Book 5 The Unison War, Chapter 10: Davis

He was a war hero, he was a commander, and he had travelled the word, yet he found himself jailed in philosophy class of all places. He did not understand why Taichi had left him out of the mission to conquer the Empire's homeland; although his Digimon was in a deathly illness with no cures or improvements in sight. He could somewhat understand but he did not understand why he was forced to attend school like the other kids his age. With the war at full swing he had expected the King to have at least some kind of mission for him, he was after all a lord and he was not solely trained in the art of Digimon taming, he was after all considered one of the better sharpshooters within the Empire; although his first actual mission involving a rifle did cause him to become a prisoner under Taichi. Instead, his mother had enrolled him into one of the best schools in the new world, she had argued with him that "an good education is needed for the future Lord of Liverpool" and should damn well learn some skills so that he could support himself, his fiancé, and her future grandchildren.

Davis sighed, the class had been going for at least two hours by his watch and it was likely to go another two. It wasn't that he had never been to a school, rather it had been so long since he last stepped into a full lesson. By his count, it was at least three years since he had a formal school class, he had been so busy with formal training and then the war with Royal and ultimately his year long journey with Taichi. He was officially put in a second year class, and at least with maths and sciences he felt challenged but philosophy was a different matter.

"It was Lord Nelson who first theorized Digimon world which exists separate from our own. He had come to the conclusion after he classified natural beasts and Digimon, the animal kingdom, which we humans belong to, have natural reproduction cycles where as Digimon are magically summoned. Thus, Lord Nelson sought to find the plain of existence where Digimon had first come from." The professor droned on and on.

The school was not unlike the famous schools of the Empire and Royal, in fact it was scarily similar to Saint Germain Taichi had told him about and Saint George Lady Lily Crowle had attended; the latter he was not allowed to step in as it was a solely all girls school and they feared that if Davis, who was known as a playboy, was to tempt the student body and therefore he was restricted to the ship during that time. This school, famously known as Saint Brebeuf Academy was one of the best schools in the New World, second only to Saint Patrick Institution located in the New England colony. What as different compared to some of the schools in the Old World was that this school was open to almost anyone whereas the old schools only had its doors opened to the Noble class; this was why his class were fuller compared to the odd ten classmates he had in his childhood schools. It was an eye opening experience, although he usually found himself in the company of other noble children who had escaped to the New World, he had learned a lot from talking to lower class children.

"Can anyone tell me what Lord Norwich II preposed as an alternate theory to where Digimon had come from?" The professor asked. Davis could see the professor looking towards him. Please don't pick me, please don't pick me, please don't pick me. "Yes Lady Liverpool." The professor pointed to the girl who sat beside him. He could see everyone's eyes turn to the girl, the boys had eyes of lust and the girl with eyes of jealousy, as after all the girl who sat beside him had become overnight, one of the most popular students that attended Saint Brebeuf.

"Lord Norwich II preposed the Digimon were part of a human consciousness and would propagate into a physical being we call Digimon once the human reached a certain age and he had enough magical bloodline to attempt a summoning. He argued that people of lower class lacked what he called the Yggdrasil bloodline, as Yggdrasil was thought to be the first human to have a Digimon companion." The girl answered, Davis sighed with relief when he learned it wasn't him who had to answer. The girl beside him had a huge grin when the professor praised her for the correct answer as she sat down.

She had been promised to him for less than a week, what first started as a prank by Taichi had now become serious, his mother had expected the two to wed within the month. Again Davis sighed, unlike the majority of noble children of his age, he was in no rush to become tied down. He knew those who were no less than half his age already engaged or married and he could not simply understand why they were in such a hurry. Of course, he himself was going through the process of becoming drawn to girls, more than once he had wanted to simply pick a random girl and spend the night with them. Of course, being of noble blood meant he had to marry into someone of pure blood and he could not be seen in bed with just any girl he found; ironic he was now engaged to a former pleasure girl who his mother believed to be a foreign princess. Davis did not know what he felt towards the girl, he did not know if it was love or simply lust. He did however find as he spent more and more time together with the girl, his heart would speed up whenever he was in her presence.

Ami had adapted to life in the New World quite well, more so than himself as he was fidgety to see some action and not be confined to philosophy class. He barely saw the girl outside of having classes together and sharing the same bed. Ami had most of her time taken up by his mother as she continued to train Ami in the art of being a future noblewoman of the Empire. They didn't even spend meals together as Ami would often wake up earlier for her morning lessons before joining him for school and while at school, her schedule was even more packed as she was trying to catch up with the Empire's education system, and even more lessons with his mother after classes were over. The only time he did see her was the little time they shared together at night but both would often come to bed too tired to talk and simply slip into sleep and again he would find her gone in the morning. On weekends where they did have some time to themselves at night, he was often to frighten to even touch her even with her requests to allow her to pleasure him but he was too much of a gentleman thinking that he was forcing her into it. Those nights would only result in the two spending it quietly in company with one another; when he did build up the courage, he would only go as far as having her snuggle up to him.

The singular giant bell located at the top of the school building's sole tower rang out to signal the end of the current lesson block; the bell was large enough for anyone on campus property to hear and small enough to not annoy those who lived in houses outside the school grounds. The school was a large one, being in the New World it required her to have a large space for dorms although the majority of children had lived off grounds with their parents as many families had moved to York because of the war. Davis stood and gathered his notebook with the many sheets of paper scattered around where he sat, as each row of chairs had a single long desk stretching from end to end.

"Lord Davis, would you like to join me for lunch?" Came the voice from the girl who sat beside him.

"Ami, how many times have I told you to drop the Lord, I'm just Davis." Davis replied to her as his eyes dropped on to the girl's form. Again his heart skipped a beat and started to pound on his ribcage. The female uniform required for them to wear was much different from the one he came to knew when he was stuck in Madras with the rest of the Reliant's crew, instead of a simple white blouse and plaid skirt fit for the warm weather of Indos, the uniform for Saint Brebeuf was much more complex as it would soon be winter. The uniform consisted of a white outer buttoned coat, with a very large and exposed neckline, where anyone not wearing the matching black blouse would become indecent. The coat was much more puffy in some areas but still made the majority of the girls wearing it look elegant with their curves. Many of the girls had brought their own ribbons to accessorize their uniforms and Ami was no different. She had changed her signature pigtails to a single ponytail drawn with a large black ribbon to match her white uniform, but her hair still long and perm-y.

"I'm afraid Lord Davis will not be able to do that Lady Ami." Another voice, this time from the boy who sat beside him in class spoke up. "Doctor Hyde requested our presence to go over the latest treatment for both Magnamon and Gallantmon." Takato answered.

"Sorry Ami." Davis clapped his hand together in a way to ask Ami for her forgiveness. "I promise we'll walk home today together! I know you enjoy the sight of the fall colours and we can walk instead of having the carriage take us home. And I'll tell mom it was me who asked you to accompany me instead of having her lessons."

"That's alright Davis. I'll just have lunch with Sora." Ami replied with a small giggle. "Go, I'm sure the Doctor will finally have good news." Davis again asked for forgiveness before he grabbed Takato and headed to the doctor. As the doctor's office was near the school grounds, actually part of the school as those nobles who did stay in the school did need a stable for their large Digimon to be houses and the Doctor had to be there to see their wellbeing. In no time at all they arrived at the stables, passing the area where the health Digimon were roaming and onto the area where sick Digimon such as Magnamon and Gallantmon were housed.

"Lord Liverpool and Lord Manchester. How are you." The Doctor greeted. Recently, Koushiro had adopted Takato as his brother seeing as they both had no family left and Koushiro needed an heir incase he did not return from the war. "I'm afraid I have bad news. It seems the latest treatment has had no affect and both Magnamon and Gallantmon seem to be in more pain the usual."

"Have you tried a different combination of ingredients?" Davis asked as he looked around the stables. His eyes settled on the large pile of mushrooms that still had not been used.

"Everything." The doctor replied. "But nothing has worked. We've even tried different soups and medicines that did not require the mushrooms and hundreds of different recipes with the mushrooms. Davis sighed for the third time that day. He wanted to help his Digimon but he was simplely powerless against this unknown disease and lack the knowledge for medicine.

"We can only hope this takes a better turn as it did with Agumon." Davis replied as he and Takato tanked the doctor. Before leaving the stables, Davis neared his sick Digimon, asleep from the power of the illness. Davis put his sand to his Digimon's golden armour. I swear I'll find a way to save you buddy.

The rest of the day was spent in different class, some he shared with Ami and some he did not. The last of which was music but Davis received an exception for not playing any instruments and instead was allowed to watch from the sidelines. Of course the class did require him to write different assignments in the subject of music history to make up his lack of musical talents. Ami too was in that class and unlike Davis, she was very much skilled in playing different instruments, some from her past as a pleasure girl where she was require to entertain patrons with her music and some from the violin lessons his mother was giving her as part of her shaping to be a noblewoman. Davis sat there captivated by how Ami played, most of the class was the same as many of the boys simply looked on at the girl, same could be said for the girls. It was as if Ami was in her own world and Davis felt that only him and her existed as she continued to play her violin. However they were interrupted when the final bell rang to end the school day.

As promised, Davis had took Ami's arms as soon as she was done packing her things and with one swift movement by Davis, he took Ami's school bag in one hand and her hand in the other and moments later they were on the streets of York heading home. The walk was quite as they both remained silent while Ami looked at the trees with starry eyes. It was a truly beautiful autumn day and the sun was slowly setting. The school was near the outskirts of the city, while Davis' mother had decide their home was to be located at the inner walls of the city. Davis was glad this was not the Royal homeland and the capital city London, which was at least ten times larger than York.

As they entered the city's limits, where the city met with the country side, a large wind blew from behind them, causing Ami to gather herself. Davis tried to help Ami but soon realized the cause of the wind. Behind them Merukimon stood, he was large and in his full armour, his dagger "Aztec" poised to attack.

Merukimon raised his dagger into the air and screamed his on coming attack, "Spiritual Enchant!" A large apparition of himself appeared above him, translucent by sight but Davis knew it was physical if the attack were to hit. Davis quickly moved Ami behind him and raised his arms to protect her. Merukimon simply smiled before he pointed his dagger at Davis and his apparition rushed towards Davis. Davis cringed knowing he would not likely survived the coming hit and failed to notice a shadow flying past Merukimon and onto the path of the attack.

"Aura Barrier!" The shadow raised his giant round shield and purged the on coming attack. Davis' eyes went wide after releasing his own Digimon had saved him. Instead of his sickly Digimon, stood a blue dragon Digimon with a great amount of golden armour. Much like Taichi's new Mega Digimon, so too was Davis' Digimon's armour more bulky and to him seemed as a fortress.

"Are you all right Davis?" Magnamon asked.

"I'm fine buddy!" Davis replied. Magnamon nodded in understanding and turned to Merukimon. Before Merukimon could blink an eye, Magnamon was gone and above him, firing his attack at the static Digimon.

"Plasma Shoot!" Hundreds of what Davis knew to be golden arrows showered on to Merukimon before exploding on impact. Once again Magnamon disappeared with the help of his incredible speed and appeared in front of Merukimon.

"Extreme Jiha…." Before Magnamon could finish off the Roman Digimon, another voice cried into the air, "Strike Roll!" The east beneath Magnamon's feat split into two forcing the golden Digimon to take to the air.

"Brother Merukimon, are you alright?" A second enemy Digimon appeared, this one female in nature.

"Just fine sister Mervamon. Shall we take care of this problem?" Merukimon asked and with a simple nod from Mervamon, both Roman Digimon took to the sky to attack Magnamon.

"Magnamon!" Davis called into the sky. "Show them what it means to mess with the Liverpool family!" Magnamon smiled and gave Davis a thumbs up with one of his large claws. And without even a moment passing by, Magnamon shot another hundred golden arrows at the two rushing Digimon, causing them to be knocked back on the ground below.

"Extreme Jihad!" Magnamon yelled as he unleashed his most powerful attack. A wave of golden light appeared through Magnamon's armour before flying towards the two Roman Digimon, shinning every colour of the rainbow as it few through the air. The moment the attack hit the two Roman Digimon, they became hundreds of golden particles of light, rising into fiery twilight sky.

Davis signed with relief, turn back to make sure Ami was okay. She replied with a silent smile. Magnamon landed in front of the two, Davis could only stare at his Digimon's new form. His armour was larger, his tail was longer, and his claws bigger.

"Thanks buddy, you saved us back there." Davis started.

"No probably Davis. Who would feed me all those steaks if you were gone." Magnamon replied in his deep voice but with an air of innocence. Davis was taken back but recovered quickly, Ami let out a giggle at the two's interaction.

"So how did this happen?" Davis asked.

"I don't know. One moment I was in another spell of pain and the next I felt my body move on its own. Next thing I knew, I was here and my body felt better than ever." Magnamon pounded his claws at his newly acquired armour.

"Taichi-san's Digimon calls himself WarGreymon X." Ami made a thoughtful pose with one finger on her pink lips and her eyes in the air. "Maybe we should call you Magnamon X." Ami wondered.

"I like the sound of it! Magnamon X, my Digimon!" Davis announced, one fist in the air.

"Does that mean I can have some steaks tonight?" Magnamon X asked out of innocence.