SCARLETT
"Wusses." she hissed.
They'd removed the wounded Mustang and Lan Fan along with Hawkeye and Doctor Nox from harm's way. Then she and the boys had gone back into the forest to tackle the challenge of Gluttony. All of them were trembling except her.
"Well, he doesn't look to happy..." Al murmured.
"Wusses."
Danger!
Ling whipped around. She followed his gaze. A dog stood there. She removed her glasses.
Not really a dog! That's...
"Homunculus." she growled.
"Stop this, Gluttony! Now!" the dog ordered.
Her eyes widened.
That voice!
"A talking dog?" Ed asked.
"Were you listening, ninny?" she snarled.
"Hey, pip-squeak. Long time no see." the dog snickered, turning into a human.
No two doubts about it... That's...
"You!" she screamed, flying at the Homunculus.
Larger than his current size lets on. Shape-shifter that relies on that ability to survive. Also rather confused as to...
He didn't remember! How arrogant!
"Excuse me, but who the hell are you?"
"How arrogant... You don't remember the little girl you thwocked upside the head and took to Lab Five?" she growled. "I know you're that soldier... I could never... never... never... ever... forget that voice..."
"Oh, it's you! I must say, you've certainly matured over the years! Nice to see you, how's it going?"
"A lot better now that I can cut you into pieces to my heart's desire..." she hissed, every blade in her body shredding her skin in order to free themselves. "So... Shall we begin, bastard?"
EDWARD
Scarlett certainly was mad. She wasn't listening to them. She was lunging again and again at Envy, catching him almost all the time, cutting him and neatly loping his limbs off.
"Scarlett!"
"Lemme go! Lemme go lemme go lemme go!" Scarlett roared, trying to fight Al off as Envy ran off.
Finally, his younger brother released the upset Ishvalan. Upon her release, she turned and punched Al hard in the breast-plate, leaving a large dent. "Why the hell did you hold me back?"
"We can't have you killing something we need!" Al shouted back.
"Whatever, he said he's here for Gluttony. So if we find that freak, we find Envy." Ling said coolly.
"Envy is mine! He's a bloody bastard that I wanna cut up to pieces so small none of them can regenerate! He deserves to burn in Hell!" Scarlett screamed angrily.
They wound up in front of the Homunculi after a minute of searching. Al had slight trouble holding Scarlett back; She managed to drag herself three steps forward. But when Envy ordered Gluttony to eat Ling, she stopped for a moment.
"So... they really aren't allowed to hurt us..." he smirked. He put his hands together and made a wall separating Ling and Gluttony. "Scarlett, Ling! You take care of this one, we got Gluttony!"
The second Al released Scarlett, she was out of there. She was just a blur as her tattoos were activated and she zipped up to Envy.
SCARLETT
"You're dead! You hear, dead!" she yelled, cleanly slicing into his midriff.
"Hey, don't hog all the fun and glory!" Ling laughed, cutting into Envy's back as the Homunculus backed away from her.
"Gladly... When he's taking his last breath, you get to cut off his head. But other than that, he's mine! Mine!" she roared.
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
Count on it!
"You're dead, bastard! You can't run away, and you can't hide! There's no one you can impersonate to sway me! You're defenseless against me!"
Envy fell to his knees, and Ling pointed his sword at the downed thing. "Are you ready to give up and come quietly?" the prince asked.
"Give up? I'm just getting started you miser-"
His speech was cut off as she dug an arm-blade into his neck. "Shut up, beast." she growled. "If you don't come quietly..."
Envy howled in pain as she slowly pulled the blade out, slightly sawing back and forth. "If you don't come quietly, I get to cut you up until you stop regrowing missing parts."
At that moment, Ed and Al crashed through the wall Ed had put up. Ling turned to finish things with Envy, but the cheater...
Strike!
She cut into 'Lan Fan's' neck as the monster yelled to Gluttony.
"Ling!" they all yelled.
She and Ed both grabbed the prince. Ripping him away from Ed, she almost managed to throw the prince out of harm's way...
But then it was all dark, and she was spiraling through darkness...
EDWARD
Groaning, he sat up, putting a hand to his face. "Wha-?" he started, jerking it away. "Blood?"
"Hey... Where am I?" he realized, standing shakily on his feet.
A red sea...
A sea of blood!
"Hey! Where am I? Al? Ling! Scarlett! Where the hell am I?" he yelled.
ALPHONSE
He tackled the Homunculus. "What, no... You! Spit them out! Spit them out, now!" he cried.
"I can't... I swallowed them..." Gluttony said sadly.
"No... No, that can't be... Brother!"
SCARLETT
She managed to land... semi-perfectly. Landing on her knees, then almost doing a face-plant in the sea of blood wasn't what she'd call perfect.
Sighing, she stood up and looked around. "So, this is what the inside of Gluttony's belly is like? Very spacious. No wonder he's always hungry."
Ed and Ling...
"Yeah, I'd better find the dolts before they wind up beating each other senseless."
Hearing yells, she turned and started walking.
"Stupid! Of all the things to call an emperor!"
That was Ling.
"Ling you're okay...! Wait, how do I know you're not Envy in disguise?"
That was Ed.
"Oh, for crying out- Do you want me to recite the room-service bill from top to bottom?"
"Alright. You're Ling."
"And what about you, how do I know you're not Envy, you little runt?"
"Who're you calling a runt you jerk!"
"Alright. It's you. But what about Scarlett? I know she was with us."
"You're both idiots! You for not striking Envy, and you for jumping in the way and delaying me saving the prince here! It coulda been just me swallowed, ninnies!" she yelled.
"Great, how do we know you're not Envy?" Ling asked.
"One knuckle-sandwich in the kitchen and coming up, sir." she said politely.
"Yeah, that's her. Only she says that." Ed sighed.
"But seriously, I'm gonna clock the both of you the second we get outta here... If we get outta here. As far as I can see, this place is... Infinite."
"Wait, what's that?"
Ed rushed over onto a piece of broken roof, picking something up. "Al's hand? What's that doing here?" she asked.
"He must not have gotten swallowed... Poor guy, he must be worried sick... If only there was some way to contact him..." Ed looked thoughtfully at the metal gauntlet.
Next thing she and Ling knew, Ed had put the glove on his head and was swaying around screaming about telepathy. "You enjoy yourself." the two said, turning and walking the other way.
ALPHONSE
He sat, dejectedly, in the middle of the field. The tiny panda looked up at him. Noticing Gluttony, she scurried around to the other side.
Gluttony took a few steps towards him. "What... What should I do?" he asked sadly.
"I don't know." he answered dully.
"What should I do? I don't want Father to be mad at me."
Wait... What?
"You... have a father?"
"Mm-hmm."
He reached out and felt Gluttony's stomach where the gaping hole had been.
"Think! Brother may still be alive! Come on, think, think! We made a promise!"
"Gluttony! Will you take me? Will you take me to see your father?" he asked, standing up.
"Mm... I guess so!"
"Huh?"
"He'll be happy to see you, considering you're a human sacrifice!"
"Oh, yeah, that's why he'll be glad to see me!"
"And I guess I'll finally get to find out what that means..."
SCARLETT
"I told you, there's no real way out!" she said furiously as Ed trans-muted a pipe out of the blood.
"Okay, now drop the torch." he said, ignoring her.
"Oh, I see." Ling said, dropping one of the two torches he held.
Sighing, she rolled her eyes.
"We should have heard it hit the bottom by now, right?" Ed said almost sadly.
The two started running in a random direction, and she sprinted to keep up with them. "I told you there's no way out!" she yelled. But again, they ignored her.
"A wall! There has to be a wall!" Ling cried desperately.
"That's right! No matter what direction we go in, there has to be a wall! There has to be!" Ed wailed.
"Idiots!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.