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20. Family
Selim Bradley was not the sort of boy that one would wish to upset. Pride the Arrogant was definitely not the sort of thing that a person would try to antagonise.
Unfortunately, that had never stopped his brother, Greed, in annoying him. He was constantly doing his best to get under the human skin he wore, taking the mickey about his youthful ("babyish") looks, tangling his shadowy appendages and saying how weak they must be if his shield could deflect them.
Despite this, Pride was thankful for his little brother, and read him tales of depravity and chaos and blood, and the inferiority of humans, and the superiority and love of Father; so that he could sleep at night. Lust, Gluttony and Sloth were firm believers, and Envy, whilst free-spirited, was controlled; Greed was the only loose cannon out of them all. Deep in Pride's mind, this earned him the closest thing to love a homunculus could stomach – hate. A deep, pulsing, pounding hate that spreads through the shadows and attacks the longer haired, younger figure of Greed's second (human) incarnation with strike upon strike.
The blond girl, who perhaps used to be Edward Elric, uses the carbon (the same carbon as his brother's shield), to keep herself from calm and try and free her own brother. Pride admires her somewhat, in the way that humans admire ants for being able to lift ten times their own weight. It has no bearing on his feeling of wanting to crush them, but he recognises their ability. Greed, however, has forgotten the stories he told when they were only a few decades old.
Humans break easily. He snaps his shadows at Edward, and she falls backwards into the rough pasture, for Gluttony to finish off.
Chaos reigns. Swirling spikes cut Heinkel; shadows shoot out and grab Darius, forcing him to the floor.
Shields cannot protect forever. It is easy to see, even in this light, the tears that drip down Greed's carbon-covered face.
But there is something that Pride has forgotten. Family is the most important thing.
With a desperate howl Greed runs towards Pride, and attacks him with such anger, Pride loses at least four hundred souls in a matter of minutes.
Greed had never won a practise fight, simply because he didn't want to learn tactics, there were other things that he wanted at that time that were more important.
But Greed wins this one, because he wants nothing more than to destroy the one who tried to destroy his family.
A.N: Remember that time I asked all you guys who you wanted to see appear?
Well, Mini-Hayden wanted Pride, and this is for her!
(I'm sorry if it sucked, feel free to hit me or disallow me from going to the super cool thing in May [butnotreallybecauseI'llcry])
Officially 1/5th of the way through!
And when we hit number 25, I should have a whole suprise one-shot for y'all! [Over 1,000 words and just got halfway through!) C: Have fun trying to figure out what it's about!
Thank you for reviewing and I hope you enjoyed!
- Tom
[Thanks go to , Fluehatraya , Hyper V, Catstar Hawthorn and aeva elementia for reviewing -have a drabble a few days early! :P]