The Fate of the World: Præsagio
by Creedogmon
edited by Godeerc VanDrey
Category: Digimon
Genre: Fantasy, Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Language: English
Summery: The strange prophecy is revealed and the DigiDestined must invent a plan of action.
A/N: Don't worry about so many chapters. For some reasons, these stories are coming out bite-sized. I'll try to keep it under twenty chapters, but no promises.
"The Darkness shall come to build his new lair
Corrupting the earth, the seas, and the air,
And the faith of the creatures will grow weak,
Till the coming of the Warriors of Light,
To Find the Treasures of Power they seek,
For they shall foretell the Ultimate Fight.
The Scribe with the Stylus of Negoti,
The Caretaker with the Key of Perspio
The Defender with the Torch of Adyun,
The Sister with the Mallet of Solesze,
The Cavalier with the Scepter of Coryf,
The Magistrate with the Scroll of Decatta,
The Champion with the Emblem of Corolla,
The Inquirer with the Shield of Procurare,
The Sanguine with Tear of Nitorio,
The Patron with the Horn of Oradisque,
The Unnamed with the Force of Parkamen,
The Angel with the Kiss of Virago.
Each destiny must be fulfilled,
Or the sun shall never again shine,
The Cave of Destiny must be renewed,
The Secret of Matter must be revealed,
The Stage of Battle must be set,
The Light of Loves must shine,
And the Symbol of Symbols must be complete:
Two Triads and Two Partners, One Bridge and One Cross
Protect the Light Crest and the Dark Crest.
All must come to know their others,
For their time together will be short,
And yet, the World shall be saved…
by a Lie, a Sin, a War, and a Redemption."
Diana asks us, "What do you think of it?"
"Prophecy, as far as I can tell," I comment. "What…?"
"Happened?" she finished, "I don't know. I suddenly had this irresistible urge to write. Worse than normal, I'm telling you. It just came to me."
Daniel smiles, "Happens a lot in the DigiWorld; you'll get used to it. Eh, Justine?"
Justine mumbles, "Yeah,"
Matt looks over my shoulder, "We're named in it. All of us, and three others: the Cavalier, the Scribe, and the… Unnamed?" He looks at Diana.
"Don't look at me. I didn't know any more what I was writing that what Jessica sees during her visions."
Eric laughs, "Unnamed? That's me! Remember the letter? I'm a Named DigiDestined. Whoa, serious irony there," Eric comments, in his usual unserious attitude.
I chuckle, "Strange… In the prophecy, we're all supposed to have something."
Diana peers at the prophecy again, "The Stylus of Negoti, the Key of Perspio, the Torch of Adyun, and so on."
Daniel comments, "What got my attention is 'their time together will be short…' Kinda ominous if you ask me."
James shakes his head, "When are prophecies not ominous?"
"Two triads and two partners, a cross and a bridge protect the Light and Dark Crest…" Diana quotes pensively, "The formation!" At this, she walks over to a rock wall and starts scratching lines into it.
James asks, "Diana, what are you drawing?"
She looks over, "Jessica, Christopher, you remember that vision you had of animals in formation? The bear, the snake, and falcon were out here, and the panther, the fox, and the tiger were here," she says, pointing at the three points of two concentric triangles.
"…the two triads. Then," she continues, "we have the parrot and the nightingale here," she says, drawing two connected points horizontally over the inner triangle. "…the two partners. We have a bridge, which was the Patron," she draws a vertical line through a dot connecting the two triangles by their bases. "We have the light and dark crests inside, which were the angel and the spider; those must represent the Light and Dark crests. All we have left is the cross, which was the…" she stops mid-sentence, pointing toward a dot above the horizontal line. "Jessica, what was it, the animal I'm missing?"
Jessica, still taken aback by Diana's knowledge of her vision, tries to recall the animal, but comes up blank. "I don't know. It's the one thing I didn't remember."
Diana makes two perpendicular lines through the last point. "I think this is the Symbol of Symbols."
Christopher's eyes widen, "Wait a second, we have a panther, a fox, and a tiger in the inner triad, which could be Tobalmon, Aneramon, and IceFelismon. In the outer triad, we have a bear, a snake, and a falcon. The falcon might be Aquilamon, the digivolved form of Hawkmon, or it could be Spiremon."
Salamon suddenly speaks from behind the crowd, "The Outer Triad? I wonder if…"
Delcomon, from James's side, comments, "The Outer Triad is also the name of the three powerful digimon who protect the Cave of Destiny."
Hawkmon chuckles, "Even more ironic, the quest of an Aneramon… was to locate these three digimon because the current three ceded their positions. Powerful forces were then threatening the DigiWorld, and they feared that stronger guards were needed."
Matt muses, "Any chance these digimon are a bear, a snake, and falcon?"
Salamon lowers his head, "It is not known. The Outer Triad has an attack-first, ask-questions-later kind of attitude. The Cave of Destiny is very delicate and has a lot of potential power. They can't take any chances that it falls into the wrong hands."
James remarks, "It says it must be renewed. How do you renew it?"
Delcomon sighs, "Well, you'd have to get in first. From there you can't go wrong, I suppose. But again, you have to get in, and that means facing three powerful digimon in sequence."
"Or concurrently," Matt observes.
Eric laughs, "We're the DigiDestined; does that not account for anything? That prophecy says we're supposed to open the cave. And, by golly, I think we will."
Justine, who is reading the prophecy for herself, notes, "It says we have to reveal the Secret of Matter, set the Stage of Battle, shine the Light of Loves, and complete the Symbol of Symbols."
"Didn't I just complete the Symbol of Symbols?" Diana asks, pointing towards the rock where she's scratched the emblem on the rock wall.
"No," Justine says, mindlessly. Diana gets a "How'd you…?" out before Justine raises her arms to indicate it was a premonition.
"Then…" Diana begins, "we have to fulfill these obligations. These items we're supposed to have. I guess they're metaphoric or it looks like we're going on a treasure hunt."
James prompts, "Did any of those names seem familiar, like they were place names in the DigiWorld?" The four digimon answer in the negative. James looks over at the prophecy again, but it's decorous.
'So, Scribe; you think you're on to something?'
"Did you guys hear that?" Diana asks, looking around.
A/N: And the endless cliffhangers begin. Man, I feel like a writer for Alias. Okay, okay, stop cheering. For goodness sake. I don't care how good the finale was. Anyway, check to see if I've published either "Bearing Caroline" or "Shooting Star," because there such mature works and I've really yet to bring this series up to par with them. Read them, they are Creedog at his best, maybe not plot-wise, but definitely style-wise.
- Are you kidding me? Sonriso does not even appear in those works! How can Creedog showcase works where the incredible and talented Sonriso is not even mentioned? Well, he does make a cameo appearance in Creedog's newer series, tentatively titled "Extraordinaire."