A/N:Here we are, my first submission on this site. This is a Full Metal Alchemist fanfiction, based off the Anime. It has no OCs, and no self-inserts. It does have Homunculii not from the original series, but they are brought to life from preexisting characters. This means that any Homunculus who appears was, in some way, a previously living canon character.
It didn't have a mind. It didn't have a body. All it had was a hunger. A hunger to rip flesh and bodies from whatever it saw. It took joy every time it saw those enormous doors open, and felt what humans might call pride every time it could grasp an arm, or a leg, and rip it off whoever owned it. It once even helped claim the body of a child.
This time, when the gate opened, there would be no struggle, no fight, no hard earned intestine or muscle. It saw those immaculate doors open, but it itself was pulled outside. And everything returned to black.
Then everything became gray. It heard voices. A voice that sounded familiar, and a voice that sounded different.
"...this before, so I don't know how," it was different. The voice said the things it should have said, but it sounded different. Perhaps due to an illness? This voice didn't normally sound like that, did it?
"Quiet old man," this voice sounded familiar, but the voice said things it shouldn't have said. The voice sounded too greedy. Too impatient. "He's waking up. Which one is he, now?"
"Hm..." the different voice was thoughtful, as though the next words out of his mouth bore some great importance. "Lust, Pride, and Sloth are dead, we know that. The other three are probably still alive, although I have my doubts about Envy."
"Listen up, freak show," the familiar voice seemed to change direction. "Which sounds like a good name for you, Lust, Pride, or Sloth?"
Grey faded into shapes. A tall shape that looked different, and another that looked the same as it once did. Too much the same.
"Name?" It slowly formed the word, it didn't know how. "What... is name?"
This angered the familiar voice. The voice came from the smaller shape, and scowled at the taller shape.
"Do you call this 'intact'?" the smaller shape came into focus, and clenched its hands... they were called hands?
"O-once it has a fully formed body," the taller shape withdrew. It looked like it was covered by something. Something that belonged somewhere else.
Its gaze shifted back to the smaller shape. It opened its mouth and formed words. Words it felt as though it had said before, but it had never said them before.
"You look... like..."
The smaller shape shifted back to It.
"You are..."
"See, just give him time?" the taller shape sighed nervously.
"So small I could crush you like an ant," It finished.
The taller shape paled, as the shorter shape reddened.
"G... Greed?" the taller shape inhaled.
The shorter shape fell backwards, and started laughing.
Gasping for breath, the smaller shape whispered.
"Pride it is."
A/N: Greed, in this fanfiction, is not the original Greed, but a replacement. As with Pride, and most/all the Homunculii who will appear in the fanfiction.