All I got to say is it is mostly dialouge... 'Cause Ed's telling a story. xD
Warnings - Violence, swearing, madness, Ed, Envy, etc etc.
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Ink Hands
The Past
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"Well you see - a few hours before Al and I were to perform the human transmutation to revive our mother, I discovered something in the book that spoke of human transmutation. A page we had not read before, and it spoke of how human transmutation was highly risky, and would not succeed for the inexperienced. So I was frantic about what to do - I couldn't really face Al with this news, could I? Well at that point, I couldn't. So while you went to Winry's to collect some of the things we would need, claiming it was for some other form of alchemy project, I packed a few essentials into a backpack. I tore that certain page from the book, and fled. I ran deep into the woods, and found a clearing with a cave. Not this one of course, that would be an impossibly far walk. There I reread that page many times. After reading it for the, oh, fifth time maybe? - I found that it was two pages stuck together, and pulled them apart. The new part that I hadn't read, was a detailed description of performing human transmutation on a real human. I saw someone's hand writing in the margin that said, 'It is proven by a few underground scientists to work with a little help by-' The name of the person who provided the help was crossed out. So I was curious, and decided to perform the human transmutation on myself."
The manticore paused, clearing editing out the ingredients and parts of the transmutation so that none of the present would copy it for themselves.
"After the alchemic reaction, I found myself in an expanse of white, with a large black Gate in front of me. I heard a voice speaking about having a human to change, and then I was sucked into the Gate. My soul was removed from my body, and tiny black hands - er - edited my soul, and clearly threw the shell of my body somewhere - which is probably what you have been meeting."
The part of having the shell of his body thrown elsewhere was a lie, he watched the little black things devour it, delighted upon having human flesh.
"After the pain receded, I learned a great deal of information from the Gate - which is more correctly known as the Truth. The Truth contains all information of the world, and how to do many things. What brought about the creation of the world - where souls came from, why humans are how they are. How there were no such things as gods, and that religion is all heresay, and so on. So much knowledge, and the Truth thrust only a small part into my mind at the time being. Or rather a small piece that would soon grow till I am a living version of the Truth. But that will take years, and I might not survive at all. All I know is that I know only about one one-hundredth of the knowledge that was in the Truth. Which is probably why the Truth turned me into something that lives a long time alone."
He edited more as he took in the expressions of the three... four counting the phooka.
"When I awoke I was like this - except... cuter and smaller, I guess. After traveling for a while, and found out the first thing the Truth taught me is how to maintain a human form, so I took one. Of course I was still little at that point. It is hard for many creatures to maintain human forms, so we usually only approach drunk humans. Anyways I was wandering in an alley at this point, and I was terribly confused so I didn't notice the drunk man until he grabbed me. Then he-"
The manticore's face scrunched up at the unpleasant thought and he stood, causing the phooka to skitter over to Roy, Al, and Envy. He really didn't want to speak of it, and he had started to shudder. Also he could smell the fear coil off of the three as his story continued - since he figured they thought it was something extremely terrible. Which it was.
"-Well to put it bluntly... Raped me... So I could no longer trust anything appearing human, because that image keeps repeating in my head. After that incident had happened, I fled in the form you see me now into the neighboring forest. There this phooka saved my sorry ass, he explained to me why humans naturally seem to go after the nonhuman in violent and unusual ways. He also taught me the rules, and limitations of being one of the, uh, fantastical creatures. Such as few creatures, including dragons, and more such as the Queens or Kings of the Faerie courts hardly ever try to go against manticore, as we are very dangerous beasts. I learned I have more freedom as a manticore than that of other creatures, and that because I was gold of color, other manticore would respect my unusual coloring."
He let the others digest this information, as this part was all truth, and no lie.
"Then I lived alone in the mountains for a while, and came upon the mining town where my 'body' lived as a thing with a soul. We met, and I decided to let him alone. As I did not wish to harm a soul that had needed a body instead of wandering around forever, and left. Then I lived as a manticore, and attended several Unseelie Court's, uh, parties. Much to the displeasure of the Queen, and her servants. Anyways I heard the news that someone had discovered my... the new Ed, or 'Beast's, antics and had captured him. And then I found you here, and decided to scare you."
The thing about his body was a lie of course, but the part about the Unseelie was dead true... And hell, it had been a blast.
Now to see their reactions to his story.
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Yay... Now no more updates for this for a week or so. I might do one Thursday night, or something. D:
Anyways I am working on a Death of a Believer chapter, so expect that later... Or tomorrow morning.
Ohyeahs - for those of you who might like Vampire Knights, Eon's writing a story of ShikixIchijou... A chapter one... Something about how there are few of those, and everyone likes pairing Shiki with some vamp chic called Rima...? Well anyways if you like vampires check it out, I guess. It'll be out either later tonight or tomorrow even. 'Cept he won't be able to update for a bit 'cause he's coming on vacation with me. (:
R & R peeps. :DDD