Hey everyone, Etiger1995 here. It's been a very long time since I've posted anything on this site, but with a little push from my old friend NovelistOfTheSky, I've decided to try my hand at writing once again. This story is a prequel to most of the other stories in our little collection (Network Of Destinies) and takes three years before digimon adventure 01.

I've lived most of my life pretty sheltered. I don't trust people to often, and I guess I have good reason for it. When I was young my dad left my family. If you can't trust one of your parents who can you trust? So as I grew up my mom kept me to herself, protecting me from the outside world. I would spend most of my time in my room, reading books, or playing video games. Deep down I know I wished I could become a hero, like in those stories. That life changed when I turned 16 though.

I think something snapped in my mother. She realized that I needed human interaction. She began to say that I "wouldn't make it in the real world" if I didn't know how to deal with people. In hindsight she was right, but at the time I would have never admitted it. I wanted nothing more than to continue my lazy loner life style. She didn't give me the chance though. Once the summer rolled around she nagged at me every day to go out and search for a job, that way I was forced to be around others.

Eventually I did go out and look for a job, just to make my mother happy. As much as I was annoyed at her making me change my life she was still my mother, the only person who had been there for me my whole life. After a good week of turning down ideas that she had shot in my direction I had found a position that I was willing to take.

It was an easy job at the local library. Set in a back room, print out labels for new books, replace labels on old books, do some computer maintenance. The job had almost zero human interaction, but that wasn't the only benefit. When I had downtime I could fill it however I wanted. And being in a place with nearly unlimited books, I got to reading. After about a week of reading through the library's mythology section I found myself lacking in interesting materials. That's when I transitioned to the internet, reading on forums and storytelling sites. After the first two weeks I'd say that I was going to my job just to enjoy the internet.

It was the first day of my third week and I was on the computer, one hand on my mouse the other running through my short black hair. I had found myself in a chart room and in an argument with some creep going by the user name "Azure". The idiot had been trying to convince me that he knew the roman gods. He acted like they had 1 existed, and 2 were his friends or acquaintances or something.

"Excuse me, Roll?" The quiet, shy, and very familiar voice hardly caught my attention. I looked up, my green eyes probably glowed from excitement. Standing in the doorway was a young woman. She was about five foot six with a pale complexion. She had long curly blond hair that made it's way halfway down her back. He hand was covering her face, and what I knew were two beautiful nearly sky blue eyes.

"Oh, good...good morning Lucia. Did you...need anything?" I'd like to think that I asked the question smoothly, but I know that's not the case. Lucia was one of my co-workers, and possibly the only one that I could actually stand being around. Maybe it was because she was so polite, or maybe because she was so cute, either way there was never a moment I didn't enjoy her company.

"I'm sorry, Roll, but yes. My computer is having issues, and I can't seem to fix it." She lowered her head and gave a little whimper. She worked at the front desk checking books in and out for out "guests". I'm not sure how or why she got that job, seeing as she did even worse than I did with human interaction.

"Don't worry. I'll handle it. Just give me a minute, okay?" I gave a smile hoping it would make her feel better. She gave a weak smile and nodded before slowly walking away from the door.

I looked back down at my monitor, my hands already typing away at the keyboard. I was about ready to type something along the lines of "my girlfriend needs help, I can't play pretend anymore", that is until I saw the line of messages that had been sent to me.

"I know you don't believe me. I need help ~ Azure"

"Please help us. I know you can. You can save everyone – Leo"

"|We need you, please destined 3 Gato"

The messages continued on that way for a while. Almost a hundred messages each signed by a different name. Agu, Gabu, WarGrey, Duke, Omega, Geo, Ikkaku, MegaKabu. Hundreds of strange user names, each begging for my help?

I didn't understand what was going on. I was one second away from closing the page, getting up, walking away, and helping Lucia with her computer. In my head it was an obvious choice, respond to crazy people on the internet, or possibly score points with the only girl on earth I actually liked. That's when the final message came in.

"Do you want to be a hero? We need a hero. If you respond, I will give you the power of a hero, any god you want. You can have their powers. Just save my children, before they destroy themselves. ~ Gennai"

I looked at the message a moment. Me a hero? I laughed to myself internally for a moment.

"these guys are crazy. All of them need thrown into a mental institution." I thought it out loud, but inside, something in me felt I needed to respond. Like my life depended on it, like hundreds of lives depended on it.

My hands shot to the keyboard, typing away as fast as I could.

"I don't think I can help any of you. I'm sorry. But if I could, I would chose...Ares or Mars, whichever you call him. Then I'd have my knowledge and his power, I'd like to think that would be enough!"

"Thank you ~ Gennai"

I stared at his response a moment. All that begging for help, and that's how he responds. I tried to turn my chair away from the computer screen, but as I did the real world seemed to fade to white. Everything 360 degrees around me was the default white for web pages, even the chat room I was on seemed to slowly fade away. The white began to fade to gray. My eyes began to feel heavy my body felt like it was melting away, and the gray space began to fade to black.

Thirteen marble thrones sat around a golden circular table. Each throne was decorated slightly different and three of which were nearly double the size of the others. These three sat to one side of the table, each having gold, blue and black decoration respectively. All of the thrones were empty but one.

In the golden throne at the head of the table sat a large figure cloaked in golden armor and adorned in white feathers. He sat quietly, leaning forward in his throne, his head being held up by his fist.

The sound of metal crashing against metal came from the opposite end of the room. The golden figure gave a sigh and used his free hand to wave through the air. At the opposite end of the room a large pair of golden doors opened letting sunlight pour into the dark room. Two figures stood in the doorway. One a large man covered in green furs and brown leathers, the head of a wolf decorating his head. His partner was another man, slightly larger than himself covered in a tight red jumpsuit, a long purple cape and the head of a panther decorating his face.

"Lord, Jupiter." The wolf headed figure said in a shaky voice before dropping to one knee. His partner remained standing. The wolf figure noticed this and slammed his arm into the Panther's leg. He still remained standing, which seemed to cause the golden figure some annoyance.

"Mercurymon. Marsmon." Jupitermon's voice echoed through the room. This caused the wolf, Mercurymon, to look down at the floor. "May I ask what brings you back to Olympus today?"

"Both of us have heard some rumors." Marsmon began to walk forward past Mercurymon and the large golden table, making his way to Jupitermon's side.

"Moron! Get away from Lord Jupiter!" Mercurymon lunged forward attempting to grab Marsmon. He was met with Marsmon's fist, and sent flying back towards the door.

Even though his face was covered Marsmon could tell this hadn't affected Jupitermon in the least. He was still comfortable and hadn't felt threatened in the least. In fact Jupitermon seemed to settle even further into his seat.

"Continue, Marsmon. I don't like having my time wasted. Especially by members of the Olympus XII who should be out watching over MY world." Jupitermon said looking directly at Marsmon.

"Well 'Lord' Jupiter, your brother 'Lord' Pluto has finally cropped up. Mercurymon wanted to let you know so you could come up with an 'appropriate plan of action'. I just wanted to let you know before I go and kick his ass." Marsmon smiled and cracked his knuckles. His arrogance showing, and actually making Jupitermon visibly displeased.

"As you wish Marsmon. Go and hunt my brother." Jupitermon's voice had finally changed, it was sarcastic.

So eveyrone I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. If you want to see this continue please tell me. Also this will be an OC story and will tie into our Network Of Destinies line of stories. So feel free to submit your own OC.

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