Full Digi Alchemist
Chapter 19
A great expanse of complete an utter emptiness surrounded the 6 children.
They had successfully entered the world between worlds.
"Ok, I'm bored now" Complained Yolie.
"Well I didn't say it was fun to look at, but for getting us back to the digital world it's right up our ally" Davis replied as he took his first step.
WHAM
"Ow" The teen alchemist grunted as he slammed face first onto the white surface.
"Come on Davis" Ken helped his friend up and propped him over his arm "Looks like you exerted yourself a bit too much".
"I guess" Davis replied, taking a few shaky steps with the help of his friend.
"How will we find our way?" Cody asked, his arms tucked into large sleeves.
Everyone held their silence waiting for Davis to answer the boy.
"…, aw crap, I should have thought of that before" Davis cried.
"Ken" Yolie cracked her knuckles "Move away from the spiky headed one".
Before the very pissed off teenager could deliver her punishment, the entire group was alerted to a soft beeping.
"Hmm" Kari took out her D3 and stared at the blinking screen "Something's reacting with the D3s"
"I think it's telling us where to go" T.K said, seeing an arrow on his terminal "By the looks of it, it's pointing us to the right".
Everybody turned to the right, and the arrows on the D3 all pointed upwards.
"Well, it's the best chance we've got" Davis said "I say we take it".
And with that, the 6 destined made their way to what hopefully would be the way into the digital world.
An hour of nothingness later and they were still walking.
"How you feeling Davis?" Kari asked her crush.
"Doing fine actually" The spiky headed alchemist replied with a smile "Nothing like a nice stroll to, to t-urk"
Mid-sentence, the auburn haired teen spun on his heals, barely making it in time to expel his stomach content away from his friends.
"Davis" Kari cried as she kneeled down to the hunched over boy.
"No, not again" Davis cried through teary eyes as he proceeded to vomit once again, letting out a cry as the stomach acid singed his throat "Thi-this feeling"
"Kari, look" T.K said, pointing off into the distance.
As the brown haired girl turned her attention to the horizon, she saw something that made sense to Davis' sudden sickness.
Contrast with the brilliant white was a large, dark door.
The gate of truth.
"Come on Davis" Kari helped the boy up "We need to get you away from that thing".
"No" Davis whispered, massive amounts of sweat hiding the stream of tears "Sis, Jun, don't go, I don't want you to go. I WON'T LET YOU TAKE HER".
"Please Davis" Kari grunted under the alchemist's weight and his constant thrashing "It'll be alright, it'll be al-"
THUD
The handle of Ken's whip impacted against the back of Davis head. Instantly the teen alchemist's insane thrashing stopped, replaced with only the shallow breaths he took.
"Sorry Kari, had to be done" Ken took the weight off Kari as he heaved the unconscious teen onto his arms "I'll apologise when he wakes up, stop giving me that look Yolie".
Kari didn't hear much for the rest of the journey, her concern purely focused on the sleeping teen.
"He mentioned his sister" Kari thought "I thought he said he passed out after he tried to bring back his mother, what happened to her?"
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Images of his beloved sister and how she was brutally torn away from him flashed through the tortured mind of the young half-Ishbalian.
"-Eas Da-" A blurred and distorted voice said
"What?"
"Ple- Da- kup" The same voice continued
"I-I don't understand what your saying?"
"Please Davis, please wake up" The voice, once distorted, now rang clear as a crystal bell.
"Gah" Davis sat up quick as lightning, his hand instinctively pulling one of his pistols out.
"Easy Davis, you're okay now" Kari tried to sooth the distressed boy as she laid a hand on his, easing the gun down with it.
"Kari?" Davis was having trouble comprehending anything at the moment.
Davis blinked out his sweat and tear covered eyes, giving him unhindered view of the caring teen.
"It's alright now Davis" Kari gave the boy a smile that heavily reminded him of his mother "We're in the Digi-world, everything's alright now".
"What?" Looking around, Davis found himself in a small clearing of a lush and colourful forest.
Well, it would have been except for a scar in the earth 5 meters wide and extending well into the horizon. The dug out earth looked as if it was charred black.
"It goes on for quite awhile" T.K said, seeing their alchemical leader staring at the oddity "With no digimon though, I can't really tell how far".
"But, how" Davis gripped his head with the threat of a massive incoming head ache "I don't understand".
"The D3s" Cody began "They opened up another gate, no alchemy, no stone".
"The stone" Davis fished out the red rock that was the philosopher's stone, only to pull out crimson dust "All it's energy, gone".
"Davis, what are you-" Kari started to talk as she watched Davis dig a small hole and poured the dust into it, covering it and transmuting the ground to form a small tombstone.
"You remember" Cody cut the girl off "The stone was created with the life of innocents, it's only proper we pay our respect for helping us".
"It's okay" Davis said, standing up "C'mon, it's time we searched for Gennai".
"We don't seem to far off, I think there's a small town between here and Gennai's" T.K said, recalling his past adventures in the digital world.
"I think we should head to that village, I don't feel so hot" Davis said as he continued walking.
"Davis" Kari began, walking up to the teen Ishbalian and laying a hand on his shoulder "Do you need any hel-"
"No help" Davis said, gently but sternly pulling her hand off, whispering something so softly Kari barely heard it "I'm sorry, you're getting too close".
Seeing the crushed look on the bearer of light's face, Ken walked a little faster to meet up with Davis' pace.
"C'mon man, that was a bit harsh" Ken said, earning a small grunt from Davis.
"I told you Ken" Davis said, his mechanical hand clenching and unclenching rhythmically "I'll bring her nothing but death and pain".
"Then say it" Ken said roughly "Tell me you feel nothing for her, and I'll drop it".
"…" Davis just kept walking.
"I thought so" Ken flashed a small smile "How many times do I have to tell you, you're not cursed, you are entitled to a live a peaceful life".
"Even if everything was perfect for me" Davis' auto-mail hand clenched so hard the seams on his glove ripped a little "I'm tainted, war is in my blood, and she deserves someone pure, pure like she is".
"Have you told her that, let her make her own choice?" Ken asked his best friend.
"…" Once again, the silence.
"Geezus" Ken sighed "If I wasn't the most tolerant shit in the world, I'd never put up with you".
"Heh" Davis' grim face cracked a small smile "I remember saying that to you".
"Thought you would" Ken smiled wider "You owe her that much".
Suddenly, Davis stopped.
"What is it Davis?" T.K asked his alchemical friend.
"Is this it?" Davis asked, standing atop the small hill they had climbed.
At the bottom of the hill, there was indeed a small village T.K had mentioned.
Something was off though.
The small buildings looked like they had been deserted for years. Walls on houses were crumbling and half eroded, roofs were caved in, fences were all but support beams.
Correction, something was very off.
"This isn't right" Davis unsheathed his guns "Digimon don't just leave their homes like this, they always stay in the same village".
"Another dark digimon?" Yolie suggested.
"No, there'd be nothing left" Ken replied, taking his whip off his belt "Something dark though, I can feel it in my blood".
The dark spore once implanted in the former Digimon emperor had left a few souvenirs, one being the ability to sense other traces of dark energy like itself in the host body.
"Definitely something dark" Ken said.
And so the group descended the hill and made their way into the destroyed village.
"Hello" T.K shouted, earning only echoes.
"I see smoke" Davis said, pointing his guns around at any possible enemy location "This village is still inhabited".
A low growl could be heard behind the group. Turning around, the group of children came face to face with a creature they all hadn't seen in almost 4 years.
"It's a Gotsumon" Kari said, looking at the small rock creature "What happened here?"
Instead of words, the rock digimon launched itself at the girl, it's eyes glowing red with a desire for destruction. It would have exceeded, if not Davis had stepped in front of the girl and delivered a powerful haymaker from his metal hand.
"Damn" Davis shook his arm "I felt that all the way up to my shoulder".
The insane Gotsumon turned to attack once again, but paused as the spiky headed gun-slinger aimed two pistols it's way.
"Not so fast" Davis growled "What's wrong? We can help".
The rock digimon growled, lowering itself to charge once again.
Davis noticed a small red flash on the digimon's forehead.
"I see" Davis closed his eyes, "I'm sorry".
BLAM BLAM BLAM
"Davis" The rest of the group cried.
Walking up to the hole ridden digimon, Davis transmuted two fingers into a pair of tweezers and removed what looked like a small, red crystal splinter.
"Not good" Davis said, crushing the splinter "Someone has infused philosopher's stone into Gotsumon, it drives animals mad when they were experimented on, I guess it's the same for digimon".
"Uh, guys" T.K said, raising his bracelet and sending the disk in it spinning "We got company".
"Crap" Davis swore as he and his group were quickly surrounded by tainted Gotsumon "Everybody, circular formation, no spreading out till we reduce their numbers".
"But" Kari began "There must be a way we can save the-"
"DAMMIT, MOVE" Davis shouted, stepping once again into Kari's path as the rock hard fist of a Gotsumon ran up his arm and clipped him on the side of the head, drawing blood.
Two shot's later and the thing was digitizing after having the shard ripped from it's head.
"There is no way" Davis said, blood trickling down a small stream over his face "It's kill or be killed".
"But…but I" Kari stuttered, focusing on Davis while her comrades fended off the other digimon.
"Make yourself useful and use those gloves" Davis barked like a general "If you can't stop them, stun them so one of us can".
Needing no more instructions, Kari ran ahead of Davis and clapped her hands, sending a small spark between them which, combined with her alchemy, produced a large flash spark, blinding several of the crazed Digimon.
Dancing and weaving through the digitising corpses, Davis stood once again in front of the bearer of light and fired with pinpoint accuracy, shooting out the small crystal shards as they sparkled in the dying sunlight.
"Good Kari" Davis smiled at the girl "Keep it up, go help Yolie, she seems in trouble".
And so the extermination of the crazed occupants of the small village, though painful, was brought about in a haze of desperation and blind ambition to survive.
"Dammit" Davis panted as he leaned against a fence post "That was hard"
"Who, what, how?" Yolie asked.
"I don't know" Davis replied, slicking back blood and sweat soaked hair "Some bad shit has definitely gone down, the quicker we get to Gennai's, the better".
"Davis, your head" Kari pointed out.
"It's fine" Davis replied before Kari could get close, standing up and wiping blood from his eye "Let's keep going, we should be at Gennai's in about an hour's walk.
An hour later the group had arrived at their destination, no one complained the entire walk, mainly dur to the fact that no one was in the mood and the fact that Davis seemed to walk like a puppet on a string, barely conscious but kept going.
"Finally" Davis sighed.
"Chosen ones" A friendly voice rang out.
There, at the top of the stairs, was Gennai.
"Gennai" T.K replied happily "You're a sight for sore eyes".
"It is good to see you all, but 6 months too early, how did you arrive?" The old man asked.
"It's quite a long story, but it started with Davis-" T.K continued, but Davis interrupted.
"Sorry Gennai" Davis butted in, pointing to the stream "But I'm quite dirty, do you mind?"
"Not at all" Gennai said, gesturing with his hand.
"Thanks".
And with that, Davis transmuted a small wash basin with a shower head above it. Turning the tap, Davis dunked his head under the water and scrubbed it of blood and sweat, finally using alchemy to dry his hair.
"Feeling better?" Gennai asked innocently.
His response was a metal slug in-between the eyes.
"Much" Davis smiled, firing off two more rounds into the man's cranium.
"DAVIS!" T.K yelled "Have you gone nuts?"
"That's not Gennai" Davis said, keeping his pistols trained at the fallen man "The Gennai from last time said he hated alchemy, this one didn't mind at all".
"Hahaha, damn" A voice coming from the corpse of Gennai spoke "After 3 years, I kinda forgot about that".
"Who are you?" Davis said, pulling the hammers of his guns back.
"Someone your blonde haired hero didn't quite kill" Gennai laughed as he stood up, his entire body burning away to reveal an oddly dressed humanoid.
"I've seen you before" Davis breathed "Research notes, you…you're a homunculus".
"Clever boy" Envy clapped "And for your prize, hmmm, I know, one ticket strait to an ass whooping".
"Fuck that" Davis said, firing off two rounds, only to watch the slightly effeminate homunculus dance right between them "Wha-oof".
"What naughty language" Envy smiled as he drilled his fist further into the boy's gut "Guess I'll have to teach you a lesson".
One clap from Davis and spikes sped towards Envy.
"Nope, not going to work" Envy laughed at the half dead looking boy.
The teen alchemist, after wiping out those insane digimon, was completely drained of energy.
"Hmm" Envy hummed as he stood on Davis' neck "We need you, but your friends, well, they're expendable" A sick smile formed on Envy's lips "Which means I'm allowed to kill them".
At the notion of his friends dying, a fire burned white hot behind Davis' eyes, setting his soul on fire.
"No" Davis growled, his eyes flashing with a red glow for a few seconds.
Grabbing Envy's ankle, Davis pulled it two ways, not snapping, but tearing the bone into 3 different directions.
"Ah, you little bastard" Envy growled jumping back and fixing his ankle "I'm gonna ki-"
But before the homunculus could finish, Davis had gotten up with the speed of a demon and rammed his metallic hand as far as it would go without breaking flesh, and with a pulse of moving muscle in his shoulder, activated the secret of his arm he had known since he was eight.
The idea, make an auto-mail that not only worked as an arm, but came with it's own range of weapons.
Weapon one: A rocket launcher.
The resulting explosion sent both parties flying back, Envy slamming into the concrete stairs and punching right through them. Davis however was lucky enough to have his friends catch him, knocking them all back.
"You little shit" Envy spat, his charred and hole filled stomach regenerating on the spot "Screw the plan I'm gonna-".
The small homunculus was cut off once again, this time be something only known to him.
"Hmmph" He huffed "I'll be back soon enough, enjoy the rest of your life, it's on borrowed time".
"My life is borrowed time Envy" Davis grunted "And I'll be ending yours with great pleasure".
"Whatever" And with that, the shape shifting being was gone.
"C'mon" Davis said, making his way up the broken stairs "There's gotta be something up here we can use to find Veemon and the others".
And with that, the rest of the group followed their leader, totally blind to the danger that lie before them.
Holy crap, I've been away for such a long time. It's been a mix of laziness, writer's block and a dash of work and studies that kept me from this chapter. But lo and behold, it is here, ready for all your reviews. Till next time – Wolvie.
