Chapter 3: Cu means family

Disclaimer: I do not own FMA I own Sky and Squirrel alone. Oh maybe Greyback too. Oh and Szvik my warm orange fuzzy.

Thanks: ArYuNvius and Winry the Alchemist, the only people who reviewed. Next chapter wont be made until i get 11 reviews! so please R&R

And to Winry: I'm not sure if there'll be a chimera here I'm writing as I go along but there might be something like a chimera…

Note: Squirrel's real name is Tom he's a boy. Greyback, Sky's crow is a male. And Sky and Elicia are both girls. The dog's female but I don't know if I should call her a bitch.

Also Cu is a Gaelic word for family

We set out on the long train heading east, Kyle was glad to get rid of us; we were trouble, searching for Ed. Greyback seemed to know how long the ride would be and put his head in a wing to sleep. Sky stroked him mindlessly and she looked out the window. Squirrel went right to sleep. I held the urge to take a picture; he was drooling and snoring very loudly. Sky and I looked at each other. We had to put our hands to our mouths and smiled to each other. Sure, it was immature, but hey, we were just girls having fun.

On the 5th stop we were to change trains and we got off. It took a while to wake up Squirrel, Greyback shrieked that defiantly not only woke up Squirrel it made the other leaving passengers stare at us. Sky blushed.

"Nothing to see here, nothing to see." I said.

We got food and more supplies and we looked for a hotel. The next train to the town nearest Zale was tomorrow afternoon. I heard whimpering and went to take a look. I saw a puppy the size of Ed. I'm kidding. A puppy about 3 feet tall was whimpering with its leg in a strange angle. I kneeled to it and pet it. "Go on without me." I told Sky and Squirrel.

"How will we find you?" Squirrel asked.

"Meet me at the station." I answered after thinking for a little. I looked around. I found materials and alchemized a stretcher. I put the dog there. It was lighter then I would have thought and so I picked the puppy up instead. The vet was also a mechanic, and fashioned the pup some automail. He howled in the outfitting, he had three automail legs, as two were crushed and one had a terrible infection.

After the outfitting I walked to the station. "All the hotels were full." Squirrel grumbled, he was tired and he didn't see the pup. I thought I had let the vet keep him so I didn't notice him until Sky exclaimed that it was such a cute pup.

"Huh?" I asked.

"The dog, what are you going to name her?" she asked.

"I wasn't going to keep her." I answered.

But then she started licking me. "I guess we have a new friend… God, we must be the strangest troupe!" I exclaimed and Sky and Squirrel both laughed.

"Now I'm the only one without an animal." Squirrel said and pretended to mope. He couldn't keep the face and started to laugh.

"I think I'll name it… Cu" I said.

"Cu?" asked Sky.

"Cu means family" I answered and we boarded the train to the southern frontier town of Sembol.

On the train ride we slept and Cu let me use her as a pillow. I pet her and she licked my hand. We slept the whole way. When we got there the place was surrounded by chimeras. They snarled and foamed. We saw that the town was deserted. We had to jump the train, to fight. a "sea" of chimeras flooded our way.