AN:/
I just reread my past work on this story.
IT WAS HORRIBLE. I got absolutely no where with this, like I wanted to. I have become THAT author. The one that hardly ever, if never updates.
CRAP.
Well, I have gotten back into my favorite anime: FMA!
And Envy is still as hilariously man-woman. So, I decided, after 4 days of guilt ad ideas, that I can continue this!
For my sake, and yours. My sake, as in, if I didn't, I would be haunted.
So, if you are still hoping to enjoy this, HOPE YOU LIKE IT!
-p.s, if you need to reread everything, it will not be that difficult. Trust me, the chapters are rather easy to skim through. I did not make it that plotty at all. *cries*-
I am proud to say my writing has gotten... Thicker. Better? Longer, most definitely. So expect some changes.
"Dance the dance you dance; Don't dance the dance people who dance dance." - Platypus the Wise.
It was dark, and the eyes of more than twelve people surrounding me made the sweat on the back of my neck seem to breed. Now officially frighted for my life, mostly because the sudden introduction to the cold barrel of a gun pressed snugly to the back of my head. It didn't surprise me too much, though. You didn't know who you could trust, and me waltzing in the most important part of Central didn't work in my favor for their trust. As much as I could tell, three familiar faces stared at me intently, judging my every move. It was beyond my fault for having to snoop in here.
That snapped an shy nerve in half.
"I bet you all are wondering why I've gathered you here today." Is all I managed to say, before a hand was placed rather rudely over my mouth. A few chuckles erupt around the small crowd, and that earned me some pride and them some glares.
Oh well. At least I was able to get out what I wanted to.
~Earlier that day~
I had a brief feeling of pain. Like I was under water, yet not.
Like I missed something.
It felt as though needles were piercing every inch and ounce of skin it could find, and it found all of it. Yet not. The stinging was harsher near my chest, and lesser so around my legs.
The lift of weight being pressed into something else, like a body being carried none too ceremoniously. I felt that, too.
The stinging was worse now.
My throat felt raw when I woke up.
Like I had been screaming.. And screaming...
Eyes flitted around the room, mine. The felt dry, so I blinked repeatedly. Slowly sitting up, I notice the bed was.. Softer than before. Though as I continued my trek of searching the room with only my pupils, I find nothing to be different. All the same.
The rest of the chimeras were gone though.
A shot of emotional pain scarred my heart, and made it leap into my throat. Oh yeah, I.. Forgot..
"I'm stuck.. Here.." Tears welled up, but for so long, I've wiped them away quickly, only remembering why they were there. "...I don't want to.. Be here..." I mumbled in my sleepy state, and for awhile wondered where the crazed room-mate I had was.
"Envy..." I call, and then wince at the fact he could bite me again just for uttering his name, then add a 'filthy human'.
Moving to lower my legs to the floor, I don't meet anything squishy like before. Instead, a cold chill rises up through my toes, and into my calves.
I wiggled them, to regain some feeling, and stretched out my legs, my feet connecting with the light of a bulb ahead. Something the homunculi so graciously offered me after 2 weeks of my stay here.
After my last one-sided conversation with Envy-Lizard, he hadn't spoken since. Not a word, and that was a week and a half ago. I've hardly even seen him, though when I did, it was as he was crawling back to his sanctuary under the bed.
Now, as I stare down at my feet, I see a small flicker of red, light up my last pinkie toe, before it zapped up and disappeared. My eyes widen, before I shake my foot, heart pounding.
Just tired... "I'm just tired." I tell myself, and I shake my head, before turning over to grab a nail I had found lazing about, and continue to carve out another slash.
Week 5. Day 35. It has been 35 days.
A month. An entire month, in the room. Not left once.
My feet felt sore.
...
Eyebrow twitching, I stare up at the well-gifted woman, unable to understand a word she was saying.
"Huh?" I couldn't help but dumbly utter, and she rolled her eyes, and flicked her nails near her face, and studied them as if they were more interesting to look at, rather than maintaining eye contact with someone such as myself.
"I will repeat myself once more: You are to come with us to Central." Is all she said, which I squint my eyes at her, my legs curled into my torso.
"Uh huh." With a soft breath through my nose, I contemplate why they would want me to go with them. Aren't I just baggage?
If I ask her...
"Muahaha! Like I'll ever tell a piece of scum like you! Ahahaha!"
Proceeds to get stabbed through chest.
... Yeah, no. Though that might be an over-reaction for all the time I've spent with human-slaying crazed Envy.
With my glazed irises wandering the room then staying put at my pillow, Lust had crossed her arms, and flitted her violet gaze to the rotted and chipped flooring.
"Ah, Envy."
I blink, and look down to see the bulbous eye of none other than the walking, talking, palmtree. He seemed to glower on the floor, and being the most of 5 inches tall, he couldn't maximize his hatred to full potential.
"Lust."
His rather higher-pitched raspy voice had my body convulsing in hysterics, but the eye of the other homunculous had me freeze in terror. They had so clearly shown to me how easily they could kill me, but their motives moved passed my apparent low-IQ and ability to comprehend.
I shook my head a few times, and seeing a darkened and blurred figure move in my line of vision, I came to from my wonder land, only to blink more rapidly at the sound of Lust's heels moving over to the bolted door.
OH shit, what did I miss?!
She turned, her wavy hair the framed her face looked like spikes when her narrowed eyes shot me through the heart. Her eyes turned to her right, and what I assumed to be down the hallway, and I heard the sound of something wet hitting the floor.
"Can I? Can I? Can I Lust?"
"You can do as you please now, Gluttony."
That had me almost falling over. I gripped the thin sheets below me, and unconsciously scooted back, almost falling off the bed. My eyes were wide.
"Huh?!" She simply flattened her eyebrows in an expectant look, and turned, her hands folded in a somewhat professional manner.
A chuckle echoed the large room, and I yelped, staring out the door, which need I remind you, I have not seen opened for a long time.
Soon, a much larger slap echoed into the room, and the eager footfalls were all I heard as I noticed Lust has stepped a rather good amount of feet from the room, only because there soon was a ball of eating machine had zoomed passed her.
She had a content smile on her face, though that's what it seemed at first glance. What I immediately saw, was what I had grown used to seeing, a cruel, inhuman smirk.
I had no literal amount of time to pause before I bolted away from the bed which was half chomped through, and I had no idea how I had jumped that far, or that fast. Now, the white beady circles were all I did not want to see behind me, but I soon clawed into the ground, and heaved myself off the floor. "What the hell?! No! Crap, no!" I felt the hot breath of Gluttony at the base of my shoulder, and a soft drip of what I thought was saliva hit along my spine, and I shivered, goosebumps lining my arms and skin, and I pumped my legs to go faster, as I had slowed down during my sprint to the end of the room.
"Lemme eat you!"
Tears pricking my eyes at how feral that sounded, I shook my head wildly. "HELL NO, YOU SICK FAT BOY!"
Now trying to keep my earlier sprint speed, I ran aside the wall, the door in front of me.
She didn't say where I couldn't go.
I couldn't help but turn to see the hungry wide-mouth homunculous, before I slammed into the door at the pace I was going, and with a loud grunt of survival, pushed myself off the door, eyes widening if possible at the feeling of teeth scrape the back of my collar.
Lust stood before me, and the smile was gone. Instead, she held a blank expression. Her hands were still located in that weird clasped form.
Unable to focus on something like that for too long, I was bent on trying not to get eaten alive.
Now running down the long hallway, I only stare forward, trying to ignore the pants emitting behind me, and from myself. I turn a corner, and hear splats land beside me, urging me to run even faster. I could see a brighter light, and what seemed to be an even larger room up ahead. The pipes lining the ceiling were getting thicker.
Looking behind me once more, I tense when I don't see the ravenous thing behind me.
Turning my eyes to the side anxiously, I gasp when I see only the inside of Gluttony's mouth, ready to bite down on my head. I instinctively duck, and my foot hooks in a groove of a pipe, and I hear a sickening crack before I yell out, my hands aiming to grip onto the injured area of my ankle.
Barely feeling the way the rough floor scraped the right side of my body as I skid along until I come to a thud. Groaning, I curl up, eyes squeezed shut.
Happy giggles pound at my eardrums, and I wince, opening an eye to look up, and a string of drool drips down onto my face. Gagging in my throat, I claw at the ground, before the homunculous grabs my wrist with a strong grip, and I hear another 'crack'.
I let out a yell, having never experienced a broken bone before, until my ankle, and now. My heart pounded ruthlessly in my chest, before it jumped into my throat, leaving me there with my mouth hung open as he lifted my arm close to his face.
I could feel his pants on the flesh of my arm. I was skinny, and pale. Which was nothing new to me, but as I feel the smooth texture of his teeth glide over my arm.
"Hungry... So hungry.. Hee hee.." His white orbs practically glistened, as he grinned wide, before sinking those teeth into my flesh.
I stopped breathing for a moment, and I let out a screech, my throat felt like it was bleeding, but nothing compared to the sight and pain of being eaten.
My eyes were closed, as I couldn't even bare watching it, how could I. My arm froze up, and my stomach turned in knots as if knowing what was happening, and was just as sickened as me.
"St-stop it! Stop!" I wail, and begin to thrash, but his other arm slammed into my torso, and I coughed violently, unable to breathe for the pressure he was pressing into my abdomen.
"Stah-Ack! Ah!" I gaped, my one hand punching and clawing at him, any part of him, to make him stop.
"Enough."
I was still shaking my head side to side, tearing flowing over my cheeks, and everything was blurred. The pain didn't stop, but the weight of Gluttony's arm was removed from my now heaving chest, and I felt a soft throbbing along the sides of my body, where my ribs were.
"Gluttony, move back with Lust."
I faintly heard something, but my ears were ringing to loudly to distinguish what it was.
"Now, we will see if the Philosopher's Stone had accepted her, completely."
The lights above were too bright, as the ground beneath me felt like I was laying in a thin area of water. It clung my clothes to my sides, but as I breathed in, I hacked at the awful smell of iron.
Something whiter than the yellowed lights entered my blurred vision, and I whimpered and tried to move away, but the pain grew as I squirmed, so I settled, given up.
A golden color was closer to me now.
"Come now, child... Do not fear." I held my eyes shut tight, and slowly, so very slowly, the voice became clearer.
As clear as day.
"The Philosopher's Stone has accepted you as its new host." I heard a faded sort of lighting noise, a zapping. My eyesight grew more defined, and I was confused, having mixed what he said.
"Wh..." I start out, and look around, and now see I am sitting up against something. A large pipe?
"What hap-" I stop, as I immediately stare at the nub which is my arm, the blood pouring from it.
Red flares of lighting brought my gaze to my feet, which showed the bone of my ankle sticking out from the surface of my skin. Feeling the need to throw up, I almost turn and pitch whatever they had fed me previously that morning, but the flicker of red came again, this time it lasted longer. Long enough for me to see it working the bone back in place, the blood seeping from me stopped, and the lighting stopped only to travel to my 'arm', and I stared in awe as it began reconstruction my entire arm.
"N..No.. way.." I let out a breathy gasp, except now, my heart plummeted into my stomach, out of fear. Fear of what I was. Human, right?...
I'm human. I am human... I have to be...
"You are now Jealousy." I turn, and raise a brow.
"Excuse me?" My voice was hoarse from all the screaming I endured, and the old man in front of me had I look of curiosity on his face. Yet his presence screamed danger.
"S..Sorry, but... That's not my name..." I lean forward, hoping to ease the sudden fear inside my gut. The fear, the absolute terror.
I had survived, and during the time of which Gluttony had begun eating away at my arm, I was scared. Terrified.
Now, I had lived, at what cost?
Had I made a reason for payment?
"People may think Envy and Jealousy are the same thing, but that is not the case at all." The sudden words of what I can now see as 'Father', who loomed above me.
He stood, and held out a hand for me to take, and I narrow my eyes, lifting myself off the ground, though my legs wobbled.
"Envy is a reaction to lacking something.."
I know, I know the difference.
Gwen pounded it into my head every time I would say I was jealous of someone at school.
My heart was pacing, though, if I was... What I thought I was.. It wouldn't be a heart, now would it?... I wouldn't be human.
I don't want to be like this.
I want my humanity.
She always told me that I wanted something I didn't have, not afraid of something I did have.
"Jealousy is a reaction to a threat of losing something..." He continued, and set his hand at his side, to walk up back to his chair
"...Or someone..."
Don't make me lose who I am, all I am...
Don't make me forget...
My eyes seemed to race at every small thing. The pipes lining the floor, walls, ceiling. Gluttony in the far corner, finger in his mouth, and Lust a few steps in front of him, the same look from before present on her face.
"N..No.."
Don't tell me something I know too well.
The girl was frighted to the core, that was easy to see.
"N..No.." She placed a pale hand to her chest to feel the beat, the painful beat. Her eyes wide, as her sin was visible in her eyes.
Her eyes hadn't changed.
As Father looked down on his most recent creation, he wondered over the name he bestowed upon her. It was something he thought would suit her.
Though now as he looked down at the tortured girl, he might have labeled her wrong.
No, no it would suit her. Suit her well enough, as she was not completely a Homunculous. She still was human, after all her regenerative abilities were slower. That was to be expected, as her body only half-accepted the Stone. She was stubborn, that much he could tell.
This new experiment was going to create some advantages for him.
"Child, you must realize what you are now, else you will be locked in that room until you come to your senses." He said, loud enough for her to hear. After all, she is still stabilizing.
She was breathing heavily, but managed to stay standing, her hand clenched in a fist over her chest. She was as well built as Lust, but held the same abilities as Envy. Though he must make that certain.
"Lust. Gluttony."
Both stood at attention for his words, and he nodded to them. "Finish the mission I laid out for you earlier. You have three days to execute it." He stated simply, and Lust closed her eyes, and called out to the girl, and she flinched.
"Y..Yea..h..?..." She managed to whisper, which was enough for Lust, and she simply shot out a nail to pierce her foot, and Jealousy yelped, and tried to pull his foot away.
"We are to leave, now. Follow us or find your own way."
Lust seemed to be a bit irritable towards their new accessory.
As the new Homunculous limped after them when Lust retracted her weapon, Father sat alone for a few minutes. Until the sound of bare feet hit the floor, and he didn't turn his gaze to the person standing a few feet away to know who it was.
"...Envy, child, so you accepted I see?" He said, looking over his board of pawns.
There was a silence, before he heard a scoff.
"Gave me no choice, as per usual..." He muttered, but retracted what he said with a, "Yeah. So, what do you want me to do for the brat? Follow her until you tell her of your plans?" He asked, his rather feminine raspy voice making him turn to look down to the shapeshifter.
"No. I want you to teach her."
That made the Homunculous pause, and he grunted a bit before furrowing his eyebrows.
"Ah.. Okay... So, you're telling me, you want me to teach a human girl, how to fight?" Envy asked, and put his hands on his hips, as Father sighed.
"That too. You will figure it out, but I want you to side with Lust and Gluttony on their mission."
"Alright, but what about the human?"
"...You'll find her with them."
After a few more words with Envy, Father sent him off. He was surprised at the fact he sent the 'human' girl with Lust, but he gave no clue as to what she actually was now.
Deciding on this could help Envy's relationship with the girl improve, as he did not want him repeatedly killing her for his own enjoyment during future missions.
Two shapeshifters were bound to wreak havoc on anything, so he needed them to be able to work together for the time being.
"Oh how in the world did it come to this?..." I face-palm, and in my despair, huddled closer to the bush I was hidden behind.
Lust's exact words were:
"Come out from that hiding spot, and I will leave you for the dogs to find."
"So.. Basically she would let their entire secret out that they exist?" I mumble to myself, a habit that had grown over the course of the weeks I had spent 'alone' and companion-less.
Sighing, I turn to look over the greenery that obscured me from anyone's view. I could see people lazing around Central HQ, though there had been a commotion now awhile ago in front of the building.
Grumbling to myself, I wonder just why they'd leave me here, and if they'd forget me.
A string of confidence made me stand up and put my hands on my hips, huffing.
"Oh, whatever! What harm can I do? I look completely normal compared to their purple eyes and funky skin color!" I say aloud, and I realize I was closer to the 'regular-not-hiding-in-the-woods' people, and had gained a few stares. Hunkering a bit, I feel something wet slide down the side of my face, and hold back in a yelp. Did I just sweat drop?
I hear some rustling behind me, and I feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, and I narrow my eyes behind me. Gluttony?... Or Lust? Could they sense my disobedience?
It seemed like it didn't like my look, so the bushes rustled more, and I see a foot step out from the shrubbery, and I flail wildly, before chucking a random rock in the general direction of the person. Hissing loudly after, I quickly hop out from my hiding spot.
I was more terrified of Gluttony than of Lust.
Now trying to look as casual as possible while sprinting along the sidewalk, I try to find a good place to run across the road. I was NOT going to get run over.
Passing by people, since Central was a very populated area, I squeeze through a large crowd and end up tripping onto the stairs of the building in front of me.
"Agh" I see a boot squish my hand into the stone below me, and I try to pull my hand back.
"Not again! Leg'o!" I say, irritation clear in my tone, before I stared at the boot that was crushing my hand. They hand a pretty thick heel. Before I pulled harder, and I heard a yelp and who-ever the boot belonged to had crashed to the stairs in front of me.
I see red behind the boot, I furrow my brows.
"... No way.." I travel my gaze up, and see the leather pants, the black leather jacket and tank-top. The cloak is what really got me.
I wanna wear it..
"Edward Elric?" I whisper, before I bite the inside of my lip, and scrunch back at his sudden gaze. He was glaring at first, before I felt the familiar awkwardness of being studied wash over me. His eyes flitted over me, before he tilted his head.
"..Suzanne?.."
I blink, and my mouth opens. I thought I caught a fly.
"E..Eh..? Oh! OH! Well, y-yeah? You.. Know me?.." Frowning in confusion, I sit up, and he nods.
"Well, yeah. Colonel Mustang was ordered to search for you."
At that, I try to stand, but end up getting pushed onto the now also trying to stand Edward.
"Oh, I'm sorry, are you ok-.. Big Brother?.."
Edward looked as if his soul was trying to escape from him, as I tried to move from my spot, which had my chest shoved in his face. Speaking of faces, mine was ablaze, and I quickly sat up, apologizing, before standing up and moving away from him.
"Ah! Sorry! Sorry! I didn't mean that!" I then see Al, and my entire awkward and shy aura disappeared, and I smiled up at the suit of armor. "Wow, you are a lot bulkier in person." I then cover my mouth.
Alphonse looked over at me, tilting his helmet in question, before looking over to his brother.
"Uh... Okay... Ah! Big brother!" Edward's soul had floated up, and Al had to catch it to stuff it back into Ed's body.
I stood there, with a shocked and disturbed look on my face at witnessing a soul being shoved back into a body. "Eh..." A shadow is cast in front of me, and before I can look behind me to see who it was, I small chuckle makes me pout.
My shoulders freeze at the sudden pressure of a hand on my shoulder, though.
"Ah, hello there! You must be the girl I am looking for, correct?" I hear a deep voice say, and I am turned around without my consent.
Blinking up at the face of Roy Mustang, the sides of my mouth twitches.
"Uh... "
"Yeah! She is!" I then look over at Ed, as he bounded over to my side. He pointed at me. "You're freaking heavy!" He said, and my eyebrow twitches.
"Jee, thanks. Though it's not much coming from someone as small as yourself." I say, locking eyes with him.
Not 2 seconds later, Al was holding onto him, as he fervently screamed: "YOU'RE ONE TO TALK! YOU'RE SHORT THAN ME!" That pinched a nerve in me.
"WHO THE HELL YOU CALLING FUN-SIZED, YOU SHRIMP?!" I yell back, growling at him. He continues to flail his arms after Al comments,
"Look! She's just like you, brother!"
I gasp, and put a hand to my heart, forgetting Mustang was there.
"You insult me!" I turn my head, dramatically grief-stricken. "We have many things not in common-"counting on my fingers, I name off,
"A sense of honor, and dignity," two fingers,
"Sense of smell, fashion, taste..." two more.
Edward flailed even more if possible, and hissed at me.
I hissed back, before shoving my silliness aside.
Stepping closer to the angered boy, I tug on the end of his cloak to try and get his attention.
"...Sorry, though, Ed. I know what it's like to be called short, I hate it too, so forgive me?" Smiling up at him since Al still had his hold on him, he stops his furious endeavor of escaping to pummel me, to blink dumbfounded.
Alphonse finally set him back down when he noticed his lack of movement. Edward then shook out of his stupor by huffing and looking the other way, and crossing his arms.
"Pssh. Fine. Just don't do it again."
At that, my grin turns into a full-fledged chuckle, and I nod. "Never." He turns back, and I give Mustang my full attention as Ed starts to rant about what I said.
"Sorry about all that. Thank you for putting up with it for this long. So, you were looking for a girl, well you found her." I clasp my hands behind my back.
After a moment of silence before Mustang says something, Edward scoffs.
"... Don't sound like a girl."
A flash of lighting seems to pass behind me head, as I snap my gaze to look at Edward, before I stomp over, and flick his head.
"Ooooh did you want me to sound like this insteaad?" I say, in an overly high-pitched cliche anime girl voice. "Sooorry, I hate to be of aaaaanny irritaaation!" I lengthen my words, and Ed scoots back along with Al, with the words "Scary" written above them.
Mustang then coughs, and I revert back to my usual, normal self. "Sorry!" I yell, as Ed and Al stay a few feet away. "Again!" I then sigh, before putting my hands on my hips. "Okay. So, I heard someone sent you to find me..." I look up at the Colonel.
"Yes, someone did. But that is classified information as it is not properly disclosed for you at the moment." I squint my eyes at him.
"Kay'. So, now that you've found me, what do you hope to do now?" I cross my arms now. He then points to the building. "I want you to come with me, to my office." He then starts to climb them stairs, and I look to Ed and Al.
"I think he didn't say you could come to..." I then tilt my head, as Edward and Alphonse follow after him anyways, and I end up traveling beside Edward.
"In fact... He didn't even acknowledge you, Ed." I frown, as I studied the back of Mustang's blue officer clothing.
Edward hummed at my words, and Al looked over to us. "Yeah, normally he picks on big brother before getting to what he wants to talk about.. Maybe it's just really important?" Al asks aloud, and Ed glares at the back of the Colonel.
"Yeah. That's probably it."
I look ahead again, and Mustang slowly comes to a stop at a door.
He opens it, and looks back to Ed and Al directly. He waves for them to come, and obviously I follow, but he holds his hand is a sign for me to stop, and Ed and Al enter with a questioning aura.
After they're in the room, Mustang finally lets me inside, and as soon as I pass under the doorway, guns are in my face and I am shoved to the ground before I can sing "Kumbaya!"
I hear some shouts from Edward, and Al tries to step forward, but it stopped by the arm of Hawkeye. "Just what the hell is about?!" Edward exclaims, eyes narrowed.
"We have to make sure that she is trustworthy." Roy says, his eyes dark.
Pressed into the flooring, I move my face to breathe better, and I hear a few shuffles and clicks. Eyes widened in exasperation, I yell out,
"Oh come on! I couldn't breathe!"
I am pulled up into a sitting position, before I feel the texture of rope wrap around my wrists, and I am picked up and set into a chair, now a bit more gently.
Blinking not at all amused, I let out a chuckle.
Looking around, I confirmed what I saw, as I lock eyes with familiar dark brown.
"Oh... I bet you are wondering why I gathered you all here today," I start, before I see Roy give a signal, and a hand clasps over my mouth. Tempted to lick it, I hear Roy chuckle.
"We might need to keep her from commenting too much."
Raising a brow, I blink slowly at him, then to the entire group. Looking out the window, I see a flash of black, and I visibly pale.
One:
I had NO idea where I was in the anime,
Two:
Lust was going to beat the shit out of me.