Chapter 8 – A Memory
Edward sat in the hut that now apparently was his, peace and quiet. He liked it quiet, where his mind wandered. But before he could slip from the reality, he heard a commotion outside. Crashing, banging, shuffling of many feet and someone's all too familiar freakish voice boomed over all the noise, shouting commands at everyone else.
Edward groaned, he picked himself up and peered out the door. Just about everyone on the island was rearranging things, some people were carrying long tables to who knows where. Others were carrying trays and trolleys full of food.
"What's going on here?" Edward asked as someone flew past him but the person came to a quick stop and looked back at him. Once the boy had stopped Edward recognised him "You"
"Wrath" The boy said
"Right yea, so what's everyone doing?" Edward stepped completely out of his hut.
"We're having a feast tonight, Envy and them came back with a lot this time as you can see" Wrath said smugly, a smirk almost similar to Envy's planted on his face.
Well that explains why he hadn't seen Envy all day, Edward thought. He had spent this whole day just walking all around the island, and he talked to a few people.
"If you don't help, you won't get anything" Wrath's smirk widened and he skipped off. Edward blinked a few times, confused.
"O'chibi-san there you are" Envy popped up from behind him, nearly scaring him out of his skin.
"WHY THE FUCK DO YOU CALL ME THAT?" Edward snapped, his eye twitching.
Envy laughed loudly making people stare at them. He slumped down on Edward's shoulders, his arms dangling over Edward's chest and his chin resting on top of Edward's head. A wide smirk on his face.
Out of the corner of Edward's eye, he saw Envy's smirk and that smirk always meant trouble for him "What do you want?" his voice sharp.
"Wrath's right you know, it's a rule on my island. If you don't help you don't get anything and seeing as what we did for you O'chibi-san, you owe us a lot" Envy said, matter-of-factly
"What do you want me to do?" Edward's voice didn't lose the cold sharp tone in it.
"Follow me" Envy heaved himself off of Edward and walked in the direction everyone else was heading.
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Built inside a cliff face, at the heart of the island Edward found himself staring at an area that could comfortably fit every single person on the island and still have heaps of free space to move around. Pillars of all sizes both smaller and taller than Edward decorated the cave, on the walls he could see the patterns a rock had if it was cut. There was heaps of evidence that this cave was man made.
Envy had given him the job of finding a place for everything that everyone brought into the place.
Edward had a few people helping him move everything around.
A big guy named Gluttony was helping him, he was told by Lust that Gluttony didn't speak at all. Edward found it easy to work with him, all he had to do was tap Edward on the shoulder to know what to do.
When Envy had brought Edward to the place where the feast was going to be held, there were already tables, chairs and boxes dumped everywhere.
He and Gluttony had placed all the tables around the edges, so no person seated would have their backs to anyone.
The other guy helping him was Huges, he was putting chairs on the outer sides of the tables. There were about 6 tables that lined the edges with each table holding about 7 or 8 chairs.
"Huges, Gluttony now for these boxes" Edward pointed to the many boxes that stood in the middle of the room.
Edward started opening the boxes as Huges and Gluttony put the last chairs in place.
"So what did ya find little one?" Huges strode over Gluttony by his side.
"By the look of it every thing we need to brighten this place up" Edward examined the contents of a box. The box was full of forks, another one was full of knives and another with spoons.
"Wow we really did hit the jackpot" Huges laughed as he and Gluttony opened more of the boxes. They found enough table cloths to lie down on each table; the table cloths were plain and white.
Edward went around and put a table cloth on each table, then they laid a knife, fork and spoon in each spot. Gluttony did the forks, Huges had the knives and Edward had the spoons.
(3 hours later)
"Are you sure we have done everything?" Huges said, from his place on the floor. He was sprawled out on the ground, anyone would think that he had done a week worth of hard labour.
"It looks like it" Edward answered checking that all the boxes were empty "Just the food needs to be brought here" all the plates of food Edward had seen earlier that day had been taken somewhere else.
Edward saw Gluttony's face at the mention of food, his face lit up and he licked his lips a clear sign that he was hungry. But that look was short lived as a very loud bang was heard.
All three of them ran out of the cave room, they saw smoke almost immediately when they went out the entrance of the cave. The smoke was pretty close to where they were. Without a second hesitation, they ran towards the smoke.
Many people stood huddled together staring at the place the smoke escaped from. Edward, Huges and Gluttony pushed their way through the crowd.
"You did it again didn't you?" Edward heard Roy's voice laughter in his tone.
"You really ought to learn from your mistakes ya know" Roy laughed.
Edward ducked under and around people, the advantage of being smaller than others. He knew he had lost Gluttony and Huges but he had to see. Edward had a feeling that he knew exactly who Roy was talking to.
He shoved his way past the last few people and he took a deep breath of fresh air.
"Ah Edo-kun" Roy looked at Edward kneeling on the ground "Envy look who came to see you" Roy smirked.
Standing in the middle of a crater, Envy was covered head to toe in coal. His long hair pointing over at all sides and puffy as if he had been hit by lightening.
Edward stared at Envy and then burst out laughing.
Flashback
It was midnight and Edward and Envy had snuck into the military base, they were running all over the place in search of a chemistry lab. Roy had told them that there was one, he even told them directions but they had gotten lost.
"Where the fuck is this damn lab" Envy cursed, Edward on the other hand found it very funny.
Edward stopped suddenly and opened a door that looked like what Roy had explained.
"ENVY" he yelled "I FOUND IT"
Envy had already ran down the hallway and around the corner but in seconds flat he flew back towards Edward.
"Perfect" He smirked and kissed Edward on the cheek "Good job love"
Edward smirked back at him.
Envy saw everything thing they needed already out on the bench.
"At least that barsted can do some things right" Edward looked at the chemicals.
"You're the rocket scientist O'chibi-san, get to work" Envy pointed at all the chemicals Edward was already examining.
Edward rolled his eyes and pulled out a piece of paper. Edward began measuring the chemicals and putting them in the tube over the burner.
Envy pulled up a stool and just watched Edward work his magic, he watched as the chemicals colour changed every time Edward added a new chemical. It started off as a crystal clear blue.
Edward slowly poured the last chemical in but as he did it started to bubble violently, and before they knew it, it blew up in their faces. Some how it had become like goo and it hadn't just stuck on them but the rest of the room.
They both cracked up laughing, the goo was glued in their hair, sliding off their faces. They looked like some kind of monster that would scare kids.
End Flashback
Edward stood frozen, his eyes not focusing on anything just staring out past everyone. Envy had come and stood right in front of his face.
"Edo" Concern in his voice, his face was a little too close for Edward's liking. He snapped back into reality and took a step back putting a bit more distance between him and Envy.
"Are you ok?" Envy asked.
"A memory" he said.
Envy gasped but Edward didn't say anything more.
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Author Note:
Edward regained a memory XD the plot thickens mayb?
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