Chapter 2
Train for Rizembool
BTW: The bold is for when animals speak (only Zanav can understand) and the Italics are for thoughts. please review, whoever reviews gets a new kitten or a puppy
Disclaimer: I don't own FMA or Wolf's Rain
Edward Elric went up to Fuehrer Roy Mustang's office. Ed scowled, He still hated that Mustang. Even after all this time. "What do you want?" He asked bluntly.
"Take in that girl, Zanav, she needs to study alchemy for her assessment. I told her that she may try for it and she said she wanted to" Mustang answered and smirked.
"I don't have a choice do I…" Sighed Ed
Ed, Al, Mike, and Zanav were waiting in the train station, Zanav had agreed with studying at Ed's home in a little rural town called Rizembool. The announcer called for all passengers of train 8:45 bound for Rizembool to go to platform 3. The four of them boarded, Mike and Zanav in a different compartment then Ed and Al. Zanav had never moved so fast and she didn't like it. She said nothing, however since most humans didn't run from far to the west to Central. Mike smiled, "Don't worry you'll pass the test." He exclaimed jerking her from her thoughts.
"yeah thank you," She said quietly. Then Mike yawned and went to sleep. Zanav stood up and started walking to another compartment where she smelled fear. Mike followed her, waking up, when she moved, he wasn't really sleeping and she hadn't noticed, the scent of fear was too strong.
Zanav saw Mike and nodded to him. "I heard a sound from here and thought I should check it out." She lied. How can he not smell it? She thought and opened the door.
They saw a chimera with a human body and a lion's head LET ME GO! He roared at his tormentor, a man who looked old enough to have been the chimera's father, only Zanav understood what he had said. Zanav transmuted a chair into a wild creature and it pinned the man down, the chimera's eyes flashed and it slashed the man, breaking an arm, Mike quickly turned some wood into a vine, which grabbed the chimera, not letting him do anymore damage, the chimera and the man were taken to a military outpost in the next town, Ed and Al slept the entire time. "Should we wake them?" laughed Mike, Zanav just shook her head, The only sign of life in them is their snoring," She laughed, a rare and concealed part of her being. She got alarmed. Do I love him? I can't he's a human, I am a wolf. I promised dad to hide myself. She ran to her compartment. Mike followed startled.
The scent of blood, and burning flesh- human and wolf alike, seeped into her nostrils. Her father was already dead, her mother, teied to talk to her. Zanav listened. "Zanav…you…must…find other humans…these men…killers…join…their rulers" She sighed then left. Her eyes faded and the young wolf howled "I will."
As Zanav ran she heard her father's last words in her head. "Run my daughter, my warrior. Run so that the murderers don't catch you. Never show your true self to any, and run." She did run, through flames, the moon giving her the strength to go on. Her paws aching, she ran for so long. She took human shape, as her father had told her. But after running for months, she grew untrusting and cold, her heart closed. Her warm golden eyes, grew cold.
The train stopped at Rizembool and they got off the train. They started to walk home.