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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
- 5
- 6
- 7
Six
He hurt. That was the first thing he noticed that told him he was alive. The second thing he noticed was that it was dark and dusty. The last thing he noticed was that it was far too quiet. Edward wiggled his fingers - all ten there, including the automail - and he wiggled his toes - all there too - and then tried to move his arms and legs. Finally, he sat up. He couldn’t feel any broken bones, but he felt cuts and bruises. There was dry blood on his face. He guessed he must’ve been out for several hours. He drew up his left leg and pulled up his pants leg to feel the automail. There wasn’t a hole, but a dent. He shivered. Winy was going to murder him.
Edward climbed to his feet and set his hands on the boulders blocking the entrance. He couldn’t hear anything, no shouts or tools, nothing. Had Alphonse escaped? Was Al okay? Was he already on his way to Eastern HQ to get Roy?
Ed stepped back and clapped his hands. Then he pressed his hands to the rocks and bade them to become pillars and supports. He grinned as the alchemical light engulfed the material and watched as the rock began to shift and mold itself to his specifications.
The ceiling rumbled and Ed leaped back deeper into the mine as the ceiling caved in where he’d been standing. His eyes went wide at the sight of the shifting debris and came to the sickening conclusion that he wouldn’t be able to use alchemy down here without killing himself.
“Shit.” Ed breathed. “Now what do I do?”
“First, don’t panic. Second, don’t panic. Third - oh wait. You’re stuck in here with me, pipsqueak. I guess you can panic.”
Ed felt his spine crawl as he slowly turned around, gold eyes wide in the dark. Behind him stood someone he thought he’d never see again. The skinny creature stood with his hands on his hips, dried blood on his forehead. The shorts and skirt the man wore were torn, revealing the dark blotch of the Ouroboros on his thigh. Ed clenched his fists and glowered at the other.
“Envy.” Ed replied. “How the hell did you get stuck down here?”
“Same way you did, shorty.”
“Who’re you calling a bean so small not even ants can see him?!” Ed yelled, then yelped as the ceiling collapsed a little more.
Envy laughed and moved closer to the smaller boy. “I’d keep my outbursts and alchemy to a minimum. You’d kill yourself.”
“Kill you too, you psycho.” Ed groused.
Envy chuckled. “Oh, eventually. But you’ll die a hell of a lot sooner. Remember what I am, pipsqueak?”
Ed glowered at the homunculus. “I know. But I also know you need me alive. I’m a perfect sacrifice, remember?”
Now Envy glared at Edward and he moved forward, slamming Ed into the rock wall, arm pressed into the boy’s throat. “We can always find another.” Envy hissed. “Your little brother, maybe. Or that teacher of yours. Oooh, maybe even that Colonel you have a crush on.”
“Leave Alphonse alone!” Edward yelled, and he kicked out into the man’s midsection, driving Envy back. “If you hurt him, I’ll kill you!”
“I’d like to see you try, pipsqueak!” Envy yelled back, grinning madly as he lunged for the young alchemist. Ed dodged at the last moment and clapped his hands together, passing his left hand over his right to transmute his automail into a blade. He swung his right arm as Envy lunged for him again and this time Ed scored a cut on Envy’s shoulder as he dodged.
The homunculus growled and turned burning black eyes on Edward, lips pulled back to bare his teeth in a horrible grin. Ed recoiled on instinct as Envy attacked. They were evenly matched - Ed hadn’t idled in his own training - but Envy managed to open up a few wounds on the young alchemist and Edward managed to get a few wounds on Envy. Ed suddenly fell to his knees, gasping for air as the dark seemed seemed to pass down on him. He couldn’t get enough oxygen. He couldn’t breathe! He struggled against the hands that suddenly grabbed onto his shoulders. He couldn’t breathe! He was suffocating!
“Edward!” Envy slapped the blade across the face as hard as he could. He grabbed onto the boy’s shoulders again and shook the boy. “Edward. Listen. Relax.”
Those gold eyes looked up into his own dark orbs, clouded and confused as they were. Envy’s eyes narrowed. “Edward.”
Edward shuddered. “I didn’t realize how tight it was down here.”
“That’s what she said.”
“What?”
“Nothing.” Envy rubbed his mouth. “Are you claustrophobic?”
Ed shook his head. “Not really. It’s just that you’re such an asshole, always trying to hurt me, so I have to fight back.”
“I’m an asshole, huh?” Envy frowned. “Well, then I’ll be an asshole and drag you out of here.”
“And just how are we gonna get out?” Ed put his hands on his hips. “The entrance is blocked if you haven’t noticed.”
“There’s more than one way out of here.” Envy grumbled. “And no alchemy, brat!”
Ed glared at Envy for a while. “Of course not. I don’t want to bring the ceiling down on us after all.”
Envy stepped back from Edward and frowned. Then, without a word, the homunculus turned and began walking deeper into the mine. Ed stood frozen for a moment before he moved after Envy, stumbling along in the dark. Ed reached out his hands and tried to feel for the lights, the wires, pulling them down off the wall. With his eyes useless in the dark of the mine, Ed needed to be careful where he put his feet. Bu he couldn’t see where to put his feet, so since he had the materials around him, he could transmute a lantern.
“What are you doing, pipsqueak?” Envy asked, arms folded over his chest.
“I thought I’d take a few moments out of your time to play marbles in the dark.” Ed replied.
“You’re not serious.”
“I’m transmuting a lantern.” Ed made sure he had all the materials. before he clapped his hands together. The alchemical light flashed as he pressed his hands to the materials and in a few seconds he had a working electrical lamp. Ed flicked it off and on a few times, then flicked the switch to the ‘ON’ position and looked toward Envy. “Now we can see what’ll kill us.”
“Somehow I’d prefer if it I don’t see.” Envy griped. He frowned at the sight of the purpling bruise on the young alchemist’s face. “How’d you get that bruise?”
“I think you hit me.” Edward replied bitingly.
“No, not that one. Obviously, the one on your left is from abuse courtesy of a homunculus. The one on your right, dipshit. How’d you get that one?”
“Well, that guy that was so nice to put the dynamite in the cave gave it to me. Whacked me pretty good with that pistol.”
Envy froze midstep. “He did what?”
“He pistol-whipped me.” Ed repeated. “What do you care?”
Envy didn’t grace Edward with an answer. Instead the homunculus curled his hands into fists and swore Raymond Goetz would die.
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