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What Lurks Beneath	By : RotSeele Category: Fullmetal Alchemist > Yaoi - Male/Male > Roy/Ed Views: 1878 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-What Lurks Beneath
- 2-Two
- 3-Three
- 4-Four
- 5-Five
- 6-Six
- 7-Seven
- 8-Eight
- 9-Nine
- 10-Ten
- 11-Eleven
- 12-Twelve
- 13-Thirteen
- 14-Fourteen
- 15-Fifteen
- 16-Sixteen
- 17-Seventeen
- 18-Eighteen
- 19-Nineteen
- 20-Twenty
- 21-Epilogue
- 12
- 13
- 14
Thirteen
Edward leaned over the edge as carefully as he could, watching Envy navigate his way down the narrow ledge. The small steam had widened into an underground river and rushed down a sharp cliff, dropping into a wide pool below. Envy was navigating a safe path for Edward, considering if the homunculus slipped and plummeted down to the floor he’d survive. Ed, on the other hand, wouldn’t. Envy carefully moved down, handhold after handhold until he reached the floor and looked up at the young alchemist.
“Okay, pipsqueak!” Envy yelled up. “Follow me and be careful!”
“Stop calling me pipsqueak!” Edward yelled back. The young alchemist shivered as he settled down on the ledge.
Slowly he turned around, and sought out the first foothold. Slowly, ever so slowly, Edward made his way down the side of the ledge, always looking for the next handhold or foothold before moving on down. He could almost feel Envy’s glare boring into his back, commanding him to hurry up. Edward grit his teeth and sought out the next hold and the next, little more than halfway down now.
Ed shifted his weight to take hold of the next handhold and moved his right leg for the next foothold. He heard the echoes of Envy’s grumbling and rolled his eyes at the homunculus’ griping. Ed kept going down, suddenly grateful for the ability to use alchemy. Only alchemy wouldn’t help him here, considering the rock was to slick and fragile. If he wasn’t careful, he could break the entire rock face and sent it raining down on them. Then it wouldn’t matter if they were found or not. They’d be unrecognizable pancakes.
That is, if they were ever found.
Edward made a face, not wanting to think about that possibility. He’d had enough of near-death experiences. He’d faced death with Barry the Chopper, Scar (who, in Ed’s opinion, was the worst), and a few others, so he really didn’t want to go through any more. He was probably going to die young, like all these near-death experiences shaved years of his life.
Ed frowned, focusing on the next hand- and foothold as he came down.
“Any day now, pipsqueak!” Envy called up, hands on his hips in irritation. “I can feel myself getting older!”
“You don’t age, dumbass.” Ed whispered to the rock in front of his face. But he tried to increase his speed of descent, skipping footholds if he could reach them.
His slow and careful progress became a little more dangerous when he reached the rock slicked by the cave water. The hand- and footholds became a little more common, but also more dangerous since they were so slippery. Edward grimaced and stretched his left leg down for the next foothold. The rock under his right hand crumbled a little.
Ed’s eyes went wide. “Please, no. No, no, no. God, if you’re real, please don’t let me fall!”
The rock crumbled a little more.
“What’s the matter, pipsqueak?” Envy called. “Need a change of panties?”
“Shut UP Envy!” Ed screamed. He reached for another handhold and managed to swing down enough before the previous hold crumbled to dust.
Ed huddled close to the slick rock, heart pounding rapidly in his chest. Not even Izumi was this frightening! Ed closed his eyes and took a deep breath to calm himself, beginning to descend again. He was a hundred feet from the floor, then ninety. The water spray was making it harder to grip the rock but Edward forced his thoughts away from that. He though about Winry, how she was going to kill him for ruining his automail yet again. It wasn’t his fault this time, he could protest. He got shot, after all. Winry probably wouldn’t brain him with her wrench after that.
Stop. Don’t think about brains or anything involving them.
Ed moved down another few feet. He thought about Alphonse. Was he okay? Did he make it back to Eastern? Was Roy out there in Cantos, working to get him out? Did Alphonse tell that stupid Colonel how Ed felt about him?
“I don’t have all day, pipsqueak!”
“Goddammit, Envy! Do you want me to die?!” Ed screamed down at the elder, his head turning to glower at the homunculus.
Envy grinned up at him and waggled his fingers at the younger alchemist. Ed cursed at him and turned his attention back to his handholds, trying to come down as carefully as he could.
Sixty feet. Then fifty.
Envy glowered at the boy still making his way down and rolled his eyes, moving away for just a few minutes to look for a way out of the new cavern. He only moved a few feet away, where he spotted a hole in the wall that the water rushed through when he heard a rumble and a yelp. The homunculus whirled and watched a few chunks of the cliff crash into the pool below. Envy rolled his eyes and moved back to the cliff, hands on his hips.
“Very funny, pipsqueak.” Envy called up. “Come on. Quit playing around.”
Dark eyes looked up at the empty cliff. “Ed?” Envy looked toward the rippling water and his heart dropped into his stomach, the organ sizzling in acid. “Edward! Shit! Ed!”
The boy didn’t surface. The ripples from the stone finally evened out, then stopped altogether, except for the water kicked up by the waterfall. Envy spat a string of curses that would make Greed blush and moved for the water. He searched the surface for any reflection of the Fullmetal pipsqueak might give, but he didn’t even know how deep the pool was.
Then Envy snarled as he remembered the brat’s automail limbs.
Ed could swim, but all he’d do was sink because of those damned metal limbs! Envy snarled again and dove into the water, torn between glee that the pipsqueak might get crushed by the rocks and panic that he’d be all alone down here. Envy kept doing down, down, down, and finally saw a trail of bubbles that didn’t belong to any rock sinking into the dark depths.
Edward was struggling, fighting against his own limbs to get to the surface. Envy angled his body down toward the younger boy and reached for him. Ed either saw him or had begun to hallucinate because he reached up too, those gold eyes horribly resigned to drowning.
Envy grabbed onto Edward’s automail right hand and pulled the boy close. Ed’s mouth opened; a stream of bubbles escaped as air burst out of Edward’s lungs and water rushed in. Envy’s face made a nasty grimace and he kicked upwards, arms wrapped around the boy’s chest. Envy’s head broke the surface and he gasped for air, snarling and spitting curses as he dragged the limp form of Edward Elric toward the edge of the pool.
Envy submerged himself again to shove Ed up onto the stone. It took him three tries and two retrievals to get the blonde onto the rock floor before Envy could get out and haul the rest of Ed out of the water. He pulled the wet mass of green-black hair out of his eyes and stared at Ed.
“Pipsqueak, you’re a pain in the ass!” Ency howled and curled his hand into a fist. Then he pounded on the boy’s chest. Ed remained still. Envy pounded harder and he heard something snap in the boy’s chest. “Wake up! Wake up, dammit!”
Ed’s eyes remained half-open and cloudy, his heart thumping slower and slower in his chest. Water dribbled out of his mouth, along with a little bit of foam. Envy stared down at his little brother, eyes going steadily wider as he realized Ed was still drowning, slowly suffocating to death. This wasn’t like before where Ed had just stopped breathing. There was water in his lungs, preventing air from getting to where it needed to be. Pounding on the brat’s chest would only break bones and Ed was running out of time.
Envy grimaced and stretched Ed out, tilting his head back and opening his mouth. The homunculus stared at his little brother and grimaced. He closed Ed’s eyes so the boy couldn’t watch him and he pinched Ed’s nose.
“I can’t believe I’m doing this.” Envy groaned and pressed his mouth to Ed’s.
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