The Fifth Guardian: Prologue
A/N: After reading back on my stories, I realized how painful this series was for me to read. So I decided to go and try another shot at it. Please review.
(): Change of POV
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Disclaimer: Don't own anything for Digimon except my characters and ideas.
Digimon Emperor: So… You decided you suck.
Me: (hits him with frying pan) I didn't say that… I just decided to give another shot at it.
Digimon Emperor: (hits me with whip) Don't hit me, I'M YOUR RULER!
Me: (in same voice) Don't make me send you back to Ken's Luver!
DE: (shuts up)
Ken: Also… You know you're lying about coming back because you not only suck, it's because…
Me: (hits him upside the head) SHUT IT!
Ken: (shuts up)
Me: Thank you; review please!
(General POV)
There is a legend…
There is a legend that has been around since the start of the digital world.
In the beginning, four Digital Guardians protected the world, each protecting their own area.
And peace reigned.
For years it was quiet and peaceful, digimon took advantage of the peace and quietness to build their own villages and lives.
Some stayed in villages, living their lives till reconfiguration so they can be reborn and start all over again.
Some lived alone, fighting for territories and growing bigger and stronger as their lives continued until something bigger and stronger came along and destroyed them.
So they too, can be reconfigured.
A never-ending cycle.
The guardians never interfered, seeing peace reign over the world.
It was a shock when the first evil came.
Small disputes rose, and territories that were won and lost in battles now became wars. Digimon became restless, wanting more than they had.
The Four Guardian's tried their best to control the chaos, but shortly, they fell from the task, overwhelmed beyond their limitations.
They decided to choose, and so the legend was made.
And these words rang across the world:
Henceforth:
There shall be a protector…
A fifth guardian…
A guardian, that when the darkness of the digiworld reaches its peak, the guardian shall step forward.
The person who shall go and keep the threats of darkness at bay, no matter what the risk.
This darkness shall tremble in fear, and an ultimate Armageddon shall arise in which only one side should survive.
The powers of the fifth guardian will be the same as the other guardians, bounded by it's limitations, but allowed to wander the Digital world freely, to protect the world it was assigned to.
That is how the legend goes.
Then came the debate amongst the guardians on who shall take this position.
Digimon were immediately vetoed, the thought of the digimon that seemed to be causing the problem to solve the problem seemed impossible.
The discussion went to the borders of the world…
And then beyond.
Then, in the decree after the legend of the fifth guardian arose, it was decided.
Children, from a planet called Earth, would be chosen to protect both worlds if need be, but at least the digital world.
Why children, you ask?
Children are innocent, understanding. They have more of a grasp of the world than most adults. They understand and believe more than more adults do that is unimaginable.
Of course, the guardians never thought that would make them more vulnerable to corruption.
They realized, very quickly, it should be added. That a child alone couldn't hold off these digimon, that they weren't powerful enough, even with the powers of the guardian flowing through their veins.
A digimon must be chosen as a protector of this child.
Debate rose, and it continued for days as the conflict continued among them, the guardians searching for the perfect digimon, the one who hasn't been corrupted by the evil plaguing the world.
A vaccine was found, a Bearmon that was just reconfigured and digivolved a short time ago at Primary Village.
A human was found next, a young, innocent boy who, once told of his task, jumped eagerly into it.
Maybe too eagerly.
He was too young, too naïve, and at the end, the task was too great for one human and one digimon alone.
His digimon fell in a day, him falling very shortly afterwards, dying at the hands of an enemy who seemed to not be defeated.
The guardians, horrified and ashamed of what they had done, swore it would never happen again.
They erased any trace of this child, from memory and from computers. Having no way to bring him back into the real world and back to the life he had once known.
Instead, they did the second best thing they could do…
They managed to reconfigure him.
He came back, part human and part digimon.
His name from then on:
Gennai.
Chaos spread over the digital world, and with the discovery of this child. All barriers that were held between the two worlds of human and digital became fragile, a shard of glass that can easily be shattered.
The guardians found control of the situation slipping out of their grasp quickly, but were afraid of the consequences of another disaster.
The solution came quickly, but with heavy consequences.
The barrier was shattered, and digimon attacked the real world, battling over six continents with six children watching everything that unfolded in one night.
The world was almost destroyed in one night, as rampaging digimon attacked each other and the world around it in a conquest for power.
The four guardians finally managed to stop them, but only after WWIII seemed to have wrecked havoc upon the planet that they were so desperately trying to save.
The answer they were rushing to find, found them with a heavy slap in the face.
They chose the six children, the witnesses to such a horrific event. With limits imposed upon them.
Thus, the crests and tags were born.
The digivices were always used, as a key of sorts to help unlock the chosen's digimon powers to digivolve.
The crests, each with the six traits: Hope, Light, Courage, Friendship, Knowledge, and Loyalty. Each representing what the chosen child had as their strongest trait, were given as another imposing to the children, making sure that they aren't given too much too quickly.
The battles were long and arduous, the children sometimes missing for weeks in the real world as they fought the evil that plagued both worlds.
At the end, triumphant, but exhausted, they were given their leave to the real world.
Except one, the new fifth guardian.
It was chosen as the child of Light, the one who seemed to have the most light in his soul, but as it was soon found out, also the most darkness.
The most trusting always fall the fastest.
No one knew the evil plans of the Gotsumon that was his partner, and that he would help him to the path that would bring the most dangerous digimon ever known into existence.
They lived in a Gotsumon village, and the lies that the partner told the Child of Light was ones that would change the tide for the worst.
The lies consisted of the evil and corruption in the world, the use of the guardians of light and protectors of the world were out for abuse and power.
The Child of Light, already overworked and angry about the series of events that has kept him from his family for so long…
Fell into these lies, and into the darkness that followed.
The two gained followers, and soon they had enough power to form an army.
The Gotsumon digivolved, into one of the most powerful and feared digimon ever known in the world…
Apocalymon.
His right-hand man, a Gabumon, followed in his new master's footsteps, upon the urging of the child of Light…
He became the second most-feared digimon in the world…
Piedmon.
The spiral of events tumbled lower and lower, as more minions and beings joined the evil cause, out to destroy the work that the four guardians and digidestined worked so hard to get.
They started to succeed…
And thus, the Dark Masters were born.
The guardians, in desperation, did the only thing at the time they could do….
They banished the now useless puppet of the Dark Masters, and the damage became twofold.
With the guardian gone, the Dark Masters had no restrictions in the Digital World to stop them, and they took full advantage of it.
Giving birth to another digimon that threw the world into more chaos… Encouraging digimon to grow up dark and hostile.
Millennium was born.
The time dimension was thrown, destroying the synchronization of the two worlds that were in perfect balance of each other, and weakening the barrier between the two worlds even further.
The guardian's seemed to wake up at that point, getting the reality check that they so desperately needed.
D.N.A. digivolving, never used before, seemed to have come in full force with the birth of these new digimon.
In desperation, the guardians used their powers to block such a phenomenon. Then they decided to do what needed to be done so long ago…
Find new digidestined.
And amongst them, a new guardian has to be born.
Thus, where the tale begins.
TBC…
A/N: Please review.