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Title: Guardian Angel
Rated: T
Summary: Takeru is attacked by a mysterious Digimon on the way home from school. The Digimon declares he wants to kill Takeru and erase Patamon forever. When reality turns out to be illusions and nightmares began to collide with reality just how can Patamon keep Takeru safe while trying not to die himself?
Chapter Four Truth and Meetings
Sighing Takeru glanced at the clock himself. If he knew he would have arrived this early he would have cleaned up the kitchen before he left. Shaking his head he walked down one of the halls of the school until he reached one of the stair cases at the school climbing up it until he reached the third floor. Unlike Patamon, Takeru didn't bring his Nintendo DS Lite with him to the school after Daisuke nearly got his confiscated so the only thing he had to do while waiting for classes to start was to play the few games he had on his cell phone. Takeru slid the door open to his class room walking inside and over to his desk. He hung his bag on the side of his desk as he sat down. He pulled his cell phone out opening it up and began glancing through the game options on it.
Takeru stood by his desk placing the school books into has bag that he would need for homework and studying. Taking notes had proven quite a chore and he believed any healing that might have happened on his right hand had been completely undone now between this and getting his uniform on this morning. Maybe it would have been better just to see if I couldn't have borrowed Daisuke or Hikari's notes, but then they would have wanted an explanation as to why I needed to borrow them in the first place Takeru thought to himself. Takeru was happy that most of his cloths were green because if it had started bleeding again because of the note taking and had mange to bleed through to the gloves the dark green color of them wouldn't allow the blood to show.
Daisuke, who still had the same class as Takeru even after they switches schools, wandered over. "Oi Takeru, don't forget we're heading over to the park today. Taichi wants to talk about what's going on at the UN. I ran into Iori after soccer practice he asked us to wait for him because he has another Kendo meeting after school and wants to walk with us," Daisuke told him.
Takeru looked at him and nodded before replying, "I haven't forgotten."
Daisuke nodded back. "Good. It's weird I tried e-mailing you a reminder this morning to your D-terminal like Taichi asked me to, but the message came back saying user does not exist…" he said glancing out of the window not really thinking it mattered much.
Takeru looked down at his bag where he had left his D-terminal. He had honestly forgotten what had happened to it after having the nightmare. "It's malfunctioned… I'll have Koushirou or maybe Ken look at it after the meeting," he said looking at Daisuke. Daisuke looked at him and nodded before turning his attention towards the class room door were Hikari was talking to Kohana.
"I don't really understand why we still use them to message each other. I mean we have cell phones now which can contact your brother and the others unlike the D-terminal…" He said shrugging before heading off to talk to Hikari and Kohana if he could get her to talk that is.
When Takeru had gotten everything back into his bag that he would need he slung the bag over his shoulder and walked over joining them. He was in time to hear Daisuke say to Kohana, "You still haven't gotten a Digimon? Man just about—" He didn't finish his sentence due to Takeru elbowing him the gut only to be glared at by Daisuke until he fully realized what he was saying and quickly tried to amend it. "I mean your Digimon partner must be something special for you not to have gotten one yet!" He blurted out quickly waving his hands as if to wave away his previous sentence.
And you wonder why Kohana doesn't really speak to you, Takeru thought shaking his head. The two hadn't really hit it off the few times they had spoken their personalities being the opposite of each other. While Daisuke was loud and told everyone what he thought not thinking of the consequences until later Kohana was quite and when she did speak it always took her awhile because she was thinking over what she wanted to say. Takeru had to admit it really wasn't Daisuke's fault he wasn't trying to be mean to Kohana, but Takeru had a feeling she hadn't really fit in to the last school she had attended with the way she behaved. From what he had gotten from Hikari she had transferred over from a school in America, but that was about all he knew about her old school.
Kohana slowly nodded. "Maybe…" she said looking at the floor. Takeru also had to admit what Daisuke was saying was the truth. Almost everyone that was in their age range or younger now had a Digimon. There had been reports on the news that Dig eggs and Digivices were appearing in hospitals next to a baby a few days after they had been born. It was rare for someone under eighteen not to have one and it was a sore spot for Kohana that she didn't have one yet. She was willing to wait for her digital partner but ever day when she saw others with their Digimon it was a painful reminder that she didn't have one.
"Any way," Hikari started trying to change the subject. "Kohana-chan is going to come to the park with us today." Hikari finished and by the look Kohana gave Hikari before she began dragging her off towards the school dojo Takeru had a feeling Kohana had just learned of this as well not giving a chance for Takeru and Daisuke to ask why she was coming along. Daisuke looked at Takeru and shrugged quickly following after them. Takeru watched them for a bit before heading for the entrance of the school.
When he reached the school entrance Takeru quickly changed into his regular shoes pulling his sweater on over his uniform as well as putting his hat back on then grabbed the pharmacy bag heading for the tree that Patamon was sitting in. "Patamon I need you to come down and change the bandages for me please," Takeru said as he sat down underneath the tree.
"Sure," Patamon said flying down to Takeru DS in hand. He put the DS into Takeru's bag. While Patamon did that Takeru, wincing the entire time, carefully pulled the gloves off his hands. The right hand like he had feared had begun bleeding again because of the note taking. "It's not going to heal at this rate," Patamon said as he began to remove the old bandages. He put more antibiotic ointment on his hands then re-wrapped them with clean bandages. Takeru knew Patamon was right and he was beginning to regret his decision on not telling the others.
"I need you to do me one more favor. Can you evolve into Holy Angemon for me?" Takeru asked and upon seeing Patamon's confused look he pulled the bandages off his cheeks the wounds on them still bleeding. "I think there was something on those Digimons claws that make it to where wounds inflected by them won't heal," Takeru explained.
Patamon looked at Takeru. "Why didn't you tell me about this sooner?" He asked tilting his head to the side.
"Even if I had told you, you wouldn't have been able to do anything about them until today… I didn't want you to worry when it wasn't necessary," he told is friend.
Patamon nodded. "True," he said before evolving into Holy Angemon. He didn't like the fact Takeru had avoided telling him about the non-healing injuries until now, but there was no use starting a fight over it. Right now he was the only one Takeru could completely confide in and he didn't want a stupid fight to change that. Using his Holy Disinfection, Holy Angemon was able to get the wounds to heal to the point they should have been to where they no longer bled, but they didn't disappear completely. His technique was also able to relive some of the pain from the burns in Takeru's hands, but that was about it.
The technique wasn't really meant for healing wounds so much as breaking curses and in this case getting rid of lingering Digimon Data that was messing with Takeru's body. As for when he used it on Digimon the technique could heal their wounds and anything else that might have been wrong with them, but the drawback was that the Angel Digimon couldn't heal himself. There were times such as this one that he wished the technique would work as well on humans as it would Digimon because he really didn't like seeing his human friends hurt. Once he was finished Holy Angemon de-evolved back into Patamon.
Smiling Takeru gently patted Patamon on the head. "Thank you, Patamon," he said as he stood up. Patamon nodded quite happy that he was able to help. Takeru put the pharmacy bag into his messenger bag and Patamon pulled the DS Lite back out of it flying up to land on Takeru's head were he started playing his games. They then headed for the dojo to meet up with the others so they could head to the park once Iori was done.
The group had to wait awhile for Iori to finish up with his practice matches before they left for the park. The Chosen Children had long ago decided that because the park was almost completely deserted by the time all of them could arrive it was the best place to meet up. The decision had also been made because no one really had enough room at their home for all of them and their Digimon. Patamon like always was riding on top of Takeru's head, though he had put the DS up, while Hikari carried Tailmon and the other Digimon walked beside their partners.
Within the real world Daisuke's Digimon and the other Digimon no longer stayed in their Baby 2 stages, but stayed in their Child stages which made it a lot easier for the Digimon to get around. All of the Chosen Children would be going to the park except Mimi, due to time differences, who would be having a similar meeting in America after being informed by Taichi what was going on in the UN.
Daisuke's curiosity had gotten the better of him and while Iori was changing out of his Kendo uniform back into his school uniform he had asked Hikari and Kohana why Kohana was going along with them seems how she didn't have a Digimon of her own and really wasn't involved in what was going. Hikari had told him it was because Kohana was curious about what was going on and had asked Hikari if she could tag along. When Daisuke had pointed out that it had seemed Kohana didn't really want to go, but that Hikari had forced her along he had been told by Hikari that Kohana was just too shy and had been afraid the others would get mad at her if she tagged along thus Hikari who knew the others wouldn't dragged her along.
It was night time by the time they had arrived at the park and were heading towards the meeting place. In winter the sun would always set earlier and had actually set while they were still waiting for Iori. With the temperature dropping Takeru was glad for having worn the gloves to hide the bandages for the warmth that they gave. As they neared the play ground area that Taichi had chosen for the meeting, mainly to give the more hyper Digimon something to do as they talked, the younger group was quite surprised to hear Taichi shouting, but they couldn't quite understand what he was saying. Looking at each other than in the direction that the shouting had come from they all took off running afraid something was wrong and as the ran Hikari made sure Kohana stayed behind them in case it was a Digimon attacking.
"I can't believe them!" Taichi shouted and Takeru stopped glancing over at his brother who just shrugged having arrived there himself not all that long ago and had no clue what was going on. The person he had been talking to was Koushirou who removed his hands from his ears believing Taichi's shouting was done.
"Onii-chan what's wrong?" Hikari asked walking over to her brother.
Taichi quickly turned to look at his little sister just now noticing that him and Koushirou weren't alone anymore he was about ready to start shouting again when Koushirou quickly stood up and spoke. "Nothing to worry about right this minute Taichi is just over reacting to something that happened in the UN. We'll talk about it after he's calmed down," he quickly stated glancing at Taichi. Taichi grunted and sat down knowing full well that he was over reacting, but he had hoped to get someone to be angry with him. Now that they knew everything else was alright the others sat down as well. Koushirou shook his head then looked at everyone else. "Any way the other reason we're here is because there have been reports of damage being done around Japan and elsewhere caused by a Digimon that the government has been covering up," Koushirou started only to be interrupted by Ken.
"This means you've been hacking again… I thought Taichi had told the government that you weren't going to do that anymore," Ken stated looking at Koushirou
Koushirou slightly blushed from embarrassment and Taichi spoke up in his defense. "I did but the condition for that was the governments were to tell us when a Digimon was attacking or had attacked not to cover it up. They can't really do anything about it without our help without causing more damage and even then the Digimon wouldn't be taken care of. When I arrived at the UN meeting a few days ago the Japanese representatives had been talking, but stopped as soon as they had spotted me. Yamato and Takeru's father happened to be there while they were talking and no one had really noticed that he was there which was lucky for us." Ken and the others nodded then looked back at Koushirou.
"As I was saying the attacks only had one victim that was hurt, but thankfully not killed though from what the reports state the only reason they weren't killed was the victim's stated the Digimon realized that they weren't the ones they were after. All the victims had several things in common the most obvious being they all had Digimon which where till in their Baby 1 stage though they evolved as the attack happened like all Digimon would do when their partners are in trouble. All of them were of the age of 15 with blondish colored hair and blue eyes which is rare in Japan while the other attacks had taken place in France," Koushirou explained looking at Takeru and he wasn't the only one who was looking at him by now all of other Chosen Children were looking at him as well. After the attacks that had happened around Christmas four years ago all the Chosen Children had found out one of Takeru's and Yamato's grandfather was French. "As for their Digimon all of them were Poyomon's, but they all evolved into different lines that wouldn't lead up to Patamon. Most of the time the attacks stopped once the Digimon had evolved into the child stage," Koushirou finished explaining.
"Wait a minute! Are you trying to tell us this Digimon is targeting Takeru?" Yamato asked as he looked over at Koushirou who nodded.
Takeru looked at the ground not wanting to tell the others what had happened. He still didn't have any real proof that the Digimon had actually attacked him, but now that reports of the other attacks were surfacing maybe it really had happened. Yes he and Patamon both had been wounded though Patamon's injuries had disappeared, but everything else around them that had been damaged hadn't really been. He was afraid to find out that maybe his injuries had been caused by something else entirely, but he didn't want to lie to them either so he spoke up in a voice that everyone barely heard. "The Digimon… It has already attacked me…"
Before Yamato or anyone else could say something he began to tell them what had happened yesterday and about the dream he had removing the gloves and bandages in the process to show them. By the time he was done Yamato was standing beside him while Jou was looking at his hands to see if any other treatment needed to be done. Both Ken and Koushirou had walked over to take a look at Takeru's D-terminal to see if either of them could repair it or not.
Takeru could tell his brother was mad, but he wasn't sure if Yamato was mad at him or at the Digimon who had attacked him though he had a bad feeling it was him he was mad at. No one spoke for awhile as they digested what Takeru had told them but when someone did speak everyone was a bit shocked with who it was. "Why…" Kohana began and when everyone turned their attention towards her she stopped for a moment almost letting out an eep, but continued on shoving her feelings of shyness away for the moment. "Why didn't you say something earlier?" she asked looking at Takeru. She could understand him not telling her for she wasn't involved with the things that had to do with Digimon not at the moment anyways but she didn't understand why he hadn't told the others whom had Digimon that could have helped him.
Takeru looked up at Kohana then back down at the ground. "Because I'm not sure what really happened and what didn't. Not to mention the fact that up until now I didn't even know if the Digimon was real or not! I thought there might even be a chance Patamon and I had seen an illusion and our minds made it real or something…" Takeru said moving his knees up against his chest and laying his head in his arms not wanting to see the looks the others had and to help keep himself calm.
He never liked talking about things that involved Patamon getting hurt and having to tell them about the dream made him more than a little upset. Jou stood up and shook his head. "No those burns wouldn't be something your mind could make real. If you studied some of the medical books that I have I could say it's a possibility, but you've never seen what electrical burns looked like so your mind couldn't have made it real," Jou told him patting Takeru on the shoulder.
Yamato sat down next to Takeru looking at his little brother. Yamato was never one to really show his emotions in front of others and Takeru knew this was as close as Yamato would get to comforting him in front of everyone else. "Do you know why he's attacking you?" Taichi asked looking at Takeru.
Takeru looked at Taichi resting his chin on his arms. "Something about wanting to see what would happen if hope ended and wondering if it would end the game," Takeru said and shook his head. He hadn't understood it then and he didn't understand it now.
"Next time something happens call us so we can come help you!" Hikari told him and the others nodded agreeing with her.
"Next time I'm going to evolve into Seraphimon then I'll get that Digimon back for hurting Takeru!" Patamon stated and Takeru smiled reaching up to pick the small Digimon up off his head.
"I doubt he'll be able to beat you as Seraphimon," Takeru told him smiling then proceeded to tickle Patamon's belly causing him to laugh.
Armadimon spoke up then. "Hawkmon and I will help keep an eye out at the apartments just in case, right?" He asked turning to Hawkmon who nodded in agreement.
Takeru looked at them and smiled. "Thanks," he said.
"No problem we're neighbors after all," Miyako told him smiling as well.
For awhile they talked about different ways to keep Takeru safe. It was decided it would be best for him to get up early to go to school with Iori while Miyako would walk with them until she had to go in a different direction to get to her high school. After school Takeru could wait or the others meaning Iori, Hikari and Daisuke and walk home with them even if it meant heading in a different direction then their own homes. Takeru didn't like the fact that he was going to be constantly guarded even though he knew their intentions were good. He had told Yamato no when he offered to either stay at their mother's apartment with Takeru so if he went anywhere Yamato could go with him or Takeru could stay at their father's apartment so Yamato could still go with him.
He had said no to this because even though he was in high school Yamato was still with his band and Takeru knew though the others didn't, except Sora now that Yamato was going out with her, that Yamato was already having a hard time balancing everything. Yamato had talked with Takeru on a few occasions when they just hanging out on quitting the band all together, but he would say that only when things were a bit too stressful and had never really meant it. If he watched Takeru like he was suggesting Yamato wouldn't have much time for anything else and he didn't want to be the reason his brother quite something he liked.
He didn't tell the others the reason he said no and when it looked like they would argue against his choice he was saved from an unlikely source. "Kamiya-kun why were you upset at the U.N. earlier?" Kohana asked having seen Takeru was getting a bit upset at what the conversation was going to.
Taichi blinked and looked at Kohana a bit shocked that once again she had spoken causing Kohana to quickly look down as her shyness kicked back in. Hikari had brought Kohana over a few times to their apartment to hang out, but even at those times Taichi had rarely heard her talk. Takeru reminded himself to thank Kohana later for changing the subject of their conversation. Taichi sighed and looked around at the others. "The government at the U.N. has begun discussing gathering up all the Digimon in this world and sending them back to the Digital World," Taichi began and when more than one person and Digimon began to protest he quickly waved his hands. "Let me finish!" He shouted and when he was sure everyone was going to be quiet he continued. "Once they had them back in the Digital World their going to find a way to seal it up for good. There are some who are disagreeing with this stating that doing that would just make us vulnerable believing that the Digital World gates couldn't be completely sealed up like they say they can. The ones who are disagreeing are ones who have Digimon of their own so some of the others are saying they don't have the priorities straight. The majorities though are the ones who want to seal the gates," Taichi stated his anger clearly showing up on his face.
Tentomon shook his head. "I doubt they could seal the Digital World up completely. I mean yes they may be able to seal it up from this side, but they don't know enough of how the Digital World works in order to seal the gates up on that side," Tentomon told them.
Koushirou nodded in agreement. "I haven't been to willing to share what we know on the Digital World due to things not being quite settled between them and the Digimon, but if they try to seal the gates all that will end up happening is that they'll make it a one way gate. Digimon can come freely from the Digital World, but nothing would be able to go from the real world to the Digital World meaning any Digimon that comes through will be stuck there and have to be dealt with. The government wouldn't be able to get rid of them though and unless our Digimon came through the gate we wouldn't be able to do anything either which would leave Earth open for some evil Digimon to conquer it," Koushirou explained.
"Can't you just tell them that?" Sora asked looking at Piyomon. No one there liked the idea of what Koushirou had just described.
"I've already told Taichi that when the next meeting comes up I'll be there to explain this to them, but I doubt all of them will be willing to listen to me. Although I should get enough to listen to me were nothing should happen," he told everyone.
"Why all of a sudden do they want to seal the Digital world though? Last thing I heard everything was going smoothly," Jou said as he sat back down where he had previously been having re-bandaged Takeru's hands.
Taichi shook his head. "I have a feeling it's partly due to what they've been hiding from us, but I mainly think it's because their afraid that Digimon will tip the scales and favor some country somehow causing a war. I keep trying to tell them on several different occasions that if something like that were to happen we'd stop it, but they won't listen," Taichi told them then continued, "They still can't forget what trouble all the evil Digimon have caused here, but it also proves the point that we can handle things when Digimon go out of control if they'll just let us. The problem is they don't like leaving this up to us. I have a feeling if we were all ten years older we wouldn't be having so much trouble with the U.N.."
"Can we do anything to help?" Iori asked looking at Taichi who sighed.
"Just keep doing what we have been doing. Sooner or later they'll figure out its okay to leave things to us and we're always adding more people to help as we find them," Taichi told them. With most of their family members getting Digimon they had gotten them to help out with things as well.
Taichi looked at his watch. "Any way we should end this here for now before it gets any later and some of us get in trouble for staying out so late," he said standing up and the others did as well.
"Takeru I'm going to take your D-terminal with me I might be able to fix it at home," Ken told him and Takeru nodded.
One after another they all went their separate ways after saying good bye until the younger Chosen Children, Kohana, and Taichi, who were waiting for his sister so they could drive home, were left. Hikari was off to one side Kohana standing near her as she talked on her cell phone. Once she had hung up she talked to Kohana for a moment and the two of them walked over to where Takeru, Miyako, Daisuke, and Iori were standing. "Can you guys walk Kohana home on your way back? I was going to have Onii-chan drop her off before we went home, but our parents just called me and we have to go meet them somewhere," Hikari explained to Takeru, Miyako and Iori.
"Sure I don't see why not her apartment complex is on our way home," Miyako answered for all three of them as she smiled.
"Thank you," Hikari said smiling before running to catch up with her brother who had begun to head for his car. As the two siblings walked she proceeded to tell him that their parents had called.
Daisuke said good bye to the others before heading off as well. Iori, Miyako, Takeru and Kohana began walking towards their apartments. Iori and Miyako walked a bit ahead of Takeru and Kohana with their Digimon. Patamon took the opportunity to fly over to Kohana and sit on her shoulder. "Kohana, Tailmon told me today that you were working on a drawing of Angemon can I see it?" He asked.
Kohana smiled. "Sure Patamon-chan," Kohana said as she began to dig through her school bag for her sketch book.
Takeru blinked once he fully realized what Patamon had just asked. "How are you doing a drawing of Angemon? I didn't think you've seen him yet," Takeru said looking at her.
"Hikari-chan gave me a picture of Angemon that she took along with some of the other Digimon's evolutions," Kohana answered flipping through the sketch book until she found the drawing she was looking for then waited until they were under a street light before showing it to Patamon.
Patamon looked at the drawing and pointed to some of the lines that were on it. "How come those are there?" He asked looking at Kohana.
She glanced at the drawing before turning her attention back to where she was walking. "It's to help make sure everything on the face is lined up correctly, even though Angemon wears a helmet it was still needed. I am going to scan it into my parent's computer and work in it on there once I'm done with the sketch. The blue color the lines are drawn in are special and won't show up on the scanned image," she explained to Patamon who nodded.
Both Kohana's parents helped design characters for various games and had lots of drawing programs on their computer as well as a very expensive drawing tablet. Patamon had seen it once when Hikari had brought Takeru and him along a few times she had visited. He also knew from what Tailmon had told him that unlike Kohana's mother her father could actually code games as well. As they walked Patamon was about ready to get back onto Takeru's head when both Kohana and Takeru stopped.
"Haru-chan please tell me you can't see them either..." Takeru asked as he looked at Kohana.
Kohana looked at Takeru. "I can't see them either…" she responded. Patamon tilted his head to the side wondering what they were talking about and looked a head his eyes widening. Iori, Miyako, Hawkmon and Armadimon were nowhere in sight ahead of them anymore and looking around showed they weren't any place else either.
Takeru had a bad feeling about this and was about to say something when he heard someone speak. "I had hoped to get angel boy and blondie by themselves, but I guess it doesn't really matter since she doesn't have a Digimon any way." Takeru turned to where the voice had been coming from and was none too happy to find out it was the voice of the evil Digimon. Takeru had hoped it would be at least another twenty-four hours before they saw the Digimon again giving Patamon the ability to freely evolve into Seraphimon without the help of the D3.
Kohana turned in the same direction Takeru was looking and when she saw the Digimon she gasped. Patamon quickly got in front of Takeru and Kohana evolving into Angemon. The evil Digimon smirked speaking again. "Seems like it's time for some fun! I wonder who I will play with first…"
A/N- More changes in this one such as why Hikari brought Kohana along and why Kohana had to go home with Takeru and the others. Another change is how Kohana and Daisuke get along. Why do people pick on him so much I wonder? I know most of the people who do it are Takari fans but I still don't get it.
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