Lisa tried desperately not to collapse in the blazing sand. Her bangs felt wet against her forehead. Some of her hair stuck to her neck. It did not work that she wore her summer school uniform. No, it made no difference. The heat was getting to her.

"EDWARD!" She yelled desperately. The blonde alchemist had been striding behind her, crawling for food. "I'M BEHIND YOU, IDIOT!" Edward yelled back.

Lisa looked back weakly, accidentally falling flat on her butt. "It's so hot!" She squealed. The sound didn't really sound right in Edward's ears. "WATCH YOUR WORDS!" He yelled in frustration. "Shut up! I'm too tired!" She retorted.

Alphonse looked both at his brother and Lisa. Feeling sorry for the sweat dripping two, Al decided it be best to carry their luggage. At first, Lisa wasn't sure whether to give her luggage, forcing herself to drag it behind her.

Lisa finally gave in the moment she fell down on the desert sand. "Al! How can you stand this! I can barely think!" whined Lisa. Edward looked at her and sighed. He's right, there was absolutely no way he could move any longer either. Maybe if he pushed further. After all, he got this far by pushing himself to the limit.

"HEY! A TOWN!" Edward smiled a wide smile and ran straight for it. Lisa felt a grip of relief. They weren't lost in this blasted desert after all! "Alphonse c'mon! I can't stand the heat anymore!" She grabbed her suitcase off from Al's hands and ran straight towards the town Ed had first spotted.

The town was large. Quite large and lively to be stuck in the middle of a desert. At first, Lisa became suspicious. When she saw the fountain there was no time for curiosity. "WATER!" She screamed as she ran straight to the fountain. Excitedly cupping her hands for a drink, Edward quickly threw her hand off.

"Hey!"

"It's not water. It's red wine." Ed explained. "You're so thirsty you can't even see the difference." Lisa furrowed her brows.

"Go over there, sit down and we can order you a cold drink." Ed was acting mature. As if he was taking care of a ten year old. Lisa blushed a little. She's no ten year old. She's the same age as him! Not knowing what to say, she walked out and did as she was told.

Lisa sipped the glass of water with content, drinking two glasses and wiping the sweat off of her with her handkerchief. She used their bathroom, cleaning herself and making sure she didn't smell like she walked through a desert for one night and 4 hours.

Unfortunately, when Lisa came out. Ed and Al where nowhere to be seen. "Great! They ditched me!" She said out loud. The owner of the shop turned at her and smiled. "They went to the church, just walk straight and turn into the center. If you get lost, you can ask anyone around. I'm sure they'd be glad to help." Lisa thanked the old man and walked away.

She should have known Ed and Al would cause another scene, spend a night in jail and expose a false-preacher in those hours. Walking up to the church she spied Edward explaining to a girl about the components of the human body.

Something didn't feel right.

A bursting feeling inside of her.

Alphonse noticed Lisa, and confronted her. "Did you hear that?" He asked. Lisa jumped, looking up at Al with frightened eyes. If Al could frown, he would have. Inside Lisa's mind it frightened her to think of why Ed and Al would even know these components. THere were questions unanswered. A dead mother they wished to come back.

Ed's arm and leg have disappeared.

What about Al?

Before Lisa could open her mouth, they went straight for the town square. Al could tell Lisa couldn't look at him in the eye. It worried him. It made him feel wrong.

Cornello formed a sunflower out of thin air and everyone clapped. Could this be it? What they've been searching for?

"I'M INTERESTED IN THE FOUNDER, ROSE! I'M A BELIEVER!" Lied Edward. Lisa gripped tightly to her necktie. This didn't look good. Not good at all.

"Lisa, would you like to sleep in the spare rooms already? Are you sleepy? Hungry? Tired?" No, Lisa didn't speak. She looked deep inside Al's steps, thinking about what he must have lost, if she was correct.

"I..I just have a bad feeling, Al. Why do we have to go there?" She mumbled weakly. Al gripped on her shoulder tightly. "I'm right here, if anything bad happens, I'll come save you alright?" Lisa shook her head. "It's not me I'm worried about, Alphonse…Not me."

They were led to a strange hallway and Lisa's heart started to beat faster and stronger than before.

"Founder Cornello is busy so you'll only talk to him for a short while." The man said.

"That's alright, I don't need to talk to him for long." Ed mused.

The next a gunshot was heard. Lisa screamed. Alphonse's helmet laid on the floor. "AL!" Lisa tried to run for him but was grabbed mercilessly by the waist of one of the guards. "ALPHONSE!"

"These men are heretics Rose! Heretics! The founder allowed this! He allowed their destruction! His word is the will of Leto!" the yell rang in Lisa's ear.

Heretics.

"That's a mean god." Alphonse's voice snapped out. Edward hit one of the men holding him. It all happened so fast. Lisa stared in awe.

Alphonse punched the man holding Lisa, causing her to drop to the floor. "WAAAAAAH!" Screamed one of the men. Lisa didn't know where to go, she could only stare at Al. There was nobody in his armor. Yet there was a disembodied voice.

"What's going on!" Demanded Rose.

"It's always been like this." Edward tells her as he knocks at Al's chest.

"Th-there's nothing inside! It's Hollow!" Rose eyes grew larger the longer she stared at Al. Lisa stopped looking when she heard Rose call Al hollow. This isn't true. There's only one reason for this to happen.

It should be in history books, not in real life.

"This is what happens to people who trespassed into God's forbidden domain." Al explained as he put his head back on. "Just like me. And my brother too."

The words echoed in Lisa's head. The days when Al wouldn't eat, the nights he barely slept. How he felt no pain that time when she threw a rock at his arm. How he doesn't like taking off the armor at all…

"Rose…do you have the guts to see the truth?"

Lisa blanked out after that. She didn't follow them. She only stared in awe.

A few loud noises and a battle exposing the founder's true nature, Lisa just walked around, trying to find a way out of the maze. She felt dizzy. For a schoolgirl, a boring simple schoolgirl, these things shouldn't happen.

She already knew what they did. Human Transmutation. It was obvious now. Her suspicions were correct and it burned her. Had she been that completely blind? Or was she pretending not to hear how hollow Al's voice was. How it echoed in his suit. Was she trying to be stupid? The burnt house proved it. It all made sense.

Why they couldn't go home.

Lisa walked out of the ruined church, staring straight into the sky. Where were they? She didn't know. All she knew was she didn't know what to tell them.

"Lisa." The voice made her jump. She turned to look around but there was no one there. No one except a woman with curly black hair. She smiled at Lisa and Lisa smiled back. She didn't want to bring anyone else down.

When Lisa bowed and stood back up, the woman had disappeared.

"It was a fraud. After all this time. Just like that stupid fraud founder!" yelled Ed.

"We should find Lisa now, bother." Al countered. Ed's angry face subsided. He looked down on to his shoes and sighed. "There's no point explaining to her, the situation Ed. She's probably by the fountain. Let's get her."