Full Digi Alchemist

Chapter 11

"Ah, Central" Davis exclaimed as he stretched from the 2 day train voyage "No place like home".

"It'll be a nice surprise for Al to see me" Winry smiled as she looked over the massive government building "I guess I'll go visit Grecia and Elicia, they don't mind me staying over".

"Oh well" Ed sighed, "I guess I'll go and help you Win-".

"Davis" Winry cut him off "Would you be a dear and carry my equipment?".

"Sure thing Winry" Davis said, heaving the massive bag "You guys want to come visit Mr. Hughes, he's a great guy".

"Sorry Davis" Ed said before the digi-destined could say a word "I need these guys to fill out some travel forms back at the office, you understand?".

"Yeh, that's okay" Davis said, following after his blond mechanic.

"I thought we already signed all the necessary paper work?" TK asked the full metal adult.

"You have" Edward answered "I'm sorry, but it would be best for Davis to find out with as little people around as possible, he doesn't cope well with grief in crowds".

"Cope with what?" Kari asked "Is something wrong?".

"I'll explain on the way back to the office," Ed said, heaving his own luggage and walking off "Remember I was telling you about officer Ross' escape to the west…"

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Knock Knock Knock

"Hmm" Davis said as he placed his blond companion's travel gear down "Are they home?".

A second later in a streak of pink and yellow, Winry now had a small girl latched onto her legs.

"Big Sis!" Elicia Hughes exclaimed as she hugged the older girl "You're back".

"Hey there Elicia" Davis bent down slightly "Remember me?".

"Davis" The 7 year old cried, running to hug the preteen alchemist "It's really you".

"Winry?" Elicia's mother, Grecia stepped through the door "Davis? Is that you?".

"Hello Mrs. Hughes" Davis smiled as Elicia went to talk to Winry "It's nice seeing you again".

"You've grown Davis" The widow Hughes bent down to hug the boy "I hardly recognise you".

"We missed you Davis" Elicia said with a small blush "Papa always said you'd return".

At this point, the three females grew silent. Davis was confused at this sudden, synchronised silence.

"What's going on?" Davis asked, "Is Mr. Hughes okay?".

"You better come with me Davis" Winry said seriously, leading the boy into house.

Leading into the living room, Davis saw the numerous photographs of the man in question.

"No" Davis fell to his knees as he read the piece of newspaper "This can't be happening".

"None of us wanted this to happen Davis" Winry said, placing a hand on the boy's shoulder.

Davis roughly jerked it off.

"No" Davis yelled, tears falling freely down his eyes "Look at the date, he was killed back when I was here, why didn't anyone tell me! WHY!".

As fast as he could, Davis dashed out of the room. Grecia and Elicia were but blurs from both tears and the speed he was running. The traumatised boy barely heard the calls from the three females as ran away, dark clouds looming over ahead.

Several hours past and Davis was nowhere to be found. Everyone Davis knew had been alerted. Riza blamed herself for her son's reaction, but her fiancée consoled her in the fact that it would have been better he found out this way than deal with it after being in the fragile state he was when it first happened. The entire digi-destined group plus Ed and Al were sent out as a search party to find the missing boy. Using the storm as cover, the children were able to use their digimon partners to scan the city from up above. Ed and Al stuck to the ground, their knowledge of the city and it's alleys and underground tunnels providing additional help.

"This doesn't seem like Davis does it?" Kari said as she and Nefirtimon scanned the city from above "He always so strong and resilient to everything".

"We're dealing with death Kari" The flying digimon pointed out "Davis had just lost someone very important to him, it's like him losing his parents all over again".

"Poor Davis" Kari sighed worriedly "I hope we can find him so- hey what's that?".

In the semidarkness, Kari had spotted a small speck of light blue. As Nefirtimon lowered, the two could easy see that the speck was the back of Davis, sitting down on a stream bank near the outskirts of the city.

"Davis" Kari said as she jumped off her partner's back and ran to her friend.

"Hey" Davis sighed, not even looking at the girl.

"Davis" Kari repeated "What's the matter, please tell me".

"He's dead Kari" Davis replied, turning to face the girl with bloodshot eyes "He's dead and I didn't know about it, why would they hide this from me?".

"Calm down Davis, please" Kari asked the disturbed digi-destined "They had good reason".

"What?" Davis shouted, "They didn't think I could handle it? Am I that weak to them?".

"That's enough Davis" Kari shouted uncharacteristically as streak of lightning thundered, startling Davis "These people care about you, they loved you enough to know that it would be worse to tell you then than now".

Davis took a step back, his head falling.

"You're right" His sniffed "I've been such an idiot, I'm sorry about all of this".

"Kari, I'm getting soaked here" Gatomon said uncomfortably.

"Oh, sorry about that" Davis said.

With a clap of his hands, two pillars and a roof sprung up over the three beings. A further clap and all the water that soaked Davis was evaporating off at an incredible rate.

"Thank you" Gatomon said as Davis did the same to the small champion.

One more clap and Kari felt warm inside as Davis placed his hands on her shoulders. She closed her eyes as she let the warmth engulf her entirely.

"Kari, Kari" Kari heard a voice penetrate her relaxation "You're dry now".

"Oh" The brunette opened her eyes to see a smiling Davis "Thank you".

"Oh, you're blushing" Davis pointed out with a smile, "Guess I overdid it on the heat".

"No, it was perfect Davis" Kari smiled, making the boy blush some of his own.

"Well, as much as I'd hate to interrupt" Gatomon began, breaking the two out of their daze "I think we need to head back, it's getting dark".

"Mr. Hughes' place is the closest" Davis said, transmuting two umbrellas "Let's go, I'll ring Ed and tell him I'm safe".

"Okay" Kari said as they walked off, Gatomon walking by her partner's feet "By the way Davis, why were you at that bank?".

"Mr. Hughes took me here sometimes" Davis replied "He and his family would always take me out on trips, they accepted me the second they met me".

"It must be nice to find people like that," Kari said, overlapping her umbrella with his.

"You'll like Mrs. Hughes and Elicia" Davis said "Mrs. Hughes makes the best apple pies around, and I bet Elicia will love to play with you".

"They sound very nice" Kari replied "Are you sure you want to go back there?".

"I have to" Davis said firmly "I need to apologise and make my peace with Mr. Hughes".

"Davis" Kari began "I saw something behind your back once, can you show me?".

The 12-year-old alchemist stopped dead in his tracks. Stopping a step after him, Kari turned to face the grim looking boy. Dropping his umbrella, Davis threw his coat's tail upward, and a second later; he was holding two things that made Kari gasp.

"Davis" She said, taking a step back.

There, dangling by his index fingers, were two pistols. In the boy's hands, they were huge. Both were midnight black, but on one it had a light blue 'V' in a chiselled like effect, while the other had a light red 'V' under a smaller grey coloured 'X'. On the grip on the one with the blue V, four lines with a stroke over them looked liked it had been scratched in

"I'm sorry" Davis said as he holstered his weapons behind his back "I didn't want you to find out about these".

"Why do you carry those things Davis?" The brown haired girl asked.

"I use them to protect my mother" Davis said "Since I couldn't use alchemy well when I was with her, I begged her to teach me how to fire these things properly, I didn't want to kill anyone with them, just defend with them".

"I understand" Davis heard.

"You…you do?" Davis stood there in the rain, flabbergasted "But…but I thought you hated guns".

"I do" Kari said, offering her umbrella as Gatomon took Davis' fallen one "But I have faith in you, I know what you think of when it comes to the ability to take lives, you'd always find another way to save everyone".

Taking the girl's offer, Davis walked with Kari under the one umbrella as they made it to the Hughes house.

"Davis" Winry bolted out of the door and almost tackled the boy as she hugged him "You big dummy, do you have any idea how worried we were?".

"Yeh, I got that" Davis hugged the woman back.

As soon as he was free of one female's embrace, another threw herself at him.

"Davis" Elicia cried, "I was scared that you'd never come back".

"It's okay Elicia" Davis said softly "I'm back now, and I brought one of my friends".

"Hi there Elicia" Kari smiled at the 7 year old "Davis told me all about you".

"Humph" The young girl huffed, hugging Davis closer "Don't like her".

"Oh, I see what's going on" Grecia smiled as she patted the boy on the shoulder "Looks like you've got a rival for Davis' affection Miss Kari".

Both Davis and Kari looked down at the girl who was fiercely hugging Davis' waist, then at each other, both blushing somewhat.


I know, not the longest chapter I've made, but I couldn't think of anything to write. With Davis' guns, if you've ever seen Gun Grave then you'll know what they look like, and if you haven't go and look them up. Well, that's all from me, don't forget to review – Wolvie.