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Chapter 5: Return the Power

Tai's PoV

There they were. Sitting up in a bed that wasn't theres, a strange song humming through the air. It had been this sound that had woken them. The words were unearthly, hypnotic, and filled with pain and longing. Tai looked over to Matt, his smile no longer there.

"What on earth is that?" Tai asked innocently. Yamato looked at him with worry in his eyes. Tai understood all to well that they might just be in for a fight.

"That sounds like Sowilomon's song. A song he uses to call down lightning and to bring truth out of those he commands." Yamato's voice was filled with worry and riddled with fear. Tai had never heard fear in an Ishida's voice, worry yes, pain yes, fear? Never.

Tai stood up, his cinnamon hair catching the odd light of what was dawn here in Sowilomon's territory. He knew that today, either they would all fall, or one of the 'Angels' would find himself up against a superior foe. The 'Angels' were supposedly tapped into the power of the Crests. Tai thought to himself. Well, so are we. If they can tap into the power the protects the Digital world, so can we. Tai thought for a moment, then turned to the one person he knew would understand his train of thought.

"Yamato, what Crest did Sowilomon take over?" Tai asked softly, his voice trying to place things he already knew. One, Sowilomon had been the one that controlled Matt the most. Two, he could call down Lightning. Three, truth was one of his strongest powers. Friends don't lie to each other with out extreme need. Four, friendship, like lightning, strikes quicker then a blink of the eye, and leaves all those touched, marked with it.

Yamato hesitated to answer, his eyes filling with tears of anger. Finally he spoke the words that Taichi had already figured. "He wields the power of the Crest of Friendship. The power of lightning, truth, and guiding light." Tai took a step back at that.

"Guiding Light? Shouldn't Kairi be the Guiding Light?" Tai was confused now. He knew that Kiri's crest was Light, so why wouldn't she be Sowilomon's prisoner.

"I don't know Tai!" Matt said more forcefully then he had intended. He didn't want to fight with Tai, not now. They needed each other more now then ever, and he refused to have a repeat of the first time they had been here, helpless and confused as to what was going on.

"I do." T.K. said as he walked into the room, his eyes downcast so he wouldn't have to look his older brother straight on.

"Out with it then!" Tai was letting his anger get the better of him. A problem he had always had, but had never turned it on T.K. before.

"Watch who you're yelling at Tai." The words held an unspoken threat, one that Matt would never renege on.

"It's okay. I deserved that and much more Bro." The younger Ishida held his head down, not meeting the eyes of the older Digidestined.

"Wunjomon has the power of Wishes, and the connection to the powers that be. He is the most powerful of the 'Angels'. It was Kairi's connection to the other side that he latched onto. The power of the Wishing Star. A light no others can control. A different kind of Light then Sowilomon's." The words were hollow in the boy's throat. He knew that there was a way to save them, but didn't know what it was.

Suddenly there was a blinding light outside. Followed shortly by a deafening roar of thunder.

"We've been found out!" Gabumon's voice peeled through the tension of the boys. He and Agumon were rushing into the room, there distress causing everyone to stiffen up.

"Don't just stand there, we have got to go." Agumon had started to say as another bout of lightning and thunder shook there little shack.

"Fight or flight?" Tai asked the two other boys. There eyes were a living cauldron of mixed emotions.

"They will expect us to run." T.K. said with a knowing smile to Matt. "But we have a power they don't know about yet." Matt's frown slowly started to take a turn. Forming an impish grin that Tai knew all to well. This was going to be something else all together.

"And what power would that be?" Tai asked, his voice worried wither or not it would be enough to stop one of the 'Angels'. As the words left his lips, Yamoto's eyes got the spark they had during the fight. The faint lightning playing through his eyes as if there crystal blue was a natural conduit for the primal energy.

Tai took a step back, his face with a grin plastered on it. "How are you doing that?" He asked with worry mixed with awe.

"My Crest activated yesterday. During mine and T.K.'s fight. Gabumon was able to Warp Digivolve." Tai's mouth was agape, and then it all added up. Why Tsunimon had been on the bed, instead of being Gabumon. The sudden end to the fight, and the reason only one Digimon had walked back. It had been a long time since Gabumon and Agumon had Warp Digivolved.

"But there is something else going on too." Matt said, his voice filled with worry. "There is something inside of me that woke up during the fight. I'm not sure what it is yet, but I need to find out." Matt seemed different, his hair standing on end, small sparks of electricity coming off the tips, and his eyes lit with the inner light.

Sowilomon's PoV

He couldn't believe that the boy had tapped into his power. The Crest of Friendship was his to command now, and his power over lightning and light was another matter all together.

The heart of the storm, it's lightning almost black with energy, flared with his own anger. He couldn't believe he had been tricked by the little Digibrat. Not just this time, but it must have been all along. Somehow the boy had tricked him, lied to him. But that was just impossible. No one could lie to the Digital Angel of Lightning and Light. His power wouldn't allow it. But some how this boy, this warrior, was able to not only lie, but completely undermined him. His great potential had at first made it fun for Sowilomon, the boy had always been a wild card. His heart hadn't been taken like the others. His will wasn't as mold-able. There had been something stronger in his heart. A burning fire that allowed him to undermined any Angel he had been with. Now he had somehow freed his brother for the most part. Some how, the boy had been the beginning of the downward spiral for the Angels. He had something about him that seemed to resonate with the other Digidestined. There minds and hearts seemed to clear the more Yamato Ishida was with them. He had a power unlike any of the others. But now it was time to put an end to his insulate ways. It was time to bring forward all the powers at Sowilomon's command. Light and Lightning, Truth and Illumination. These were his to wiled as sword and shield.

The Angel shed his dark cloak, his Arctic blond hair, and crystal blue eyes shining as another lightning bolt ripped open the sky. His silver armor with gold piping gleaming wickedly in the brewing storm. Six wings protruded from his back, and his half face mask came down. Blazing into the silver mask was the Nordic Rune Sowilo, from which the Angel had received his name. He took to the air with lightning trailing behind him with every beat of his wings.

Run as far as you can Yamato Ishida, but you can not escape the Lighting of the Gods.

Matt's PoV

The older Ishida boy knew that no matter where they ran, they would never be able to run far, or fast enough to escape Sowilomon. He was the keeper of Lightning and Light. The power was his to command as he saw fit. Something felt off however. Matt knew that he was still channeling the energy of his Crest, his hair and eyes shown with a wicked power he had never known. He looked over to Tai, the only person he loved as much as he did his little brother.

"Tai, we might not survive this. We're going up against one of the 'Digital Angels' That isn't a good thing." Matt couldn't help but wonder why the other boy's face was plastered with that goofy grin of his. It wouldn't let up, and he didn't think there leader even realized he had it on his face.

"If you could see your self right now Matt, you wouldn't be so sure about the 'Angels' winning. You look downright dangerous. It's kinda hot actually." Matt blushed as Tai said this. The other boy had never out right said the Matt was anything but himself. But all of a sudden, he decided now was the perfect time to find out what Tai really thought about him. If I die, I'll never know unless I ask now. He justified the teasing to himself.

"So it's only when I'm channeling the power of my Crest that I'm hot?" He teased his best friend, his companion, his leader, his love.

"That is not what I meant." Tai shouted at him, the boy's face was blushing through the permanently tanned skin. Which just confirmed Matt's wondering. The other boy that he was hot. Good to know.

"Good, because I would hate to think you thought I was ugly." Matt said teasingly, knowing he would at least ruffle the other boy's feathers, so to speak.

Tai was blushing furiously now. The leader of the Digidestined didn't know wither to be angry, insulted, or pleased at Matt's teasing, and it read on his face.

"Tai, I lo..." His admission was cut off. The lightning was flashing and there was no hesitation to the thunder. It was constant light and sound, as if the very heavens themselves were about to wage war on the Digital World.

"He's here." T.K. said slowly, pointing out the obvious, just in case none of them had noticed.

The six ran out of the little shack and looked to the skies above them. There awe was written on there faces. The sky was alight with millions of lightning bolts that hadn't touched the earth. There power and energy flashing through the sky causing it to look like the bright light of heaven. When from the clouds, descended a Digimon that looked like a lightning based SirRaphimon came floating down, light surrounding him as if the gods themselves favored him in this battle. Now and only now, did the understand why they called themselves the 'Digital Angels".

Sowilomon's PoV

Why have they not fled? The Angel thought to himself. More powerful beings had trembled at his feet as he had brought to bare only half to the power he was showing these three humans. The oldest one was no more then twenty, and yet they did not even flinch as he descended. The Ishida boy glowed with inner power, and that was not a good thing. Sowilomon had never seen a human that could command power as the one called Yamato Ishida was showing. Three. Three humans? There should be only two. The thought finally made it through Sowilomon's outrage. There shouldn't be three. Only the brothers. His mind reeled as he tried to place this other boy. His cinnamon locks, and his chocolate eyes were common enough, but his stance was what set him apart from the others. Utter defiance. He stood against the Angel without even thinking to bow to the power at Sowilomon's control.

His name is Taichi Kamiya. Sowilomon heard the voice in his head and knew exactly who it was. Perthromon. His higher-up on the line of ascension. But that was neither hear nor there. The boy was going to be skewered by a lightning bolt soon enough anyway.

Don't be so over confident Sowilomon. The boy is trouble for us. Sowliomon hated that Perthromon was able to get inside his head like that. But he decided it wasn't worth the fight. If the boy was trouble, then Sowilomon was going to end him, and gain favor with Wunjomon. There was something about the boy though, that made Sowilomon's heart race. He couldn't place his finger on the feeling, or what caused it, but it was there none the less.

"Light's Call!" The Digital angle called forth one of his most devastating attacks right off the bat, he knew it was a gamble, because it took so much out of him, but that was what the situation called for.

Lightning streamed from his wings, building into a torrent of power that was large enough to consume all three boys, there Partners, and the cottage behind them. The energy swirled and combined, becoming a funnel of power, fueled soulfully by Sowilomon's rage.

Tai's PoV

The lightning was racing toward them, it's furry was anything but expected. This was the first battle they had had in which the bad guy didn't drone on and on about why he was doing what it was he was doing, or why the Digidestined were in the way. Tai kinda liked the change of pace, but he knew they were toast.

Just as the maelstrom of energy was about to hit them something strange happened.

T.K.s PoV

The younger boy had never seen anything like this before. None of there enemies had ever been able to command that much power in a single blow. And since this was the first attack, T.K. figured there were other things up the 'Angel's' sleeves. He couldn't believe that there first attempt to fight, was going to be there last.

Just as he was preparing to lose his life for the Digital World, something happened. Something that made the very rules of the game change. There was going to be a new set of rules this time around, as long as Matt was willing to fight.

Matt's PoV

I just got the love of my life, and my little brother back. I'm not losing them now! Matt thought to himself as he saw the torrent of energy aimed for them. He wouldn't, no, couldn't, allow this to happen. Something inside of him awoke with a vengeance. His Crest's power flowed through him like a slight electric current, soothing and hungry at the same time. There would be more to this war then just the Digimon fighting this time around, and Matt was the first to know it. There was a power here. A power the Digidestined had never known about before.

Matt felt robbed of his Crest, of his time that he could have acknowledged his feelings for Tai, of the time he could have watched his little brother grow into the young man he was now. It wasn't supposed to be this way. They weren't supposed to have been brought back here, and now it was time to show these 'Angels' the power they had truly stolen from the Digidestined. And most of all, it was time to return the power. The Digidestined had never known the true power of the Crests. The power they awakined in there true bearers. But now, Matt knew. And he refused to let it go unchecked.

As the funnle of lightning came at them, Matt stood his ground. His hair sparking much like Sowilomon's wings, and his eyes glowing with an inner light. A blue dome formed around the boys and there Digimon, right as the lightning hit it's mark. But they were kept safe inside it's barrier.

Sowilomon's PoV

The deed was done. The boys had just stood there as the power had slammed into them. It had kicked up dust, and debris from the shack, and now there was only a small crater where the powerful blow had struck. Sowilomon finished his decent to the soiled field. Littered by scraps of metal and wood from the lodging. However, there was something missing. There was no carnage, no pieces or bodies of the boys or the Digimon.

Slowly the dust started to settle, and there they were. Safe, and standing on still green earth. The blue shimmer around them dropped, and the Ishida boy's hands had come down from where they had been, holding the blast at bay with nothing less then the true power of his Crest. Sowilomon was weak now. Weaker then he should have been just using Light's Call. It was as if the power the boy had used to turn away such power, had come form the Angel himself. Then the boy did something different, he pulled up his Digivice, a wolfish grin covering his face. The Digivice looked strange, and glowed with the same blue the shield around them had. What was going on?

Matt's PoV

Matt could feel the confusion inside the poor bastard. He knew that the 'Angel' must be more confused now then he ever had in his life. But it was time to throw something else into the equation. It was time for Gabumon to Warp Digivolve. Holding out his Digivice, Matt's smile became wolfish in nature.

"Gabumon, Warp Digivolve." His voice was calm, cool, and collected. This 'Angel' was toast now.

Gabumon was enveloped by the blue light from the Digivice, His form taking on that of Garurumon, and piece by piece his body was transformed into the Digimetal body of MetalGarurumon.

The Mechanical Wolf's howl was one of fury and pain, victory and loss. He held all of his feelings inside himself, until he finally released his own devastating attack.

"GIGA MISSILE" The chest cavity on the mechanical wolf opened, revealing a deadly missile, that let loose, and streaked in a flash toward the weakened 'Angel'. As it flew through the air, Matt's wrath and emotions united with his Digimon's, bathing the missile in the blue light of the Crest of Friendship. He gave every thing he had to this one shot. And he prayed that it would find it's mark.

The missile seemed to glow with the power more and more, as Matt thought about all his friends that had been taken by the 'Angels', and about the injustice of what they had done. Then he thought about Tai, and how much every one had suffered from the actions of the 'Angels' and this too fed the power of the storm.

With out mercy, and without regret, the missile struck the 'Angel' dead in his chest. The sonic boom of the blast drowned out even the roar of the constant thunder, and the blast itself blinded every one in a way the lightning had failed to do. But when the smoke cleared, Sowilomon still lived, his armor and face mask broken beyond quick repair.

"You haven't seen the last of me Boy. I'll be back!" The 'Angel swore, then took to the skies again. As he flew, a Digiportal opened in front of him, swallowing him into the chaos that could be seen inside. As he disappeared, a single item fell from his fleeing form. The Mark of Sowilo that had adorned his helmet. It fell to the earth, forming a pendent not unlike the ones that once housed there Crests.

Matt slowly walked up to the pendent, cautious of trickery. As he approached, it glowed blue with power, and flashed with inner lightning. Once Yamato Ishida touched it, however, it began to glow brighter and brighter, until all six of the onlookers had to avert there gaze from the pulsing light of friendship. When the light died down, the pendent and Crest were gone once more, but upon Matt's bare chest, a blue mark had appeared. The Crest of Friendship, interlaced with the rune Sowilo, glowed faintly, and finally rested, until it's power was needed once more.

Tai ran over to his friend, and looked at the new marking on the boy's body. An impish grin spread across his face.

"You look really hot with a tattoo." He said, as he stole a kiss from the boy and wandered back over to the other three onlookers.

MetalGarurumon looked over at Matt with a sly smile on his face, his eyes knowing and mischievous. "Maybe you should show him the other tattoo some day." He said, and then deDigivolved back to Tsunimon.

As he thought about what his old Partner had said, he blushed, and a grin spread across his face.

"So where to next oh great leader?" Matt asked Tai with a wicked grin.

"Well, we have you, T.K., Patamon, Tsunimon, Agumon, and myself free, who would be the closet one from here?" T.K. had no hesitation when he answered the Cinimon haired leader.

"That would be Joe. He's with Keenazmon now, last I heard anyway. Besides, it looks like we have a power with us they don't expect." He said nodding to Matt. But Matt shook his head.

"That trick is probably a one shot wonder. Now they know I have the power. And ten bucks on the fact that now they'll have a way to counter it." Matt's face was crest fallen, his pride bruised to admit that he couldn't be much of a 'secret' weapon.

Tai was to happy that they had survived to stop and ask to many more questions. "Good, Lets get going. It's high time they returned the power."