Descendant of Death (FMA FanFiction)

24: Farewell Forever...

**************Ed POV:*************

We went to Mustangs office to catch him up and saw that Hughes was there as well. Great, the two most annoying guys in the same room. Annoying cuz of their stupid feelings about Maeve...

"This is what he, or uhh, she looked like as a nurse." I said, holding up the drawing I made of Nurse Envy. Roy and Hughes looked at the drawing intensely. Roy started to scowl and Hughes had a creepy grin starting up on his face. "Awww! Elicia and you have the same art style! Can I take this back to her? Or better yet draw another picture." Hughes gushed and wiggled around chattering about Elicia with hearts flying around.

I blinked in confusion. "I didn't know your daughter could draw?"

Roy slammed the drawing on his desk which made me jump. "This is no use. Maeve, please tell me you can ......" He was cut off by Maeve handing him her own drawing. His face went dark and he seemed depressed as he rubbed his forehead and leaned back in his chair.

"Ummm..... Mustang? There's more I need to show you. This is the tattoo that he and Lust had. And this is the transmutation circle I saw on the ground. I tried to get it exactly right, Maeve helped with that." I told him, handing him two more papers.

He groaned and took a look at them. He showed them to Hughes and then pulled out his own stack of papers. "Here's the names of every one even remotely involved with Laboratory 5; scientists, staff, officers, even the handy man who serviced the building. They're all there." I picked up the packet and scanned the names, committing a few to memory who seemed important right off the bat. Roy pulled out another stack of papers, this one slightly thicker than the one I was holding. "And here's the list of Criminals who were most likely used as sacrifices. Jeeze, to think I would feel bad for criminals on death row." He mumbled as Maeve took that packet.

I handed my section of papers to Al and he started looking through it as I did. "I get why he would leave you alone the first time, I can even see why he'd feel the incentive of healing you. But what I don't get is this: He went to you in the first place to immobilize you. Why would he want that?" Hughes asked.

The answer Hughes and Mustang wanted was one we three couldn't say, so I kept my mouth shut and let him think it through. Maeve and Al shrugged. We couldn't tell Hughes and Mustang that it was so I could be picked off when ever it pleased Envy, nor could we tell them that the reason we were keeping shut about it was for their own good. Just as Maeve had hid Winry, we had to keep everyone else in the dark about this. If anyone found out Maeve assured us that the thing behind this would happily use that person as leverage against us.

He and Mustang were thinking it over when there was a knock at the door. Mustang called out lazily, "Come in." The double doors opened and my eyes felt like they were going to pop out as the Furor walked in, Ross and Brosh peeking in from outside the room had identical expressions. I was too stunned to move and salute like I was supposed to. I just remembered the last time I saw him I had a spear pointed at his remaining eye.... sweat bullets ran down my body and I hoped that he wasn't here to run me through. He didn't seem to have changed in the three years since then.

He had short dark brown hair that had streaks of silver on the sides, one sharp green eye and a large strong nose. It didn't look like he ever smiled, I was sure it would be a scary thing to see. He had the bearing and look of a eagle. To say he was intimidating was an understatement.

Mustang and Hughes saluted as soon as the King walked in, and Al bowed respectfully. "At ease, men, Elric brothers. I had heard the young Fullmetal Alchemist Edward Elric was out of the hospital early so I thought I'd drop off a melon," He handed me a basket with two large melons inside wrapped in a green bow. "And advise you to take it easy still." I nodded stunned at the gift. Then realizing that I was being rude to a king I straightened up.