Encounters

"Huh? Oh, that's the original Greed! See?" Envy asked as he pointed to the man's right hand, which showed his homunculus symbol, "According to Great Grandpa Al's journal, he wasn't a bad guy and though he was a tad on the sadistic side, he was the nicest homunculus he'd met. He said that is was because this guy actually gave a damn, though he didn't want to. Or something like that -I haven't read that book in a few years-"

"Your Great-grandad seems pretty intresting." Greed noted. "The only thing I can remember about my Great-grandfather was he used to tell me stories about the humunculi, he had an oroboras in the same palce as this guy" Greed tapped the first Greed in the pic "and he moped a whole bunch after my great grandmother died." Greed recounted with a far off expression.

"You mean your great granddad was Mr Eat-up-a-massive-bill Ling Yao?!" Envy asked with wide eyes, "If he was that means he knew my great granddad Alphonse Elric!"

"Yup. My dad was named after him, you know, before he died. Me however... I got my grandpas name." Greed laughed nervously. "Creepy thing is, my name means truth." he laughed. "It was supposed to be symbolic or something. I know my great-granddad mentioned an Alphonse Elric once or twice, along with an Edward Elric and a Winry Rockbell."

"That's my great grandpa!" Envy said with a big grin, before his expression faltered and he let a solemn expression touch his features, "Well, my original's great grandpa anyway."

"Yeah, kinda hard to not talka bout these people like you didn't know them." Greed agreed. A dark look passed over his face. "Though I'd prefer not knowing some people I know him." he said darkly, thinking of the people back in Xing that he quite thuroughly hated.

Envy chuckled and nodded as he gave the image back to Yuan.
"Yeah, I know the feeling. Being a fake isn't very fun."

"Nope, especially if you earn the kinda nicknames I got." Greed stated sourly. "It's kinda... coincidential though. That our originals have relations that knew each other." he grinned.

"Yeah, it sure is funny, but our original sins hated each other. Funny that we're practically best friends, ne?"

"Yeah, the world works in funny ways like that. I mean if they could see us, they'd probably get pretty upset... or be dumbstruck." Greed nodded, imagineing it to the best of his ability.

"I vote dumbstruck." Envy said with a wide grin as a copy of Al's drawing of Envy next to Ed's old and very crappy drawing appeared in his hands, before he gave the badly drawn VS realistic picture ot Yuan, "That's how Great Granddad drew. The chicken scrawl of a picture is by Great Uncle Edo."

"Eh, the chicken scrawl is better than anything Greatgrandmother Ranfan could do. She was hopeless when it came to that sort of thing." he grinned and examined both drawings. "Pretty much how my great-grandparents described him, though my great-grandfather did mention something about a giant ugly creature." Greed struggled to remember.

"Our original form, I bet. It's this massive monster-like creature, and very ugly. I can shift into it, but I'm not going to. Too creepy."

"I have a feeling I'll thank you for that later." Greed noted, streching his arms over his head, cracking his shoulders, but also causing ultimate shield to spread across his arms. He scowled. "Hate when it does that, if I'm not paying attention all the time..." he sighed.

Envy couldn't help but tap the hardened skin before chuckling, "It makes a funny sound when you tap it, like it's hollow or something"

Greed frowned as the shield disapeared. "I noticed that to, it's kinda weird." he shrugged. "Doesn't matter though." he grinned.

"Hm... I'm bored..." The young homunculus groaned as he suddenly flopped onto the ground.

"So am I... waddaya wanna do?" Greed asked, also sighing as he leaned against a wall.

"No idea..." He whined before an idea struck him, and he was standing, and grinning, in a flash, "Say, you wanna see which homunculus is better at fighting?"

Greed grinned. "Why not? It's not like we can kill each other." he grabbed Jun up from her perch on a box and set her on an out-of-the-way shelf. "She can die though, so watch." Greed warned with a sharp look.

"There's no way I'd ever hurt Jun-chan! Without her, your brain would be as good as putty!" Envy exclaimed.

Greed glared. "Are you suggesting I'm stupid?" he asked with raised eyebrows.

"Yup~~" Envy said with a grin as he jumped up skillfully and crouched on one of the more stable shelves, grinning.

"That's it." Greed's already narrow eyes narrowed yet more as ultimate shield raced up his arms. "When I'm through with you you're going to rethink that." Greed jumped and balanced on the bar counter, it shuddering slightly beneath his minimal weight.

"I doubt it~~~" Envy teased before he flipped off of the shelf and landed with style in the middle of the room, before standing and pulling a strange pose. His left hand was up and facing Greed and he seemed to be in a normal stance for the most part.