Is This For Real?

Is This For Real?

(“You have a choice…”) a voice echoed within Eva’s subconscious. Eva groaned and opened her eyes slowly, hoping there wouldn’t be a bright light shining in her eyes like on TV.

Thankfully for her there was no light, period. Eva opened her eyes to see that she was lying down in a black void she sat up slowly and looked around.

Eva’s froze and her eyes widened when she heard a honey-filled voice, “Eva~” the voice said, Eva paled this was all too familiar and turned slowly towards the voice.

She nearly gagged at the sight, before her was a female figure, everything about her was charred, her skin was charred, her hair was charred and sections were missing, her face was charred, so much so that it looked as though she only had one eye, and her wings, one wing was only a stub. The one visible wing was long, black, demonic and dragon-like, and not only was it charred, it was dripping black fluid, and pieces of skin seemed about ready to fall off at the slightest movement. The worst part though was what she held in her arms.

It was Rune.

“Eva…my love, my daughter, it’s been so long~ Mommy has missed you so~” Eva glared at her with as much anger as she could muster. “Come here dear~ Come to me sweetheart~”

Eva growled and launched herself at the grotesque woman. “You… are not… my mother!” A bright burst of light came from beneath Eva’s chocker and the woman screamed, “DAMN YOU TEMELUCH!! YOU HAVE NOT WON! I SHALL HAVE THEM BOTH!!” the woman let out an all too familiar inhuman scream and disappeared into black dust. Eva quickly grabbed Rune and held her close, smirking slightly to herself before she passed out again, clutching the smaller girl to her body.

(Alley)

“Hey? Hey, are you two alright?” a young man’s voice asked, and Bane groaned and tried to rub his head, but a weight on his arm refrained him from doing so. He slowly sat up and rubbed his head with his other arm.

“Nii-chan he’s awake!” another younger man’s voice said in an almost excited manor, “I can see that Al…” the other voice said and Bane finally opened his eyes, and looked up.

His jaw dropped and he had a disbelieving look on his face, “No…way…”

A golden haired, and golden-eyed boy was kneeling in front of Bane, next to him a figure in a suit of armor squatted looking down at them.

“Are you okay?” the boy in front of him asked again, and Bane blinked in surprise, he sounded just like, “Where am I?” a voice next to Bane asked and they all looked down to see Saki waking up, still clinging to Bane’s arm.

Bane scowled and shook his arm, “Ge’off Saki!” he exclaimed and promptly shook her arm off.

“Jerk…” Saki muttered and blinked her eyes a few times before looking up at the two new figures, she frowned, “Who are you?” she asked, the boy stood and helped Bane and Saki up, “I’m Edward Elric,” he introduced himself, not noticing Bane’s gaping mouth, “And this is my little brother Alphonse.”

Saki raised an eyebrow and craned her neck up to look at the person in the suit of armor, “Little?” she asked and looked back down at Edward, “You sure you aren’t getting your heights mixed up?”

The person in the suit of armor and Bane both waved their hands in an attempt to stop her but it’s too late.

Edward lost it, “WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT THAT YOU COULDN’T SEE WITHOUT AN EXTREMLY POWERFUL MICROSCOPE?!” he demanded nearly screaming.

Saki glared at him baring her teeth slightly, “I DIDN’T, BUT I DON’T DENY IT NOT BEING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH!”

Bane and Alphonse sighed and glanced at each other, Bane turned to him and offered his hand, which Alphonse shook, “I’m Bane Bell, by the way, and that girl over there having a screaming fit with your brother is Saki Kashi.”

Saki tackled Edward and they began fighting, threatening each other, “Give it a rest already, before I separate you both!!” Bane shouted causing both combatants to halt and stare at him in shock, before immediately continuing their fight.

Bane sighed and turned back to Alphonse, “Sorry about her, she loses her temper really easily…” Bane explained, and Alphonse shook his head, “No it’s alright, Nii-chan is just like that, and very defensive about his height.”

Bane nodded before looking around to see that it was dusk and they were outside in what looked like an alley, at the entrance of a square.

“Soo, uhm where are we?” Bane asked as Saki and Edward continue their fight, before answering Alphonse walked over to them and pulled them apart, and held them in the air, away from one another, as they cursed at one another, “We’re outside the Central library,” Alphonse explained, “Nii-chan and I were out late researching, and when we came out we found you two.” He finally put Saki and Edward down, but continued to hold them apart.

“Where are you two from?” Alphonse asked, “Oh,” Bane started, “We’re um…”

“Orphans.”

The Elric Brothers looked at Saki who had snapped, still a little irate, and Bane blushed slightly, “Yeah…what she said.”

Edward and Alphonse shared a glance, “Oh,” Alphonse started, “Well, … do you have anywhere to stay?” he asked. Saki shook her head, “Nope, we would’ve if Eva hadn’t--” Bane and Saki gasped and quickly looked around, “Oh My God, where’d they go?!” Saki asked looking up and down the alley.

“Where’d who go?” Edward asked, “Our friends, Eva and Rune.” Bane explained, “Eva is eighteen, has short silver hair and golden eyes, and Rune is eight, she has long red hair and brown eyes, have you seen them?”

Edward shook his head slowly, a small frown gracing his features, “No, we haven’t,” he started, “But we’re State Alchemists, we’ll look for them tomorrow, as soon as possible. In the mean time how about we get you two somewhere to stay, and something to eat if you’re hungry.”

Both Bane and Saki’s stomachs growled and Edward and Alphonse chuckled, “I’ll take that as a yes.” Edward said, “Common follow us,” he said and the four of them exited the alley and made their way towards a large building, Edward and Saki shooting glares at each other the whole time.

(Different Alley)

“Are they alive?’ Eva faintly heard a young male voice ask, somewhere near wherever she was, as she slowly came to.

A louder male voice scoffed and a small crash was heard, “Of course they are you imbecile! They both have a pulse don’t they?!” the voice shouted.

“Jeez…erk, sorry, I was just asking…” the younger voice said, huffing slightly now from a farther distance away.

“Can I eat them?” a different, more eager voice asked from above Eva’s head, causing her to wince subconsciously.

Eva felt something grab her leg, and almost woke up, but whatever grabbed her released her, or was forced to.

“Back off ya glutton! You’ve eaten enough, I wanna kill something!” The loud voice sneered, and a louder crash was heard, “Enough…” a calm and smooth female voice said, breaking the small silence following the crash.

“They’re probably just some homeless people…and we have business to attend to, you can eat later Gluttony.”

The loud male voice chuckled, “Well sue me for trying to have a little fun” Eva slowly came to and barely cracked an eye open.

“Hey, hey, hey!!” the younger voice exclaimed hyperly, “It looks like one of them is waking up!”

Eva groaned and opened her eyes fully, she blinked a few times to clear her vision.

Not that it did much good however, as soon as she got a good look at the afore mentioned speakers her eyes dilated and she nearly passed back out.

Four people stood over Eva, she glanced nervously at each of them.

The closed figure to Eva was a small boy with long, wild black hair, and all black clothes, he was grinning down at Eva with light lavender eyes, and couldn’t have been more than Rune’s age, Eva gripped on the small girl’s arm that was laying asleep in her lap.

Off to the side, hunched over sucking a finger was a fat bald man, also wearing all black, who was slightly drooling as he stared at Eva with practically pupil-less white eyes.

Behind him stood a frowning man with long green hair, and strikingly purple eyes. His outfit was slightly feminine. He wore a black midriff shirt, and a black skort, and he was also wearing a black headband with a red triangle on it.

The last person, as well as tallest one of them was a woman with long, slightly wavy black hair, she wore a one-piece, black-green dress that showed off quite a lot of her chest area, and a jacket almost, if not identical jacket as Eva, she had amethyst-rose eyes and dark make-up that made her look very beautiful, but the most shocking feature about the woman was the small red tattoo located right below her collar bone.

Eva gasped when she saw it and flung her arm out to point at it, causing the small boy in front of her to jump to the right to avoid it, “Y-you-- that tattoo! I-it, it looks like--” she exclaimed, eyes wide.

The woman blinked, a slightly surprised expression on her face, “It is not a tattoo…” the woman said plainly, Eva gulped and fingered her chocker.

The bald man whined and turned to the woman, “Can’t I please eat them Lust? Please? Oh, pretty please Lust?”

Eva gasped again, “What?! Lust? B-but, you’re, you’re all… you can’t be real… homunculi… they aren’t real.”

All of the people, excluding the bald man, glanced at one another, “…I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Lust said calmly.

Eva, apparently not listening, started talking to herself, “…That would explain…but how did we…? No, maybe this is just a dream…” The green haired man stretched his arms above his head and groaned slightly as many cracks and snaps were heard, “See Lust, she’s insane, let Gluttony eat her and lets go” he whined slightly.

Eva looked up at him and frowned, eyes hardening from his comment, “And your Envy…” she turned to look at the bald man, “Gluttony…” then she turned to look at the small boy, and smiled faintly, “And Wrath.” the small boy, Wrath, smirked, and turned to look at the other two, mirroring the green haired man, Envy, and the woman Lust, both of which looked surprised that Eva knew them by name.

Both of them eyed her suspiciously and tensed as if expecting something to jump out of the shadows of the alley and attack. “How the hell do you know our names?” Envy asked, but Eva just glared at him, causing him to return the glare fiercely, “None of your business.” Eva stated bravely…or stupidly, either one works.

Stay Tuned fer Chapter Four!! Coming soon to a Computer near you!!