1: The Illusion Alchemist

Hello! Thanks for pulling up my story! Anyways this is my first shot at a FullMetal Alchemist fanfic so I'd appreciate if you guys can leave me any of your thoughts. I'm still debating whether I'll continue this story or not. Well I hope you enjoy! Oops! I don't own FullMetal Alchemist (FMA) and it belongs to its rightful owners and anything else belongs to AnEverlastingNightRose13 (AENR13)

"Colonel Mustang; Lieutenant Colonel Fang's here to see you." Hawkeye informs Mustang, he nods and another State Alchemist enters. Ed and Al watch the Lieutenant Colonel salute to Mustang and Hawkeye.

"It's been awhile Lieutenant Fang." Mustang smirks. The Lieutenant turns around and goes over to investigate Ed and Al.

"So this is the Fullmetal Alchemist? Very nice to meet you Mr. Electric." The lieutenant extends a hand out to Ed. He takes it and asks

"Who are you?"

The Lieutenant smiles

"I'm Laura Fang, Mustang here asked me to help you. If you plan to find the Philosopher's Stone; you'll have to be able to tell the difference from reality and an illusion." She states as Ed notices unlike Hawkeye, she has her hair down and it's a medium length but her uniform has more of a female's cuts and she has jet black hair like Mustang.

"Yeah, like you're going to be able to help me." Ed rolls his eyes not really buying Fang's word.

"I'm the Illusion Alchemist. Therefore meaning that if I can be able to purposely confuse people with my illusions; I believe I can show you. Now if you're going to stand here and argue with me or do you want to learn to help narrow down your search?" She asks as she gets in his face. He doesn't smart ass her back. She smiles a bit then turns her attention to Mustang and Hawkeye

"If you excuse me, I have a lot of things to show to this Alchemist in such a time scrunch. And Mustang, we have a lot to catch up on." She informs and leaves the room with Ed and Al following behind her.

"Colonel, she really isn't here just for showing the Fullmetal Alchemist the art of illusions is she?" Hawkeye asks. Mustang leans over his desk and locks his hands together.

"No, she's on a mission from Central besides that. The Alchemist Killer is on the loose and well, with Laura's aid it'll be much easier to catch him." She nods and then dares

"And also I believe you missed your old friend." He doesn't answer causing her to chuckle.

"Alright Ed, there's a complex art of the Illusion aspect of Alchemy. But depending on how well you can analyze the situation beforehand can determine the outcome of the battle when using Illusions. Now, I'll spare against you and fight me with everything you got." She states so she rips off her State uniform and pulls out two swords from the sword cases strapped against her legs. "Ready when you are." She taunts so he grins and comes at her. She narrows her eyes and ducks as Ed strikes. She gets under so she places her hand on his abdomen and a little flash of light comes from the contact surface. She falls back and blocks Ed's blade.

"If this is what you got to become a Lieutenant Colonel then it doesn't take much!" He taunts earning him a disapproving glare from her.

"You're really rusty Ed." She thrusts him off and with a flick of her wrist, she disappears from in front of him. He's there confused but blocks as she slams herself into him. He grunts as he's sliding trying to maintain his guard. I got you now! She disappears again and gets behind him when she activates the Illusion Seal she placed on him earlier. He gives out a startled cry as the Illusion takes over

"What's going on?!" Ed thinks to himself as he's taken to another place. There's the image of his house burning when he and Al set it up in flames. "Why am I here?" He goes to where the younger him and brother are. He's about to reach to them when the place glitches like in an old video game.

"You lose." Ed's pulled out from the Illusion and finds himself on the ground with Fang's foot set against his chest. A bead of sweat slides down his face as he realizes that she could have killed him.

"I'm impressed. You have the true marking to become General, Fang." She turns her attention to the State Major Colonel and gets off of Ed and stands on point with her hand against her forehead.

"Thank you sir! Colonel Mustang asked me to show the Fullmetal Alchemist how to detect an illusion from reality!" She informs making him to nod.

"So I see, and Lieutenant Fang; I thought you didn't take pet projects?" He teases, the area under neath her golden eyes turn pink. The Major turns and continues "Carry on Lieutenant Colonel Fang, I don't wish to distract you." He leaves so Ed stands up and smirks

"So you're doing this because Mustang asked you didn't he?" He teases so Fang glares at him and punches him square in the face.

"Shut your trap or you'll find yourself inside an other illusion." On that threat Ed shuts up. Fang goes over to where Al was watching the spar and plays with a stray cat. Fang crouches and pets the cat. "Now I say we should go and get something to eat. Sound good?" She asks. Once when the boys agree, she picks up her uniform cloak from the ground and slips it on.

"So you're barely 29? Mustang's like 32 so how did you guys get into the State Alchemy Program at the same time and pass?" Ed asks as she's taking a whip at some liquor in front of them at a restaurant. She pops some beef into her mouth and replies

"Him and I used to be neighbors when we were growing up, so we enrolled at the same time when the State was recruiting young people to enroll into the Central Command offices. Mustang managed to get me to enroll with him and here we are. He's the Flame Alchemist and I'm the Illusion Alchemist. And well our rankings have gotten past each other's so that explains why he probably hasn't mentioned about me to you. So tell me about you two, why so interested in finding that Stone?" Ed and Al explain to her about what happened that lead to Ed becoming a State Alchemist and hence where he got his name. She nods

"You know, when I first started tweaking with Alchemy, I'd never think that I'd be a State Alchemist either but; ever since that night." She stops abruptly as she snaps the metal fork she had in her hand from her pressure. Damn it, even if its the last thing I do...

"What happened Laura? That made you finally listen to Mustang about enrolling." Al asks so she masks her emotions and puts on a fake smile

"Oh it's nothing you guys to fill up your heads with. Now I'll explain to you why I decided to work with Illusions instead if Elemental Alchemy.

The whole point to Illusion Alchemy is to use their split seconds of confusion to your advantage. But in order for you to do that is either at the beginning of a battle, middle, or towards the end. I generally do it towards the end because if you do it straight at the beginning you'll be playing a very powerful card on the first hand. Ed, you remembered how I was toying with you but I stroked you in your stomach? It's because I wanted to get you to think you could read through me before I'd pull out a wild card at you. Before I activated the Illusion, and you can ask Al, I made two mes. Me the original and another fake to provide back up if you managed to break through the illusion I wouldn't be caught off guard. It's more practical when you're fighting against multiple targets or when you're fighting against a long range attacker. But once when you were confused by the illusion I over powered you in less than 2 seconds. And that was considering I was going easy on you."

Ed and Al are in awe but then Ed blurts out

"So how is this supposed to help me find the Philosopher's Stone?!" She raises her hand then continues

"Illusions are everywhere, your reality can be my illusion. The point is to be able to detect what's real or not. I heard you went to a town where they were trying to produce the stone using Red Water right? Well if you had a trained eye, you would have been able to notice something immediately when you stepped foot inside where they were being produced. The fakes, and this applies to anything really, will always give this aura where Illusions can be created from. It sounds very complicated but its actually quiet simple. Tomorrow if you're not being sent out I'll explain more." She finishes and glances down at the fork she broke.

Thanks to you I'm stuck here... She thinks to herself and clenches her fists together. She looks up back at Ed and Al "Boys I don't want you two to be up so late so please get some rest. If things are in our favor we'll be up early in the morning training. Goodnight." She leave the place and goes over to her hotel room. She slides down the door and pulls out her Transmutation Circle watch and studies its complicated design. She puts it away, showers, and tucks herself in bed and stares up at the ceiling in the dark.

Now what does Mustang really plan to do with me?

So this is it for now. Thanks again for pulling up my story and please leave your reviews!