Digi-Destined in Neo-Queen Serenity's Court.
A Sailormoon - Digimon Crossover fanfiction.
By: Kelly Paul Graham.
____________________________________________________________________________
DISCLAIMER: The main characters in this story are not mine.
The Digimon and Digi-destined and their families belong to their creator,
Miyoshi Houso, and Toei Animation.
Neo-Queen Serenity, King Endymion, Chibiusa ("Small Lady"), the Sailorsenshi,
the Family Tsukino- and Crystal Tokyo- are the property of their creator, Naoko
Takeuchi,
and Toei Animation.
NOTE:
Another Digi-fan has let me know (more or less), in reference to another
fiction I have written ("Friends Forever"), that I have Ishida-san's first name
wrong.
Well, mistakes can happen. But, It's too late for me to change names. So....
"Matsuo",
meet "Yamato"! "Yamato", meet "Matsuo"!
I don't remember WHERE I got the idea the "Matsuo" was "Matt"'s original
Japanese name, but that's what I have it as ^_^
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTES on Words and Phrases used
Japanese words:
"Hai" = "yes"
"Iie" = "no"
"Arigatou" = "Thank you"
"Domo Arigatou" = "Many thanks" (?)
"Sayonara" = "goodbye"
"Baka" = "stupid"
"Yaoi" = male homosexual
"Ginzuishou" = silver crystal (Sailormoon's powersource)
Other Phrases:
"Dust Child"- a term that was used in Southeast Asia (and
maybe in eastern Asia), mainly to label those children of mixed marriages or
relationships.
Basically, such children were considered to be as important as the dust under
your feet. I
could well imagine that any child without family ties, whether or not they were
are half-
breeds, are thought of in places where family-tries are important.
"Khara Khan", Turkic for "Black King", is a local name in
Asia for Opium.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Part II- "To Odaiba and Back".
The main dining-table in the Banquet-Hall was quite active.
"I thought Serenity and Small-Lady could eat!" Makoto said to herself with a
smile. "Even with their being sixteen new stomaches here, I am averaging TWO
Serenity-sama's
and two Small-Ladies for every Digimon and Digi-Destined!!"
Kino Makoto, aka Sailorjupiter, smiled as she made her way back to the kitchen.
'I am just glad they are able to eat!', the Senshi of Thunder thought to
herself. 'And laugh after what they have been through.'
"I'll get more food!" Sailorjupiter called out.
"Arigatou, Jupiter-sama!" The Digimon and Digi-destined replied less-than-
simultaneously.
"This is the BEST meal I've had in a long time!" Takeru smiled as he went
through his fourth bowl of Miso soup. "I think I'll have some soba next!"
"After all that Miso?" Taichi asked. "Do you have room for it?"
"I think so." Takeru shyly smiled.
"Hey!" Matsuo laughed. "My brother's a growing boy!"
"Well," chuckled Taichi, "he's certainly keeping up with you, Matsuo!"
"Well," smiled Matsuo, "I work-off the calories fighting you!"
"And you still haven't beaten me!" Taichi said cockedly.
"All things can change!" Matsuo laughed. Both boys smiled.
"They wouldn't care who won, anyway!" Sora whispered to Chibiusa. "They are two
bear-cubs!"
"Hai!" Agreed Mimi, overhearing Sora over the two boy's banter.
"Anymore tariyaki, Jupiter-sama ?" Koushiro asked.
Jupiter smiled and headed back to the kitchen.
"May I have some more tampura, Jupiter-sama?" Hikari asked as Makoto came out
with a large bowl of soba and a bowl of Tariyaki.
"I'm surprised you haven't been tampura-dipped, yet, Hikari-chan!" Mimi giggled
lightly.
"I love tampura!" Hakari smiled.
"I swear," stated Mimi, "if we Tampura-fried Takeru you would probably eat him!"
Both Hikari and Takeru sweatdropped as they tried to sink under the table to
hide their growing blushes.
Patomon and Gatomon looked up at their partners askingly.
Taichi and Matsuo tried to stifle the guilty snickers emenating from themselves.
"She's done it again." Sora said as she hung her head slowly and shook it,
A sad smile developing for Mimi's sake.
"Another Ami-chan..", Neo-Queen Serenity slowly whispered.
"Do you think Mimi realizes what she just said?" Jyou softly asked Koushiro,
sitting across from him.
"She hasn't got a clue." Koushiro smiled back faintly.
"Hai! Kamiya-chan!" Jupiter said to change the subject. " More Tampura is
coming!"
Jupiter smiled at the small girl. "And will you have anymore, Gatomon?"
"Iie, Jupiter-sama!" Gatomon shook her head. "I can not bewlieve I ate so much
as it is! I am filled!"
"Hey, minna!" Patomon piped up. "News-flash! Gatomon's full!" Mock-gasps and
snickers could be heard around the table.
"Patomon," Gatomon softly spoke under a coy smile, "I'm not that full yet.
Come here!"
Patomon flew from his chair at Takeru's side to the Kitchen to another round
of laughter.
After lunch was over, and the Digi-destined helped with the dishes,
Sailorjupiter
prepared snacks for the Digimon and their partners and for Chibiusa.
"But, your Highness!" Jyou started to protest, "we just ate!"
"Hai!" Jupiter agreed. "But the road to Odaiba is a bit long! The snacks will
be needed!"
"Arigatou." Jyou bowed and headed out of the kitchen.
"He is so much like Kiddo-sama and Shin-san described him!" Serenity smiled a
bit sadly.
"Hai." Jupiter looked at Her Majesty with a touch of concern. "You miss them.
I can see."
"Hai." Serenity whispered. "After the Dark Sleep, when I learned that
Ikuko-mama,
Kenji-papa, and Shingo did not survive, part of me died. It was like when Queen
Serenity's
image showing us the destruction of the Moon Kingdom, but it felt much worse!"
"Hai." Jupiter hugged Serenity protectively. In many ways, Neo-Queen Serenity
had never lost the fragility of Usagi Tsukino. The Rabbit-of-the-Moon may be
able to love all, Jupiter reminded herself, but she needed other's love as much
as she needed air to breathe!
"Even with the Senshi and Endymion- and Chibiusa- here," Serenity continued,
"life here was lonely! But, then, I met the families of the Digi-Destined! As
their story and search became mine, so did their love. They could never replace
my loss, but they did become a third family to me ! As you and the other Senshi
became my second family!" Jupiter held onto Serenity as memories overwhelmed her.
"They also helped me remember who I was! I was not just some ethereal Saviour!
I was- I am!- as much a child of Earth as of the Moon! I can never forget that!
I must never forget that! And, thanks to the Digi-Destined's families, I will
never forget it!" Serenity slowly composed herself.
"Mako-san?" Serenity spoke in a voice that reminded Makoto of the Neo-Queen's
younger-self, Usagi. "Will you fix me a snack to take outside? Please ?"
"Hai... Usagi!" Makoto smiled. "Are you going somewhere ?"
"Hai," the Neo-Queen smiled, "I am going to visit my parents and Shingo! I will
be back in a little while."
The ride around the bay to Odaiba was long, But enjoyable. The bridges of 36th-
century Crystal Tokyo were, as the streets, a mass of pedestrians and
beasts-of-burden. Gone were the cars, buses, and trains with their smoke
and noise. The Digi-Destined and Chibiusa rode on horseback and in carriages
listening to the music of nature and of passers-by.
"It's so- different!" Jyou whispered in awe. "It's not the Japan I remember!"
"It almost reminds me of the Digi-world," Gomamon said, "a gentle buzz... a
rather quiet murmur.."
"Quite unlike the Japan we left!" Koushiro remarked.
"Hai!" Tentomon agreed. "The noise and the foulness in the air." He made a
face as he was remembering the old city. Then he started shaking his head and
snorted to rid himself of the phantom-odors. "I DEFINITELY prefer the new Tokyo!"
"OK!" Taichi joked toward Chibiusa. "What did your Mama-san do with the old
Tokyo!"
"Taichi.." Hikari looked woriedly at her brother.
The smile that then flashed over his face reassured Chibiusa that Taichi was
not angry.
"Well," the Neo-Princess started, "from what I've been told, as my Mama-san and
the rest of Earth was in the Dark Sleep, the Earth was able to recuperate from
most of the
Darkness we had plagued it with over the millenia. Then, when Mama-san and
Papa-san awoke,
they were able to heal the Earth of what it could not heal from itself. Then,
after the
rebellion was put down and those who chose rebellion exiled, the rest of the
population
started to work to help make this world a beatiful place again! Ways were
discovered to
get around that did not pollute as much as before! We were happy! But, then came
the invasion."
Chibiusa sighed. "The mechanized forces of the Darkmoon Family destroyed almost
all of what we had built back up and protected ! After the war, even much of
Crystal Tokyo
looked worse than a desert. I saw that myself. Anyway, after the invasion was
pushed back,
we saw what the mechanized armies had done! And Earth decided the no longer
would we relie
so heavily on the machines of man! They are now used only when and where they
are really
needed. We still use ships to cross the oceans, and machines to cross space,
and, trains
when great stretches of land must be crossed! But, we have returned to many of
the old ways!
I like it! It allows me to enjoy my home."
"I like it!" Matsuo smiled from atop Garurumon with Takeru and Patomon. He
sniffed the air. "Mmmmm. It reminds me of the mountains! But with a bit of
saltiness! Aaaaaaaah!"
"Hai! I can breathe here!" Jyou said from atop the horse he was riding.
"No allergic reactions?" Gomamon asked from his perch on Jyou's shoulders.
"Iie." Jyou breathed in and smiled.
"A miracle has happened !!" Gomamon shouted.
Jyou blushed as a hardly round of laughter escaped the travellers.
The sun was up to the point of Noon when the party reached Odaiba.
Ten minutes later, the children walked into Odiaba's burial-ground.
The Digi-destined wandered through the cemetary. Although it was warm and sunny
outside the walls, inside the cemetary the air was cold and fog-shrouded. And no
sound seemed
to come from inside or outside the cemetary.
Chibiusa held tightly onto herself, rubbing her arms for warmth. "This does not
feel right." Chibiusa reflexively headed back toward the entrance. "Something
feels wrong, here! But what is it ?"
As Sora and Byomon wandered among the graves, whispers floated through the air.
Whispers that only Sora could hear.
"You have come back to me."
"Nani?" Sora asked aloud.
"Hai, Sora?" Byomon asked her partner.
"I knew you would come back to me." The whisper continued.
"Who are you ?" Sora spoke up.
"Who's who, Sora ?" Byomon asked with a little worry.
"I knew you would come back, Sora." The whisper was smooth. "You enjoyed it as
much as I did! So you've come back for more. I an glad."
On hearing the whisperer clearly, Sora's eyes reflected fear. "IIEDE!!" She
screamed. "Keep away!" Then she asked in a weak voice, "Please?"
"Your mouth says 'No!', the whisper taunted, "but your body says 'Yes!'"
"Iie!" Sora pleaded is a whisper as she relived the terror of the rape of
long-ago.
She felt the fear gripping her heart like ice. She felt the groping hands and
hot breath
on her skin. She felt.. she felt...
"Sora?" A worried Byomon touched Sora's arm.
"Don't Touch Me!" Sora screamed as she jerked away from her Digi-partner. Sora
than ran wildly through the graveyard, tripping over stones, trying to get to
the outside. Away from the dirtiness. Away from the helplessness. Away from
the hopelessness. Just get.. away !
Byomon tried to digivolve to save Sora from a shadow she thought she saw
chasing her friend, but- somehow- she found she couldn't!
"You will never be rid of me!" The whisper was now a scream in Sora's head.
It even drowned out the thunder of Sora's wildly-beating heart. "You can never
leave me, and good people never help a dirty whore !!"
"IIEDE !!" Sora screamed through her tears.
The mists swirled minacingly around Koushiro. He and Tentomon tried to find the
graves of his parents, Soun and Kana Izumi.
"I don't understand, Tentomon!" Koushiro said frowning, "Mama-san and Papa-san
SHOULD be here! This is the Odaiba cemetary, after all! They would not be buried
anywhere
else."
"So it would seem, Koushiro-san." Tentomon replied.
"'Koushiro-SAN'?" Koushiro looked at his digi-partner. "Why the sudden show of
respect, Tentomon?"
"Well," Tentomon looked up at his friend, "I have always had respect for you,
Koushiro-san! You use your quest for knowledge to help the others, and you try
not to be condescemnding to the others, even when you've had to explain yourself."
"Arigatou, Tentomon." Koushiro bowed. Then, he picked up Tentomon to hug the
little beetle-Digimon.
"How sweet," came a mocking whisper, "the stray has found a pet!"
"Nani ?" Koushiro looked up in the direction the what seemed to come from.
"What is it, Koushiro-san?" Tentomon looked up to his partner.
"I thought I heard something", Koushiro replied.
"You are not supposed to be here, gaijin!"
"Nani ?" Koushiro turned around.
"You heard us, dog!" the whisper replied.
"This is an honorable field! You hold no honor!"
"WHY do I hold no honor?" Koushiro shouted to the whispers that seemed to come
from all around.
"Koushiro?" Tentomon asked nervously.
"A dog with no name can hold no honor!"
"I have a name!" Koushiro shouted defiantly at the thickening fog. "I am
Koushiro IZUMI!"
Tentomon looked in the direction Koushiro was shouting at.. and jumped! Were
pieces of the fog- taking shape?
"You are not 'Izumi'!" Tenotmon heard the fog say manacingly. "You are
'Dust-child'!"
"Dust-child.."
"Dust-child.."
"Dust-child.."
The whispers seemed now to grow into a loud, tormenting chorus.
"DUST-CHILD!"
"IIE !!!!" Koushiro out as he covered his ears. He fell to the ground paralyzed
with fear, curled into a grotesque ball to
guard himself against the demons taunting him as Tentomon tried his best to
protect him.
As Koushiro shed tears of pain, he heard himself echoing the hated whispers:
"Dust-child... Dust-child..."
"Where can they be, Palmon?" Mimi asked her Digi-partner and friend. "Where is
my family?"
"I don't know, Mimi ! We looked all around here, and no Tachikawa !" Palmon
looked nervously around at the growing fog. "And now I think we're lost!" Palmon
crept
closer to Mimi for assurance that she was still here. "Tentomon?" She yelled.
"Agumon ?
Byomon? Gomamon? Where are you guys? Gabumon? Patomon? Gatomon?"
"Koushiro? Taichi?" Mim called out. "Sora? Jyou?" She paused to try to listen
through the fog, then called out again. "Matsuo? Takeru? Hikari??!! Where are
you??!!!!"
"Nobody will answer you, foolish girl."
"Nani?" Mimi asked.
"Mimi?" Palmon asked her friend. "What's wrong?"
"I just heard something." Mimi whispered, trying to listen for the other
whisperer.
"Nobody listens to a silly babbler." Another voice seemed to say.
"Nani?" Mim suddenly asked. "Who is this silly babbler?"
"The silly girl who holds the Crest of Sincerity." The first whisper chuckled.
"How can one who was so self-centered be sincere?"
"It can not!" A third whisper judged. "It is just a silly talking doll! No one
believes it's babbling!"
"Nani ?" Mimi screamed up to the fog.
"What is it, Mimi?" Palmon asked her best friend.
"The voices!" Mimi looked to her best friend. "Don't you hear them?"
Palmon looked up at Mimi worriedly.
"She cannot hear what selfish baka-girls hear."
"Nani?" Mimi screamed, then qietly asked asked, "Baka?"
"Baka-girl! Selfish girl! Girl with no friends!"
"STOP IT!" Mim screamed as tears began to fall from her eyes.
"Baka-girl no have REAL friends! Just follow users."
"STOP IT!" Mimi screamed. "Say what you want about me! But leave my friends
ALONE!"
Palmon started to see a shadow in the foggy sky. It seemed to smile- an evil
smile.
"Mimi?" Palmon warned as her voice quivered. "Don't listen to the voices.
Please-
don't listen to the voices!"
"Baka-girl! Girl with no friends! Just users.. like she use..."
"IIE !!!" Mim screamed as she fell to the ground, her strength gone. All that
could be seen was her heaving breasts, as her lungs screamed for air.
"MIMI !!!" Palmon screamed. "Palmon--- digivolve to--- TOGEMON !!!"
The giant cactus-digimon spun around the the fog-shadow.
"That's ENOUGH !!" Togemon yelled. "I won't let you hurt Mimi !! NEEDLE-SPRAY
!!"
Togemon's needles passed unnoticed into the fog as she bent down to pick up
Mimi.
"Come on, Mimi! We're getting out of here!" She gently cradled Mimi in her
gloves.
"Why even bother?" Mimi muttered dejectedly. "The shadows are right. I am a
user-
a useless user."
Jyou and Gomamon had no luck in locating the family Kido.
"Is this the only burial-ground in Odaiba ?" Gomamon asked his partner.
"As I remember, it is, Gomamon!" Jyou replied. "My family just has to be here!"
"Maybe we missed something?" Gomamon asked.
"I wouldn't doubt it, in this fog." Jyou sighed.
"Family not here." The whisper echoed through the heavy fog. "Ashamed of
cowardly
son. They leave."
"'Cowardly'?" Jyou looked up.
"Nani?" Gomamon looked up at Jyou.
"Hai. Coward. Disgrace. Run from responsibility!"
"Nani?" Jyou's vioce shot out in anger. "I used to run! But no more!" He
clinched
his fists in anger.
"Coward! Run from Papa-san! Kido-san want fine doctor. You run!"
Jyou started shaking. "I COULDN'T go! I had OTHER responsibilies! More important
ones! I had to be reliable! I HAD to be!!" Jyou's voice started to crack.
Gomamon eyed his best friend worriedly. "Jyou ?"
"Never reliable. Run to friends! Run to Digi-world!" The whisper slowed to a
deathly
crawl. "Run.. from.. Papa-san!!!"
"IIE !!!" Jyou sceamed as his jerked back as from a snake-bite!
"Run, coward! Run for protection! Cowards find NONE!"
Gomamon pick up his ears. The voices were soft. The words were sharp as needles.
"Jyou !" Gomamon shouted to his partner. "Kido-san! RUN!!!"
"Nani?" Jyou suddemly heard his friend.
"The voicee!" Gomamon cried out. "The shadows- in the fog! They're POISON!!!"
Gomamon jumped on his partner's shoulders and Jyou started to run! But, Jyou
then tripped over a broken stone.
The shadow in the fog laughed menacingly.
"Disgrace! Boy NEVER be MAN! Did not take his resposibilities! Instead, run!
Always run."
"I was responsible!" Jyou shouted through his tears. "I am reliable!"
"Reliable.. Iie! Never try for Papa-san's dream of you being doctor! You run!
You cry!"
"Jyou!" Gomamon pleaded. "Don't listen to them !!!"
"Papa- san knew ! He UNDERSTOOD!! He told Neo-Queen Serenity he was PROUD of me!
He wrote me and said he was proud!"
"What does Baka-girl know! What Baka-boy believe? She has her story.." The
whisper
grew snide and coy. "We have our story !"
Jyou could hardly breathe for the tears he cried.
"THAT'S IT!" Gomamon screamed defiantly at the voices. "You will NOT harm my
friend! Gomamon! Digivolve to.. ???"
Gomamon was still Gomamon. Then he de-digivolved to Bukamon.
"Nani ?" Bukamon asked bewilderedly.
"Power to digivolve come from friend's reliability." The whispers chuckled.
"Friend's belief in his reliability is SHATTERED! Bukamon and partner doomed..."
Bukamon put himself protectively around the now-shivering form of Jyou Kido.
Matsuo and Takeru, with Gabumon and Patomon, searched through the rows of
markers
for their parents.
"Where are they, Matsuo?" Takeru asked, looking up at his brother for an answer.
"I wish I knew, Takeru,!" Matsuo held his younger brother close. "I wish I
knew."
"Matsuo!" Gabumon said with a sniff. "I do not like this place! Let us leave."
"I agree with Gabumon!" Patomon said as he kept a watchful eye from atop
Takeru's
hat. "Something seems.. evil.. here!"
"I agree with you, Patomon!" Takeru shivered a bit as he drew closer to his
older
brother.
"You canot leave your friends, Matsuo-kun."
"Nani ?" Matsuo swirled around to answer the unseen whisper.
"Matsuo ?" Takeru asked, "Are you alright ?" Concern shown in the younger
brother's
eyes.
"You rememeber you're friends, Matsuo?" The whispers taunted. "Hiro-kun?
Harada-kun?
and Ikiko-chan?"
Matsuo's complection turn to ash as his body started to shake. "Hai", he softly
cried. Hiro was his best friend growing up. Harada was a strange little yaoi,
but a good
friend. And Ikiko had been his girlfriend, before the back-alley "party" that
left her dead
and him near-death. The others had died that night, too.
"And you remember your BEST friend, Matsuo?" The whisper grew louder. "The Khan?
Khara Khan?"
"The K..Khara.. Khan ? IIE !!!" Matsuo screamed. Then he curled up in a
protective
ball and cried. "Get away from me. Please ?"
"But you have the crest of friendship! Surely, you will want to join your
friends?"
Matsuo tried to escape the visions in him mind again. Ikiko lay in his arms and
throwing up, and her skin was getting colder. Her breath had long since left
her. And Matsuo
was caressing her hair, slowing loosing consciousness to the opium. So he would
join her.
"Iie.. Iie.. Get away from me.." Matsuo kept repeating over and over, pleading
with that shadowing whisper as it started to laugh.
"You do not wish to join them? Fine! Maybe your younger-brother will join us
then?"
"Takeru?" Matsuo whispered. "IIE ! I will not let you have him!" Matsuo spang
to Takeru's side. "Takeru! Watch out!"
"Nani?" Takeru asked as he saw his brother uncurl himself and gracelessly get
to his side.
"Gabumon!" Matsuo shouted, "Protect Takeru!"
"From what, Matsuo?" Gabumon looked nervously around himself.
"From the shadows!" Matsuo cried. "They're coming for him.. like they tried to
take me!"
"IIE !!" Takeru screamed. "I will NOT let you have my older-brother! He has been
hurt too MUCH already! He has suffered the pain of seperation, the dipair of
loneliness,
and the fear of death! He will suffer NO MORE!" Takeru looked defiantly at the
shadows
forming in the fog.
"And what hope do you have of defeating us?" The shadow asked smugly.
"I am Takeru Takaishi!" The young man shouted as he held to his digi-vice and
crest. "I am Hope! Patomon, digi-volve.. NOW!"
"Patomon.. digi-volve to.. ANGEMON!"
"I wonder where our parents can be?" Taichi asked nobody in particular.
"I do not know, Taichi!" Agumon amswered.
"I do not think they're here!" Hikari answered.
"How do you know?" Gatomon asked her partner. "How can you tell?"
"How can you tell anything in this fog?" Taichi observed. "I cannot clearly see
a meter in front of me! And, where are the others?"
"They are lost, Kamiya Taichi."
"Nani?" Taichi peered into the fog.
"Nani?" Hikari asked her older-brother.
"They are lost, because Courage is lost!"
"If Courage was ever among them!"
Taichi cocked his ear to listen to the whispers.
"Taichi?" Hikari asked worriedly.
"I thought I heard something, Hikari." Taichi quizzically loked around. Hikari
and Gatomon worriedly looked around.
"I don't like this", Gatomon said.
"Courage has led the Digi-Destined to their deaths! Far from home.." The whisper
was as ominous as distant thunder.
"Nani?" Taichi shouted to the gathering fox. "Why must we die?"
"Because leader lack courage! Look at friends remaining!" After a puase, the
whisper returned, menacingly softer. "Look at younger-sister!"
Taichi turned to look at his younger-sister, and screamed. Gone was the youthful
face with the inquisitive eyes and the compassionate smile. It it place, in the
mist, a
mummified face was standing, wrenching with anger. The eyeless socket seeming to
stare
accusingly at Taichi.
"Why?" asked the mummy in a small, dried voice. "Why did I have to die, Taichi?
Did I disappoint you that much? Was I such a bad girl that you felt I was
irredeemable,
Taichi? What about Mama-san and Papa-san, Taichi?"
"IIE !!!" Taichi screamed.
"Nani?" Hikari reached out to her older-brother to offer suppoert. "Is something
wrong, Taichi?"
Taichi pulled back as he saw the mummied girl reach out for him.
"What did I do, that you sent me to die?"
"I.. I'm sorry, Hikari." Taichi stammered.
"Nani?" Hikari asked. "Why should you feel remorseful?"
"I never wanted you dead!" Taichi cried. "I failed everyone! Mama-san..
Papa-san..
You.. Everyone !!"
Taichi turned to run away and was stopped by Agumon.
"Wait up! Taichi, what is wrong ?" Agumon pleaded.
"AAAAAAAAH !!!" Taichi screamed as he saw the scawling smile of Skullgreymon.
"Get away from ME! Leave me ALONE!"
"What is wrong with Taichi-san, Hikari?" Gatomon asked her best friend.
"His eyes.. his breathing! He is being scared to death, Gatomon!" Hikari
exclaimed.
"Scared?" Agumon asked. "By who?"
"By them!" Hikari spun around and pointed directly at the three shadows in the
swirling fog.
Agumon and Gatomon looked up- and gasped!
"He is ours now! Six have fallen! Two will follow! Digi-destined fall where they
feel safest!"
"You will never have Taichi !" Agumon valiantly declared. "Agumon! Digivolve
to- ???"
Agumon could not become Greymom!
"Agumon! Digivolve to.- ???"
"Ha! Without Courage, Greymon dies unborn! Courage no longer in puppet!"
"I failed.. I failed.." Taichi whimpered as her rolled into a protective ball.
"I'm scared! So scared..."
"Courage is gone now, NEVER TO RETURN !!!"
Agumon de-digivolved to Koromon. Koromon then bounced reassuringly to his friend
laying helpless on the ground.
Hikari moved closer to protect Taichi, with Gatomon shadowing her.
Hikari looked straight at the shadows with not trace of fear. "Taichi is only
afraid of the darkness you have forced him into. You have robbed my
older-brother of light.
But light cannot be dammed up! Like a rushing stream, it will run free." Hikari
held onto
her crest and digi-vice with outstretched arms. "I will free my brother's
light!" She said
defiently.
Then, she added in an even tone, "I am Hikari Kamiya! I am Light ! Gatomon- go!"
"Gatomon! Digivolve to... ANGEWOMON !!!"
Chibiusagi felt an unease as she watched the fog thicken then darken over the
Odaiba Cemetary. The chill she suddenly felt had nothing to do with the weather
outside
the burial grounds.
"Something - FEELS- wrong here !" the Neo-Princess said. "I MUST get the
Destined
out of there!"
She charged at the entryway- only to be stopped as she met a brickwall of fog.
"UGH !!!" Chibiusa said as she landed un-princess-like on her rear-end. "That
HURT!"
The fog seemed to laugh at her attack.
"THE Digi-Destined are OURS! The Prophecy MUST come to pass! 'From outside of
time
and space.. Sixteen will fall and eight rise!' The Digi-destined are OURS at
LAST!"
"IIE !!!" Chibiusagi screamed. "I will not loose friends to Death without a
fight!"
The Neo-Princess grabbed her wand and spun sharply around.
"Pinka- Sugar.. Heart.. Attacku !!!"
Pink-sugar heart sized bundles of pure mystic energy hit the fog-barrier with
the force and furocity of a swarm of bees defending their hive.
'Not as weak as I once was with this!' The Neo-Princess thought as she hammered
at the fog gaurding the entrance to the cemetary. Chibiusagi slowly felt the
barrier give
way. "Hai! Now to finish this mission!"
Pink hair flew backwards and forward as Chibiusa reached for a treasured
family-heirloom.
Then, from in the fog-shrouded cemetary, came two Angelic shouts of defience.
"Hand of FATE !!"
"Heaven's CHARM !!"
Chibiusagi pulled out her mother's old Moonstick, somehow salvaged from the
Polar Regions after the Awakening, and pirouetted as an old Tsukion battle-cry
rang out:
"Moon- Healing- ACTIVATION !!"
The three blasts broke the foggy-grip from the cemetary. And Chibiusagi rushed
in to rescue her friends.
The Digidestined were back from seeking for their families among the falling and
fallen stones and their traps. They were huddled together with Chibusa for
warmth.
"Taichi?" Neo-Princess Usagi asked with concern, "Will you be alright?"
"I thought that Serenity said that our parents wanted to be buried in Odaiba!"
Jyou said.
"We can't even let our families know we made it home!" Takeru started to softly
cry.
"Or even say 'Sayonara'." Koushiro looked sadly at Tentomon. The small insect-
Digimon held on to the boy protectively.
"It can't end this way." Taichi shook his head in disbelief. "It just can't!"
"I'm afraid it has, Taichi." Sora said softly as her hand supported Taichi's
sagging shoulder, then quickly drew away. "Our families aren't here!"
"But they HAVE to be here!" Mimi cried out. "They said THIS is where they wanted
to be buried! This is WHERE we.. we..." Mimi fell strangely silent, then burst
out into
giggles!
"Mimi?" Koushiro asked, brought out of his depressed state. "Are you alright?"
"She's lost it." Jyou said sadly as he hung his head.
"Mimi ?" Palmon looked up at her partner, who was now doubled over holding her
stomache. "Are you hurt?"
"Iie ! Iie.. Palmon!" Mimi gasped. "It's just.. just that.. I just figured out
where our parents are!" She spun around to look at Koushiro. "Koushiro! WHERE
did our families
last see us?"
Koushiro Izumi looked dumbfounded at his friend. "Here, of course.. of COURSE!
Odaiba High School!" He gave Mimi the biggest hug he could give as tears
streamed down his
face.
"The High School?" Taichi asked in bewilderment. "That is not a burying ground!"
"It was not, then - when we were here!" Koushiro corrected his leader and
friend.
"But we don't know about now! But, there- most importantly- is where we last saw
our families!"
"Iie! Chibiusagi no Baka!" The Neo-Princess shook her head in disbelief and
grimaced. "WHY did I not remember that SOONER? We Senshi never came to this
place for the
funerals or the burials! THEY wanted to be buried where they last saw YOU!
Odango Atama..!"
As soon as the Digi-destined were rested, they, their Digimon, and Chibiusa made
their way to Odaiba High School.
"A pert of me wondered if I'd ever see this place again", Jyou refected.
"Well, my friend," Gomamon reassured him, "we're back."
The group made it's way to a quiet corner off the school grounds. A sence of
peace permeated the area around which were 16 markers of polished granite. The
area was
well-planted in flowers.
"Mama-san keeps this well cared for!" Chibiusa said. "She was never one to see
friends suffer. Even in death."
Each of the Digi-destined, along with their Digimon, went to see his or her
family. Chibiusa bowed to the parents in respect and withdrew to the side.
'Reunions are
best held in private.' The Neo-Princess thought.
That is when Chibiusa received a messaga over her communicator. "Nani?"
"Your Highness? This is Princess Mercury! We picked up a disturbance in the
Odaiba-District that we have been monitoring for the past two hours."
"Nani?" Chibiusa's eyes widened. "Two Hours?"
"Hai!" Princess Mercury responded "It hovered menacingly for about fifty
minutes,
then blazed for ten minutes. The presence died away after that, but your parents
and the
Princess Mars are still worried.
"Hai!" Chibiusa responded. "We will start for home shortly."
As he and Koushiro kneeled at the Izumi's graves to say goodbye, Tentomon felt
surrounded by a cloudy mist. But he sensed no evil. He felt only love pour out
as the mist
coelesced into four protective spirits.
"Konnichi-wa, Koushiro." Kana Izumi placed a ghostly hsnd upon her son's
shoulder.
"It gladdens me to see you are alright." The misty form solidified to hold a
crying Koushiro.
"We were worried for you for so long!"
"As I was for you!" Koushiro buried himself protectively in Kana-san. "Is
Papa-san
here?"
"We are all here, Koushiro!", Soun said softly.
Koushiro looked around himself and Tentomon. He saw the tender smiles of Soun
and Kana Izumi, and two others he had never seen before. He knew them instantly.
"Papa-san? Mama-san?"
"Hai, Koushiro-chan!"
The ghosts came closer, and Koushiro and Tentomon gave themselves over to their
protective embraces. Koushiro released himself from his fears, crying for an
hour.
"It is alright, Koushiro!" Tentomon said softly. "We are here. You are safe."
"We always loved you, Koushiro-chan," Soun held to Koushiro lightly, "and we
always will."
"Hai.. Uncle Soun." Koushiro said softly. "I just forgot."
"Because someone told a lie, Koushiro." Soun reassured the boy.
"But," Koushiro's small voice faultered, "it sounded.. so true!"
"One of the deadliest of lies!" Said Koushiro's father. "What they say holds a
little truth, but it is coccooned in lies!"
"Hai." Koushiro darkly rembembered the hated term. "Dust Child."
"You are not 'Dust Child', Koushiro-chan! You have never been 'Dust Child'!"
His mother's words rang sweetly in Koudhiro's ears.
"You were orphaned, Koushiro-san, hai!" Kana replied. "But, you were never
without
those who loved you! When Soun and I could not be with you, your mother and
father were!"
"Even in the Digi-world.." Koushiro mused.
"Hai," Kana replied, "and we will always be here for you, Koushiro, my baby."
The Crest of Knowledge glowed brightly, bathing Koushiro Izumi in it's light.
"So will I, Koushiro-san!" Tentomon looked up at his friend.
"Jyou!" Kiddo-san's spirit asked his son as his mother, brother, and Bukamon
remained silent. "Why did you not believe my love for you still lasted?"
"I wanted to, Papa-san, so much! But, even after reading your letter, and
listening
to Neo-Queen Serenity, I could not help but believe what the demon said!
Especially, after
he said he knew things that the Neo-Queen could never know." Jyou hung his head
ashamedly.
Jyou felt the Kiddo-spirits embrace him reassuringly. "Iie! Serenity knew,
Serenity knows! It is just a trick of the Darkness."'If Kami does not tell all,
Kami must
not know all!'" But it is only a trick. Only illusion!"
"A poison!" Bukamon added, hovering protectively around hid Digi-Destined
partner.
"Hai!" Shin answered. "But, it was not able to kill you, little-brother!"
"It was a near-thing, Shin-san." Jyou slowly looked to his older-brother.
"Always remember, Jyou.." his father smiled, "I am very PROUD of you! I always
thought you would have made a good heale !"
"Hai. Although I would never have been a good doctor." Jyou almost laughed. "Not
with my avertion to blood!"
"Hai." Bukamon commented.
"True," answered the father, "but, there are many different kinds of healing,
as there are many different kinds of hurt! I was just too blind to the different
hurts and healings! I am sorry that I limited you, my Jyou. You still have much
to do! We will be here when you come back."
The two digi-partners and the ghosts sought each other in a welcoming embrace
as the Crest of Reliability bathed the boy wearing is in the bright green glow.
"HAI !!" Bukamon shouted.
"Mama-sama! Papa-sama! I was so scared!" Mimi Tachikawa cried heavily as her
mother and father and Palmon safely cradled her. "All I heard was the shadow's
name for
me. 'Chatterer'! And it called me useless! And a user! I've been used to being
called
those things before.. and worse. But when it called my friends being called
that, I wilted!
I had no will to fight back with! Oh, Minna, I was scared!!"
"Hai!" Tachikawa-san whispered as he and his wife held their daughter. "The
Enemies know what to fight with! They watch us enough. And fighting them can be
hard! But not so hard next time!"
Mimi smiled up at her father. "Like you going against Darktyrannomon?"
"Or my becoming Lillymom because you wished to save your family!" Palmon smiled
up to Mimi and hugged her tightly. A pink glow surrounded the young lady.
"Everything will turn out alright!" Mimi smiled.
"Mama-san!" Sora cried over and over as Takenouchi-san softly stroked her
sobbing daughter. "I thought I would never see you again! I was so scared!"
"I know, my Sora," Takenouchi-san spoke softly, "I know!" Ghostly eyes looked
with love and a fierce sense of protection to Sora. "I and your father wanted to
help you,
but was not able to! Ghosts can only do what we are allowed to. And the Old
Cemetary is
protected by a malevolent force. All I could do was hear your father's cries of
rage and
regret as he heard again the taunts of your rapist and his murderer by that
force.
Somehow, the dark power of the demon had grown over the years, stengthening the
grip of
the Damned! But, it has been broken, and you are safe!" Sora's mother held onto
her daughter protectively.
"Byomon?" Sora's mother said. "Arigatou! For watching over my daughter!"
"It is my duty, Takenouchi-sama! And my pleasure. Sora is the best friend I
have." Byomon gave Sora a loving hug.
A scarlet beam then surrounded first Sora, and then Byomon and Takenouchi-san.
The three was soon joined by a forth.
"I felt so helpless there!" Matsuo Ishida cried softly to his father and mother
as they reassuringly held onto him and Takeru. "Part of my wanted to run away as
fast as I
could! But where would I have run to?" Then, He looked at Takeru ashamedly.
"And.. part of
me wanted to go back! To be with Hiro.. and Harada.. and Ikiko! I am sorry,
Takeru. I let you down again."
Gabumon held closely to his trembling Digi-partner.
"Iie! You did not let me down, older-brother!" Takeru held protectively onto
his older-brother. "I am proud of you! You did not go back to the Khan! You ran
FROM him! You REFUSED the Demon his pleasure!"
"I am PROUD of you, Matsuo!" Matsuo's mother whispered. "You were very brave!"
"As for your friends, Matsuo, they are waiting for you with smiling faces! You
did NOT fall into the grave with them!" Shigaru said smiling to Matsuo. "And
THAT is why they smile! Your life gave them hope! It still does! In time, you
will see them again! In time!"
"You were so brave, younger-brother, protecting me!" Matsuo gently touched
Takeru's face- the face of his Gaurgian Angel. "Domo arigatou, younger-brother!" Matsuo
bowed his head to Takeru.
"I could not lose you, Matsuo! You are my older-brother! And .. best friend!"
Takeru shyly smiled. "I would never give up hope for you!" The Crest of Hope
started to glow.
Patomon sat proudly at his post, a loving sentinal to the Bearer of Hope.
"And you never did", Matsuo smiled. The Crest of Friendship started to glow.
The beams of the two Crests entwined and surrounded the Digi-partners and their
family.
"Taichi! Look at me!" his father said sternly, then softly, "you did not fail
me. You never have, and you never will."
"But, Papa-san!" Taichi said through his tears, "Hikari could have DIED because
of what I did! All that time in the Digi-world? That Hikari is still among the
living is a miracle!"
"Hai," Taichi's mother wrapped her arms protectively around her children, "a
miracle you helped in birthing! Taichi, never forget you courage."
"He would not have, Mama-san," Hikari spoke softly, "if the shadows had not
robbed him of his sight!" Hikari reassuringly held her older-brother's hand.
"It will be easier for him now."
"Will it be?" Taichi asked. "Easier?"
Koromon snuggled up to Taichi to reasurre him.
"It will be!" Hikari smiled back at her brorther. "It will take time, but we
shall be alright!"
Gatomon came up to Hikari's side, completing a circle around Taichi.
"But," Taichi stammered, "my courage fled from me! I ran from.. from.."
"Half-truths." Hikari said. "Things that COULD have been, had the fates been
changed. If the pieces of the puzzle were arranged differently. But they were
not! And your spirit was not driven back so far you could not return home!"
As if in response to Hikari's reassurence, the Crest of Courage began to glow.
Then, the Crest of light answered with it's own glow.
The two beams interwove and safely cradled the family Kamiya and their digimon
for a time.
As children and digimon were readying for the trip back to the palace,
Shigeru Ishida and Shin Kiddo spoke to the group.
"We ask a favour of you, minna!"
"Ask!" Mimi smiled.
"We have watched over the Neo-Queen and Neo-Princess as well as we can!"
Shigeru-san said.
"Ghosts can do many things," Shin Kiddo replied, "but the family needs
watchers on this side of death, too! And, the Shenshi can only fight so many
battles."
"I understand." Jyou bowed. "Serenity means much to you?"
"Hai!" Takenouchi-san answered. "She allowed us to 'adopt' her, to bring her
into our families. And she still has a place here!"
"We will watch over her, then!" Sora reassured her mother.
"Hai!" The other Digi-destined responded.
The sun was setting when the Digimon, Digi-destined and Chibusa returned
to the Palace. They were greeted at the gates by Sailoruranus and Sailorneptune.
"Princess Usagi!" Sailoruranus said as she and Neptune escorted the party
to the throneroom. "Your parents wish to see you."
"Hai!" Chibiusa nodded. "Princess Mercury told me some energy readings were
detected earlier!"
"Hai!" Sailorneptune said. "We were put on alert to watch for you and leave
to find you, had you not returned after sunset!"
"Ut oh!" Takeru exclaimed. "Did we break curfew ?"
"Their Majesties will explain all." Sailoruranus opened the doors to the
throneroom.
"Mama-san? Papa-san?" Chibiusa asked after curtsying. "What is wrong ?"
"Thank the gods you and the others are SAFE, my daughter!" Serenity cried
out. "We were afreid that what you must have fought may have attacked you
again!" Serenity
hugged Chibiusa for dear life.
"Mama-san!" Chibiousa grabbed to support her mother. "What is wrong ?"
Serenity got up shakily to her feet. "I.. FELT.. you have to use Ginzuishou
earlier! I was going to lend you my strength.. but.. it was not needed! However,
Ladies
Mars and Mercury have sensed dark energies spreading around the bay to the
palace."
"Dark energies ?" Koushiro assked in a pointed tone.
"The energies", King Endymion answered, "eminate from the Odaiba district!"
concluded (HOPEFULLY) in Part 3:
"Digital Senshi".
Do you like the story so far ?
e-mail me at :
kgraham@wt.net
Review Story ( be a responsible reader and write a
review)
Title: The Digimon in Neo-Queen Serenity's Court 02
Name:
Email: (optional)
Review:
Home | About Us | Awards | Disclaimer | Site Statistics