YES! I am on another roll! However, the roll's gonna stop when it's over. Which is a complete bummer because I really enjoyed writing this story.
In this chapter, things are going to be found out for sure. You'll definitely get a moment all you readers have been waiting for. I am just sayin'! The next chapter for this is actually almost done because I couldn't stop until I had a good chunk of my idea down.I am not going to say much because I want you guys to find out. Oh and you get to see Lust mad.
Songs: "Lullabuy" by Nickelback
"Every Lie" by My Darkest Days
"The Last Night" by Skillet
"Hero" by Nickelback
"Hero" by Skillet
"Escape" by Enrique Iglesias
Envy and Greed returned to the mansion just as the sun had done into the west. Angel wasn't outside like she normally was, which made sneaking the unconscious Edward in a little easier. Envy and Greed had him slung over Greed's shoulder, limbs and everything limp and falling toward the floor. Lust, who walked in on the scene, narrowed her gaze at the other two.
"Please tell me that isn't Edward Elric," she muttered.
Envy smirked. "We'd be lying if we did."
"Why the hell do you have him?"
"It's for our plan, which is in it's final phase."
Lust didn't look nearly as amused with what was going on as Envy did. "And what about Angel?"
"What about her?" Envy caught himself, almost referring to Angel as 'it'.
"It's your fault she's stopped talking. All because of your stupid plan!" Lust yelled, trying to get her point across to what seemed like rather thick-headed homunculi. "Angel was just fine up until you locked her in her room!"
"Seducing men is YOUR job, Lust. Not hers," Greed added in.
Lust narrowed her look to Greed. "Don't butt in, Greed." She turned back to Envy. "You may keep that argument, but Angel was with one man, and you're planning on holding him hostage. Torturing the poor guy even more. You already killed his wife, tormented him with her homunculi version, and now you're going to screw with him even more?"
Envy nodded. "For the most part."
Greed smirked. "And then some."
Before Greed could activate his Ultimate Shield, Lust thrusted one of her elongated fingers toward him, ramming the nail into his shoulder. Greed grunted in pain.
"Bitch," Greed groaned as he nearly dropped Ed.
Lust growled at Envy, glaring toward him. "Just stay away from his daughter, brother, and other people he'd consider family. You've fucked with Edward enough in his lifetime."
Envy waved her off. "Fine, fine, no more screwing with Ed and his other family members."
"That includes all members of the military he has contact with. No one."
"You're really not giving me any leeway in this, are you?"
"No. You've already screwed with enough lies."
"And if I bring his brother, or any other family member, into this?"
Lust gave a cool stare, letting Envy and Greed know she was serious. "I'll tell Angel everything. From who she is and what happened the day she died."
Envy lowered his gaze on the other sin. "You wouldn't."
Lust smirked. "I would. She's already suffering from memories she thinks aren't hers. It'll make her happy to know that they'd all make sense with four words."
Lust walked away, returning into the shadows from where she came. Envy looked to Greed with the same expression. Both wondering if Lust was serious about what she said about telling Angel everything.
"Get him to the basement. When he wakes, we'll need to talk to the former Fullmetal Alchemist."
Ed groaned as he stirred his head and opened his eyes. The room was dark. The only light was from where the stairs where and the small light in the corner of the room. He was sure it was a basement from the feel of wet air and the smell of cement must. He looked around, trying to piece together what had happened to him.
"Damn, is Liore having it's own cold season?" he asked aloud, then shaking his head. "No, I was in Central City. Liore happened over ten years ago. Damn, was it that long since I've been locked up like this?" Ed shook his head to keep from rambling more. He needed to focus. He closed his eyes, trying to remember what happened to him.
He remembered giving his usual farewell to Roy, who wanted him to tell Al he said hi. He remembered the beginning trek of his way home. He recalled seeing Angel, but something was...different about her. She wasn't the same genuine girl he'd been longing to see. But he had shrugged it off, glad to see her face. Then his hand was grabbed by her as she led him into an alleyway near Central Command. From there, he realized that it was Envy, then Greed knocked him out.
"Well, shit," Ed uttered. "No wonder Angel wasn't the same. It was Envy."
Envy chuckled from the dark shadows. "Well, well, well, you saw through my rouse. I am surprised your skill have only rusted a little since your time as the Fullmetal Alchemist, Pipsqueak."
Ed growled, letting his age-old pet peeve get the best of him for a little bit. "What the hell did you do to Angel?"
"Angel?" Envy asked. "I would have thought you'd be asking about your missing wife. You know, she's still missing in action, but reported dead." Envy smirked a little more, his once sympathetic look gone. "You just can't keep a woman alive, can you, Ed?"
Ed lowered his head, saying lowly, "Shut up."
"First your mother, and then your wife," Envy teased deviously, "I can honestly say, it's a good thing you didn't marry that Rockbell girl and your brother did. A blessing really. She's your mechanic, and she might be dead if she married you. What do you do to these women?"
Ed growled more, yanking on the chains that bound him to the brick wall of the basement. "Shut the hell up!" Tears pooled in his eyes as he was forced to think about his mother and his wife.
Envy chuckled a little as he squatted down to be eye-to-eye with Ed. "Listen here, Ed, you're going to be here for a while. So say your final good-byes to the life you once knew. The life with your precious daughter, your brother, that fucking military you still hang around. Everything. Because, believe it or not, we're not letting you out of here until your bloody heart stops beating and you take your last breath."
Ed looked to him, the fire rising in his golden eyes as he fought against the chains, trying to get his hands around Envy's neck. He didn't care that he wouldn't die as easily as he would. Ed just wanted to strangle the homunculous.
"You bastard!" Ed cried.
Envy chuckled as he stood. "Yes, I know. I am the king of bastards! Bow before me!"
"No way in hell."
Greed chuckled as he came down the stairs, letting more light into the room. He stood by Envy, looking down to Edward. "Well, well, well, being captured suits you, Elric."
"Shove it, Greed. I thought I was through with you too."
Greed frowned. "Is that anyway to talk to someone who holds your life in their hands? In the blink of an eye, I could kill you. I hope you realize that."
Ed was silent, looking away from the two homunculi. If only he had his alchemy, he'd be able to transmute out of the chains and get himself the hell out of wherever he was. Then he could go find Mick and Al and tell Roy and his crew everything. He'd definitely need back-up for this fight.
"He realizes that, Greed. He's just remembering how much he's missed since becoming a family man with that one bitch...what was her name?" Envy toyed as he tapped his fingertip on his chin as if he were thinking about it.
"Don't you ever fucking mention Andi's name like that!" Ed yelled, trying to reach for Envy more. "I'll kill you if you do!"
Envy and Greed laughed. "You're still all bark and no bite, Shorty."
Lust let out a heavy sigh, having heard most of the conversation between Greed, Envy, and Ed. She was glad Ed sounded like himself, but also furious because of the situation Envy and Greed had put him in.
Ed suffered enough since we tried using his brother as lateral to make him create a stone, she thought as she turned from the basement door to the stairs that lead to the second floor. Now this is pushing things too far. Can't those two let him life his life in peace?
Lust stopped at Angel's bedroom door, knowing Angel was behind it, huddled in the far corner of the bed. She would be against the wall, knees to her chest, arms on her knees and her head buried in her arms. Lust had seen Angel in that position since Envy had locked her in her room for spending the night with Ed.
"Enough's enough," Lust whispered as she unlocked the door to Angel's room, "I'm telling her everything."
Lust opened the door and saw Angel in the exact position she knew Angel would be in. Lust gave Angel a sympathetic look, trying to bind the courage to tell Angel everything about who she was. It was time. Angel's visions were getting worse as they overcame most of her senses now, making her get trapped in the memories.
"L-Lust?" Angel asked in a broken, sad voice. It was hardly audible.
Lust nodded her head toward the door. "Come with me, I have to tell you something important."
Angel let her feet slide down the bed. "Can you tell me here? I'm not allowed out of my room after dark anymore."
God, if Angel doesn't kill Envy or Greed, I will, Lust thought when she heard Angel's tone break even more. She hated the fact that Angel was restricted.
Lust sat on the edge of her bed, patting the mattress for Angel to follow suit. When Angel did so, Lust looked toward the door, making sure that it was wide open for Angel to run out of.
"What is it, Lust?"
Lust sighed, gathering her words into sentences with her eyes closed before looking to Angel again. "Those visions you have. They're memories of yourself when you were human." Angel gave her a confused look. Lust went on. "When you become a homunculous, your hair turns to the same shade as the other homunculi, just like our eyes. You were blonde, but when you were brought back as a homunculous, your hair color changed to the same shade as mine."
Angel nodded, relieved to know that she wasn't going crazy. Though, she could feel her mind start to hurt and reel with images and sounds that she wasn't sure were from her previous life.
"Anything else?"
Lust nodded, looking to her lap for support before looking back into Angel's dark eyes. "The reason you were named Angel wasn't because you were a sin. You died from a sin, murder. But it wasn't a human that murdered you. When they killed you, they thought you looked like an angel."
Angel gave Lust another confused look as her mind reeled a second time with it ending with, "You have the looks of an angel."
Lust continued on with another sigh, careful about explaining and getting everything out. "The ones who murdered you are Greed and Envy. If I recall right, Envy was the one who pulled the trigger."
Another flash went through Angel's mind as it brought her to some darkened warehouse with her eyes staring down the barrel of a gun. Envy's smirk plastered wildly on his face as he said just before pulling the trigger, "...It'll be a fucking miracle if you survive this."
"Greed was making sure I couldn't leave," Angel softly whispered, like she remembered the moment she was shot. Like something clicked in the back of her mind and was reeling forgotten memories that she should have remembered. "Lust, who was I?"
Lust smiled inwardly, having waited since the day Angel was born as a homunculous and when she heard of Envy and Greed's plan. She looked outside to the moon and back to Angel, who still looked to her with question. "Your father was an alchemist who died as a State Alchemist. You were raised by another State Alchemist by the name of Roy Mustang. You fell in love with the young alchemist, a real prodigy at what he did." Lust smiled as she watched Angel's hair slowly become a brunette instead of a dark color, slowly remembering who she was. Angel looked to Lust as if silently asking what her name was. "You were a major in the Amestrian military, investigations department; right under Maes Hughes." Lust took in a deep breath, ready for the weight to be lifted from her shoulders that she had carried for what seemed like an eternity. "And your name, Angel," Lust said to make sure Angel was hanging on to her every word.
"Yes, Lust?" Angel asked, ready to finally know who she really was.
"Your real name is Andi Elric."
