Hohenheim's Mistake 12

Dante struck Envy again "Incorrect! Do it again! Properly!" She yelled at the fearful green haired teen. "When I said look like me, I meant look like me in every visible aspect! Exactly! Now, get it right this time or, you'll be punished again" she said striking him again, leaving claw marks with her nails.

He shivered then transformed into a fearful looking version of her, to the normal person looking exactly like her but clearly to the woman, he hadn't done enough. She began to walk around him, pointing out every small detail that he had gotten wrong. The stitching wasn't even all the way, some of the decorations on the dress weren't as grand and she didn't like his expression. He was hit again as he transformed back.

Dante stormed away from him and locked the door to the room he resided in. She stomped down the stairs and called for Pride. "I have an errand for you" she told him as he walked up to her and gave a slight bow. "I want you to get the best alchemists together, into the military, under your control "she said.

It had been four years since Dante had reobtained Envy and threatened Hohenheim's family. She had gone back in secret, to make her former husband to fix what he had done to her best experiment. When she had arrived however, he hadn't been there. She had waited a few days to see if he would show up but, he never did. So, she repeated the action she had done so long ago. She poisoned Trisha with mercury, hoping that word of her sickness would make Hohenheim come back, trying to save her. He never did. Trisha had died. Dante had left the boys a note with saying that their mother's death was all their father's fault.

Dante about died laughing when she found the homunculus of Trisha a year later. She had taken it in and fed it red stones. She had named her Sloth and had worked under Wrath for now. Sloth could make an excellent spy, when she needed her. Dante would prefer that she had her shapeshifter up and order but, it was not working out that way.

Once Envy had woken up at the manor, Dante instantly knew that something was wrong with him. He had stared at her blankly for a few minutes before whimpering and crying. Further tests and experiments revealed that Hohenheim had taken all bit of knowledge from him, about everything. She had to start from scratch and was not happy with it, especially when he seemed to think he was smart enough to try and run away. She was slowly making progress with him, soon he would be acceptable to send out and do tasks for her again.

All it took was another year before he was up to her standards following her orders. He had no rage to blind him, he thought more sensibly. He had captured Hohenheim's children for her without protest and without injury to them. Keeping the younger brother hostage, Dante forced Edward to go to an Ishvalan settlement that was quarantined by the military and create the philosopher stone for her. Edward, foolish as he was, had tried to fight her with the stones. All she had to do was have a blank faced Envy put his hand on Alphonse's blood seal, stopping him in his tracks. She had used the stone to heal her body and make it immortal. Once done, she forced Edward to allow her to transmute him with what was left of the stone, making him into a homunculus as well, like Wrath, whom she had found later on, having discovered him in the same town as Greed. Alphonse she gave a choice. Work for her and along side his 'brother' or die. He had chosen to stay along side Edward, following her orders.

Hohenheim had finally come back after all of this was done. He was in shock of what she had done and tried to kill her. She rewarded him by having all three of his sons fight him. She was surprised to see that Hohenheim had gotten much better at fighting, too much for her to be comfortable with, and didn't seem to be holding back. This clearly had Alphonse fighting much harder, once he saw that his father didn't care about his wellbeing. Edward and Envy didn't seem surprised, they had nothing to compare his fighting to. Like Hohenheim had done to Envy, Dante had taken Edward's memories.

Dante stepped in once Alphonse was shattered to pieces, his blood seal still intact on a small piece of metal. Envy was tossed to the side like a rag doll by a hand Hohenheim had transmuted out of the floor. Edward, being able to cancel some of his attacks, fared a little better. Once she stepped in, Dante began to bombard him with her own alchemy, which were much stronger than before. Soon, Hohenheim was being pushed back and they began to land hits on him.

Dante stood over Hohenheim and smirked "Look where we are now Hohenheim, after all these years, after all my successes and your failures. Look at where we stand. All your children under my control, a country led by one of my subjects and I, immortal. You are on the ground, at my feet, your body rotting and mine pristine" she said, leaning close to him. "What are you going to do about that?"

Hohenheim reached up and grabbed her by the head "I'm going to fix it, and free all those people in you" he said as her eyes widened and light flared.

Hohenheim stood in front of Truth, holding the stone in his hands. "I want to start over" he told him "I want to fix what I did, I want my family,I want Trisha, Edward, Alphonse and William back. I will give you this, the souls of thousands of people. Please do this." Hohenheim said, tears slowly leaking down his face.

Truth smirked "My, quite a hefty price and quite the hefty gift. Whatever shall I do? Should do?"

Thank you for reading and reviewing my story, please no flames. Helpful criticism is invited. I realize this didn't turn out to be the story some hoped it to be, with Hohenheim being more parental and Envy part of the family. I will try to make a proper one of that soon. Most of this was made on the fly.