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Protectorate 22
Glenn stared back at Lycathmon who was remaining still, "what do you mean?"
"Haven't you all been wondering why you didn't beat Maisoulmon? or all the dark masters for that matter?" Lycanthmon looked around at all of the children, "haven't you wondered why Glenn couldn't beat Maisoulmon, and why Kari didn't after him? Didn't destiny state that the Protectorate was to beat Maisoulmon and if it failed light then would beat him? No none of you have thought of that," Lycanthmon gave a throaty laugh, "I guess the fog attacks others tthen just us Glenn."
Glenn stood proned, it took a few seconds but he found his voice, "then I must destroy Maisoulmon Lycanthmon! Give me back my crest so I may do so! I know I can beat him!
Lycanthmon threw his head back and let out a throaty laugh at Glenn's expense, "beat him! do you really think with how you lived your life you'll be able to release it's full power? you don't get it do you! You have the crest Protectorate! You can't release it's power casue you've never protected anyone your intire life except yourself!"
Glenn froze, that couldn't be true could it? no he was keeping every else safe by not letting them get close! He had to they'd be hurt if he.....
"Don't try convincing yourself you were protecting people by holding htem away Glenn that isn't protecting anyone that's keeping them away and in mroe danger because they won't know what is coming." Lycathmon said pulling Glenn from his train of thought.
"But, how."
"I was a part of you for most of your life Glenn I know how you think, you weren't protecting everyone you just held them away making them hate you casue it was easyest."
"I held them away casue I didn't want any friends till I got my sister back!" Glenn countered.
Lycathmon shook his head, "that was partly the reason but you were scared of Maisoulmon, you didn't want ot be hurt by him again and have him take away your friends so you made sure you had none for him to take and in doing os you made your crest weaker."
"What? How?"
"You know how your crest became unstable? Well the instability was that it tied itself to your life in essence it became one with you,"
Glenn starred in disbelief but inside he knew it was right.
"The more you simply protected yourself the more you hurt yourself and the crest making it mroe and more unstable, it's gottent o the point where if you had used the crest liek you planned the power would have simply exploded destroying everything with a good distance," Lycanthmon walked up to Glenn placing one of his massive hands on Glenn's shoulders, "Glenn it's time to take back you life stop letting him scare you he can't take anymore friends away from you if you fight hard enough to protect them and sending them away won't protect them.," by this time Glenn was close to tears.
"But destiny is gone now I can't beat him he'll just keep coming and coming and he'll get Sora then I"ll have noone! I got to destroy him Lycathmon I got to but I cannot I am not strong enough, CRACK!" Lycanthmon slapped Glenn.
"Get ahold of yourself Glenn you can't beat him but you forget one little thing," Lycathmon said holding up one finger infront of his face. Glenn looked at Lycathmon patiently, "you aren't alone anymore" Lycathmon said quietly, "you have friends now and Maisoulmon may have destroyed destiny but that leaves us with the fact that now whoever is stronger will win, and I've seen the power of the Digidestined through your eyes I know if you all work together you will win, are you willing to let your crest finally do what it was entended to do and protect others?" Glenn looked up at Lycathmon and nodded.
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Glenn paced furiously, Lycathmon had been gone days! Glenn had returned every single day hoping his digimon would be back but each day he wasn't and Glenn was getting very worried. The beautiful forest was no comfort at all. Glenn waited till the new digidestined return and they returned to the normal world, again no sign of that big fur ball! Glenn walked home and flopped down on the couch int eh living room where Nathen was watching cartoons silently.
"Still no sign of Lycanthmon?" Nathen asked moving clsoe to his friend.
"No," Glenn replied half heartedly covering his face with his arm, "I can't figure out where he is either," Glenn said sounding more thena little angery at himself.
"He'll be back don't worry Glenn," Nathen said trying to cheer Glenn up.
"I know Nathen," Glenn said uncovering his face and looking at the small boy, "I am just worried that is all," Glenn then sat up and ruffled Nathen's hair, "I'm going to go help Sora in the kitchen you continune watching cartoons," Glenn the did as he said he would and walked to the kitchen. "Hey sis," he greeted Sora.
"Hi Glenn," Sora replied, "if you are going to be here you're going to help me," she said and she got Glenn to start making some rice, supper was ready soon eaten and they went off to bed.
Matt walked down off the stage, man that women was int he audience again! That thirty year old women was following him he was sure. Matt walked outt he back exit after everything was cleaned up and was immediatly attacked by a ton of screaming girls. Matt smiled and signed all their autographs till teh thirty year old women tried to get him to sign her hip then he ran, he'd never seen so many wrinkles in his life! His dad picked hi up along the way and drove him home.
T.K. and Kari were cuddling in his room, Kari having fallen asleep while they watched a movie togehter and T,K. being the nice guy had wrapped her up in hsi blanket and held her as she slept, he soon fell asleep himself, Mat and Tai were gonna kill him again.
Izzy finished taking apart the virus that he found on the net, then he made a newer stronger version of it and sent it back to who created it.
Joe closed the book he'd been studying in order to pass his test tomorrow and her pulled himself from the desk into bed falling asleep immediatly.
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Glenn stared into the empty woods like usual waiting for Lycathmon, and for once he appeared! Glenn rushed to meet his digimon but stopped short as many other digimon came into view, in fact a whole army appeared! "Lycanthmon what are all these digimon doing here?" Glenn asked stopping a few feet away from Lycanthmon.
"They are here to help us," Lycanthmon replied expecting that to explain everything.
"help us?" Glenn looked at all the digimon, "you can't be serious Lycanthmon," Glenn said clueing into Lycanthmon's plan, "Maisoulmon is to powerful! They'll be slaughtered!" Glenn pleaded.
"We are sick of his evil in the digiworld Glenn we will attack with or without the digidestined's help.
"Lycanthmon they will eb slaughtered!" Glenn shouted again, but already Lycanthmon and the otehr digimon were walking away, Glenn fell to his knees, he almost wished Lycanthmon hadn't returned. There was no choice they had to attack, Glenn got to his feet and waited for the new digidestined to return and Glenn approached Tai and the other in the real world and explained everything, the attack would take place once the base was found and after they had a plan.
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Ken paces angerly back and forth it had been days and still no sign of those blasted digidestined!
"You fool! how could you let them hide from you!" Maisoulmon shouted in Ken's head.
"Shut up! I will find them! They can't escape me!" Ken shouted outloud. Ken matched over and started typing on keys floating in the air, his mind so focused he didn't realize that he had fallen to the floor till the boom reached his ears. Ken pushed himself angerly to his feet, "what was that," he demanded loudly. Many small screens appeared showing hundreds of digimon attacking his floating base, how had they found him? This is impossibel there is no way they could have reached him without his seeing. An explosion the rang through the base and it fell to the earth, Ken got to his feet again after it stopped and headed for the surface, he sould feel Maisoulmon's power raging through him, calling to him, calling for blood!
Glenn looked across the desert as the digimon army that Lycathmon had called together cheered att he fallen base, though Glenn knew it wasn't over, "is everyone ready?" he called to the other digidestined around him. Glenn looked back at his freinds, Tai and Matt stood side by side with Omnimon behind them ready to fight, Magnaangemon stood near T.K. with Angewomon at his side like Kari was at T.K.'s side. Sora stood at Glenn's right with Garudamon, Mimi was at his left with Lillymon. Joe and Izzy were a little ways infront of Glenn off to the left, their digimon digivolved as far as they could and ready to fight. then Glenn's gaze shifted to his digimon partener who up until recently had been a part of him, and now was his best friend who showed him how to live his own life. Glenn had tried patching up his mistakes but many of his new friends wouldn't forgive him for a little while. Glenn had his life and now he was going to do what he hadn't been able to do most of his life and be who he was, the Protectorate digidestined.
"We're ready Glenn-chan," Kat called back making Glenn blush and the others snicker. Kat had been his biggest surprise, she was digidestined too, been to the digworld and everything! She too had skills in this strange world(see Izzy's First Crush), it was her singing that helped these digimon fight by calling down lightening against the enemy digimon that had attacked as their army laid seige to the fortress. She and Izzy had once dated also! No wonder he had been so protective, Glenn smiled remembering how embarassed Izzy was when they had explained their relationship, and the sister thing. Glenn smiled even more remembering his first date which he had shared with Kat, he touched his lips where she had given him his first kiss. Glenn had taken back his life and was living it for real this time and he wouldn't let anything take it from him! Maisoulmon had no power over him!
Glenn narrowed his eyes, he could feel Maisoulomn get closer, "Kat get all the digimon out of here," he called to his new found love, she nooded back to him and she and the new digidestined started having the rather large army of digimon retreat, if it could be called anyhting that retreat would have to be called diorganized and slow, Ken and Maisoulmon appeared on top of the fortress befroe all the digimon were gone, many digimon attacked Ken but all were destroyed., they had to get the Digimon out of there faster, Kat needed mroe help.
"Sora, Mimi, Kari," Tai called out seeing Glenn's hesitation, "help get teh digimon out of here!" Tai ordered.
"Omnimon!" Matt called over his shoulder as Tai ran off to command the retreat, "get him!" The powerful digimon ran forward at full speed.
"Transendent sword!"Omnimon cried as the huge blade came out of the head of Wargreymon. Omnimon brought the blade up clashing with the dark sword Ken made appear from thin air. The powerful digimon pushed the blade up and slashed at Ken but was blocked but a dark force, he then jumped back as Ken brought his own sword down in an atempt to cleave Omnimon in half. The attack missed and was followed by and explosion of sand that blocked the view of the digidestined. Every watched and listened as the sound of battle between Omnimon and Ken raged, then to everyones horror two flashes of light shot out of the sand cloud and made two small digimon appear on the ground infront of Matt, Omnimon was beaten. Ken hovered out of the cloud laughing evilly, Magnaangemon and Angewomon attacked next, Ken sent them back to their rookie forms with a few quick slashes that destroyed Magnaangemon's sword as he dedigivolved back to Patamon.
Matt looked back at Glenn expecting himt o follow the plan that everyone had agreed on, but Glenn was only standing there, Matt oculd tell why too, Glenn was trembling in fear, perhaps Maisoulmon still had some power over him, "Glenn pull yoursrelf together!" Matt shouted at him, "the Lycanthmon needs to fight but he cannot unless you have him digivolve!" Matt continued, then he sent the rest of the digimon in to attack, he couldn't wait for Glenn to pull himsefl together.
"Sora turned back to see Glenn standing and trembling in fear, and she knew why, she knew Glenn was seeing everything that had happneed all those years ago to the original team happen again, Sora ran towards Glenn with Kari and Katina in tow leaving Tai to co-ordinate the retreat. When Sora reached Glenn she looked him int he eyes to make sure he was listening, "Glenn you can do it, he can't hurt you anymore," Sora told him reassuringly seing him cry and mumble the names of the original tema that had fallen at the hands of Maisoulmon, 'we are together now and together we can do it Glenn," she continued, but it wasn't working. Sora didn't know what to do, Katina looked at Glenn with worry, her life had been hard too but she didn't know how to help him either, then Ken's voice boomed over the battle field as he toyed with the other Digimon. "Do you remember how I killed your friends Glenn?" The voice taunted, "remember how powerless you were? It's the same thign this time you are powerless without your destiny to guide you! Yuo aren't strong enough to beat me! You are strong enough to kill me!" It taunted again. Glenn stood frozen with fear as the evil digimon apporached him.
"We have to stop Maisoulmon," Kari said to Sora facing away from the terror stricken boy, "other wise we're all dead," Kari looked up at her digimon in the sky and shouted to her, "Angewomon attack Ken!" Sora shouted to Garudamon to do the same, but they were smashed down quickly and reduced to rookies, then stuck Kari and Sora to the ground casue they rushed at him trying to protect Glenn who was still shivering in fear. Katina stood between Glenn and Ken and put her arms out.
"Don't you touch him," Katina ordered trying to sound menacing, Ken simply backhanded her to her knees then punched her across her jaw knocking her unconcious like the others. Matt and the others saw what were happening and came to try and fight off Maisoulmon and Ken, they all failed. One by one Glenn watched as his friends hit the ground, more the one's face was either bruised or bleeding. Glenn just couldn't move, Ken looked at Glenn in the face and gave him a crooked smile.
"Now you can watch as this batch of friends die, Protectorate," Ken said empasizing the last word. Ken started to stick radom digimon and their parteners, soon everyone was red in mroe places then one. Feralmon, Katina, Sora, he cared for them more then any of the others, no matter how close of friends they had become, their blood hurt him the most. Glenn fell to his knees crying.
"Please I beg you stop," Glenn fell onto his hands and cried into the sand, "please stop hurting them," he begged again.
Ken laughed at his defeated foe, "you are NOTHING! Without your destiny only the strong can win!" Ken turned away from Glenn giving him a sneer he couldn't see, "Just give up, destiny won't save you this time."
Glenn stared at the ground remembering a time he asked his uncle about destiny, "Destiny?!" Uncle Mike roared with laughter, "Glenn destiny is what it is, it wil always be, destiny is made by every person and thing alive, we make destiny not some higher power, remember Glenn we make things happen," Glenn looked up at Ken, then loked around at his friends. Glenn then remembered something else someone had told him, "there are more to defeating an enemy then destroying them," Glenn forced himself to his feet trembling. He moved his hand to his crest as Ken laughed at him.
"You think you're pathetic powers will save them!" Ken laughed evilly.
"No but they are enough to beat you," Glenn squeezed his crest hard, "SILVERY LIGHTENING!" A blast of pure silver struck Ken lifting him intot eh air and throwing him clear leaving onyl the dark form of Maisoulmon hovering in the air.
"Hahaha we both know you don't have enough power to strike me down you fool!" Maisoulmon taunted.
Glenn ignored him and stared to quote, "Protectorate will defeat the darkness," the dark digimon seemed almost pale at the boys words.
"You fool I destroy destiny!" Maisoulmon roared in fury.
Glenn looked up at the evil digimon, "destiny is life Maisoulmon, it's impossible to destroy casue you cannot destroy everything in the world," Glenn looked over at Kari and used his crest to heal her, "Kari look at T.K." Glenn comanded the small girl who did as she was told and gasped in horror. "hope will bleed and light will shine and destroy the darkness," Kari screamed loudly and her crest flared to life.
"No! This is impossible! I Destroyed destiny! This cannot be happening! Stop it! I will destory all you hold dear! RRRAAGGHHHHHHHHH," Maisoulmon roared in agony as the light peirced through him and the whole world tingled and became tiny dots of light.
Glenn walked over to the digiegg that had been Maisoulmon, he scooped it up in his left hand and lifted his arm to smash it, but Sora's hand stoped him and she leaned against him as she spoke, "don't the digimon inside is not the digimon you hated, let this one live to become a good digimon and let the pain end Glenn," Sora closed her eyes against him, "you don't ahe to be afraid anymore." Glenn held the egg in his arms. Inside this egg was a digimon of complete darkness, Glenn knew of only one person who could save this digimon from becoming evil once more. no more fear or pain, it sounded so nice. Glenn turned to his friends and used his crest and healed them all, then he turned to his sister, "I wanna go home now."
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Ken laid dazed in his bed with Wormon cuddling beside him trying to wake him up, he'd been like this for days now. after being sperated from Maisoulmon Wormon dragged him back to his home through the nearest digiport. Ken now just laid in hsi bed looking awake but wasn't, the only movement he would make was to blink every so often or eat when his mom fed him otherwise he just laid still. Wormon refused to leave his side and after teh initial shock his mom had come to trust Wormon greatly and rely on his help with Ken. Wormon was sure Ken would wake soon he just knew it.
Everyone sat down around the table, it was big banquet in honor of their victory over Maisoulmon. Glenn had given Nathen Maisoulmon's egg and explained that if Nathen just be the great little guy he used to be this Maisoulmon would be okay. Also after he gave the egg to Nathen his crest materialized around his neck like new, but Nathen knew it did and he didn't feel the need to tell anyone so he just took care of the egg.
"Let's eat!" Tai declared at the head of the large table everyone sat around. Sora was to his right then Nathen who held the digiegg Maisoulmon had become, Kari said the evil in it was gone and needed a good person to show the new digimon the way to happyness. Glenn sat next tot he small boy beside Katina then Izzy, Joe, Mimi and the rest of the team right up to Matt who was left of Tai. Everyone's digimon was besides them eating along with their human partener, save for Feralmon who took great delight from dive bombing food off the forks of unsuspecing prey. Tai stood up raising his mug off root bear," a toast," he offered, everyone lifted their cups in suit and waited fort he toast, but Tai just stood there, "I fogot what the toast was," he said blushing making everyone face fault.
"Family," Kari said.
"Good food," Mimi said cheerfully.
Glenn blushed and offered his own, "recovered lives!"
"New found love," Katina said making Glenn blush more and every laugh.
"What about good friends," Nathen offered timidly. Nathen had started talking since he got the digiegg and Glenn was happy to see him and Cody becoming good frineds fast.
"To friends," Tai agreed lifting his glass higher, then he chuged it down and let out a loud belch, which got him a smack form Sora fro being gross.
Glenn sat back against his chair after drinking his drink, and fingered his crest, "what's wrong?" Katina asked him.
Glenn looked at Katina and smiled, "nothing just thinking how great it was to have a life for once."
"Katina took his hand in hers,"well get used to it mister you're one of us now," she said sternly.
Gklenn chuckled, "yes ma'am," he replied knowing she didn't like being called ma'am, aquiring him a smack of his own. Then he sat foward and joined the festivities, and losing more then half his meal to Feralmon and his patrols of the table.
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Protectorate 22
Glenn stared back at Lycathmon who was remaining still, "what do you mean?"
"Haven't you all been wondering why you didn't beat Maisoulmon? or all the dark masters for that matter?" Lycanthmon looked around at all of the children, "haven't you wondered why Glenn couldn't beat Maisoulmon, and why Kari didn't after him? Didn't destiny state that the Protectorate was to beat Maisoulmon and if it failed light then would beat him? No none of you have thought of that," Lycanthmon gave a throaty laugh, "I guess the fog attacks others tthen just us Glenn."
Glenn stood proned, it took a few seconds but he found his voice, "then I must destroy Maisoulmon Lycanthmon! Give me back my crest so I may do so! I know I can beat him!
Lycanthmon threw his head back and let out a throaty laugh at Glenn's expense, "beat him! do you really think with how you lived your life you'll be able to release it's full power? you don't get it do you! You have the crest Protectorate! You can't release it's power casue you've never protected anyone your intire life except yourself!"
Glenn froze, that couldn't be true could it? no he was keeping every else safe by not letting them get close! He had to they'd be hurt if he.....
"Don't try convincing yourself you were protecting people by holding htem away Glenn that isn't protecting anyone that's keeping them away and in mroe danger because they won't know what is coming." Lycathmon said pulling Glenn from his train of thought.
"But, how."
"I was a part of you for most of your life Glenn I know how you think, you weren't protecting everyone you just held them away making them hate you casue it was easyest."
"I held them away casue I didn't want any friends till I got my sister back!" Glenn countered.
Lycathmon shook his head, "that was partly the reason but you were scared of Maisoulmon, you didn't want ot be hurt by him again and have him take away your friends so you made sure you had none for him to take and in doing os you made your crest weaker."
"What? How?"
"You know how your crest became unstable? Well the instability was that it tied itself to your life in essence it became one with you,"
Glenn starred in disbelief but inside he knew it was right.
"The more you simply protected yourself the more you hurt yourself and the crest making it mroe and more unstable, it's gottent o the point where if you had used the crest liek you planned the power would have simply exploded destroying everything with a good distance," Lycanthmon walked up to Glenn placing one of his massive hands on Glenn's shoulders, "Glenn it's time to take back you life stop letting him scare you he can't take anymore friends away from you if you fight hard enough to protect them and sending them away won't protect them.," by this time Glenn was close to tears.
"But destiny is gone now I can't beat him he'll just keep coming and coming and he'll get Sora then I"ll have noone! I got to destroy him Lycathmon I got to but I cannot I am not strong enough, CRACK!" Lycanthmon slapped Glenn.
"Get ahold of yourself Glenn you can't beat him but you forget one little thing," Lycathmon said holding up one finger infront of his face. Glenn looked at Lycathmon patiently, "you aren't alone anymore" Lycathmon said quietly, "you have friends now and Maisoulmon may have destroyed destiny but that leaves us with the fact that now whoever is stronger will win, and I've seen the power of the Digidestined through your eyes I know if you all work together you will win, are you willing to let your crest finally do what it was entended to do and protect others?" Glenn looked up at Lycathmon and nodded.
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Glenn paced furiously, Lycathmon had been gone days! Glenn had returned every single day hoping his digimon would be back but each day he wasn't and Glenn was getting very worried. The beautiful forest was no comfort at all. Glenn waited till the new digidestined return and they returned to the normal world, again no sign of that big fur ball! Glenn walked home and flopped down on the couch int eh living room where Nathen was watching cartoons silently.
"Still no sign of Lycanthmon?" Nathen asked moving clsoe to his friend.
"No," Glenn replied half heartedly covering his face with his arm, "I can't figure out where he is either," Glenn said sounding more thena little angery at himself.
"He'll be back don't worry Glenn," Nathen said trying to cheer Glenn up.
"I know Nathen," Glenn said uncovering his face and looking at the small boy, "I am just worried that is all," Glenn then sat up and ruffled Nathen's hair, "I'm going to go help Sora in the kitchen you continune watching cartoons," Glenn the did as he said he would and walked to the kitchen. "Hey sis," he greeted Sora.
"Hi Glenn," Sora replied, "if you are going to be here you're going to help me," she said and she got Glenn to start making some rice, supper was ready soon eaten and they went off to bed.
Matt walked down off the stage, man that women was int he audience again! That thirty year old women was following him he was sure. Matt walked outt he back exit after everything was cleaned up and was immediatly attacked by a ton of screaming girls. Matt smiled and signed all their autographs till teh thirty year old women tried to get him to sign her hip then he ran, he'd never seen so many wrinkles in his life! His dad picked hi up along the way and drove him home.
T.K. and Kari were cuddling in his room, Kari having fallen asleep while they watched a movie togehter and T,K. being the nice guy had wrapped her up in hsi blanket and held her as she slept, he soon fell asleep himself, Mat and Tai were gonna kill him again.
Izzy finished taking apart the virus that he found on the net, then he made a newer stronger version of it and sent it back to who created it.
Joe closed the book he'd been studying in order to pass his test tomorrow and her pulled himself from the desk into bed falling asleep immediatly.
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Glenn stared into the empty woods like usual waiting for Lycathmon, and for once he appeared! Glenn rushed to meet his digimon but stopped short as many other digimon came into view, in fact a whole army appeared! "Lycanthmon what are all these digimon doing here?" Glenn asked stopping a few feet away from Lycanthmon.
"They are here to help us," Lycanthmon replied expecting that to explain everything.
"help us?" Glenn looked at all the digimon, "you can't be serious Lycanthmon," Glenn said clueing into Lycanthmon's plan, "Maisoulmon is to powerful! They'll be slaughtered!" Glenn pleaded.
"We are sick of his evil in the digiworld Glenn we will attack with or without the digidestined's help.
"Lycanthmon they will eb slaughtered!" Glenn shouted again, but already Lycanthmon and the otehr digimon were walking away, Glenn fell to his knees, he almost wished Lycanthmon hadn't returned. There was no choice they had to attack, Glenn got to his feet and waited for the new digidestined to return and Glenn approached Tai and the other in the real world and explained everything, the attack would take place once the base was found and after they had a plan.
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Ken paces angerly back and forth it had been days and still no sign of those blasted digidestined!
"You fool! how could you let them hide from you!" Maisoulmon shouted in Ken's head.
"Shut up! I will find them! They can't escape me!" Ken shouted outloud. Ken matched over and started typing on keys floating in the air, his mind so focused he didn't realize that he had fallen to the floor till the boom reached his ears. Ken pushed himself angerly to his feet, "what was that," he demanded loudly. Many small screens appeared showing hundreds of digimon attacking his floating base, how had they found him? This is impossibel there is no way they could have reached him without his seeing. An explosion the rang through the base and it fell to the earth, Ken got to his feet again after it stopped and headed for the surface, he sould feel Maisoulmon's power raging through him, calling to him, calling for blood!
Glenn looked across the desert as the digimon army that Lycathmon had called together cheered att he fallen base, though Glenn knew it wasn't over, "is everyone ready?" he called to the other digidestined around him. Glenn looked back at his freinds, Tai and Matt stood side by side with Omnimon behind them ready to fight, Magnaangemon stood near T.K. with Angewomon at his side like Kari was at T.K.'s side. Sora stood at Glenn's right with Garudamon, Mimi was at his left with Lillymon. Joe and Izzy were a little ways infront of Glenn off to the left, their digimon digivolved as far as they could and ready to fight. then Glenn's gaze shifted to his digimon partener who up until recently had been a part of him, and now was his best friend who showed him how to live his own life. Glenn had tried patching up his mistakes but many of his new friends wouldn't forgive him for a little while. Glenn had his life and now he was going to do what he hadn't been able to do most of his life and be who he was, the Protectorate digidestined.
"We're ready Glenn-chan," Kat called back making Glenn blush and the others snicker. Kat had been his biggest surprise, she was digidestined too, been to the digworld and everything! She too had skills in this strange world(see Izzy's First Crush), it was her singing that helped these digimon fight by calling down lightening against the enemy digimon that had attacked as their army laid seige to the fortress. She and Izzy had once dated also! No wonder he had been so protective, Glenn smiled remembering how embarassed Izzy was when they had explained their relationship, and the sister thing. Glenn smiled even more remembering his first date which he had shared with Kat, he touched his lips where she had given him his first kiss. Glenn had taken back his life and was living it for real this time and he wouldn't let anything take it from him! Maisoulmon had no power over him!
Glenn narrowed his eyes, he could feel Maisoulomn get closer, "Kat get all the digimon out of here," he called to his new found love, she nooded back to him and she and the new digidestined started having the rather large army of digimon retreat, if it could be called anyhting that retreat would have to be called diorganized and slow, Ken and Maisoulmon appeared on top of the fortress befroe all the digimon were gone, many digimon attacked Ken but all were destroyed., they had to get the Digimon out of there faster, Kat needed mroe help.
"Sora, Mimi, Kari," Tai called out seeing Glenn's hesitation, "help get teh digimon out of here!" Tai ordered.
"Omnimon!" Matt called over his shoulder as Tai ran off to command the retreat, "get him!" The powerful digimon ran forward at full speed.
"Transendent sword!"Omnimon cried as the huge blade came out of the head of Wargreymon. Omnimon brought the blade up clashing with the dark sword Ken made appear from thin air. The powerful digimon pushed the blade up and slashed at Ken but was blocked but a dark force, he then jumped back as Ken brought his own sword down in an atempt to cleave Omnimon in half. The attack missed and was followed by and explosion of sand that blocked the view of the digidestined. Every watched and listened as the sound of battle between Omnimon and Ken raged, then to everyones horror two flashes of light shot out of the sand cloud and made two small digimon appear on the ground infront of Matt, Omnimon was beaten. Ken hovered out of the cloud laughing evilly, Magnaangemon and Angewomon attacked next, Ken sent them back to their rookie forms with a few quick slashes that destroyed Magnaangemon's sword as he dedigivolved back to Patamon.
Matt looked back at Glenn expecting himt o follow the plan that everyone had agreed on, but Glenn was only standing there, Matt oculd tell why too, Glenn was trembling in fear, perhaps Maisoulmon still had some power over him, "Glenn pull yoursrelf together!" Matt shouted at him, "the Lycanthmon needs to fight but he cannot unless you have him digivolve!" Matt continued, then he sent the rest of the digimon in to attack, he couldn't wait for Glenn to pull himsefl together.
"Sora turned back to see Glenn standing and trembling in fear, and she knew why, she knew Glenn was seeing everything that had happneed all those years ago to the original team happen again, Sora ran towards Glenn with Kari and Katina in tow leaving Tai to co-ordinate the retreat. When Sora reached Glenn she looked him int he eyes to make sure he was listening, "Glenn you can do it, he can't hurt you anymore," Sora told him reassuringly seing him cry and mumble the names of the original tema that had fallen at the hands of Maisoulmon, 'we are together now and together we can do it Glenn," she continued, but it wasn't working. Sora didn't know what to do, Katina looked at Glenn with worry, her life had been hard too but she didn't know how to help him either, then Ken's voice boomed over the battle field as he toyed with the other Digimon. "Do you remember how I killed your friends Glenn?" The voice taunted, "remember how powerless you were? It's the same thign this time you are powerless without your destiny to guide you! Yuo aren't strong enough to beat me! You are strong enough to kill me!" It taunted again. Glenn stood frozen with fear as the evil digimon apporached him.
"We have to stop Maisoulmon," Kari said to Sora facing away from the terror stricken boy, "other wise we're all dead," Kari looked up at her digimon in the sky and shouted to her, "Angewomon attack Ken!" Sora shouted to Garudamon to do the same, but they were smashed down quickly and reduced to rookies, then stuck Kari and Sora to the ground casue they rushed at him trying to protect Glenn who was still shivering in fear. Katina stood between Glenn and Ken and put her arms out.
"Don't you touch him," Katina ordered trying to sound menacing, Ken simply backhanded her to her knees then punched her across her jaw knocking her unconcious like the others. Matt and the others saw what were happening and came to try and fight off Maisoulmon and Ken, they all failed. One by one Glenn watched as his friends hit the ground, more the one's face was either bruised or bleeding. Glenn just couldn't move, Ken looked at Glenn in the face and gave him a crooked smile.
"Now you can watch as this batch of friends die, Protectorate," Ken said empasizing the last word. Ken started to stick radom digimon and their parteners, soon everyone was red in mroe places then one. Feralmon, Katina, Sora, he cared for them more then any of the others, no matter how close of friends they had become, their blood hurt him the most. Glenn fell to his knees crying.
"Please I beg you stop," Glenn fell onto his hands and cried into the sand, "please stop hurting them," he begged again.
Ken laughed at his defeated foe, "you are NOTHING! Without your destiny only the strong can win!" Ken turned away from Glenn giving him a sneer he couldn't see, "Just give up, destiny won't save you this time."
Glenn stared at the ground remembering a time he asked his uncle about destiny, "Destiny?!" Uncle Mike roared with laughter, "Glenn destiny is what it is, it wil always be, destiny is made by every person and thing alive, we make destiny not some higher power, remember Glenn we make things happen," Glenn looked up at Ken, then loked around at his friends. Glenn then remembered something else someone had told him, "there are more to defeating an enemy then destroying them," Glenn forced himself to his feet trembling. He moved his hand to his crest as Ken laughed at him.
"You think you're pathetic powers will save them!" Ken laughed evilly.
"No but they are enough to beat you," Glenn squeezed his crest hard, "SILVERY LIGHTENING!" A blast of pure silver struck Ken lifting him intot eh air and throwing him clear leaving onyl the dark form of Maisoulmon hovering in the air.
"Hahaha we both know you don't have enough power to strike me down you fool!" Maisoulmon taunted.
Glenn ignored him and stared to quote, "Protectorate will defeat the darkness," the dark digimon seemed almost pale at the boys words.
"You fool I destroy destiny!" Maisoulmon roared in fury.
Glenn looked up at the evil digimon, "destiny is life Maisoulmon, it's impossible to destroy casue you cannot destroy everything in the world," Glenn looked over at Kari and used his crest to heal her, "Kari look at T.K." Glenn comanded the small girl who did as she was told and gasped in horror. "hope will bleed and light will shine and destroy the darkness," Kari screamed loudly and her crest flared to life.
"No! This is impossible! I Destroyed destiny! This cannot be happening! Stop it! I will destory all you hold dear! RRRAAGGHHHHHHHHH," Maisoulmon roared in agony as the light peirced through him and the whole world tingled and became tiny dots of light.
Glenn walked over to the digiegg that had been Maisoulmon, he scooped it up in his left hand and lifted his arm to smash it, but Sora's hand stoped him and she leaned against him as she spoke, "don't the digimon inside is not the digimon you hated, let this one live to become a good digimon and let the pain end Glenn," Sora closed her eyes against him, "you don't ahe to be afraid anymore." Glenn held the egg in his arms. Inside this egg was a digimon of complete darkness, Glenn knew of only one person who could save this digimon from becoming evil once more. no more fear or pain, it sounded so nice. Glenn turned to his friends and used his crest and healed them all, then he turned to his sister, "I wanna go home now."
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Ken laid dazed in his bed with Wormon cuddling beside him trying to wake him up, he'd been like this for days now. after being sperated from Maisoulmon Wormon dragged him back to his home through the nearest digiport. Ken now just laid in hsi bed looking awake but wasn't, the only movement he would make was to blink every so often or eat when his mom fed him otherwise he just laid still. Wormon refused to leave his side and after teh initial shock his mom had come to trust Wormon greatly and rely on his help with Ken. Wormon was sure Ken would wake soon he just knew it.
Everyone sat down around the table, it was big banquet in honor of their victory over Maisoulmon. Glenn had given Nathen Maisoulmon's egg and explained that if Nathen just be the great little guy he used to be this Maisoulmon would be okay. Also after he gave the egg to Nathen his crest materialized around his neck like new, but Nathen knew it did and he didn't feel the need to tell anyone so he just took care of the egg.
"Let's eat!" Tai declared at the head of the large table everyone sat around. Sora was to his right then Nathen who held the digiegg Maisoulmon had become, Kari said the evil in it was gone and needed a good person to show the new digimon the way to happyness. Glenn sat next tot he small boy beside Katina then Izzy, Joe, Mimi and the rest of the team right up to Matt who was left of Tai. Everyone's digimon was besides them eating along with their human partener, save for Feralmon who took great delight from dive bombing food off the forks of unsuspecing prey. Tai stood up raising his mug off root bear," a toast," he offered, everyone lifted their cups in suit and waited fort he toast, but Tai just stood there, "I fogot what the toast was," he said blushing making everyone face fault.
"Family," Kari said.
"Good food," Mimi said cheerfully.
Glenn blushed and offered his own, "recovered lives!"
"New found love," Katina said making Glenn blush more and every laugh.
"What about good friends," Nathen offered timidly. Nathen had started talking since he got the digiegg and Glenn was happy to see him and Cody becoming good frineds fast.
"To friends," Tai agreed lifting his glass higher, then he chuged it down and let out a loud belch, which got him a smack form Sora fro being gross.
Glenn sat back against his chair after drinking his drink, and fingered his crest, "what's wrong?" Katina asked him.
Glenn looked at Katina and smiled, "nothing just thinking how great it was to have a life for once."
"Katina took his hand in hers,"well get used to it mister you're one of us now," she said sternly.
Gklenn chuckled, "yes ma'am," he replied knowing she didn't like being called ma'am, aquiring him a smack of his own. Then he sat foward and joined the festivities, and losing more then half his meal to Feralmon and his patrols of the table.
THE END