The Begining
By Saint Paul
When the first digital life sprang into existence, when the first digiegg hatched, they were there. They were the Guardians of the digital world. There were twelve of them. They represented the Twelve Holy Symbols, which would later be called the Crests. Knowledge, Reliability, Sincerity, Courage, Hope, Love, Light, Friendship, Kindness, Fate, Destiny, and Miracles. They would be the ones to ensure the safety of the digital world, they would be the ones to summon help...
Gennai sat alone by the river, thoughts on recent revelations made by the twins swimming through his mind. They had to be wrong, he thought. He refused to believe that evils such as the twins had seen could possibly exist in the Paradise they had created. They had to be wrong, after all, they couldn't see everything. They had to be wrong on this one. Gennai stared at the rippling of the rushing water before him. One almost forgot that it was created from digital information.
Gennai heard a twig snap behind him and he whirled around, startled. It was Silfa, Gennai sighed. He liked the energetic young girl well enough, but she was possibly the last person he wanted to see right now.
"Evening Gennai." She said with a big perky smile on her face, her light brown hair catching the last of the suns rays. She sat down on the riverbank next to him and ruffled his short brown hair. "What do you have to be so serious about Gennai?"
"Don't you understand Sincerity?" He asked, using her Order name. "if Fate and Destiny are correct, this place, our paradise, will be a place of chaos and fear. And it's all my fault."
"Gennai, you can't blame yourself for what the Renegade did. Even if you are Knowledge, you can't know everything."
"Don't you understand?" He practically yelled. "It was under my recommendation that Zethro allowed him into the Order. and because of it, the Viruses were created and because of it our world will become one of chaos and disorder, where the digimon won't know who to trust. All because of me!"
"Stop that!" Silfa shouted. "Stop it right now. Quinn's symbol was that of choices, of right and wrong, his was the symbol of the crossroads. The Crest of Freedom. He made his own choices, and you aren't responsible for them."
A bitter smile crossed Gennai's face and he spat upon the ground. "Yes. And because of Freedom, the digital world will descend into slavery. Rather ironic don't you think?"
Silfa was about to respond when a green leaf symbol suddenly began to glow on her chest. she glanced at Gennai and saw the symbol of Knowledge burned into his chest.
"We are being summoned to the Chamber." Gennai noted. there was a flash of purple light as he donned white hooded ceremonial robes, in a flash of green Silfa did the same. "Come," He said to her, "We must go." In a blink they were gone.
They reappeared in the Chamber, where the rest of the members of the Order were filing in. In the center of the large room sat a circular table seated for twelve. In front of each seat was a symbol painted to designate who should sit where.
Gennai sat in the seat before the crest of knowledge. To his left sat Kairo of Reliability and his right sat Lucia of the Light. Three seats down from Gennai towards his right sat Zethro of Miracles, leader of the Order and on whose either side sat Dande of Fate at his left and Taron of Destiny at his right, the twins, whose propehcies of the future had caused the uproar.
The last to arrive was Xerzes, of Kindness. This wasn't unusual though, Xerzes was usually the last to arrive. Zethro had learned to start the meeting a few minutes later than was scheduled. Xerzes took his seat between Kairo and Gallin of Friendship.
Zethro nodded a greeting to Xerzes, an unseen and fatherly smile on his lips, and raised his hands for silence. "I call to order this meeting of the sacred digital world guardians. You have been called here to discuss what steps should be taken to safeguard the digital world from the future threats seen by Fate and Destiny."
"I believe we should take all precautions possible counteracting every threat seen by the twins." Granoir of Courage said banging his fist on the table. Friendship quickly agreed with him. Kiron of Hope had some reservations.
"If we take absolutely every precaution, then that might mean creating vast armies of digimon. This could create some problems, because we might not be able to keep so many digimon peaceful when we trained them for war They might turn against each other. We might end up causing more trouble than we prevent." Gennai smiled to himself. Hope may be young, but he's not stupid. He nodded at the raven haired youngster to show his support.
"Well then, what do you propose?" Celine of Love asked smiling and brushing a few golden locks out of her ocean blue eyes. All eyes turned towards Hope, who seemed to lose his voice amidst the gazes of the other members. He glanced around a bit and found Knowledge, Love, and Relaibility were at least of his side. Others might be as well, but he couldn't read their faces. He stood up straighter and proposed his plan.
He told them all about an interesting phenomenon he and Sincerity had discovered. They had discovered that about ten percent of childen in the real world had the ability to affect digimon growth, bringing them to Champion level almost instantly." He took a breath.
"Of these humans a select few have the ability to bring their digimon partners up to Ultimate or, in even rarer cases, Mega level. At least they can under the right circumstances. I propose we recruit nine of these humans, one for each of the mental crests." The mental crests were all of those but Miracles, Fate and Destiny, which were the spiritual crests. These three, while not impossible for a human to use, were impossible for a human to have within them.
Miracles stroked his silver beard while he pondered the plan. The other members remained silent, waiting for his verdict. Finally he nodded his approval. "Yes, it is a good idea." He glanced at each of them in turn. "Each of you, go and select a human with the ability to raise a digimon to Ultimate with your particular crest." The nine of us nodded and left.
Gennai wasn't too worried. After all, how hard would it be to find someone with the power of Knowledge? Not hard at all. He didn't envy Lucia at all. After all the Light was a rare
gift indeed. The rest of them shouldn't be very hard. Sincerity might be a problem. After all Gennai had never heard of a child who didn't lie once in a while. He stood, with his eight comrades before the Portal to the physical world. Gennai took a deep breath and led the way in.
To be continued