Not my first fanfiction, honest to gods. Well as honest as an atheist can be. Anyway, I finally found a fanfiction I think is good enough to be on here. I guess. Yeah, and go ahead and flame to. I honestly don't care about your remarks about how a character wouldn't act like that, or how that didn't happen in the manga or anime. I probably already know that. But if you can read, you'd know that this is based on an ALTERNATE continuation of a part of the manga. You'll easily be able to tell. Now on with the important stuff.
Disclaimer - I don't own FMA, you'd be seeing this instead of reading it as fanfiction.
Warnings - Firstly people who need warnings all their own, Mr. Muscle- I mean Armstrong, the anime's Wrath, Envy, and for the sake of sanity we'll throw Roy and Kimbley in there for good measures. Now to the more pressing warnings. This is most likely going to turn into shounen ai, if you hate it I don't really care. It will get much more violent as it goes on, and as I consume more sugar on lack of sleep. Swearing, some mild, some not. Envy. Unauthorized use of my many cousins' insane phrases or completely logical arguments. Wrath. And that's about it of my long and yet very short list.
On with the fic, and don't send the vampires after me. You wouldn't see them ever again if you did.
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Death of a Believer
A Fullmetal Alchemist Fanfiction based on an alternate continuation of chapter 76
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Death Reveals Truth
"Even the monkey must fall from the tree," - Chasing Redbird
Enjoy.
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He hadn't predicted a second philosopher's stone, so that was his downfall. The great Fullmetal Alchemist – outsmarted by a mad bomber, and his regurgitation abilities in hiding another one of those cursed stones. As well as rubble that conveniently killed his only escape route – the chimera that had been working under the mad bomber. Now there was no way he was going to survive this wound - beam through his gut, what a perfect way to die for someone as pathetic as himself. Honestly, he had done no good throughout this whole experience. He couldn't defeat the sins, he even had to bargain with them at one point! No, he couldn't save Al, or even poor Nina from her father. Pathetic, all the humans around him seemed to be dragged into a mud pile of death.(1) Frankly he supposed it would be better for Al this way, upon his death Al's body would probably return to his soul, and Al would be human again. Really.
In this moment at which his life was in terrible danger, and his death was only being slowed by the fact that the beam prevented excess blood flow, he had a lot of time to doubt. In all his stupidity, and rather "righteous" acts he never fully believed the Gate, or Truth, whatever the thing wanted to be called, actually only stole an arm and a leg. The Truth obviously knew about prosthetic limbs, and things such as automail, so why not take something more irreplaceable? Wait... irreplaceable... Arms and legs can be returned with proper alchemy skills... So that meant the Truth took something that he couldn't replace not matter what? But what...? Wait-! Something humans treasured much more than family or limbs... Humanity! The Truth took his humanity! "Ha... Take that Truth! I figured it out... I guess..." he managed to gasp in victory, already blacking out to the world.
The last thing he knew before blacking out was the beam being torn from his body, along with the smell of burning flesh. "God! What am I going to do with this! I wish Mama (A/N – You know who this is now right!? Please tell me you do, otherwise I'm afraid you need to go educate yourself with the anime. ) could be here to tell me!" followed by a small snicker, and the feeling of being lifted into someone's arms. Then it all when blank.
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"Envy, you are destroying the place," informed the rather emotionless homunculus, Pride. And gods, Envy loathed this Pride with every fiber of his being. The cheap imitation of the real Pride!
"I'll destroy what I want to destroy, kid!" hissed the infuriated sin, and it was never good to see an angry Envy. When he got angry you could be sure a city could be destroyed if he wasn't so good at controlling himself from not killing when he couldn't kill something. Yet.
"Father will be displeased," Pride informed coldly, slightly angered by the 'kid' comment.
"Just shut it, you Pride of one creature," Envy hissed coldly, violet eyes slitted dangerously. He was welcoming any threat this fake Pride would pull, fakes could never match up to the real thing.
"..." Pride had no answer to that one – he had simply decided not to delve into the 400-year-old sin's past since his time of creation by Father, however he was able to deduct that Envy hadn't been made by Father, but someone else. Well, Envy's problems were Envy's problems. And Envy had a lot of problems.
"Bad news, Pride, Envy," that Li- new 'Greed' started to say, "Or good news, depending on who you are..." Greed gave his best impression of a shark grin, which was eerily similar to an actual shark.
"Get on with it you shark-toothed bastard!" hissed Envy, his patience already starting to run thin.
Greed gave Envy a flat look before continuing, not really wanting to lose a life, "Alright-y then, seems that the mad bomber is a bit too mad, and nearly, I repeat NEARLY, killed the Fullmetal Alchemist. According to Father, someone came and picked the kid up, and healed his wounds. A non-human someone, may I add, o' high-and-mighty Envy?"
Envy's lips twitched at this, Greed was going to pay- Wait a non-human someone? It couldn't be... Maybe the real Wrath, not that fake King, had decided to become a part of the games. That would make this a lot more interesting, and it seemed the real Wrath knew something about chibi-chan that he, 'Father', nor any of the other sins knew. This was when the psychotic grin appeared, and Greed took a few steps back. Envy's smile scared the shit out of him.
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"Nyah! Nyah! The window glitters at the shooting star, o' the sign of wishes, can you see the Cheshire cat in them? Nyah! Nyah!" a childish voice cried out in a sing-song voice as a shooting star blazed through the sky in a few seconds moments of glory, "That means Ed will get better! Lucky, but it wasn't as though it wasn't guaranteed that Ed wouldn't survive, it was just that the stars made it more meaningful. At least in the permanently thirteen-year-old mind of the real Wrath.
Now it was time to fetch some uncompleted stones, after all Ed's new self, or rather the real Pride's awakening needed something to awaken those memories bit by bit, and make sure his body remained substantial. After all, it wasn't everyday that a true sin comes to be reawakened in the exact same form it had before, was it? Nope! "Wow! I bet even Envy would be surprised! Nyah!" he declared cheerfully, before dashing off to fetch the incomplete stones. Or rather, some candy.
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(1) "Mud pile of death" belongs to cousin #2 - Shane. We were fighting, hand-to-hand PAINFUL combat, in the backyard after it rained and we ended up having mud in unthinkable places that shouldn't even be places. Dig your way out of 30lbs of sopping mud!
O-kay then, good bad? Tell me it was decent at the least. It's been in my computer, since when? -thinks- A long time.
R & R will make more chapters appear. And request for Wrath to do something, I can make the hyper homunculus do it for you.