Misplaced, pt 1
Title: Misplaced
Co-written with skyler_daemon … who else?
Summary: And the Sues take over Dublith!!
Note: We have a part two to this already too… but I’ll post that later. ::grins:: oh! And Um… ::pokes at it::
Series/character origins thus far: Ripples (found on scatteredlovers), true_inversion, Violent Leisure (found on this LJ, YAY!), the RP’o’Doom (over on Greatestjournal), the Unintentional Arc of worldcollision
She groaned a little, putting a hand to her head as she came around. This was why she'd been avoiding the temptation of playing next to that huge ditch near her perch. "Teach me to get overexuberant." Cracking an eye open to peer through skewed glasses, she noted it was light out. "Uh huh." Then she looked sideways and blinked a few times, seeing forest and a limp body instead of the desert terrain she’d been expecting. "Okay, not at school after all." She entirely didn't see the other figures scattered amid the bushes and dirt as she crawled over to the smaller girl after fighting with her trench coat. "Oi! You okay?"
Trying to curl into a ball at the slight pounding her head had received, she had to pause and cracked an eye open when she heard someone speaking. If it was to her she wondered if an incoherent mumble would make them leave her to deal with her head. Though when she blinked she had to wonder if her contacts were actually in. The girl looked somewhat familiar. "...Do I know you? 'Cause I think I do." Her headache wasn't bad enough to stop her curiosity from getting a hold of her, so she slightly uncurled to get a better look.
"It's entirely possible you know me, I'm famous." Snickering over her bad joke, and the bad timing of remembering the Harry Potter nickname escapade, she shook her head, leaning over to check that the other girl wasn't hurt. "On a more serious note, I'm Sarai, you? It'd be good to know who it is I ended up in the never never with."
The bad joke just rolled off of her, due to dealing with her younger sibling’s friends as she slowly moved into a siting position while rubbing the bump on her head. That would show her that injured foot or no, the elevator was a bad place to enter. When she heard the other girl’s name she had to stop and make certain that her brain wasn't as addled as she thought it was. "I know a Sarai online. Oh! My names Stephanie, but people just call me Stephy."
One eyebrow arched and she hummed in the back of her throat, sorting quickly through the list of people she knew with that name. Sounded familiar. "Well, considering I'm an online junkie, it's wholly possible you know me. I'm terrible with names though, toss a few at me and I can tell you if you know me or some other random Sarai whose name is likely pronounced the hard way."
She stared at the other girl for a moment before she decided that if she listed some minions it would determine this quickly enough. "Well The Saria I know calls me her other half and has minions that we both know through Livejournal. Like Jade Pen and Hallidae. She's also known as forgotten lover on LJ." Her attention drifted slightly to start roaming across their surroundings.
There was a pause as she digested this, then she did something she'd been wanting to do for ages. She tackled the poor woman. "Al! And it's said Suh-rie, not sa-rie-ah." That done, a frown crossed her face and she quickly looked around. "Not that it's not nice and all, but why the hell are we both here?"
Getting over the shock of not only having the taller woman tackling her, but finding this was the one she had been talking to online for months now, she had to blink a few times to understand the question. "Well, I remember finally deciding to use the elevator to get to my Biology class, due to my foot and all, when I fell and smacked my head on one of the rails in that square death trap. I don't know what I'm doing here or where here is exactly. It's not my part of Texas, it's not humid enough."
The girl with the braid sat back on her heels and started looking around after a quick tweak to her coat. "And it's too cold for my area..." She sort of trailed off to a stop as she spotted someone staring back at her. Someone she's spent hours and hours perfecting. "So, other half, am I seeing that blond over there, or did I just really hit my head hard when I took that tumble?"
Looking slightly confused, she turned her eyes from their inspection of an oddly shaped bush to look in the same direction as her counterpart. She had to blink and check to see that she really did wear her contacts today before staring blankly at the blonde. "Unless that mind meld thing is really potent and we are both sharing this little illusion. Then yes, yes you are actually seeing him."
Said blond moved towards the two women and crouched down, looking back at the pair as they gave him almost amusingly identical dumbfounded expressions. "Not to be rude... but I don't think I know either of you."
The quiet voice snapped Sarai out of her shock at the very least. "It's one thing to write a Sue, it's a whole other ballpark to be one!!"
Stephy kept looking between Sarai and her muse, for that could be the only reason for this. The slight exclamation from her other just cinched the idea in her own head. She was about to say something when the familiar muttering caught her attention and she turned back to what she had thought was a badly pruned bush. The ash colored hair that popped out of the bush and the bright purple eyes made her shake her head in wonder. "Hey, Aru. Please confirm if that's my Pride crawling out of a bush."
The name got both the woman and the blond with the crimson and gold eyes to look in that direction. The woman spoke, whereas the man simply stared with horrified shock. "Easy enough. You sure he's yours though? Sure, nothing on the forehead, but you know how many of them are running around."
She quickly waved an arm. "Oi! Pride there, you have a Mania?"
The ash haired sin looked up from the task of extracting the leaves and twigs from his ponytail to only quirk his eyebrow at the two females and blonde male. "And if I do, I don't see why it would matter to you. Though, if I find out that this was Greed's fault again, I hope she forces him to be her subject for her improved cameras." He then ignored the trio in favor of looking for the rest of his group.
Stephy just rolled her eyes. "That sounds like my Pride."
Sarai just nodded a little and twisted to peer up at the blond by her. "Certainly looks like it. Now, to snap my Al here out of his stunned shockededness. Honestly, you'd think he was used to the mental by now..." She leaned up and waved a hand, careful to not touch him. "Alphonse, you can stop with the sensing thingy now."
Alphonse completely ignored her, twisting around to look for... something. "I know that aura..."
Wondering who else was going to show up, she didn't notice as her Pride headed towards a prone figure that had mostly been hidden behind a rock. She turned to Sarai. "What does he mean exactly? Is someone else here that belongs to you?"
"Hell if I know, he doesn't look ticked, or possessive, or creepy, so that counts out a slew of folks." She watched as a rather annoyed, and more than slightly bloody, Greed came into sight. She also watched recognition between the two. "Oh, never mind. I spoke too soon."
Scooting closer to the only other female in the area, she watched in wide eyed fascination as Sarai's two muses met eye to eye. She was quick to hit the ground face first while covering her neck and head when a loud gunshot rang in the air.
"You try and act like a concerned person and all the thanks you get is a bullet to the head."
Peeking from between her arms she noticed the fast healing bullet wound in the center of Pride's forehead and a longhaired blonde holding a smoking gun at the homunculus.
"None of my people use guns!" Sarai was quick to deny the responsibility here as she ducked back close to the ground. And that afforded her the chance to meet guarded dark eyes that were watching from under a bush off to the side. "I take that back, he does."
Having been spotted, the dark eyed man in question finally crawled out of the bush with as much dignity as he could muster, still livid bruises and burns showing above the collar of his shirt, and he made it obvious that he was wearing his gloves as he evaluated everyone.
Greed raised his eyebrows as he looked over the ragtag assembly of people. Apparently he and Alphonse had seen no reason to fight without lovers and family around. "I don't know what you people did, but you could have had better timing." It might also be noted that he wasn't fully dressed.
Still muttering about trigger-happy blondes, Pride turned and gave a puzzled look at the other man that had appeared out of the brush. The blonde with the waist length braid leaned against the rock he had been laying behind, and only gave a quick glance at the other people there. He stiffened for a moment at the sight of the two females, but other than that, he idly reassembled and disassembled the gun he had used on Pride moments before.
Dark eyes moved from one figure to another as he stayed back from everyone. "It's a nightmare come to life, isn't it?" It was a quiet mutter directed at no one in particular.
Stephy only half paid attention to the musings and conversations going on around her. She was more interested in the slightly rustling foliage to the right of the dark eyed man. That is, until a shorthaired blonde of about fifteen rolled out of the bush in a daze. Roy didn't react well, backpedaling away as his hand came up, just shy of snapping at the unfortunate that had startled him.
Alphonse spun to look in that direction as well, though his reaction was almost pure curiosity. He ignored the Roy, moving around him as though the man wasn't important to get closer to the blond bundle.
"And the plot thickens." Sarai wasn't sure whether to drool or panic, honestly, over having this group together.
Ed had looked up when the figure had first shown up out of the brush, but had decided that the teenager wasn't a threat and went back to fiddling with his gun. Pride stared at the bundle of teenager from a safe distance. He might not be able to die easily but it was still a pain to heal burn wounds. The bundle uncurled itself and blinked up at the figure standing over him.
"I hope that the other ones aren't around these ones are my more tame muses." Stephy mumbled into the palm of her hand.
"Lucky, these aren't for me. Think a moment on what I told you about those two." She gestured vaguely at Roy and the longhaired Alphonse that was ignoring said dark haired man. It was sort of amusing she didn't include Greed in the sweep, as he was headed for Pride and the gunslinger. Stephy only nodded at that statement she had heard about them and as such she was wary about how her three would interact with them.
Roy, in a small fit of paranoia, circled away from everyone, moving until his back was firmly against a tree. Ed paid no mind to the person coming towards him. If they wanted to mess with him he had enough bullets and his gloves to make them think rethink that idea.
Greed paced closer still to the gunslinger. "You seem rather familiar with that."
Ed just gave a slightly bland look before snapping the last piece in place. If he wanted to make small talk he could go to one of the others. He just wanted this whole thing to be figured out so he could get back to what he was doing. Besides, who knew how much trouble his brother and that psycho were in at the moment.
Greed hadn’t planned on moving away, but as he wasn't in the mood to be lit on fire either… After casting a glance to Roy, he decided to go investigate Pride.
Alphonse crouched down, looking into the face of the shorthaired blond. "This is certainly different."
Al moved back when the person who looked somewhat like him, yet not, had crouched down to his level. He should have been used to strange things by now yet it always surprised him when these things happened.
Alphonse smiled a little and evaluated the other teen. "You came out of the mess human?"
Al didn't exactly understand what was meant by that, but if he could survive being tossed into a different world and the group he had become attached to, he shouldn't have to worry about this teen. "Do you mean getting out of the armor? If you do I’m still not sure how that happened..."
Pride looked on in amusement from his vantagepoint on a low hanging branch. Where was his Greed and that camera when it would really be of use?
"Really? I wasn't so lucky I'm afraid." Alphonse extended his hand to the human lookalike. "Need a hand up?"
Al gave a small smile and took the offered hand. "So you're me in a way, right?"
Alphonse pulled him up and nodded slightly. "You certainly don't feel like Envy, so it seems to be so. Though I'll admit this is more than slightly confusing seeing as the only one here that feels right his Envy's lover, and I've no idea why he should be here at all." He waved his hand a bit then shook his head, long hair moving to show the leather collar he was wearing.
Al gave a curious look at the collar on the other Alphonse. He didn't want to be rude and ask about it, but he wondered why someone would wear one.
Alphonse caught the look and moved his fingers to it with a blink of two-toned eyes. "Niisan gave this to me." It was most interesting, he wasn't much like any other version of Alphonse that the younger could possibly have met.
Al gave a slight smile at that. "So you and your brother are still close? I haven't seen mine in a while."
Alphonse considered the question a moment before a weak smile crossed his face. "It's not really like it once was, but it's enough. Things have been a bit too problematic to really think too hard on the more domestic issues."
Al was sad to hear about that, but he reasoned that at least it wasn't full abandonment. The older Alphonse of their group had gone through that and he didn't want others to be that sad. "Well at least he still claims you as his brother, some were not as lucky to even be able to say that, even with problems. So don't let it get you down too much."
"True. Like I said though, I've had too many issues to worry about that... Especially since Zach showed up." The blond got a bemused look. "It's been nothing but trouble since the poor kid showed up. Bright kid, though I wish his father would just stop spoiling him."
Sarai leaned on Stephy. "Did we grow a god complex?"
"I hope not. If this is what we would create, I would hate to see the world run normally." She sat there, half leaning half supporting Sarai while noting that at least her youngest Al wasn't in any danger of conflict. The other two though, were not as prone to going along with anything.
"Don't make me wonder, I've done some really sadistic things to some of the worlds I've written for, the stuff you've seen is tame." Sarai nodded a little, watching the various pairs.
She looked around at the small group that they made. "You think we should be figuring out where we are? Or should we let them get to know one another a bit more?" Stephy tilted her chin at the muses.
Sarai raised an eyebrow. "I wouldn't mess with them just yet, Roy'll freak if we get within reach of him. We have to wait until one of the others gets under his guard I'm afraid, or we'll be scorched."
Pride stared at the Roy that was backed against a tree with a slightly perplexed look before shrugging it from mind. He wasn't his Lust, so he wasn’t his problem. He turned to see the Sin approaching him. He was interested in learning about the sin that looked like his Greed's predecessor.
Greed came to a halt under Pride's tree and tipped his head back to look into the branches. "You're a tree climber too are you? Must be an Elric thing."
Pride gave a long slow blink. "I might have to ask Envy if it really is an Elric thing. Though Infamy never seemed inclined to be in the trees." He allowed his gaze to flicker across the rest of the group before returning to Greed. "How would you know if it was an Elric thing? Do the Elrics of your place climb trees?"
"Envy does. It's his favorite way to annoy me as he knows I won't bother to come up after him." Greed looked upwards with a smirk. "But he's always been like that."
Pride gave a slight quirk of his lips. "Well our Envys don't seem to be that different. Though mine is usually having to climb to get me down from a tree."
Greed let a smirk cross his face. "Oh, so you're even worse than the Little Monster is are you?"
Pride had to wonder at the term Little Monster but just wrote it off as a quirk for this Greed. "Well, you would hide out in the trees too if you kept having to dodge a flashbulb from someone going insane with a camera. Most times Envy just hides out with me from the nutcase."
"Camera?" Greed raised his eyebrows, hitching himself up on a low branch. "That, and Envy practically despises cameras most of the time."
He perched himself so he could sit cross-legged while still being able to see Greed. "My Greed has decided that it is an ideal way to pass time by ambushing someone and take their picture. He then goes and subjects everyone to the photos of it. Though Envy hated cameras long before our Greed was allowed near one."
Greed found it a bit odd to hear anyone but himself being called Greed. "This Greed of yours, seeing as he doesn't sound like he's doing anything I would, he's someone else?"
He knew that the name thing was making the other curious, which he had seen when both Envy and Wrath had to place new faces with old names. "Yes, he is different from you. In my world, your person was my Greed's predecessor. My Greed used to be Maes Hughes until he was murdered."
Greed paused, and then he gave him an incredulous look. "I'm dead?"
Sarai shook her head a little as she noted Alphonse was winding up for a rant. "I just realized that poor boy never gets to talk to anyone."
Stephy just looked up before turning her attention to the silent one of her bunch. "Well he found the right one to rant at. That Al will let you rave all you want and still listen to you with a smile."
"I believe it. Alphonse used to be like that before they broke the boy." She shook her head a bit.
Stephy just gave a slight smile. "The fact that he can survive living with two Kimbley's and your Aru I'm surprised he's still the way he is."
Alphonse was on a roll by this point, showing the red marks on his arms with one particularly extravagant flourish. Burns and marks that looked like the arrays that adorned the Kimbleys' hands. "I mean, the fascination with the fish wouldn't have been so bad, but then the kid got himself kidnapped... I mean, nobody in our house has managed to not get abducted."
Al listened with wide sympathetic eyes to another one of his counterparts and didn't mind being used as a stress reliever.
Alphonse finally drew to a stop just after he heard himself mention 'the week'. "And really, things have gone even worse downhill since."
Roy, for his part, was eyeing the gunslinger, and was inching his way in that direction.
Ed seeing that no one was a threat or dead set on bothering him with chatter he put the gun back into its side arm and focused on putting his braid back into some order. The red ribbon had nearly fallen out thus meaning he would have to either rebraid it or throw it into a ponytail. Seeing as they weren't exactly going anywhere for awhile he set about braiding it once more out of boredom.
Roy finally got within about ten feet of the gunslinger and paused.
Ed gave a final tug to make certain that the knot wasn't going to come undone easily before letting it fall over his shoulder. He finally looked up and towards the figure that had, until just then, been easing towards him. If the man wanted to get closer that was fine by him, as long as he wasn't expecting some sort of conversation out of him he could care less.
Roy was evaluating the man, and he sat down within a decent control distance, then turned his attention back to the others.
When Ed saw the other man sit down and start to observe the others he relaxed slightly and began to check the stitching on his gloves. Who knew what damage could have been done to his arrays.
Pride had a slightly amused but also slightly nervous look on his face at the other man in the tree with him. "Well, yes. You lost a fight with an alchemist and as such you ceased to be. Though you must have fared better then your counterpart if you are here talking to me."
Greed eyed him for a long moment. "Right... You look like the guy whose wedding Envy insisted we crash."
"Wedding?" Pride was confused and that wasn't something he was used to feeling. Well, not since they left Dante to rot at the old hideout. "Never had a wedding, I didn't grow old enough to need or want a wedding."
Greed nodded, pleased to baffle the other sin. He gestured over at Alphonse, who'd gone dead silent and didn't look a day over sixteen, at the very most. "Yes, wedding. Ask that one other there if you want to know, he was there. He kept me from beating the crap out of that Fullmetal boy's lover for trying to hurt my Envy."
Turning slightly to look at the now silent Alphonse and the equally quiet younger one that was hovering just outside of ones personal space. He whipped his head around at the mention of Fullmetal and lover in the same sentence. "Fullmetal as in an Edward Elric? Who was the one that tried to hurt Envy?" Well this was interesting.
Greed blinked then looked around. "One like that one over there. Flame I think it was?" He looked back to Edward with an annoyed look. "He kept trying to light him on fire. I was rather relieved that Wrath stayed out of it at least, he was distracted by Martel." He shook his head. "That was when he was still obsessing over the Little Monster."
Now that was funny. Him and the General actually getting married. He gave a slight chuckle at that. The way Lust and Greed were all over each other and with Gluttony's loyalty to Lust… it was hard to picture anything like that. "Well Wrath does obsess, only he has gotten it into his head that Mania is like a mother figure to him." It was a pity about Martel though, he had actually liked her.
Greed raised an eyebrow. "I'm not sure who Mania might be, though the ladies over there seem to know about it if the earlier shout was any indication." Greed glanced down at himself then frowned, licking drying blood off his hands. "But Martel insists on calling the little Hellion Mekke, of all things."
"Yes well our ranks have expanded past seven due to certain incidents. The fact that they know makes me wonder a bit, but it really doesn't matter in the long run. They can't be worse then Dante, and she started going insane after awhile." Pride then turned and moved to be looking at Greed upside down from the branch. "Mekke? Haven't heard anything like that and Mania has come up with some weird nicknames in her time."
"Mekke, she'd named the little sin before she'd even gotten him home and had him calling her mama. He's Wrath, though when I gave him some of my stone it wasn't exactly a pleasant experience." Greed paused, a distinctly annoyed look on his face. "Of course, it would have been nice if the brat hadn't attempted to molest me."
Alphonse finally decided to break the uncomfortable silence. "You seem to be taking all this in stride." He gestured at the people.
Stephy just looked up from her game of cats cradle before going back to it. "Well, I guess we are all adjusted to one another, and have made some sort of bonding. I'm still in denial about being a Mary Sue though."
"Well, I know I don't have any superpowers." She looked up from the intricate design she was inking on herself.
"If I had superpowers I think I would have at least gotten rid of the contacts." She muttered as she untangled her string from a large knot that happened when she had been paying more attention on wondering when her gunslinger would just walk away. Sarai reached out to take the bundle and unknot it for her with the air of long practice, wondering much the same about her Roy.
Pride just raised an eyebrow during Greed's explanation. "Doesn't sound like our Wrath. Some things are similar but not many." He turned to his head slightly to look at the two Alphonses.
He just gave a slight smirk to them.
"Well, I named our Wrath, and I have the distinct feeling giving him stone of myself might not have been the wisest idea." He shook his head, following his gaze. "That one disturbs Envy."
"Wrath and Envy are the only originals from before I was turned and it was Envy who gave Wrath red stones and named him." He adjusted his grip so as to be dangling by his ankles before getting bored and pulling himself up onto the branch.
"Really? That's certainly... different. Wrath was mine by the time the Little Monster fled his creation over there." He gestured at the Alphonses again, who'd gotten into a slightly awkward conversation about Al's world.
"Our worlds seem to have met different fates despite the same characters." He looked over at the two conversing blondes before turning to look at the two females. "Well, for some reason I think you two know perfectly well what’s going on. Care to enlighten the rest of us?"
Sarai blinked up from the design that looked like some strange cross of Scar's designs and the arrays Ed was more used to. "If my theory is right, this is our fault, and there will likely be more of you, because I don't see my Gate Alphonse around here anywhere." She was, of course, heedless for her own safety.
"My other Al whose related to the quiet one over there is missing as well, and where he is my Barry is as well." She gave a slight look to the pair separate from the rest of the group. "Still don't know how it happened or even if we can get back."
Ignoring the fact that she was getting stares from all the characters at this point, she kept going. "Well, that and I don't see Zolf around here either, but he was new..." She had to dodge quickly as Roy nearly scorched her and she gave him a wide-eyed look. "Not that one you ass!"
Having learned to avoid being in range, she rolled the minute she felt Sarai move. She blinked at the scorching mass that had once been a patch of grass. The slight snickering from Pride didn't help in the least. "I feel like I was back between Barry and the Brat child for a minute, only without the flames and more pointy objects."
"Yeah, well, at least your Brat child has someone to play with, mine tried to pick my Dorchette apart whenever I wasn't looking." Sarai didn't take her eyes off Roy, well aware that he wasn't calming down. He was rather scary like that, her creation or no.
Greed smirked widely, watching the chaos unfolding as he leaned more firmly against the tree to observe.
"Its not exactly pleasant to have to dodge flying objects, most of them sharp and pointy, Barry hasn't quite forgiven me for ignoring him to write for the Brat." If Stephy and been paying more attention, she might have noticed that she was entering into Edwards space. Edward had noticed and had flattened himself against the rock in his fear.
Pride couldn't help but laugh a little as he climbed a bit higher to have a better view of all the different activities.
Alphonse frowned a little, circling wide around the two girls in a quasi-direct path for the Roy. He knew it wasn't his Roy, as he felt all wrong, but he was still a Roy, and one that had been recently damaged at that. His overprotective instincts were kicking in again.
Roy spun a little, giving Alphonse a narrowed-eyed look, lifting his hand in obvious threat. Hearing someone talking about someone with that name so casually had put him on edge.
Sarai just rolled her eyes and followed after Stephy, keeping an eye on Roy. "I swear, he didn't have to try and light me on fire over a name, the jerk. And dodging flying objects is nicer than being used as a shield in a sword fight!"
"Let’s just say we have violent muses." She noticed her Al trying to decide whether to go with his instincts and follow to offer comfort, or to back away like the smarter ones were doing. "Al you're not a suit of armor anymore. You can get hurt you know."
Alphonse paused to glance over to the shorter girl of the two, then realized she was talking to the taller him. He resumed his cautious approach. "Roy, hey." It was quiet, careful, and he undid his shirtsleeve to show the marks that still scarred the skin. "We have anything in common here?"
Roy faltered a little, eyes pinned on the marks that littered the pale skin, and he lowered his hand a little. "You... No, that doesn't make sense..." He lifted his hand again, distrustful.
Alphonse saw the crack in the facade and walked slowly closer. "It's alright. He's not here." He extended a hand, watching him with disturbingly two-tone eyes as he tried to get the man to calm down.
Sarai glanced around, relieved when Roy seemed to waver under her Al's attention. "At least that's one thing taken care of... We might be able to get moving soon."
"That's nice to hear." Stephy had started to relax when she saw that her Al wasn't in any range for a quick frying. He was the sanest of her muses at the moment.
Pride, seeing an opportunity to cause a bit of his own chaos, slowly moved until he was on a branch directly behind and above the slightly panicky gunslinger. Greed turned his head, watched Pride move along, smirking as he followed at an amble. It was more than a little fun to watch all this.
Ed gave a choked yelp as he flung himself away from the rock that he had been plastered against when he felt a hand come in contact with his shoulder. If he hadn't tripped over Stephy, Pride would have been sporting a new bullet wound at that point.
Alphonse made a frustrated noise as the almost calmed Roy spun around to look for the source of the noise. "For the love of... Would everyone QUIT?"
Sarai steadied Stephy, then glanced over at Alphonse, who had his hand on Roy's shoulder and was forcibly muffling his alchemy.
Stephy blinked as her usually quiet and calm muse all but flung himself in the opposite direction of both her and Sarai. The snickering from Pride made her wonder once more how she ended up with the more immature set of sins.
"You know, that's sort of funny." She was still eyeing the more paranoid pair, amused as hell when Roy kept snapping... and nothing happened.
Greed shook his head and straightened up. "So, ladies, you were in the middle of explaining how it is we all got here?"
"We were? Oh yes we were... Not much else to say, only that we might want to find shelter before the sun really sets for the day."
Sarai snickered, then hooked her arm around Stephy's waist. "Alright, so, who has an idea where we are?"
Pride managed to control his snickering long enough to find a branch with a better view. "Strange, you two don't know where we are?"
Sarai tilted her head back, peering up at the sin that asked. "I haven't gotten this far yet actually..."
"I'm in the same boat as well." Stephy couldn't help but notice that Ed had moved to the complete opposite side of the clearing and was still in enough shock to do nothing but stare at them in suspicion.
Greed shook his head as both women floundered and started walking west. "Dublith is this way."
Ed started heading East the minute he heard the name Dublith. This only amused Pride even more and as such he decided to give his seemingly direction confused counter part a guiding hand. He more or less dragged the gunslinger along as he followed Greed.
Alphonse looked dubious about following, but after glancing at Roy, who'd apparently settled for studying his arrays and ignoring the world, he started following the other three, snagging his counterpart on the way by.
Sarai looked to the other girl and raised her eyebrows. "Does this mean we're going to Dublith?"
"Unless you want to wander on our own and leave this group to run around unchecked? Besides, at the moment Pride has found new entertainment and Ed has enough damage as it is from me alone."
"Right, Dublith it is." Nodding, the longhaired girl shoved her glasses up her nose and started walking.
Co-written with skyler_daemon … who else?
Summary: And the Sues take over Dublith!!
Note: We have a part two to this already too… but I’ll post that later. ::grins:: oh! And Um… ::pokes at it::
Series/character origins thus far: Ripples (found on scatteredlovers), true_inversion, Violent Leisure (found on this LJ, YAY!), the RP’o’Doom (over on Greatestjournal), the Unintentional Arc of worldcollision
She groaned a little, putting a hand to her head as she came around. This was why she'd been avoiding the temptation of playing next to that huge ditch near her perch. "Teach me to get overexuberant." Cracking an eye open to peer through skewed glasses, she noted it was light out. "Uh huh." Then she looked sideways and blinked a few times, seeing forest and a limp body instead of the desert terrain she’d been expecting. "Okay, not at school after all." She entirely didn't see the other figures scattered amid the bushes and dirt as she crawled over to the smaller girl after fighting with her trench coat. "Oi! You okay?"
Trying to curl into a ball at the slight pounding her head had received, she had to pause and cracked an eye open when she heard someone speaking. If it was to her she wondered if an incoherent mumble would make them leave her to deal with her head. Though when she blinked she had to wonder if her contacts were actually in. The girl looked somewhat familiar. "...Do I know you? 'Cause I think I do." Her headache wasn't bad enough to stop her curiosity from getting a hold of her, so she slightly uncurled to get a better look.
"It's entirely possible you know me, I'm famous." Snickering over her bad joke, and the bad timing of remembering the Harry Potter nickname escapade, she shook her head, leaning over to check that the other girl wasn't hurt. "On a more serious note, I'm Sarai, you? It'd be good to know who it is I ended up in the never never with."
The bad joke just rolled off of her, due to dealing with her younger sibling’s friends as she slowly moved into a siting position while rubbing the bump on her head. That would show her that injured foot or no, the elevator was a bad place to enter. When she heard the other girl’s name she had to stop and make certain that her brain wasn't as addled as she thought it was. "I know a Sarai online. Oh! My names Stephanie, but people just call me Stephy."
One eyebrow arched and she hummed in the back of her throat, sorting quickly through the list of people she knew with that name. Sounded familiar. "Well, considering I'm an online junkie, it's wholly possible you know me. I'm terrible with names though, toss a few at me and I can tell you if you know me or some other random Sarai whose name is likely pronounced the hard way."
She stared at the other girl for a moment before she decided that if she listed some minions it would determine this quickly enough. "Well The Saria I know calls me her other half and has minions that we both know through Livejournal. Like Jade Pen and Hallidae. She's also known as forgotten lover on LJ." Her attention drifted slightly to start roaming across their surroundings.
There was a pause as she digested this, then she did something she'd been wanting to do for ages. She tackled the poor woman. "Al! And it's said Suh-rie, not sa-rie-ah." That done, a frown crossed her face and she quickly looked around. "Not that it's not nice and all, but why the hell are we both here?"
Getting over the shock of not only having the taller woman tackling her, but finding this was the one she had been talking to online for months now, she had to blink a few times to understand the question. "Well, I remember finally deciding to use the elevator to get to my Biology class, due to my foot and all, when I fell and smacked my head on one of the rails in that square death trap. I don't know what I'm doing here or where here is exactly. It's not my part of Texas, it's not humid enough."
The girl with the braid sat back on her heels and started looking around after a quick tweak to her coat. "And it's too cold for my area..." She sort of trailed off to a stop as she spotted someone staring back at her. Someone she's spent hours and hours perfecting. "So, other half, am I seeing that blond over there, or did I just really hit my head hard when I took that tumble?"
Looking slightly confused, she turned her eyes from their inspection of an oddly shaped bush to look in the same direction as her counterpart. She had to blink and check to see that she really did wear her contacts today before staring blankly at the blonde. "Unless that mind meld thing is really potent and we are both sharing this little illusion. Then yes, yes you are actually seeing him."
Said blond moved towards the two women and crouched down, looking back at the pair as they gave him almost amusingly identical dumbfounded expressions. "Not to be rude... but I don't think I know either of you."
The quiet voice snapped Sarai out of her shock at the very least. "It's one thing to write a Sue, it's a whole other ballpark to be one!!"
Stephy kept looking between Sarai and her muse, for that could be the only reason for this. The slight exclamation from her other just cinched the idea in her own head. She was about to say something when the familiar muttering caught her attention and she turned back to what she had thought was a badly pruned bush. The ash colored hair that popped out of the bush and the bright purple eyes made her shake her head in wonder. "Hey, Aru. Please confirm if that's my Pride crawling out of a bush."
The name got both the woman and the blond with the crimson and gold eyes to look in that direction. The woman spoke, whereas the man simply stared with horrified shock. "Easy enough. You sure he's yours though? Sure, nothing on the forehead, but you know how many of them are running around."
She quickly waved an arm. "Oi! Pride there, you have a Mania?"
The ash haired sin looked up from the task of extracting the leaves and twigs from his ponytail to only quirk his eyebrow at the two females and blonde male. "And if I do, I don't see why it would matter to you. Though, if I find out that this was Greed's fault again, I hope she forces him to be her subject for her improved cameras." He then ignored the trio in favor of looking for the rest of his group.
Stephy just rolled her eyes. "That sounds like my Pride."
Sarai just nodded a little and twisted to peer up at the blond by her. "Certainly looks like it. Now, to snap my Al here out of his stunned shockededness. Honestly, you'd think he was used to the mental by now..." She leaned up and waved a hand, careful to not touch him. "Alphonse, you can stop with the sensing thingy now."
Alphonse completely ignored her, twisting around to look for... something. "I know that aura..."
Wondering who else was going to show up, she didn't notice as her Pride headed towards a prone figure that had mostly been hidden behind a rock. She turned to Sarai. "What does he mean exactly? Is someone else here that belongs to you?"
"Hell if I know, he doesn't look ticked, or possessive, or creepy, so that counts out a slew of folks." She watched as a rather annoyed, and more than slightly bloody, Greed came into sight. She also watched recognition between the two. "Oh, never mind. I spoke too soon."
Scooting closer to the only other female in the area, she watched in wide eyed fascination as Sarai's two muses met eye to eye. She was quick to hit the ground face first while covering her neck and head when a loud gunshot rang in the air.
"You try and act like a concerned person and all the thanks you get is a bullet to the head."
Peeking from between her arms she noticed the fast healing bullet wound in the center of Pride's forehead and a longhaired blonde holding a smoking gun at the homunculus.
"None of my people use guns!" Sarai was quick to deny the responsibility here as she ducked back close to the ground. And that afforded her the chance to meet guarded dark eyes that were watching from under a bush off to the side. "I take that back, he does."
Having been spotted, the dark eyed man in question finally crawled out of the bush with as much dignity as he could muster, still livid bruises and burns showing above the collar of his shirt, and he made it obvious that he was wearing his gloves as he evaluated everyone.
Greed raised his eyebrows as he looked over the ragtag assembly of people. Apparently he and Alphonse had seen no reason to fight without lovers and family around. "I don't know what you people did, but you could have had better timing." It might also be noted that he wasn't fully dressed.
Still muttering about trigger-happy blondes, Pride turned and gave a puzzled look at the other man that had appeared out of the brush. The blonde with the waist length braid leaned against the rock he had been laying behind, and only gave a quick glance at the other people there. He stiffened for a moment at the sight of the two females, but other than that, he idly reassembled and disassembled the gun he had used on Pride moments before.
Dark eyes moved from one figure to another as he stayed back from everyone. "It's a nightmare come to life, isn't it?" It was a quiet mutter directed at no one in particular.
Stephy only half paid attention to the musings and conversations going on around her. She was more interested in the slightly rustling foliage to the right of the dark eyed man. That is, until a shorthaired blonde of about fifteen rolled out of the bush in a daze. Roy didn't react well, backpedaling away as his hand came up, just shy of snapping at the unfortunate that had startled him.
Alphonse spun to look in that direction as well, though his reaction was almost pure curiosity. He ignored the Roy, moving around him as though the man wasn't important to get closer to the blond bundle.
"And the plot thickens." Sarai wasn't sure whether to drool or panic, honestly, over having this group together.
Ed had looked up when the figure had first shown up out of the brush, but had decided that the teenager wasn't a threat and went back to fiddling with his gun. Pride stared at the bundle of teenager from a safe distance. He might not be able to die easily but it was still a pain to heal burn wounds. The bundle uncurled itself and blinked up at the figure standing over him.
"I hope that the other ones aren't around these ones are my more tame muses." Stephy mumbled into the palm of her hand.
"Lucky, these aren't for me. Think a moment on what I told you about those two." She gestured vaguely at Roy and the longhaired Alphonse that was ignoring said dark haired man. It was sort of amusing she didn't include Greed in the sweep, as he was headed for Pride and the gunslinger. Stephy only nodded at that statement she had heard about them and as such she was wary about how her three would interact with them.
Roy, in a small fit of paranoia, circled away from everyone, moving until his back was firmly against a tree. Ed paid no mind to the person coming towards him. If they wanted to mess with him he had enough bullets and his gloves to make them think rethink that idea.
Greed paced closer still to the gunslinger. "You seem rather familiar with that."
Ed just gave a slightly bland look before snapping the last piece in place. If he wanted to make small talk he could go to one of the others. He just wanted this whole thing to be figured out so he could get back to what he was doing. Besides, who knew how much trouble his brother and that psycho were in at the moment.
Greed hadn’t planned on moving away, but as he wasn't in the mood to be lit on fire either… After casting a glance to Roy, he decided to go investigate Pride.
Alphonse crouched down, looking into the face of the shorthaired blond. "This is certainly different."
Al moved back when the person who looked somewhat like him, yet not, had crouched down to his level. He should have been used to strange things by now yet it always surprised him when these things happened.
Alphonse smiled a little and evaluated the other teen. "You came out of the mess human?"
Al didn't exactly understand what was meant by that, but if he could survive being tossed into a different world and the group he had become attached to, he shouldn't have to worry about this teen. "Do you mean getting out of the armor? If you do I’m still not sure how that happened..."
Pride looked on in amusement from his vantagepoint on a low hanging branch. Where was his Greed and that camera when it would really be of use?
"Really? I wasn't so lucky I'm afraid." Alphonse extended his hand to the human lookalike. "Need a hand up?"
Al gave a small smile and took the offered hand. "So you're me in a way, right?"
Alphonse pulled him up and nodded slightly. "You certainly don't feel like Envy, so it seems to be so. Though I'll admit this is more than slightly confusing seeing as the only one here that feels right his Envy's lover, and I've no idea why he should be here at all." He waved his hand a bit then shook his head, long hair moving to show the leather collar he was wearing.
Al gave a curious look at the collar on the other Alphonse. He didn't want to be rude and ask about it, but he wondered why someone would wear one.
Alphonse caught the look and moved his fingers to it with a blink of two-toned eyes. "Niisan gave this to me." It was most interesting, he wasn't much like any other version of Alphonse that the younger could possibly have met.
Al gave a slight smile at that. "So you and your brother are still close? I haven't seen mine in a while."
Alphonse considered the question a moment before a weak smile crossed his face. "It's not really like it once was, but it's enough. Things have been a bit too problematic to really think too hard on the more domestic issues."
Al was sad to hear about that, but he reasoned that at least it wasn't full abandonment. The older Alphonse of their group had gone through that and he didn't want others to be that sad. "Well at least he still claims you as his brother, some were not as lucky to even be able to say that, even with problems. So don't let it get you down too much."
"True. Like I said though, I've had too many issues to worry about that... Especially since Zach showed up." The blond got a bemused look. "It's been nothing but trouble since the poor kid showed up. Bright kid, though I wish his father would just stop spoiling him."
Sarai leaned on Stephy. "Did we grow a god complex?"
"I hope not. If this is what we would create, I would hate to see the world run normally." She sat there, half leaning half supporting Sarai while noting that at least her youngest Al wasn't in any danger of conflict. The other two though, were not as prone to going along with anything.
"Don't make me wonder, I've done some really sadistic things to some of the worlds I've written for, the stuff you've seen is tame." Sarai nodded a little, watching the various pairs.
She looked around at the small group that they made. "You think we should be figuring out where we are? Or should we let them get to know one another a bit more?" Stephy tilted her chin at the muses.
Sarai raised an eyebrow. "I wouldn't mess with them just yet, Roy'll freak if we get within reach of him. We have to wait until one of the others gets under his guard I'm afraid, or we'll be scorched."
Pride stared at the Roy that was backed against a tree with a slightly perplexed look before shrugging it from mind. He wasn't his Lust, so he wasn’t his problem. He turned to see the Sin approaching him. He was interested in learning about the sin that looked like his Greed's predecessor.
Greed came to a halt under Pride's tree and tipped his head back to look into the branches. "You're a tree climber too are you? Must be an Elric thing."
Pride gave a long slow blink. "I might have to ask Envy if it really is an Elric thing. Though Infamy never seemed inclined to be in the trees." He allowed his gaze to flicker across the rest of the group before returning to Greed. "How would you know if it was an Elric thing? Do the Elrics of your place climb trees?"
"Envy does. It's his favorite way to annoy me as he knows I won't bother to come up after him." Greed looked upwards with a smirk. "But he's always been like that."
Pride gave a slight quirk of his lips. "Well our Envys don't seem to be that different. Though mine is usually having to climb to get me down from a tree."
Greed let a smirk cross his face. "Oh, so you're even worse than the Little Monster is are you?"
Pride had to wonder at the term Little Monster but just wrote it off as a quirk for this Greed. "Well, you would hide out in the trees too if you kept having to dodge a flashbulb from someone going insane with a camera. Most times Envy just hides out with me from the nutcase."
"Camera?" Greed raised his eyebrows, hitching himself up on a low branch. "That, and Envy practically despises cameras most of the time."
He perched himself so he could sit cross-legged while still being able to see Greed. "My Greed has decided that it is an ideal way to pass time by ambushing someone and take their picture. He then goes and subjects everyone to the photos of it. Though Envy hated cameras long before our Greed was allowed near one."
Greed found it a bit odd to hear anyone but himself being called Greed. "This Greed of yours, seeing as he doesn't sound like he's doing anything I would, he's someone else?"
He knew that the name thing was making the other curious, which he had seen when both Envy and Wrath had to place new faces with old names. "Yes, he is different from you. In my world, your person was my Greed's predecessor. My Greed used to be Maes Hughes until he was murdered."
Greed paused, and then he gave him an incredulous look. "I'm dead?"
Sarai shook her head a little as she noted Alphonse was winding up for a rant. "I just realized that poor boy never gets to talk to anyone."
Stephy just looked up before turning her attention to the silent one of her bunch. "Well he found the right one to rant at. That Al will let you rave all you want and still listen to you with a smile."
"I believe it. Alphonse used to be like that before they broke the boy." She shook her head a bit.
Stephy just gave a slight smile. "The fact that he can survive living with two Kimbley's and your Aru I'm surprised he's still the way he is."
Alphonse was on a roll by this point, showing the red marks on his arms with one particularly extravagant flourish. Burns and marks that looked like the arrays that adorned the Kimbleys' hands. "I mean, the fascination with the fish wouldn't have been so bad, but then the kid got himself kidnapped... I mean, nobody in our house has managed to not get abducted."
Al listened with wide sympathetic eyes to another one of his counterparts and didn't mind being used as a stress reliever.
Alphonse finally drew to a stop just after he heard himself mention 'the week'. "And really, things have gone even worse downhill since."
Roy, for his part, was eyeing the gunslinger, and was inching his way in that direction.
Ed seeing that no one was a threat or dead set on bothering him with chatter he put the gun back into its side arm and focused on putting his braid back into some order. The red ribbon had nearly fallen out thus meaning he would have to either rebraid it or throw it into a ponytail. Seeing as they weren't exactly going anywhere for awhile he set about braiding it once more out of boredom.
Roy finally got within about ten feet of the gunslinger and paused.
Ed gave a final tug to make certain that the knot wasn't going to come undone easily before letting it fall over his shoulder. He finally looked up and towards the figure that had, until just then, been easing towards him. If the man wanted to get closer that was fine by him, as long as he wasn't expecting some sort of conversation out of him he could care less.
Roy was evaluating the man, and he sat down within a decent control distance, then turned his attention back to the others.
When Ed saw the other man sit down and start to observe the others he relaxed slightly and began to check the stitching on his gloves. Who knew what damage could have been done to his arrays.
Pride had a slightly amused but also slightly nervous look on his face at the other man in the tree with him. "Well, yes. You lost a fight with an alchemist and as such you ceased to be. Though you must have fared better then your counterpart if you are here talking to me."
Greed eyed him for a long moment. "Right... You look like the guy whose wedding Envy insisted we crash."
"Wedding?" Pride was confused and that wasn't something he was used to feeling. Well, not since they left Dante to rot at the old hideout. "Never had a wedding, I didn't grow old enough to need or want a wedding."
Greed nodded, pleased to baffle the other sin. He gestured over at Alphonse, who'd gone dead silent and didn't look a day over sixteen, at the very most. "Yes, wedding. Ask that one other there if you want to know, he was there. He kept me from beating the crap out of that Fullmetal boy's lover for trying to hurt my Envy."
Turning slightly to look at the now silent Alphonse and the equally quiet younger one that was hovering just outside of ones personal space. He whipped his head around at the mention of Fullmetal and lover in the same sentence. "Fullmetal as in an Edward Elric? Who was the one that tried to hurt Envy?" Well this was interesting.
Greed blinked then looked around. "One like that one over there. Flame I think it was?" He looked back to Edward with an annoyed look. "He kept trying to light him on fire. I was rather relieved that Wrath stayed out of it at least, he was distracted by Martel." He shook his head. "That was when he was still obsessing over the Little Monster."
Now that was funny. Him and the General actually getting married. He gave a slight chuckle at that. The way Lust and Greed were all over each other and with Gluttony's loyalty to Lust… it was hard to picture anything like that. "Well Wrath does obsess, only he has gotten it into his head that Mania is like a mother figure to him." It was a pity about Martel though, he had actually liked her.
Greed raised an eyebrow. "I'm not sure who Mania might be, though the ladies over there seem to know about it if the earlier shout was any indication." Greed glanced down at himself then frowned, licking drying blood off his hands. "But Martel insists on calling the little Hellion Mekke, of all things."
"Yes well our ranks have expanded past seven due to certain incidents. The fact that they know makes me wonder a bit, but it really doesn't matter in the long run. They can't be worse then Dante, and she started going insane after awhile." Pride then turned and moved to be looking at Greed upside down from the branch. "Mekke? Haven't heard anything like that and Mania has come up with some weird nicknames in her time."
"Mekke, she'd named the little sin before she'd even gotten him home and had him calling her mama. He's Wrath, though when I gave him some of my stone it wasn't exactly a pleasant experience." Greed paused, a distinctly annoyed look on his face. "Of course, it would have been nice if the brat hadn't attempted to molest me."
Alphonse finally decided to break the uncomfortable silence. "You seem to be taking all this in stride." He gestured at the people.
Stephy just looked up from her game of cats cradle before going back to it. "Well, I guess we are all adjusted to one another, and have made some sort of bonding. I'm still in denial about being a Mary Sue though."
"Well, I know I don't have any superpowers." She looked up from the intricate design she was inking on herself.
"If I had superpowers I think I would have at least gotten rid of the contacts." She muttered as she untangled her string from a large knot that happened when she had been paying more attention on wondering when her gunslinger would just walk away. Sarai reached out to take the bundle and unknot it for her with the air of long practice, wondering much the same about her Roy.
Pride just raised an eyebrow during Greed's explanation. "Doesn't sound like our Wrath. Some things are similar but not many." He turned to his head slightly to look at the two Alphonses.
He just gave a slight smirk to them.
"Well, I named our Wrath, and I have the distinct feeling giving him stone of myself might not have been the wisest idea." He shook his head, following his gaze. "That one disturbs Envy."
"Wrath and Envy are the only originals from before I was turned and it was Envy who gave Wrath red stones and named him." He adjusted his grip so as to be dangling by his ankles before getting bored and pulling himself up onto the branch.
"Really? That's certainly... different. Wrath was mine by the time the Little Monster fled his creation over there." He gestured at the Alphonses again, who'd gotten into a slightly awkward conversation about Al's world.
"Our worlds seem to have met different fates despite the same characters." He looked over at the two conversing blondes before turning to look at the two females. "Well, for some reason I think you two know perfectly well what’s going on. Care to enlighten the rest of us?"
Sarai blinked up from the design that looked like some strange cross of Scar's designs and the arrays Ed was more used to. "If my theory is right, this is our fault, and there will likely be more of you, because I don't see my Gate Alphonse around here anywhere." She was, of course, heedless for her own safety.
"My other Al whose related to the quiet one over there is missing as well, and where he is my Barry is as well." She gave a slight look to the pair separate from the rest of the group. "Still don't know how it happened or even if we can get back."
Ignoring the fact that she was getting stares from all the characters at this point, she kept going. "Well, that and I don't see Zolf around here either, but he was new..." She had to dodge quickly as Roy nearly scorched her and she gave him a wide-eyed look. "Not that one you ass!"
Having learned to avoid being in range, she rolled the minute she felt Sarai move. She blinked at the scorching mass that had once been a patch of grass. The slight snickering from Pride didn't help in the least. "I feel like I was back between Barry and the Brat child for a minute, only without the flames and more pointy objects."
"Yeah, well, at least your Brat child has someone to play with, mine tried to pick my Dorchette apart whenever I wasn't looking." Sarai didn't take her eyes off Roy, well aware that he wasn't calming down. He was rather scary like that, her creation or no.
Greed smirked widely, watching the chaos unfolding as he leaned more firmly against the tree to observe.
"Its not exactly pleasant to have to dodge flying objects, most of them sharp and pointy, Barry hasn't quite forgiven me for ignoring him to write for the Brat." If Stephy and been paying more attention, she might have noticed that she was entering into Edwards space. Edward had noticed and had flattened himself against the rock in his fear.
Pride couldn't help but laugh a little as he climbed a bit higher to have a better view of all the different activities.
Alphonse frowned a little, circling wide around the two girls in a quasi-direct path for the Roy. He knew it wasn't his Roy, as he felt all wrong, but he was still a Roy, and one that had been recently damaged at that. His overprotective instincts were kicking in again.
Roy spun a little, giving Alphonse a narrowed-eyed look, lifting his hand in obvious threat. Hearing someone talking about someone with that name so casually had put him on edge.
Sarai just rolled her eyes and followed after Stephy, keeping an eye on Roy. "I swear, he didn't have to try and light me on fire over a name, the jerk. And dodging flying objects is nicer than being used as a shield in a sword fight!"
"Let’s just say we have violent muses." She noticed her Al trying to decide whether to go with his instincts and follow to offer comfort, or to back away like the smarter ones were doing. "Al you're not a suit of armor anymore. You can get hurt you know."
Alphonse paused to glance over to the shorter girl of the two, then realized she was talking to the taller him. He resumed his cautious approach. "Roy, hey." It was quiet, careful, and he undid his shirtsleeve to show the marks that still scarred the skin. "We have anything in common here?"
Roy faltered a little, eyes pinned on the marks that littered the pale skin, and he lowered his hand a little. "You... No, that doesn't make sense..." He lifted his hand again, distrustful.
Alphonse saw the crack in the facade and walked slowly closer. "It's alright. He's not here." He extended a hand, watching him with disturbingly two-tone eyes as he tried to get the man to calm down.
Sarai glanced around, relieved when Roy seemed to waver under her Al's attention. "At least that's one thing taken care of... We might be able to get moving soon."
"That's nice to hear." Stephy had started to relax when she saw that her Al wasn't in any range for a quick frying. He was the sanest of her muses at the moment.
Pride, seeing an opportunity to cause a bit of his own chaos, slowly moved until he was on a branch directly behind and above the slightly panicky gunslinger. Greed turned his head, watched Pride move along, smirking as he followed at an amble. It was more than a little fun to watch all this.
Ed gave a choked yelp as he flung himself away from the rock that he had been plastered against when he felt a hand come in contact with his shoulder. If he hadn't tripped over Stephy, Pride would have been sporting a new bullet wound at that point.
Alphonse made a frustrated noise as the almost calmed Roy spun around to look for the source of the noise. "For the love of... Would everyone QUIT?"
Sarai steadied Stephy, then glanced over at Alphonse, who had his hand on Roy's shoulder and was forcibly muffling his alchemy.
Stephy blinked as her usually quiet and calm muse all but flung himself in the opposite direction of both her and Sarai. The snickering from Pride made her wonder once more how she ended up with the more immature set of sins.
"You know, that's sort of funny." She was still eyeing the more paranoid pair, amused as hell when Roy kept snapping... and nothing happened.
Greed shook his head and straightened up. "So, ladies, you were in the middle of explaining how it is we all got here?"
"We were? Oh yes we were... Not much else to say, only that we might want to find shelter before the sun really sets for the day."
Sarai snickered, then hooked her arm around Stephy's waist. "Alright, so, who has an idea where we are?"
Pride managed to control his snickering long enough to find a branch with a better view. "Strange, you two don't know where we are?"
Sarai tilted her head back, peering up at the sin that asked. "I haven't gotten this far yet actually..."
"I'm in the same boat as well." Stephy couldn't help but notice that Ed had moved to the complete opposite side of the clearing and was still in enough shock to do nothing but stare at them in suspicion.
Greed shook his head as both women floundered and started walking west. "Dublith is this way."
Ed started heading East the minute he heard the name Dublith. This only amused Pride even more and as such he decided to give his seemingly direction confused counter part a guiding hand. He more or less dragged the gunslinger along as he followed Greed.
Alphonse looked dubious about following, but after glancing at Roy, who'd apparently settled for studying his arrays and ignoring the world, he started following the other three, snagging his counterpart on the way by.
Sarai looked to the other girl and raised her eyebrows. "Does this mean we're going to Dublith?"
"Unless you want to wander on our own and leave this group to run around unchecked? Besides, at the moment Pride has found new entertainment and Ed has enough damage as it is from me alone."
"Right, Dublith it is." Nodding, the longhaired girl shoved her glasses up her nose and started walking.