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This story deals with a gender-swapped Ed.
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"Hohenhiem!?" I growled glaring at the man who called himself my father, he changed his appearance from the last time I saw him, he was now wearing white robes that went all the way to the floor.
"Metal limbs, and an armoured body." I straightened my back getting ready for him to explain what the hell he's doing here, he walked up closer getting right into my face I had to take a step back to avoid him touching me. "You two wouldn't happen to be the Elric brothers." That threw me off, Hohenhiem may have been a dead beat father but he at least knew I was a girl.
"So you aren't him?" I asked softly due to the fact that he was still so close to my face.
"I'm afraid you have me mistaken for someone else. Hang on, the name you said is there anyway you mean Van Hohenhiem?" He gave me false hope that he was leaving my personal space until he asked the question and came in even closer now pointing a finger at me. "And how is it the two of you are acquainted with him?" He seemed angry that we knew who our own father was, I didn't like this guy or the eerie feeling he gave me, I looked to Ling who was standing just on the other side of this man and I made eye contact with him and he just shrugged in return.
"He's our Father." Al answered the man and he finally back away from us as if really taking in our appearance now. All of a sudden he lunged at me and grabbed my head one hand covering each of my ears.
"He's your Father!?" I tried not to react to him grabbing me but I could still feel my eyes grow. "This is indeed surprising." He was now turning my head and examining me at different angles. "I had no idea he had children." That's when things got worse, he let go of my head but began patting it instead like someone would do to a dog. I tried to bite back my anger but I didn't know how long it would last for, I could already feel a growl coming from my throat.
"If you are indeed his progeny why is your last name Elric?" 'That does it.' I threw his arm off of my head and glared at him.
"Elric was our Mothers name!" I clenched both of my fist, there was a twinge of pain coming from the left one, 'oh right.'
"Oh is that so." 'was he even paying attention?' "So where has he been spending his time?" 'I don't understand this guy.'
"Who cares! Just forget him who the hell are you?! And why do you look exactly like?!" I yelled at him, it was my turn to ask the questions. He turned and grabbed his beard and starred off into space.
"I know that he can't be dead..." He wasn't even listening to me.
"What the hell is wrong with you listen to me when I am talking to you!" I threw my hands in the air trying to get his attention, Al was saying something but I wasn't listening to him. My rants were cut off by a tight grip on my arm, I yelped loud and high making Al let go of my arm quickly.
"I'm sorry Sister I didn't know." I was holding my arm close to my body and began shooting glares at Al. I let a breath out of my nose trying to calm down and manage the pain.
"It's okay Al, it's okay." My voice was tight and anyone could hear the pain in it.
"It would appear that you are injured, and you are missing your left hand aren't you." 'Oh so now you are paying attention.' I watched him carefully as he walked up to Alphonse and touched the gap where his hand should be. The man preformed a transmutation without a circle or clapping his hands, it was impressive, Al's hand was completely reconstructed without making his armour any thinner. He made his way to me and I held my arm closer to my body, obviously he didn't take the notice because he grabbed my arm anyway and pulled it away from my body. I whimpered and Al moved closer to me and the stranger pushed him away. He lifted my arm up and put more pressure on it.
"Your arm appears to be broke." He stated. I tried to break away without making my arm hurt even more but it wasn't working.
"No shit, it's broken." I snapped at him. He touched it with his other hand and there was a weird feeling, it felt like the bone in my arm was reconstructing itself. When he let go I pulled my arm from him and undid the split, it was fixed. I gave him a wide eyed stare trying to understand what just happened. "It's not broken any more." I said full of disbelieve. He put his arms back on my shoulders and was feeling for something else, then his arms travelled down to my side, his hand brushed over my breast and I flinched.
"Are you a woman?" He asked and I blushed and looked away. "You also have broken ribs." And the same feeling the came from my arm came through my ribcage. "I consider the two of you to be vital resources, you must both remain alive and healthy." I held back a scoff when he said that.
"You aren't human." Ling finally spoke getting the attention of everyone in the room. "What are you?" He was on the defence holding his sword at the man. "What the hell is inside of you?"
"I would ask who you are but I honestly don't care." The man retorted not answering anyone's questions, the art of deflection. "You can go ahead and eat him." It was blunt how he said that, Gluttony and Envy who recovered but stayed in the background this whole time now grinned knowing they can safely get rid of Ling.
"What no hold on." I ran to Ling and stood in front of him and the homunculi. "This guys our friend, you want to keep us happy right? Then don't kill him please." My voice went softer pleading with the strange man.
"But I have no need for him. Your friendship is useless to me." He never turned to face me as he walked back to his chair in the centre of the room
"What did you just say?" I asked in disbelief.
"Sister, the homunculi keep calling this man their father." I looked up to my little brother. 'that explains so much.' "I think he's the one that created them."
"What?" I asked trying to make it seem that I know less then I really did.
"He did heal our wounds." Al said trying to prove his point. Ling stumbled in front of us.
"He didn't heal mine though." After a few steps he keeled over, I caught him before he hit the ground. "I don't like him, I can see that he looks down on humans, he thinks we're fools."
"That's not true, when you notice an insect on the ground do you stop and consider it a fool? The life of an insect is so beneath you that stopping to consider it would be a waste of time. That would be an accurate summary on how I feel about humans." 'That does it.' I clapped my hands and transmuted the ground raising it towards the Father, he didn't even have to move to block it.
"You've might have healed our injuries but that does not mean we are friends. It's pretty apparent that you are the root of all evil, and I'm taking you down, I don't care how many cronies you've got" I yelled to him, I couldn't help and think over the emotional roller coaster my body has been going through within the past twenty four hours, 'has it only been a day since the cabin?'
"Just who are you calling a crony pipsqueak?" Envy said from across the room.
"PIPSQUEAK!" I yelled, I could feel Alphonse flinch, I clapped my hands and touched the pipes sending them originally at the homunculi, but I changed it's course at the last second sending to the Father and wrapping them around him. "I got you this time boss man." And I did have him for about five seconds until the pipes broke away from him. Envy charged at me but I didn't care he wasn't my target any more, I used him as a spring board and flew over him into a transmuted piece of the floor, I pushed off of it and rolled away. I got away untouched until Envy broke the wall and it fell on top of me. I wasn't sure if I blacked out or not until I opened my eyes and saw Ling getting flung backwards, it couldn't have been more then a few seconds but it was long enough. "How does he do that?" It was a rhetorical question but I still wanted answer. "It's like he can transmute just by thinking about it." I pointed out hoping some one would tell me that I was wrong.
"This is a waste of time." Father said and red sparks was sent up straight into the sky giving the room a red glow, I felt a shiver run down my spine. I looked to Al and somehow he felt it as well, we clapped our hands together and touched the ground I was trying to transmute anything from it but nothing came. I felt hollow, without my alchemy. A heavy weight pressed down on my back and I was pushed to the ground.
"Edelle!" Ling yelled and came running until Gluttony tackled him.
"NO! Don't please don't eat him!" I begged struggling for breath under Envy's weight. I clapped again but still nothing happen. "What the hell did he do to us?"
"I don't know, why doesn't our alchemy work?" Al answered my question with a one of his own. Envy laughed moving his feet up and down pushing us farther into the ground.
"You lower life forms are so pitiful, you get a speak of power and think you are unstoppable, but you don't even know what that power is. And then you have the arrogance to assume you have control of that power, you're like a bad joke that just keeps getting worse." If I don't have my alchemy I have no hopes of stopping them no matter what their plan is.
"What are you bastards planning?" I yelled from the ground. "Envy you promised you'd tell me everything if I got you out."
"Hmm what are you talking about I don't remember that." Envy said faking innocence. "I would never stoop so low as to make a deal with you."
"You liar!" I yelled at the homunculus
"You've talked to much Envy." The man in the white robes spoke.
"Oh sorry." The monster apologized.
"You may prove to be useful to me after all." He was now looking at Ling, and my heart turned to ice. "I could always use a new pawn in the rotation." He pointed to his forehead, and Ling gasped, I was too far and couldn't see it but it didn't seem good.
"Is that a philosopher stone." Al asked I looked to my younger brother in panic.
"You're really going to do that?" Envy asked, and I felt like I couldn't breath and it wasn't caused by Envy on top of me.
"Do what?" I croaked out fearing the worse, and not knowing what the worse was.
"He's going to make a new homunculus." Envy answered, and my heart dropped. ' . . . .'
"Get away from him!" I yelled hoping he would back off.
"The stone gets mixed into the blood stream and if they survive you create a human based homunculus. But it's much more common for the stone to overpower the human and kill them." Gluttony took a band aid of of Lings cheek as Father walked closer.
"Please no! Don't do it! Please no!" I was crying and begging for him to get away from Ling. I tried to fight Envy and throw him off of me but he was too heavy. "Let him go!, Ling fight back please! Ling don't let him do this to you!" I was crying and fighting, but nothing was working. I felt clod metal touch my back and remember the gun, I reached back and grabbed it pointing it at Envy but I couldn't shoot. One of the faces was crying and looking right to me.
"Don't shoot Ed. It's going to be okay, this is exactly what I want so you just stay out of it."
"Are you serious I can't let you do this."
"I came to this country to find the philosopher stone, and now this man is going to give me one, and I'm not going to turn this down."
"Think about this Ling, think about what you are doing, what about Lan Fan, what about me?" I was doing anything to get him to fight back but nothing was working.
"I'm sorry." and with that sound left and it seemed to move in slow motion, the stone falling and landing on Ling.
"No Don't!" I was pretty sure I screamed it but the only sound I could hear was the blood rushing in my ears. The silence was ended when Ling started to scream in pain. His body started to convulse and I had to close my eyes, he screams got louder and more pained and tears streaked out of my eyes, and the same feeling I haven't felt since Nina returned, 'was Ling turn into someone else I couldn't save?' The screaming stopped and I looked again to see Ling on his knees and his body fall limply, my heart beat slowed and grew louder 'was he alright?' "Ling?" my voice barely above a whisper but he still heard it.
"What? Oh you mean the guy I took this body from?" It was his body, but not his voice he was gone, I lost him. "But your friend just checked out and gave greed this body." He held up his hand and pulled off the bandage showing the ouroboros tattoo.
"So you aren't Ling?" Al asked he was so naive, Ling was long gone.
"Did you say Greed?"
Hey guys I'm back within the same week, it's been a while right but I loved this part in the series so I just had to right it. This was only the first half of the episode and the other should follow soon. I'll see you next time where Ed and GreedLing battle it out. Feel free to comment and suggest as always.