Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters except for Aaliyah.
No One's POV
Windows on a ceiling appeared on screen. The scene started to move down to show a table and chair then a couple of chimeras chained up as the sound of a door opening and closing was heard.
Envy was shown to be by the door with a plate of food in his hand. He walked over to the table where another plate was left untouched. "Oh no, not again. We told you. You're an important candidate for sacrifice." He said as he sat down. He pulled one of his legs onto his other knee and held it there.
Envy's face was shown as he held it up by his other hand and closed his eyes as he smirked. "We need you to keep your strength up. Understand? So dig in, Dr. Marcoh." The scene moved forward to show Dr. Marcoh sitting on the bed.
Dr. Marcoh was zoomed in on. "You know what? I've been sitting here a while, trying to decide what you mean by sacrifice. Trying to figure out why I'm here. And what is it exactly you want me to do." He opened his eyes and looked at Envy, who was still sitting relaxed at the table.
"I'm fairly certain that what you're doing right now is using this land and its people to form a giant transmutation circle." Dr. Marcoh's hands were shown to be clutching each other. "And your hope is the end result will be the creation of a Philosopher's Stone." His face was shown, then Envy's. "Am I wrong?"
Envy gave an evil smirk as he turned to look at Dr. Marcoh. "So close, not quite. But you're on the right track."
Dr. Marcoh looked up. "Then what is it?"
Envy stood up. "The question is, are you going to cooperate with us or not? If not, the village is history." The village that Dr. Marcoh lived in was shown, then Dr. Marcoh appeared on screen with a look of horror. "Lust told me about your arrangement. If we agree to leave the village alone," Envy leaned down and looked him in the face. "Then you'll do whatever we ask.
Dr. Marcoh squeezed his hands together.
The scene pulled out to show Envy leaning over Dr. Marcoh. "Which is it? Agree to work with us and kill everyone in this country or refuse to work with us and watch everyone in your beloved village die."
Dr. Marcoh squeezed his eyes shut. He imagined a bunch of different groups of people from his village.
Dr. Marcoh reappeared on the screen. "Fool. You just have to forsake one little village to save an entire country." The scene moved up to show Envy. "Too bad you don't have the stomach to do the logical thing."
Envy stood up straight. "Ha-ha. I shouldn't be surprised. That's just how all you humans are."
Dr. Marcoh was shown.
"You put emotion before common sense."
The plate of food was shown.
Envy picked up the knife. "I killed a man who was like that once."
Envy raised the knife and turned it in his hand. "All I had to do was make myself look like his wife and he was helpless. He couldn't even fight me." He stabbed the knife into the steak.
His evil grinning face was shown. "Humans are so easy to take advantage of." He raised the knife with the bloody steak on it. "Lucky us."
-Inside the Belly-
The Presidential estate appeared on screen. Bradley was shown to be walking down a shadowed corridor with lamps on the wall here and there.
"The humans seem to be giving you quite a bit of trouble lately, don't they, Wrath?" A voice that sounded like an echo said.
Bradley stopped. His face was shown. He opened his eye.
The scene moved to show Bradley from the top of the corridor. "First Scar gets away from you, then those others make off with Gluttony."
Bradley's face was shown.
"It's not like you."
Bradley closed his eye. "Yes, you are right about that."
The scene pulled out to show one of the lamps with a moth flying around it. "And yet you seem happy."
"Yes, I won't deny it." Bradley said. The scene zoomed in on him again. "This has been..." He looked at the lamp. "Enjoyable.
The moth flying around the lamp was shown. "I've been alive for sixty years, and now here I am, in the ultimate position of power." Bradley was shown. "All as exactly as Father planned it would."
"There's more though." The voice said.
Bradley closed his eye once more. "Roy Mustang and his underlings, the enterprising Elric brothers, and these foreigners who suddenly appeared from Xing." The scene pulled out to show Bradley from a distance. "As good as we are, they've still got us scrambling in circles."
Bradley was shown close up. "Things are changing. The time may be approaching when we have to move over for the younger generation. Don't you see?"
The moth was shown to be stuck in a web. "Listen to yourself, Wrath." The moth struggled in the web. "You've been around these humans for far too long." A spider crawled down the web to where the moth was.
"You may be right, Pride." Bradley said as he was shown.
"I hope you will stop this foolishness and remember who we are and what we must do." Pride said. "I won't tell Father what you've said tonight. He might be inclined to see it as treason." The spider was shown to have finished wrapping the moth up in webs. "Anyway, about Gluttony..."
Bradley appeared on screen.
"Don't worry about that. I have access to military information after all. I know where he is." Bradley said.
The hole in the wall at the shack was shown with smoke billowing around the edges with dramatic music playing. Riza was shown to be standing next to the crater in the ground from it.
The scene moved to show the area from the sky.
"What was that?" Riza asked. "Colonel!" She jumped down into the crater and started running to the shack.
"What's going o–"
"Hawkeye, stop!" Mustang screamed.
Riza stopped.
More powerful wind with red alchemical light in it shot past Riza, taking part of her gun with it. Riza looked down at her gun in shock.
The top of the shock was shown to be trembling violently. It started to fall apart as Riza watched. The hole in the shack was shown. Gluttony was standing there with glowing red eyes and a mouth on his stomach. He screamed.
Riza pulled out a handgun and pointed it at him.
A pile of wood from the shack was shown. It started to rumble so Riza pulled out another gun and pointed it at the pile. Al pushed the rubble away with Knox and Mustang with him.
Aaliyah's POV*
"We have to destroy it." I hear Mustang snarl trying to put on his gloves.
"But we worked so hard to catch one of the homunculi." I hear Al begin to panic.
"Survival comes first, he knows our names and faces now. We would be foolish to let him leave." I watch the fire light up part of building but it didn't last long before that was sucked up as well.
"He swallowed it..." Ed and the Colonel both say at the same time, then another blast sent us flying.
"RUN!" Ed pulls me up from the ground and begins to drag me behind him. "Well that worked well! What are you going to now Mustang!" Ed grunts out as we run.
"You have a better idea be my guest!" he shouts.
"Or we could just leave you behind Colonel, you're the one he wants." I hear Al make the quick remark, Mustang would have glared if he could.
"The trees! Spread out!" I let go of Ed's hand a stop running, I should have followed the Colonel... the quicker we fool Gluttony the quicker they can get out of here and be safe.
"Aaliyah what are you doing?!" Ed shouts at me, I just give him a quick smiles and run into the trees.
"Brother? Where did Aaliyah go?"
"She just disappeared..." I can hear their words faintly before I find Mustang, he has a arm holding his side. Hawkeye is helping him stand, than I hear Gluttony's scream and I know he isn't that far away.
"Colonel, your jacket. I'm going to need it." He gives me a suspicious look, but shrugs it off and tosses it. My hands are moving but I don't know how it's happening, than a Fake Mustang sits before me, I throw the jacket on and help the Lieutenant carry the Colonel.
"Hurry..." I begin to walk faster, until we're all running.
"Aaliyah?" I hear three voices shout to me as soon as we burst through the trees, I smile at Ling, Al and Ed. Hawkeye let go of the Colonel to get the door and I try to balance his weight.
"What happened out there?" Ed has his eyes all full of concern, I shift my weight leading Mustang to the car.
"I made a decoy..." Just as the word comes out I hear a scream.
"MUSTANG!"
"It looks like he fell for it." Ed smiles, I ease the Colonel into the car. " Get in the car... invalid."
"Lieutenant, please take of Lan Fan." Al still manages to say sweetly.
"You expect me to just run away, and leave this to you Elric!?" Mustang shouts angrily, I see Ed's eye narrow in annoyance.
"If you stay you'll just get in our way!"
"Yea, leave!" Al agrees.
"They're right, you won't be any use here... sorry." Hawkeye say bluntly and I laugh at the Colonel's face, his eyes jump to me but Ed says something before he can get out a word.
"The head of the military is a homunculus, don't you think you should do something about that ?"
"The head of the military... You aren't talking about Fuhrer Bradley are you?" The Lieutenant stutters.
"We can talk about this later! Now, get in the car!" The doctor shouts to us, the boys all look at each other and nod.
"The car looks full... You go ahead." Ed smiles, but the looks we get from the car become more intense.
"You dumb asses!"
"You really don't think, we'll leave a couple of children to fight this battle for us." Hawkeye starts to shout.
"With the senior staff involved, your going to need all the help you can get." Ling smiles.
"And that includes getting whatever information we can out of that Gluttony guy, don't you think?." Ed smiles along.
"We'll stay here and get whatever we can, I don't think it really matter much that we're children." Al chimes in, I decide its better to stay silent.
"This was our mission to begin with and were going to see it through, we appreciate your help up till now tho."
"Here Edward, I want you to take this. You do know how to use it, don't you?" I see hawkeye reach out the window with her gun. Ed looks at it unsure and shakes his head.
"Thats a weapon..." Ed trails off.
"For killing people..." Al finishes.
"But its also a weapon for protecting your lives." She looks at me with the same intensity and offers it to me. I reach out and take it, it feels wrong in my hands. Than an explosion shoots out from the trees than another.
"Take of Lan Fan." Ling leans into the car than runs off, I look after them and back to the car.
"Take care of yourself out there." Hawkeye says to me as I begin to turn around, I swallow thinking about whats about to happen as I run towards them. It doesn't take long till I see the three of them watching Gluttony through the trees. They all spin around and I jump.
"We thought you were something else..." Al sighs with relief, than Gluttony begins to screams again.
"Ok I know we said we'd stay and all... but thats seriously freaky." Ed mutters.
" He looks a bit angry..." Ling grumbles.
"How are we going to catch him.." Al says quietly.
"What was that?" Al interrupts, we all turn around to see a huge dog with glowing red eyes. Envy.
"Stop it Gluttony!" I can hear Envy's scratchy voice.
"A talking dog..." Ed looks slightly mortified.
"Hey,long time no see." The voice says snarly as red light begins to glow and Envy transforms back into his usual form, Ed looks horrified for a second and walk close beside him and he looks at me.
"How are you Fullmetal pip squeak?" Than I see the anger fly up into his eyes.
"Damn it!How many times do I have to tell you to not call me short!" Ed screams and sets his foot right for Envy's head.
"Hey calm down, I'm just here to get Gluttony back. Nothing more, calm down pip..." Ed foot comes back again.
"THAT'S FIVE TIMES NOW !"
"What are you talking about?" I roll my eyes and look at Al.
"Aaliyah."
"Yea Al?"
"You seem a little on edge.. what's wrong." I didn't notice I had my fingers fidgeting together.
"I'm just worried Al... I don't want you to hate me especially after you found out about the Fuhrer." I bit my lip, might as well be honest before anything crazy starts to happen.
"It's ok Aliyah." Al smiles at me. " I understand the terms why you don't tell us things, I know brother doesn't blame you for anything either." I give a small a smile than I see Ling run off with Gluttony chasing after him.
"Did you hear that Al? They really aren't aloud to do anything to the two of us, so you know what that means." Ed smirks and touches the ground a huge wall jumps up that separates Ling with Envy and the three of us and Gluttony.
"Ling you take that one." Ed huffs before launching at Gluttony, but I don't follow I walk over to the other side and Envy smirks at me.
"Well now." Ling turns around to look at me.
"Aaliyah, go.. you'll get hurt." Envy scoffs at him.
"She here to make sure you don't get hurt idiot, I should be offended that you aren't helping family."Oh that's it... I throw myself past Ling and throw my fists at him, Envy smirks and lands one sending me back into the dirt. Ling takes the next move and I stand up, I look at my hands and touch the ground. spikes jet out and get Envy right in the stomach, his eyes dart right to me.
"I forgot you have also those annoying alchemy tricks." he snarls and comes for me, I feel something stab through my cheek.
"Aaliyah!" Ling shouts.
"But how bout this for a trick?." Envy laughs cruelly.
"What an ugly trick... just like you..." I smirk as I send another spike through his legs, than Ling jumps at him. I have a little trouble standing as I get up, than the wall blows up.
"Watch it guys...Don't get in my way" Ling huffs and than looks back at Envy who has transformed into Lan Fan, he freezes and Envy smirks.
"Now Gluttony." I panic. What do I do? Be sucked up or stay...Ahh...think think, damn it...I don't know. I reach out and grab Ling.
"Aaliyah!" I hear Ed shout as I feel his grip holding onto me.
"Damn it, I can't let him eat a sacrifice!" I know what's going to happen next... I close my eyes and hold Ling tighter, I hear the sound of a loud wind and feel myself being sucked backwards...Than nothing. Until I open my eyes and stare into the abyss of darkness and blood.