~Chapter 3~

Laurin struggled to get out of Riza's grasp. When they were in the middle of the many hallways, she slipped her arm from Riza's hand. "What was that for?" Laurin questioned, slightly aggravated. "Sorry, but it was an order," Riza said. "Yeah, but why? I wasn't gonna do anything…," Laurin mumbled. Riza's eyes soften. "We just to confirm something…that's all."

Laurin looked at her confused. "Confirm what? If you need to find out something about, all you need to do is ask…," she said. Riza sighed. "I think it's gone now, we can go back out," she said as she began to walk back to the entrance. "Come on." Laurin began to follow. 'I'm so confused.'

After the dragon was caged, soldiers loaded it into a truck and drove off, most likely going to giving it a slow a painful death somewhere. Ed and Al faced their attention back on Mustang. "What the hell…a dragon…I thought those were in fairy tales!" Ed exclaimed. Roy sighed. "Those 100ft. ones, yes, but ones like you saw a sparsely populated everywhere…their just rarely seen, or so I've been told," Mustang explained. Al then popped up, "Now what were you going to tell us?" Mustang's eyes went overcast.

"You see, Dragon Soul is not…entirely human. Or that's our suspicions," he began. Ed then yelled, "Suspicions! You'd just take her away because of your suspicions?" "Brother…," Al said quietly. Mustang continued. "You have heard of the Scales Alchemist being her father, correct? Well, we did some background checks on him and his wife, and the results were…shocking…We were surprised to find out what one of his great ancestors was-" "Just get on with it!" Ed said impatiently. "Fine," Mustang groaned. "We found out that a dragon was one of his ancestors from hundreds of years ago…" Ed started bursting out laughing while Al stood there, dumbfounded.

"You expect me to believe that load of crap? That's hilarious!" Ed said, gripping his stomach while laughing. "How can that be? It's just not scientifically possible…," Al said. Mustang pinched the brig of his nose. "It is true, Fullmetal, because if a dragon and human mate…that's the result: humans with dragon blood," he said, fighting back the urge to snap his fingers and burn Ed. "It decreases over time and eventually dies out, and Dragon Soul might be last of them, being she's the only female out of a line of male dragon blood. If you don't believe me, then go ask Dragon Soul for yourself."

Laurin heard her alchemist name as she walked down the entrance stairs with Riza. "Someone said my name?" she asked. Ed, Al, and Mustang looked at Laurin. "Yes, we were just talking about you," Mustang said, then facing the Elrics, "Didn't you have something to ask her?" Laurin looked at the Elrics. Ed shook his head. "No…we'll ask her later," he said. Al just stared at Laurin. 'How can someone like her be related to a dragon?' he thought.

Laurin then broke the awkwardness with the dreaded question no one wanted to answer. "So um…what happened to the dragon?"

…...Silence…..

This is not going to end well….