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Chapter 11

Pride lay peacefully on a bed sleeping heavily. Envy and Izumi sat in the room with him, by a small table. Envy glanced over at Pride every second, to make sure that the boy was alright.

"So Envy, what have you planned to do now?" Izumi asked, looking at the green haired sin. Envy looked at her, slightly surprised by the question. He hadn't really thought of that, until now that is.

"I don't know yet, I want to protect him I guess. I'm very sure that Dante would lay her hands on him, once she hears of him that is. I don't want her to take his free will away, I do not want her to use him. I won't let him become his puppet!" he growled lowly, so that he wouldn't wake the younger one up, he could see one of the golden feline ears twitch slightly.

"I see... So what are you going to do about it? Dante knows your weakness, and if I know her right, I know she has it close to her" Izumi said, looking at him, her hands resting on the table in front of her. Envy looked down into the wooden surface.

"I don't really know... I wish there was some way to get rid of her, but I can't do it... and Pride's too weak right now... and I really don't want him to kill anyone...To become bloodthristy...not that it's wrong to kill sometimes" he added with a smirk. Izumi merely shook her head. Both of them were startled by a pair of pale tattooed arms wrapping themselves around Envy's neck. Envy lifted his head a little and saw the pale face of Pride. Pride nuzzled him, even though the older sin stiffened slightly at first, but relaxed almost immediately.

"Edward?" Izumi said confused. Both she and Envy thought that he was asleep but it seemed like he had woken up during their talk. Pride looked at her with his dazed eyes. Pride stayed silent for minutes, his eyes closed as he nuzzled the side of Envy's face.

"I'll help..." was the only thing Pride said after the silence.

Two months later

Envy walked inside Dante's mansion, inside he was greeted by his 'siblings'. They could see that something changed with him, but what they weren't sure of, the only ones who had a slight idea were Sloth and Lust. Envy walked into the room were Dante sat by a table, writing something down. Probably an order to Bradley. He grimaced at the thought of that idiot, the one who didn't deserve the name he had been given. His little chibi-chan deserved it a thousand times more then Bradley.

Dante stopped writing and looked up at Envy, her eyes showing no emotions what so ever. Envy didn't really care, he wasn't afraid of her anymore, he had no reason to. He had someone he wanted to protect, and that was what fueled him right now.

"Envy, where if I may ask have you been for the last couple of months? I sent you on a mission, to kill Edward Elric, yet you never reported back" she asked with honey in her voice. Or rather poisoned honey, Envy thought.

"I've been busy, besides I couldn't find fullmetal shorty" he replied, lying. Dante looked at him with narrowing eyes. Envy was still unfazed by this.

"Oh really? So you've failed me yet again, is that it? Envy, too many times you've failed to kill that boy. I don't think you want to kill him" she stated venomously. Envy smirked at her amused.

"So you finally figured it out, hag? You're right, I don't want to kill him, so what? Why would I kill someone that I love? I'd rather just kill you, mother" he replied with his insane smile. Dante glared at him.

"You seem to forget that I can kill you right here, William!" she snarled. Envy just looked at her, not really caring about her threat. "And that's exactly what I'll do!" she said moving her hand toward a drawer at her desk.

"I won't let you kill Envy" a soft voice said from behind her. Dante turned around startled, only to come face to face with someone she never expected to see. Edward Elric. Or so she first thought, because when she looked closer she saw the tattoos, the ourobouros and the feline parts.

"Who the hell are you? Don't tell me that foolish puppet of mine decided to make you his pet" she said cruelly. Pride looked at her in anger. His ears pinned back and his tail moved angrily.

"Don't call Envy foolish puppet. He no puppet! Pride will kill you to save Envy" Pride said, as he noticed the other sins looking at him both shocked and hopeful? He looked back to find Dante gone and the drawer opened, he looked over to find Envy on the ground throwing up red stones, and Dante with a bone in her hand. "Envy!" Pride cried out.

"Even if you somehow managed to turn Elric into both a chimera and a homunculus, I do not accept that you turn on me, William!" she spat. The next thing she knew was pain. Envy glanced up to see a bloody scythe and Dante puking up blood. Pride glared as he raised the scythe again and cut Dante's throat open. Dante gurgled for a few second before her body fell to the ground, in a pool of her own blood. Pride picked up the bone, and threw it away as far as he could. Then he fell to his knees beside Envy and looked at him worried, his whole body showing his fear.

"Envy...?" Pride's voice was small, almost a whisper. Envy merely smiled a small smile. He saw the other homunculi come towards them, with Lust holding a very familiar bag. Pride tensed as they stopped in front of them. Lust lowered herself to her knees and held the bag towards him.

"Here, give him these. He should be alright then" she said friendly. Pride looked at her confused, she had hurt him before, but all he could see now was gratefulness. He took the bag and opened it, only to find red stones. He smiled and started feeding his palm tree with the stones...

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