I hope you enjoyed last chapter. Heres a new chapter with some new characters entering in finally.
I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of the characters.
Envy yawned a little as he walked into the small town of Reole. He'd been here before. He had impersonated Father Cornello, started a riot, and such. Though it seems things quieted down a bit. Everyone was working on rebuilding the town it seemed.
He was in Alphonses form instead of his own right now, figuring it would be best to try not to draw attention to himself. After all if people saw a guy with long black hair spiked the way his was, wearing a half shirt and skort, people would notice him. They would talk about the weird looking new comer, and the last thing he wanted was for Pride to know he was here the moment he stepped into the town.
With his keen eyesight, he noticed that people were lined up by that resturante down the street, he was also pretty sure it was the only resturante in this dump of a town. Sure the town had been nice before the Blood Crest was carved into it, but now it was a dump.
His stomach growled a little, causing Envy to glare at it for betrayal. Homunculi aren't supposed to need to eat, but because this body was originally a human body, it needed food to sustain it's strength. If he didn't eat he would slowly starve to death as well as grow weaker. Pitiful but it was the truth.
He walked towards it as people started to leave, having gotten their food. He noticed the girl- it was a girl, no older then eighteen it seemed, serving stew from a large pot. She had dark skin and hair as well as her bangs dyed pink.
As he got to them, he noticed that there was a guy sitting beside the girl eating and he stopped right in his tracks as the man noticed him and they stared at each other.
"Alphonse?" "Father?!" They said in sync, the man asking if he was Al, and Envy demanded if it was Father.
The man smiled, "Alphonse!" He said cheerfully, assuming Envy saying 'Father' meant he was Alphonse, which earned him a hit on the head.
"I'm not Alphonse!" He snapped.
The Father-Look-Alike rubbed his head and looked up at him, "If not, then who are you? Because you look a lot like my son Alphonse," He said.
The girl blinked, "Alphonse? As in Alphonse Elric?" She asked and Envy wanted to gag, did everyone in this town know the Elric brats?
"It's Rose! And...DAD!" Alphonse exclaimed inside of his head, so the Father-Look-Alike was Ed and Al's dad.
Wait a minute...
"Your Van Hohenheim!" Envy yelled jumping back and pointing a finger at Hohenheim, remembering who Hohenheim was, "Your the brats' dad?!"
Hohenheim nodded, suspicion and curiosity lit his eyes. But they vanished as a grin broke his face when Envys stomach growled again. He patted a seat next to him, "Why don't you take a seat, Rose, do you think my friend here could have some of your delicious stew?" He asked.
Rose smiled, "Of course!" She said, pouring a bowl and handing it to Envy who hesitently sat down beside Hohenheim and Rose sat on his other side, curious about the two newcomers who seemed to know Ed and Al.
As Envy ate the stew- it was delicious, Hohenheim wasn't lying!- the father of the brats eyed him.
"So, who are you?" Hohenheim questione, "You look identicle to my son, and you bare the traits of Xerses, I doubt it's a coincidence," he said.
Envy rolled his eyes and ate his stew, "Well, if I was being technical, then yeah, you are seeing your son Alphonse right in front of you," He said and watched as Hohenheim and Rose looked in confusion and he resisted a groan of annoyance. "I'm Envy the Jealous, the fourth homunculus," He added, hoping Hohenheim would figure it out.
And he did, sort of, "Your one of Fathers children," He said, "And I take it your using an illusion of some kind to appear as Alphonse? Shapeshifting?" He asked.
Envy shrugged, "Half right, I'm a shapeshifter, but this body, this body belongs to Alphonse," He said and the confusion from the two came back, though Rose didn't understand any of it. Envy snickered a little before grinning, "I guess you could say, I moved into Al's body."
Hohenheim understood, "The Dwarf in the Flask put his Envy in Al's body," he muttered more to himself and Envy raised his arms.
"Don't worry, I ditched the old man," He said, spoon hanging in his mouth, "I guess you want an explanation?" He asked them.
Hohenheim nodded, "It would be best if you explained," He confirmed.
Envy put the now empty bowl and spoon on the counter and stretched, "Maybe we should go somewhere more private to discuss this," He offered, "I don't really want the entire town to know everything that I'm going to tell you."
"You can talk at my house," Rose offered and before anyone could argue, she grabbed Envy by the wrist and began dragging him away. Hohenheim smiled innocently as he began following them.
Envy struggled to get out of her grip, "Wait, I can walk by myself!" He argued.
"Rose seems accepting of what's going on," Al said cheerfully.
That's because she understood none of it, moron, Envy snapped in his head.
Rose led them into her house and pulled out a chair for Envy and Hohenheim, then sat on a third one as Hohenheim sat in one of the ones she pulled out. Both looking at Envy expectantly, he sighed and sat in the last chair.
"You know, I think I should get out of this form, you might mistake me as Al again and I don't want that," He said, it was a private place so he doubt Pride would hear that he was here if he wasn't in Al's form.
As soon as he said that, he felt his body changing and he was soon back in his long haired pale skinned beautiful form. When he saw the two staring at him in confusion, he sighed, understanding what confused them.
"This is a boy form."
"Ooooooooh," Rose and Hohenheim said, blushing at being caught questioning his gender. To many people get confused on his gender, it's gotten annoying.
Envy rolled his eyes and looked at Hohenheim, "So, what do you want to know first?" He asked.
There was a pause, after all, the bastard-look-alike probably had a million questions, and he would probably have to answer Roses questions too. But at least she was being polite and not asking how he just changed form. After all she did hear him say he was a shapeshifter.
"Why did you leave your Father?" Hohenheim asked, not the question Envy had been expecting. He was expecting a 'How can I beat Father', or something like that. But it was an interesting question.
It also brought back the hate and pain, Envy narrowed his eyes and glared at a wall, "The bastard betrayed me," He growled and decided to give a better explanation, "I was still doing my job, I was becoming less of a danger to killing your precious sons, I was still doing my job correctly. But the bastard found out I d-...I befriend a human and all hell breaks loose. He killed me, then remade me by putting me in Alphonse."
Hohenheim nodded, "I'm going to suspect that he got rid of your memories as well, and there just slowly coming back?" He asked, the guy was smarter then Envy had been giving him credit for because that was dead-on accurate.
The homunculus could only nod.
Hohenheim smiled, "So, this human you 'befriended', was she cute?" He asked with a knowing tone.
How the hell did he know about me dating a human!? Envy screamed in his mind as he glared at Hohenheim.
'Well, you almost said 'date' instead of 'Befriend'," Alphonse offered innocently.
Oh...yeah... Envy mentally sighed, "I...I don't remember her, I mean...I remember her, but I don't remember her name or what she looked like," he said, his voice becoming more and more quietly.
"I bet she must have been really sweet too, you seem like the kind of guy who would go for sweet girls who also aren't weak," Hohenheim said.
Rose grinned, "Actually, the girl that seems the best for him is a strong woman who is caring to those she loves but also can be hard on them when needed and not needed," She added and smiled, "The kind of girl who can be mean but always has a good intent in her heart."
"Can we change the subject?" Envy asked, his face heating up, how had they gotten onto the subject of his love life?
"You know, there kind of describing Wi-well, the girl that you dated, in bits and peices," Alphonse said, but Envy didn't notice his slip up.
Shaking his head, Envy pointed a finger at Hohenheim, "I got a question for you now," He said, "I am suspecting you know about the Promised Day. Your not as big of an idiot as you seem to be," He stated.
Hohenheim nodded and Envy continued, "So I take it you have a plan then? Something to neutralize what Father has in plan? Some transmutation circle that will counter the Nation Wide Transmutation Circle?"
The golden haired man smiled, "You're quite smart, Envy. I barely told you anything but you already figured out that I have a counter circle ready," He said.
Envy smirked, "Not hard to figure out, though I'm sure Father overlooked that one bit."
"I wouldn't be surprised," Hohenheim agreed, "But, what are you doing here?" he asked.
Envy smirked again, "Well, there is a passage here that goes into the tunnel Sloth made for the Nation Wide Transmutation Circle," He explained, "Figured I'd go down there, have a word with my big brother, have a message sent to Father. Let them know I'm going solo now."
Hohenheim nodded, "I was down there earlier, Miss Rose, would you mind taking Envy down there? I'm sure that if you run into trouble he can protect you," He said.
Rose nodded, "Alright," she said standing up, "Envy, do you want to go down there now?" she asked.
Envy nodded, "The sooner, the better."
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"I regret saying 'The sooner, the better'," Envy mumbled.
"Why?" Rose asked.
Envy shook his head, "Prides sort of...the strongest of my siblings...and now I'm realizing just how suicidal this declaration of leaving the family may be," He said shuddering.
Rose smiled, "He can't be that bad," She offered and Envy just stared at her.
"I've got a feeling it might be worse," Al sighed.
Alphonse, you are going to meet the First Homunculus that Father made. Envy warned in his head as they reached the small toxic water.
"Your not...going to use alchemy, are you?" Rose said, realizing that he was making no move of using alchemy to make a bridge or anything.
He grinned, "Now why would I do that?" He asked and picked her up as he took a few steps back. She clung to him, unsure what to do but let out a scream as he ran and leapt over the tocix water and landed on the other side.
"That jump...was amazing," She breathed out, shocked to still be alive after thinking they were going to die.
Envy smirked arrogantly, "Superior to humans, Rose," He said as he began walking and stopped when he reached the entrance to the tunnel. He knew that Pride wouldn't be able to leave the tunnel at all so Envy turned to the girl next to him, "Stay in here, don't go into that tunnel. I'll be right back," He told her as he walked into it and began walking down the path.
"Hey, Pride," He yelled, "It's me, Envy!" he said, he could see Rose out of the corner of his eye, peeking her head out into the tunnel.
He then felt the cold sensation as looked around as Prides shadows covered the tunnel walls. Envy felt Al freeze up at the sight of the shadows, after all he was used to humanoid homunculi, not shadows. He also heard Rose let out a scream. She wasn't used to homunculi at all.
"Envy," Pride said glaring down on him, "What are you doing here? You are supposed to be in Briggs!" He demanded.
Envy smiled and raised his hands, "Well, Pride-y," He said in a sing song tone, "Just thought I'd come down here and personally tell you, and have you relay it to Father," He added.
He could sense Prides annoyance at him, "What is it?" He demanded impatiently.
"Just wanted to say this; screw you, I quit Team Homunculi," He snickered as he saw Prides rage.
The older homunculus was pissed off, "Quit? How can you quit? Have you no pride in being a homunculus?" He demanded.
Envy laughed, "Pride, pride and being proud, thats your area, you ARE the sin of Pride after all. Myself? I'm the sin of Envy," the younger of them pointed out with a smirk, "But, I'm proud to be a homunculus, but that doesn't mean I have to work with you guys. You see, I remember my past life now, before you guys killed me and put me in Al," His voice turned deadly as he glared.
"So your leaving us as your act of defiance," Pride finished in disgust.
"Thats it," He said in amusement.
"Envy, we should get going," Alphonse said but Envy ignored him.
"That human in you has tainted your way of thinking!" Pride declared.
Envy shrugged, "Yeah, I've been blaming a lot of changes on Al, but my hatred for what you did to me, that's me, not Al-influenced at all," He said.
"Al-Influenced?" Al asked.
What? It's got a nice ring to it, Envy defended himself.
"I hate to have to do this, Envy," Pride said and Envy barely managed to dodge one of the shadows lunging towards him, "But it seems you have to die, again."
Envy laughed a little, "Yeah, time for a retreat!" He yelled as he began running towards Rose and the passage out of the tunnel. He leapt forward and felt a surge of pain as he landed. Grinning he glared are Pride who was unable to get to him and Rose.
"Envy!" Rose cried out and Envy noticed why he was in so much pain. Pride managed to cut off his legs from below his knees.
"Eh, just a scratch," Envy shrugged and smirked at Pride, "Make sure you let Father know," He said as his legs began to regenerate and he stood back up. He noticed Roses horror as he began to drag her away.
"H-how!? What was that thing?" She demanded.
Envy shrugged, "Yeah, thats my older brother, Pride," Envy said and gestured to his legs, "I've already told you I'm a homunculus, regeneration is a perk we got."
"What now?" Alphonse asked.
Envy shrugged, I got to discuss something with your dad, then we're going to find somewhere were we can find Ed. We got a nation to save.
He felt Alphonse laugh a bit. "I thought you said you weren't a good guy?" He teased.
Who said I'm not going to destroy Amestris myself when Fathers out of the picture? Envy retorted with a smirk.
"...I don't know if your serious or not..." Al said.
"Good~"
Well, I hope you enjoyed it.
I apologize if I got Hohenheim, Pride, or Rose out of character.
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