6. Liore
"We're here!" I said getting off the train.
We have just arrived in Ohpihezba on our way to Liore we left Central at 9am and its already 4pm . "Yeah now we have to walk though the desert" Ed said coming behind me.
"It can't be that bad, I've walked though desert before" I replied.
"Well then lets start going before it gets dark then hopefully we'll get there by tomorrow afternoon"
"Okay, but we should go grab some dinner first"
"Okay then we can go"
We hurried to the nearest restraunt, I put the bags in a room in the back of the restraunt, "I'll have some chicken soup" I told the waiter.
"I'll have a burger" Ed said.
"Anything for you sir?" The waiter asked looking at Al.
"Uh, no I'm not hungry" Al replied.
"Oh, okay" He said walking away.
We sat waiting for our food. "What's Liore supposed to be like?" I asked Edward.
"Colonel Sarcasm said its a big desert town run by the Prophet Cornello who is supposedly a messenger of 'God'"
"God? God doesn't exist otherwise we wouldn't be sitting here"
"Yeah I know science makes more sense then 'God'"
"Yeah but we should see if he really does have the Philosopher Stone, what if he's faking?" Al said.
"Good point, Al, we should go right away so we don't waste time" Ed said.
"Yeah" I agreed.
The waiter came back with our food. "Here you go, enjoy!" He said turning away.
"Thanks" I said as he walked away.
We quickly ate our food and paid for it and grabbed our stuff. "Come back soon!" The cashier said as we left. "That food was actually pretty good" I said.
"Yeah it was" Edward agreed.
"Should we ask around the direction of Liore?" Al asked.
"Yeah probably, its about the time everyone would be eating so, I will go this way you guys can go that way" I said facing one way and pointing the other.
"Okay meet back here in 15 minutes" Ed said.
"'Kay" I said running to the nearest person. I ran down the road and found a Lady, "Uh, Ma'am, do you happen to know where Liore is?" I asked.
"Isn't it across the desert?"
"Yes, but I've gotten lost we dont know what direction to go" I explained.
"Oh well sorry I've lived here my whole life I never figure that out, its such a big city here no one had a reason to go, Liore had a big drought so no one wanted to go there"
"Oh okay well thanks" I said going to the next person I saw, a young boy maybe 6-7, "Excuse me, young man?" I asked not wanting to hear 'I'm not a kid'.
"Yes?" he asked tilting his head slightly.
"Do you know the way to Liore?"
"Um, no? But daddy should!" "Oh okay can I talk to him?"
"Okay!" He said running a few houses down and going inside me catching up.
"Daddy, this lady wants to know were Liore is" The little boy said talking to a tall man.
"Oh, Hi, who are you?" He said looking at me.
"I'm McKenna"
"Okay, well Liore is arcross the desert, is you go farther down this road you'll meet the end of town continue from there and you should get to Liore" He explained.
"Okay, thank-you!" I said leaving.
Its was time to go back anyway, wonder if they figure it out. I ran back to where we started. "You find out anything? We couldn't even find anyone except a bunch of kids" Ed
asked.
"Yeah Its this way" I said pointing toward where I just came from.
"Oh okay lets go" He said walking in front of me.
"He sure likes to lead" I told Al.
"Yeah brother is always like that" Al replied.
"Hurry up! Lets go to Liore!" Ed yelled from in front of us.
Me and Alphonse ran over to Edward, the sun was still bright in the sky. "We're coming!" I yelled back.
We walked in silence for a while we were so glad the sun was going down. "I think we should stop and set it up to spent the night" I suggested.
"Lets continue walking a bit though and get as far as we can" Ed said.
"Fine" I mumbled, I didn't want to walk much farther. "My ports hurt from walking so far" I complained.
"Deal with it, its your fault you brought such a big suitcase" Edward replied.
"Brother, be nice" Al scolded.
We walked untill the sun had completely set. "Can we stop now?" I whined.
"Fine" Edward said.
I pulled out some blackets from my big suitcase and left it open for the cat who was happy to be out and under my blanket. Edward fell asleep first, "Hey, Al," I whispered,
"You want Snowball for the night?"
"Sure!" He said.
"Okay then you wont be alone" I smiled sleepily.
"Yeah" He replied.
"Goodnight, Al" I said before falling into a deep sleep.
I was in some sort of feild filled with flowers, how did I get here? I saw a girl she had bright blonde hair and green-blue eyes, she seemed familar but I couldn't figure out
where I've seen her. She looked about 3 but her eyes said she was smarter then a normal 3 year old. "Hello, who are you?" I asked getting closer and kneeling down.
"You don't remember me?" She asked tilting her head to the right.
"No, should I?"
"Maybe" She shrugged.
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know, I was told to tell you to keep looking"
"Looking for what?" I asked the girl.
"Just looking" She said turning around. "I have to go, bye, McKenna"
She walked into the forest at the end of the feild. I woke up to something warm laying on my face, I got up and saw it was Snowball. "Aww, your so sweet" I said petting her.
Al was sitting at the foot of mine and Ed's sleeping bags, I put the white kitten on my lap and stetched "Hey, Al"
"Good Morning, McKenna"
"Should we get ready incase Ed gets up?"
"Okay, I'll help" We packed up, I transmuted a room to change in out of the sand like I did last night, and got changed. And turned it back to sand after. "Okay should we go
before the sun really comes up?"
"Okay, I'll wake up brother"
I packed up the cat with some water and food "You'll only been in here for a little longer" I told her before zipping in up a bit.
"Al, why do I have to get up now?" I heard Ed complain.
"Because McKenna thought it would be a good Idea to leave before the sun came up more" Al explained.
"Since when does she make the decisions?" He mumbled.
"Since I thought about it and realized I'd rather not sweat alot today" I told him.
"Fine" He said realized it made sense.
He got up and put his shirt, gloves and jacket on. "Come on lets go!" I said.
We walked for a while every one in a while I'd think about something random and start a weird conversation, that went on for hours, sometimes we'd just talk about alchemy
and their research on the Philosophers Stone and what it does exactly. "I hate deserts its nothing but sand, if there was grass I could turn it into bread. I'm starving!" Ed
complained, collapsing. "Hey, Al, where you go! Al!"
"Down herer" Al said from under the sand grabbing Eds leg "I sunk again"
"Number two why I hate the desert"
We helped Al out from under the sand.
"I don't understand why you keep falling in!" Ed said.
"I get full!" "Full of what!" Ed said kicking Al chest compartment causing all the sand to fall out.
Buring Ed in sand. Me and Al laughed, and Ed got mad so we started running. "Get back here! I'm not going to do anything"
"Nothing? Then why are you chasing us!"
"Stop and you'll find out!"
"No!" I yelled back.
He chased us for a minute before we quit and found Liore a few minutes away.
Ed sighed. "You okay brother?"
"Its your fault you wouldn't stop when I told you to"
"You wouldn't stop if someone was chasing you either"
"Shut up, I'm to tired to fight" Ed said "Water... I can almost hear it... Wait a minute I CAN hear it!"
Me and Ed ran to the fountain he was looking at. He laughed maniacly "Water Water Water Water!"
When we got there we realized it wasn't water, but wine? "Guess this explains the nasty stench in the air"
"Yeah.." I sighed, "I am so thirsty my throut hurts like hell"
"Whats wrong" Al said coming behind us.
Ed scooped up some in the cup that was there. "Is it blood?" Al asked.
"More like blood red wine"
"I'll still drink it I don't care" I said picking up the cup.
"Hey! Get away from there! you know thats off limits for kids!" I man yelled grabbing the back of our coats. He took us to his shop that man behind us. "Oh! so your out-of-
towners that explains it!" the man laughed, "You'll havve to forgive me I thought you were trying to sneak a little sip"
"Haha, a fountain filled with free wine, thats pretty ritsy. This town must be loaded" Ed said as a bell rang somewhere.
"Oh, we do okay. Oh! I almost forgot!" the man said turning on the radio."Time for a little soul-food"
Some music started playing and a man started preaching. Everyone else turned on their radios too. Ed looked confused "Well, thats freakish"
"Some sort of religous brodcast" Al said.
"Your buddy's in a suit of armour and you two are wearing gloves in the desert, and you call us freaks?" the man looked from Ed, to Al, to me, "Whats your deal anyway? Are
you street preformers?" Me and Ed spat out our juice. "I don't think so pops!" Ed spat. "Do I look like a clown to you?"
"Seriously! Street preformers? No" I said angrily.
"Well you must have some reason to journey out this far" the man said.
"We're just trying to track something down thats all" Ed said, "Who is this guy? On your airwaves"
"Well, thats Sir Cornello"
"Hmhp, doesn't ring a bell"
"What! Your kidding me! You've never heard of the great Prophet Cornello!" the man yelled getting close to Ed.
"Whats great out it?"
"He can preform miricals for one thing" A different man said coming between me and Ed, "I haven't seen anything like it"
"This town used to be a god forsaken dust bowl before Cornello got here and transformed it into a desert paradise" Said another man between Ed and Al.
"Cornello can even forgive sins" Said yet anotherman beside me.
"We're on the sun gods good side because of him" Another man said behind Al.
"He can give us blessings" that the sencond man.
Ed groaned covering his ears, "I just remembered, we have to be somewhere" "Ready to split?" Ed asked looking at me and Al.
"I don't care, but I got a head ache from these guys" I said.
"Yeah okay" Al said standing up and hitting his head on the shelf above him causing the radio to fall.
The radio smashed into maybe 200-300 pieces. "Opps" Al said "Now you've done it buddy, what'd you expect wearing a stupid tin suit" The shop owner said.,
"Don't bust a lon grandpa, we can fix it" Ed said.
"How? its in a thousand pieces!" the man yelled.
"I'm sorry, let me try" Al said.
"Sure" Me and Ed said.
Al drew the transmutaion circle with a piece of chalk he always has, "Whats it for?" The man asked.
"You'll see in just a second" Ed said.
"Its called a transmutation circle" I explained.
"Okay, here we go" Al said.
There was blue energy and a puff of smoke. and just before the smoke cleared up the radio started playing again. Evryone gasped in shock as the radio was in one piece
again. "Its really a land of prophets, your buddy can work mircicles like Cornello"
"Its nothing like that" Ed said.
"Its science" Al said walking our way, "We're all Alchemist"
"We're the Elric brothers and this is our friend McKenna Imogene" Ed said, "Not to brag or anything, but we're pretty well known"
"Elrics? Not familular" "Imogene? Nope" "We don't have any Alchemist in these parts" "I fix things for a living though, let me know if you need a job" the men said.
"They don't any work, that Edward Elric, The Fullmetal Alchemist" A beautiful woman wearing gloves and a light brown cloak said, "He's kind of a celebrity around east city,
they say he's a real child prodigy"
Me and Ed just looked at her, "Wow a really life famous person" A man sorrounding Al said.
"I see you got the name Fullmetal because you wear that armour" Another man said.
"Hey, would you come to my daughtes birthday party?"
"Uh.. I'm not the Fullmetal Alchemist, he is" Al said putting his hands up.
"You mean that little shorty?"
Ed got mad that them all and started swinging them around, I sighed and sat by the lady, "Shit, now we're never going to leave..."
"SHORTY! CAN A SHORTY DO THIS! LAST TIME YOU CALL ME A HALF PINT BEAN SPROUT MIDGET, YOU DOWN GROWN DESERT IDIOTS!" Ed yelled.
The shop owner looked nervous. "He's tired this is all he'll do, we just walked through the desert" I told him.
"I see there's plenty of excitment around here today" A girl with brown hair and pink bangs said.
"Oh, Rose" the shop owner said and the girl smiled and even Ed stopped swinging around the men.
"Don't mind me I hate to spoil all the fun" Rose said, probably not realizing Ed was beating them up.
"Thats Okay" Al said "My names Alphonse Elric"
"And I'm Edward. Al's older brother" Ed said pointing to himself with his thumb, "Also know as the Fullmetal Alchemist"
"Older brother? But shouldn't it be the other way around?" Rose said making Ed look very angry.
"There there brother" Al said trying to calm him down.
"He hates being called short" I explained.
"And who are you?" She asked kindly.
"I'm Ed and Al's friend McKenna Imogene" I said.
"Oh well nice to meet you" She smiled.
the shop owner laughed "Hey, Rose you finished your shopping for todays offering?"
"Yeah" She replied.
"Well maybe you could take them to the temple with you, they said they were looking for something, why I bet father Cornello would help them, hand them in for gods grace"
"Thats okay we don't really-" "Oh its fine if you don't have a offering today, besides he has rooms for travelers to stay in"
"No, he means we dont really want to" I started.
"Ye-" Al tried to agree.
"As a matter of fact, we'd love to take you up on that! Right Al, McKenna?" Ed interrupted.
Me and Al looked at him shocked, what is he thinking? "We would? You mean you want to?" Al asked.
Ed nodded. The walked up ahead I stayed for a minute, "It sure is nice to see a smile on her face" One of the men said.
"Yeah she's beginning to act like her old self again" the shop owner said, "Her heart must be healing at last" The woman I am sitting with smiled, "What happened?"
"Her parents died when she was younger, then her boyfriend died in a accident"
"Oh.." I said thinking about when my family died.
The lady beside me got up and walked away, I guess I should catch up with Ed and Al.