Natural Born Leader
A Digimon Fanfiction
By: Bekah-chan
Rating: PG-13
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Part VI:
Most healing spells work on the same basic principle; Nature heals best, let's just speed it up a little. So, the spells couldn't make you 'magically' better, but they could accelerate the body's own healing process. For example, a cut could be healed in a few moments, to a point it would have reached in a few weeks.
These kinds of spells, I knew, would not work with Tai's situation. For one thing, there was the severe blood loss, even when Jun got the blood back where it belonged, Tai could still sustain damage from being a few quarts low for even a few seconds. Then there was his shoulder; Even with the magical equivalent of years to heal, he might never be able to use his arm again.
This was not acceptable.
Tai was one of my 'kids', part of the group that I looked after; And this was not acceptable. There had to be another way. I did know of two spells that would heal a person completely; One was almost as dangerous to the caster as the castee, it consisted of transferring energy and matter from one to the other. In return the spell caster took on some of the injury and/or sickness from the patient.
I didn't want to risk Jun or Tai that way.
The only other complete healing spell in existence was another of Jun's invention, but it took weeks to set up. I knew she had some of them ready to use for an elf (I'd helped her make them), but not a human.
Why had neither of us thought of making a Healing-Matrix for a human? I went ahead and blamed myself for this oversight, since I was the one who had human friends throwing themselves into mortal peril every Saturday, and on weekdays after school.
A Healing-Matrix was kinda like both types of healing spells put together; it sped up the body's natural healing and, since the caster can transfer a little magic everyday while constructing the Matrix (instead of all at once), it could provide the needed energy without danger to the caster. It didn't transfer matter, which excluded the side effect of injury transference, and eliminated the danger to the patient if the caster became too drained to finish the spell.
The major problem with Healing-Matrixes, besides all the time needed to prepare them, was that they needed to be species and gender specific; Since the Matrix contained a perfect example of the healthy ideal, and would heal the subject to fit the image.
I wondered what would happen if we used an elf Matrix on Tai. Would he turn into an elf? Would he be a half elf? A Helf? Or would his shoulder be elven, and the rest human? If so, what about his arm?
I shook off my, slightly silly, thoughts. They were all idle anyway, I knew what would happen if we used an elf Matrix on a human... They would die, and it would probably be painful.
So, we have a 'No' on that option.
As Izzy, Demiveemon, and I, walked back into the apartment, I was considering whether or not more than one person could cast a complete healing spell. If Jun and I cast it together, would that keep us from dying in the attempt? Would it even work?
With the way my luck was going today?... No.
Izzy shut the door behind us, and we walked into the central room of the Kamiya's apartment. Jun had moved the coffee table out to give herself more room, and was on her knees next to the couch, leaning over her patient.
"How did the well-intentioned vandalism go?" she asked me, without turning from Tai.
"Fine," I answered, "The main cable rusted through, and now the elevator car has taken up residence at the bottom of the shaft... You?"
"As well as can be expected," she sighed, sitting back on her heels, "I've got most of the blood back in, but his system's taken a lot of damage."
"Permanent?"
"As it is, probably."
"So.." I didn't want to hear the answer to this. I knew what it would be, "Regular healing spells won't work here, will they?"
"Nope."
"What do we do then?"
I expected her to say 'Nothing' or something equally depressing, but she didn't. Instead she picked up the open 'Hello Kitty' backpack and started rummaging through it, "Davis?," she asked, I saw her push aside bandages and suture kits to reach for something at the bottom of the bag, "Have you ever witnessed me *knowingly* walking into such a situation without being *completely* prepared?"
"Um, no?"
But, how could she be prepared for something like this?
Jun's hand appeared back from the bag with two objects cradled in her palm. They were crystals, each the size of a large walnut, one rose-pink and the other aqua-blue...
My eyes widened "Are those...?"
"Human Healing-Matrixes?" Jun inquired, with a smirk, "Yes, they are."
"Jun?" I grinned, "You're the best."
"I know."
"When did you make those?"
"I started them about a week after the whole Digimon thing began."
Is Junita cool, or what?
"I knew *you* would never think of it, even if they're *your* friends..."
Okay, rethinking the 'cool' part.
"... So I thought of it for you. No need for your friends to suffer from your intellect."
Ouch.
"Can we fix Tai now?" I pleaded, hopefully forestalling more insults.
"Sure." She put the pink stone back in the bag, and handed the blue one to Izzy, who had stopped by the couch, "Here, hold this."
Izzy blinked at the new object, but made no complaint. I saw his eyes un-focus for a moment as he gazed at the intricate designs etched within the crystal by magic. That would be the 'matrix' part of the spell, a lattice of healing magics that described what a healthy human should be like. Izzy would not be able to understand it, though it was interesting enough to look at, I suppose.
"Davis?"
I moved my own gaze from the blue crystal and back to my sister.
"I need you to take your patch off the artery now."
Her voice was steady, her eyes calm, but I had known her all her life and could tell she was worried about something, "What is it?" I had sensed that she did not want Izzy to realize something was wrong, so I asked the question quietly, in our own language.
"Nothing," she answered the same way.
I glared at her.
"Really, it's nothing.... I just..." she pushed her hair back from her face and tucked it behind her ears in what I recognized as a nervous gesture, "I have to filter the salamander toxin out of his blood, before I can heal the artery. And I don't know if I can do it... Before he bleeds to death. I don't know if I'll be fast enough to save him."
Ah. The problem explained. I thought for a few minutes before I answered her, "Junita," I used her full, elvish, name that could not be translated into a human tongue, "I have complete faith in your ability to do this. You are the best healing mage in the history of the elven race, *you* made these spells, you can do this." I held her eyes, making sure she could see my confidence in her, until she finally nodded.
"Okay," she replied, switching back to the language of the humans we lived with. She took a deep breath, let it out slowly, and nodded again, "Let's do it."
I was relieved to hear the renewed self-confidence in her voice. And I knew Tai would be okay.
*****
Twenty minutes later, the Healing-Matrix was gone, and most of Tai's blood was cleaned, and back where it belonged. My faith in my sister's healing abilities had been rewarded. Not that I had doubted it for a moment; Jun had a gift, a talent for healing...
Just as I had a talent for destruction.
Even before I'd known Jun had brought human Healing-Matrixes with her, and had worried about Tai's health, I had not doubted Jun's skills in the matter. And a part of me had always known she'd come through for Tai. That's why I called her, I knew she would help him, one way or another.
*****
Jun packed up the 'Hello Kitty' backpack and shot me a triumphant smile, which I returned. But I didn't have time to congratulate her, because Tai woke up.
Unfortunately the first thing he saw was his blood on my shirt. And, when he sat up in shock, he noticed that his own shirt was half cut from his body, "Davis?"
This was his 'Leader of the Digi-destined' voice, and I took one step back, in reaction to it, before I could stop myself. I scratched the back of my head, and tried to look innocent, "What?"
"Why are you all bloody? What happened in the hall? And *why* is Jun here?"
"Um... Well..."
Luckily, at that point, Jun distracted him with a myriad of her own questions (including: 'Are you in any pain?' and 'Can you feel your fingers?') then she tested the reflexes in his, previously injured, arm before she made a quick escape... Taking the luck with her.
"Davis?" Tai's eyes narrowed, dangerously, "What. Is. Going. On?"
My own gaze moved from Tai to Izzy, who wore an equally insistent expression, and I knew I was doomed.
To Be Continued ^_^