidnap some citizens for us and we'll use them as the sacrifices." With that said the man walked out and the sins left for their respected jobs.
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Envy stood in an alleyway a few blocks away from the military's main branch with Pride by his side. "Okay love, copy me." He said. Pride nodded and watched as Envy transformed. He studied the transformation carefully and nodded when Envy was finished. He clapped his hands and placed them on his body. The markings started to glow and slowly he started changing into a different person. He was concentrating hard remembering every little detail Envy had put into the person. When he was finished he smiled proudly. Envy nodded and transformed into someone else. "Good love, that's exactly how it's done." He said. Pride's smirk widened and they started walking toward the military building. They entered with ease and started looking around.
"Yo Envy, where do we go from here?" Pride whispered. Envy shrugged and continued looking around. Pride sighed and also looked around. A woman approached them and giggled. "Are you gentlemen looking for something?" She asked. Pride looked at her in mild disgust and Envy nodded.
"Yes actually. We're from the eastern Branch and were told to bring back some important files. We need to know where the file room is." He said. The girl looked puzzled, but nodded and led them to a small room.
"This is it. I hope
you find what you need." She said and walked away. Envy shrugged
and looked at the small room.
"Pride, you stay out here and
guard. If anyone tries to come in, by all means hurt them, but don't
kill anyone." He said. Pride solluted and stood at the door as
Envy entered letting his guise fall. Pride closed the door for him
and stood waiting for his lover to come out with the files so that
they could get out of this human infested place. People passed by
giving him strange looks, but he ignored them, that was until someone
actually approached him. And that person just so happened to be none
other then Roy Mustang. Pride glared at him as the man started
talking.
"And what might you be doing in front of the filing room?" Roy asked in a I'm-moore-superior-then-you tone. Pride's glare didn't faulter and he replied coldly.
"None of your business." Roy just stood there, gaping at him.
"Why you..." He muttered, but he didn't hurt the boy, that was until he hurt him. Pride punched Roy across the face with much force. With the force came a shape change and the guise of the man Pride was changed into Pride himself. Roy growled and pulled his hand out of his pocket. He didn't click however because he was kicked in the head and sent flying right into the arms of Armstrong. The Strong Arm Alchemist looked at Pride with a bewildered expression which changed into one of hatred.
"You hit the Fuhrer." He stated.
"Duh." Pride said. Armstrong glared and then pulled off his shirt. Pride looked unimpressed.
"Well then he will be avenged in the most graceful way possible." Armstrong cried. Pride rolled his eyes and looked at the door.
"Just hold on a second." He said. He opened the door to the filing room and saw Envy piling up some files. "Envy-Koi. You go home without me, I'm gonna have some fun before I leave kay." Envy rolled his eyes at the enthusiasm in his lovers voice and nodded. "Okay, we can fight now." Pride stated happily, closing the door to the filing room. Armstrong didn't wait for Pride to be ready and ran at the boy. Pride was a bit surprised at the speed of the giant man, but didn't show it. He waited until Armstrong was close enough and clapped. He placed his hands on his body and concentrated. Even when he was hit half way across the hallway, he didn't let his focus stray and soon enough his arm was a perfect replica of Ed's arm blade. He smirked at the surprised look on Armstrong's face and ran at the man.
"Yep, that's right. I can replicate anything I want. The markings on my body are like a transmutaion circle, so I can do whatever I want to my body as long as I concentrate without faultering. But to make up for the amount of time it takes me to do Alchmey, I have a lot more strength then the other homunculi." Pride dodged to the side of Armstrong and hit him with a punch. His punch made a few bones break in Armstrongs side and the man cringed. By now there were a whole heap of military people surrounding him and they all had guns pointed at his head. "Awww, shucks. Is this all for me? I'm flattered really. But it's not enough." Before any of the men could comprehend what he had said, Pride dissapeared and when he reappeared all the men dropped to the ground. "My speed is also ten times faster then the other Homunculi's." Armstrong didn't look happy and was now shaking with rage. Before he could take action though Pride jumped up behind him and struck him in the back of the neck. "Pity Dad told me not to kill anyone, ne. I'dve had so much more fun then. Ah well." After he said that Pride jumped out of the window in the filing room and ran home. Not before transforming his arm into a normal arm again though.
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A/N: Yay another chapter down. Okay so now you know that Pride can copy anyone's abbility using the markings on his body. What I did not say though is that he uses his Philosiphers stones to do it. He says that that the markings replicate a transmutation circle, but they (in this fanfic) actually replicate the markings used for the philosiphers stone. That's his only down fall. I think that was pretty smart. I thought that up all by myself. YAY! If you object please review and tell me his real abbility. If you don't then I'll just continue on with him having this abbility. Yay for me. PLEASE REVIEW!