Chapter 3: First meeting; First murder
The school was definitely quiet in the early morning on Tuesday. The quietness was a good thing for the four figures that ran in the long hallways. They needed the quiet, and the darkness to pursue their plans. Envy, one of the three figures, knew their target was about somewhere, hiding.
"So, Gluttony, have you found the target yet?" Lust asked.
"No luck," Gluttony said, sadly.
"What does Father want us to find, exactly, Envy?" Wrath wondered. Judging by Envy's face, it had something to do with blood, and Envy, his loved blood.
"Not to find, Wrath," Envy answered, "to bring to him."
"Bring?"
"You'll see. The one we want is hiding in the science lab."
They moved on, entering the science lab by busting the door open. The one they wanted, was shivering in a corner. Envy smirked mercilessly, while Gluttony drooled over the new fresh meat he would get his mouth on --- only Lust didn't let him. They needed the body.
The worthless human beings shivered and begged them not to kill him, that he would do whatever they asked. Envy refused to listen to such a ridiculous plea. All humans were the same, always begging for their lives not to be taken away. Dying is apart of human life, but they didn't see death as a possibility.
"No please!" the human shouted. "Don't –--"
Lust plunged her long nails into the human's chest. Blood tricked down the side of the human's mouth. When Lust took the nails out of his chest, the human fell down.
"What now?" Wrath asked.
"We bring the body to Father," Envy said.
"Can I eat it?" Gluttony asked Lust excitedly.
"Ugh, no, you heard what father said, bring the body to him," Lust told Gluttony was who disappointed he couldn't eat the dead human.
"Let's go," Envy ordered. "We don't want any time to be wasted."
-Tuesday: 9:00 am-
"School is cancelled?" Winry muttered, reading the sign on the front doors with Edward, Alphonse and some other students.
"Wonder why," Alphonse said. "All of a sudden too. The weather is nice, so the reason must be even more serious."
Edward didn't like this at all, as much as Alphonse didn't either. He exchanged looks with his younger brother and they both nodded at each other.
"Winry, you go home, we are going inside to see what's happening," Edward told her.
He and Alphonse ran off before Winry had the chance to even speak her opinion about the matter. "Where are those two off to!" She exclaimed. They never told her anything…
Edward and Alphonse arrived in the principal's office, by slamming the door open. The noise woke up Roy Mustang from a nap which made him quite angry. He didn't like to be awakened unless it was some sort of emergency. Okay… he doesn't like to be woken up. Period.
"What's going on, Mustang?" Edward asked.
"Uh…"
"Don't give me that! Why is school cancelled all of a sudden?" he asked.
Principal Roy Mustang went blank for a moment. "Oh right! I forgot…" Roy said. "This morning… before school started, there was a murder."
Alphonse shivered. A murder inside their own school? Who would do such a thing? Especially inside a nice school… it didn't make much sense. "Who was murdered?" he questioned.
" We don't really know…" Roy said. "All we know was that there was blood found in the computer lab this morning."
"Then how do you know it is even a murder?" Edward said.
"Because… why would there be a bucket full of blood all over the floor… Someone who was there, was there for a long time… and obviously running away from some maniac," Mustang explained.
"What do we do then?" Alphonse asked.
"We look for the murderer, and keep the hall ways safe…" Mustang replied. "I don't want to two saying a word to anyone, understood? The last thing I need is for chaos to erupt in the school… All those damn parents questioning what's going on is the last thing I need. Especially that stupid old superintendant … who I will succeed one day."
"Sure you will," Edward said sarcastically.
"When I do, you'll be my short slave!" Roy exclaimed. "Not that you already aren't short…"
"Whatever…" Edward muttered, obviously annoyed by what Roy commented on his height.
Mae Hughes walked into the office a moment later. "Roy... I need to talk to you," he said. He took a deep sigh of sadness. "It's not good at all."
"You found out who got murdered?" Roy asked.
"No…" Hughes said. Then suddenly he took out a picture of his daughter's drawing of the pink bunny. "MY DAUGHTER'S LOGO GOT RUINED BY COFFEE!"
"WHAT THE HELL!" Roy shouted. "IF YOU ARE GONNA COME IN HERE COME BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT NOT BECAUSE OF FAMILY MATTERS YOU FOOL!"
"WELL I'M SORRY WHEN YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER SOMEDAY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND!" Hughes shouted back. "I JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO YOU."
"WELL, IT'S NOT!"
"YOU SPILLED THE COFFEE ON THE DRAWING DIDN'T YOU?"
"WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD I CARE ABOUT SOME STUPID LOGO FOR A CLUB THAT IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THE SCHOOL!"
"YOU'RE SO HEARTLESS!" Hughes cried.
"Oh. My. God," Edward said and sighed, listening to Mustang and Hughes argue over something stupid, made the day drag on. "WILL YOU TWO STOP ARGUING?"
Hughes immediately stopped shouting at Roy. "But sir… there is something I want to tell you for real this time…"
"What would that be?"
"It's about the one who got murdered…" Hughes said. "It wasn't a student… it was one of our Staff…"
Edward glared at Hughes. "Who?"
"It was Tim Marcoh," Hughes replied.
Silenced filled the room.
"Tim Marcoh? The doctor?" Roy asked. "No way…"
"Yeah way…"
"Who would have killed Tim Marcoh though? That doesn't make any sense…" Alphonse said. "He's just a doctor who looks after people…"
"No kidding. Something must have set off the murderers," Hughes said. "No doubt they wanted something…"
"Revenge?" Alphonse suggested.
"No…" Roy said. "Something else…" Roy looked at Hughes and gave him a questioning glare, that asked him 'Is that… thing we have been hiding?'
Hughes nodded.
"No way… This is bad… this is really bad," Roy said. "Meeting immediately at 3:30 pm."
"What's going on?" Edward asked.
"Nothing. You'll see at the meeting."
"Fine… not that you tell me anything anyways," he remarked.
A murder, Edward thought, and I thought this school was the safest place to be.
-At Meeting- 9:06 am
"So I'm assuming everyone aside myself, and Mustang has heard about the murder?" Hughes asked. Everyone nodded. "Good… because now that we got that over with… I FINALLY GOT THE UNIFORMS ORDERED!"
"You're joking, right?" Edward said. "You actually think we are going to wear stupid uniforms with a PINK bunny on the front?"
"Well, since you asked, it won't just be pink… it'll have SPARKLES TOO!" Hughes exclaimed. "I'm even considering getting real pink fluff for the logo!"
"And I joined, why?" Edward muttered.
"Oh come on, Ed," Alphonse said, trying to be optimistic, "I'm sure they don't look that bad… It would make Hughes's daughter happy."
Edward eyed his brother. "You expect me to believe… THAT I HAVE TO WEAR THESE JUST BECAUSE A LITTLE GIRL MADE THEM? DOESN'T THAT MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE?!"
"You have to wear it, Elric," Mustang said and smirked, "or else you'll have to pay for that desk you broke."
"One of these days, Mustang… ONE OF THESE DAYS!" Edward shouted.
"1st warning. Don't threaten your supreme principal!!" Roy warned.
"Supreme principal my ass!"
"Okay people!" Hughes said. "Let's get to the point here… We need to capture this criminal before they begin to pick out one of the students and we cannot have that happening."
"Then we continually look for any clues or any suspects," Roy explained. He sighed. A murder was the last thing he wanted let alone a club called Fuzzy pink Death Bunnies with an actual logo of a pink bunny. Stupid Hughes. "We'll have to search the area of the murder then."
Armstrong stood up sparkling as usual with pride and glee. "Can we be in groups?!"
"Um… that won't be necessary… not for looking in the murder room," Mustang said, "but, since you brought it up, I have the perfect idea about who should be with who!" He smirked and glared at Edward and Alphonse. "First group… will be Ed, Alphonse, and Armstrong!"
"WHAT!" Edward shouted. Armstrong was an oversized, muscularity man that always sparkled
"Oh, dear Edward! I am most certainly privileged to be in your group!" Armstrong proclaimed, sparkling still.
"And we have to be with the oversized stuff bear?"
"You'll get used to it," Mustang told him. "Okay, then I want, Riza, me and Hughes. Then, Breda, Havoc and Fuery, you're the third group. We won't use the groups now… but when we really need to."
"YOU ALWAYS PICK THOSE TWO!" Edward shouted.
"YOU ARE REALLY DIFFICULT YOU KNOW THAT EDWARD?"
"SHUT UP!"
-Homuniculi- 9:30 am
"It's still not here!" Lust said impatiently, kicking down the trashcan. "The Philosopher's stone is not in this damn school!"
"Be patient. Lust," Envy said, calmly.
"You killed a man that could have been useful, how can I remain calm?" Lust asked. "He made the Philosopher's stone… I read it in a book once."
Envy laughed a little bit. His laugh even scared Gluttony because it had such a demonic tone to it, that anyone wouldn't want to bump into him. "That body, was made up," Envy said. "The man was not Marcoh."
"What?" Lust asked. "Do you mean to tell me we killed someone for no reason?"
"He looked like Dr. Marcoh but he was merely a substitute for him," Envy explained. "The real Marcoh ran off somewhere."
"Why the hell would you do something like that?"
"Are you blind, Lust? Seriously, I did it because we cannot kill off Dr. Marcoh. He is our lead to the stone," Envy said. "Besides, I took the opportunity because the man we killed did actually have a look alike with the doctor. Apparently they are related."
"How do you know?" Lust snapped, irritated she didn't know all of this.
"I'm a student remember?" Envy said. "Anyways, if we want to capture Dr. Tim Marcoh, I need to get moving."
"Then… we will hold the party off," Lust replied, flipping her long black hair back. "One of them, are Edward and Alphonse Elric. You know who they are don't you?"
Envy smirked. "Of course I do. They are Hohenheim's sons," he said. "Don't kill them whatever you do."
Lust smirked back. "Will do then," she replied. "And the others?"
"Get rid of them if they get in the way."