Rabid was back. He had left some time ago and had found out his past. He had been gone for well over a month and after finding out enough information, found out where Dante was now. Traveling to a part of old Central City, Rabid made his way underground and found the building he was looking for. He opened the doors and smiled "Dante...I'm home."

"Well...if it isn't the new homunculous." said Pride who was in the room, yet he was not alone.

Envy was in there as well; the two had been in the middle of a game of chess (Envy was winning, but Pride hadn't really been paying attention) when Rabid returned. "So...you're back home. Now what? Isn't there something else you wanted to address?" Homunculi usually got quite theatrical when they wanted to address something important. Envy was waiting for it, and halfway dreading it. It wasn't that Rabid scared him, but they really were on foul terms.

"Well...I have a few things to discuss...first off, now I know who I was."

"Congratulations, now leave." said Pride.

"Oh, no...you see I have a question for you. Tell me...what is the Philospher's Stone...and why does Dante want it?" said Rabid coldly.

Envy couldn't help but start laughing with that. "Oh, wow; he didn't pussyfoot around that, now did he?" He finally straightened up and crossed his legs. "So, you found out about the stone...I guess you deserve to hear this. She wants the stone so she can live forever; as long as she has it, there's a chance we can be completed and rise above everyone else in this world. All we lack are souls, after all." There was more than that, too, but Envy's perception of the world was more than a little off kilter. "The Philosopher's Stone is the pinnacle of Alchemic knowledge and is made with the sacrificed lives of multitudes of people. Heh...it shouldn't bother you."

Rabid smirked and said "Oh I see...well in that case...I quit."

"What!" said Pride getting up "You can't leave Dante...unless you have a deathwish."

"I wouldn't be making any ideal treats to me fuher." said Rabid calmly "I have no intention of helping some old hag with her looks. She doesn't care about us either, it's her, and her alone. We're just the pawns that help. And I know that your thinking I should leave." He said looking at Envy "But look at it from my perspective. Not only do I know much about Dante and the corruption Amestris is in, but what would happen if I told the public this. Not only that revealed the weknesses of homuncli to Drachma, or even the Ishballans. Or...what would happen if I just decided to join up with one other homunculi. By the name of Greed."

Oh shit. He'd said the G word in front of Envy. If there was one name that Envy hated, it was Hohenheim...but Greed was pretty damn close. "You join that son of a bitch and I'll kill you," he said angrily, his tone rising to that eerily venomous pitch he used right before going to attack. Normally, Envy was the last one to pick a fight and would rather watch everyone else do it and enjoy the show. When he actually got angry, almost everyone tended to back away, realizing this wasn't going to be fun. "Do you understand me, Rabid? Joining Greed is a deathwish on your part."

"Oh, but wasn't it you who said homunculi can't die so easily?" said Rabid cooly. "And why should I care what you think, after all, your just a very annoying girl. The second is that Dante dosn't even know who I was, and where my remains are. If you plan to pick a fight, it's already one-sided..."

Envy scowled, anger boiling over in his veins. Oh, yes; Rabid knew just how to rub his hide the wrong way. "Why you..." He was waiting for Pride or somebody else to hold him back. If nobody interfered, he'd turn into something big, dangerous, and very ugly...just so he could have a bit of dominance over this smart-mouthed jerk.

"You take care of him Envy...I'll get the others to deal with him." said Pride walking away.

"Coward!" yelled Rabid after him. He turned to Envy and smiled "Alright Little Miss Envious...it's play time."

"You're so stuck on yourself, you know that?" Envy snapped, shifting into a really large nine-headed dragon...a hydra. He hardly ever took on something inhuman, but this was one of those times. For each time Rabid sliced a head off, three more would grow back in its place. To start him off, Envy blew a bunch of acid right at the other homunculus. 'Pride, you nitwit; you better drag the others in here,' he thought bitterly.

Rabid ran at Envy and sliced off three heads quicly. Suddenly nine grew out. Soon Rabid had a small idea. "you know...I recently found out my power...Care to see what it's like?" Suddenly Rabid was engulfed in flames and he charged at Envy. Hen then stabbed Envy in the point where all the heads met, causing pain and being set aflame for Envy "Like I said...it's already one-sided."

Envy yowled in anguish and started to contort all of his heads right at Rabid. They all chomped down, threatening to tear him limb from limb. He was doing his best here, but this cocky snot...he wasn't all that much different from Greed. All he had was another power and twice the jackass streak.

Rabid was forcing one of the mouths to stay open, as he let go, he could die. "Is this the best you got...your an abomination to all homunculi." said Rabid annoyed, in one fast movement, he tore off the tounsel of the mouth he was in. Getting his fot biten by Envy, he set it aflame and he escaped from his grasp

OOC: Just be super careful not to godmod here, okay? ;)

Two of the other heads yowled in anguish as one was damaged. Envy's fangs dug into various parts of Rabid's body, finally snatching off a limb or two with two quick snaps. Of course, he could probably reanimate those limbs and reattach them to his ruined body. It was pointless, but fun anyway. "This really isn't as one-sided as you claim. Dante would never attempt to seal me!" That was right, wasn't it? After all, wasn't he her first and only child? Didn't she love the deep dark sin of Hohenheim?

Rabid's body began to regrow the lost limbs after ten second and he got up "And how would you know? Your not Dante, so how could you know if she wants you or not." He ran at Envy when suddenly several swords were thrown at him and he was trapped against a wall. "So the old hag reveals herself." said Rabid coldly

"Should I call Gluttony to devour him...or should I leave his punishment up to you master." said Pride coldly.

"Well, what do you know? I thought I heard something going on down here but who would have expected it would be none other but you, Rabid." Walking out from the shadows stood Dante, in all her horrifying glory. Looking at Envy with her dulless eyes, she spoke softly. "Now Envy, stop this foolishness so I may chat with Rabid about this ridiculous behavior."

Envy shifted back to his typical form, panted for breath, and started skulking off. He hadn't started that little cat fight; again, Rabid had pissed him off and therefore brought it on himself. 'Whatever...' he thought to himself sulkily as he went to sulk in the kitchen and see if there was anything good in the wine cellar.

"Ridiculous? As ridiculous as you being reincarnated with your hopes of gaining the Philospher's Stone. Don't be a fool, with the Philospher's Stone you could do anything, and you still choose to use it for eterenal life...I have other things in mind." said Rabid. Suddeny a sword was thrown at his shoulder and he screamed.

"Show some respect you dog." said Pride annoyed.

"Ever heard of the expression the kettle calling the pot black Pride?" said Rabid camly. Pride looked angered by this "Then why did you attack Envy?"

"Because she pisses me off." said Rabid as if this was a logical answer that everyone in the world should know.

'Oh, he thinks I piss him off?' Envy thought from the kitchen, already opening up a nice bottle of wine. 'He doesn't know the half of it yet...I haven't been all that annoying so far!' That did it; this meant war, and not the bloody boring kind, either. He'd have fun bothering the living crap out of Rabid if he kept insulting Dante like that. If he continued to be a smartass, he was hoping Dante would seal him and maybe even get rid of him.

That'd be one less newbie homunculus to put up with.

"You've got some nerve." said Pride.

"Oh so who cares if I hate the b*tch. You all do, and you simply don't care about your good old son, eh Dante, not as much as the man that abondened you, what was his name...oh yes, Honheim was it? I mean, he left you and Envy, and had a happy little family without you. How terribly awful...oh sorry, I meant to say hilerous." said Rabid.

Envy was trying his best to ignore Rabid in the other room and felt that gulping down sip after sip of white wine might be the best way to do such a thing. However, try as he might, he couldn't get drunk. 'I'm not even getting tipsy, damn it,' he thought sulkily. When that upstart started mentioning the abandonment and Hohenheim, he started to boil over with anger, but still held it in. 'He's nothing but talk and bad attitude, and therefore a waste of my time and energy.' He looked at the now-empty bottle and stifled a small belch. 'I'd rather go outside and search for more upstart Alchemists to manipulate...'

Pride's rage was increasing as Rabid continued to berate Dante and the other homunculi casually as if he did this one a regular basis. "So tell me Dante, if your the ruler of all the homunculi, and practically the ruler of Amestris, how come you couldn't even manage your own love life. Your pathtic."

"What should be his punishment master?" said Pride, his teeth practically grinding against each other.

Rabid had lost count of how many days he had been on that wall, impaled by some swords. His healing factor was at least making sure he wouldn't bleed to death, but that didn't mean he was really p*ssed. He had seen all the homunculi at this point walking past him, Envy always making sure to get a free punch at him. He was dieing to get out of this hell hole, and get some personal revenge once he left the sins. He heard a door open and he looked around.

A few days had passed since the intrusion of Rabid had occurred and of the posionous words he had spoken to her Sins and to her. Foolish act on his part. Waltzing ever so calmly up to Rabid in her recent form- a small blonde haired girl with freckles- she spoke with a fake sweet voice. "I really do hate doing this to you Rabid." A small uncurled from her lips as she said it. "But what else am I supposed to do with someone who spews hateful words to my Sins and me?"

"Oh please do whatever you wish Mistress Dante." said Rabid in a mocking voice "But please, don't throw me in the breyer patch! I beg you, please! Also fatso's stomach if it isn't too much."

Rabid tried to move only to cause a large gash where the swords were, which healed but made him shiver in pain. "I'm curious why you even want to change bodies all the time. Trying to hide your age isn't all of it I suppose."

Smirking from hearing the question, Dante took a few steps back from Rabid, and began her admiration of the torture chamber Envy set up. She answered with a bit of mirth. "Haven't you heard the saying 'curiousity killed the cat', my little feline-like friend?" She glanced at him as she watched him struggle a bit more and continued to speak. "As to why I change bodies is to keep a lovely alias from those out in public. The bodies I use are just to keep the real me safe.....than again, maybe I do just take joy out of taking other people's bodies. Think whichever one you like."

"Damn...that is cold." said Rabid in a casual manner. "But tell me, why are you even keeping me alive? From what I've come to expect, I thought you would have sealed me away like you did to Greed. Also where are all the other homunculi? Because obviously you must have very little to do if you've come to visit me. Or am I wrong?" He knew he was messing with the bull and he could quite easily get the horns, but he wanted to see what would happen, it was like Dante said, his curiousity could be his downfall.

Pausing, Dante pondered the question as to truly why she kept him here. Fun? Torture? Those seemed to be the most main answers but for Rabid, the Humonculi she had taken in and saved, there was perhaps more. Revenge. "I suppose revenge would be the best option for you. After all, we saved you from your ravenous fate and let you joined our ranks but you repay me in such a manner. I do hate creatures like you."

"Oh goody, I feel warm and fuzzy inside. I simply wanted to leave but your 'daughter' wanted to pick a fight. Naturally I have to accept because...let's face facts, she's a b*tch." said Rabid. "So tell me, when are you going to let me out of this painful situation? I really have to move around soon, getting a cramp in my leg, and I simply can't reach this itch I'm having."

Sure Rabid was playing fun in a situation he didn't like. Maybe this was the one way of trying to keep his sanity in check.

Slapping Rabid across the face, Dante glared hatefully at him. "Please, refraine from insulting my son as such or I'll let him come down here like he wanted too and take care of your torture. And I don't think you'll be leaving any time soon....unless you renounce all those horrible things you said about me and my Sins earlier...." Smiling, Dante very well doubted he'd agree to ask to be forgiven. He was a stubborn fool.

Rabid chuckled and leaned forward "I got this itch you see...kind of under my right arm...was wondering if you could scratch that for me?" He gave a little smile, but it was very quick. The sting from Dante's slap was fading, along with the red hue of a handprint. In a way, he was saying that he wasn't about to take anything back, not for his entire life.

Envy slinked back in around that time, hearing a few rude comments tossed his way. "You know, you really do have a lot of nerve to bitch about somebody who isn't even in the room to hear it. That doesn't take anything but a spineless fool's tongue." He'd just gotten out of the shower, so he was pretty much dressed in nothing but a fluffy black bathrobe, not that he minded too much. The maids kept the place clean, so it wasn't like he was stepping in filth.

"Oh don't worry Lil' Miss Nevy." said Rabid "I've been insulting dear old momzy while you've been gone. So tell me, being an old hag in a younger body...it probably explains why Envy has to hide his real face, probably so old and wrinkily...and let's not forget ugly since he probably inheritated all of your genes, well...need I go on?" He gave a little smile and chuckle that followed shortly afterwords.

Envy scowled and hurled something at Rabid. "You annoying little prick...I hate to say it, but I got almost all my genes from my bastard of a father!" This was getting old incredibly fast. Turning toward Dante, he scowled. "Damn it...why couldn't Drosselmeyer have dragged him off somewhere instead of us having to put up with this crap? Get Gluttony to eat him so we can have a moment without this asshole breathing down our necks!"

"Oh...oh Envy...that hurts." stated Rabid in a very sarcastic voce. "It was a compliment...after all, your mother is clearly in a much younger, healthier body-oh wait...that's just the body of some little girl while she's still a rotting sack of meat."

"Go ahead, get fatso in here, I'd love to give im some indegisten." he said smiling and then laughing manically.

((OOC: Ooh, the crazy potty-mouth type--nifty. Anywho, I'd like to make the distinction that I have only read the past few posts, and all I can gather is that Dante is being made fun of by Rabid, and Envy is defending her...correct me if I err.))

Sloth fished around in her ridiculously tiny pocketbook for her spare key to Dante's house. Somehow, it remained lost amongst handwritten notes, kleenex, a wallet, and a half-eaten bag of jellybeans. Finally, she found the key, and unlocked the door. Stepping inside, she ate a few more of the succulent pink beans and stuffed the rest back into her purse.

"Dante?" she asked, raising her voice so that her master could hear her, "Hello? Anyone home? Envy? C'mon Envy, I have licorice flavor..."

"Ah, hello Sloath. Looking lovely as always." stated a scerwed (sp?) Rabid calmly. His attention shifted from Dante and Envy to the new apperence of Sloath. He somewhat knew that she was the mother of two childern who tried to bring her back, but he really didn't care. She was single, she and Lust. He didn't mind if he got one of them or both, as long as it upset Envy and made him a bit more complete.

"So Sloath, what are you doing later tonight? I was thinking if you weren't too busy, we could head down into town an-" he began before he was interupted.

"Excuse me!" Lust rapped her fingers irritatedly in a testy manner, "Not that I really care or anything, but weren't you just flirting with me yesterday? Funny...you asked me on that same date!"

Sloth gave Rabid a long hard look, grinned maliciously at Lust, and smiled at her interrogater, "Oh, I'm not doing anything. Just tell me when and where." With that, she liquified, and slithered further into Dante's house, probably to hang out in a sink or tub somewhere.

Lust glared at Rabid, and stomped off to join Envy.

"So I'm guessing there can't be a second date between the two of us huh Lust?" asked Rabid a bit annoyed. He had no idea that Lust was watching him, and now he probably lost another person to try and get him out of this annoying perdicament.

"No second date." Lust was being quite blatant. Anything there was (not like there was much) was utterly gone. She stomped off to go sulk. After all, she was supposed to be Lust.