State Alchemist Mustang
Chapter Twelve- Celebrate
The clanging of glasses and cans were heard coming from the office of Fuhrer Roy Mustang. Inside, Riza and Roy were holding champagne glasses, and their daughter, was holding a can of orange soda pop. It was a day for celebration. Raven was taking after both parents and moving through the ranks very quickly. She was finally a Second Lieutenant, and to top it off, she was her father's newest Subordinate. Like expected, her father never made life easy for her. He pushed her as if she was just another subordinate. And she would of had it no other way.
"Congratulations! To the 'Mystic Alchemist'!" Roy raised his glass and took a long swig.
"Daddy, now what?" Raven asked as she took a sip of her soda.
"Don't know. What do you want?" He asked with a smile.
"A boyfriend, a sports car, lots of money and... another boyfriend." Raven smiled and Riza laugh. Roy choked on his drink and looked down at his smiling daughter.
"She's your kid." Roy tuned to face Riza who smiled.
"And I'm glade she's mine and not yours." Riza smiled and Raven walked over to her mom.
"So, teach me how to control men." She smiled and Riza put her drink down and pushed Raven to the side. Roy gulped as he watch Riza quickly pull out her gun, take one large step over to him and put the locked gun to his head and pushed him down on to his desk with her free hand all within about a second's time. Raven laughed.
"Cool." She replied. Roy smiled, pushed himself up and kissed Riza and Riza backed off and put her gun away and walked back over to her desk and grabbed her drink as Raven walked back to her father. Raven looked over at her mother and Riza winked.
"Oh...like this?" Raven put down her can, walked towards her father, clapped her hands, slammed them on the ground, did a twisted back flip and grabbed the water gun that formed. She then pushed her father down onto the desk and held the gun to his head. Roy turned pale and dropped his glass. Riza laughed.
"Help." Roy said. Just then Jean Havoc entered the office to congratulate Raven. He saw the pined down Roy and started to laugh. Soon the rest of the subordinates saw and began laughing.
"She takes after her mother." Kain Fuery laughed.
"Poor Hayate." Alex Armstrong said and everyone looked at him strangely.
"One Riza. One Roy. Two Sharpshooters. Two Alchemists. And a Raven." Armstrong smiled and everyone laughed.
"Okay Raven. Down girl." Roy gulped. Raven pulled the trigger and shot Roy with cold water. Everyone laughed.
"Yeah...very funny." Roy wiped his face.
"Sure it is. Some one needs to keep the 'Flame' under control." Laughed the voice of Edward Elric. He had joined the military recently and was now a Major.
"It's a good day." Raven smiled as she laughed with everyone else. "Friends, family and...food!" Raven smiled as a cart full of lunch was pushed into the room and she headed for it with everyone else.
"Yeah...a good day." Riza said quietly to herself as her two Alchemists and her friends celebrated. It was a happy day, but something was missing and something was wrong. This never would have happened if her other daughter Robin never died. Sure she was happy for Raven, but she would always miss her other daughter. She smiled when she relized the truth behind Alchemy.
"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange." Riza spoke softly to herself with a smile.
"Did you say something hun?" Roy turned to look at his wife who was staring down at her half empty glass.
"No." She looked up and smiled. She walked over to the group and joined in on the celebrations.