PROLOGUE

I do not believe in Fate

I believe that I made my own path

With my choices I define my own life

With my own hands I make my own History

The only one that control my life is me

8th month, 1000th year URD. Digital World, Server

A child with blond hair and blue eyes was watching the events happening in the wasteland from the mountain where he was standing. He looked to be no more than nine years old, and though he was at the edge of the mountain he showed no fear of falling or being discovered. His face in fact was expressionless.

"Have you seen enough?" asked a voice behind him.

He turned his head to see the semi-transparent figure of a gargantuan golden dragon. Its eight eyes were looking straight at him, almost as if were looking through him. He turned back his head just in time to see the figure of a person walking from the others figures and getting away alone.

"Yes. I have seen enough" he answered.

"And what have you decided?" asked the figure again.

"I still don't understand why is me the one who have to make this?"

"Even through the eight of you have incredible powers from your crest, all except yours are subordinated to the crest of Light" said the figure "The crest of Hope is not subordinated but an equal and most importantly is neutral, because even a being full of dark can have hope"

"How?"

"One could hope for some plans success or that some enemies be destroyed" said the figure "Hope is the power that balance Light and Darkness"

"I hate those who use the power of darkness"

"Nevertheless darkness is important to the balance of the Universe. And remember that if only the light exist then you would be as blind as if you were in a world of pure darkness" said the figure "Besides you have only seen the power of darkness used for evil, it can be used for good too"

"What do you want me to do?" ask the boy "They all are my friends"

"I know, but they have committed a sin, even if that was not their intention" answer the figure "the mere fact that they betrayed one of those who have helped in the past and would help to save this world again, goes against everything their crest mean"

"What about those who are not here?"

"Only you and the one who have the crest of light would not be punished, for you two are the most innocent and those two crest must always have a bearer" seeing the boy still hesitating he continued "they will still have their bond with theirs partners and will be able to enter this world when possible, they won't be punished that way"

"What about the four Great Holy Beasts?"

"All those involved will be punished, the will be no exceptions" was the answer "I will be the one responsible for them as you will be responsible for the others"

"I understand. A sin cannot be forgiven or forgotten without a sentence" said the boy with sadness in his voice "I … don't know what punishment they deserve"

"I have already told you, Hope have the power to balance Light and Darkness. Hope is Balance. Search within you and you will find the answer"

The boy did as told and closed his eyes trying to feel his crest like he did all those times in his adventure before, at first he did not fell anything and then suddenly he could. It was a warm sensation like a blanked protection from the cold that was the world, he feel lightweight and with the strength to do anything. With his closed eyes he saw a yellow, almost golden, shining light, so bright that it blinded him for a moment. He tried to move closer to the light and the more he was near the stronger those feeling were, when he finally reached the light and entered inside he was beyond awed before he remember why he was there. He thought of the problem and instantly the answer was in his mind, almost as if he knew it since forever, that thought made him want to cry. When he opened his eyes he wasn't surprised that there were tears falling from his eyes.

"I… I… I know now" he said with his voice breaking "They betrayed a Chosen Child with the mission to save this world and for that they… They… they will not be Chosen Children anymore, they will not be called to… save this world… a… and when this world will need help they will be in the… sidelines just… just watching… they will be just spectators!" said the boy crying and if could see his own eyes, he would have seen that his eyes at that moment were no longer blue but the same shining yellow light that he saw within him, before they returned to his natural color.

"So be it" said the figure, "come on then I will send you to your home"

"No"

"What?" asked the figured surprised "What do you mean?"

"He is alone, and he saved me once" said the boy "He must be hurting so I want to alleviate his pain, and save him as well. My friends were the ones who hurt him so I will be responsible for them. Please! Let me do it!"

"You know what he is going to fight, this will be beyond you or any of your friends once fight" said the figure "And one more thing, once the gate between worlds has closed who knows when it'll open again. Even so you want to stay here and help him?"

The boy kept quiet for some minutes, thinking of his home, his mother, brother and father, of his friends and his life his own world, before his mind flashed to his best friend, to this world where he found a meaning and happiness and the lost soul who was hurting alone and how he was alone too once before, and he made his choice.

"Yes, I want to help him"

"Very well then. But you will not be alone nor without help" said the golden dragon before his eight eyes started shining and with a flash there was an orange hamster like animal with bat-like wings as ears sleeping on the ground.

"Patamon!" said the boy with a gasp, then something in his pockets began to shine. He put one hand in his pocket to take whatever was shining. An octagonal white gizmo was shining yellow before started to change, it became oval and attached in his wrist like a big watch, it have an oval screen with the crest of Hope and below the crest was some numbers showing the time and date "Whoa!"

"Because the instability between the world there's no way to know how different differ the time of your world with this. That new digivice will show you the time and date of your world, and they will let you send messages to a person and just one person, so use it well" explain the dragon "there are others functions that you will have to discover on your own"

"Thank you so much" said the boy bowing in gratitude.

"… When I brought you to this world was because of your crest and because I feel that you would be a human who would help this world" said the dragon "I'm happy that I was not wrong. Even though this was not the reason that I called you, your choice only show the kind of human you are. I don't know if we will see each other again, so I want to tell you that it have been a honor to meet you, bearer of Hope… no, Takaishi Takeru " and with that the dragon started to disappear .

"Wait! Before you go, can you tell me your name?" called Takeru.

The dragon seem to smile before said "Huanglongmon, my name is Huanglongmon" before he completely disappeared. A sound made him look at ground and he saw patamon waking up. The look patamon had when he saw Takeru was one of totally surprise. "Takeru! What are you doing here? How are you here? Where is here?" said patamon looking around. Takeru just took him in his arms and turned to see where the others humans and digimons were before realizing that they were no longer around. He was silent for a moment before saying:

"I will tell you in the way patamon"

"Eh? Where are we going Takeru?" asked the digimon.

"We are going in a journey to save this world and one person, we're going in an adventure without equal" answered the blond before taking the path that took the other boy, without knowing how true his statement was nor how much his choices will change both worlds.

I do not believe in Fate

I believe that I made my own path

With my choices I define my own life

But my choices have consequences

And at the end of my path I will see the result

…

And that's called Destiny