Thanks for the reviews about the storm in the last chapter, guys! Yeah, I wanted it to rain because it was when I was writing. But I also wanted something big to happen in the chapter because I kept thinking to myself that I wanted a scene where Ed did something and he was determined not to regret it (to me, it was much like him becoming a State Alchemist). Although, the general reaction to what happened at the very end...yeah, I agree to. Envy and Greed. If you didn't like them in the ending of the last chapter... Well... there isn't much going to help their case in this chapter.
In this chapter, I wanted Envy to get a little green and a little sadistic. I even threw in another flashback for you guys. This one is one that I felt just tied in since some of you are probably wondering about Angel and why she can't consume the stones like the rest of them could. I also wanted to tie in Ed's scene with something from the first FMA about Ed's "first success". Oh, and Mick and Ed's conversation about Mick's hair comes back too. :D
Songs: "Beautiful Sinner" by Nicki Minaj (For when Envy calls Angel a sin)
"Lips of an Angel" by Hinder
"Could Be An Angel" by Vic Mignogna
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison
"Unfaithful" by Rhianna
"Nothing I Won't Give" by Vic Mignogna
"Can't Forget You" by My Darkest Days
Angel snuck back into the mansion knowing it was still late at night and most of the world was asleep. She had walked back to the mansion after Ed had left her at the abandoned building. Angel was careful not to alarm any of the other homunculi as she let herself into the mansion. She crept her way into the room she had remembered was hers and flopped on the bed easily. A smile was planted on her lips. She was with Ed and the mere thought was putting a smile on her face Angel was sure couldn't be faded.
"You seem to have picked a fine time to walk into the mansion, Angel," an eerie voice said from a dark corner of the room. "Though, I've a pretty damn good idea of where you've been all night. Even though the thunder and lightning storm we had earlier."
Angel jumped, sitting up immediately to see who it was. "What the hell, Envy!"
Envy smirked, leaning against the wall of the room. "Look at you just glowing. It's making me nauseous."
"Then get the hell out!" Angel was done with putting up with Envy, like something deep within her snapped, which wasn't like her to talk, let alone swear around any homunculi.
"You got laid, didn't you?"
Angel growled, making Envy see the woman she was when she was human. The fire was burning in her eyes just like that night. For some reason, this made Envy glad he killed this girl."Why the fuck would that matter?"
Envy chuckled. "Nice words coming from an angel."
"I am not an angel. My name is just Angel."
"Yes, and you're a sin, just like the rest of us when it comes down to it." Envy walked to her, so he was standing in her way and forced to look at him. "Just remember that. You may not be a total sin like the rest of us, but you're still a sin."
"I know," she said lowly.
Envy smiled, running his fingers through her still miraculously silky hair-even after what she had done with Ed, it was still silky. Angel suppressed the shiver, knowing that Ed had done that already in the night and Envy was replacing Ed's touch. "Look at you, we should have made you Desire."
Angel growled deep in her throat. "Whatever."
Envy put on a mock surprised face. "Look at you, Angel. I believe this is the most you've said since you were created."
"That's a lie. I've never spoken this much to you unless I fucking had to," Angel snapped.
Envy took Angel's chin in his hand, making her face him the way he wanted her to. "Listen here, Angel, I can make sure the Fullmetal Pipsqueak will never see you again."
"Pipsqueak?" Angel asked with a raised eyebrow. Envy smirked, remembering Andi's reaction when he mentioned Ed's personal nickname from Envy back when Envy killed her. God, how he remembered that night like it was yesterday; it was a great day for him. "I don't know how much you saw tonight, Envy, but there is nothing pipsqueak about Ed."
Envy stood straight. "Yes, and that's what his wife said about him."
With that, Envy walked out of her room, locking her door before saying, "You need to cool down, my little Angel. Why don't you take this time to come off your sex-driven high and THINK about what you've said, done, and what can happen if you cross me?"
Angel widened her eyes and ran to the door, trying to open it by slamming into it. "What the fuck, Envy! Let me the fuck out of my room!"
"No," Envy said easily. "I don't honestly care what you think, but you're NOT getting out of there. Not until I want you to. Perhaps you could behave and you can have free reign of the mansion, just like before. But if you don't, well... I'll let you use your imagination on that one. You do have quite the imagination."
"Envy!" Angel called as she slammed her body into the door again in a feeble attempt to escape. "Envy, get me the fuck out of here!"
Envy snickered as he walked from her door and to the stairs, slowly letting his body change into Angel complete with tattoo. He ignored the heavy thuds as Angel continued to ram her body into the door in her attempt to escape out of her room.
"ENVY, YOU SON OF A BITCH! LET ME THE FUCK OUT!"
Greed whistled at the new Angel walking into the kitchen. "Look at you. You've even got the tattoo and the eyes right. You must've taken a good long look at Angel, Envy."
Envy smirked with Angel's body, getting used to the curves and rather large boobs that defined their fellow homunculous. "Yes, the little brat does look good on me," Envy said as his hand clasped around Angel's replicated boobs and gave them a squeeze. "The important thing would be that Elric won't know the difference."
"He's not dumb; he's still a genius even if he can't perform the science of alchemy," Lust said as she walked into the kitchen. She gave Envy a disgusted look, trying to ignore the fact that Envy's hands were still on his newly formed boobs and Greed's hands were going in the same direction. "You said you wanted her because she was his wife, now you're just going to be her?"
"Becoming her wasn't part of the plan. She decided to have some FUN with our subject of interest," Envy said with Angel's voice and smile. It was a devious one, but still a smile with Angel's face.
"Are you kidding me? Angel's stayed around here for most of her homunculous life, and when she does something human-like, you punish her. She's still a homunculous."
"Not all homunculous," Greed added in. "Or have you forgotten that small detail of what happened when Angel tried those red stones?"
There was no way Lust could have forgotten what happened when Angel tried to eat the stones to become full homunculous.
"Here, kid, try these," Envy said as he held out a handful of stones to Angel. "If you want to become the strongest you can be, just eat these."
Angel still looked uncertain, but took a few stones from his hand and looked at them as they shined in the light of her room. She took note of the transluscent look to the stones and how they were mirrored in her eyes. Reluctantly, Angel popped them into her mouth, beginning to chew on them like she hadn't eaten in years.
Slowly, Angel started to feel what she thought was the effects of the stones. She could feel something deep within her take root within where she thought her soul should have been, as if her body was accepting of the stones just like it had with the seven other homunculi. Soon she started to feel something in the same place where her heart would have been and struggled to breathe.
"L-Lust," she wheezed, needing help with flushing the stones out.
"What's happening, Envy?"
Envy stood there in surprise as Angel writhed with pain and begged for death to come calling. "Her body is rejecting the stones"
"Well, how do we get them out?"
"We make her expell them."
"Well, no shit. How the hell do we do that?"
Before any suggestions could be made, Angel leaned over the side of the bed and threw up the whole stones like she hadn't even chewed them to begin with. Angel collapsed back onto her bed, gasping for breath.
Fuck, her will is like Fullmetal's, Envy thought with slight disgust with a mixture of shock. However, it takes one who had a strong will like that to reject stones as a homunculi.
Ed looked over the paperwork and evidence of Andi's disappearance. It was really no wonder that Maes and his team concluded that Andi was dead. Even though he had a hard time reading or looking at the pictures having to do with the puddle of blood that was left. It was no doubt, according to reports, that it was Andi's. After all, witnesses, the two that had seen her, said that she was the only one to enter the warehouse and she never came out. That piece of information made Ed shiver with the thought that she was dead.
But she's not dead, Ed told himself. Andi's not dead.
"Who did you see last night, Ed?"
"A friend," Ed said, intending on keeping a secret that he went to see Angel. He still felt like he had cheated on Andi even though he didn't regret what he and Angel did. The way Angel and him made love had made Ed think he was making love with Andi. He didn't know why, but the more he was around Angel, the more he thought she was Andi.
"Yeah, did you guys...you know?"
"Maes, not now. Bother me when I am not trying to find out what really happened to my wife."
"So you did. How was she?"
Ed didn't even look up as he said, "You sound like Roy; stop hanging around him."
Maes chuckled. "Back to your old self. I never knew I'd see it again."
"You'd see it more once I find out the truth about that night she went missing," Ed uttered as he looked at more papers. When he saw something that everyone had missed, except for Maes, he smiled a little. "You were right, Mr. Hughes."
"Oh? What was I right about? That you love that new friend of yours?"
Ed gave him a look telling Maes he wasn't amused. "No. It was a homunculous that killed Andi." Ed widened his eyes, his facial expression dropping as he said quietly, "Andi."
Maes placed a hand on Ed's shoulder, trying to comfort him. "Ed, we all know it hurts still."
"Then you understand why I want to know so badly."
"Of course," Maes said. Then he leaned down to Ed in a fatherly way. "Just remember, there is someone who looks forward to seeing you everyday just as Andi did.
"Mickaela," Ed whispered with a small smile.
Maes smiled. "You got it. She's your daughter, and lucky for you, she looks like both of her parents."
Ed snickered. "And she performs alchemy," he said remembering that not two days ago that Mickaela had performed her first transmutation. Of course Ed kept the mutilated piece of metal since it went from something straight and flat to something with bumps and curves with a twirl in the metal. "Mick was so excited when she did it."
"Well, I hear her father was rather good at what he did."
Ed smiled. "Yeah, I heard the same thing and that he was of great stature."
Maes chuckled, knowing it would be only Ed that would say that about himself. "I think the height is a little off. He was rather short."
Ed glared in the same second that Maes had gotten the word 'short' out of his mouth. "Hey! I wasn't short!"
"Tiny was more like it. I've no idea to this day what Andi saw in you, if she could see you," a baritone voice came from the doorway.
Ed shot his death-promising glare to Roy. "Careful what you say, old man, you might have a heart attack." Ed then uttered, "Bastard with a fucking God complex." Ed looked to Roy with one thing on his mind. "Aren't you supposed to be watching Mick, bastard?"
Roy chuckled, walking further into the office. "Yes, but she somehow convinced Hawkeye to do her hair the way she does it."
Ed chuckled, knowing Mick was a little girl of her word just like her parents. "She said she wanted her hair like her Aunt Riza."
Roy chuckled. "I am almost scared to know how she will turn out. A major pain in the ass for all superiors, like her father. A smart, yet still a pain in my ass like her mother. Or a sharpshooter like Hawkeye."
"Or an intelligent, sharpshooting-alchemist like the three of us. We both know Riza will teach her to shoot a gun, Mick will be an alchemist-she performed her first transmuation a couple days ago, and she inherited Andi's eye for details. Mick's going to be a threat alright."
"Yeah, a threat to my sanity," Roy uttered.
Roy didn't have it in him anymore to point out to Ed what he and Riza had discussed about Angel. He couldn't bring himself to see that smile on Ed's face fade because he was suspicious of the woman in Ed's life that wasn't the usual women or Andi. Roy was planning on keeping it to himself a little longer like he had with the Liore incident.
