Wrath had been going in the same direction for a while. He had figured that if you went one way far enough, you'd eventually make it to a city or at least one of those signs that told you which direction a city was. Sadly, neither had appeared during his long trek and it was starting to get to him. Wrath wasn't even exactly sure what kind of goal he was looking for, but people liked to talk he figured that if he just listened, someone might give him an idea.
The young homunculi looked around the area he was in, but there was still no buildings to be seen, the idea was starting to just seem dumb and he was past tired of it. But, it wasn't like he had anything else he could do, he was determined not to just whither away in the woods. Then, the worst sound in the world came to his attention, there was no mistaking it, a baby was crying. In desperation, Wrath tried to cover his ears, but it was in vain, he could still hear the shrieking of that kid. It was like his blood was boiling.
Wrath sprinted toward the noise, he needed to stop any way possible. As he got closer, naturally the sound got louder and louder and it seemed like it would never end. He finally saw what was going on, but he didn't really care for the details, he just wanted it to end, now. A gang of men were punching around a group of small kids and the baby was sitting alone in the grass, nothing it could do but make its own call for help.
"Make it stop make it stop!" Wrath yelled as he started going toward the baby, ignoring the others. Before he could get there, the muggers got in his way. He stopped, looking up at them. He couldn't focus as long as that noise was still going on, he needed to get past them and he would.
"Hey guys, looks like we got ourselves another person who wants to join in on the fun and to top it off, he's a cripple," the man said, pointing at Wrath's leg and arm, "lets show him what happens to those who so rudely interrupt our games," he said as he cracked his knuckles and smirked.
"Make the noise stop, now," Wrath said in a malicious tone. In response, they simply laughed.
"Oh that's rich, your telling us what to do? Sorry kid, I was debating letting you go, but now we're really gonna have to make an example out of you," They started to move toward him, the closest one charging almost blindly. Wrath jumped over him, hitting him in the back of the head with his automail leg. The next one sent a jab right at his face, but his supernatural reflexes allowed him to get his other metal appendage up to block the strike.
The ground glowed for a second as his organic leg absorbed some of it. He stuck his left arm up and extended its new rocky form straight into the attacker's chest. Two down and two to go. Wrath let the stone dissipate and fall to the floor. He took the first offensive this time, making contact with one of their noses, and then swiftly elbowing the last one. They must have been too used to picking on kids to take on a real fight and this was one they couldn't have won even if that had seen it coming.
Now that he had no further distractions, he could finally make that damn baby stop crying. He walked over to where he had seen it before, a girl now had it in her arms. She looked up at him, Wrath figured she was too hurt to run from even a monster like him. "Make it stop, or I will," he warned. He didn't know how much more he could take. She rocked it for a second and it did calm down, it was already tired for crying as long as it did.
"Thank you for saving us, are you can alchemist?" she asked. Wrath didn't understand, first off, he had rarely been thanked during his existence for anything and this time. Second, he hadn't been doing anything for her at all and to bring it all together into one confusing pile, it was the first time a human had seen his powers and been… grateful. The other children were now closer, all staring at him… like he was some sort of hero, like he was… good.
Wrath did the first thing that came to his mind, he ran. He didn't know how to respond so his only choice was to leave so he didn't have to. He still had no idea what he was going to do and now he had yet another unsettling thing on his mind. He had saved the lives of a bunch of humans he didn't even know, he didn't mean to, but now he had and he couldn't handle their gratitude.
A/N: So I dunno leave me some feedback, I'll just laugh at your flames but any constructive critism is welcome. This is sort of just supposed to be a fun read, so don't over analyze it.