Reality Redux
By ArchangelUK & Digicowboy

We used to own Digimon, but we traded it in for a second hand copy of Mary Poppins on video....oh well at least we've now got a dozen penguin waiters to hire out...

DC: So this is part two...
AAUK: ...of four.
DC: Of...WHAT???
AAUK: Four.
DC: *Sweatdrops*
AAUK: Or maybe three, but it's important I get these bit out of the way...

Chapter 12: Identity Crisis Pt II - Prophecies of Power

"So you came then?"

"Yes I had to."

"Let me tell you what I know so far."

It had been a very long and tiring climb up to the top of Infinity Mountain, much longer and more tiring than Angelus had contemplated when he first decided on climbing it. It had taken him a day, he wished he had a Birdamon or something to help him up to the top. He thought of how Gatomon could have armour digivolved to Nefertimon and could have carried him to it's peak. But ohhh no, he had to refuse her help and now he had trudged up the tall mountain on his lonesome, his feet ached terribly not that there had been anyone around to care. He had climbed it to find out who he really was; if he was really this fabled Gatekeeper - although all the signs seemed to point to it. Not long ago he was a normal(ish) guy in a boring college course and now here he was in the temple on it's peak in front of a middle aged robed man who the best part of a week ago had been merely a cartoon character. Waiting to find out if his life really was a lie and he was this demi-god figure, naturally Gennai had kept him waiting the best part of seven hours before turning up.

"A long time ago, when light was young and the darkness already old there was a ceasefire of sorts between them, both came to the conclusion that the seemingly never-ending war was...well...pointless. This was rather amazing for the battle had been waged for billions of years.

No side had even managed to impact upon the other, they were at a complete standstill. From the forces of light two warriors put forward a proposal, and Light and Darkness agreed to it though not all of the forces of Darkness accepted this and it took a final battle to achieve it. We were those two warriors Angelus. We fought alongside each other for our dream - don't worry I can't remember these events either.

All I have gathered is that for the Light to live and the worlds to flourish you challenged as the Gatekeeper another; we don't know who, and defeated them in combat."

Gennai paused.

"He was an extremely powerful being. Enriched by evil and the forces of Darkness, it took all you had and more - you had to sacrifice yourself to do it."

"I died???"

"Yes you died - or so it was believed anyway, You travelled to the higher plane of existence and remained there for some 720 years roughly. It was at that time you travelled back to our plane of existence and to old Japan, there you journeyed to Kyoto and hired two woodworkers to construct a ship for you. The ship served no purpose, but the woodworkers had to take their families to a place called Odaiba, sound familiar?"

"Who were they?"

"They were the ancestors of those who would give birth to the Toei Animation company. You laid down the structure of what was to come."

Gennai shuffled uncomfortably, and beckoned ArchangelUK to follow him further into the temple. The structure was the same one used by Devimon all those years ago to attack the DigiDestined and other digimon of the then File Island. Angelus shivered not from the cold but from the feeling of evil this place still seamed to posses, yet there was something else close by. Something warming and seemingly good.

"After this point," Gennai continued, "You disappeared again. I'm not sure what happens next but we do know you went on to fight the digimon Arnakmon. She was a digimon unlike any other, able to warp the very fabric of our world. You defeated her but it appears you lost all your powers and memories in the process. The battle even revoked your demigod immortality and made you fully mortal, reverting you to an age of little more than three Earth years old. This was about fifteen years ago."

Angelus swallowed, it scared him all this new information, it was all so much to process. He had been a God, he had died...wait a minute...

"If I was immortal at the time how could I die in that battle."

"You wield the weapon of a God as did your opponent. A weapon wielded by a God or forged by a God can naturally kill a God."

Angelus swallowed again, so many questions, so many answers and yet the one overriding enigma still remained.

"Then who am I...really?"

"You are Angelus, Warrior of the Light. You are the Gatekeeper, able to sense other worlds and in some cases open gates to those that are not locked. You wield the sword of the Gatekeeper a mystic weapon which in your hands can best even the mightiest of Gods and slay the strongest of men. Together you can create a gate to any world or dimension that you can sense - it is an intense process but you seam to have rediscovered how it is done."

"You said that I could open any doors that weren't locked."

"That's correct."

"So if I'm that Gatekeeper that suggest there is a Keymaster." Gennai blinked not quite sure of what AAUK had said. "Or have I just watched Ghostbusters too many times?"

"Keymaster... There is something very important about that. I'll have to ask Azulongmon again, but there is more that I must show you - you must understand.

The old prophecy goes on to mention four harbingers, the messengers of evil. They who were once divided shall be united and under the command of one who is a true deciple of Darkness shall they invade the three true worlds."

"That'll be Devimon, Daemon, Dragomon and Piedmon then."

"Fire shall rain from the skies, the oceans will boil and when and if the harbingers are all defeated a supreme evil will stand in the way. A final battle shall decide once and for all the fate of the three.

If victorious, the Gatekeeper and the Traveller- "

"Traveller?"

"I believe this to be young Ben. If victorious, the Gatekeeper and the Traveller shall end the Unification and with two keys of gold they will begin the rebirth and all shall be free to live in peace. Or so it is written."

"What gold keys?"

"It's written in this book here." Gennai led Angelus into a room, he could immediately tell that the sense of goodly power was emanating from the gold volume. "This is the Tome of Hope. There is also a Tome of Light which is locked up in Azulongmon's temple, after the DigiDestined defeated Devimon it was decided the Tome should rest here so he could never come back to this place again."

"Which made him go to that dark pool of his."

"Yes." Gennai opened the Tome and the room was engulfed in a golden glow, "The chosen pair shall look their deaths straight in the eye, the deaths of their friends and of their loved ones. Yet the Gatekeeper will choose his own Fate and the Traveller shall produce a Miracle and the Rebirth will bring Hope and Light forever and eternally."

Angelus leaned in to see the book, "Why are 'Fate' and 'Miracle' capitalised? I mean I can understand Hope and Light being so, but those...I..." Angelus trailed off, realisation dawning on him.

"What is it?"

"Fate and Miracles - the Golden Digieggs!"

"The two keys of gold!"

"Yes. All we have to do is get the key of Fate off of Willis and we'll be okay.... Urgh Willis." Angelus shuddered.

"You see we make progress already." Gennai beamed, Angelus groaned he had no real wish to meet the American loner and his marvellous tone deaf digitwins.

"Sounds like a full time job anyway."

Gennai bit his lip and said nothing, he instead closed the Tome of Hope and put the book back down on it's plinth. He led Angelus out of the temple.

"What I am about to show you now I found through meditation." Angelus frowned,

"You don't want me to do any of that Yoga nonsense do you?" He asked, Gennai shook his head.

"It revealed ancient memories to me that were lost like yours are to you. Not even the four guardians have seen this..."

"Okay. Let's go." And they disappeared into nothingness.

To Be Continued....

Tune in next time for more Digimon - Reality Redux!

DC: So I should write my chapter from when?
AAUK: From when you land wherever, the rest of us will have followed you.
DC: Oh right.


AAUK: It'll put you in good steps for your next chapter number 13.
DC: ...

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