Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters except for Aaliyah.
No One's POV
Envy jumped towards the screen and into the blood.
Ed, Aaliyah, and Ling screamed in shock as Envy landed right on the spot where they were standing with dramatic, action music beginning. Blood splashed up all over because of Envy, blocking the boys from sight.
Ed appeared on screen, being pushed back by the violent waves of blood. Just as he was getting his balance back, Envy's tail slammed into him again, sending him violently flipping back into the ground a few times.
Ling was shown running through the blood. He turned around sharply and swung his sword up into Envy's underbelly. As blood gushed out of the wound, Ling jumped away.
Envy's face was shown as he screamed in pain and fell flat into the blood as Ling ran away. "Run Ed!" Ling shouted.
Envy's face was shown with his long dark hair falling in it. "Bastard!" Envy said.
Ling turned around just in time to get hit by Envy's hand again and slammed upside down into a pillar. He coughed up blood as soon as he hit it.
Ling slammed into the ground.
"LING!" Ed shouted from where he was kneeling in the blood and looking at his friend.
Ed stood up and ran at Envy. Some of the faces on Envy were shown before the screen moved up to show Ed getting closer. "Alright, Envy. Time to die!" Ed's face was shown, freezing in shock and horror as he halted.
Ed was shown to be pulling his blade back from one of the green faces on Envy that was crying and saying, "Help me...Kill me."
Ed lowered his blade and stared at it.
The creepy green face was shown. "Help me die. I'm begging you!" It stretched out towards Ed. "Please kill me...Please!" Its mouth opened widely as a severely creepy green face of the man came out of it. It laughed manically and zoomed in closely to the screen.
Envy's mouth was shown to be having slimy light brown people coming out of his mouth.
Ed was shown to have his eyes closed as the creepy brown people grabbed at him and starting to lift his limp body up.
Ling appeared on screen. "Open your eyes, Ed!" Ed was shown to be lifted towards Envy's mouth.
Aliyah's POV*
We were fighting Envy true form. Ed was charged at Envy but stop. "Edward!? Snap out of it!" I shouted. "But... There people on him." Ed reply. "They are not real." I said.
Then Envy attacked Ed. "Ed?!" I shouted.
-Reunion-
No one's POV*
A support beam being lifted by a lift appeared on screen. "Steady... Steady..." A worker's voice said.
A picture of Xiao-Mei appeared on screen. "Oh, this little cat?"
The scene pulled out to show a worker and May. "Yeah, I saw one that looked just like it by the factory earlier. I thought it seemed like a weird pet for a guy in a suit of armor to have."
May appeared on screen, looking worried. "Armor?" She asked surprised. She then screamed in shock. "That thing we fought?!" A scary demon Al and Ed who were laughing appeared on screen.
A fence with barbed wire on it was shown as May said, "That suit of armor's gonna pay, big time!" May was shown to be walking in an exaggerated way with Scar following her. "He stole Xiao-Mei from me! Kidnapped her! That creep!"
May suddenly paused and backed up a few steps to look at something. Scar looked down the alley she was looking in. The scene showed Al and Gluttony standing there. It slowly zoomed in to show Xiao-Mei on Al's shoulder. "That's her! Xiao-Mei!" She started to shout and run forward until Scar put a hand in front of her to stop her.
"Hold it." Scar said. May stopped and looked up at him. The scene moved to show Scar's face. "You see that fat one?" Gluttony was shown to be opening a gate in a wall of a building before he turned to Al. "I overheard them call him a Homunculus."
"A homunculus?" May asked.
Scar was shown to be leaning against a wall and looking down the alley with May standing in front of him. "He has the power to recover from any type of injury. He's practically immortal."
"He is?" May asked, raising her tiny fists to her chest. "That's even more reason for us to go after them!"
"You're missing my point." Scar said as Gluttony entered the door with Al following him. "I don't know if we can stop him." The end of the alley was shown and May ran into it.
Scar stepped away from the wall and watched May. 'What's the armored boy doing with him?'
Scar and May were shown to be in the doorway where Al and Gluttony disappeared into, standing at the top of some stairs. "Is something wrong?"
May had a hand to her mouth and was shivering a bit as she looked down the stairs in horror. "This place...it's strange...I could feel there was something wrong with this country since I got here."
Scar was shown, eyes narrowing slightly.
May's feet were shown. "But this place...It's the source of it...Can you feel those things? Crawling beneath us?"
The staircase was shown, half shadowed in darkness. The scene started to move slowly down the stairs.
Gluttony appeared on screen with Al following him. Xiao-Mei was shown to be shivering on his shoulder. Al turned his head slightly to look at her. "What's the matter?" He lifted a finger to her. "Are you cold?"
The staircase was shown, half shadowed in darkness. The scene started to move slowly down the stairs.
Gluttony appeared on screen with Al following him. Xiao-Mei was shown to be shivering on his shoulder. Al turned his head slightly to look at her. "What's the matter?" He lifted a finger to her. "Are you cold?"
Al rubbed her cheek. "It's okay." Xiao-Mei latched onto his finger.
Gluttony was shown at the end of the hallway to be waving to Al. "This way." He said before he went left.
Al and Xiao-Mei shared a look.
Al started following him again.
The scene changed to show Al and Gluttony standing in a tunnel.
"Woah." Al said, moving around a bit. "I didn't know there were tunnels like this under Central." Hearing a crunching sound, Al looked down. A bone skull flashed onto screen, spooking Al and making Xiao-Mei cry out in fear. Al looked around again to see himself surrounded by bones.
Al ran over to Gluttony. "Hey! What's with all that?"
"So, I'm guessing Gluttony is the easiest Homunculi to talk to." Brody asked.
"Eh..." Al said. "I guess so."
Gluttony stopped. "Huh?" He looked back at Al. "Oh. The gatekeepers did all that."
"And, of course, he is so casual about it." Jerso said.
Al put his hands down and asked confused, "The gatekeepers?"
"They won't rip you up as long as you're with me." Gluttony said as he started walking again.
Al looked up to see a wired roof there and a bunch of growling creatures with glowing red eyes looking down on him.
As soft, gentle music began, Xiao-Mei held onto Al tighter. "Just pretend they aren't there." He said before he started walking again.
Al was shown following Gluttony as he asked, "Do we have much further?"
Gluttony said, "Not too far. It's just ahead now."
Al was shown close up. "You said your father made you. Does he know what happens to the people you swallow?"
Gluttony's grinning face was shown with Al still seen behind him. "I'm sure he does. Father knows everything!"
Al's face was shown again. 'Brother, I know you're still alive. Just hang on.' He finished his thoughts as the screen went black.
The slimy brown bodies appeared on screen, flowing gently like a river. Ed's unconscious body was shown to be traveling with them.
Some of the flowing brown bodies were shown before Ed's face appeared on screen. A light accompanied by a strange whistling sound started to light up Ed's face, getting brighter and brighter until one of Ed's eyes opened a bit.
The scene moved to show it from Ed's perspective. The screen slowly moved up to show the creepy bodies connected to a red stone. 'What is that? It looks like... a red stone.' Ed's face was shown. His mouth hung open a bit and only one of his eyes was cracked open a bit. 'It's his core...A Philosopher's Stone. I almost forgot.' Ed's flesh hand was shown to be limply stretched out towards the stone. 'After all my searching.' Ed's face was shown. 'It's right here...' His eye closed again. 'In front of me...'
A picture of the destroyed part of a stone array Ed saw earlier flashed on screen really quick before Ed's face was back on screen.
The stone array he saw in Xerxes appeared next before Ed's closed eye was shown. His eye opened in shock.
Ed gasped.
Envy's closed mouth was shown before Ed slammed his foot out of it by kicking one of Envy's teeth out.
Envy's eye was shown, widening a bit.
Ling was shown, gasping in shock.
The scene turned and pulled out to show Envy with Ed waving his leg around out of his mouth. "Open up, Envy! Your breath is killing me!"
Ed was shown inside of Envy's mouth. "I think I've got a way to get us out of here."
Envy's face was show.
Ling was shown, gasping.
The scene moved to show them from above. "Come on, Envy!" Ed shouted. "Let me out!"
Dramatic music started as the scene changed to show a bunch of chimeras charging.
May appeared on screen, slamming her elbow into one of them.
Scar was shown next, slamming his hand into the head of one. There was a flash of blue alchemical light before the head exploded.
The scene pulled out a bit to show Scar as the creature fell and another suddenly appeared behind him.
May was shown throwing a kunai which then stabbed the chimera in the head. As it fell back, Scar was shown taking care of another with his destructive alchemy.
When the chimera fell, the scene pulled out to show May behind Scar. She turned halfway around. "What are these things?" She asked.
Scar looked at her out of the corner of his eyes. "They're known as Chimeras."
Scar turned around when he heard growling to see a three headed chimera coming at them. May was shown, throwing kunai that slammed into one of the heads. Then her hands were shown to be pressing into an array on the ground. Blue alchemical light flashed around the array before the screen zoomed up to show the same happening on the array on the chimera's head. It growled before its head exploded.
Scar's hand was shown before he was seen to be charging at the chimera. He grabbed the injured dog's head. There was a harsh flash of the blue alchemical light as the dog's whole head exploded and blood splashed all around. Scar's uncaring face was shown as a loud thud was heard. He stood up straight and turned around. The scene pulled out to show a mutilated chimera behind May and Scar, who were looking at a whole group of more approaching them.
Scar's face was shown. "There's no end to them."
May's soft, scared voice said, "It's stronger here." Scar turned his head to look at her. May was shown to be shivering. "The feeling..." The ground was shown. "There's something evil beneath us."
"Is it more chimera?" Scar asked.
"No, it's worse." May was shown putting a hand to her mouth with tears in her eyes. "Are those...people?"
Al and Gluttony appeared on. "Father can make anything. He made all of us he did!" Gluttony said. He brought his arms to his chest and rocked sideways a bit as he added, "He made me and Lust! And he made Envy!"
Al was shown.
The scene changed to show a bunch of pipes on a ceiling as the sound of something heavy being turned was heard. A wall filled with gears with pillars in front of them was shown next.
The ground which had pipes all over it that led to the center of the room was shown. "The gatekeepers seem to have grown restless." Father's voice said. The man sitting in the chair was shown close up, but the top half of his face was shadowed. "Someone's comes to find me."
"I have no memory of my parents' faces or their names." Bradley's voiceover said.
A little baby that was Bradley was shown.
"In fact, I don't even remember my own name. For all I know, I might have been abandoned or sold before I even had one."
A room appeared on screen with all the babies now kids. They were sitting straight in chairs with a group of scientists in front of them.
"Now which one of you will be the one to step forward and lead this country?" A scientist asked as Bradley was shown to be sitting in one of the chairs.
The scientist stopped in front of Bradley and bent over a bit, showing his grinning face and the fact that he had a gold tooth. "How about you?"
"They called us prospective Fuhrers." Bradley's voice said. "And they trained us to be leaders."
The kids were shown to be in a classroom with a teacher in front of a board.
"They kept us confined together and they taught us at all times of the day and night."
Kid Bradley was shown.
"We studied political science and humanities."
The boys were shown as teenagers, fighting against a partner.
"As well as martial arts, firearms, and of course, swordsmanship."
Two blades appeared on screen, crossing each other.
The scene pulled out to show teen Bradley hitting his opponent's sword multiple times, never giving him the chance to recover. His face was shown close up as he parried attacks and attacked himself. Eventually, he stabbed his opponent in the shoulder, causing him to stop in surprise.
His opponent was shown lying on the ground, groaning from his injury. Bradley lowered his sword and stared down at him.
A hand landed on Bradley's shoulder, surprising him and making him look at the scientist there. "Don't worry. His only true purpose in life was to help you further achieve your goal."
Bradley looked down coldly at his opponent.
"I was certain that I would be the one chosen to lead this country." The boys lined up as adults appeared on screen. "I firmly believed it and I endured any training to make it so."
A roof with pipes on it was shown as flashing red light was seen in the corner of the screen and painful screams were heard.
A bloody hand fell limply onto a table.
From the blood, dropped a stone that hit the ground.
"How disappointing. Another failure." A voice said as tweezers and a glass tray appeared on screen to push the stone onto the glass tray.
"Bring the next."
A door opened and Bradley was standing there with some scientists. One put a hand on his shoulder as Bradley stared in surprise.
"Go ahead and lie down." A scientist said as he put a clean mat over the table.
As a strap was pulled tightly over Bradley's chest, he lifted his head to look at it and asked, "What's going on here?" Bradley looked to the side where a door was opened and something was lying on the ground.
"Just try not to think about it." A scientist said as the room was zoomed in on and a bunch of dead and bloody bodies was seen.
This won't take long."
Bradley's eye widened. The scene pulled out to show Bradley looking at a scientist by his bed. "What are you gonna do to me?! Are they dead?!" A needle with a red liquid was lifted onto the screen.
The doctor with a gold tooth was shown to be insanely grinning as he held the syringe.
As Bradley was shown staring in horror, Father said, "You are the twelfth candidate." Bradley looked at the man standing by his bed.
The scene moved up to look at his face, which was blinded by the light.
Father bent over, getting into Bradley's face as he laid back down. "Do you have what it takes to become my fury?" The man's face was shown with the top half darkened. "My Wrath?
Bradley was shown to be staring in shock at him. The needled was forced into his arm, making Bradley's eye to move down to his arm.
His eye was shown getting smaller and smaller as Bradley's voice over said, "A Philosopher's Stone is created from the life force of countless human beings and contains their souls."
The scene pulled out to show Bradley's body arching up and only being kept down because of the restraints with red alchemical light flashing and snapping all over his body.
The scene slowly moved up to Bradley's face. He was screaming with blood sprouting out of his face from his eyes and nose as his head twisted around to every angle it could.
"Once injected into the bloodstream, it begins to take over its new host and the human body tries to reject it."
The scene moved to his arm which was struggling against the restraints and twisting around with the veins in it pulsating. The veins in his arm exploded at different times before they healed themselves.
"My body was repeatedly destroyed from the inside out."
The room with the dead candidates in it was shown.
"And then rebuilt by the stone."
Bradley was shown with his eyes completely white and blood pouring out of his eyes, nose, and mouth while he continued to scream in pain.
"The only options I had were to die or to overcome its power." The scene went white. "I chose the latter."
A group of scientists appeared on screen, looking down.
"It's amazing."
"We made a new type of human."
The scene moved to show the gold tooth doctor looking down as well. "Congratulations." He said as Bradley was shown sitting up, holding his face in pain. "You have been chosen to lead mankind down the path of destiny."
"Everything has been arranged to provide you with all that you will need." The scientist continued. The scene zoomed into Bradley's face.
"From now on, your name will be..." Bradley lifted his face out of his face to reveal the Ouroboros tattoo in his eye. "King Bradley."
The scene went white again before it showed Bradley and Mustang in Bradley's office.
"Countless souls have battled for dominance within me." Bradley's face was shown. "And only the most wrathful one survived."
Mustang was shown to be staring at him.
"I can't tell you if this remaining soul was one of those within the Philosopher's Stone or if it's the one, I carried since I was born. I doubt that I'll ever know."
Mustang closed his eyes. After a moment, he opened them and stood up. "You've lived your life before as a human being. Why choose to be a Homunculus, sir? Isn't there some way you could go back to being a human? Or not?"
Bradley turned around to face him. "You suggest I become human again?" He looked away. "Ridiculous. Why would I possibly want to pursue such frivolity?" Mustang was shown. "I've become something far superior."
The scene pulled out to show Bradley taking a few steps towards Mustang. "Just as you humans take great pride in your "humanity", misguided though that may be."
Bradley's face was shown as he glared at Mustang. "I too am proud...Because we also take pride in what we are."
Lust flashed onto the screen. "The woman you killed." Mustang was shown. "She died with her pride intact, didn't she?"
A pair of hands appeared on screen, tying a makeshift splint on Ed's arm.
The scene pulled out to show Ling, Aaliyah, and Ed sitting by a fire. Ed had one eye shut tight as he winced when Ling pulled the bindings on his arm tightly to finish. As Ed pulled his arm back to him, Ling said, "There, that should help."
"Thank you, Ling." Edward replied, looking down at his arm.
Then they gathered around and Envy brought the half building to them. "Maybe I can help us to go back." Ed said.
"Yeah, I does." Aaliyah said. Edward transmuted it and a blight light happened and we step in the light.
Ed's POV:
I stand up and look around. I was in gate of truth and Aaliyah with me. "Aaliyah? Why are we here for?" I asked her. "I don't know, but some reason we shared a gate together." Aaliyah said.
Then I turned around and see Alphonse's body. "Al?!" I shouted. As The gate opened and pull me and Aaliyah into the gate. "Al?! Alphonse?!" I yelled at him. Al stand up. "I can't leave with out my soul." Al said. "Al?! Wait for me!" I yelled. "Stay there...?! I'm coming back for you?!" I said to him.