Ace: Sonya, more fan-mail!
Sonya: I hate you, Ace.
Lela: *dutifully hands reviews* By the way, Furorensu-Chan, looking at your review, which is first as usual and kinda freaking out the authoress a little, I would like to say that you are my favorite reviewer because I'm your favorite, and-
Envy: ROY MUSTANG IS A WHORE, BUT NOT AS MUCH OF A WHORE AS HE THINKS HE IS!
Lela: Master! I thought Ace told you to wait until later!
Envy: This is all the screen time we're getting, so shut your trap!
Sonya: I STILL HATE YOU FOR WANTING ME TO DIE!
Edward: Okay, EternalHypernova is next. *reads through* HOLY SHIT, YOU WANT ME TO BE RAPED BY KAYLA!
Kayla: I love you, Ed! *licks face*
Ed: *runs away*
Sonya: I think that manga without my death will be the general consensus with the authoress, but I don't know. I really don't want to die. She's already sorta planning a scene where I meet up with Ed and Kayla...
Ace: *looks up from paper guiltily* YOU'RE LYING!
Sonya: Yes, DarkVampirePrincess8, I was going to kill you in your sleep, but now I'm not, and I wasn't in the last chapter 'cuz I get this one all to myself!
Lela: Thanks for the advice though. *sniff* The guilt just piles up sometimes.
Envy: AND I MAY BE A CROSS-DRESSER AND A BASTARD, BUT I SO DO RESPECT MY KITTEN!
Ed: PEOPLE NEED TO STOP THINKING KAYLA AND I ARE TOGETHER! WE'RE JUST FRIENDS, RIGHT KAYLA?
Kayla: Huh? Oh, yeah, no kissing yet though. I still have a nice little angsty part before we get that far. Actually, Ace still needs to get through that...
Ace: Gah, what is with you spoilers today?
Kayla: No mores today. Instead, we'll do the disclaimer and leave the final review for afterwards. I have work to do! *runs off, dragging Ed by braid*
Ace: Ooookay then.
Greed: Ace5980 does not own FullMetal Alchemist.
Sonya: NOW ENJOY THIS CHAPTER OF ME!
9: Sonya's Unnatural, Uncontrollable Cravings
(Same time as previous chapter)
No matter what Sonya did, she could not quite satisfy her hunger, not since she'd escaped from the alchemists again with Greed's help. It was not one that could be sated with meat, fruit, milk, or anything else. Naturally, her mind made the necessary leap in insight to reach the conclusion of the alchemists had done something big to her when they'd captured her, likely something involving the various needles she'd been injected with during the time. "I can't take it anymore!" she yelled, throwing yet another unsatisfactory half-eaten apple out the window in frustration. The other chimeras, Dorochet, Martel, and Law, and Greed looked at her strangely.
"Sonya?" Greed asked cautiously, "Are you okay?"
"No," she hissed, her wings snapping in her irritation and her hands balling into fists as a sharp pain went through her teeth, centering mainly in her canines for some reason. "I am not okay."
Greed got up from his couch, going over to her and distracting her from her current homicidal rage by tugging on the end of one of the laces on the bodice of her short strapless black dress. "What's wrong, Sonya? You seem more pissed off than usual, even when it is your time of the month."
She sighed, relaxing as she shooed his fingers away from the black leather laces on her side. "One, I don't have a time of the month, Greed, and two, I'm pissed because those alchemists did something and I don't know what the hell it is!"
Martel, Sonya's least favorite chimera, snorted. "Of course they did something. Greed brings you back and you, the little blind girl, are suddenly blessed with the gift of sight. Personally, I would be a little more grateful and a lot less bitchy if I were you."
Sonya's eyes flashed, the red burning through its cloudy cover, and her wings snapped open, making her look like a wrathful demoness. "Whore," she snarled, stomping away. Dorochet sighed, running after her, only to find she'd flown off before he could catch her.
"I'm sorry, Greed," he apologized upon his return, "I lost her."
"Don't worry, Dorochet. She'll come back eventually, I promise."
Sonya liked flying. Really, she did. However, it was the single thing most likely to result in her getting caught, so she could never do it for long, especially since she went through various relapses. Her vision was very iffy to say the least. Sometimes, rather than the normal 20/20 color vision most humans saw in, she saw in black-and-white or heat, if she saw at all. As a result, flying became a guilty pleasure for the chimera since she didn't want to attract any unwanted attention to the Devil's Nest, not when she and the other chimeras could be captured or worse and Greed could very well be taken back to the other homunculi he'd told her about.
Which was why she made her flight to the laboratory Greed had rescued her form as short as she could. She touched down smoothly outside of Lab 5, her wings folding back out of her way. All was quiet as she walked through the abandoned facility, but Sonya did not care that the only sounds in this place were made by the echoing of her knee-length high-heeled black leather boots on the cold, dusty concrete floor. No, what she cared about was a certain person in the building next door, someone who was at least partially responsible for what she'd become.
The chimera slipped through the long corridors of the prison, blatantly ignoring the calls of the doomed prisoners in the cells alongside her. She came to a stop outside of one cell in particular and leaned against the bars. "Hello, Crimson," she said conversationally, momentarily startling the man inside.
"Hello, Sonya." Even though Zolf Kimbley hadn't been responsible for turning her into a chimera, he still knew all her gory details, thus making him her information center when she needed to know something about alchemy or more particularly, about the alchemy binding her together. "I can tell this isn't a social visit. It never is with you."
"Correct. I need to know what those bastards did to me when they fixed my vision more or less."
"Ah." He leaned back, the marks on his hands catching Sonya's eye, but she didn't rise to the bait and waited patiently for him to continue. It was, after all, his time to waste. "They injected you with a serum to screw around with your DNA some more," he finally stated bluntly.
"What animal?"
"Hmm?" He pretended not to understand her.
Her eyes narrowed and her wings twitched dangerously, the only betrayal her body made of her brewing anger. Sonya was always angry these days, ever since she'd been born a chimera actually, if Lela was to be believed when she had told the tales of how sweet Sonya had been as a child anyway, constantly nursing a hatred against the world, and she had already learned how to control it enough to only lash out at those she had to. "I asked you what animal they injected me with, you son of a bitch."
Kimbley smirked, taking a small measure of delight in knowing he'd antagonized his only visitor here in this hellhole. "Vampire bat. They chose to inject you with vampire bat DNA."
"You bastard." Sonya stalked away then, leaving him alone to his solitary confinement. Still, Kimbley couldn't contain a satisfied laugh, letting the sound escape his lips and follow her retreating form down the long prison hallways. Sonya was a monster, just as the other alchemists had predicted all those years ago, and it made him feel better to meet someone with just as little humanity remaining as his own. Sitting there in his cell, his hands being held in place by a large wooden shackle, he wondered if her sisters, Lela and Kayla, were coming along as well as she was, and his smile grew. Oh no, the Military was not quite done creating monstrous weapons, not by a long shot.
Sonya crept back into the Devil's Nest in the dead of night, heading up to Greed's room rather than her own. Striding quickly over to his sleeping form, she struck at him with all the speed of a cobra. Waking, he pushed her away, recognizing his attacker as Sonya in the light of the alchemical reaction as he healed himself. "What the hell, Son-"
"They injected me with fucking vampire bat DNA to fix my eyes. The intense thirst I've been experiencing over the past year is merely a side effect, one I can't deny any longer," she explained hastily. "I figured it'd be easier to hide my activities if I bit you since you could heal."
He chuckled at her logic. "You're a girl after my own heart, Sonya." He leaned back, pulling the chimera atop him and baring his neck patiently for her.
Her eyes flashed red again as her canines, upper and lower, lengthened. "Don't heal," she cautioned him, biting him at that super fast speed again. He grunted in agreement, tightening his arms around her shoulders as her tongue gently touched the open wound she'd made on his neck, lapping up the faux blood with a hungry kind of greed. Growling, impatient as always, Sonya began to suck, enjoying the taste of the homunculus's blood far too much for it to be good for her.
Ace: Wow, so before we finish out, I'd like to say that I still need one more positive manga review from someone other than EternalHypernova or Furorensu-Chan to go ahead and continue working on chapter 12. So, if you don't happen to be those two, then please HELP ME!
Lela: Okay, now before someone other than Ace forgets, we are still offering the balloons I had tied to my master as a reward since the ones on Ed all popped due to Sonya.
Envy: Why do I have to put up with all these balloons on me? Why can't I just kill the authoress?
Lela: *whispers into Envy's ear*
Envy: *pales* She can do that?
Lela: *nods*
Envy: HOLY SHIT!
Kayla: And now, for Bloody Bonez Alchemist XD's review! I'm gonna go become a State Alchemist now that I have permission!
Ed: THAT was why you dragged me to go get you all that paperwork?
Kayla: Uh huh!
Ed: ... You do know that as a chimera, you're illegal in Amestris. If you join the Military, you're duty-bound to turn yourself and your sisters in.
Kayla: ... Shit.
Ed: And by the way, what did Lela tell Envy to scare him so badly?
Kayla: *whispers into Ed's ear*
Ed: HOLY SHIT! *spasms* THAT'S JUST AN ABUSE OF POWER!
Ace: What'd she say?
Kayla: If he didn't shut up and put up with you, you could make him kiss Ed at Lab 5.
Ace: Okay...
Lela: And like it.
Ace: HOLY SHIT! *blinks* Where's Sonya?
Sonya: Heeheeheeheeheeheehee! *finds manuscript with burning torch* I WILL BE AVENGED!
Ace: You do know I wasn't gonna kill you anymore!
Sonya: *stares at ashes* Shit.
Greed: Remember to review with those recommendations, people! Oh, and drop a line on how her complete re-write of Kimbley's scene worked out, 'cuz she's really nervous on how she did with her complete winging-it.
Ace: *stares at computer hopefully* DO IT!