In the early hours of the morning, while it was still dark, Katie went around the house waking everyone up, she managed to wake the boys, Britt and Heather but Bec was a little more difficult than expected.

"Bec…" Katie whispered. "Time to get up."

"N-no." Bec managed to groan back. "It's 4 in the morning."

"Do you want to at least get to east city before Scar?" Katie helped Bec up and they all got in the car. Ed, Heather, Britt and Al were all squished across the back seat, the girls had already fallen back to sleep whereas Ed and Al were used to getting up that early seeings as they are running around the place in search of the philosophers stone all the time. Bec was in the passenger's seat and had also fallen back asleep.

The girls woke up roughly around 8. Britt looked up and realized she had been asleep bon Al's shoulder the whole time and went a little red; Heather saw this and gave Britt a teasing look. Al looked to the girls and smiled as Ed said

"Did you have a nice sleep?" Heather yawned and said

"Ugh, I'm so uncomfortable." She squirmed a bit. "I want to go back to sleep but I can't." Britt looked to Ed and said

"At least she didn't say she was hungry." Heather grinned.

"Actually, come to think of it I am pretty hungry."

"Oh god no." Bec turned around to face the four in the back seat when she heard this and said

"Same here."

"Ditto." Ed said. Al looked to Ed.

"You're always hungry, Ed." Britt laughed at Al's comment.

"I take it you guys want some breakfast?" Katie said.

"Yep." They all said simultaneously.

"Good, 'caus my bum is going numb from all this driving." They stopped off at a little shop along the way and got out of the car. Ed stretched.

"Oh my gosh, I never realized how cramped it is in there."

"Yeah, my legs hurt from that." Heather said. Bec walked up to them and said

"It's a good thing you two are so small them." Heather death glared Bec.

"I advise you to shut the fuck up before I strangle you."

"Moyashi."

"That's it!" Heather ran up to Bec and almost got her hands around Bec's neck, but was pulled back at the last second. It was Katie.

"Heather, please don't kill her right now." She sighed. Heather struggled to get out of her grasp.

"Yeah, well, she asked for it."

"She is one of your best friends."

"Grr." Britt and Al laughed.

"Geez, you're just as bad as brother." Al said.

"Hey!" Ed yelled. "Don't call me small or-" He was cut off by Al.

"I didn't say anything about your height" He laughed. "It's not my fault that you're 'vertically challenged'."

"Girl's, I think you might want to stand back." The girl's stepped backwards.

"Why?" Al asked.

"Because, I didn't want them to get hurt."

"Huh?"Al was confused. Ed ran up and crash tackled Al. They wrestled on the ground.

"Oh god, they're worse than us." Britt said. Heather and Britt ran and pulled the boys apart. Britt helped AL up and Heather held Ed back.

"Let me at him." Ed said.

"No, I know how you feel and I have to admit I would react exactly the same way, but we have to go." Heather said. Ed got up and brushed himself off.

"You're right, let's just get some food and go."

"Thank you." She looked over to Britt and Al who were already walking into the shop. "It was pretty funny when you crash tackled Al though." Heather and Ed laughed. At that moment Katie walked up to them.

"And what are you two laughing about?" Heather and Ed looked at each other.

"Nothing…" They said. Katie looked at Heather.

"Yeah, that's pretty hard to believe with you Heather; you always have a reason to laugh."

"Shut up."

After breakfast they all piled back into the car.

'"Just another couple of hours until we get to the desert." Katie said.

"Oh great, sand." Heather said. "Which means we can't drive any further then that otherwise we'll get bogged." She rested her head on the back of the seat. "Oh well, we'll just walk."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Britt said dramatically.

"Oh, come on, don't be so lazy."

"But, it's the desert."

"True, but you're coming anyway."

After hours of driving, the reached the desert.

"Well, this is where the road ends." Katie said. The five got out of the car and stared at the huge sand dunes.

"Hopefully we will see you soon." Heather said to Katie. They started towards the desert, waving goodbye to Katie.

"It's getting dark now, should we stop?" Al said. They sat on the dry sand.

"What are we gonna eat?" Heather asked.

"Who knows?" Ed replied. They heard a scream; it was Bec.

"What?" Heather automatically replied.

"Snake." Bec stepped back.

"Oooh, dinner." Ed said as he transmuted his automail arm into a blade and killed the snake. Heather saw it and said

"Wow, that's one huge fucking thing." Britt doubted that it was as big as they made it out to be.

"How the hell is one snake going to feed all of us?" Ed turned around, still holding the snake. Britt's eyes widened. "Whoa…" Ed nodded and grinned, Heather blushed a little, she thought his grin was cute.

"We're going to have to make a fire." Ed said.

"I'll go and find some wood." Heather said.

"I'll come with you." Britt followed her. After Heather and Britt left Bec turned to the boys and said.

"I swear those girls like you." Ed and AL sort of blushed at the thought. Bec saw this. "Nawwwww."

"Shut the fuck up." Ed replied quickly.

"Hey, Heather, do you ever get the feeling that you're being watched?" Britt asked.

"Yeah, I was about to ask you the same thing." The girls spun around to find Ed and Al walking up to them.

"Where is Bec?" Heather asked.

"She decided to stay back." Ed said.

"That doesn't sound like Bec."

"Yeah, wait, where the hell are you supposed to find wood anyway?"

"I don't know."

"Ooh look, a log." Britt said.

"How convenient." Heather said. "A log turns up right when we need one."

"Weird." Al said. Britt picked up the log and the all walked back.

"Where the hell did you find that?" Bec asked wen she saw Britt with the log.

"I found it just lying there." Britt said.

"It looked like an old campsite." Heather pointed out.

"You're way too observant."

"STFU." The boys and Bec laughed.

"Geez, you two are always at each others necks." Ed said. Heather smiled. Al nudged Ed.

Later that night when they were all asleep something was creeping around… or was is someone? Whoever it was accidentally kicked Ed and woke him up.

"Who's there?"

"What's going on brother?" Al said; he was woken up by Ed.

"Someone was just here." Al looked worried. Ed looked at Al. "What's wrong Al?"

"Britt was telling me about how she and Heather thought someone was watching them." Ed was concerned by this.

"What if they're being stalked and I'm not talking about Mustang this time."

"But who would be stalking them?"

"I don't know, but whoever it is must know that they're after Scar." Al looked over to Britt, Bec and Heather who thankfully were still asleep.

"Should we tell the girls?"

"Not right now." Ed said. "I don't want to worry them."

That morning, Heather woke up in a cold sweat.

"What's wrong?" Britt asked.

"The dream I had…" Heather stared off into nothing.

"What was it?"

"Mum and William… Unconscious….. "

"Yeah?"

"Scar was going to kill them… right then and there…" Heather's eyes filled with fear. "… Blood splattered a-across the walls, floor and ceiling." Heather looked at Britt. "All I could do was watch- Then I start falling… Falling into nothing. Just before I hit the ground, I wake up." Britt just stared. "What?"

"I had the same dream." She said. Ed heard all of this, so he walked over and sat next to them.

"Maybe it's a sign that Scar is getting close." He said. Heather felt tears come to her eyes. "Let's go." Ed helped Heather up and they all started walking again.

Heather was beginning to doubt that they were going t get to East in time. She sighed.

"This is useless." She stopped right where she was.

"What do you mean?" Bec asked.

"What do I mean? We are in the middle of the desert, my family is in danger and I can't do anything to help." Ed and Al turned around and Al said.

"Brother and I have walked this desert before." He looked over his shoulder. "It's not as big as it seems. Just keep walking, we're almost there."

"How much further do you think we have t go?"

"See those sand dunes over there?"

"Yeah?"

"Just over those." Heather's face lit up and she did an epic Naruto run over the sand dunes with Britt and Bec closely behind.

"Geez, they're absolute spastics." Ed said. He heard Bec's voice from the distance.

"I know I am! HAHAHA!" Ed and Al laughed and ran after them.

They got over the sand dunes and saw a sight that they've wanted to see for days now, East City.

"YAYS!" Heather said.

"Wow, never thought I'd ever see this place again." Al said.

"Yeah, it's been a while." Ed replied. He turned to Heather and Britt. "So, where's your house?"

"Follow us." Heather said.

Sorry it's been so long! My laptop died -_-. Anyway, hope you liked it.