Digimon in Neo-Queen Serenity's Court.
A Sailormoon - Digimon Crossover fanfiction.
By: Kelly Paul Graham.
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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 ^_^
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Part 03- "Digital Senshi- Choices."
"Odaiba."
King Endymion's announcement of where the Dark Energies assaulting the Kingdom
were coming from hit the Digi-Destined and their Digimon like a tsunami. At
first.
Then the energies expanded during the day seemed to renew themselves as the
throneroom became a hive of questions and planning.
"Where did these energies come from?" Koushiro asked as he plugged in a fresh
battery-pack to his Pineapple Lsptop. Sailormercury answered him.
"The energies appeared to come from the north!" Sailormercury mused. "They
seemed
to float in.. from Hokkaido?"
"Hokkaido ??" Jyou asked in a shocked tone. "When?"
Sailormercury rechecked her data. "Seven hours ago."
"That was an hour after we arrived here!" Takeru exclaimed.
"Hmmm..." Koushiro mused as he set up his Pineapple laptop. "It appears whatever
that energy is may have followed us from the Digital-world!" He then stared off
into space,
and shivered. The motions were inperceptible to all present- save for Tentomon
and Sailorsaturn.
"Will you be alright, Izumi-san ?" Tentomon asked as he laid an arm against his
partner's shoulder.
"They knew my weak-point," Koushiro whispered, "my greatest fear."
"Hai." Tomoe Hotaru came to lift up the young man's head. "But you faced it!
And,
with those who love you, you were able to conquer it! That speaks much of you!"
"But it was a near-thing, Sailorsaturn!" Koushiro said darkly. "I wanted to die,
to run away from the taunts."
"Hai. I remember how that feels." Sailorsaturn looked into Koushiro's eyes.
"Eight
thousand years of time connot completly erase some hurts. Loneliness, and the
fear of it, leaves
scars." The dark senshi smiled. "But, they need not be fatal.. unless we let
them be!"
The Pineapple Laptop came to life and Koushiro habitually linked to the
internet.
"Nani?" He raised his eyebrow. "I have mail?" Koushiro opened up the e-messege.
"It's from
Gennai ???" The young man asked in wonderment.
The piece of e-mail aid:
"Koushiro-san! I have been able to translate another prophecy! I would be
careful
if I were you Digi-Destined, because this sounds ominous. Gennai."
Koushiro then looked at the tranlated prophecy:
Chosen to fight again
Out of time and space they come
To defend their home
To build new family-ties
Mother-queen of love
Goddess-child their faithful guide
over death and life
Eight stars burning bright shall fade
Sixteen stars arise
Nightmares will return afresh
armies for the dead
Sixteen shall fall eight shall rise
The dead shall return
To aid those whom they cherish
Old gives way to new
Then peace shall finally reign.
Izzy scowled. "At least this prophecy is in plain language! However, some of the
events do not look good!"
"Nani?" Tentomon looked up at his partner. "May I see?" Tentomon looked over the
digi-prophecy. "Hmm.. I can see where you would be concerned, Izumi-san ! Just
remember.
Koushiro, I am your friend and protector ! I shall always stay by you."
"Hai." Koushiro said. "I know." Koushiro bent down to hug his Digi-partner.
"Izumi-san!" Sailorsaturn walked closer to Koushiro and Tentomon. "One need not
automatically fear prophecies, no matter how dark they may appear! I will tell
you a story,
senshi.
"Fourty-six hundred years ago, I was the Senshi of Saturn, as I am now! And
my powers were over Death and Destruction. I was the Silver Millenium's last
defence against
our enemies! And my powers frightened me, as did the prophecy that, one day, I
would have to
use them to cleanse a living world! Then, one day, as Her Majesty has already
told you, the
Moon Kingdon, the center of the Silver Millenium, was attacked. We were beaten
and everyone
died before I could render aide. So, according to the Queen's- Serenity's
Mother's- wishes
what was left of the Moon Kingdom was destroyed- by me."
"But that world had already been killed!" Koushiro said.
"Hai." Saturn answered. "The Time Foretold had not come yet! It would be a
thousand years afterward before my powers would called upon. Then, I was to
cleanse Earth!
Not the whole Earth! But, cleanse one small part of one parasite that threatened
the whole
planet! But, I was scared once more! I knew what was in me, and I knew what it
could do!
I could destroy the Earth with but a gesture! For that is what the Prophecies
foretold I
would do! But! Neo-Queen Serenity, as the child Usagi, loved me enough, believed
in me
enough, to see through the nightmares my fears had built! Saw something no one
else could,
save her daughter-to-be, Chibiusa! And so.."
"When you used your powers as prophecied..?" Koushiro asked.
"I found that I could not only bring death, but, with help, rebirth! Hai.
And now, I am honored to sit with my friends at court! And I no longer fear
myself! So!
You see, Koushiro-kun, you need not fear a prophecy, no matter how black it may
look!"
"Hmmm..." Koushiro turned again to his Laptop. "This prophecy... You are
very wise, Princess Hotaru of Saturn!"
"Iie!" Saturn blushed. "I am not wise! I just have studied the scrolls in my
keeping, and have pondered their meaning in the lives I have lived!"
"May I see these scrolls?" Koushiro asked.
"Hai." Saturn smiled.
"Arigatou!" Koushiro bowed as he picked up his Laptop. "Tentomon, come along
with us?"
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"Princess Mercury?" A nurse ran into the throneroom, then quickly- and
apologetically- bowed the the Royal Family. "I'm sorry for the intrusion , Your
Majesties,
but The Lady Mercury is needed in the hospital-wing! Injuries and trauma are
coming in from
Odaiba!"
"Hai! I will come!" Mercury turned to look at Jyou. "Kiddo-san? Will you come
with me to the hostipal?"
"Hai!" A very shocked Jyou said. "But.. Why? I am no Doctor!"
"Iie,"the blue-haired Senshi said, "but you are a healer. Come! I will explain
on the way! Gomamon! You come, too!"
"Hai, Your Highness!" Gomamon answered, climbing on Jyou's shoulders.
"Mimi-san! Palmon!" Princess Jupiter called out. "I need help in the gardens!
Princess Mercury will be needing specific herbs from the gardens, probably! And
they must be
harvested as she needs them!"
"Hai, Lady Jupiter! Come, Palmon!" Mimi Tachikawa quickly followed Jupiter, and
Palmon followed Jupiter.
"What is happening, Usako?" King Endymion asked. "Princesses Ami and Makoto were
very quick and sure in making their decisions on who will help them! Has the
appointed time come?"
"Hai." Neo-Queen Serenity said. "The Time for Choosing has come!"
"Why did I come with you, Princess Mercury?" Jyou asked. "Why did you choose
me?"
"Please, call me Dr. Mizuno." Mercury smiled at the bespecticled boy with the
seal-digimon on his back.
"Hai, Mizuno-sama!" Jyou bowed. "But why was I chosen?"
"You could ask why you are a Digi-destined, Jyou Kiddo!" Ami Mizuno smiled.
"Call
it 'intuition', if you will, but I sence a confidence in you! A sence that
others can relie on
you! Others can trust you! Serenity was not the only one your families talked
with! Kiddo-sama and
Shin-san often talked with me! Shin often spoke of you as he would help me! They
both would often
say the same thing. Shin may have had the skills of a doctor, but you have the
soul and mind of
the Healer!"
"She's right, Jyou!" Gomamon said. "Remember how you patched up and nursed
Ogremon ? And how about what Taichi said ? He told me that he really wished you
were with them
when Hikari got sick!"
"Well-" Jyou grew red with embarrasment. "Mimi helped with Ogremon!"
"Hai," Gomamon responded, "but you were the one who patched him together again!"
"Your father was right, Kiddo-san!" Ami said, "There are many types of healing.
One of the most important is the healing-of-spirit! Princess Mars can explain it
better than I
can. But, if the spirit is weak, the body will often refuse to heal !"
"Hai," Jyou said with a shiver, remembering Odaiba, "I know of that. My spirit
felt
it's weakest in Odaiba today. And my body felt like giving in. I guess I'm not
that strong."
"Iie !" Gomamon rose to once more protect Jyou from himself. "Kiddo-san! You ARE
strong- even at your weakest! You were the one who pulled your spirit out of the
hole the Shadows
tried to bury you in ! Chibiusagi was able to pull your body out of harm's way,
but it was YOU
who had to force that poisom already in your soul OUT of it! It is like Ogremon
told Mimi-chan!
You are stronger than you look!"
"Gomamon is right, Kiddo-san! All healing- physical, mental, and spiritual- MUST
start within to work! Now, let us go into the wards."
As Ami Mizuno made her rounds, Jyou Kiddo and Gomamon watched in wonder. Many of
the cases were old, although they were treatable, and, in most cases, curable!
It was as if,
thought Jyou, their bodies had given up their various fights.
"Most are from the various skirmishes after the Blackmoon invasions", Mercury
seemed
to answer Jyou's unspoken query. "Serenity does what she can, but war has
weakened their spirits.
Many here do not live! They just exist." Ami Mizuno sighed and tried to choke
back a tear. "The
newer patients are up ahead."
"Newer patients?" Jyou asked.
"From Odaiba", Mercury said as low as she could.
"Odaiba ?" Jyou whispered "But that's impossible ! We just fought there today !
And that fight was in the Odaiba Cemetary! No innocents were involved !" Jyou
asked in a quieter
tone, "Were there ?"
"From that battle? iie." Dr. Mizuno sighed. "But, there is something in Odaiba,
a
malevolent spirit, maybe, that seems to draw the will to live from anyone there!
It appeared, says
Princess Mars, to settle over Odaiba two centuries ago! Serenity has tried to
dispel it, but it
seems to resist her! And it affects these poor people." Princess Mercury looked
on sadly. "Serenity
says, quite rightly, that the people of earth, and particularly Crystal Tokyo,
are her family!
Well, these people are mine!"
"Nurse Houso! Take this first order of plants to the gardens!" Dr. Mizuno said.
"I will fill out other lists later."
"Hai! Your Highness!" The nurse then left with the order.
Jyou and Gomamon stopped at the foot of one bed, that of a young girl, aged ten
years. Jyou read the medical chart. "Noriko Yamashita. Hmmm. This says she's got
a nervous-
condition. What exactly is wrong?"
"She is one of the saddest cases from Odaiba." Dr. Mizuno shed a small tear.
"Nori-chan is otherwise healthy, although she sleeps now, she is alert. But, she
cannot walk! Her
leg- and arm- muscles are atropying because the nervous refuse to send messeges
to her extremities!
She is wasting away here! It is just by miracle and long-work we are able to
keep feeding oxygen
to her muscles."
"And the problems are the nerve-endings?" Jyou asked.
"Hai." Princess Mercury answered. "We ran tests and keep runing them! The
muscles
are otherwise healthy, and we make sure the muscles stay healthy! And,
strangely, the nerves are
ALSO healthy! It has me baffled!"
"Jyou?" Gomamon asked after jumping down from his perch, "doesn't this sound
like
Venom Myotismon?"
"Hai." Jyo said, remembering the auditorium filled with Venom-Myotismon's
victim-servents. "It sounds exactly like that vampire's work!" Jyou then noticed
Noriko waking up.
"Komban-wa, little one!" Jyou smiled. "How are you, Noriko-chan?"
"Komban-wa." Noriko's eyes adjusted once more to the lights of the
hospital-ward.
"I am a bit hungry, Sir!" Noriko's young eyes looked to Jyou.
"Please." Jyou blushed. "My name is Jyou." Jyou went to prepare some broth for
Noriko.
Noriko readily accepted the soup as Jyou fed her. "Arigatou, Jyou-san!"
After feeding Noriko, Jyou studied her charts again. "I see it is time for your
maggage!"
Jyou smiled to Noriko. "Is everything ready, Mizuno-sama?"
"The herbs are. Hai." Sailormercury said. "But, we are lacking a proper
masseuse!"
"But, Mizuno-sama!" Noriko began to protest.
"Iie!" Sailormercury silenced Noriko with a raised hand and slight smile. "We
must find
a massuese, or we cannot go on! Gomen, Nori-chan."
"I know a little bit about massage, Your Highness- gomen, I mean, Mizuno-san!"
Jyou said
almost apologetically. "Can I help ? With Noriko-chan ?"
Sailormercury's eyes lit up. "Would you, Kiddo-sama? I mean, Jyou-san?"
'Jyou is being set-up for something,' Gomamon thought as he watched the drama
being
played out, 'but what for?'
After the massage-therapy was over, Dr. Mizuno examined Noriko's legs for a
second time
that day. "Alright, Noriko-chan!" Ami said, trying to hide her sadness, "Can you
try to walk a
little ?"
"I.. do not know.. Mizuno-sama!" Noriko said hesitantly. "What happens if I fall
again?"
'I hear her voice.' Jyou thought. 'I see her eyes. She is frightened.'
"Do not worry, Noriko-chan! I will catch you if you fall!" Jyou smiled
reassuringly.
"Just try to walk to me." Jyou stepped away from the bed.
Noriko got out of the bed..
set wobbling legs of the floor..
took a step toward Jyou..
and another..
and then another..
After a dozen more steps, Noriko began to falter, and Jyou moved in to catch the
girl.
"Arigatou, Jyou-san!" Noriko whispered, that saftly cried. "Gomen, Jyou-san ! I
wish I
could have walked more."
"You have walked enough!" Jyou smiled down at his patiant. "We will work more
tomorrow."
"Will you be here, Jyou-san?" Noriko asked in a frightened tone.
"Hai!" Jyou smiled to reassure the girl. "I will be here!"
Gomamon smiled at his partner. 'Reliability? Thy name is Jyou!'
"It is amazing!" Dr. Mizuno whispered to Jyou after he tucked Noriko back into
her bed.
"Noriko walked more in one session than she has since she came here! You are
fantastic!"
"Hai." Jyou reddened at the praise. "I am just honored I was able to help." The
greenish
glow of Jyou's badge bathed him in a soft light.
'Ami-chan?' Sailormercury thought to herself, 'you have chosen well!'
"Come!" Dr. Mizuno said. "It is time to get back to my duties at Count!" She and
Jyou
left the peacefully-sleeping Noriko.
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Lady Jupiter and Mimi Tachikawa, as well as Palmon, were working in the gardens,
gathering the last of the day's harvests.
"Are you sure this is all of it, Sailorjupiter?" Mimi asked as she raised
herself,
sweating but smiling, from the garden-beds.
"Hai, Tachikawa-san! And, please, call me 'Makoto'!"
"Hai," Mimi responded, "but only if you call me 'Mimi'! 'Tachikawa-san' makes me
think
you are speaking to me parents." Mim turned away slightly. "I miss them so
much..", Mimi's voice
cracked a bit, "I know that my family is still around me, but it is hard, not
holding them! I..
am glad I got to see them.. once more!"
Palmon inched protectively closer to Mimi.
"As they were glad to see you were safe at last - and home!" Makoto laid some of
the
dinner-harvest aside. "You helped with the medicinals for Lady Mercury very well
! You seemed to
know just what to pick!"
"Arigatou, Makoto-san!" Mimi turned back around, blushed and bowed! "My own
mother
grew some of these herbs, as did her mother and her mother before her! Even in
Odaiba, gardening,
and the uses of a garden, were almost a way-of-life!" Mimi hesitated a second
before continuing.
"A way-of-life.. I almost gave up, as 'Old-fashioned'!" Mimi bit her lip to keep
from crying.
"Hai," Makoto smiled reassuringly, "to make friends that you thought would make
fun of
the old ways! Your mother told me!" The Princess of Jupiter sat Mimi down
between her and Palmon.
"Your mother was a friend to me, as well as to Sererity ! She and I would come
to the gardens,
to work or to walk- and to talk.
"Tachikawa-san said it did not surprise her, once she found that the Digimon
could talk,
that your partner was a flower! She said, many times, that your sincerity- you
honesty- showed
through, even when you doubted that it did. She said your light always showed as
fresh as the rose,
as strong as the oak, and as lasting as the pine!"
"She is right, Mimi!" Palmon smiled at her best-friend. "Your sincerity has
always shown
through, even though you've doubted it at times. Remember the gekomon, 'Your
Highness'?"
"'Your Highness'?" Makoto raised an eyebrow.
"Hai." Mimi lowered her head and cringed. "I was a complete Baka, then! I lied
to you
and everyone, Palmon! All to live out a silly dream!"
"It was not silly, Mimi," Palmon comforted her friend, "it was just a way of
returning
home! If I could have joined you, I may have run, too! In fact, I did , for a
time! But I had no
place to run to. But you did! You could have continued running, and left the
others! I know that
is what Myotismon and Demidevimon were counting on! But, you came back! You even
apologized to
Taichi and Jyou! THAT took courage!"
"And sincerity!" Jupiter added.
"And what now ?" Mimi contemplated.
"Nani?" Sailorjupiter and Palmon both asked.
"Nani??" Mimi was brought back to earth. "Oh! Gomen nisai! I was just wondering,
about
what our parents' spirits asked of us.. to watch over the Royal Family! It
definitely gives us
something to do!"
"Nani ?" Jupiter asked a bit more thoughtfully.
"Well," Mimi aswered, "Crystal Tokyo is beautiful, but it's not our home!" Mimi
sighed.
"At least, it doesn't FEEL like home! Not yet!" She looked up to heaven. "I
guess the saying is
true- 'You can't go home again'."
"But this IS your home, Mimi-chan!" Makoto wrapped her arms protectively around
Mimi.
"Your friends- you family- are all here! Crystal-Tokyo's your home!"
"Iie. Odaiba is our home.." Mim softly cried, "at least, it used to be. Before
it tried
to destroy us." Palmon moved closer to Mimi to comfort her partner. "It tried to
destroy me with
what I once was."
"But you are not that way now, Mimi-san!" Makoto reminded her. "And, from what
your
Mother said, I doubt you were ever really as bad as you say you were! Come,
Mimi-san ! If we do
not get back to the palace, dinner will be late ! Come ! Your family needs you
!"
"Hai! They do!" Mimi wiped away a tear, and swiftly gather herself, her basket
and tools,
and walked with Palmon back to the palace, a soft pink aura surrounding herself
and her Digimon.
'Arigatou, kami!', Makoto thought, 'for showing me the right choice!' The
Princess of
Jupiter smiled at Digi-destined and Digimon.
Mimi turned around suddenly. "Is everything alright, Makoto-san?"
"Hai!" Makoto responded. "I will be with you!"
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Hikari and Gatomon were wandering around the corridors of the palace with
Chibiusa as
guide.
"We are an awfully-long way from the main rooms!" Hikari commented.
"Whoever lives way out here must REALLY like their privacy!" Gatomon remarked.
"Iie!" Sailorpluto said as she opened the door. "I dislike being alone! But, I
have
gotten used to it! Arigatou, Usagi-san! You have done well!"
"I only wish," The Princess mused, "to know what I have just done!
Setsuna-sama?"
"You will know in time, Small Lady!" Sailorpluto smiled whimsically. "In time!"
"'In time'? Hmmph!" Chibiusa huffed. "Why do feel a bit .. odd .. everytime you
say
that, Puu ?"
"Because you are so much like your Mother, Usagi!" Sailorpluto said.
"I guess you're right." Chibiusa said matter-of-factly. Then she turned to
Hikari and
Gatomon. "Will you be alright here? I promised Princess Michiru I'd make it to
my music-lessons
on time. Will everything be alright ?"
"We will be alright, Usagi!" Hikari smiled. "You get to your studies! We know
the way
back to the main palace!" With and hug and kiss, Usagi parted company with
Hikari and Gatomon.
Once Chibiusa had vanished down the pathway, Hikari turned to Sailorpluto.
"Alright," Hikari
Kamiya asked in a serious tone , "why exactly are we here?"
"Because..", Pluto hesitated, "it is.. time for the Choosing."
"'The Choosing'?" Hikari asked, looking straight into Pluto's garnet eyes.
"Choosing
what?"
"My..", Pluto felt a little unease looking into Hikari's questioning gaze,
"successor."
"'Successor'?" Hikari asked.
"Hikari? Be careful!" Gatomon warned her partner. "The fur on the back of my
neck is
standing on end! Watch your next steps."
"My successor as Senshi of Time." Pluto measured her words evenly.
"Oh." Hikari responded. Her eyes wandered to a low gaming-table. "Oh! Do you
play Go,
Sailorpluto?"
"Some", the green-haired Senshi said. "And, please, call me 'Setsuna',
Kamiya-san!"
"Alright!" Hikari giggled. "But, my name's 'Hikari'! When you say. "Kamiya-san',
I
expect to see my parents! Or, at least, Taichi!"
As Setsuna got the table ready for the Game of Go, and as Gatomon kept a weary
eye on
the procedings, Hikari made a coment that almost stopped the Senshi of Time
completely in her
tracks:
"It must be lonely, out here at your post all the time, gaurding."
After collecting an errant stone, Setsuna regained herself enough to think on
that
staement:
"It can be lonesome, but it is my duty. I am the Guardian of the Gate of Time
for the
Royal Family! I have held this Office since the time of Neo-queen Serenity's
grandmother !"
Setsuna opened the game with her first move.
"Ah!" Hikari answered as she made her move.
After 50 moves by each party, in which Setsuna tried to ensnare Hikari, and
Hikari
would manage to break the trap, Gatomon became engroced in this mental jousting.
After 76 moves, at a slightly slower pace now, Sailorpluto remarked, "You play
the
ancient game very-well for one so young!"
"Well.. ", Hikari confided, "we had a neighbor once, in Odaiba, who loved
playing Go!
I watched him playing one summer, very intently, and he saw me and graciously
tought me the rules!
We even played a few games!"
As Hikari played the 100th stone, Sailorpluto said. "I was told, once, that
guarding
Time and Destiny was much like playing Go ! The patterns of move and
counter-move were set !"
"They can be," Hikari answered, "but their often not! Destiny is set, like it
was set
for my friends and I to become the Digi-destined, but one must always be careful
of what is destined
and what is not ! Like the traps and ambushes you have set for me. If I was not
looking, I would
have lost, and it could have been said to be 'destined'. But many things must
come together to
bring 'Destiny'! It is not just one or two stones."
'Watch out, Hikari," Gatomon smiled and thought, "you're stepping closer to
inheriting
this Office!'
"What exactly IS your duty, Setsuna?" Hikari asked as she set down her next
stone.
"I am the Gaurdian of the Timestream." Pluto answered. "I am the Watcher of the
Royal
Family!"
"So you warn the Neo-Queen of trouble ahead of time?" Hikari asked.
"When permitted." Pluto said almost apologetically. She played her next stone.
"Where- when- is it not permitted?" Hikari asked as she played her next stone.
"Destiny cannot be changed." Pluto said androidly as she made her next play.
"If it is 'destiny'," Hikari said, "it will happen. But, whether it is ordained
to
happen or not, shouln't people be warned of danger and heartache? Isn't warning
what a Watcher
does?" Hikari played her next stone. "I think I just won."
Setsuna looked at the table, and at her stones, ultimately surrounded by
Hikari's
stones. Then, she looked up and smiled at Hikari. "We have both won, child!" She
got up and
bowed to Hikari. "Come, Hikari! There is something I must show you!"
'It looks like you have a new job, Hikari Kamiya!' Gatomon smiled as she
thought.
'And I will be right by your side, to help you !'
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To be continued in Part 3b- "Digital-Senshi: Choices, Part 2."