Chapter 12
inside the beast
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'Ouch!' I thought 'What happened? Oh, my head hurts.' I opened my eyes and my temples were pounding. I looked around everything was dark just some fire spread around here and there. I remembered the forest and the flash of light, the feel of falling and the unbreakable darkness. My eyes lit with my horror as I realized I was inside Gluttony. I go to my feet and I was completely alone. I walked over to the first fire I saw, the ankle deep blood splashing around as I walked disgusted, intent on not staying in the dark. I grabbed a piece of wood and tried to make a torch, but it burned my hand and I dropped it, jumping back, sucking on my poor, burnt index finger. My hand was throbbing along with my head now in a steady bum bum bum bum…bum bum bum bum it was like the master's "drums" (little Dr. Who twist for any of you fans reading this.) I tried again and managed not to burn my hand off. It was then I noticed someone on the other side of the flames.

"Breeze," I called out as she got to her feet. She rubbed her head then looked around scared of where we were. I approached her and reached down a hand to help her up, but she batted it away and said,

"Get away from me!" I looked down at her sadly as she stumbled to her feet, almost slipping on the blood. I handed her a torch and made another one. She glared at me and said. "I'm not through yet." I took a deep breath and responded,

"We have bigger things to worry about. What do you say we call a truce until we get out of here?" she glared at me so I continued, "If we want to get out of here, we're going to need to work together. But if you want to go through this endless oblivion alone then fine, your choice, what do I care." I began to walk away giving her a short wave.

"You sure got over me quickly," she said stopping me dead in my tracks. I slowly turned to her my eyes looking dead.

"You mean your betrayal?" I asked coldly.

"Change of heart," she stuttered unable to look me in the eye. "You make it sound like I stabbed you."

"You did, little traitor." I replied flatly, "I'll admit I really thought you were different. But it looks like I was wrong. Maybe I'm not the cute, sweet innocent girl the girls at school think I am. Maybe that was just a cover. It's my way of picking out the fake friends, the ones who see past the cover." I began to walk away again but there was a small plop into the blood at my feet and I quickly scooped up my broken locket necklace and slid it back into my pocket as I walked away. Breeze looked at her pocket probably where she had placed her key necklace. It was the other part to the locket I have. Mine would open only to that key. We had put something in the locket but I can't remember what. I heard the sloshing following me and she muttered,

"Truce, at least until we find Ed, and Ling." We walked in silence until we both grew tired and sat down on a piece of building.

"Do we have any food?" I asked Breeze.

"No, and I am not going to scoop so low as to eat a boot like Ed and Ling." I nodded in agreement and started off again.

"Elric Brother telepathy, conveniently awaken!" we heard echo through the darkness from a source nearby.

I said, "Some scientist only believes what can be proven." We both dashed in the direction of the sound and after a little more running we saw two figures approaching one single figure. I flashed Breeze a Yes we found them look but she didn't even notice didn't even look at me. We ran up to them and Breeze hesitated but went to Envy's side. Little traitor. I ran to Ed and Ling and Envy called out,

"I can't Believe I got myself swallowed for you!"

"What did you say?" Ed asked. "You mean this is Gluttony's stomach?"

"You didn't recognize it?" Envy asked "When Gluttony opened up to swallow us." Ed thought for a moment and then the realization crossed his face. "Gluttony was designed to be a second gate but it was a failure."

Ed looked around and said, "I should have noticed this place was familiar it, looks like the truth except the real truth is bright, White, and there is a gate, and a creepy little guy."

"So that's what the real one looks like." Envy muttered. Envy had sat down on some piece of rock. I lost interest in the conversation and zoned out, waiting for Ed to get the brilliant idea that would get us all out of here. I realized Envy had started telling his story about starting the Ishbal war and I balled my hands into fists and could see Breeze's disgust. When Envy finished talking Ed didn't say a word he walked straight up to Envy and punched him right in the face really hard. But Envy didn't even fall off his seat. Ling said,

"Haven't you noticed? He appears as if he would be light weight but oddly he seems to make deep indentations that aren't proportionate." He was thinking of the forest where envy went sliding and it dug a deep hole in the ground. Envy snickered and replied,

"You know what I'm going to show you something really cool before we all die." And he began to transform into a huge green dog/dinosaur thing. His skin was made of human souls trying to escape their way out of their jail. The blood was splashing up in huge waves and Ed transmuted a sword for Ling with wicked awesome sculls. Breeze's eyes locked on mine intent on a fight but I ignored her.

"Hey Ed, can you make me one of those awesome swords?" I called out over the roar of splashing blood and the souls dreadful screaming. Ed smiled and replied as he clapped his hands.

"Finally someone with style!" he flashed Ling a look and Ling said.

"What style? Kid you have no style!" Ed tossed me a sword that landed at my feet handle up blade digging into the ground, I picked it up and the three of us ran at Envy. Breeze tried to cut me off but I ignored her completely and ran to attack Envy. Ed stopped short when he was about to stab what looked like a head of an innocent person and Envy began laughing at him saying they probably didn't even remember their true bodies. Then he flung Ling to the side and Ling slammed into a stone column, I dashed up the side of Envy and started stabbing him on the back. After he managed to kick Ed away he began jumping around trying to throw me off. Then the idiot tripped himself. I tried to jump off to safety but the little faces and arms of the souls reached out and grabbed me, holding me down. I reached out to cut them off, but dropped my sword and it hit the blood with a soft plop

"No!" I cried out as we collapsed to the ground. My arm was caught under envy and I could feel and hear my arms crack. I gritted my teeth and let out a yell of pain before catching myself forcing myself to shut up. I never broke a bone before this. His head turned to me.

"Well, look" he said, "appetizers." He opened his mouth to eat me but Ling ran up and stabbed him, grabbing my good arm and pulling me away to safety. I got to my feet and gently cradled my limp broken arm with my good arm. I looked up just in time to see Envy eat Ed.

"NO!" I yelled and took off running to Ed. But Breeze grabbed me by the shoulder and slung me onto the ground, blood splashing everywhere, even worse I landed on my broken arm and pain was coursing through my body. I shoved my head above the blood and unsteadily got to my feet, body aching.

"Do you want to get out of here or not?" she stated and looked over watching Ed start yelling and kick out Envy's tooth waving his foot around yelling.

"I know how to get us out, Envy open up, and I can get us all out!" Envy's face lit with shock and he let Ed out. In a short while Ed explained that if Gluttony was a fake truth maybe we could cross through the real truth and land back in their world.

"Envy," Ed said, "We need you to go around and collect as many of these huge stone tablets as you can." Envy nodded and began to walk away when I added on,

"Yeah Envy, go fetch." Breeze giggled Ed smiled and Ling grinned. Envy on the other hand didn't find it funny he turned his head back to glare at me and said,

"Yum, a snack,"

"You need to lay off the sweets as it is, Envy." I shot back not missing a beat. He glared again.

"Come on you guys, cut it out, we need to hurry up and get out of here." Ed said still grinning. Then he muttered to himself, "Al is probably worried sick." I gave Ed a sympathetic look as Envy walked away. Time passed and finally Envy came back with most of the pieces except for the one that was still in Xerxes. Ed drew out the circle and said. "When it opens you all need to jump in. Envy, you have a philosopher's stone, I am going to need to transmute that as payment so we can all pass without pay. Everyone understand?" we all nodded Ed took one last look at the souls of Xerxes before he clapped his hands and the transmutation started. The eye opened and everyone jumped. We were in a way split off from each other. Ed, Ling and Envy disappeared and Breeze and I passed through into the white area were the creepy white truth guy sat.

"Why, you're not even trying to go home." He mocked. We ignored him and waited for the gate to open. Then we were thrown down into its eternal darkness.