Took me a while to come up with something for this theme, but I thought of something eventually. This cross-references both animes, by the way, because it was just too cool not to.
Guest: I actually didn't realize about that twist until now xD I just wanted to have Roy seeing Ed disintegrating. But you're right, yay ^^ And 2003!Envy is a lot of fun to play with~ Thanks for reviewing!
Fairyboydammit: Oh hallo! I noticed you favouriting all three of my major projects a while ago (thank you for the ego boost :B) and now you've reviewed, yay! And yeah, I think I actually liked it better than I would have if I'd done smut XD thanks for stopping by, hope to see a review from you on Hero and Seven Names some time~
Pen-Name-Kitsune-Chan: Opposites is a BIG theme for me, especially in this collection. I'm glad you like the parallelism, I thought it got a little clumsy at the end though :P Thanks for reviewing as always ^^
45. Burning
It was the flame that kept him going, it was the inferno that raged inside, it was the firestorm that burnt his insides and whispered and screamed, 'kill kill kill'. Vengeance.
It burnt the hottest whenever he laid eyes on Hohenheim or his precious little sons, of course. Any time he saw the whore who'd given birth to them came a close second, although she was dead now.
Whenever he was forced to interact with his dear master Dante for too long, the hate flared high. She was supposedly his mother, but her ice never melting, no matter how fiercely he burned.
It was all that defined him. It was all that drove him.
Snap.
He screamed as the flame consumed his skin, his eyes, his hair – everything. It was a fitting end – the hundredth of its kind in a few short minutes.
So this, in the end, was the payoff.
He was to burn after all.