"I'm bored…"

"Yes, we know."

"I'm bored…"

"FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME, ED, WE KNOW!" Naruto shouted at him.

"Where's Cynthia? She is way late."

"Like she had a deadline."

Edward stood up. "I'm going to go look for her. Annoying girl probably wandered off…"

"EDWARDEDWARDEDWARD!"

Tackle.

"I AM SOOO GLAD TO SEE YOU!"

Edward blinked. Lalaurana hugged his legs.

"HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! What are you doing here?"

"I'm in a tournament, Sensei… And I should be asking you the same question."

Lalaurana twirled a lock of hair on her finger. "Well, I forget. I think Envy followed you here…"

"From LSIG?"

"Yeah. He and Wrath and Lust…"

"Why did Envy follow me?"

"They followed Cynthia, not you. Envy is trying to find a reason to blackmail you… And he found one!"

"Oh yeah? What?"

"Blackmail?" Naruto looked at Sakura and Sasuke, who shrugged.

Lalaurana held up a picture of Edward hugging Cynthia. "Envy made lots of copies…"

"GIVE ME THAT!" Edward snatched it, blushing furiously. Naruto snickered.

"I liked the old way he was blackmailing me, OK? Go tell him that!"

"I don't know where he is!"

Edward glared at her. "Cynthia just went off with Wrath…"

"Then Envy tricked you!"

Edward glared. "Shit…"

Cynthia's eyes fluttered. "What the Hell…" She sighed quietly, then began to squirm fiercely. "ENVY! ENVY! GET OVER HERE! I'M GONNA KILL YOU! YOU AND THAT MINIATURE BASTARD WRATH!"

"I am not miniature!" Wrath complained. Envy and Envy stood up. "Which one?"

"YOU KNOW WHICH ONE!"

"Um, no, we don't."

Cynthia pulled her arm, but realized she was tied to a tree. She would have easily broke the bonds, but they were coated with a strange sand that bit into her skin whenever she moved. How was she going to get out of this…

She squeezed her eyes shut.

Maybe someone would come…

Like Naruto, or Sasuke…

Or Edward…

She looked up in the tree and blinked.

"What the Hell are you doing? Hurry up and escape!"

"Inuyasha…"

Inuyasha glared at her from the tree. "Shut up before they hear you. You idiot, just break the ropes and kick their asses!"

"Why can't you just save me?"

"To me, this is all a big test. If you escape, you pass, and the teacher can't help you with a test."

"You suck."

"Don't we all."

"Yo! Cynthia!"

Cynthia turned to look around the tree. Naruto crouched there, grinning. He pointed into another tree. Cynthia turned to look. There was Sasuke, a mound of rocks beside him, pointing into another tree. Sakura sat there, ready to shout out orders. And Edward…

"Hi, everybody!"

Gaara and his homunculi looked up, as well as the student Envy, Lust and Wrath. Edward strolled in and sat down. "What's for dinner?" He clapped and put his hands on the ground. There he made a long stick, which he poked through a random fish. "Fried fish, anyone?"

"I knew your annoying power was alchemy." Lust sniffed.

"Alchemy…" Gaara asked.

"Hey! Guess what, Edo! I found a new way to blackmail you!" Envy giggled, holding up the picture.

Edward blushed. "Oh, go save me the trouble and kill yourself and your annoying friends…"

"YOU'RE SO MEAN!" Student Wrath began to cry.

One of the Lusts extended her nails and poked Edward's right arm, trailing her nail down his sleeve. "Oh, you made Wrath cry. Bad boy."

"DON'T TOUCH THAT!" Edward pulled his arm away from her nail. "It's… Sensitive."

"For an arm made of metal, it sure SEEMS sensitive…"

Sasuke blinked. Arm made of metal…

"OK, you know what, hurry up and put the damn plan into action..." Edward growled.

Klonk.

A rock bashed into Envy's head. "OW!" he rubbed it. "What the Hell…"

Klonk.

Another one hit his nose.

"AARRGGHH! YOU!" He pointed an accusing finger at Cynthia. "You're doing this, somehow, with your freakish martial arts crap!"

"SHADOW CLONE NO JUTSU!" Naruto shouted. A dozen Cynthia clones popped out of nowhere, by combining a transformation jutsu with his shadow clone one.

"What?" One clone said, crossing her arms and glaring at the homunculi. Another clone began to undo the ropes around Cynthia's hands.

"You think I'm so helpless as to not know a SINGLE jutsu, like Rock Lee?"

"I'm too strong to be like that. Come on!"

Edward clapped. "Alright, now lets kill some homunculi.

"Sasuke! Keep pelting them with rocks. Naruto! Mix up your clones so they can't find out which one is Cynthia!" Sakura ordered. Sasuke could do more than just throwing rocks, but he had a good aim.

Edward touched Envy, and set his hair on fire. He didn't care if it was the human one, or the homunculus, but either way…

Envy shrieked and tried to beat out the flames. He is such an idiot, whichever one he is… Edward thought.

"How troublesome." Lust muttered. "This should slow things up… " With her long nails and while Ed was busy, she took a firm hold of his right sleeve, and pulled.

RRRRIIIIPPPPPP!

Everyone stopped what they were doing as the noise sliced through the air. Cynthia looked at Edward in silence, but everyone who hadn't seen his arm before gasped. The sun had just risen over the trees, and glinted off the sleek metal of Edward's arm. Edward just glared at the hateful thing, then looked at everyone. "You know what?" He pulled off his other sleeve to match. "I don't care. Stare all you want." He clapped and made a blade on his arm. "Its just been too long since I could do this without worrying who watches."

"Edward…" Cynthia smiled. He can finally show Winry's magnificent creation to the world… She thought, swelling with pride. She smirked. "ALL RIGHT! Stop playing around with your clones, Naruto, and kick ass!"

She grabbed her halberd and brought it down on Envy's katana. The katana blade bent under the weight. Envy became nervous. Cynthia had improved greatly since school, being able to swing this annoying thing with just one hand. Another strike and his katana would break. But Cynthia didn't even pull back the blade, she simply kept pressing her weight on it.

"Cynthia!" Envy growled. "Why do you use this halberd, anyway? Why don't you fight me face to face?"

"Because you fight dirty!"

"I do not! Lust does! Listen, drop your halberd and I'll drop all my weapons and we'll fight with our fists."

Cynthia pulled back her halberd and glared at him. She threw the halberd, where it slammed into a tree, digging into the soft bark. "Fine. It's not like you can use a bent katana anyway."

Envy tossed his katana aside and emptied his sleeve full of knives and kunai. "There…"

But he had no time to finish. He hand to bend back far to avoid a swinging kick from Cynthia.

"Hurry up, Envy. Fight back!"

Edward was off grappling with the homunculus Lust. He blocked her nails continuously with his metal arm, lashing out occasionally with his metal leg. The homunculus Envy turned into Cynthia and tapped Edward's shoulder.

"Cynthia?" Edward blocked Lust's nails again. "What?"

"Edward," Envy cooed as Cynthia, undoing his karate belt. "While everyone else is fighting, why don't we just go into the woods…"

Cynthia looked over to see how Edward and her friends were faring. Sasuke was continuously hurling rocks at Wrath and Greed, making it so they couldn't get close enough to get him. Sakura was throwing kunai at the two Wraths, and Naruto was still attacking with his clones. But… Edward was fending off Lust while Envy flirted with him, drawing his attention from the fight. Lust's nails pulled back one last time, and…

"EDWARD!" She screamed. Time seemed to slow down, as she left her fight with the student Envy and sped over. Lust's nails shot out and were just going to slice into Edward…

"Hey, wait, Cynthia has bandages around…"

"AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!"

Lust's nails punctured Cynthia's skin, ripping through her shirt and digging into her soft flesh. Two nails went into one shoulder, two in the other, and one through her arm.

"Oh, God! CYNTHIA!"

Cynthia's eyes flickered. "Wha?" She sat up. "ARRRGGHH!" She fell back down. Winry looked down at her. "Wow, you're really banged up…"

"Winry? When…"

"Edward called me. You've been asleep for a whole week."

"What? The tournament! What happened? Did we win?"

"No," Winry said, sighing. "Your team got here second, after Gaara's. You're in the hospital wing of the tower. Oh, and by the way… I had to amputate one of your arms."

"What?" Cynthia looked at her left arm. It was there, but banged up and bandaged. She turned her head. A stump was where her left would have been. She wiggled it. "Oh, my…"

"Eek! Don't fall unconscious again!" Winry picked up a drill and some metal. "Your right arm will heal good as new. But the wounds in your left sliced through a vital nerve connecting your arm to the shoulder. So we had to take it off… You can have one of two options. Either… Either we leave it like that, or…" She sighed and looked at Cynthia pitifully. "Or we give you automail. Like Edward. It took Edward's arm a year to adjust. But because you're a demon, it should connect properly by the end of the month…"

"Just give me the damn automail already!" Cynthia growled. "Every second I waste is a second I'm not murdering Gaara and those homunculi!"

Cynthia squeezed her eyes shut, holding back tears. Oh, God… It burns…

Winry looked up from the arm she was connecting. "Oh, Cynthia, I know it hurts. Just try not to…"

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKK!"

Edward sighed. "I'm going to kill those homunculi…"

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKK!"

Sasuke head snapped up. "What's going on?"

"Um, you know MY arm?" He flexed his metal fingers and elbow. "Well, Cynthia's getting one. When the nerves connect it hurts like Hell."

Sakura peered in the window and her cheeks puffed out. "Oh, God…"

"Winry's a really good mechanic. Cynthia's in talented hands."

"SHE'D BETTER BE!" Naruto was pacing back and forth. "I can't have my teammate die or something."

"Why are you pacing?" Sakura asked.

But as soon as she finished, a nurse walked in. "Naruto, sir, here is your instant ramen."

"Thank you!" Naruto pulled it open ad grabbed some chopsticks, slurping up the ramen.

"RAMEN?" Sakura screeched in outrage.

"I'm hungry when I'm nervous…"

"Who are you, Chouji?"

"Hey! Are you calling me FAT?"

"No…"

"I, um…" Winry opened the door. "I'm done… GAH!"

Edward, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura stampeded over her, trampling her into the ground.

Cynthia sat up, holding her metal arm with her other one. Winry held up a finger from the ground. "Cynthia, don't move it for a little while, it'll be sore…"

"Right."

"Oh my God, Cynth!" Edward muttered.

"I know, Ed. My right arm will heal, but my left…"

She blushed. Edward took her metal hand in his. "Cynthia, I swear to God, along with my arm and leg, I'll find a way to get your arm back. I promise."

Her eyes began to tear. "Edward… I… Thank you.

Edward smiled. "Now. You have one month until you can use your arm. Let's get training."

"Yeah!" Cynthia clenched her organic hand. "It's tome to go kill that Gaara!"