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Protectorate 8
Piedmon sat in his throne fingering the scar Glenn had given him, "I'll get that brat," he said angrily.
"No, you won't," a voice said from above Piedmon.
"Whose there," Piedmon demanded not even flinching as the dark form appeared before him.
"I'll be the one to kill Glenn, not you." The dark form moved closer to Piedmon, "though you will aid me by distracting him and the Digidestined while I regain my power." The dark figure head was only inches from Piedmon's face, "if you don't do a good job I'll do worse than kill you."
Piedmon was now literally terrified, what was he doing? He was the great Piedmon! He isn't afraid of anyone or anything! "I should be at least be allowed the privilege of knowing your name," Piedmon said trying to hold his fear in check.
"Maisoulmon," the figure said then it disappeared. Piedmon breathed a sigh of relief. He better do a good job, he didn't want him returning.
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Epsilon had been watching over Glenn all day, "I'm so sorry," he said again like he had over a dozen times before.
"Stop it Epsilon, it ain't your fault," Glenn said not opening his eyes and not showing any signs of waking.
"Glenn! You're awake Sora will be so happy! I'll go get her," Epsilon said excitedly.
"Stop," Glenn commanded, "we have to talk," Epsilon laid down on top of Glenn's chest like he was going to sleep, "is there anything I can do to help them since I'm now useless in fighting Maisoulmon," Glenn asked emphasizing the useless.
"You aren't useless Glenn," Epsilon said encouragingly, "you could be a human shield, You are stronger than him in that respect at least."
Glenn sneered in his mind, "stronger! Stronger you say, Epsilon I can't hurt him and you say I'm stronger than him! Don't patronize me," Glenn told the wolf laying on his chest.
"Glenn when will you realized that there is more to power than defeating your opponent," Epsilon then got up and began to walk towards Sora, "she's been waiting for you wake up Glenn, I'm getting her now." Epsilon walked over to where Sora laid wrapped in Tai's arms under a tree.
"Wait don't disturb them, I've done enough to them let them have these moments," Glenn pleaded. Epsilon nodded and returned to laying on Glenn's chest. Glenn opened his eyes to the world and quickly shut them against the light. He then slowly opened them, they were somewhere else now, there was a river near, Glenn could hear it, they were in a clearing cause Glenn could feel the grass under his neck. He looked to the right and saw the forest, the trees were now more closely packed together. Glenn sighed, "they must have moved after the battle," he said to himself. Glenn continued to look around and didn't notice Kari approach.
"Hi, how are you feeling," Kari asked kindly, Glenn gave a slight jump then looked at her.
"I'm fine," he lied, he wasn't fine, not after what happened, but he couldn't take it out on them. It wasn't their fault, or Epsilon's, he felt like it was all his fault but Epsilon had been right before, if he had died there was no reason why Maisoulmon wouldn't just escape then. "How's everyone else," he asked sitting up, he still felt a little winded so he did it slowly.
"We're fine," Kari told him with a smile as she sat down beside him. "It was you wasn't it?"
"What?" Glenn didn't know what she was talking about.
"The wall of light, you know the one that protected us from those bad Digimon."
"Yes that was me," Glenn said trying to rub he fatigue out of his face.
"I just wanna say thanks," Kari gave Glenn a quick hug which stunned Glenn. Why was she hugging him? He didn't do much and in the end he let out a very powerful enemy. "You saved our lives," Kari said as if reading his mind. Glenn smiled, he saved them? Wow that made him feel better.
"Wake the others Kari we need to talk," Glenn pushed back so that he rested against a tree, Kari then went to rouse the others. Glenn then saw his halibert laying on the grass, he left it there. Glenn rubbed his back, man it was sore, he then remembered his vest and the clamps on the back, "well at least I wasn't sleeping on my halibert also." He then watched in silence as one by one the others woke up and came over to sit by him, Kari let the Digimon continue to sleep though, man they looked beat up.
"What's up man," Matt said.
"Nothing good," Glenn answered downheartedly.
"What do you mean," Mimi asked.
Glenn looked around for a moment, then he took a deep breath, "Everyone I need you all to be quiet and listen," they all had that look on their faces saying that they knew this wasn't going to be good news, "first of all Tai do you remember when I first used the Silvery mist cause Epsilon told me too?"
"Yea, my head felt like it was about to explode for a moment there," Tai said bringing his hand to his temple.
"Well that was due to Maisoulmon, who I told you about before," Glenn was scared, what if Sora hated him after he told them the truth? Well then he'll just have to pay that price, "well here's the rest of the story," Glenn told them everything, the Omnicrest, about him, his past and his connection to Maisoulmon. He then reached out to his halibert and pushed himself to his feet, "now you all see what kind of failure I really am, I'm not good enough to be Sora's brother! All I've done is cause pain where ever I go! Now I've unleashed an evil powerful enough to rule both worlds and am powerless to do anything to stop it! I'm worse than a failure, I worthless. I have to leave before I get everyone killed," Glenn began to slowly limp away, he stopped and looked at Sora, "I'm sorry Sis, but if I stay Maisoulmon will kill you," Glenn then began to slowly limp away again. He didn't even hear Sora approach. Slap! She hit him! Glenn stood frozen, his head turned off to the left, his cheek burned with pain. what should he do? Should be mad? Should he be sad? He looked to where Sora still stood arm still across her chest, hand still out, fingers still spread. She looked like she was about to cry. Her cheeks were red.
"How dare you," she shouted at him, "how dare you try to leave me," She clenched her fists in front of her, "I won't let you just go off and die," she wrapped her arms around his chest and crushed herself against him. Glenn tried to pry her off but he was still to weak.
Matt got to his feet and walked over to the pair, "man what's wrong with you," Matt demanded.
Tai then joined them, he put his hand on Glenn's shoulder, "look Glenn I didn't trust you at first, but you aren't a bad guy," Tai said smiling, "if Sora trusts you then I do to," Tai gave him a pat on the back as if to seal a deal. Glenn was speechless.
"You can't leave Glenn," Mimi said from where she sat, "if you do then who will give Sora away at her wedding to Tai?" She sat smiling. Sora and Tai turned a little red. Glenn laughed out loud.
"Don't make fun of me," he told the group angrily, "I nothing but a curse," he said trying once more to pull away from Sora, "I'd end up getting everyone killed if I showed up at Sora's wedding." Glenn gave up trying to escape and began to cry. "Why, why did you have to choose me?" Glenn shouted, "why!" Glenn fell to his knees crying, Sora didn't let go, she fell with him and adjusted herself when they hit the ground.
Kari came up and took Glenn's empty hand in hers and smiled when he looked.
"Please stop, I, I'm not worth it," Glenn begged.
"Yes you are Glenn," Epsilon told him firmly, "you're uncle thought you were, your parents who you shunned thought you were and so do we." He told his friend matter-of-factly.
Glenn swallowed then lump in his throat, he tried to hold back the tears flowing from his eye but they pushed through, "Why, why did this have to happen to me?" Glenn dropped his head to Sora's shoulder and cried. He then felt angry, he roughly pushed Sora away and jumped to his feet, "don't you all get it? I'm not even human anymore!" Glenn pulled off his vest and threw it to the ground, "I'm nothing more than a monster!" Glenn then ran as fast as he could from them, from Sora. He could hear them running after him, yelling for him to stop, "stop," he thought disgustedly, "why would I want to do that? All us monsters run, always looking for our next victim to destroy," Glenn knew Epsilon would catch him soon. Epsilon had always been faster than him, Glenn closed off his mind from Epsilon's, he didn't need to hear any lies about being worth something in his mind.
"Glenn stop," Sora screamed trying to keep up with her distraught brother, "why, why is he leaving me again?" Sora begged in her mind. Tai and Matt were following close behind her, the others hadn't reacted in time to follow. Epsilon had moved fast than all of them, but he was no where in sight.
As Glenn ran through the forest he came upon a giant red beetle monster, it roared and lunged at him. Glenn leapt into the air and landed on its back laughing, "this pathetic creature wants to fight me?" Glenn thought amusingly to himself, he laughed out loud as he ripped it's pincers off it's head, they disintegrated in his hands, the creature roared and crashed into the ground. Glenn went flying off but he executed a perfect flip at the last minute and landed safely on the ground, he turned and charged at the downed bug. He went about ripping one limb off at a time as they fought, laughing the entire time and thinking, "nothing more than a monster so I must act like one!" In the end he pulled it's head from it's body and the whole disintegrated. He stood there looking at the ground then he turned to face the three people who had been following him.
"Glenn man stop running we're your friends," Matt shouted at him.
"FRIENDS," Glenn roared, "you don't get it! I can't have friends! I'm nothing but a monster who destroys what ever and who ever I meet! I can't have friends, I wasn't meant to," Glenn looked away from them.
"Then you leave me no choice Glenn," Tai said running at Glenn, "I'm going to have to beat so sense into you!" Tai threw a right hook at Glenn's head. Glenn leaned back slightly and his fist sailed by. Glenn then counter attacked by punching Tai in the stomach, he fell to the ground coughing.
Glenn saw Tai fall and left him alone, he then felt someone wrap there arms around his chest from behind trying to pin his arms against his body, "must be Matt, he's pretty strong," Glenn thought approvingly. Though Matt couldn't hope to hold Glenn, he had a good couple years of training under his belt and Matt was going on pure strength. Glenn jabbed his elbow back a few times then grabbed Matt's arm when he let go and then flipped him on to his back. Sora then walked up to Glenn, he fell back a few steps, "get back Sora," he warned, "I'm just a monster that'll kill you if you get to close." Sora continued to walk towards him, and he backed away till his back hit a tree and he could go no further, Sora moved till she resting her head against his chest.
"Kill me then Glenn," she said quietly.
"Sora please, you have so much to live for," Glenn said tears once again flowing from his eyes, "you have someone to love! Someone to love you back! You have friends, you, you have a home!" Glenn yelled at her, "I'm nothing more than.." Glenn was cut off by Sora.
"Than my brother who I lost once and will not lose again," she told him flat out.
Glenn dropped his arms to his sides, "I, I'm sorry Sora, but, what good am I?" Glenn asked in a quiet voice looking down at the ground. Sora hugged him.
"I believe the best question would be is what good aren't you," Epsilon piped in.
Glenn had known where Epsilon was the entire time, he ignored him, he wanted to know from Sora what he was good for.
Sora stood thinking but all that came to mind was he was her brother and he wasn't allowed to leave. She looked up at him and smiled, "you are good in a fight, you took on Piedmon all by yourself." She told him proudly.
"And almost lost," he countered.
"Yea but you still fought a Digimon alone without you own one to aid you," came a voice from behind Sora. Glenn looked to see Matt and Tai were on their feet and standing only about a meter away. It was Matt who had spoke.
"You forget I absorbed my Digimon remember, I have it's fighting power now," Glenn told him sarcastically.
"Glenn stop it!" Epsilon commanded, he was sick of hearing Glenn whine, "what would your uncle say if he saw you acting like this?"
That made Glenn stop and think, he refused to do so before but now it over took him. Glenn could see his uncle now.
"Glenn you say this is your fault, I'd like you to tell me how?"
"I should not have let Maisoulmon escape, he was in my care."
"You couldn't have held him forever Glenn that was an impossible task."
"I had the power though."
"You also didn't think things through, you cut yourself off from everyone thinking at first that you had to keep your guard up at all times then you met Sora, and you forgot about keeping your guard and had fun, Glenn giving such a task to anyone was stupid. Besides he's free now and blaming yourself won't do any good, what you must do now is one, start living your life finally and two, prepare, that Maisoulmon will return and you must be ready to fight with all you got and not what you gave me, that wasn't good enough!"
Glenn shook his head clearing it, Uncle Mike would be mad at him, he wouldn't be taking the crap he's been giving his friends and his sister. Glenn looked to Sora and smiled, "all right you win Sora, I'll go easily." Glenn walked over to Tai and Matt, "sorry for hitting you guys it's just, well I wasn't myself," he apologized. Matt gave him a thumbs up sign and Tai merely rubbed his stomach.
Sora was happy Glenn had stopped, she didn't want to lose him. she was hoping he'd be the one to give her away since her father died years ago. She kicked herself, that was planning a little too far ahead, she needed to keep her mind on here and now. Glenn was now apologizing to Tai and Matt. Sora took a quick look around, the grass was torn up and a large chunk of soil had been smashed through. What had Glenn been doing before they got there? She wanted to ask but didn't, she then noticed a small cut on Glenn's right arm, "where did you get that Glenn?" She asked.
"What?" Glenn looked to where Sora had been pointing, "oh that I got that from, um, I don't know," he lied. "Silvery mist," he commanded, the mist covered his cut dissipated leaving clean skin in it's wake. Glenn assured Sora he didn't remember where he got it then they walked back to camp.
"They've been go an awfully long time," Mimi whined.
"I hope they're all okay," T.K. said thinking about his brother.
"I'm sure they're fine T.K." Kari said reassuringly.
"How are the Digimon Joe," Izzy asked looking up from his laptop.
"They alright, but that last battle took a lot out of them," Joe replied scanning the forest with his eyes.
"They must be a little out of shape from not having to fight for so long," T.K. said looking at the Digimon, who had woken up recently and were now eating.
"Which is why I'm going to start training them," Glenn said walking through a pair of trees followed by Matt and Sora who was holding hands with Tai and smiling. The rest of the Digidestined gave a slight jump then surrounded him.
"Why did you leave Glenn," T.K. asked.
"I was afraid, just afraid," Glenn told the young boy.
"Of what?" Mimi pushed.
"I don't want to talk about it, besides we have to start training," Glenn said changing the subject.
"Ho, no," Joe said holding his hand up in the stop position, "these Digimon need rest." He said sternly.
"I said we Joe, not them, we," Glenn pointed out.
"Huh, us, why do we have to train?" Matt asked.
"Cause in the last battle you guys were nothing more than a liability, something your enemies can use to get the upper hand," Glenn told him.
"Well sorry, not all of us are part Digimon," Tai said sarcastically.
"And that gives you the right to be nothing more than a target?" Glenn challenged.
"Well then we better get started," Sora said a little reluctant. Glenn smiled, she would be complaining a lot more when they were done. Glenn's uncle may not have made training to feel like a chore, but when all was said and done, your muscles wouldn't think the training had been so fun.
"What are you planning Glenn," Epsilon asked from his hiding spot in the woods.
"I don't know what you are talking about," Glenn replied cooly, though inside he was now very nervous.
"Don't give me that," Epsilon spat, "I haven't known you that long but I do know that when you start beating yourself up a quick talking to won't stop your plans."
"I thought I had fooled you as well," Glenn said meekly, "I was planning on training them then leaving in the night," he admitted, "you can stay if you want, but first we have to talk."
"Glenn my loyalty lies in you, where you go I follow, if it didn't I would have carried out Gennai's orders of killing you." Epsilon said sheepishly, "what do you want to talk about?"
"Well originally I wanted to how I managed to rip apart that Kuwagamon and then had difficulty breaking Matt's grip, but now I want to know about your orders as well," Glenn wasn't surprised Gennai had ordered his destruction, he was a monster with a more dangerous monster trapped inside of him. Glenn had been standing look off into space, then he noticed Izzy was talking.
"Don't you think it'd be better if we waited till we were in a more secure place before we started training? We do have some pretty nasty Digimon after us," Izzy pointed out.
"Good point," Glenn though for a moment, then he looked at Tai, "you're the leader Tai you should be the one making the plans, not me I'd just mess it up." Glenn then walked over to his vest and pulled it on. Then he retrieved his halibert from the grassy floor and put it in its rightful spot.
Sora looked at Glenn sympathetically, she then turned to Tai who was just standing looking off into space, "well Tai?"
Tai shook himself awake at the sound of Sora's voice, "well what," he asked.
"Well what's the plan," she asked a touch of amusement in her voice at Tai's total cluelessness.
"Well we better find Gennai like we originally planed," Tai said trying to recover what was left of his dignity.
"I wouldn't bother," came a squeaky voice from the trees.
"Piximon," Mimi exclaimed when the little pink warrior came into view. Though he wasn't the same little guy they remembered, he now wore a mean looking scar over his face, and he had a look of lost hope in his eyes.
"What do you mean," Matt asked seriously.
"Gennai died many years ago," he told them balancing his staff on his back. He then looked the children over, they all looked much the same. Then his eyes fell on Glenn, "who are you," he asked politely.
"It's Glenn," Glenn replied in the same polite tone.
"Are you a Digidestined?" He asked hopefully, he already knew of Kari, he had heard a long time ago of her, cause of Gatomon's betrayal it became hot news that had some how got out of the real world by a Darktyranomon.
"No, I'm nothing but the pathetic alpha model," Glenn replied displaying his crest for Piximon to see. Glenn noticed the pain in Sora's eyes when he called himself pathetic, but he wasn't about to start lying to anyone about what he really was. Piximon backed away in fear, there wasn't a Digimon alive who didn't know of the three Omnicrests, and what was held in the Protectorate, evil. Glenn saw the little Digimon's reaction, "finally someone who can see me for what I am," Glenn thought both happily and sadly. "Look we have a bunch of guys after us called the Dark masters and we need a place to hide, can you help us or not?"
"Yea I got a place," Piximon replied reluctantly.
"Don't worry he's one of us," Tai assured Piximon.
Glenn was a little taken back at Tai's assistance, then he realized why he did it, he didn't want Sora to be sad. Not like he actually meant it, Tai was the leader, he of all people must be able to see Glenn as a danger and not to be trusted, didn't he? Each one of the Digidestined gathered up their Digimon into their arms, Glenn carried the bags of supplies. Epsilon followed the group at Glenn's side. Piximon then wearyingly lead them to the side of a mountain, then after pulling a few rocks here and there it opened and he lead them in. They marched through a maze of dark tunnels till they waked out into a brightly lit cavern.
"Wow," All the Digidestined and Digimon exclaimed at once. Piximon then showed the Digidestined and Glenn around. The place was a training area. It had about twenty small huts, and three lagre ones. It turned out that many Digimon were setting up a resistance, Leomon and Ogremon were there, they had put off their rivalry till after the Dark masters were gone. Andromon, Elecmon, Meramon, Frigimon, Unimon and Centaurmon were there too, all of them had a look of lost hope in them, then they saw the Digidestined. They went nuts! For the rest of the day they had a big party, the Digidestined's Digimon rested and in the end Leomon and Piximon told them all that's happened over the years. The Dark masters had kidnaped Gennai and made him send that message, then they publicly executed him. Ever since then Piximon and the rest have been trying to raise an army to fight the Dark masters, but everyone was just too scared. They talked late into the night, after while Glenn left the hut in which they had speaking in, this had nothing to him.
"Epsilon I want to know," Glenn asked through his mind.
"Know what," Epsilon replied sounding a little asleep.
"About what we talked about earlier," Glenn told him.
"Okay," Epsilon then left where he'd been resting in the hut and went out to sit by his friend, "first of all the thing with Kuwagamon, after you merged with your Digimon you acquired certain attributes." He explained, "Gennai didn't know of them at first but after he learned about them he told me."
"And they are what?" Glenn asked sounding a little impatient.
"First of all your learning curve with certain weapons was increased so that where it'd take a normal person ten years to learn something it's take you only one or two. Second your strength, this attribute only comes into play against other Digimon raising you to the level of champion Digimon. Other than that you're a normal teenager." Epsilon looked at his friend for a reaction, there wasn't any. Glenn just sat there staring off into space.
"Normal? Could I have ever been normal? Did I ever have a chance to be a normal guy?" Glenn looked back into the hut at the others, he envied them all, they had all had normal lives growing up and some had found love. "Wonder what it feels like?" Glenn mumbled to himself, then he turned his attention back to Epsilon, "and your orders?"
"If you ever lost control of Maisoulmon I was to kill you both in your weakened states after you tried to recapture him and he tried to kill you, Gennai knew neither of you had the power to kill the other, but if you were both weakened enough I could." Epsilon told him sound very ashamed.
"So what happened?" Glenn pushed.
"I began to like traveling with you Glenn, you're not as bad a guy as you make yourself out to be," Epsilon rested his head on Glenn's lap, Glenn gently began to pat him.
"A friend," Glenn gave the wolf a gentle hug then went back to patting him, "I need you to wake me up early tomorrow Epsilon."
"Why," Epsilon asked enjoying the attention.
"Cause I need to prepare some stuff for training the Digidestined," Glenn explained with a chuckle.
"Why am I getting a bad feeling," Epsilon asked Glenn suspiciously.
"Cause I plan to use my uncle's method of training," Glenn laughed softly at all the things his uncle used to do to get him in shape. "I am going to leave after awhile remember? I may as well enjoy my time with them. Now Go get Piximon for me would you?" Glenn asked with a smile on his face. Epsilon nodded and went into the hut to fetch him, whne they came out Glenn explained his uncle's training tactics and how they'd be modified to train the Digidestined.
TO BE CONTINUED! HAHA! What's Glenn's plan you ask? You'll see. Hope you like this chapter, it looked comletely wrong till I finished and read it over.
Protectorate 8
Piedmon sat in his throne fingering the scar Glenn had given him, "I'll get that brat," he said angrily.
"No, you won't," a voice said from above Piedmon.
"Whose there," Piedmon demanded not even flinching as the dark form appeared before him.
"I'll be the one to kill Glenn, not you." The dark form moved closer to Piedmon, "though you will aid me by distracting him and the Digidestined while I regain my power." The dark figure head was only inches from Piedmon's face, "if you don't do a good job I'll do worse than kill you."
Piedmon was now literally terrified, what was he doing? He was the great Piedmon! He isn't afraid of anyone or anything! "I should be at least be allowed the privilege of knowing your name," Piedmon said trying to hold his fear in check.
"Maisoulmon," the figure said then it disappeared. Piedmon breathed a sigh of relief. He better do a good job, he didn't want him returning.
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Epsilon had been watching over Glenn all day, "I'm so sorry," he said again like he had over a dozen times before.
"Stop it Epsilon, it ain't your fault," Glenn said not opening his eyes and not showing any signs of waking.
"Glenn! You're awake Sora will be so happy! I'll go get her," Epsilon said excitedly.
"Stop," Glenn commanded, "we have to talk," Epsilon laid down on top of Glenn's chest like he was going to sleep, "is there anything I can do to help them since I'm now useless in fighting Maisoulmon," Glenn asked emphasizing the useless.
"You aren't useless Glenn," Epsilon said encouragingly, "you could be a human shield, You are stronger than him in that respect at least."
Glenn sneered in his mind, "stronger! Stronger you say, Epsilon I can't hurt him and you say I'm stronger than him! Don't patronize me," Glenn told the wolf laying on his chest.
"Glenn when will you realized that there is more to power than defeating your opponent," Epsilon then got up and began to walk towards Sora, "she's been waiting for you wake up Glenn, I'm getting her now." Epsilon walked over to where Sora laid wrapped in Tai's arms under a tree.
"Wait don't disturb them, I've done enough to them let them have these moments," Glenn pleaded. Epsilon nodded and returned to laying on Glenn's chest. Glenn opened his eyes to the world and quickly shut them against the light. He then slowly opened them, they were somewhere else now, there was a river near, Glenn could hear it, they were in a clearing cause Glenn could feel the grass under his neck. He looked to the right and saw the forest, the trees were now more closely packed together. Glenn sighed, "they must have moved after the battle," he said to himself. Glenn continued to look around and didn't notice Kari approach.
"Hi, how are you feeling," Kari asked kindly, Glenn gave a slight jump then looked at her.
"I'm fine," he lied, he wasn't fine, not after what happened, but he couldn't take it out on them. It wasn't their fault, or Epsilon's, he felt like it was all his fault but Epsilon had been right before, if he had died there was no reason why Maisoulmon wouldn't just escape then. "How's everyone else," he asked sitting up, he still felt a little winded so he did it slowly.
"We're fine," Kari told him with a smile as she sat down beside him. "It was you wasn't it?"
"What?" Glenn didn't know what she was talking about.
"The wall of light, you know the one that protected us from those bad Digimon."
"Yes that was me," Glenn said trying to rub he fatigue out of his face.
"I just wanna say thanks," Kari gave Glenn a quick hug which stunned Glenn. Why was she hugging him? He didn't do much and in the end he let out a very powerful enemy. "You saved our lives," Kari said as if reading his mind. Glenn smiled, he saved them? Wow that made him feel better.
"Wake the others Kari we need to talk," Glenn pushed back so that he rested against a tree, Kari then went to rouse the others. Glenn then saw his halibert laying on the grass, he left it there. Glenn rubbed his back, man it was sore, he then remembered his vest and the clamps on the back, "well at least I wasn't sleeping on my halibert also." He then watched in silence as one by one the others woke up and came over to sit by him, Kari let the Digimon continue to sleep though, man they looked beat up.
"What's up man," Matt said.
"Nothing good," Glenn answered downheartedly.
"What do you mean," Mimi asked.
Glenn looked around for a moment, then he took a deep breath, "Everyone I need you all to be quiet and listen," they all had that look on their faces saying that they knew this wasn't going to be good news, "first of all Tai do you remember when I first used the Silvery mist cause Epsilon told me too?"
"Yea, my head felt like it was about to explode for a moment there," Tai said bringing his hand to his temple.
"Well that was due to Maisoulmon, who I told you about before," Glenn was scared, what if Sora hated him after he told them the truth? Well then he'll just have to pay that price, "well here's the rest of the story," Glenn told them everything, the Omnicrest, about him, his past and his connection to Maisoulmon. He then reached out to his halibert and pushed himself to his feet, "now you all see what kind of failure I really am, I'm not good enough to be Sora's brother! All I've done is cause pain where ever I go! Now I've unleashed an evil powerful enough to rule both worlds and am powerless to do anything to stop it! I'm worse than a failure, I worthless. I have to leave before I get everyone killed," Glenn began to slowly limp away, he stopped and looked at Sora, "I'm sorry Sis, but if I stay Maisoulmon will kill you," Glenn then began to slowly limp away again. He didn't even hear Sora approach. Slap! She hit him! Glenn stood frozen, his head turned off to the left, his cheek burned with pain. what should he do? Should be mad? Should he be sad? He looked to where Sora still stood arm still across her chest, hand still out, fingers still spread. She looked like she was about to cry. Her cheeks were red.
"How dare you," she shouted at him, "how dare you try to leave me," She clenched her fists in front of her, "I won't let you just go off and die," she wrapped her arms around his chest and crushed herself against him. Glenn tried to pry her off but he was still to weak.
Matt got to his feet and walked over to the pair, "man what's wrong with you," Matt demanded.
Tai then joined them, he put his hand on Glenn's shoulder, "look Glenn I didn't trust you at first, but you aren't a bad guy," Tai said smiling, "if Sora trusts you then I do to," Tai gave him a pat on the back as if to seal a deal. Glenn was speechless.
"You can't leave Glenn," Mimi said from where she sat, "if you do then who will give Sora away at her wedding to Tai?" She sat smiling. Sora and Tai turned a little red. Glenn laughed out loud.
"Don't make fun of me," he told the group angrily, "I nothing but a curse," he said trying once more to pull away from Sora, "I'd end up getting everyone killed if I showed up at Sora's wedding." Glenn gave up trying to escape and began to cry. "Why, why did you have to choose me?" Glenn shouted, "why!" Glenn fell to his knees crying, Sora didn't let go, she fell with him and adjusted herself when they hit the ground.
Kari came up and took Glenn's empty hand in hers and smiled when he looked.
"Please stop, I, I'm not worth it," Glenn begged.
"Yes you are Glenn," Epsilon told him firmly, "you're uncle thought you were, your parents who you shunned thought you were and so do we." He told his friend matter-of-factly.
Glenn swallowed then lump in his throat, he tried to hold back the tears flowing from his eye but they pushed through, "Why, why did this have to happen to me?" Glenn dropped his head to Sora's shoulder and cried. He then felt angry, he roughly pushed Sora away and jumped to his feet, "don't you all get it? I'm not even human anymore!" Glenn pulled off his vest and threw it to the ground, "I'm nothing more than a monster!" Glenn then ran as fast as he could from them, from Sora. He could hear them running after him, yelling for him to stop, "stop," he thought disgustedly, "why would I want to do that? All us monsters run, always looking for our next victim to destroy," Glenn knew Epsilon would catch him soon. Epsilon had always been faster than him, Glenn closed off his mind from Epsilon's, he didn't need to hear any lies about being worth something in his mind.
"Glenn stop," Sora screamed trying to keep up with her distraught brother, "why, why is he leaving me again?" Sora begged in her mind. Tai and Matt were following close behind her, the others hadn't reacted in time to follow. Epsilon had moved fast than all of them, but he was no where in sight.
As Glenn ran through the forest he came upon a giant red beetle monster, it roared and lunged at him. Glenn leapt into the air and landed on its back laughing, "this pathetic creature wants to fight me?" Glenn thought amusingly to himself, he laughed out loud as he ripped it's pincers off it's head, they disintegrated in his hands, the creature roared and crashed into the ground. Glenn went flying off but he executed a perfect flip at the last minute and landed safely on the ground, he turned and charged at the downed bug. He went about ripping one limb off at a time as they fought, laughing the entire time and thinking, "nothing more than a monster so I must act like one!" In the end he pulled it's head from it's body and the whole disintegrated. He stood there looking at the ground then he turned to face the three people who had been following him.
"Glenn man stop running we're your friends," Matt shouted at him.
"FRIENDS," Glenn roared, "you don't get it! I can't have friends! I'm nothing but a monster who destroys what ever and who ever I meet! I can't have friends, I wasn't meant to," Glenn looked away from them.
"Then you leave me no choice Glenn," Tai said running at Glenn, "I'm going to have to beat so sense into you!" Tai threw a right hook at Glenn's head. Glenn leaned back slightly and his fist sailed by. Glenn then counter attacked by punching Tai in the stomach, he fell to the ground coughing.
Glenn saw Tai fall and left him alone, he then felt someone wrap there arms around his chest from behind trying to pin his arms against his body, "must be Matt, he's pretty strong," Glenn thought approvingly. Though Matt couldn't hope to hold Glenn, he had a good couple years of training under his belt and Matt was going on pure strength. Glenn jabbed his elbow back a few times then grabbed Matt's arm when he let go and then flipped him on to his back. Sora then walked up to Glenn, he fell back a few steps, "get back Sora," he warned, "I'm just a monster that'll kill you if you get to close." Sora continued to walk towards him, and he backed away till his back hit a tree and he could go no further, Sora moved till she resting her head against his chest.
"Kill me then Glenn," she said quietly.
"Sora please, you have so much to live for," Glenn said tears once again flowing from his eyes, "you have someone to love! Someone to love you back! You have friends, you, you have a home!" Glenn yelled at her, "I'm nothing more than.." Glenn was cut off by Sora.
"Than my brother who I lost once and will not lose again," she told him flat out.
Glenn dropped his arms to his sides, "I, I'm sorry Sora, but, what good am I?" Glenn asked in a quiet voice looking down at the ground. Sora hugged him.
"I believe the best question would be is what good aren't you," Epsilon piped in.
Glenn had known where Epsilon was the entire time, he ignored him, he wanted to know from Sora what he was good for.
Sora stood thinking but all that came to mind was he was her brother and he wasn't allowed to leave. She looked up at him and smiled, "you are good in a fight, you took on Piedmon all by yourself." She told him proudly.
"And almost lost," he countered.
"Yea but you still fought a Digimon alone without you own one to aid you," came a voice from behind Sora. Glenn looked to see Matt and Tai were on their feet and standing only about a meter away. It was Matt who had spoke.
"You forget I absorbed my Digimon remember, I have it's fighting power now," Glenn told him sarcastically.
"Glenn stop it!" Epsilon commanded, he was sick of hearing Glenn whine, "what would your uncle say if he saw you acting like this?"
That made Glenn stop and think, he refused to do so before but now it over took him. Glenn could see his uncle now.
"Glenn you say this is your fault, I'd like you to tell me how?"
"I should not have let Maisoulmon escape, he was in my care."
"You couldn't have held him forever Glenn that was an impossible task."
"I had the power though."
"You also didn't think things through, you cut yourself off from everyone thinking at first that you had to keep your guard up at all times then you met Sora, and you forgot about keeping your guard and had fun, Glenn giving such a task to anyone was stupid. Besides he's free now and blaming yourself won't do any good, what you must do now is one, start living your life finally and two, prepare, that Maisoulmon will return and you must be ready to fight with all you got and not what you gave me, that wasn't good enough!"
Glenn shook his head clearing it, Uncle Mike would be mad at him, he wouldn't be taking the crap he's been giving his friends and his sister. Glenn looked to Sora and smiled, "all right you win Sora, I'll go easily." Glenn walked over to Tai and Matt, "sorry for hitting you guys it's just, well I wasn't myself," he apologized. Matt gave him a thumbs up sign and Tai merely rubbed his stomach.
Sora was happy Glenn had stopped, she didn't want to lose him. she was hoping he'd be the one to give her away since her father died years ago. She kicked herself, that was planning a little too far ahead, she needed to keep her mind on here and now. Glenn was now apologizing to Tai and Matt. Sora took a quick look around, the grass was torn up and a large chunk of soil had been smashed through. What had Glenn been doing before they got there? She wanted to ask but didn't, she then noticed a small cut on Glenn's right arm, "where did you get that Glenn?" She asked.
"What?" Glenn looked to where Sora had been pointing, "oh that I got that from, um, I don't know," he lied. "Silvery mist," he commanded, the mist covered his cut dissipated leaving clean skin in it's wake. Glenn assured Sora he didn't remember where he got it then they walked back to camp.
"They've been go an awfully long time," Mimi whined.
"I hope they're all okay," T.K. said thinking about his brother.
"I'm sure they're fine T.K." Kari said reassuringly.
"How are the Digimon Joe," Izzy asked looking up from his laptop.
"They alright, but that last battle took a lot out of them," Joe replied scanning the forest with his eyes.
"They must be a little out of shape from not having to fight for so long," T.K. said looking at the Digimon, who had woken up recently and were now eating.
"Which is why I'm going to start training them," Glenn said walking through a pair of trees followed by Matt and Sora who was holding hands with Tai and smiling. The rest of the Digidestined gave a slight jump then surrounded him.
"Why did you leave Glenn," T.K. asked.
"I was afraid, just afraid," Glenn told the young boy.
"Of what?" Mimi pushed.
"I don't want to talk about it, besides we have to start training," Glenn said changing the subject.
"Ho, no," Joe said holding his hand up in the stop position, "these Digimon need rest." He said sternly.
"I said we Joe, not them, we," Glenn pointed out.
"Huh, us, why do we have to train?" Matt asked.
"Cause in the last battle you guys were nothing more than a liability, something your enemies can use to get the upper hand," Glenn told him.
"Well sorry, not all of us are part Digimon," Tai said sarcastically.
"And that gives you the right to be nothing more than a target?" Glenn challenged.
"Well then we better get started," Sora said a little reluctant. Glenn smiled, she would be complaining a lot more when they were done. Glenn's uncle may not have made training to feel like a chore, but when all was said and done, your muscles wouldn't think the training had been so fun.
"What are you planning Glenn," Epsilon asked from his hiding spot in the woods.
"I don't know what you are talking about," Glenn replied cooly, though inside he was now very nervous.
"Don't give me that," Epsilon spat, "I haven't known you that long but I do know that when you start beating yourself up a quick talking to won't stop your plans."
"I thought I had fooled you as well," Glenn said meekly, "I was planning on training them then leaving in the night," he admitted, "you can stay if you want, but first we have to talk."
"Glenn my loyalty lies in you, where you go I follow, if it didn't I would have carried out Gennai's orders of killing you." Epsilon said sheepishly, "what do you want to talk about?"
"Well originally I wanted to how I managed to rip apart that Kuwagamon and then had difficulty breaking Matt's grip, but now I want to know about your orders as well," Glenn wasn't surprised Gennai had ordered his destruction, he was a monster with a more dangerous monster trapped inside of him. Glenn had been standing look off into space, then he noticed Izzy was talking.
"Don't you think it'd be better if we waited till we were in a more secure place before we started training? We do have some pretty nasty Digimon after us," Izzy pointed out.
"Good point," Glenn though for a moment, then he looked at Tai, "you're the leader Tai you should be the one making the plans, not me I'd just mess it up." Glenn then walked over to his vest and pulled it on. Then he retrieved his halibert from the grassy floor and put it in its rightful spot.
Sora looked at Glenn sympathetically, she then turned to Tai who was just standing looking off into space, "well Tai?"
Tai shook himself awake at the sound of Sora's voice, "well what," he asked.
"Well what's the plan," she asked a touch of amusement in her voice at Tai's total cluelessness.
"Well we better find Gennai like we originally planed," Tai said trying to recover what was left of his dignity.
"I wouldn't bother," came a squeaky voice from the trees.
"Piximon," Mimi exclaimed when the little pink warrior came into view. Though he wasn't the same little guy they remembered, he now wore a mean looking scar over his face, and he had a look of lost hope in his eyes.
"What do you mean," Matt asked seriously.
"Gennai died many years ago," he told them balancing his staff on his back. He then looked the children over, they all looked much the same. Then his eyes fell on Glenn, "who are you," he asked politely.
"It's Glenn," Glenn replied in the same polite tone.
"Are you a Digidestined?" He asked hopefully, he already knew of Kari, he had heard a long time ago of her, cause of Gatomon's betrayal it became hot news that had some how got out of the real world by a Darktyranomon.
"No, I'm nothing but the pathetic alpha model," Glenn replied displaying his crest for Piximon to see. Glenn noticed the pain in Sora's eyes when he called himself pathetic, but he wasn't about to start lying to anyone about what he really was. Piximon backed away in fear, there wasn't a Digimon alive who didn't know of the three Omnicrests, and what was held in the Protectorate, evil. Glenn saw the little Digimon's reaction, "finally someone who can see me for what I am," Glenn thought both happily and sadly. "Look we have a bunch of guys after us called the Dark masters and we need a place to hide, can you help us or not?"
"Yea I got a place," Piximon replied reluctantly.
"Don't worry he's one of us," Tai assured Piximon.
Glenn was a little taken back at Tai's assistance, then he realized why he did it, he didn't want Sora to be sad. Not like he actually meant it, Tai was the leader, he of all people must be able to see Glenn as a danger and not to be trusted, didn't he? Each one of the Digidestined gathered up their Digimon into their arms, Glenn carried the bags of supplies. Epsilon followed the group at Glenn's side. Piximon then wearyingly lead them to the side of a mountain, then after pulling a few rocks here and there it opened and he lead them in. They marched through a maze of dark tunnels till they waked out into a brightly lit cavern.
"Wow," All the Digidestined and Digimon exclaimed at once. Piximon then showed the Digidestined and Glenn around. The place was a training area. It had about twenty small huts, and three lagre ones. It turned out that many Digimon were setting up a resistance, Leomon and Ogremon were there, they had put off their rivalry till after the Dark masters were gone. Andromon, Elecmon, Meramon, Frigimon, Unimon and Centaurmon were there too, all of them had a look of lost hope in them, then they saw the Digidestined. They went nuts! For the rest of the day they had a big party, the Digidestined's Digimon rested and in the end Leomon and Piximon told them all that's happened over the years. The Dark masters had kidnaped Gennai and made him send that message, then they publicly executed him. Ever since then Piximon and the rest have been trying to raise an army to fight the Dark masters, but everyone was just too scared. They talked late into the night, after while Glenn left the hut in which they had speaking in, this had nothing to him.
"Epsilon I want to know," Glenn asked through his mind.
"Know what," Epsilon replied sounding a little asleep.
"About what we talked about earlier," Glenn told him.
"Okay," Epsilon then left where he'd been resting in the hut and went out to sit by his friend, "first of all the thing with Kuwagamon, after you merged with your Digimon you acquired certain attributes." He explained, "Gennai didn't know of them at first but after he learned about them he told me."
"And they are what?" Glenn asked sounding a little impatient.
"First of all your learning curve with certain weapons was increased so that where it'd take a normal person ten years to learn something it's take you only one or two. Second your strength, this attribute only comes into play against other Digimon raising you to the level of champion Digimon. Other than that you're a normal teenager." Epsilon looked at his friend for a reaction, there wasn't any. Glenn just sat there staring off into space.
"Normal? Could I have ever been normal? Did I ever have a chance to be a normal guy?" Glenn looked back into the hut at the others, he envied them all, they had all had normal lives growing up and some had found love. "Wonder what it feels like?" Glenn mumbled to himself, then he turned his attention back to Epsilon, "and your orders?"
"If you ever lost control of Maisoulmon I was to kill you both in your weakened states after you tried to recapture him and he tried to kill you, Gennai knew neither of you had the power to kill the other, but if you were both weakened enough I could." Epsilon told him sound very ashamed.
"So what happened?" Glenn pushed.
"I began to like traveling with you Glenn, you're not as bad a guy as you make yourself out to be," Epsilon rested his head on Glenn's lap, Glenn gently began to pat him.
"A friend," Glenn gave the wolf a gentle hug then went back to patting him, "I need you to wake me up early tomorrow Epsilon."
"Why," Epsilon asked enjoying the attention.
"Cause I need to prepare some stuff for training the Digidestined," Glenn explained with a chuckle.
"Why am I getting a bad feeling," Epsilon asked Glenn suspiciously.
"Cause I plan to use my uncle's method of training," Glenn laughed softly at all the things his uncle used to do to get him in shape. "I am going to leave after awhile remember? I may as well enjoy my time with them. Now Go get Piximon for me would you?" Glenn asked with a smile on his face. Epsilon nodded and went into the hut to fetch him, whne they came out Glenn explained his uncle's training tactics and how they'd be modified to train the Digidestined.
TO BE CONTINUED! HAHA! What's Glenn's plan you ask? You'll see. Hope you like this chapter, it looked comletely wrong till I finished and read it over.