"Okay Adi, Mustang may have mentioned to me that it could be a battle exam… maybe." Hughes tried to hint her as they walked up the steps of central. "So just do your best, I am sure you will do fine!" Hughes said and she walked off. Piece of cake.

"Adi, right?" That man from yesterday was talking to her. What was his name…..

"Yes," she responded politely.

"You will be against participant 7 in a few minutes so just take a seat over there." He directed and went back to sit with the panel of judges. Adi noticed a boy and suit of armor sitting on the sidelines, the blonde boy looking bored. She couldn't read the armor though, although she felt the vibrations of heartbeat below her. It didn't have one, she realized, interesting.

"Number 7 and 8 please enter the arena at this time." The man… Mustang! She remembered now, called. "Remember; try not to kill your opponent unless it is in protection." Adi sighed inward, how was it supposed to be fun now?

The man, number 7, faced her. She smirked at him, rising up to her full height of 5ft 3. Yes, he was at least a foot taller, but no, he couldn't beat her. Why not reveal a little bit of her real power.. She wondered. The man took his stance from across of her. The arena was filled with raw minerals.

"Go!" One of the men called and the man leaned down to draw a circle. Adi sighed and decided to end this fast. In less than a second she was behind the man, and with one tap, turned him to stone. She bounced off him and flipped onto her feet, knocking the statue over with a thud, cracking it, yet it stayed together. She was met with silence and the watchers looked at her with shock. She closed her eyes and listened to the sounds running across the ground. The boy and armor were talking. She looked up and narrowed her eyes at the two. They looked up and her and she let a smirk curved her lips, revealing an abnormally sharp canine tooth.

"I guess, um, number 8 wins that round?" Mustang said, staring at her wide eyed. "Can you change him back, or is he.. dead?" The man asked her and she grinned and walked over to the fallen statue, she poked it and immediately it turned back into a screaming man, with cuts running across his entire body. Sounds of agony and shrieks came from the fallen alchemist.

"Do I have to fix him?" Adi asked Mustang in a bored tone and Mustang nodded carefully. Aiming a kick to his stomach, Adi's foot connected with a flash of bright light. And the man was now fully healed. He stood up and looked himself over, before falling to his knees and bowing before Adi. She almost laughed as all the other contestants stared at them in disbelief. She walked back to her seat, wary of the eyes on her as she smirked. Taking her seat, Mustang announced the winners so far and that they would be continuing tomorrow with the final matches. Then Mustang practically ran out of the arena area and Adi touched the ground. She felt her way to him through the earth and was about to grab onto his words when a tap on her shoulder knocked her back to consciousness. She stood up and glared at the person who dared to disturb her. Standing before her was the boy, who was supposedly a year old than her, and the suit of armor.

"Edward Elric," she hissed out and the armor jumped in fear, yet honestly she couldn't tell what it was from due to a lack of heartbeat and blood. She turned her gaze on the armor and grinned, circling around the fidgeting.. thing. Edward's heartbeat was normal though, it seemed he wasn't frightened of her. That would have to change.

"Okay, give it up." Edward said, holding out his palm. Adi tilted her head and just looked at him.

"What?" She asked dryly.

"The philosophers stone of course!" He said and glared at her.

"Philosophers stone…." She said and wracked her database. "Please give me a second." She touched the ground and transferred through the energy into the all the books within a 10mi radius. Flipping through books and disregarding the shrieks of people she downloaded all the information.

"Okay, I understand now. I have now learned what it is." She said and he looked unimpressed at her, until a woman ran up, shrieking.

"The books! They started moving! And now a bunch of them are wiped clean, like all white!" The woman yelled at one of the military personnel and Adi grinned.

"Oops." She said dryly.

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