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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
- 7
- 8
- 9
Eight
Edward held out the lamp before him, peering down the hole that yawned in the middle of the path. There was a tiny ledge circling the far side, and a wider one on the near side but twice as unstable. The light threw shadows and made the hole seem larger than it really was. Still, Ed knew he couldn’t jump it, and alchemy was out of the question. Ed could probably get across on the tiny ledge, but it’d be slow-going, and very dangerous.
“Well, shorty?”
“Shut up. I’m thinking.”
Envy sidled up beside Edward and stared down at the hole. “Doesn’t seem so bad.”
“You can change shape and fly across.” Ed grumbled. “In fact, that sounds like a good idea! Why don’t you change into a bat and go explore the hole?”
“And what? You’ll transmute a lid over it so I can’t get out?” Envy growled.
“That was the idea.” Ed replied, moving to the tiny ledge. He’d pulled off his black coat a while ago and had tied it around his waist. Now he tied the lantern to one of the sleeves before he reached out to take hold of the wall.
Envy shoved Ed forward.
The small alchemist screamed as he started plummeting forward. In his panic, Ed scrambled to grab onto anything he could to stop his fall. Automail scraped against stone and sparked as Ed fell forward.
Envy was cackling as he grabbed the blonde braid and hauled back on the young alchemist. Ed hit the stone behind Envy with a hiss and glowered up at the homunculus. “Oh, what’s the matter, Edward? Little baby fall down and go boom?”
“Shut up! What the hell is your problem?!” Edward shouted back, getting to his feet to shove Envy. The homunculus pinwheeled his arms for a moment as his balance was upset. When Envy regained his balance, he launched himself at Edward.
“My problem?” Envy snarled. “You want to know what my problem is? My problem is you, pipsqueak!”
“What for?!” Ed dodged the homunculus and backed up toward the hole. He readied his hands for alchemy, knowing he was limited to transmuting only is own body.
“It really doesn’t matter. I hate you.” Envy growled, stalking forward. “What, do you think your precious alchemy will save you? Your brother? Or your precious Colonel?”
“What is with your obsession about that shitty Colonel?” Ed asked. “From all the talking you do about him it’s like you’ve got the crush on him!”
Ed clapped his hands together as Envy lunged with an enraged howl, the alchemical light filling the tunnel as they collided. Edward managed to get his automail arm between them, pressing up against Envy’s throat to keep the elder’s mouth away from anything vulnerable. He fought to keep Envy’s fists from doing too much damage, grabbing onto the lantern and letting the alchemy work on their only light source. The lantern molded into a knife and Ed slammed the knife into Envy, right up under his ribs.
Envy hissed and jerked back, glaring down at the small boy beneath him. If he moved the wrong way, the brat’s knife would do more damage. Ed stared at him, gold eyes wide in the dark, focused on Envy’s face.
“I know I can’t kill you,” Ed said lowly, “but I can hurt you. So you can either help me get the hell out of here or I’ll string you up and find my own way out.”
“You’re proposing we work together?” Envy growled.
“We’re gonna kill each other otherwise.”
Envy felt the knife embedded in him twitch. Finally, the homunculus grinned. “All right. We’ll do things your way.”
Ed’s eyes narrowed as though he didn’t quite believe the elder man. Finally, he pulled the knife out and pushed Envy away. The homunculus slammed a fist into Ed’s mouth before he drew away, feeling the hole in his side begin to stitch up. Edward slapped a hand to his mouth and felt hot blood. He kicked out at Envy, only to have his leg caught and twisted. Ed had to roll onto his stomach to prevent his bone from snapping.
“Stab me again, pipsqueak, and I’ll kill you.” Envy hissed. “Perfect sacrifice or not, I’ll kill you.” Envy caught the automail leg as it came up and froze. “Is that a dent?”
Ed jerked his leg out of the homunculus’ hold and stood up. “Yes, it’s a dent.”
“How’d you get it?”
“A bullet. Why do you care?”
Envy grabbed onto Edward’s automail shoulder. “That Raymond asshole shot you, didn’t he?”
“So what if he did? He shot the automail on purpose, but he sure as hell wanted to shoot the flesh and bone one.” Ed paused. “Wait. How do you know who shot me?”
Envy remained silent and clenched his fists. He was suddenly glad for the darkness; Ed couldn’t see his anger. Raymond had asked for help building an army to take over Eastern, and the chaos had appealed to Envy and his kind. They’d agreed to help Raymond Goetz achieve his goal. They hadn’t expected the Elric brats to show up, and so Envy had warned Raymond to keep the man from doing something stupid. But Raymond hadn’t listened. He’d hurt Edward and Alphonse. No one was allowed to hurt Edward and Alphonse except for Envy. They belonged to Envy. They were Envy’s little brothers, after all. Only, Ed and Al never knew it, and wouldn’t ever know it if Envy had his way.
“Did you piss him off?” Envy asked finally.
“He’s pissed at that damn Colonel.” Ed growled. “Apparently, he thinks killing me will make Roy suffer. And are you going to answer me, in how you knew who shot me?”
“No.” Envy paused. “Do you think he’s right?”
Ed looked up at Envy. “I don’t care if he’s right or not. I’m going to find that bastard and I’m gonna make him pay.”
“The small alchemist turned back to the hole, or rather, where he remembered where the hole was. He needed a lantern or something to see. Envy grabbed the blonde to hold him back.
“Alright,” Envy started. “If you want revenge, I’ll get you out of here.”
“Don’t tell me you had an escape route all along.” Ed complained.
Envy smirked and hauled up on the younger boy, tossing the young alchemist over his shoulder. “I know a way out.”
Ed cursed and spluttered and grabbed onto Envy’s hips as the homunculus prepared to jump. Envy laughed as he pushed off the lip of the hole and flew through the air toward the other side. Edward squeezed his eyes tight as he suddenly became weightless. Envy hit the wall of the hole and grabbed onto the lip of the hole and hauled himself and Edward to the other side.
“There. That wasn’t so bad, was it, pipsqueak?”
Envy looked back at the pipsqueak that was on his shoulder. “Ed?”
Edward was gone.
Envy looked down at the hole and cursed loud and long. He steeled himself, then leaped into the hole, transforming his body into a bat’s to navigate the hole. He heard cursing growing louder and when he emerged out of the hole, he was surprised to find a lichen-lit pool. Ed lay on his side, curled up to protect his right side.
“Pipsqueak?” Envy asked when he changed back and moved to the little blonde’s side. “You okay?”
Ed mumbled something through clenched teeth.
“What?”
“Winry’s gonna kill me,” Ed hissed. He pushed himself up with his left arm. His right was limp at his side, unmoving.
“What happened?” Envy frowned, staring at the broken automail.
“It snapped back when I went down head first because the oh-so helpful, alchemist-hating, gender-deficient homunculus had to carry me like a sack of potatoes!”
Envy hissed and brought his hand back to slap the brat. Those gold eyes glared at him, daring Envy to slap him. Slowly, the homunculus brought his hand down and glared at the alchemist. “Can you fix it?”
“I don’t even know what’s wrong with it.” Edward admitted.
Envy rubbed his temples and frowned at the boy. “All right, fine. Make a sling. I’ll get you some water.”
“I hope you have a fire to boil it.” Ed told the elder. “Unlike you, that could really kill me.”
“I suppose you’ll be wanting food too.”
“It’d be helpful, but unless you have a grocery store under that skirt,” Ed shrugged.
Envy glowered at the smaller boy. “Go transmute a canteen or something.”
Ed rolled his eyes and eased his right arm into a sling, hoping the limb wasn’t out of commission permanently. He tried to scratch a transmutation circle into the stone and made a faint scratch in the rock. He put his left hand to the circle and activated the circle, slowly forming a cup out of the rock. He was hoping the rock was stable enough for alchemy, and seemed to be succeeding right up until the end of the transmutation. Then the water rippled and Ed felt the pressure beneath the rock getting ready to explode. He abruptly stopped the alchemy and his stone cup ended being more like a bowl. Envy picked up the bowl and examined it.
“Not bad for a gimp alchemist.” the homunculus surmised.
“Shut up.” Edward snapped back. “You’re the one who dropped me!”
“Oh? Did I?” Envy moved over to the pool and filled the bowl with water. He tried a sip. It didn’t seem so bad, but he figured he’d better start a fire to boil some bacteria off the liquid.
Ed was already trying, scraps of his black coat as kindling. The boy’s lips were drawn in a thin line, concentrating hard as he worked to get a flame going. Envy crouched beside the small alchemist and took over, finally managing to get a small flame going. He set the bowl aside the fire and turned his gaze to Edward. The boy was sitting cross-legged, staring at the flames. Envy smiled toothily.
“Thinking about your boyfriend?”
“I don’t have a boyfriend.” Edward replied. “What about you? I bet you’re carrying some sort of disease.”
Envy bared his teeth in mocking laughter. He didn’t want to think about his ‘boyfriend’ right now. Knowing he was stuck down here and Greed was somewhere out there living it up. “So what’s Mustang to you then?”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you like him?” Envy snickered. “Do you want him to kiss you? Fuck you? Love you?”
Edward stared at Envy for a long while. “Mustang’s just my commanding officer. Nothing more.”
“Oh really?”
“He’s a self-serving, mercenary asshole!” Ed snapped. “I could care less about that jackass. All I want to do, besides make Ray pay for this, is see Alphonse again.”
Envy frowned and looked at the boiling water. He pulled it away from the flame and handed it to the small blonde. “Drink up, pipsqueak.”
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