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I woke up with a start, sitting up and panting. I looked around before realizing where I was. Phew. It had all been a dream.
I was currently on cargo train headed past Baschool. I had gotten to Mirana alone and snuck on a military cargo train. There was no Enrique. It was all a dream.
I wiped the sweat off my forehead, taking a deep breath. It might've been a dream, but man, was that a realistic dream. I found Shela snuggled up on my lap, sleeping soundly. I sighed in relief before looking around the car.
Moonlight streamed in through cracks in the ceiling, illuminating the inside of the car. A few wooden boxes were piled up on my far right, and hay was scattered around the car. Shela and I had fallen asleep on a big puffy pile of hay, lying on a blanket I pulled out.
The blanket I had when I came to Amestris.
This brought back memories. When I had slept with Fluffy on the streets. When I had been alone, when I had apprehended criminals. It all felt too easy. Yet, when I looked back on it, it was painful. I should've gone home. I should've stayed. I was too blinded by love to notice if I stayed in Amestris, I would die. I'm not strong. I almost died on the street by the hands of some common criminal.
I had built myself up to be this powerful, amazing person, when really, I was a thirteen year old girl. I had been trained in fighting, but nothing like this. It's pure luck that I had survived so far.
I lost everything here. I lost my friends in the military, I lost the hummonculi. I lost the Hughes family. And most importantly, I lost Ed and Al. I had no one here to turn to. Not even Gracia and Elicia.
Shela was my last hope for sanity, but it's not like I could bring her home. My real home. She'd be taken by the government, and used as a lab animal.
It's sad really.
I started off amazing, but look at me now. Some broken, scarred heap of a teenager. Things weren't supposed to be like this.
But that's life. I sighed again, my face sober and serious.
I hope Ed and Al regret what they've done.
I had gotten off at Baschool. Which was basically jumping off the train with Shela and going face-first into a pile of snow.
I made a face as I wiped the snow off myself, getting out of the snow pile. Shela shook herself off, and we turned to Baschool.
"Wahh, it's so big~" I gaped, and Shela hissed.
"It's FILTHY." She complained, hopping up onto my shoulder. I rolled my eyes.
"Whiny cat." I said, making Shela bat my cheek with her paw. Luckily, she retracted her claws, so I didn't get scratched.
But Baschool! It was GINORMOUS! Buildings towered over us, as tall as city buildings. But these buildings were just ghosts of what they used to be, deserted, dusty, glassless buildings. But the sheer size was enough to overwhelm me, and I walked through the first street, looking around, admiring Baschool.
The military and Scar weren't supposed to be here yet, so I was left to play around for a few days. YAY! Relaxation time~
"So what now?" Shela asked, jumping off my shoulder. I shrugged, smiling.
"PLAY TIME~" I exclaimed. "I'm gonna make a snowman!" Shela sighed at my immaturity as I knelt down, not caring if my pants got wet, and clapped my hands to the snow.
What came out was unexpected.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Shela yelled, her eyes wide. With some snow and some water from the air, I had made probably the biggest, most realistic ice dragon I've ever seen. It was... AWESOME!
"HAHAHAHA!" I clapped my hands in amusement, cracking up. "NOW TIME FOR A GODZILLA!"
"I don't know what the hell a 'Godzilla' is, but please don't make it." Shela said as I was just about to place my hands on the ground. I pouted, but decided she was right. If I made a life-size Godzilla, that'd be kinda freaky. So, I decided to do something else.
"Shela, are you coming or not?" I asked, looking at her.
"What?"
"I'm gonna go to the top of that ten story building next to us."
"... Don't die!" Shela shouted as she scrambled away to hide. I shrugged, and with a slightly insane glint in my eye, I clapped my hands to the ground and a earth pole wrapped around me, swiftly lifting me off the ground and setting me down on the top of the building I had pointed out. Now that I got used to it, the pole thing was fun. I was scared, but it raised my adrenaline and got my blood flowing.
At the top of the building, I was eye-level with the dragon. Yeah, that's how big it was. Why do you think Shela screamed?
With a swift motion, I took off my outer layer, a thick, stuffy jacket, so I was wearing a black, slightly insulated jumpsuit that was fairly easy to move in.
I whipped out the lighter Mustang had given me and flicked it open. I lit it, and, brushing off a space by my feet, I knelt down, setting the lighter in front of me. I used a stick of charcoal I had in my pocket to draw two transmutation circles on the back of my hands.
I had figured out how Mustang did the fire trick, and memorized his transmutation circle. And so, I had the ability. Most people would think, oh, the explosion and everything must've made her hate fire. But I still loved fire.
With a deep breath, I clapped my hands together, activating the transmutation circles, which gathered together all the flammable gasses in the air. With extreme caution, I separated my hands and pushed the air away from me as it lit up in flame. I nearly burned my eyebrows off, but at least it worked.
Imitating a monstrous roar, I put my hands on the sides of my face, blowing out air, giving the effect that I was breathing fire.
With that, I worked on melting the dragon. With a big blast of flame, it easily started melt, almost like icecream.
It took me a while, but I finally melted all of the dragon. I had burned my hands a little bit, so I put them on the snow to cool them off.
"That feels so nice~" I sang cheerfully. That's when I noticed Shela gliding toward me. "In the gray sky, you're wings look cool." I said as she landed near me.
"Thanks, I guess..." She said, but cleared her throat. "What about food?" I pursed my lips, furrowing my eyebrows in thought.
"What kind of animals live around here?" I thought aloud, making Shela facepaw herself.
"You're an idiot." She declared, and I gave her a look.
"You just now figured that out?" I asked, and she stared at me.
"Shouldn't you get food? Shouldn't you find shelter? What about clean water? And the upcoming fight?" Shela burst out, and I groaned.
"I have more weapons than I have clothes, Shela. I think I'm fine for the fight. I can make a rock shelter in two seconds, and come on. We're surrounded by freaking SNOW. It's clean, and we can thaw it out. And for food..." My stomach growled, and I smiled sheepishly. "Time to make some. So, as I was saying... What kind of stuff lives around here?"
"There are white foxes, rabbits, and I saw a bear," Shela was about to continue, but I interrupted.
"A BEAR? WHERE? I'M GONNA KILL IT!" I said, jumping up and wiping my hands off. Shela sweat dropped.
"... But I recommend you go for the smaller animals." She finished, and I shook my head.
"If I kill a bear, I get to use that for a few days' food, and I don't have to hunt anymore." I pointed out. "I'm too lazy to hunt after tiny fast animals, and besides, I get a bear rug." Shela sweat dropped again.
"I don't know if you're lazy or just plain stupid." She said, and I clucked my tongue.
"Lazy people are the smartest kind. You know why?" I looked at Shela, who gave me a look. "It's BECAUSE lazy people always find the easiest and most efficient route to solve a problem."
"You know that's it's kinda hard to kill a two meter tall bear?" Shela said, and I shrugged.
"It can't be harder that killing a highly-skilled fighter." I said, "All you need is a semi-automatic 45. rifle. Shoot at the head, and BOOM! You got yourself bear meat." I almost drooled at the thought. "I'm gonna make bear jerky."
So, after a bit longer of trying to convince Shela to tell me where she saw the bear, I finally got her to guide me.
It was about a mile from Baschool, by the base of a mountain, but still. There were bears. Lots of them. At least six two-meter-tall furry giants. I grinned from the tree I had climbed to look out from.
Did I feel bad about killing a bear? No. Why? Because its an eat or be eaten situation, and I sure as hell ain't gonna get eaten by a bear after surviving all the shit I've been through these past few months. Besides, the claws would be awesome knives.
How would I kill it? Simple. Even though I lacked the semi-automatic 45. rifle, I DID have alchemy. And that was just as good. So, I was going to use alchemy to cut off a bear's head. I don't like heads on food. Luckily Shela had agreed to help me clean out the guts, so I'd be fine.
It wasn't that hard. All I had to do was hide behind a bush and eye out the bears. I picked one with a sleek black shade of thick fur and nice ivory claws. It was a giant, healthy bear. I used alchemy to make a pole come up out of the ground and wrap around the poor defenseless bear who had no idea what was going on.
Slightly guilt pierced me, but I brushed it off as I used the pole to snap it's neck like a toothpick. I turned away as the sickening crunch alerted the other bears. Using alchemy, I quickly ran away with my kill before the other bears would kill me.
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"This is nice." I breathed. After laboriously cleaning and cutting up the bear meat, I left the pelt out to dry as I fried the meat over a fire. I was currently inside a building, sitting by the fire I had built near a full-length glass-less window. I had a clear view of the rest of Baschool as I roasted the meat over the fire.
I felt so stone-age. So old fashioned, because the only place I had ever hunted for food was the supermarket. Now, here I was, roasting the meat of a bear I killed.
At thirteen, I killed a bear. It sounds so intimidating and scary, when in real life, it had been easy.
"I wonder what Ed and Al are up to." I said, looking out the window.
"They're probably having some tragedy of their own." Shela snorted, tearing off a piece of her meat. She was eating it RAW. Was that even healthy?
"True." I nodded. "I hope Karma's a bitch to them."
"You sound like you want that Karma thing to kill them." Shela pointed out, making me laugh.
"Nah, they're gonna live a while." I said, "But I hope they live to regret rejecting me. Now that I've stopped blaming myself, I feel so much better."
"Lynette, your food's gonna burn." Shela alerted me, and I quickly took my stick off the holders. The meat made me drool, but before I could eat, I wanted to spice it.
I had come prepared with pepper, cayenne, basil, and a few other spices that I bought in Mirana. I took them out of my original suitcase and sprinkled some on my meat. I then put another raw piece of meat over the fire to roast before going back to my cooked meat.
I tore into it hungrily, savoring the taste. It was really chewy and leathery, and extremely hard. But that didn't mean it wasn't one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten. But I think the fact that I was hungry, and the fact I made it myself made it even better.
Before long, I was stuffed. I continued cooking some meat, and even hanging up strips to dry to save for later.
"This is perfect." I sighed contentedly, "Full stomach, roasting meat, getting to lay back in a bundle of blankets with meat and a pelt drying. I feel so... Primitive, yet so free." I said, closing my eyes.
"You're weird." Shela said, curling up next to me. I smiled.
"Yeah, I'm weird."
Hi guys! HAHAHAHA I MESSED WITH YOU.
Enrique wasn't real. It's was all a dream~ So what pretty much happened is she reached North City, inconspicuously got on a train, and got to Mirana, where she bought some stuff before sneaking on a military train headed to Baschool. YEAH!
Ehh, I like Shela. You might not, but I like her. So I'm gonna keep her in for a while... XD Anyway, I UPDATED~ Kinda short, and kinda filler, but hey. I don't wanna just skip the days Lynette spends hanging out in Baschool. So I just did the first day.
Anyway, look forward to the next few chappies~ THE BASCHOOL FIGHT IS COMING~ Now I just have to get around to writing the chapters. Ugh. I've been having writers block lately, so yeah... I know, I piss you guys off with my procrastinating... BUT I PROMISE, I'LL TRY TO MAKE THE NEXT CHAPPIES EPIC! Okay? Okay~
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