Full Digi Alchemist

Chapter 18

"Of all places" Yolie complained "It just had to be the spooky abandoned hospital didn't it".

"Oh come on Yolie" Davis looked back as he led his friends down a flight of poorly lit stairs "I was here tons of time when it was still open".

The dog of the military flicked a light switch, only to find it useless "Besides, this father guy could as very well chosen the spooky cemetery, or the prison block instead".

"He did choose the prison block" Ken reminded his best friend.

"Oh yeah" Davis smiled and scratched the back of his head.

For some reason, Yolie felt a very powerful urge to smack Davis upside his head.

"Anyway" Davis and the gang were finally down the last flight of stairs "Here we are, hospital basement, and a fresh supply of human subjects to turn into red stones".

Coming to a large door, the teen alchemist proceeded to reach for the door knob.

"What the hell?" Davis thought as his mechanical hand shook as it came closer to the door "What's up with my hand?"

"Davis?" Kari's voice was tinged with worry "Are you alright?"

The teen alchemist gave the girl his 'everything's fine' smile "I'm fine, guess I should get Winry to look at my arm when we get back".

Deciding to switch arms, Davis once again tried the door.

"God damn it" Davis mentally swore, his other arm shaking just as much as his auto-mail one "It's just a door".

"Davis?" The worried bearer of light repeated.

Taking a deep breath, the spiky headed youth lunged for the door knob, turning it with his insides churning for an unknown reason. Nearing the edge of his stomach cleansing itself of any content, the feeling suddenly vanished as the door creaked open to reveal a large, empty basement.

Davis wiped his hand over his face "Sweat?" He watched the small beads of water glisten on his hand "What the hell is with me and this place, I've never felt this way before".

"Come on Davis" T.K called as he and the others entered the room "You got to help us find this lab".

"Huh" Davis snapped out of his thoughts and saw his friends, who to him were behind him a second ago, call from across the enormous room.

"How strange" Cody noticed his surroundings in the room "It's like a battle took place down here".

"It did" Davis surveyed the broken blocks of concrete and scraps of metal "My mother and Alphonse fought a very powerful opponent down here".

"I take it they one" Yolie said.

"Nope" Davis looked down at a large pile of dust surrounded by blackened earth "Roy finished her off, must have killed her about 20 times over".

"That's…odd" Yolie replied.

"How do I put this…?" Davis scratched his cheek a bit "Basically, this evil bitch had what we're looking for a heart, meaning it healed her every time she died, not that she was technically alive anyway".

Davis saw how utterly confused his friends were.

Davis laughed uncertainly and waved his hand "Ah well, it doesn't really matter, they're all dead now".

Yolie rubbed her arms and shivered "That's a relief; I'd hate to fight one of those things".

A loud crash alerted the group of teens.

"What was that?" Ken asked before gagging "Gah, that smell, it's awful".

Davis inhaled deeply, his guns out and trained on the darkness "That's the smell of flesh rotting"

"Davis" Kari stepped quickly to keep in pace behind Davis "You don't seemed to bothered by the smell" She had to hold her nose over the stench.

The teen alchemist froze in his tracks. Raising his right gun, the lines of scars on the handle shimmered in the moonlight shining through a window near the ceiling.

"I've smelt worse" Was all he said.

Before she could ask Davis any thing else, I feral cry echoed through the room. Kari gasped as a dark figure descended upon Davis from a height of the ceiling. Crossing his guns together, Davis managed to guard against the large arm that came slamming down. Leaning back, bearer of miracles rolled on his back and kicked the dark figure off of him, sending him flying into a broken column of concrete. One sickening thud of bones breaking and flesh tearing later and the room fell silent. Spinning around, Davis aimed his two pistols at the dark lump, and as the moon light moved with the waning of the planetary satellite, it revealed a feral looking man, a metal helmet covering the top of his head and eyes, one arm hanging limply at his side while the other wasn't there at all, only a green tinged stump.

"Ugh" Kari looked at the pitiful man, who was whimpering slightly "Is that a man?"

Davis wouldn't answer; he just looked at the disgusting man.

"Davis" Kari tried to snap the boy out of whatever he was in.

"No Kari" The spiky headed boy didn't even turn his head "This thing isn't human, it's the body of a human infused with the soul of an animal".

"What?" The bearer of light's eyes fixed on the quivering lump "But…how is that possible? How do you know this?"

"I met the soul of this body" Davis said, his voice lined showing no emotion "He thought it would be funny to try and chop me up, course I shot his head off because of it".

"You what?"

"His soul was infused in a suit of armour" Davis explained, drawing the hammer back on his guns "This thing however, is that soul's original body".

"Then why are you?" Kari began.

"It's a complete sin against nature" The bearer of miracles spat with anger "This…this thing has be driven insane thanks to those homunculus bastards".

"Davis" Kari whimpered.

"Look at it, it's body is rotting away, the soul inside must be in so much torment" Davis' teeth clenched as he lined up is target.

Davis' eyes held so much pain, anger and confusion that Kari was scared of what he'd do next.

"God Damn It" Davis swore loudly, throwing his firearms aside.

"Davis…Why'd you…?"

"Even those in pain can sleep" Davis breathed heavily "Those that cause pain can never rest".

"Davis, you okay man?" Ken walked up to his friend "Come on, we found a something that looks like a lab".

Picking up his cast down weapons, Davis walked with his friends to what looked like a secret door, though it had been broken and now only closed halfway. Inside the laboratory was a complete mess.

"I guess this is how that creature kept living all these years" Davis thought as he surveyed the room, stocks of food were half open while a broken drain dripped out fresh water.

"Hay Davis" Ken called his friend over "Look at this".

As Davis walked over, he saw several vials filled with red liquid.

"Hmm" Davis hummed to himself as he looked at the movable rack.

Grabbing the side, Davis slammed the rack onto the floor, shattering every vial contained on it.

"Davis! What the hell?" T.K yelled at his friend's insane tactics.

"Just making sure we take the right sample" Kicking the wooden rack off and dusting his hands.

In the centre of a small puddle of red water, was a small red rock.

"Guess only one was a true stone" Davis said, advancing on the puddle.

One step in the puddle and Davis fell to his knees.

"Davis? Are you okay?" Kari went to shake Davis' shoulder, but stepped back from a small shock.

The young alchemist's eyes grew wide as he felt an overbearing force surround him. The rest of Davis' friends gasped as the force took physical form, blue lightning streaking over Davis as a red torrent energy surrounded him.

"Davis" Ken called over the inside storm "Get out of there".

"Can't…move" Davis' whisper was barely audible over the streaking electricity.

Unfurling his whip, Ken wrapped it around Davis' chest and began tugging him.

"He won't budge" Ken grunted, pulling as hard as he could.

Suddenly, the pink and white blur of Kari jumped low into the indoor tempest, and with the combined effort of Ken, managed to rip Davis out of the red puddle. The three fell as Davis was pulled loose, Yolie quick to catch the falling Ken.

"What was that?" Kari asked, looking over at the puddle.

A tap on her shoulder alerted the girl exactly where she was, lying on top of a weary looking Davis. Squeaking with surprise, Kari shot off the boy and kneeled next to him.

"Okay, someone else get the bloody stone" Davis panted.

"Oh no, no ones going near that red stuff" T.K said.

Cody had already snatched the stone and was lightly tossing it into the air and catching it.

"Ok, never mind" And with that, Kari helped Davis up and the group left the small room and walked into the large basement.

"You ok Davis?" Kari asked with deep concern in her voice.

"I'm fine" Davis smiled "I'm just…GET DOWN".

Pulling out both his handguns, Davis fired into Kari's direction.

BLAM BLAM

Covering her ears, the bearer of light screamed and kneeled down, her eye's shut in terror. Daring to open her eyes, the brown headed girl saw a look of pure hatred on her crush's face. Looking behind her, Kari's eyes widened in terror as she saw the still form of the creature Davis fought before. It was, for that day, the last thing she saw before blacking out.

- - - - - - -

The rays of light on her face woke Kari from her slumber.

"Where am I?" She said to no one in particular.

"Good morning" Davis smiled at the girl, one of his guns dismantled on his lap on a cloth "You've been asleep for just a little under a day".

"Have you been here the whole time?" Kari asked the boy.

"Not for very long" Davis scratched the back of his head and laughed.

The dark bags under his eyes begged to differ though.

"Feeling any better?" Davis asked, cleaning the barrel of the firearm.

"Yeah, I'm fine…now" Kari slowly spoke, her attention on the handle of Davis' gun.

It sported a new scar under the other five.

"I've been thinking while you slept" Davis quickly assembled the gun and hid it in his holster "What exactly are we in the digital world?"

"We're the Digi-destined, you know that" Kari replied, confused at the question.

"I mean, are we real, or are we data projections?" Davis continued, earning a clueless look from the girl.

"That got me thinking about things, we're made up of three components, body, mind and soul. Now, we know all three of these elements leave our world because we get tossed in a large mass every time we enter and exit the Digi-world. But how do things such as body and mind exist in a world of Data?"

Kari just stared at the theorising alchemist "I think that the white area we're thrown through leaves our bodies and minds behind, while our souls are digitised, that would explain how we can interact with everything".

"That makes sense" Kari responded uncertain "I think".

"It better" Davis smiled as he leaned back on his chair "Other wise we're in a whole lot of trouble when I punch a hole through to the digital world".

"Davis" Kari began "Are you sure you want to use that stone, I was so scared, I thought you were going to die".

For a second, Davis had a distant look on his face, like he running something through his head. It was gone almost instantaneously.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine" Davis assured the girl "You think you're all better now?"

"Mhmm" Kari nodded with a smile "Let's get out of here, I'm starving".

One leisurely breakfast at a café later and the two destined met up with the rest of the group back at HQ.

"Sorry for leaving you guys behind" Davis apologised to the elder destined.

"We understand" Matt replied "You guys have alchemy at your disposal; it would be too much trouble if anything bad should happen on your trip".

"Aw man, I wanted to see how Agumon was doing" Tai whined.

"Anyway" Davis continued, ignoring Tai "We might be a while; I'm not sure how long this will take".

"Perhaps not long at all" Izzy said "I think that with the guards in place, the time-stream should be altered to when we were there, so even if you're there for only a few hours, not much time will pass here".

"That's good to know" T.K smiled.

"Be careful Davis" Riza hugged her son.

"I will mom" Davis smiled.

"Here Davis" Edward handed the red stone over "Don't worry about that puddle incident happening again, that only happens in impure stone".

"Gotcha" The nervousness in taking the stone was completely gone from Davis.

"Good luck Davis" Roy said.

The other members Davis considered his family, Al, Winry and the certain members from the military all wished Davis and his friends luck.

Davis' clap echoed throughout the room. Arcane symbols and giant alchemical seals shone on the walls of the barren room. Suddenly, a small circle glowing a soft light opened on the floor.

"Well, it beats creepy eyes and tentacles any day" Alphonse said, peering into the hole.

"That's cause this isn't any gate" Davis turned to his friend "It's a Digi-gate".

And with that, the teen alchemist leaped into the hole and disappeared. The rest of the new destined followed suit and, as the last one jumped, the white light was gone as the small hole closed.

- - - - - - - -

"Davis?" Ken asked his friend "Where is this?"

"This" Davis looked at the infinite whiteness of the area "Is the in-between"

"Oh great" Yolie looked around "We're in limbo".


Yep, another chapter up for all my adoring readers. I got to thinking how exactly I write these things. Instead of looking at the words, I more of imagine it like an episode in my head and my fingers just jot down whatever I'm seeing. Kinda weird but that's how I write, I'm pretty sure a lot of other authors do that too. Anyway, I'm done for tonight, thanks for reading and don't forget to review – Wolvie.