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Mushroom-sama: Well we are at my fourth chapter! My how fast these stories do grow up..sniff...sniff. On with the story!
The past encounter
Flash back
"Wow! Are you guys new in town? Can I help you?" a little seven year old girl smiled. She had just been sitting on a rock before, at the edge of her small town, singing to herself a tune that her mom had taught her a few days ago. Her black was tied into a high pony tail and reached the bottom of her neck. Her matching coal black eyes glittered with happiness in seeing newcomers.
"Yes, little girl, we are looking for a man named Roy Mustang…do you know where we can find him?" the black haired woman asked as she bent down to the girl's level.
"I'm sorry but my big brother isn't home yet…but he promised to be back soon!" The girl smiled as she tugged on the woman's sleeve.
"Great, well let's kill some time here while we have it…there's nothing else to do." The man with very long spiky hair growled as he kicked the dirt.
"If you have nothing else to do can you play with me?" The little girl asked as she looked up at them with hopeful eyes. The fat person walked his way to he and started to sniff the young girl. The young girl flinched and started to back away little when she saw the fat person started to drool a little.
"Can I eat her?" The person asked frightening the girl.
"No, Gluttony, come on Envy let's go." The woman stated as she started to walk away from the girl.
"Those are weird names…like the seven sins!" The girl smiled as she watched the strangers leave her. Stopping the long haired one called Envy turned around and looked at the girl amused.
"Do you really have powers? Are you really the Homunculi? I read about you in books! People call you monsters but I don't!" The girl smiled proudly as she sat back down onto the rock she had been sitting on moments before.
"Why don't you? We kill people just to get what we want. Just so we can be human again." Envy said in a disgusted voice as he thought of the other villagers.
"I say that you guys are the same as the rest of us! Human, why you may ask? Well because you have your own wants, needs and sins. You will eventually die like we humans do, and you guys also look human on the outside." The little girl grinned as she watched Envy, Gluttony sit down in front of the rock. The woman, however, walked back to them but did not sit down; she merely looked at the girl.
"Don't you know little girl-"Envy started but was cut off by the small voice of the girl.
"Amy." She said her voice strong.
"We don't have souls, Amy." Envy finished as he watched the girl place her little hand onto her chin and think.
"And you need a soul to become a human?" Amy asked still thinking as she watched the woman nod at her.
"Well you really can create a soul, but borrowing means that you would have to kill someone else. Why would you want to be human, anyway? All we do is eat, sleep and do nothing either that or we go to war and kill each other. We humans are power hungry, we are stupid and selfish. Is that what you want to be?" Amy asked as she lowered her head in shame of the thought.
There was an interesting silence for a minute then the woman with the long black hair and cold eyes answered her question. Walking up to the younger version of Amy, she looked down at her, but eyes quiet softer than before. Amy looked up at the woman with tearful eyes and sad black coal eyes.
"That's all we wanted for years and years, but when you put it like that…still being is human is different. That is why we want it; it means we can live a normal life." The woman answered as she looked down on the child, who was staring back up her with tearful eyes.
"But you have cool powers, and can live for a very long time, you also know a lot. Why would you want to give all that up? Do you want to become normal, to become lazy, and to become stupid? I don't understand…" Amy said as she softly cried still looking up at the woman before.
"It's the only thing we have now, still no matter what you say; we still have to chase after a soul. It's our strongest desire…" The woman said as she turned away and started to walk down the road. Envy also stood up as he watched Gluttony wriggled to get up and waddle after the woman, not before waving good bye to the young girl and she doing the same.
"One day I'll become and Alchemist…then I'll be able to help people, maybe there is another way to become human without stealing someone else's soul." Amy cried out as she watched them leave. Envy stopped for a moment and turned around to face her, for a moment there was sadness in his eyes before he turned around again.
"It's really sad that one day you might have to become a sacrifice…An intelligent human like yourself. What a lose, well we'll see you around Amy." Envy sighed as he continued down the dirt patched road.
End of Flashback
Once Amy finished telling her story, she sighed and looked out the window with sad eyes. Edward stared at her in disbelief, even after hearing her story; he still couldn't let it sink in. Alphonse looked at Amy in silence, even as a child she considered the Homunculi human.
"They have the same wants, needs and feelings as we do, what makes us human and them monsters? The fact they have no soul? Then the military must not have a soul either…" Amy said as she clenched her teeth together in anger, looking down into her tightly clenched fist.
"Why do you say that?" Edward asked a little softer as he leaned back in his chair and looking out the window. Amy looked up at him, it was the first time she had heard his voice so soft, and it almost made him sound like a curious child.
"We kill each other without a thought; all it takes is an order. The rebellion…was our own stupidity, our own greed for power. We are not different from them, we kill, are sinful, selfish, lustful, hungry, lazy, angry and so full of pride. Just because we have something called a soul doesn't make us different from them. A soul is nothing but the life span of how long a person can live, as replacement to them; it is the Philosopher's stone." Amy explained as she turned her face back down to look at her hands again.
"Amy…do you think of me as human?" Alphonse asked in a quiet voice, making both Edward and Amy look at him with wide eyes.
"Do you Amy, do you consider me human?" Alphonse asked in a serious tone as he looked up at Amy.
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