2: the real reason
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POV of Laura Fang
"Alright pipsqueaks, be prepared on committing to the State Military. If you think passing the State Alchemy exams were tough enough; then be ready for the hell up ahead. The State will become your life, being in the Military is demanding. So you'll have to sacrifice whatever is necessary to complete your assignments given to you. You will follow your orders to the dot, and if you have to improvise to complete your mission; then go ahead. As long as it gets done it will be fine. Now going back to the State taking over your life, there will be times where you'll have to do things you don't want to do. Like giving up that date with the hot girl you've been pestering for the past 6 months or even moving around. No one said being in the Military was easy, not even to mention State Alchemists. Now is there any questions?" I come to a halt in front of the new regiment of State Alchemists fresh from the Exams. I scan their faces, even though I don't mind showing Ed and Al the differences of reality and illusion; new State Alchemists are the worst in my opinion. Because I have to roughen them up so when ever they're assigned to their own Officers they're ready and sadly I have a rep to roughen up the best Alchemists to enter ranks.
"Maybe that's why you're still single..." someone smart asses and laughs from the newbies erupt into the air. I narrow my eyes at them and then smart ass back
"Maybe that's why you're a newbie and a little shrimp; I'm Lieutenant Colonel Fang; I can make your life a living hell here Soldiers." and on that note they're silent. "That's what I thought, anyways how many of you guys still plan to be here? I say desert now before you can't if you're not willing to commit to the State." I dare with my hands behind my back.
"Can someone challenge you?" a shrimp ask so I smirk.
"I'll let you what, if you guys can beat me then you'll be able to enter ranks already. But I'm only taking one with the most desire to. Is anyone up to it?" I taunt as I still keep a cool exterior on. An Alchemist steps out of the crowd and advances towards me. "That's all fellows?" they remain quiet so I direct my attention towards the Alchemist. "Now don't be a shame when I beat you darling." I inform, I take off my uniform and through it towards the new ones and pull out my swords. "Ready when you are."
The Alchemist charges towards me so I dodge him and slice up his back, he falls back and summons a water dragon and directs it towards me. I raise an eyebrow then get out of the way and disappear. There's confused cries from the newbies so within that moment I re appear behind the Soldier and press my swords at his neck. "You lose Soldier; get back into your position." he nods so I let go and he disappears into the crowd.
"My my Lieutenant Fang; you've surely have gotten faster than last time I've seen you enter combat." I turn around and everyone shouts out
"Colonel Mustang!" I smirk as I drop the swords into their cases and slip on my uniform.
"I sure have Roy, now where's the FullMetal Alchemist at with his brother?" I ask.
"In my office waiting for you, now I'll take these newbies off of your hand so you can go train Ed; he's getting impatient and doesn't believe me that you're out here."
"Aren't you such a generous man Mustang? Thank you, if you excuse me." I bow and then head over to where Ed and Al are.
"Hey, you didn't believe Mustang when he told you I was out roughing up the newbies?" I call as I lean against the door frame to Mustang's office. They both rise
"No! Anyways that doesn't matter, we want to know more about Illusions in the real world. And also how they work." I smirk so I pull out the whiteboard Mustang has in his closet and start drawing on it. It's a rough image of a human brain and an arrow pointing to an area.
"This is where Illusion Alchemist target. The Illusion Seal I placed on you yesterday targets this area where you're fears and hopes are stored. We pull them out and trick your brain thinking it's what your eyes are seeing so it becomes an Illusion to distract you and make you unaware of what's really happening. But depending how thick and real the Illusion seems the stronger it is. Even people who are Mustang's ranking can find themselves in it and can die like that." I snap my fingers to show how quick the time is. "Now, sometimes the stronger the person is they can break through the illusion so I create fakes of me so that way I won't be caught off guard when they do. The possibilities to Illusions are endless, there's two main types to Illusions, Mental Illusions and Physical Illusions. Physical Illusions are things that are conflicting with the REAL Reality and Mental Illusions screw up with the way you make out things. Depending on the Alchemist is which of the 2 they generally lean more two."
"So you're a Mental Illusionist?" Al asks so I shake my head
"I can do both but Physical takes a lot longer and it's more draining than Mental so I tend to use it more often. But Mental Illusions can take a while to recover from, Alchemist and target alike."
"Wait wait! I still don't get it!" Ed complains so I sigh and try another example.
"Have you ever see something that wasn't there before? Or think that you did? That's how Mental Illusions work, they make your brain to think you're seeing things when you aren't. And Physical Illusions are like mirrors, they reflect off of one item and multiplies it. Like when you're alone inside a room full of mirrors; you see hundreds of yours when really there's only one. Does that help?" he nods so we continue with some other examples well into the night.
They both leave so I'm on my way to leave too when Mustang calls out
"Hey Laura, want to go out for a drink?" I smile so I follow him to a bar. We're taking shots and talking about things when I ask
"Alright Roy, what's the real reason why I'm here. I know that me training the FullMetal one isn't it." he smirks
"Clever as ever; the Alchemist Killer's running loose in Central. Your Colonel suggested me to have you on the investigation with us. The killer has already claimed 5 lives of Alchemists; the dead are mostly soldiers but still. So what do you say?" I nod
"Whatever you say Colonel." we sit there in silence for a while.
"Fang," I glance over at him
"Yeah?"
"We're heading out tomorrow and be careful. The killer has a certain trademark to his killings. The brains are blown out from inside the head. And since you're the Illusion Alchemist; it puts you at greater harm than the rest of us."
"Don't you think I know that? And hey Mustang, we still got that upending match from when we first started in the program." I smile a bit, he smirks
"Tomorrow before we leave you can get it."
"Is that a deal then Mustang?" I offer my hand to him.
"Yes it is Fang. Bring your A game tomorrow, you're going to need it." we shake it