Full Digi Alchemist

Chapter 4

And so the following day, the whole central building gathered around the outdoor arena, early awaiting the match between the two state alchemists.

"Are you excited Davis?" Riza Hawkeye asked the small child who was currently sitting upon the metal shoulders of his new friend.

"Yeh, it should be fun" Davis smiled at his guardian.

Ms. Hawkeye was relieved that the boy she had seen so traumatised the previous days acting so normally, as if it hadn't really affected him at all.

"That's good," She said simply "Al, will he be alright that high up?".

"I promise no harm will come to him Ms. Hawkeye" Alphonse said as Davis played with his head, swinging it by the strand of fabric "I'm worried about brother though, we've never seen Mr. Mustang at his highest before".

"He won't go easy on Ed, that's for sure" The blond Lieutenant sighed, but then smiling sweetly "At least Davis can see a great show, right Davis?".

"Mmhm" Davis responded as Al lowered him into his neck hole, giving the impression that it was the small boy that occupied the gargantuan armour.

A few minutes later, the warning noise sounded, indicating the start of the exam. It was a one-on-one match between Ed and Roy, both exceedingly good alchemist, but only one of them could be declared winner. Davis didn't really care though; all he was interested in was the explosions the matched produced. That and the crazy things Ed transmuted in an attempt to avoid the flame alchemist's attacks. As the battled neared the end, Davis' eyes grew as wide as humanly possible as the full metal alchemist conjured up a giant cannon. Davis, along with everyone that wasn't a living suit of armour, coughed as a massive cloud of dust swept over the audience as the cannon fired. As the dust cleared, Davis got a glimpse of the dark haired man pulling out a second pair of gloves, and then sending a wave of flames at the stunned teen.

"Well, I kind of expected that to happen" Lt. Hawkeye sighed with a smile as she watched Al and the child she protected run off to the sidelines to talk to the defeated of the match.

"Brother, are you alright?" Al asked his sibling "Anything serious?".

Ed coughed up a plume of smoke "Nah, nothing bad".

"You lost, you lost" Davis chanted merrily as he peeked out from Al's chest plate.

"Yeh yeh, I may have lost, but I can still take you with my eyes shut" Ed said, flicking the small child on the forehead.

"Brother, he's just a child" Al said as Davis leapt out of his body and walked off to find his guardian.

"I know" Ed sighed "You know I don't mean anything by it, it's like teasing you or Winry".

"She's still at Mr. Hughes isn't' she?" Al asked.

"Yeh" The beaten alchemist said "I asked her to come and watch the match, she should be around here somewhere".

As the full metal brothers continued their conversation, Davis had gotten himself lost.

"Excuse me" He tugged on the skirt of a female officer "Can you help me find someone".

Later on in life, Davis would boast to his male friends about what happened next, but at the meantime, he never wanted to be further away in his life.

"Aww, isn't he the cutest" One of the many female officers that now surrounded Davis said sweetly.

"That's the pup of the military, he must be super talented to be in the military at such a young age, even younger than full metal" Another added on.

"He must be brave too, look, he lost his arm only a few days ago, what a little trooper he is" Said yet another female officer.

"He was mute too, they say it was due to losing his sister in an accident" Another random woman joined in.

"Um, it's nice to meet you all" Davis said, a little weary of the situation he had found himself in.

A large, simultaneous "Aww" erupted from the large circle of women.

"Would you look at that" 2nd Lt. Havoc said between his cigarette "Not even here for three days yet, and he's already got every female employee here under his charms.

He and 2nd Lt. Denny Brosh watched the group of women from the sidelines, hearing every 'So cute' 'So handsome' 'So brave' and the all time favourite 'SO SWEET!'. Although Jean had a calm look on his face as he smoked, Denny however was gnawing at his arm.

"Miss Ross is in there as well, do I have to compete with a child as well" The man with the longer hair between the two said hysterically "Why can't she ever pay that much attention to me".

"Geez Brosh, calm down" 2nd Lt. Havoc lazily exhaled a plume of smoke "Hey, check it out".

The two officers watched in amusement as Davis pushed himself out of the circle, falling to the ground as he was sent flying after breaching the final layer of legs.

"How you doing kid?" Havoc smiled as he helped the small child up.

"Too…many…scary…ladies" Davis said between gasps of air.

2nd Lt. Havoc could only laugh at the boy's distress.

"Psst, Davis" Brosh bent down low and whispered into Davis' ear "I know you crawled under a lady with short black hair, you didn't happen to see what sort of panties she was wearing did you?".

"I…oh, excuse me" Davis bowed politely.

"Huh, I wonder what caught his attention" Havoc said, then paused for a few seconds "What the hell, you were asking an 8 year old if he peeked up a ladies skirt?" Havoc started beating his friend over the head.

Davis did indeed see something that caught his attention. It was blond hair. Rushing to the owner of said hair, Davis slipped and bumped into the pair of slender legs.

"Owie" Davis said as he pulled himself back up.

"Oh, can I help you young man" A sweet voice entered Davis' ears.

The woman he had run into was just a teenager, wearing a very short pair of shorts and a pink jacket over a blue and white striped shirt.

"Um, I'm sorry I hit you" Davis apologised behind a blush "I'm looking for a lady with hair like yours, I thought you were her".

"That's alright" The teen smiled, helping the boy up, not failing to notice his missing limb "I'm Winry by the way, Winry Rockbell".

"Heh, nice to meet you miss Winry" Davis smiled "I'm Davis".

"Come on, let's go find who you're looking for" And with that, the two made off, hand in small hand.

"You know Davis" Winry said as they made their way closer and closer to the arena ring "I could give you a new arm if you wanted, would you like a prosthetic one?".

"Um, is that like the one Mr. Full Metal has?" Davis asked the young auto-mail tech.

"Nope, Edward has something called 'Auto-mail' I built it for him by the way" Winry noticed the smile Davis had on his face.

"Really? I want an arm just like Edward has" Davis was growing excited at the prospect of having an arm like the Ed had.

"And why would you want an arm like Ed has Davis?" Winry know how much pain Ed went through having his arm and leg fitted.

"So I can do what he does," Davis said innocently.

"Silly" Winry smiled at the boy "Ed's arm doesn't let him do all that stuff".

Before Davis could reply, he had spotted whom he was looking for and half dragged the blond teen over to where Lt. Hawkeye and the full metal brothers were talking.

"Al, did you see what direction Davis ran off in?" Riza asked in a desperate voice, afraid of what danger Davis could land himself in.

"I'm sorry Ms. Hawkeye, I should have kept a better eye on him" If Alphonse could look guilty, he look like it now.

"Hey, don't feel bad Al, look who's coming now" Ed said with a smile.

"Ah, Davis, Winry" Alphonse said happily as the blond teen drew closer with the spiky haired boy in her hand.

"Ed, Al, Hello" Winry said as Davis went up to hug Riza around her legs.

"And where have you been young man?" Lt. Hawkeye asked the now happy child.

"From what he told me, a group of female officers surrounded him and were trying to hug him to death" Winry smiled as she retold what Davis had previously told her "It's nice to see you again Ms. Hawkeye".

"Nice to see you too Ms. Rockbell" Riza said as she knelt down to check Davis for any injuries "I see you've already met Davis".

"Mmhm" The blond girl said, "By the way, why was he looking for you, are you his aunt or something".

"No, this child is completely in my care" The older woman explained "He's part of the military, and the reason behind why I was asking Ed and Al where you were".

"He's in the military?" Winry gasped, astonished "Ok, but how come you wanted to see me?".

"Well, I wanted to ask if you would design an auto-mail arm for Davis, you will be payed for it completely in case you're wondering" The lieutenant asked "I asked Davis, and he has no objections to the idea".

"Yes, we were talking about it a few minutes ago" Winry said "Though wouldn't it be better just to give him a prosthetic one, it's not like he'll be doing alchemy like Ed can".

The three around the young tech grew silent for a few seconds.

"WHAT?" Winry yelled, "Are you saying that the boy can actually do what Ed can?"

"That's right" Alphonse piped in "He was a little afraid of alchemy at first, but he liked making little toys with alchemy so much, he asked if he could get an arm like Ed's, I told Ms. Hawkeye about it and she said whatever Davis decided would be fine".

"That's the truth" The female officer said "Davis knows about what it takes to be fitted, and how long it takes to get use to the auto-mail, and he is still persistent in wanting an arm like Ed's".

"Alright" Winry sighed in a defeated tone, but perked up immediately after "I can give him a basic arm to start him off, and I'll build him a custom one a little while after".

"Yay" Davis cheered and threw his fist into the air "Um, Miss Winry?".

"Yes Davis?" Winry bent low as Davis whispered something into her ear "Why, that's brilliant, it might take a few years to design, but that's the best idea for auto-mail I've ever heard".

"What is" Riza had grown frightened of what Davis had requested Winry do, obviously for his custom arm.

"Sorry" Davis said sneakily "It's a secret".

And with that, the five departed from the arena. A few days passed and the attachment of Winry's auto-mail to Davis went successful, though the cries Davis produced, even under a anaesthetic, hurt more than a few doctor's ears as they attempted the operation.

"I'm sorry we can't stay around any more" Ed said to Davis and Lt. Hawkeye.

The full metal brothers and Winry were saying their goodbyes to Davis and his guardian before they left.

"Please stay" Davis pleaded with the giant suit of armour "Who will show me how to make those cool toys".

"I'm sorry Davis" Alphonse said sadly "But brother and I can't stay, we have a few more leads on the philosopher's stone, and we really can't take you with us since Ed says we can't take care of anyone on the road all the time".

A small 'Meow' echoed through the possessed armour.

"Alphonse" Edward said slowly.

"Uh-uh, gotta go now" The younger brother said before dashing off "We'll see you soon Davis".

"Those two are crazy" Winry said as she watched older brother chase younger "I'll see you around kiddo".

And with that, the three were gone.


Yep, another chapter down and still plenty more to go. As always, keep those reviews coming, you know how much I love em – Wolvie.