Sleepy Ed Stories FMA

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"Hey kid, wake up." Greed said, clapping his hands loudly as Ed jerked his head up. 

"M not sleepin'" He slurred, blinking his eyes opened. He was so exhausted. 

"Sure you weren't, look I get it, you're tired but we're on a time crunch so you're gonna have to tough it out for a few more hours, got it?" He said and Ed had never wanted to punch someone more. 

He was still recovering from being ka-bobbed two weeks ago, his side tender and sore, much like how he imagined being finely minced must feel like. He staggered to his feet, eyes bloodshot from lack of sleep and body feeling like an anvil, a pained anvil. 

"Just a few more miles, kid. C'mon, we gotta hit the road, break time's over." Greed said, hitting him on the back in what would be a motivating way if Ed didn't want to break his jaw. He shot Greed the deadliest, and sourest glare he could conjure. 

Heinkel and Darius were getting used to frequent breaks, the kid refused any medication because they made him too out of it and weak to do any type of defending should they get attacked, and they couldn't stop for rest from fear of being found so early on their journey. Heinkel had offered to carry Ed for a few hours so he could get some rest but apparently Ed was in a stubborn mood, and wasn't having anything that could be considered help so Greed made sure to keep Ed on his toes. 

It seemed to work just fine until the third day where Ed began to fall asleep mid-hike and nearly face planting every other minute. 

"Alright kid, it's out of your hands. You either get on my back willingly or I'll make you. You're slowing us down with you toddling about like this." Heinkel said

"I said it like a hundred times that I'm fine." Edward bit out, wound throbbing angrily. 

"I'm sure that everyone would disagree with that, fullmetal." A voice said, rustling in the dark brush around their path. 

Everyone froze, holding their breath and getting in battle stances as they recognized that voice to belong to Pride... Which given their area and states, was a very dangerous enemy to be facing. 

Things got messy, and they got messy fast. Ed was seriously held back in his movements, nearly let choked yell loose as he stretched his wounded muscles to dodge one of Pride's shadow attacks. Pride launched a shadowed hand, slamming Ed into a tree roughly enough to where he was getting dizzy before he even smacked the ground below him. Turns out pain and no sleep didn't mix well it seemed. Kinda like peanut butter and bananas which he had tried because Fury insisted those kind of sandwiches were the best. He was very wrong, it tasted horrible. Ed was snapped out of his spaced out thoughts as he noticed his vision to be blurry, he vaguely heard Greed calling out his name but at this point Ed was very sick of Greed waking him up. He felt sick, his entire body throbbing in pain and he was pretty sure he had a headache now. He fought to keep his eyes opened, feeling his breathing slow as exhaustion began to take claim over him. He felt himself being moved, and he briefly registered that Envy was here. Ed went to make an attempt to clap his hand as Envy stood him up, and scooped him up on his back. Ed's body was taking over whether he wanted it to or not, his eyes were slamming shut fast and it was all Ed could do to keep them opened. 

"My, my pipsqueak you've definitely seen better days, huh?" He said way too brightly for Ed's liking. "Makes my job with you easy for once though." He commented as Ed forced his body to cooperate and bringing his hands together, only for his flesh wrist to be caught by Lust before it could make contact with his right hand.

"Nice try, boy.." She said. 

Well damn. Ed was royally screwed, it seemed. Pride and Gluttony were currently occupying his friends, and he was being carted around like luggage. Ed took a moment to collect his mind, summoning literally any will power he had to jerk his wrist free from Lust's less than firm grip and smack his palms together. He unfortunately overestimated himself and blacked out mid transmutation, it took too much energy, energy he didn't have.