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Title: Guardian Angel

Rated: T

Summary: Takeru is attacked by a mysterious Digimon on the way home from school. The Digimon declares he wants to kill Takeru and erase Patamon forever. When reality turns out to be illusions and nightmares began to collide with reality, just how can Patamon keep Takeru safe while trying not to die himself?

A/N – Big thanks to Fantasy-Magician who told me after I had posted chapter five that the way I had spaced the paragraphs had made it easier for you to lose your place in. I have gone back through the older chapters like this one and have edited to make it easier to read as well as fixing some of my mistakes. Some review responses may seem out of place now, but I thought it would be best to keep them where they were in the first place because it seems wrong to remove them just because I edited the story. I have also completely switched to Japanese names because I was getting tired of the English names for a lot of the Digimon.

Chapter One Beginning of the End

It was mid-November in the year 2006 and while it was cool enough to wear a jacket or sweater outside it wasn't cold like the winter months were. Many Japanese students were beginning their preparations for their exams to get into either High School or College, but for those who didn't have either cram school or after school activities it was time to head home after a long day at school. Takeru, who had neither, sighed as he walked down one of the many streets of Odaiba, but one of the few that would lead him to the apartment complex where he lived with his mother, Natsuko and his best friend, Patamon.

He was wearing a junior high school uniform similar to what his brother had once worn, the one with the white button up shirt that had a button up dark green jacket that went over it and the plain gray pants. The green boots he wore were of his own taste as well as his signature white bucket hat, which he had been unable to wear while attending classes so he had put it on after he had gotten out of class. He had to admit that he was ignoring some of the school rules by wearing it and if a teacher saw him with it awhile they were feeling particularly mean he could easily get into trouble. That he had done this for the past three years and had yet gotten into trouble made him not really that worried about it because it would be strange that someone would just now be getting mad at him for it. Due to the weather Takeru had also added a hooded green sweatshirt with a pocket on the front.

The teen had grown during the past four years only being an inch or two shorter than his older brother now who, much to Takeru's delight, seemed to have finally hit the end of his growth spurt so there was a chance the younger teen would catch up to him. Slung over his shoulder was a green messenger bag that held his school books and notes inside of it along with his green and white D-3, the gray D-terminal and a green notebook. The green notebook was special compared to the others that were stored in his bag for he wrote down things that randomly popped into his head that might help him write the books he had planned to write. The bag had a small pouch attached to the shoulder strap that held his dark green razor cell phone inside of it as well as a netted pocket on one side of it that was used to hold water bottles.

Things had been as peaceful as they could be for the teen and his friends since their last major battle for the safety of the real world and Digital World four years ago with Belial Vamdemon. There had been one rough spot for them three years ago when Diablomon had returned to extract his revenge which, much too every one's happiness, hadn't taken too long to stop. It was nice to be able to live a normal life in which he didn't constantly have to make a run to the Digital World to save something or someone. He hadn't really minded doing it of course, but he liked the idea of going to the Digital World because he wanted to not because he had to. Of course, my life isn't completely normal, Takeru thought to himself smiling as he glanced up at Patamon, who was currently asleep on top of his head which was, of course, his normal spot to be. The small Digimon was never far from Takeru unless Patamon believed he needed some time to himself. Not everything was completely perfect for the two best friends, but then again it was better than not having him at all.

What Takeru really found nice was there was no longer any need to fear what would happen if someone found out about his little digital friend, something him and the other Chosen Children had always been worried about in the past. Like Patamon was now, he could go anywhere with Takeru that he wanted without having to worry about people freaking out on them or calling the police. In all honesty, there were some places Digimon had been banned, but those places were slowly removing the ban and people still panicked once in awhile, but mainly because the person had become scared of Digimon, not because they had never seen one before.

No longer having to hide was due to what had happened after the battle with Belial Vamdemon. Everyone had learned about the existence of the Digital Monsters let alone the Digital World to where it was now impossible for the Chosen Children, or the Japanese government for that matter, to cover it up once again like what had happened when he was a small child so long ago when Greymon and Parrotmon had fought damaging the apartment building he had lived in back then. It kind of made him wonder if they still would blame the incident on terrorist or if they would find the truth about what had happened to the apartment complex.

Not that the Chosen Children had wanted to hide it from people in the first place. In fact, they would have been happy if they had been able to walk around freely with their Digimon a lot sooner. The only reason they had was because they had been afraid of the reactions the adults would have after seeing such things as the attacks from Diablomon and Vamdemon and the before mention incident with Greymon and Parrotmon. They also weren't the only ones covering up what had happened and it wasn't like they could have asked the Japanese government to stop. It was even less likely that people would believe a bunch of kids over the government as well.

It had been better for the sake of their Digimon friends and the Digimon they didn't know to keep it hidden like they had, but now no amount of cover-up would have made things go back to what they once were. Takeru had been surprised that they had been able to hide it for as long as they had especially after what Vamdemon had done by going out into the real world and kidnapping all those children in his search for Hikari. Not to mention the plane that had been brought down or the very largely broadcasted battle with Diablomon over the internet.

In some ways it was better the whole world now knew about Digimon, some companies had even started making things that catered more to Digimon then humans, but in others… It had and was still causing a lot of trouble for Digimon, the Digital World, and the Chosen Children as well. Of course, they will and always will deal with any problems that they could but not everything that was going on could they alone fix.

For the moment, thankfully, there were only two things that the Chosen Children had to worry about with everyone finding out about Digimon and the Digital World. The first was how the governments of the world were reacting to Digimon and the Digital World. The other was how some of the new "Chosen Children/Adults" were acting with their newly acquired Digimon. The first was causing the worse problems for the Chosen Children then the later one was.

Takeru personally believed that the more the government found out about the Digital World and Digimon the more they disliked the idea of it all together. Like the fact Digimon could freely come and go between the two worlds, but humans required a Digivice to do so which a lot of people nowadays had so they really didn't have a right to complain about this one. There were, of course, some governments that didn't have a bad view about Digimon due to the fact they had gotten Digimon of their own at some point during the four years. This caused them not to be biased against Digimon because they knew just how Digimon behaved and could even go to check on things in the Digital World. The other government, on the other hand, that didn't have Digimon, believed those with Digimon were in fact being biased which resulted in a lot of fighting between the two groups every time the Digital World was brought up.

Both Daisuke and Taichi believed that the ones who were upset were mainly so because a bunch of kids had happened to "stumble" upon the Digital World and it was the same bunch of kids, well mostly, that had ended up revealing it to the entire world. The later had made the government look very bad especially when it was found out that the government did know about the Digital World and had kept it hidden the entire time. It was even worse for the Japanese Government because out of all the Worlds government they knew the most about Digimon and had covered up more than any other nation in the world.

The governments also had a way of blowing things out of proportion to the public which made it harder for the Chosen Children to keep them calm when they had to take care of rogue Digimon within the real world. Some of them really believed that all Digimon were like Diablomon and Vamdemon which made them want to send all the Digimon back to the Digital World and keep it closed forever. Taichi had, at one point, decided to be the human representative of the Digital World while Agumon was the Digimon one, but with Taichi now getting ready to enter college things hadn't been very easy for him. He also had a lot to overcome because not many people were willing to listen to someone as young as Taichi was even when Sora's Father, Haruhiko and Jou's middle brother Shuu were helping him. The other Chosen Children's parents were also trying to help him as much as they could, but they had their own jobs to worry about as well. Takeru and Hikari had tagged along on several occasions because Taichi believed both Patamon and Tailmon were a perfect example of a good Digimon. Patamon's adult form and Tailmon's perfect form had helped to convince some that Digimon weren't all bad and out to take control over the human world. It also had a negative effect that none of them had really anticipated. Some of the world religions saw Angemon's and Angewomon's forms as a form of disrespect towards their religion.

As for the problem with some of the new human and Digimon partners, the Chosen Children had found out there were some advantages to being some of the first with digital partners. So far Takeru and his friends were the only ones capable of getting their Digimon to evolve higher than their adult form due to the help they had received from Qinglongmon. This meant their higher evolutions were no longer impossible to achieve like they had been when Daisuke and the others had first joined the group. This made most of the newer partners who were acting out or causing havoc quite easy to deal with because in the end the Chosen Children could just overpower them if they had to and f worse came to worse they would revert the Digimon back to their egg form. They've only had to do it a few time so far and after doing so they hadn't really had problems with them again. Takeru knew from personal experience that seeing your Digimon go through that was not something anyone would want to see again unless their heart was truly made of ice.

There had been some cases when the human had received their Digimon partner where the Digimon was already in a form higher than adult and these proved harder to deal with but were thankfully rare. Most of the time, when they had to deal with ones like this, was because the Digimon did not realize just how much damage someone with his or her power could do within the human world. When the Chosen Children would beat them, most of them still retained the ability to evolve to their higher forms, but only if something was threatening the human they were partnered with. Thankfully, the Chosen Children usually didn't have to deal with repeat offenders.

With the Digital World completely opened now it wasn't hard to travel around the world to stop any trouble that wasn't happening in Japan. Also, others around the world that were more than willing to help out where they could so it was only if it was a really strong Digimon causing trouble that the Chosen Children had to deal with it. There were other advantages to this such as the Chosen Children could visit Mimi and their other friends, who lived outside of Japan, whenever they wanted to without having to pay for airplane tickets. Of course, their friends could do the same thing if they decided they wanted to visit Japan. Even their families weren't really limited by this because many of them had gotten Digimon of their own by now. A couple of the parents had yet to receive theirs such as Takeru's mother, but Takeru believed it was only a matter of time before it happened especially since his father had gotten a Digimon about a month ago. What was interesting was that his father had gotten a Tunomon and though it had yet to evolve Koushirou believed it would take a different evolution route then Gabumon had.

Takeru stopped both in walking and his thoughts without warning causing Patamon to almost fall off his head which caused the small Digimon to wake up. "Huh?" Patamon mumbled sleepily as he tried to keep from falling off completely. Takeru had been so lost in his thoughts that he hadn't realized that for some time now he was the only person walking down this street. There weren't even any cars driving by which at this time of day there were always at least a few cars on the street. Well more than a few because he lived in Odaiba but still something was off and he didn't like it. Patamon yawned and climbed down onto Takeru's shoulder. "What's wrong Takeru?" he asked tilting his head slightly to the side a weird habit Patamon had picked up from a cartoon character he liked watching on television. Since Patamon did it so much Takeru had caught himself doing it a few times and was always trying to stop himself from doing it as well.

Takeru looked at Patamon. "I'm not sure Patamon… Something just doesn't seem right," Takeru told him as he began to glance around. Takeru was about to start walking again when a high pitch whine started emitting from his bag causing both him and Patamon to jump in surprise. The teen began to dig through his bag in order to find the source of the sound. As for Patamon, he had flown a few feet away from him to a tree and was holding his paws over his ears trying to block the sound out. Sometimes Patamon didn't like having ears as large as his due to incidents such as this. Takeru pulled his D-terminal out of his bag which was emitting the high pitch whine but the sound was still coming from his bag as well and if Takeru had to guess he would say it was his D-3 that was also making the noise.

Takeru wasn't holding the D-terminal for very long before it started becoming very hot and with a yelp, he dropped the D-terminal back into his bag. This time instead of taking the chance of burning his hand he turned the messenger bag upside down dumping all of its contents onto the sidewalk so he could find it easier. He got down on his hands and knees as he began to dig through his school books and notebooks trying to find the D-terminal. "What a time for having homework from all my classes!" he grumbled as he continued to look. Right now he was very tempted to throw his school books and notebooks out of the way. When he finally found it Takeru's eyes widened as the whine from both the objects finally stopped. "Patamon!" Takeru called for his small friend the shock very evident in his voice.

Patamon, having heard Takeru call him even with his ears covered, quickly flew over to his friend and landed on Takeru's right shoulder concerned by Takeru's tone of voice. "Takeru what's wro-" Patamon started but stopped when he saw what exactly Takeru was staring at. The D-terminal was partially melted not enough to not be able to tell what it once was, but enough for even the two of them to tell the circuits inside had been fried to where it would most likely no longer operate.

Both of them panicked then because they both believed that the other whining sound had been coming from Takeru's D-3. The two began to search through Takeru's stuff in order to find it. When they had finally found it they let out a sigh of relief because the D-3 was still in one piece even if it proved a little warm to the touch when Takeru had carefully poked it with his finger. Just to make sure it was alright Takeru pushed one of the buttons and was happy to find out it was still completely functional. I hope Patamon can still armor evolve without the D-Terminal, Takeru thought as he glanced at the D-terminal wondering what had caused it to melt like that.

Takeru put the D-3 in his pocket as Patamon and he began putting things back into his bag. They were almost done when another noise sounded making them jump yet again until Takeru realized it was his cell phone still in the pouch on the bag's strap. "We're too jumpy," Takeru laughed as he sat down on the sidewalk with Patamon beside him. He pulled his cell phone out of the pouch and answered it, "Hello?" He had barely moved the phone next to his ear when he had to pull it away again upon hearing three people shouting as they tried to over talk each other. Takeru glanced at the caller I.D. real quick to find out it was Daisuke's cell phone that had called him. With that, he knew the three voices were Daisuke, Hikari, and Iori which he was a bit shocked Iori was shouting. Unlike him, all three had after school activities so the three of them were still together at the school.

Unlike the four of them, Miyako did not attend the same school as them because she had graduated last year. As for Ken, his parents had wanted him to keep attending schools where they lived even if he could use the Digital World to quickly travel to their school. He sighed then placed the cell phone near his ear again. "Calm down I can't understand any of you like this!" Takeru shouted trying to overpower the three voices. How he did he wasn't sure, but after shouting at them he heard a bit of an argument for awhile between Hikari and Daisuke on who was going to talk first. He sighed again, then waited patiently for the two of them to finish.

"Takeru-kun it's me Daisuke! You're not going to believe what just happened!" Daisuke shouted. Takeru wasn't quite sure if Daisuke was excited or upset there were times that he had a hard time telling when he was talking to Daisuke over the cell phone. It was a lot easier when they were talking face to face because Takeru could read the emotions on his face easier than he could anyone else's because Daisuke never tried to hide what he was feeling.

Takeru glanced at his D-terminal believing he could guess what Daisuke was about to say. "I have a feeling I will…" He sighed as he patted Patamon gently on the head. Whether it was to reassure his little friend or himself he wasn't quite sure.

"All three of our D-terminals just melted! Oh, yea Iori and Hikari are with me," he said adding the last bit as an afterthought remembering Takeru couldn't see them at the moment.

Takeru shook his head wondering what exactly was going on. "Mine melted as well. Did your D-terminal and D-3 happen to give off a high pitched whine before it happened?" He asked tapping what was left of his D-terminal with his boot afraid it was still too hot to touch with his hands. Just how he was supposed to get this fix he hadn't a clue. At least, for the most part, his cell phone could act in its place. The only problem was cell phones didn't work while one was in the Digital World, well you could take pictures with them but that was about it, so he wouldn't be able to communicate with the others if they had to split up for some reason while doing something in the Digital World. Of course with theirs gone it meant none of them could communicate so it really didn't matter at the moment. It made Takeru wonder why they had all melted and how it had managed to happen in the first place.

Takeru heard a bit of a discussion before he heard what sounded like the cell phone being handed to someone else. "Takeru this is Hikari. Our D-terminal's did let out the whine you were talking about, but our D-3's didn't. Is your D-3 okay?" She asked and he could clearly hear the concern in her voice. Hikari's emotions were always a lot easier to figure out when one spoke to her over a cell phone, if one were to compare her to Daisuke that is.

"It's fine I just checked it before the three of you called," Takeru told her resting his hand on his D-3 in his pocket. He then heard a ring tone that Hikari used to let her know when she got a text message on her cell phone and once again the cell phone was passed to someone else. "Takeru this is Iori, Hikari just got a text message from Ken and Miyako. The same thing has happened to their D-terminals as well," he informed Takeru.

Takeru sighed as he thought. He didn't like this at all it didn't really matter for him and Hikari that they had melted because they had their other forms, but for Daisuke and the others their Digimon had no forms past their adult form. Yes, they could Jogress evolve to higher stages, but only if they were next to the other person and Digimon they were partnered with. When they were by themselves though their strongest forms were their armor stages and if they couldn't evolve into them thanks to the D-terminal melting then that could cause them problems. I don't think it would really matter; they're just there to help like the Digivice's. Digimon still evolve without the aid of a Digivice so most likely it's the same with the D-terminal… I hope anyway, Takeru thought as he heard the others discuss what might have made this happen in the background.

Takeru looked up at the sky as he thought his eyes narrowing slightly when he noticed something. "Iori I'm going to have to call you back…" he said then closed the phone so it would hang up on its own. Patamon glanced at Takeru. He had just finished picking the rest of Takeru's stuff and placing it back in the bag when he heard the conversation had ended. The small Digimon blinked wondering what was going on with the D-terminals. Nothing like this had ever happened to anything the Chosen Children had gotten from the Digital World. The only thing that could really compare to this was when they had given up their tags and crest in 2000, but they had chosen to do so in to add another layer of protection to the Digital World. Patamon had good enough hearing that he could hear what Daisuke and the others had told Takeru so he knew it had happened to theirs as well.

"Takeru, why would the D-terminals melt like that?" Patamon asked as he watched Takeru put his cell phone back into the bags pouch as he kept his eyes on the sky.

Takeru was no longer concerned with what had happened to the D-terminal and he didn't really have an answer for Patamon so for the moment he said nothing. The teen had spotted what he believed to be a Digimon and was trying to confirm whether or not he was really seeing one. It wasn't uncommon for newer Digimon to get separated from their partner so he was wondering if the Digimon was lost and if the two of them should go help it. Lost Digimon had ways of causing trouble without meaning to so it would be best if it were a lost one to get it back to its partner and fast. Takeru was just about to tell Patamon what had caught his attention when, without warning, Patamon evolved into Angemon with a flash of light coming from Takeru's D-3 to aid with the evolution. Takeru cried out in surprise as the angel Digimon quickly grabbed Takeru and his bag jumped backwards than flapped his wings once to make his movement faster.

Angemon hadn't gotten very far when Takeru spotted a large black orb of energy hit the ground where he had been moments before understanding exactly why Angemon had picked him up and had moved like that. Chunks of cement from the sidewalk were sent flying in all directions as the orb exploded on impact. Angemon quickly turned around to keep Takeru from getting hit by any of it and the shock wave that came from the explosion. Takeru coughed from the smoke like stuff in the air covering his mouth with his sweater sleeve as he leaned to the side slightly so he could see past the angelic Digimon's wings. It took him a moment before he could see past all the dust floating around but when he could his eyes widened.

Where he had once stood was a very large crater in the ground the building beside it use to have large glass windows but the explosion had caused them to shatter. His D-terminal was sitting near the edge of the crater none the worse for wear which seemed odd to him. The ground should have shook when the explosion had occurred so why hadn't it fallen into the carter? He shook his head, Takeru didn't even want to imagine what would have happened if Angemon hadn't gotten the both of them away from the attack. Takeru uncovered his mouth so he could speak. "Thank you, Angemon," he coughed burying his mouth in the crook of his arm to keep from inhaling more of the dust that was floating around.

Angemon nodded as he gently sat Takeru down handing him his bag as he moved to stand in front of him to protect him from any more attacks that may come their way. Takeru glanced past Angemon wondering if the Digimon that had attacked had come closer, but when he didn't see him he turned his attention to Angemon's back. Takeru could see where the sharp pieces of cement had hit him by the way his feathers were damaged. There were some places were his wings didn't cover his back that was bleeding slightly. If they remained after he de-evolved Takeru would treat them then, but he pushed it to the back of his mind for now because by the way Angemon was standing he could tell whoever had attacked was in fact still around.

Angemon had his attention focused on the skies having judged that the attack had come from atop of one of the many skyscrapers in the area. He had been able to narrow it down to a few skyscrapers and was now trying to figure out which one it had come from when he spotted something. On top of one of the skyscrapers he had narrowed it down to stood a Digimon that Angemon had never seen before and he doubted any of his friends had seen one quite like it though it did remind him of a cross between himself and Devimon. Like Angemon this Digimon had a male human like form and was the same height as him. Unlike Angemon and most Digimon who had a human shape, he wore no mask showing his dark red eyes with cat-like pupils. His hair was black and cut short and spiked in several different directions while his ears were pointed with several piercings on one while the other had one large earring. From his back came one black angel wing and one black demon wing. His left arm was the same as Devimon's while his right arm was covered in black coarse fur. He wore no shirt showing several scars across his chest, but he did wear pants and boots similar to Devimon's with fur peaking barely visible over the belts hinting that maybe his lower half of his body was covered in fur like his arm. Grinning down at Angemon and Takeru the Digimon revealed that he had very sharp teeth.

Something about this Digimon felt off to Angemon, but he wasn't sure just why he did. Angemon knew that you couldn't always judge a Digimon by his appearance and even if this Digimon hadn't just attacked them Angemon wouldn't have trusted him. Angemon shifted his position making sure Takeru was completely behind him not sure what he could expect from this Digimon. Right now Angemon was wishing Takeru had waited for Iori to finish up with his Kendo practice like Iori had asked him so at least he wouldn't be fighting this Digimon alone. He had a very bad feeling that the Digimon was not in the adult stage like he was.

"Takeru try to stay behind me," Angemon told him as his grip tightened on his staff to where if his knuckles weren't already white they would be now. The angelic Digimon had a feeling that this wasn't going to end nicely…

A/N- Hope you like the first chapter sorry it isn't long the original was half this size though and I could only get this one this long after adding a bit from chapter two at the end. Takeru's clothing style will be more mature later on Japanese students can get in tons of trouble for things they wear or places they stop on the way home so he's playing it safe right now. That hat will stay though *luvs the hat* there will be times however where he won't be wearing it. I wasn't bashing religion with the Angemon and Angewomon thing early on in the chapter. I just know some religions would take offense at their forms.