Full Digi Alchemist
Chapter 2
Davis woke with a small gasp. The images that scarred his young mind not only tormented him in his wake, but in the realm of dreams as well. Images of white rooms, giant gates, and of course, the eyes beyond the gate. The events on that fateful day replayed in his mind.
Everything was going so well. The energy was fluxuating exactly as the book said, but then it started going all wrong. His screams were deafened over the roar of the waves of alchemical energy, smothering him, engulfing him.
And then there was white.
He stood with his sister, equally confused to where they were. He wanted to ask his sister where they were, but no voice could escape from his mouth. The sight he beheld robbed him of such ability.
It was a pair of huge, cast iron doors. The surface of the doors was what looked like a tree of some sort, it's limbs connected to circles that had an incomprehensible language chiselled onto them.
And then the door opened.
Quick as lightning, hundreds of dark arms lashed out from the dark abyss behind the doors. Davis screamed as he watched his sister become engulfed by the arms, twisting and writhing to get a good hold as they dragged the older child towards the abyss.
In an act of desperation, Davis flung himself at the arms, hoping that he could somehow tear them from the only family he had left. His attempts however, yielded no results. Again and again he dove at the arms, only to be flung away every time. Finally, just before his sister was completely past the gate, he reached out one more time. Instead of repelling him like the previous times, the small hands latched themselves onto Davis' right arm. Almost as if there was acid on his shoulder, Davis' arm was slowly becoming detached. A few ligaments remained, until even they snapped and were sucked into the void with the detached limb.
Half blinded by pain, Davis looked into the void.
Like a sledgehammer to his cranium, Davis was thrown back. Images flashed before his eyes, horrible images, images that he couldn't ever forget. In those images however, was knowledge. His gaze still glued to the void, the face of a small child appeared into Davis' sight.
"Thanks for the arm" It said in a sick, twisted sort of way "I've already got a right one though, it's still better than nothing".
"Give me back my sister" Davis' growled at the face, one of his eyes shut in pain.
All Davis got in reply was a twisted smile from the dark child. And then the gates closed.
Back in reality, Davis could feel the sensation of movement in his stomach. Looking around, he found himself in an elongated room, it's wooden walls glowing as sunlight entered between the gaps. Looking down at his hand, Davis' tried to pull the small needle attached to it with his other arm, but nothing happened. Gripping the tube with his teeth, the needle was removed and Davis placed his feet on the ground.
Lying on the floor after his feet decided not to work, Davis could here the faint clicking of a train. After concluding he was now on a train, Davis' pulled himself up to the bed and attempted to walk once more. Finding a slow pace yielding more results than his previous try, Davis leaned on the wall with his hand slightly and proceeded towards the door.
Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang turned from what they were doing (Reading the paper and cleaning out her guns) to see the sullen form of the boy they had saved in a hospital gown as he opened the door.
"Davis" Riza leapt from her seat and kneeled next to the boy "Are you alright".
It looked as though the young boy wanted to say something, but no words were produced. He tried three more times, before giving up and settled for looking at the women.
"Oh dear" The blond woman sighed, hugging the spiky headed child.
"The doctor's said that this could happen" The dark haired man said behind his paper "He's taken quite a psychological assault".
"Don't worry Davis" The blond gun expert smiled "You've been asleep for the last three days, but we'll be in central soon, and there we'll figure out what we can do to help you".
Davis could see something between the gaps in the woman's shirt. A small square of bandage behind her uniform on her shoulder. Pointing to it, Davis gave the woman a sad look, as though he was trying to apologise.
"It's not your fault" Hawkeye smiled calmly at Davis "I know you didn't mean it, and it made you feel better so I don't really mind".
A little more at ease, Davis smiled at the woman for a few second before resuming his neutral expression.
Davis continued to stay in the governmental carriage of the train for the rest of the voyage; eating a small amount of food and watching the grassy scenery zoom by. A few hours later and the hiss of the brakes could be heard as the train pulled into central station.
"He seems quite taken to you lieutenant" The flame alchemist pointed out as the three walked towards the central government building.
"He had recently lost his parents, and lost his sister only a few days back" The blond woman began "It's only logical he'd seek out something to substitute those feelings of comfort, and I for one won't get in his way".
"Like a child of your own lieutenant?" The dark haired man asked slyly.
"I'm quite content with Black Hayate at the moment" Lt. Hawkeye replied, a small blush betraying her words.
She looked down at the child that held her hand. He was lost in the wonders of the city, his troubles temporarily gone.
"He's getting better very quickly" Roy Mustang smiled "It's amazing what a mother's touch can do".
Before she could respond, Lt. Hawkeye and the rest of the trio entered the government building and headed for their office.
As Mustang opened the door and entered, Davis peeked from behind Riza's legs to see who else was there.
"Oh ho" A blond man with a cigarette in his mouth smiled as he leapt from his seat and kneeled before the obviously frightened child "Is this the kid you told us over the phone about?"
Davis tried to back away as far as he could while still maintaining contact with the blond lieutenant's legs.
"Yes it is and would you please back off" The female blond said in a frustrated tone "You're scaring him".
"Okay" The blond smoker said with a smile "I'll just-"
The sound of a gun's hammer being pulled back cut him off mid-sentence.
"And if you try and peek up my uniform" The female lieutenant growled her pistol's barrel resting on the smoker's forehead.
Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc backed away slowly from the armed woman and back to his seat.
"Black Hayate missed you" The black haired, bespectacled man known as Sergeant Major Kain Fuery said as the small puppy he had behind him leapt at it's respected owner.
Davis risked exposing himself to see more of the puppy that was playfully dancing around the blond woman's legs.
"Hah, look at that, the pup of the military has found a knew friend" The portly Second Lieutenant known as Heymans Breda laughed as he set up the pieces on his shogi board.
"That's no surprise, see as how the boy is a pup of the military himself" Roy Mustang smiled as he sat down.
Before anyone could respond, the door burst open once again. The sudden noise startled Davis as he froze on the spot, his gaze stuck on the massive form of them man that came rushing in.
"Greetings all" Major Alex Louis Armstrong cried as he barged into the small office, his purple stars glittering around his head as always "I have come to see our newest member of the dog pound".
But before anyone could respond, the nearly bald man took one look at the child and picked him up.
"What's this, you're a scrawny one aren't you?" The strong-arm alchemist chuckled.
"Please major, he's very sh-" Lt. Hawkeye tried to protest, but what she saw stopped her mid-sentence.
Unlike all of Davis' other reactions to the strangers, the treatment he was receiving now didn't send him further into his shyness, but instead did the very opposite. A few seconds of being shook by the incredibly muscular man and Davis slammed his foot into the man's face.
A couple of the stars surrounding the major's head fell to the ground with a small crash of glass. The room stood silent now, no one in the room wanted to see what an angered major could do, and at this point, the slightest noise could send him over the edge he was now so precariously dangling over.
Then there was laughter.
"My my, aren't you a strong willed little fellow" The tall alchemist laughed, setting the stunned boy down "And a strong will can only be matched by a strong body, BEHOLD!" And with that, the major removed his shirt in one swift movement and began flexing at the child.
"Well, that was unexpected" Warrant Officer Vato Falman said as he watched the scene before him in blank expression.
"Hey everybody" Another voice entered the room, one belonging to Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes "I'd love to stay and chat, but I need to take the boy to see the fuehrer".
Everyone turned after hearing what Hughes had said.
"Why would the fuehrer want to see the child?" Roy Mustang asked.
"Don't really know" Hughes replied, "My guess is that he want's to see how much potential the boy has".
"I'll go with you" Lt. Hawkeye offered, "He won't feel comfortable around anyone else".
"Just like my little Elicia, she's turning 3 soon" Hughes smiled as he bent down to inspect the boy "Would you like to see a photo of her? I've got plenty".
Davis imitated the same sour face his guardian had put on.
"Ah well" Hughes said as he rose "Business before pleasure, let's be off".
And so Hughes led Davis and Lt. Hawkeye down numerous corridors before opening a door that unfolded into the Fuhrer's office.
"Ah, Lieutenant Colonel" The only man previously in the room turned and closed his book as his single eye gazed over his company "I take it this is the boy?"
"Yes sir" Lt. Col. Hughes saluted "Though I'm afraid Lt. Hawkeye had to join us, seeing how the child is at his most comfortable with her around".
One look at the blond woman and the man known as King Bradley resumed his smile "That's understandable" He bent down to Davis' level "So the reports say that he has seen tried human transmutation, can you confirm this lieutenant?".
"Yes sir" Hawkeye replied "The room showed clear signs of an attempt at human transmutation, as well as the result of the process".
"I can see" The Fuhrer's gaze turned to where Davis' arm once was "And what of the book that was found at the sight?".
"Burned to ashes, sir" Riza explained "The picture on the jacket however was recognisable and of clear alchemical origins".
"Fascinating" The one eyed man said, drawing closer to the clearly uncomfortable boy "Someone so young seeing the gate, imagine the possibilities of being infused with that power at such a young age".
"Seeing such a thing has produced severe psychotic problems," Hawkeye said in a less than formal tone "He has become a mute".
"I presume it will pass" Fuhrer smiled as he stood up "But for now, I suggest you take him to go see the full metal alchemist, it's time for his annual alchemical exam and he's in town".
"Yes sir" Lt. Hawkeye replied.
"You are dismissed" The elder man said as he turned back to his book.
"Sir" Hawkeye and Hughes saluted and turned on their heels, escorting Davis outside with them.
"Fascinating" The hidden homunculi said as he moved his eye patch up, revealing his imprinted eyeball "A child with that much power, what are you planning to do with him father?".
And as always when I start a new story, the chapters come flooding in…then I lose hope about halfway through and it's a sheer divine miracle when the next chapter comes out. For now, the story is set in FMA land, but in a couple of chapters it'll switch to Digimon land. Anyway, now all that's left is to get those reviews in (By the way, I saw how many people actually visited my story, would it kill you to give me a review, I'll take anything, be it praise or criticisms, thanks to those who did though) – Wolvie.
