Chappy 19 I am really late! I know I know… I normally update every day or so but I have been planning a head creating twists and stuff I already have the ending but I guess that's not an exuse anyway please read on and enjoy

Disclaimer: I don't own it.. get over it –sniffs-

"ugh… my feet." Ed moaned who was walking next Akane Al on the other side.

"where is that kid were supposed to be protecting anyway? I haven't seen him." He stated, pointing out the obvious for the fourth time that day.

" why don't you ask him?" asked Akane.

"well how am I gonna…" he began but Akane pointed over her shoulder to her right, a girlish looking boy next to her.

"oh… hi." Said Ed sheepishly, wondering how he could not notice him for a whole day, when he was right there the whole time.

The boy waved.

" so what exactly is a state alchemist? How do you do alchemy?" asked the boy starting up a conversation for the first time that day, as they walked to the next location were he would perform.

"well..." started Akane. " you make a circly thingy." She said making a random circle in the air in front of her. " then you have to… take it away Ed." She stopped realizing she didn't know regular alchemy the way Ed did.

"uh… Al!... you explain it." Said Ed motioning for Winston (girly boy) to go over to al for it to be explained to him.

"circly thingy?" ed asked amused, forgetting the pain in his feet… foot.

" I ran out of vocabulary." Akane said shrugging as the group of circus people and Ed, Al, Roy, Riza, and Akane neared a big amphitheater thing.

The ring master blew in some sort of whistle when they got there and stood on one of the pioneer looking caravans, announcing that they had finally reached their destination and will begin setting up and the show itself momentarily.

"damn these people have hard schedule. It's like living with teacher all over again." Groaned Ed slightly amused.

"who?" asked Akane perplexed.

"mine and Al's teacher. We were her apprentices, but living with her is like a living hell…really." He said a mock serious on his face.

Normally Akane would laugh at his stupid comment but instead it made her remember of her teachers.

--flash back—

THUD

"ugh" Akane moaned as she hit the hard tree trunk. She wanted to stay against that trunk the rest of her life, but if she did a second longer it would get her killed.

"keep moving." A black haired man named enn said as he swung his arm that was morphed into a sword like thing, which Akane slunk down lower on to the ground to avoid.

She rapidly crawled, or rather scampered into the forest, she leaned against a huge tree to catch her breath.

For four hours they had been training like this, the three of them. Akane's teachers. Sakura, Enn, and Arta.

Just as her breathing began to slow, the tree was cut in half and Akane nearly got her head cut off by a huge blade that came swinging.

"I said keep moving." Repeated the Enn frowning. Then he made a mock attempt at swinging and missing before taking off into the woods, leaving Akane stunned and confused.

Then it became clear of why he did it.

"boo!" a pink haired woman jumped down from an impossibly high branch of a tree.

She flipped down and attempted to grab Akane's arm. Akane knowing full well that her teacher Sakura could then enter her body by a mere touch avoided her like life was on the line. Thing is, it was.

Even though this was training, her teachers believed in learning in real life scenarios. Though Akane doubted that she would do anything so be surrounded by three alchemists, she went along with it.

" come on princess, gotta move faster than that!" she called darting between trees almost invisible.

"don't call me princess!" Akane yelled her head moving back and fourth attempting to follow sakura's movements.

"alright princess." She whispered in Akane's ear.

She whipped around immediately dropping down and knocking sakura's legs from under her.

"too slow!" she sang, darting through the trees the way Enn had, but faster.

Almost instantly Akane was thrown into another tree, actually smashing through and getting hit with rocks and rubble.

She hit the next tree with a thud. She slid down almost out of it.

Then a huge fist smashed the ground next to her head. Rocks and boulders showered over her, cutting her face arms and legs. A big rock hit her on the side of the head causing her to bleed and she chanced a hit at Arta (the big dude.)

But missed and hit the ground hard and slowly closed her eyes as she saw three pairs of feet approach her.

"four and a half hours." Sakura said checking the small watch on hr wrist. "impressive… for a princess." She said smirking.

Arta looked at Enn, he nodded.

"ya it's her alright this defiantly proves it." He said nodding.

--end flash back—

"AKANE!" yelled Ed.

"huh?" she asked not noticing she was staring blankly into space.

"whew. I thought you had died standing up." he said wiping his brow his automail glinting.

"no I was just thinking." She said airily. " and that's impossible and you know it." She snapped at him regaining her senses.

"no it's not, it's very possible." He argued, but Akane ignored him.

How long was I thinking, everything is set up. She thought amazed.

Then Winston walked past them clad in his clown –cough- acrobat costume.

"when does the show start?" asked Akane.

He shrugged. "now." He said.

"Huh?" said Akane taken aback.

"oh ya that reminds me." Said Ed digging in his jacket pocket.

He pulled out a little earphone with an attachment to wrap around your neck.

"here." He said holding it out to her. Akane noticed for the first time that he had one too already ready for communication.

She grabbed it and put it on. "hello?" she asked hesitantly.

"what did you do pass out? Where were you?" asked Roy's voice through the earphone, accompanied by loud screams and a little boy barely audible saying "daddy is that man talking to himself?"

"no Ed just gave it to me now." She said.

"oh."

"where are you?" she asked him.

" I'm in the stands under cover, so are Riza and Al, but on different parts of the stadium." He said seemingly proud, but no one knew of what.

"oh right, so what do we do?" she asked.

"you and Ed go stand behind that big black curtain… well your already there, so no worries.. just, if anything goes wrong tell us and if you cant say it directly say SOS." He said, becoming quieter with the crowd as the lights dimmed and the ringmasters voice was heard booming over the audience.

"oh ya that's discreet." Said Ed sourly.

"shut up." said roy becoming quiet.

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"Finally, they sent her here. I was getting tired of those guards I had to kill." A pink haired woman said sitting upon the banisters of the auditorium.

"who is the boy they sent with her?" she asked.

"that fullmetal kid." A man with huge fists and a bald head replied.

"hmmm, are they close?" she said picking at her nails.

"they wont admit it but from their behavior yes." A man with black hair said. "why what are you going to do sakura?" he asked.

"nothing, it's just, it'll be fun to watch her suffer when I kill him." She said a mad smile playing across her girlish features.

"you're sadistic." The bald man said.

"heh, do I look bothered about it?" she asked smiling menacingly.

"okay go over the plan." Said Enn.

"we need to get all of the guards out in the open to bring out Akane and that other kid, yes, yes, we know." Said sakura impatient.

Then Enn jumped down and headed into the crowd sitting down next to none other than Riza. He patted his jacket that obviously had a gun shaped lump in it. Then sakura did the same.

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A suspicious looking person sat down next Riza.

She looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

She saw a bulge in his jacket.

Gun. she thought knowing this was a threat. She couldn't just say SOS this was obviously planned, why else would he sit here?

She had to take action into her own hands. Her hand inched cautiously to hr jacket which inside had her gun, when her hand was almost touching the gun she moved faster, pulled it out and pointed it at the man, who had anticipated her actions and had done the same. This caused an uproar in the crowd around them that they just ignored.

Riza felt someone behind her, then that person spoke.

"hey there, cupcake. Drop your gun." She said.

Riza moved her hand down then up to it's original position, but when the two loaded their guns she lowered her hand and dropped it. The man kicked it over the edge.

Then the pink haired woman locked her arm around Riza's neck pulling her close, her gun pointed at her head.

Riza struggled against the woman's grip.

"no use cupcake." She whispered in Riza's ear. Roy and everyone else (with a communicator) heard what was going on up there and had immediately sprung into action.

"where're all your buddies?" she asked sadistically.

"what buddies?" she asked as sakura's grip on her throat tightened.

" you know I can just kill you right now but I'll give your buddies a second to get here." Said said that sadistic smile playing across her features.

"why not now?" Riza asked the gears in her mind working hard. "what use is a second? Even if there is a chance they'll get here you'll shoot anyway. If I'm not going to live past that second then why not kill me now?" she asked attempting to buy time to figure out a solution but nothing came.

Sakura pondered what Riza was saying.

Then roy appeared behind her taking a swing at sakura. She ducked but let go of Riza in the process.

Roy threw Riza's gun at her, she caught it and shot sakura while Ed came onto the scene jumping over a railing Akane hot on his heels.

Al went to go protect Winston.

Ed got there just in time to see sakura's bullet wound heal and the bullet pushed out of her chest.

"homunculus?" her murmured.

Akane stopped dead when she saw sakura and enn.

Her eyes grew huge. "no." she whispered.

"keep moving." Said a voice behind her.

Akan ducked and closed her eyes focusing revealing a brilliant white.

She transmuted a blade out of the metal railing next to her, and attempted to swing at him but his arm transformed into a blade.

He blocked her, and pushed her away, and right into arta, who closed his arms around her in a bear hug, and turning to scoop up Edward who was busy trying to figure out if sakura was a homunculus or not.

"hey! Put me down!" he yelled struggling against the death grip.

"lets go!" yelled Enn, beginning to run arta and sakura on his heels.

As they ran Akane and Ed struggled making it difficult for arta to run so he smashed their heads together knocking them out.

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cliffy I think that's a cliffy! I know this has a lot of grammatical error and stuff but this is just what I had on the top of my head so get over it. Also it was rushed. Be glad you got a chapter this long. But I had fun writing it. Finally some fight scenes right?!?! Anyway please review and stay tuned because I will update soon as possible before the idea leaves me if any questions (no matter how stupid) ask me and yes I know good author don't put such long notes but has it occurred to you I'm not a good author?