Sacrifice [Edward Elric x Reader]

chapter 53

"So, Metal Alchemist. We meet again."

The words seem to echo. Whether in your mind or in reality, though, you don't know. You can hear the soft jeer carried by his voice, his calm demeanor indicating that he isn't at all stressed or worried. This man... just thinking about his causes rage to surge through and fill up your entire body.

You sneer right back at the man hiding behind the mask. "What do you want?"

The man stays silent for a few moments. "The desire to kill you."

You feel your blood turn from boiling to cold in an instant, but you don't let it affect you. Instead, you pull out your knife, drag it down your palm, deeply, and get into battle stance.

The man laughs. The two of you start circling each other, menacingly, eyes locked and nothing else is seen.

Turning, walking to the side, but yet the distance between the two of you never changes.

The man attacks first. He pulls two blades out of his belt and tosses then into the air, flipping then and catching them effortlessly. You can see the glint in his eyes as he charges at you. You clap your hands together and create spiked obstacles to come out of the ground, blocking his path. He dodges all of them, but only by centimeters, and continues at you.

You let him near you before jumping to your left at the last second, causing him to speed past you. He notices his mistake and turns quickly, only to see you and your transformed arm-blade charging at him.

He holds out his blades and you clang onto them. You push forwards as hard as you can, but he's too strong, and your efforts are only reciprocated. He finally gives a final push and you fall backwards, he slashes at your face, but you duck and hold your arm out.

You can feel the pain as it explodes from your arm. You let out a loud yell and flip away, skidding on your knees. You quickly get up and charge at the man, determined to strike back. Holding the blade in front of you, you aim to stab his stomach, but just when the tip of your blade is about to make contact, something blocks it, and you retract your blade.

The man stares at you through his mask and time seems to pause. You pull away, but he grabs your arm. Your eyes widen involuntarily as you wrench him forward on accident with your momentum, and the both of you start flying, arms intertwined and spinning through the air.

You push him underneath you, hoping he would break your fall, but the two of you continue spinning. Finally, with a thud, though much louder in your head, both of you land, sprawled, on the ground. You land on your stomach, him, on his back.

Pain explodes in your ribs and you feel a deep crack.

You groan. The man is tugging on your arm, but for what reason, you don't know.

He could've just stood up and stabbed you, for heaven's sake. But he doesn't, and continues tugging in your arm. As your arm moves, you feel the pain rip through you again. You let out a loud yell.

"What do you want!?" You scream, though it hurts.

You turn your head to look at him, and you jump.

What the...

He's being tugged into the miasma, and his feet are slowly disintegrating into small pieces. He looks unconscious, and you slowly try to sit up through the pain.

You try to pry off his hard fingers from yours, and begin to tug him back. But the pull of the vortex is too strong, and he's decomposing from his feet up. You let go of his fingers.

Slowly, painstakingly, you watch in pain as the man disintegrates. His feet, then legs, then hips, then hands, then arm-

And suddenly, as his left arm disappears, something black flashes and suddenly, you're thrown backwards and upwards at the same time. You scream as the world around you turns into a fiery orange and heat batters you once more.