AN: Thank you to all the people that reviewed. Sorry I update so slow, I have so much crap to do these days! I forgot to say this but by friend Kaiya has been helping me right this and to her I'm grateful. Also I don't own any of this except the plot, characters that don't appear in the manga or anime, and all my little comments. Plus I own all the animals except Black Hyayte. Now, Onwards!

Al looked up at Roy and Ed, "You two need to stop bickering all the time, how bout finding a positive way to fight?"

Ed looked up at Al with a surprised face and said, "Al you're perfectly right."

"Er. I am…" Al asked not entirely sure of what the change in his brother meant. Everyone looked at Ed not really believing what they had heard.

"Yeah, we need a positive way to solve our problems so I propose a bet."

Chapter 3-

The Bet

"Really? And what would this bet be, Fullmetal?" Roy asked, vaguely interested.

"A bet on who can find the files we need first." Ed said with a slight smirk.

"Alright, what are the terms?" This should prove interesting, Roy thought, at least it keeps the boredom away.

"The loser has to wear a dog suit for three days," he held up three fingers to emphasize his point, "and has to act like a dog for someone; their master." Ed finished with a crooked smile.

Everyone just stared at him. Winry asked "Why a dog suit?"

Ed just shrugged and said, "Well we are military dogs, aren't we? And besides, we have nothing else to do."

He had a point there. It was either look through these files in boredom and get no reward when their found, or find the file then laugh your head off at the loser walking around in a dog suit. Hmmmm, hard choice.

Roy thought about it for a moment and said, "So, we have to follow someone around and act like dogs?" he continued at Ed's nod, "Ok, who are we following around?" Right now Roy was thinking of all the people it could be, and he wasn't entirely sure he was going to do this; having to follow Hughes might be the end of his social life as we know it.

"Uh, if you lose then you'll follow Riza around." Ed said.

Everyone turned and looked at Riza. She was sitting with her arms crossed in her lap, looking warily back at the four pairs of eyes on her.

She glanced at Roy, and sweatdroped when she saw his determined face, "No way leave me out of thi-"

"Deal, Fullmetal, as long as your master is Winry." Roy said as he turned back to Ed, ignoring Riza.

Winry panicked, she didn't want to be a part of this any more than Riza did. Winry started to stutter, waving her hands in the air and shaking her head, while Riza was tapping her foot, greatly annoyed.

"Sure, it starts tomorrow, as soon as the library opens. Now we have to find dog suits." Ed said without the slightest hint he saw the girls.

Roy, also ignoring the girls, said, "There's a shop in town that sells all sorts of odd costumes, we can see if they have any."

"Alright, lets get going." Ed said as he got up as started walking to the door.

"Wait for me; you don't know where it is!" Roy called out as he hurried after the enthused youth.

These two were really into this bet, knowing the loser would never live it down. Funny, they act just like little kids when their excited.

Riza, Winry, and Al where left sitting in the little room. Now both girls where mad, and Al was stunned. After all, he was the one that started this.

Riza sighed and said, "I suppose we should follow them, since it appears we have no choice in the matter. Plus, there's no telling what those two will do unsupervised."

"Yeah…" Winry and Al said.

A while later they were all standing in front of a little shop called Chuck's Costumes looking through the window. Right off the bat you knew this store held some strange things. It was tucked in between two large warehouses and in the window there was a eerie cloak and a cat-girl outfit. (not batman thing, just an outfit with cat ears and a tail)

They were about to walk in when a familiar voice stopped them.

"What are you guys doing here?"

It was Hughes; Havoc was walking a little ways behind him with a usual cigarette in his mouth.

Riza was the first one to answer the newcomers. "The Colonel and Edward made a bet on who could find the files first. The loser has to dress up and act like a dog for three days."

Both Hughes and Havoc stood there for a minute before the image of Roy and Ed in dog suits came into their minds. They doubled over from laughing so hard.

Roy, getting annoyed with their laughing, asked why they where there.

"Whoo, he he he, we came looking for you guys. We thought something happened because you weren't in the library. He he he, something just came up, right?" Hughes said holding his side.

"Right," Roy said annoyed, "let's go in shall we?" he said gesturing to the door.

The inside of the shop was dimly lit and crowded, not with people but with multitudes upon multitudes of costumes. There was hundreds, no millions, well ok only about thirty or so, mannequins arranged around the shop. Each of these mannequins had a more bizarre costume on than the next, or last, or however you say that. There were pirate costumes, princess and prince costumes, military costumes, Halloween costumes, plus many odd things that looked as if they were just thought up.

They all stood in the door for a minute in shock. There were so many different costumes! Costumes on the wall, in racks scattered everywhere, there was even one or two hanging from the roof.

Everyone just stared before, as one, they said "Wow." Everyone other than Hughes that is, he said "Cool!" in a very loud voice.

They all turned to Hughes, who looked like a kid in a candy shop. He jumped up and shouted "Yoo-hoo!" before running off to inspect the costumes.

A middle-aged man, who had heard Hughes' shout, came out of a door that was covered in yet another costume. He was tall, at least more than a head taller than Roy; he had long brown hair that was held in a ponytail and he had on a red shirt with some dark pants. (at least he wasn't wearing one of those costumes!)

He looked them over for a moment before asking, "Can I help you?"

Riza, seeing the boys weren't about to answer this giant of a man, sighed and said, "Yes sir, we're looking for two dog suits for those two." She pointed at Roy and Ed who seemed taken aback at their sudden involvement in the conversation.

The man just chuckled a bit before saying, "Alright, and don't call me sir, the names Chuck."

He started to open the door to the back room before turning back to the group, "Feel free to look around while I see what I have, and" he pointed to Havoc, "you can smoke outside or not smoke at all."

Havoc swallowed, there was just an air around Chuck that made you do what he said. He stubbed out his cigarette before looking around the shop with everyone else.

They could all hear muffed sounds coming from the back of the shop. It had to be Hughes because after a second of silence they heard something fall and someone yelling "Opps- uh I mean…It wasn't me! Really!"

Dontcha just love him?

Everyone split up, each looking at something different. Ed happened along a little pink tutu and the first thing that came to mind was Hughes in it. There's really no need to say this, but Ed was giggling.

Winry was walking near Prince outfits, and her mind was wandering. (wandering on what, you'll just have to figure out )

Havoc just stayed near the front of the shop not wanting to get lost in the forest of clothes.

Riza was observing some ugly Halloween costumes. Even though they were ugly, they weren't at all scary, unless one jumped out at you, then it would be startling but then again, whoever did it probably wouldn't do it again due to a painful bullet wound.

Roy was somewhere near the middle of the shop, and guess what he had laid his eyes on. It was a little, I stress little, miniskirt with a little, again I stress little, black T-shirt to go with it. His eyes turned to little stars as he looked at it. Unfortunately for Roy, Riza happened to be walking by. Roy turned to Riza and by the look on his face, his mind was in the gutter. Riza noticed the little miniskirt he had been looking at and when she saw his face, she blushed. Oh yeah, Roy got slapped for that one.

Al was looking at what appeared to be animal costumes. He leaned in close to inspect a spider looking one when he jumped back yelling, it had moved. Something jumped out at Al causing him to scream even more. Ed and Winry came to inspect the problem.

"What's wrong Al?" Winry asked, watching him run around.

"Why do you have a cat on your head?" Ed asked, peering up at his strangely acting brother.

"What?" Al asked after he stopped running around like a chicken with its head cut off. (funny, but a little cruel) He felt his head and lifted off a kitten.

AN: Well that ending sucked. Oh I'd appreciate any reviews, I don't care if you want to cuss me out I would just like some feedback on how well (or bad but I hope not) this stories going.

Nya