The Blood Stained Alchemist

Mustang smirked smugly looking up from his desk and into the eyes of his first lieutenant Riza Hawkeye. "It seems our new recruit has a title all ready. The Blood Stained Alchemist, is it. The king was impressed with her work."

Hawkeye simply gave Mustang a confused look. "Sir, excuse me if I'm being offensive but I thought you'd realize who she was over time. Do you even know her name or didn't she tell you?"

Mustang cocked an eyebrow. "I'm pretty sure she said her name was Lily or it might have been Leila. I couldn't remember." He looked away and to his window knowing Hawkeye would get to the point even if she thought he wasn't listening.

Hawkeye rolled her eyes, "You really are absent minded sometimes, Roy. You really are."

Mustang quickly slammed his hands on his desk enraged by Riza's comment. "And just what do you mean by that?" He barked but then realized he was too easily worked up and sat calmly.

"Well, sir may I ask if you found her last name to come to mind? Or ring a bell?"

Mustang sat back in his chair and blushed bit only a bit and forced it back. "No." He mumbled softly.

Hawkeye sighed at his stupidity. "Her name is Leila Detemine! Former Brigadier General Detemine's daughter. The one you met at his funeral with Hughes."

Mustang's eyes went wide. "You mean that's the little girl I met say, 9 years ago? It can't be, she looks nothing like she did before."

Hawkeye smiled. "I'm glad to hear you haven't forgotten."

Suddenly Second Lieutenant Havoc came barging in with a love-sick trans look on his face. "We have a new recruit; a new WOMAN recruit!" He asked with a large smile launched across his cheeks.

Mustang chuckled, "I bet you don't even know her name or what rank she is."

Havoc walked closer to his desk. "Sure I do and I know more than just that, I got her phone number."

Mustang bent his head and gave Havoc a sarcastic look. "Let me rephrase that second lieutenant. Can you remember her name and her rank?"

Havoc gave Mustang a short glare but then smirked. "Leila Detemine our new State Alchemist."

"Now known as The Blood Stained Alchemist." Mustang added holding up the contract with Leila's full name and title.

"The whole gothic thing is new for me but I can work with it. She's hot!" Havoc shouted and walked swiftly out of the office with his head held high.

"Well he sure is over whelmed." Hawkeye stated watching Havoc leave.

Mustang simply remarked, "He's going to get his ass kicked."

"What do you mean, sir?"

"I mean Leila is not the kind of girl that's interested." Mustang answered still looking at the main doors to his office as if knowing someone was going to walk in, but he was worng.

Leila finally reached her dorm and quickly stuck the key in the door and unlocked it, only to find flowers placed neatly on her bed. She walked in the room and closed the door behind her. When looking closer at the flowers she noticed a note. It read, "Welcome, Leila Detemine - The Blood Stained Alchemist. It's going to be great to have you on our team!"

Suddenly, the phone by Leila's beside began to ring. The strike of noise startled her at first but she noticed it was merely the phone. She was about to answer it when the answering machine picked up before she did. The message stated, "Leila, I need you in my office, immediately. We have a mission for you."

Leila quickly called back the person whom had left her the message and already assumed whom had given her the flowers. The tones of ring continued three times.

"Go ahead." The voice stated who answered. It was a smug voice Leila couldn't forget.

"Colonel, why would you need me in your office, I just left?" Leila replied questioningly.

Mustang smirked on the other line of the phone. He explained smugly, "We already have a mission for you. As a State Alchemist you must be ready for these at any given moment and report to them ASAP. So, let's go Bloodstained – get to it."

The call was ended and Leila hung up. She sighed as she began to walk away from her dorm without even beginning to unpack. She walked slowly down the HQ halls and passed numerous people that has recently talked about her and saw some people she noticed in the pictures she had seen in her father's old house while the war had been going on. Those people simply smiled or waved or did nothing to show they noticed her at all.

Finally entering the Colonel's office Leila began to lighten up knowing she couldn't have her performance 'affect his'. "Yes, colonel?" She asked unenthusiastically.

Mustang grinned slightly and motioned for her to walk to his desk or sit at the couch. "This is the part where I tell you about the mission and then you get to it immediately afterward. Easy enough?"

Leila nodded and stood in front of Mustang's desk, prepared to hear him out. Her light blonde hair was pulled back into a half up-half down ponytail and her deep blue eyes bordered by dark black eyeliner and light blue eye shadow fixed upon his. She wore The State Alchemist dark blue uniform with a tight black top underneath and bright silver hoop earrings dangling from her ears. At her left pocket hung the chain of the silver pocket watch she received merely 2 days before.

"There has been sightings' of the alchemist killer we call Scar around east central and up on the northeast coasts. You are to try to find all that you can about this and report everything back to me. I have here the files of the reports I have already gotten from others." Mustang handed Leila the file papers and continued. "We'll have second lieutenant Havoc drive you down to Kishiwa where we believe Scar was headed last. From there you are partnered with Jean to find all tat you can. Since this happens to be your first mission you only need to collect data, not fight." Mustang smirked as he motioned for her now to head out to the car waiting for her outside.

Leila nodded and held the papers in her arms. She walked down the stairs and opened the main doors of the HQ building and looked around for the car. Only about 4ft away stood Havoc waving to her to come over to the car to begin. Leila smiled and quickened her pace to the car. Although she wasn't big on trusting people she felt like she could somewhat trust this havoc character.

"So Leila, you excited about your first mission?" havoc sparked a conversation as they simultaneously buckled their seatbelts in the car.

"Not really, but I guess it's only because of the whole State Alchemist Killer part." Leila replied smirking a bit.

Havoc chucked but only for a moment. "Well, Roy would normally help out in this sort of situation but he's got business today. He has to help this kid Edward get ready for the alchemy exam. He's only like 11 years old too. Talk about crazy situations." He started the car as he talked and began to drive.

Leila blinked in a moment of silence. "I thought you have to be 16 or older to even begin studying."

"I don't know. I'm no good at alchemy myself I am just a lieutenant. But this kid seems pretty good and Hughes also put in a good word. The fuehrer even allowed it."

Leila awed. "Well, good luck to him. He'll definitely need it."

Havoc smiled, "Was the exam really that hard?"

"Only if you didn't study the right materials. I mean sure, it wasn't a walk in the park but it wasn't maddening either." Leila explained with a bit of a grin herself.

An hour later of conversation and driving to their destination, they reached it. Leila and Jean stepped out of the car doors and into the rural area of Kishiwa. It was beautiful, also old looking and broken but barely.

"Well this is Kishiwa." Havoc stated closing the car doors and locking it. He looked to Leila who simply awed at the amazing beauty of the village. Havoc smiled and walked over to her with a hand on her shoulder. "It's something isn't it?"

"It's beautiful!" Leila exclaimed.

"Well, let's begin." Havoc began to walk forward.