Hypnotized To Murder
Disclaimer: I Don't Own FMA In Any Way.
Rating: PG—PG-13 Due To Bad Language and Blood.
A/N: :) Thank you all for your reviews, favorites, and alerts! I'm glad people are enjoying the story! Well, there's chapter three; hope you like!
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After being in an unconscious darkness for who knows how long, Ed cracked open his golden eyes, slowly, only to be met with more darkness. The Sun was still up, possibly getting ready to set soon, but the forests trees only allowed so much of said light to penetrate its branches and leaves.
"Ow…my head…" he grunted angrily. He pulled up his head and realized, he was up against a tree, its wood tying him against it, with no escape. He figured it was Alchemy, considering no natural tree would do that to a person.
The blonde Alchemist pulled his head up further and tried to straighten out his body, only resulting in the sound of his neck and back cracking, loudly, and simultaneously. He screamed out somewhat and held a pained expression on his face. Being a person with an extremely sensitive back, he regretted even trying to move in the first place; his body was put in an uncomfortable position and, by how loudly his back and neck cracked, he suspected he'd been put like that for a good while.
Nonetheless, he didn't let his paining body slow him down; he began to try and squirm his way out of the mesh of wood which held him.
He shook his shoulders; as one went up, the other went down. He kept doing that, cursing and groaning under breaths.
"OW!" he screamed out suddenly and then stopped. He had just felt a sharp pain through his flesh arm.
"Damn it…now I got a splinter jammed up my arm…" he complained angrily.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the Fullmetal Prodigy" a sarcastic, yet scornful voice said from the shadows.
Ed immediately looked up and began to search for the culprit of the all too familiar sounding voice. "Who's there!? Show yourself!" the paranoid blonde demanded.
He saw a silhouette emerge from behind a nearby tree; by the form of the body, he could easily tell it was a woman. The Alchemist looked to the forms face; he was met with a pair of violet eyes.
"Dante!" he called out furiously, finally recognizing her.
Her evil, no-caring laugh was heard. "You were always so clever, young Edward" she told him as she came into the young Alchemist's full view.
Ed glared at her, pure hatred burning in his amber eyes. "What do you want!?" he demanded through gritted teeth.
Dante walked up to him and stared at him square in the eye. The onyx-haired woman then carefully lifted up her hand to Ed's right bang and brushed a few strands of hair away from his face.
"Keep your paws off me, lady!" the blonde demanded as he pulled his head away as much as he could.
Unexpectedly, Dante then grabbed him by his lower jaw and forced him to look at her in the eye once more. Edward's breathing became heavy and his glare towards Dante only burned with more dislike.
"What the hell do you want with me!?" the Alchemist ordered from the woman.
"I have yet to receive my Philosopher's Stone, Edward! I'm not letting you get away without making it for me!" Dante replied harshly. She slightly squeezed his lower jaw harder, causing Ed to somewhat wince at the fact that her nails were driving into his soft facial flesh.
"I'm not making crap for you! I've reached my goal; I'm not giving up what's taken me so long to gain!" Ed explained heatedly.
"What? You little brother's body and a mediocre home"—"don't you ever call my hometown mediocre! EVER!!!" Edward cut off her question and stared at her angrily.
"Hmm" Dante hummed and the pulled her hand, slowly, out of the Elric's face, leaving a few red marks on his cheeks.
Edward glared at the woman as she turned her body around and began thinking, apparently, considering she brought her hand up to her chin in a contemplative manner.
Edward seems to react angrily when I make fun of his home...Dante thought, intrigued. Maybe this can work to my advantage…
"What have you gained, Ed? All I saw was a 'just a place to go to' house; I mean, you're living with your mechanic!" The violet-eyed woman teased scornfully.
"Don't call her that! She's not just my mechanic!" Ed pointed out heatedly.
"Do tell" Dante suggested quietly as she faced the teen once more.
The Alchemist's eyes widened; he knew what Dante was up to; she was trying to trick him into explaining who Winry is…and what exactly she means to him.
"She's none of your concern!" the aggravated blonde Alchemist told the woman sternly.
"She must mean something to you then, eh?" Dante asked suggestively.
"No! She's…she's just my friend, nothing more! Just…leave her out of this! This is between you and me!" Ed demanded angrily. It was silent fir a moment and then Ed was surprised to hear Dante begin laughing evily.
"I've heard that line so many times, it's not even funny!" Dante told the young teen disrespectfully.
Ed's eyes widened a bit more. "Wha-what do you mean?" he asked nervously.
"People only say what you said when the person involved is a very close friend…a girlfriend, perhaps?" Dante suggested.
"She's not my girlfriend! Just a friend!" Ed clarified, blushing lightly.
"And, just by saying that, you've led me to believe that, although she's just a friend, you have feelings for this girl" Dante explained.
Ed's blush deepened and then he shook his head. "No! She's just my friend and mechanic; nothing more! I'm telling you, leave her out of this!" the Prodigy demanded.
"Hmph!" Dante said scornfully and then walked up to the teen once more. She reached inside her top red, long sleeved, shirt and pulled out a small chain with a light blue crystal as its pendant.
"Edward, do you know what this is?" the onyx-haired woman asked as she hung the crystal in front of Ed's face.
Ed looked at the crystal more closely and noted that, within the gem, he could see a transmutation circle, a darker blue than the crystal itself.
"That pendant…it has a transmutation circle inside of it…" the Alchemist pointed out, looking back to Dante curiously.
"That's right…and now, Ed; you will give me my Philosopher's Stone! Once you kill off your mechanic!"
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A/N: YAY for cliffhangers! XD I'm finally getting the suspense in! I hope you guys enjoy! By the way, I may be updating a little late now (Example? This chapter D: ) considering school has started .-. I have a little less time, plus, all my classes are Honors classes XP Nonetheless, I hope you guys will be patient and keep reading and I will try to update as soon as I humanly can!
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