HomUnculuS Chap. 16 by frostysnowman94, literature
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HomUnculuS Chap. 16
HomUnculuS 16
Chapter 16: No Rest for the Wicked
Our Father,
Who art in Heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
On earth that it is in Heaven;
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass again us,
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil
Amen.
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As promised, the time finally came for the alchemised iron door enclosing the homunculus Envy and its human friend Edward Green from the light to be opened. At the threshold, bearing flaming torches, stood Captain Elias Amsel and his fellow alchemist subordinates, looking down upon the
HomUnculuS Chap. 15 by frostysnowman94, literature
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HomUnculuS Chap. 15
Chapter 15: Ab Intra
I laugh, it is so brisk and gay;
It is so far before, I weep:
I hope I shall lie down some day,
Lie down and sleep.
-'Fata Morgana', 3rd stanza, by Christina Rossetti
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Once again, Envy and Edward Green were locked inside the darkness. However, this time, the homunculus was far more at ease, although still the pressure of anxiety writhed at the back of its brain like a dormant tumour. It could not help itself. Centuries of terror and despair had ingrained its phobias deeply into its being, and the homunculus had no power to dispel them.
Edward noticed this from hearing the agitated restlessness of his friend si
HomUnculuS Chap. 14 by frostysnowman94, literature
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HomUnculuS Chap. 14
Chapter 14: One Night to Change the World
Oh why is heaven built so far,
Oh why is earth set so remote?
I cannot reach the nearest star
That hangs afloat.
'De Profundis' By Christina Rossetti.
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Never was there a more pitiful sight than the homunculus Envy as it screamed and pounded relentlessly on the iron doors containing it in its black prison, as blind as its young companion. It didn't want it to end like this. It didn't want it to end at all. Never, never! The void, the nothingness, forgotten, lost. The dark...the dark...the eyes...!
They're herethey'reherethey'reherethey'rehereTHEY'RE HERE...!!
Endlessly Envy kept howling in
HomUnculuS Chap. 13 by frostysnowman94, literature
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HomUnculuS Chap. 13
HomUnculuS 13
Chapter 13: Locus Standi
AUTHOR'S NOTE: There's a reason you haven't and won't be hearing much, on Edward Green's feelings or POV for the most part of this chapter. The shock from the earlier murder has made him withdraw into himself while dealing with his own conflicted feelings. He's only half-aware of what's going on around him, actually. Remember, he's only nine, and not Edward Elric at all in terms of endurance at this point, so please forgive him! Also, Envy's going to change quite a bit and slowly we'll see something interesting unravel ;)
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Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith,
All things are vani
Chapter 12: All-seeing, All-knowing.
NOTE: Envy will be referred to as 'it' from now on. I will be going back and changing all the masculine pronouns in the previous chapters as well. I thought it would be best to do so because it would better differentiate Envy from Edward and the human race as a whole; an alien in an alien world.
Trying to make it more human, as I have done in all the prior chapters, by referring to it in strict gender terms would do disservice to the inspiring struggle to be accepted in a world where every ounce of its being defies the socially constructed norms of human society, gender being just one of them. This is al
HomUnculuS Chap. 11 by frostysnowman94, literature
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HomUnculuS Chap. 11
HomUnculuS 11
Chapter 11: Chasing Hope's Shadow
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I hang my harp upon a tree,
A weeping willow in a lake;
I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and snapt
For a dream's sake.
--'Mirage', by Christina Rossetti
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It was strange. Wondrous strange. Huddled together, they squeezed and pushed their way through the massing crowds of gentleman, ladies, children, milkman, merchants, beggars, chimney-sweeps, and every individual of every kind of trade either Envy or Edward Green could think of. The noise was intolerable for both for much the same but varying extremities of reasons: Envy's world had been virtually silent save its b
HomUnculuS Chap. 10 by frostysnowman94, literature
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HomUnculuS Chap. 10
Chapter 10: Eye of the Gate
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A million hands reached out,
To pull me into their eyes.
A million eyes looked out
To stare me into their teeth.
A million teeth gnashed out
To devour me into their darkness.
Darkness.
The only beyond for me.
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'"The Gate"?' young Edward Green repeated. 'What's that?'
The homunculus Envy regarded the boy with a grim expression of one with the knowledge of something whose existence one could not deny, making the thing ever more terrible in its unavoidable omnipotence.
'Normally, it is the doorway to the afterlife,' he explained, brow furrowing. 'The doorway to the domain of the being you h
HomUnculuS--FMA fanfic 9 by frostysnowman94, literature
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HomUnculuS--FMA fanfic 9
Chapter 9: Every Night Valiantly Yearned
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Parasite victum vos.
Ut turpis parum Monasteriense,
Sic letalis ut animus.
Vastatio, is has laniatus absentis,
Totus vestri sanctus pectus pectoris,
Quod no vos a tristis crusta
Of bestia odium a terribilis flamma,
Ut erumpo quod perussi totus.
Ego sentio suus morsus quoque.
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Three long, dragging weeks, Homunculus and Edward Green were held captive in that odious dark dungeon, and three long, dragging weeks, Homunculus tirelessly wracked every ounce of knowledge stored in his ancient mind for a way to escape their prison. Analysing alchemic formulae, cryptic magic, sea
HomUnculuS-- FMA fanfic 8 by frostysnowman94, literature
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HomUnculuS-- FMA fanfic 8
Chapter 8:
The Wrath
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My life is like a faded leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk:
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall-the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me.
--poem 'A Better Resurrection' by Christina Rossetti.
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Golden hair swept past his vision. The smell of musk and crisp, burning elements making his eyes smart...Only darkness ruled in this otherwise senseless and sightless place.
Immediately he knew to whom this rare sight belonged, and reached out to the figure before him. The head turned, and
HomUnculuS--FMA fanfic Special by frostysnowman94, literature
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HomUnculuS--FMA fanfic Special
A Day in the Eons
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
-Edgar Allen Poe
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I walk quietly through a cobbled street I remember. Snatches of the past haunt my minds' eye as I move, shadow-like, through the lamp-beams illuminating golden circles in the darkness. The street is flanked by an endless row of lightless dwellings, shadows of the bright living buildings they were in the sun's wake. Goodness, it's cold tonight. The crisp air bites my skin with the sharp smell of winter pricking my senses. Strangeno wanton clouds ta