And another update! Hard to believe there are like a couple more left before I get to put complete next to this.
So, in this chapter, well, you see the aftermath of what happens when you tell Angel she's Andi...
Songs: "Finally Found You" by Enrique Iglesias
"Don't Let It End" by Nickelback
"Like Nobody Else" by My Darkest Days
"Secrets" by OneRepublic
Angel let those six little words sink in, letting the realization slowly come to her. She widened her eyes, remembering the newspaper article about her disappearance. Angel remembered seeing what looked like a happy reflection of herself in a picture. It all made sense. That blonde girl was her! She was the missing major! She was married to Edward Elric. He and her had a daughter together. She was raised by Roy Mustang and his crew because her father was killed. She was Andi Elric, a brilliant major in the investigations department. She lived a good life. A great life until...
Angel got up from her mattress, bolting through the door and down the stairs, a new level of rage brewing and boiling deep within her. She knew exactly who she could direct her rage toward. Two homunculi who screwed with her happy life. Angel ran through the kitchen on her way to the basement, grabbing a few knives on her way as weapons. She couldn't die as easily as a human, but she could die easier than a normal homunculi who had eaten the stones.
That made sense too. Why she couldn't consume the stones. Her and Ed had traveled a little, seeing what the stones did for homunculi. Her mind must have made her reject the stones for that reason. Her subconscious knew what the stones did.
Angel smiled, knowing that she was once married to Edward. The feeling warmed her. It really made sense why she couldn't get him out of her head. Her mind was still in love with him. Angel bit her lip, trying to keep the excitement down as she ran to the door of the basement and walked down it. she could hear Envy's voice.
"You know, it took a lot of planning just to make it this far, and I am thrilled it's worked out in the homunculi favor. You're alchemy-less and practically useless in a fight against me or Greed without it. But don't worry, your death will be slow, giving you plenty of time to think about her."
Angel growled as she stepped to the edge of the light and shadows, positioning a knife to throw.
"ENVY!"
This made the three of them jump. Angel tossed the knife at Greed, not giving him time to transform and protect himself. She caught him in the middle of where the stone would be on him, paralyzing him and making him unable to regenerate himself. The knife still there would make him unable to life much longer, letting the stone slowly turn to dust.
Angel stepped into the light, throwing another knife toward Envy, hoping to get him in the same place. "YOU RUINED MY FUCKING LIFE!"
Envy dodged the first knife, but ended with a butcher knife in the shoulder, pinning him to a wooden floored area of the basement. Angel walked to him, not realizing Ed was there, witnessing the whole thing. She placed a heeled boot on his chest to keep Envy pinned down.
"Look at you, Angel. Planning on defying me aga-" Envy started before he was cut off by Angel's louder voice.
"No, you listen here, Envy! I know who I was. I was happy. I had a good life with a husband who loved me and I had a family. But you took everything from me!"
Envy smirked. "I did, but I wonder how you found out. Was it because Ed's here? Oh, I mean, Fullmetal Lover-boy?"
Angel's expression softed a little when she heard Ed's name. "Ed," she whispered.
She turned, seeing him shackled to the basement wall. She left Envy on the ground for Ed. Angel walked to him, lifting him by his chin so he'd follow her, his golden, slightly defeated eyes never leaving hers. Angel smiled as she pressed her lips to his in a passionate kiss. Just like one she would give him every morning before they walked into Central Command for work when Angel was human. She felt Ed relax against her, his hands resting at her waist.
"Andi?" Ed asked, instantly remembering her. He didn't see her as Angel anymore.
Angel nodded. "We have a daughter, Mickaela Allison. We got married when she was one. Roy wanted to burn you to a crisp when he found out I was pregnant with her, and well, he wanted to when he found out we were together." Ed listened in amazement as Angel listed off everything that only Andi and he would know. "Roy took me in a couple to a few years before he found out about your human transmutation. You gained your right arm back but not your leg. And, your brother's name is Alphonse. He married Winry Rockbell, and you were the best man at his wedding."
Ed nodded in amazement. "Andi, what happened...?" He was stopped by Angel putting a finger to his lips.
"That mission I went missing in, that's where Envy and Greed killed me. Envy shot me with my gun." Angel looked at him, remembering something more. "When I would leave on a mission, I'd have four pictures in my back pocket on the right. And when I left on that day, Mick cried and begged me not to go."
Ed nodded, still thinking Andi standing there was just a figment of his imagination and that Envy and Greed where torturing him.
"But, then you would be..."
"Dead?" Ed nodded, letting Angel peel back her white shirt to reveal her tattoo that was etched over her heart. Ed's eyes widened when he saw the red tattoo that marked every homunculous. He shot his look from her tattoo to her eyes, seeing what her eye color used to be among the darkness. "Someone had fallen for me and tried to bring me back. I became a homunculous. Hence why I am Angel, since I am no one's technical sin."
"Andi," Ed whispered, still trying to get his mind to wrap around what was going on. He had fallen back in love with the woman he loved without knowing it was her.
Angel nodded, kissing him again as she used one of the knifes to pick the locks on the shackles. When she knew he was free, she whispered into his ear, "Go up stairs. Lust is probably up there. She'll keep up you company while I finish with these two."
"No," Ed said almost as soon as the words were out of Angel's mouth. "I am not leaving you again."
Angel shook her head. "I could stand my own fairly well against them when I was human. I'll be fine, Ed. I promise." She cupped his cheek just like she used to when she tried to convince him.
Ed hugged her closely when he realized there was no changing her mind, whispering back, "You better be."
Ed soon took off for upstairs just as Envy got himself free from the wood. Angel turned to Envy, watching him heal himself and stand before her.
"You clever little bitch. Do you honestly think you're making it out alive?"
Angel nodded. "I promised Ed I would."
"Well, you're breaking another promise because there is no way in hell I am losing to a half-homunculous like you."
"Careful what you wish for, Envy. This isn't hell. I could stand my ground well against you when I was human. Imagine now."
Envy smirked as he lunged at Angel, who quickly dodged the attack and counterattacked with a kick to his back, sending him to the cement floor. She quickly stabbed into his back, giving it a good gash for him to heal himself as she made more deep gashes. The more she made, the weaker he became overall. She had learned that in the library when she was studying homunculi.
Envy, who was weak, turned his hand into a stone with a sharp point, slicing it toward Angel. Angel tried dodging the attacks, letting one hit her arm. It bled for a few moments before beginning to heal itself. Angel twisted, nailing one of the knives in his stomach as she stabbed her last one into his chest, in the center of his Philosopher's stone. Envy couched up whole stones, still trying to heal himself of all the injuries Angel had inflicted.
"You little bitch," he wheezed as more stones came coughing up. "You killed me."
"Good," Angel said with a deadly tone. "You're the one who killed me when I was a human. Equivalent Exchange, bastard."
In one solid movement, Angel slid the knife up his chest and through his throat, getting the stone as soon as she saw it. Angel looked at the still Envy and smirked a little. Before he could regenerate himself, she crushed the stone in her fist and watched the maroon dust drop from her hand. Soon, Envy turned to ash. Angel took in a deep sigh, knowing one of her problems was gone. She looked up to where Greed still lay and walked to him.
"Take it..." he managed out. Angel looked to him with a confused expression. Her hand still held her last knife. "Take my stone...and use it...to open...the gate. There...you...can...get your...human self...back." He took in a sharp intake of air as he coughed up a few stones. There wasn't much time left for him and Angel knew it.
"Get my human body back?"
Greed nodded. "Think of it...as an...apology...from me."
Angel nodded as she ripped out the stone the same way she had with Envy and looked at the shining, crimson stone. She watched as Greed's body slowly incinerated into ash just as Envy's did. Angel stared at the pile of ash of what used to be the Ultimate Shield, of Greed, before looking back to the stone, thinking of how fleeting their lives were like a humans. Angel turned around after a quick bow of her head to Greed's ashes and walked back up stairs where Ed and Lust where waiting for her.
