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⤷ .𖥔 ݁ ˖ ┆𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙀𝙍 [ 012 ] ᯓ

𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐇 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐓 𝐀𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐘'𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐇, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐕𝐘'𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔, 𝐄𝐃, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐔𝐒.

"Brother, [y/n]!" you heard Al's high pitched voice exclaimed and the sound of his hollow body rushing over.

Looking up you watched as he pushed the green tendril skin off of you and Ed. "Al? You're back in your armor." Ed rasped out. "So that means."

Glancing off to the side. Holding up both your fists the bump lightly with Ed's and Lings. "We're back in the real world." You sighed out.

"Guess so." Ling added.

Al quickly yanked Ed from Envy, crushing him against his armor body. "Brother! I'm so happy you're alive!" Turning to you he pulled you in as well.

"[y/n]! You're safe too!" your bodies squishing together as Ed shouts his complaints.

While Ling glances around, Al sets you both back onto the ground, collapsing to his hands and knees, xiao-mei sitting beside him.

"I'm sorry, but I thought.. I thought you were dead." His armored body quivering.

Sharing a glance you both smiled down at him. "But we're okay Al. We're sorry. We're sorry we worried you." Placing your hands onto his helmet.

Looking down at the unusually tiny panda you watch as she squeals and a shiver runs up her spine and jumping behind a pipe.

Standing up you examine the place. "Where exactly did we end up thought?"

"This is somewhat surprising." A deep voice commented. Tensing up you both jump back, turning to face the direction the voice came from.

"People emerging from his stomach." A man very similar to the brothers father emerged from the shadows, his hair a very light blonde and his skin bordering pure white.

"What the? Hohenheim?" Ed questioned, taking in the man's appearance. "Steel appendages, and an armored body, hmm?"

Taking a step closer he stared intensely at the shorter brother. Stumbling back Ed bumped into your chest. "Are you two the Elric brothers?" the man interrogated.

"So you're, you're not-"

"Have you mistaken me for someone else?" A hand placed on his chin. "Well, hold on." Pulling back to think.

"Ho - hen-" He tried to sound out before whipping back and pointing at Ed.

"The name you said, by any chance do you mean Van Hohenheim? And how it is the two of you are acquainted with him?"

"Well, he's our father." Al answered.

Humming the man pulled back. Turning back to Ed to flinched when he suddenly grabbed his face.

"He's your father?! This is indeed surprising, I had no idea he had children." Letting out heart laughter, patting the short blonde's head.

You and Al sweat dropped all the while Ed irked in annoyance. "Huh? If you are indeed his prodigy, why is it your family name is Elric?" Groping around Ed's shoulder.

Growling he swatted the man's hands away. "Elric is our mothers last name!"

"Oh, is that so? So where has he been spending his time?"

"Who cares?!"

His cold eyes drift towards you making you freeze under his gaze. "You're the Navigator of the Straw-hat pirates, correct?"

"Yes?" Confused by his observation. "Interesting. Glad to have you here in Amestris, perfect timing actually." His words made you raise a brow.

"Enough, forget that, who're you?! Why do you look exactly like Hohenheim?!" Pointing at the man.

As the man began to ramble about their dad Ed began to yell at him. "Brother this guys the one who-" Al began, accidentally grabbing onto his splinted arm.

"No, Al!" You protested trying to pull his hand away as his brother shouted in pain.

Letting go, Ed held his arm.

"It would appear that you're injured and you're missing your left hand, aren't you?"

Walking forward a familiar red light shined around Als missing hand, lightning forming a new.

Al gasped in shock. "There how is that for you?"

Ed's eyes widened before the man roughly grabbed his arm. "Your arms broken." Grabbing hold with both hands the same light zapped around his arm.

Snatching his arm back he ripped off the homemade splint and let it clatter to the ground.

Clenching his hand into a fist no pain shot through his arm. "My arm, it's not broken anymore."

Grabbing hold of him the man began patting him down. "Hey, ow!" Complaining when he touched his ribs.

"Two broken ribs as well." With the same zap his ribs were fixed.

The two shockingly examined their now fixed limbs. "Your turn."

"Oh no im fine-" Wincing once his hand touched your ribs and stomach. "A broken rib and some internal bleeding."

"What?!" You exclaimed as the lightning blazed around you.

Once done you pressed against your ribs and stomach, no pain being felt.

"I consider the three of you to be vital resources, you must remain alive and healthy." He admitted.

Huddling together you all whispered. "I thought he only wanted the two of you, why now me?"

"Maybe because you went through the portal to get out of gluttony?" Ed shrugged. "Would that make Ling someone of interest?"

"I'm not sure."

Confusion racked through your brain but decided if they weren't gonna kill you then you'd accept it, for now.

"Either way this isn't right. He performed a transmutation circle without any movement at all." Ed pointed out. "And he didn't even thin out my armor." Al added.

"There isn't any equivalent exchange." They proclaimed in union.

"You aren't human, what are you, what the hell's inside you?" Ling exclaimed in question, holding his sword out. "I would ask who you are, but I honestly don't care. You can go ahead and eat him."

Turning to walk away.

"Okay!" Gluttony cheered, throwing his arms up in joy. "What? No hold on!" You three exclaimed, running over to Ling.

"Don't these guys our friend, you wanna keep us happy right? Then don't kill him, please!" Ed pleaded.

"But I have no need for him. Your friendship doesn't make him any less useless to me." He claimed.

"What did you say?" Anger hiding in his tone.

Al turned to the two of you. "[y/n], brother. The homunculi keep calling this guy their Father. I think he's the one who created them."

"What?" You seethed out. "He did heal our wounds thought." The armor said, looking on the bright side.

"He didn't heal mine." Ling spoke up, walking in front of the three of you. "I don't like him. I can tell he looks down on humans and calls us fools."

Father turned around, facing you all. "When you see an insect on the ground do you stop to consider it a fool?" He quired.

"The life of an insect is to benether you that it would be a waste of your time to even consider judging it. That would be an accurate summation on my feelings towards you humans."

Ed quickly send a line of rocks towards Father, only for it to turn into a straight wall before reaching him.

"Look you might've healed our wounds but that does not mean we're friends. It's pretty apparent that you're the root of all this evil!"

Pointing accusingly at the man. "I'm taking you down. I don't care how many cronies you got!"

"And who are you calling a crony, Pipsqueak?" Envy spoke up.

"Pipsqueak?!" Angrily clapping his hands together, sending multiple pipes from the ground to fly towards the homunculi and their creator.

They wrapped themselves around the pale man. "Got you now boss man!" They snapped from around his body, debris soaring through the air.

Envy comes running over, trying to stomp onto you and Ed.

Running up his arm and leaping over his chomping mouth you both yelled out to Al, who shot a stream of stone towards father who blocked it with a wall.

Through the dust of the impact Ling jumped through, sword ready to slice at Father.

With a single movement from the tall pale man a column shot up from the ground, colliding with his stomach.

"Ling!" Al called out as the long haired teen came skidding beside him. "What's going on here?"

"Mirage tempo!" Multiple full body apparitions of you began to appear, clima-tacts in hand.

All of them swing their staffs, dark clouds and thunderbolts striking down at father before being blasted away.

Flying back you flipped across the ground, your mirages all gusted away all the while Father was left unharmed, a concreted dome phasing back into the ground from around him.

Groaning you and Ed got up, glaring at Father. "How does he do that?" You huffed, sitting up on your knees.

"It's like he can transmute just by thinking about it!" The blonde grunted.

Father lowered his hand and sighed. "This is a waste of time." Taking a step forward a red hue took over the room.

Strongs winds causing hair to fly along with dust and debris.

Subsiding the brothers gasped, the alchemy they previously attempted to do stopped.

Clapping their together they try again, only for nothing to happen.

Trying to send out a cool ball nothing came from the staff. "What?"

"What's going on, I can't transmute." The brother said in union as Envy held the three of you to the ground.

"Ed." Ling called out weakly getting up.

"[y/n], Al." Going to rush forward Gluttony grabbing him by his coat, flipping his over his head making his blade go flying up in the air.

Catching it in his teeth Gluttony began to eat the weapon, pinning Ling to the ground.

"What the hell did he do to us?" Ed grunted. "I don't know. Why can't we use our alchemy?" Panic in his tone as he looked at his shaky hands.

"I don't understand how he affected my clima-tact, alchemy has nothing to do with it!"

"That's where you're wrong, pirate." Father spoke, making you stare up at him confused.

"Anything that gives someone any form of ability has something to do with Alchemy, just like your captain's precious devil fruit powers."

Your eyes narrow. "Well if you have anything to do with them, no wonder they're called devil fruits." Muttering to yourself, rolling your eyes.

Envy cackles looking down at the three of you.

"You lower life forms never cease to amuse me. You get a speck of power and think you own the world. And you don't even know what that power is. And then you have the arrogance to assume that you're the one who's in control of this power."

Ed glances off to the side, spotting a sharp piece of pipe sticking up out of the ground from a previous attack, but the tip breaks off.

"You're like a bad joke that keeps getting dumber."

"What are you bastards planning? You promised to tell me everything if I got you out!" He shouted in reminded to the smirking homunculus.

"Huh? Why I would never stoop so low as to make a deal with a worm like you." Turning away. "Liar!"

"You talk far too much Envy." Father commented. "Oh, sorry."

Father glares down at Ling. "You may prove to be useful to me after all." He claimed.

"I could always use a new pawn in the rotation." Holding a finger in front of his wrinkled forehead, a red eye opening in the middle.

Shiny red liquid, dripping from it like tears.

"It that a philosopher's stone?" Al questioned. "A what?" ling gritted under his breath.

"You're really gonna do that?" Envy inquired. "Do what?"

The big creature side eyed you and Ed. "He's gonna make a new homunculus.

The four of you gasped. "The stone is added into the bloodstream if it is able to merge then a human base homunculus is created." He explained.

The blob of stone dropped from the eye on fathers forehead, landing in a perfect nonpartable drop, its consistency like mercury.

Gluttony ripped the sticky bandage off of Lings cheek revealing the still bleeding cut on his cheek.

"But it's more common for the stone to over power the subject and kill them."

"We're not gonna let you do this to him." Attempting to squirm out from under the homunculi's grasp. "What is this? What's going on? Why the hell are we unable to transmute?!"

Slapping their palms against the ground. "You bearded bastard let him go! He's got people waiting for him to come back, get off of me!"

Realization struck through his eyes as he reached into the waistband of his pants, pulling out the gun Riza had given to him.

It's steel build stained with blood from Gluttony's stomach portal.

Pointing it back at Envy's arm only to be met with the protruding human souls that formed on his skin.

The one presented in front of the gun cowering back in tears. "Can you really shoot such a sad face? Can you, boy?" The green homunculus teased.

"Damn you."

"Don't shoot Ed." Ling's voice suddenly called out. "This is exactly what I want, so you just stay out of it." pointing at the blonde.

"Are you serious?"

"I came to your land to find a philosopher's stone and now this guy wants to give me one, I'm not gonna turn this down."

"Think about what you're doing!" You cried out.

Father stared down at Ling, no emotion ever grazing his face. "Oh, well this is new. But we'll see if your body is as willing as your mind."

Letting the liquid stone drop from his palm and onto the boy's cut. "No don't!"

It seeped into his bloodstream, expanding his veins, sending shock waves through his body, that familiar red alchemy lightning clapping around him and Gluttony.

His screams echo throughout the room, bones seeming to break and heal repeatedly.

"Ling!"

"I told you to keep out of this!" Gluttony backed away, watching the prince's body composed and decomposed so fast it was unseeable.

"Don't you dare interfere!"

You all watched with worried expression. Lifting his head he was able to face the three of you with a smirk on his lips.

"Stay back. I got this and I know what I'm doing." Curling in on himself for a second. "They're dealing with the future leader of Xing, Ling Yao."

A shock ran through his body, back arching up as he threw up blood.

His loud screams echoed more than before as he went up on his knees, a final strike of lightning going into his chest.

Twitching he leaned forward, holding the back of his neck.

"Ling?" Ed called softly.

Looking over he seemingly raised a brow. "What?"

Your eyes widened. His voice no longer has its higher octave nor did it have his normal Xingese accent.

It was a deeper tone more manish compared to the teen boy he biologically was.

"Oh, you mean the guy I took this body from?" A malicious grin tugging at his lips, eyes more opened and replaced for their normal black with a pinkish red.

"Sorry, but your friend just checked out and left Greed this body."

The bandage wrap that was tied around his hand unraveling revealing an ouroboros tattoo on the back of his hand.

"So, you're not Ling?!" Al gasped. "Did he say Greed?" You questioned as he began to walk over.

"So are you the Greed from before?" Ed interrogated.

Crouching down, Greed looked at him questioningly. "Huh? What are you talking about?"

The brothers glanced at each other. "You don't remember us?"

"From dublith."

"Oh, you must've met a different Greed." pointing at the suit of armor. "He was my avarice before you." Father confirmed.

"Oh, I gotcha. That makes sense, but if you wanna hear it from me, no i'm not the Greed you know, if I was I would've remembered someone as lovely as you."

Using his thumb to tilt your chin up. Pulling away you glared up at him. "That'll be 50 Cens."

Greed pulled back with a smirk. "Greedy aren't you." Adjusting his neck as he let out a cackle. "See what I did there?"

Rolling your eyes you falsely batted your lashes. "How charming."

Even though you could easily seduce a man who was literally the embodiment of Greed, he was in a friend's body, and that made shivers run down your spine.

"But, Ling."

"Well he was an interesting kid, he gave up his body without any fight at all." Greed claimed, standing up.

Ed gasped and glared at the man(?). "You're lying! Lingwould never give up and surrender himself so easily. Answer me Ling. Ling! Ling!"

He continued to cry out drawing a few chuckles from Greed.

Doors to the room suddenly opened, a chimera slowly making its way inside.

Groaning he began to fall to the side before combusting into a downpour of blood.

Behind it stood Scar and a short girl dressed in light and dark-colored, eastern-style clothing, similar to the Xingese traditional royal attire.

A light-purple bag around her left shoulder and right waist.

Her hair was braided forming two buns in the sides of her head before coming down into six braids.

Heaving out she grabbed onto Scars coat. "What's the matter?"

"That feeling, it's coming from that man, he's a human but also not." She whimpered.

Scar stepped forward. "No he's not, it doesn't look like any of them are human."

Xiao-Mei comes running from her hiding place and leaps into the little girls arms.

"Xiao-Mei! Thank goodness you're okay, I've been so worried about you." Grateful tears pricking at the corners of her eyes.

Greed's slow applause echoed through the room. "Ho! Now that is a touch reunion right there."

Looking over your shoulders you and the brothers once again tried to push out from under Envy's hands.

"And they've also got Fullmetal." Snapping Mei out of her own world.

"Where is he? Where is mister Edward?"

"He's right there." pointing out where you and Ed were trapped.

Mei stepped forward eagerly, glancing around before turning back to Scar. "He's not really here is he."

"I told you here right there, that little guy is the Fullmetal alchemist." Squinting her eyes she adjusted her sight.

The image she imagined he would look like in her head falling to shame as she took in his actual stature.

You both glanced at each other in confusion as she gasped in horror. "How dare you toy with the feelings of a maiden you human micro!" She sobbed.

"What'd you call me micro girl?!"

"Brother! Did you do something to this little girl?" Al scolded as Gluttony spoke to Father about Scar.

"Of course not. And this really isn't the time for that!" He irked. "Oh right, good point."

"We need to try to get out of here." You gritted, annoyed with their bickering.

"Go ahead and eat him, he doesn't have his alchemy to stop you right now." Envy said, encouraging Gluttony.

Cheering the fat homunculus leaped towards Scar, mouth open and arms out.

Grunting her slammed his hand onto the monster's stomach, blue alchemy sparks blowing him apart.

"What?!" Envy shouted as fathers eyes widened slightly. "You'll pay for this!" Mei proclaimed pointing at Ed.

"You deceived an innocent girl and you kidnapped Xiao-Mei!" Tossing out her red tasseled knives into a nearby rock, shocking Envy.

"You will suffer for what you've done! All of you." Placing her hands onto the pentagram by her feet.

A rock fist punching up from