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, Umino Gurio,
Naru Oosaka, Beryl and the Four Generals, the Families of the Sailorsenshi, Crystal Tokyo,
and the Death Phantom, are the property of their creator, Naoko Takeuchi, and Toei Animation.
NOTES:
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 ^_^
Also, I must tip my hat for the ideas for Sora's/Byomon's and Taichi's/Agumon's
digivolving-transformations! These ideas were borrowed from other series. Sora/Byomon will
(for better or worse) look alot like The Sorceress from "He-Man", albeit more like a perrot.
Taichi/Agumon will end up looking alot like the Sleezaks from the old Sid & Marty
Kroft Saturday-morning show, "Land of the Lost".
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'Things were becoming interesting in Odaiba!', the Death-Phantom thought. 'I may play
my game of Fox-and-Geese after all. And the geese are so fat! Quite nice for roasting.' He
chuckled.
"I thought you would be cowering before me in the Crystal-Palace! No matter. Actually,
I am glad you have come to accept you fate, Your Majesties. It save me the bother of HUNTING you!"
"The Hunting-Season on the Royal-famaly has long-since expired, Death Phantom!"
Taichi exclaimed.
"Who would be foolish enough to talk to me in such a manner?" The Death-Phantom asked.
"I am Taichi Kamiya, Digital Senshi of Courage, and friend of the Royal Family."
"And I am Sora Takenouchi!" Sora spoke up. "I am the Digital Senshi of Love, and a
friend of the Royal Family!"
"And we fight beside our friends!" Taichi and Sora cried out together.
"You should have chosen your friends more wisely!" The Death Phantom laughed.
"They are true friends!" Chibiusa cried out as she ran toward Taichi and Sora. "They
are not like your 'allies', who you used as pawns!"
"So. You stand with your friends?" The Death-Phantom asked. "Then, be STRANDED with
them, Small-lady!" Thick patches of clouds and fog again enveloped the Senshi. "Those digital-beings
were as much PAWNS as the Blackmoon Family! The Myotismon actually thought the shadows of Odaiba were
HIS to control. In reality, the Shadows were always MINE to command! For- the Shadows are THE DEAD !!!"
Neo-Queen Serenity, King Endymion, Sailoruranus and Sailorvenus tried to spread out
in a semi-circle. Agumon and Byomon looked to their Digi-partners.
"Everyone is a pawn to Death, Small-Lady." the Death Phantom slowly hissed. "Whether
they realise it, consent to it- or not- makes no difference!" The Death Phantom raised his hands.
"DIE!!!"
Sailoruranus summoned her sword.
Chibiusa, Taichi, Sora, Agumon, and Byomon scattered a moment before the dark energy
struck where they had stood.
"AGUMON! Warp-digivolve to... WAR-GREYMON !!"
"BYOMON! Digivolve to... BIRDRAMON !! BIRDRAMON! Digivolve to... GARUDAMON !!"
"TERRA-FORCE !!!"
"WINGBLADE !!!"
"Earth SHAKING !!!"
"Venus Beam WHIP !!!"
"Hmmmm..." The Death Phantom growled. "I actually FELT that! Maybe we'll play awhile
before I destroy you atom by atom. Until not even DUST is left to remember you by!" Black lightning
now flew from the Death Phantom's fingers.
"Then feel some more, demon!" Neo-Queen Serenity shouted. "MOON PLANET POWER.. MAKE-UP!"
In a dazzling display of light not seen for sometime, the Neo-Queen disappeared, to be replaced by
Sailormoon!
"You have haunted and harmed my family for far-too-long, demon. In the name of the Moon..
I WILL PUNISH YOU!" The Ginzhuishou began to form in Sailormoon's hands.
The Ginzhoushou was a beacon to Chibiusa's terror-filled eyes. "IIEDE!" She struck at
the crystal, forcing her mother to loose her concentration over it. The Ginzhuishou slid back into
Sailormoon's body.
"IIEDE! IIEDE! IIEDE!" The Princess screamed to ger tears. "That is what the Death-Phantom
WANTS you to do! Do you not remember how the Ginzhiushou DRAINS you! He KNOWS if you use it, you will
DIE!!!"
The Death-Phantom chuckled. "The Small-Lady is right! She is definintely smarter than
her parents. Not that that is saying alot. The Ginzhuishou DOES kill it's Mistress, Sernity! So, if you
use it, your DEATH comes that much quicker! But quick or slow makes no difference. You will be dead..
your family will be dead.. and I shall see my VENGEANCE!!"
"Not yet.. not EVER!" Taichi shouted. "Wargreymon ! ATTACK !!"
"TERRA-FORCE !!"
"Birdramom! Help Wargreymon!" Sora cried out.
"WINGBLADE !!"
"Uranus.. Earth SHAKING !!!!"
"Venus.. Beam.. WHIP !!!!"
"Pink.. Sugar.. Heart.. ATTACK !!!!"
"Moon.. Spiral.. Haert.. ACHE !!!!"
Silently, King Endymion tossed his deadliest roses at the shadowy Death Phantom.
"That.. HURT me !!" The Death-Phantom roared.
"GOOD !!" Serenity and Chibiusa cheered.
"THAT.. has never happened before!" The Death-Phantom screamed. "It took ALL the
Senshi- PLUS the power of Ginzhuishou- to banish me! What is different ?" He then looked to Taichi
and WarGreymon and Sora and Garudamon. "DIE NOW !!!!"
Bolts of energy like the blackest night exploded from the Death-Phantom's hands
aimed at Taichi and Sora !
"SORA !!" Chibiusa screamed. "TAICHI!!"
'Matsuo! Hikari!' Taichi called out in his mind and heart. 'Jyou, Koushiro! Mimi,
Takeru! We need you! I.. need you!'
"Get out of the WAY !!!!" Garudamon and WarGreymon shouted as they sheilded their
partners from the blasts. Garudamon and WarGreymon swiftly de-volved to Byomon and Agumon, as
Sora and Tai suddenly got weaker.
"Taichi!" Sora cried out. "What's happening?"
"I.. don't know!" Taichi said weakly. He found he had to concentrate just to speak.
"Nothing.. like thissss.. has ever.. happened.. before."
"TAICHI! SORA!" CHibiusa pleaded. "Get away from there!" She then turned to the
Death Phantom. "You will not TAKE them! You will NEVER have them! Pink.. Sugar.. Heart.. ATTACK!!"
"And WHO will stop me?" The Death Phantom gloated. "YOU? Even at their strongest,
the Senshi could not stop me one-to-one! And you are not THEY, Small Lady! Now, say 'sayonara'
to your friends !!"
One blast of black-energy hit the weakened digimon, and another hit the Taichi and
Sora.
'Matsuo.. Mimi.. Takeru! We.. failed!' Sora cried out in her mind. 'Mama-san.. gomen..
could not do.. what you asked.. too.. tired.'
'Hang on my friends,' Matsuo's voice seemed to float back on the wind. "Help will
arrive! I promise you.'
Then, the two bolts of energy destroyed the bodies of the Digital-Senshi.
"Taichi? Sora?" Chibiusa cried out. "Agumon? Byomon? MURDERER!!!!" The Princess ran,
crying, toward the Death Phantom. "I will DESTROY you! In the name of Kamiya.. In the name of
Takenouchi.. I will OBLITERATE you." She released the Ginzhiushou within her and released it's
energy at the Phantom. "Why ? Why take their lives? It is ME you want! Not them! WHY?"
"Because they HURT me!" Shouted the Death-Phantom. "And because killing them hurt
YOU enough to make you release YOUR ginzhuishou! Did you think I would not REMEMBER your powers,
Small-Lady? The crystals used on me were BOTH your Mother's, true! But, you are of Lunar blood!
The power of Ginzhuishou is within YOU! AND SO IS ITS CURSE!! And it is a curse I will see
RELEASED! I will see you DEAD, Small-Lady! Now, Children of Death, Come to me! DO MY BIDDING!!!"
A bolt of black energy darted straight to Chibiusa.
"LEAVE MY DAUGHTER ALONE!!!!" Neo-Queen Serenity screamed, Ginzhuishou in her hands.
"Hai, Serenity!" The Phantom laughed. "Protect your worthless daughter! Use the pathetic
crystal! KILL YOURSELF!!!!"
"Serenity? Your Majesty!" Venus cried out. "Sora! Nani? SORA!!" She looked up through
her tears. "DEATH-PHANTOM! Takenouchi-chan will be avenged! VENUS BEAM WHIP!!!!"
"Your MAJESTY!" Sailoruranus cried out. Then Uranus spotted Chibiusa. "Your HIGHNESS!"
Uranus then frantically searched the area. "Taichi! Agumon! EIIDE!! DEATH-PHANTOM!! URANUS WORLD-
SHAKING!!!!" The energy called forth Sailoruranus tossed unerringly towards the Death-Phantom.
The Death -Phantom laughed. "As I told the Neo-Queen and the Small-Lady.. YOU CANNOT
DESTROY ME!!!! I, on the other hand, can ERASE your memory from this EARTH!" He hovered above and
just out-of-reach of the defenders.
"I could just destroy you," the Death-Phantom chuckled, "but I think I will have my
new - allies - do it for me. Hehehe !!"
"Allies?" King Endymion asked suspiciously.
"Yessss", the Phantom hissed, "alliessss. You see, King-Baka, I am the Death-Phantom..
I AM DEATH!! The Dead are mine to COMMAND!! And.. I will use your own friends against you!! To
dishearten you- and then, to DESTROY you!!!! Haha. Taichi Kamiya, attack! SHOW NO MERCY!!!!"
"Yeah, right." An orange glow surrounded a small cloaked figure with a strangely-familiar
voice. "Taichi Kamiya is not home right now, and neither is Agumon." The glow faded. "May we relay your
message?"
"Taichi?" Uranus quietly asked, awed by the appearance of the being. "Is that you?"
A small orange-ish humanoid-reptilian pulled the the grey cloak from off his head with
a clawed hand. He smiled through bright-green eyes peeking through a bird's-nest of brown hair. "We were
the boy known as Taichi Kamiya, once, and the Digimon known as Agumon." The being spoke in a strange
mixture of Taichi's and Agumon's voices. "We are now.. Agu-Tai! We are COURGE! And you.." Agu-Tai spun
around to address the Death-Phantom, "are NOTHING!!"
"The.. uniform..", Endymion said in a hushed tone. Agu-Tai's grey cloak and tunic were
trimmed in orange piping. "Serenity?"
"Hai." The Neo-Queen responded. "It looks like the uniform of the Four Generals!"
"My gaurds." Endymion whispered. "My.. Brothers."
"You will not fight alone, Agu-Tai!" A voice seemed to scream as a beam of read seemed to
light the clouds and fog. "I am with you! SPIRAL TWISTER! BWAAAH!"
The Spiral-Twister attack, though relatively weak, was unexpected enough to make the
Death-Phantom flinch!
"METEOR-WING !!"
The Death-Phantom found himself pummeled by a hail of fireballs. But his assailant was
still hidden in the clouds and fog.
Suddenly, a figure swooped to the ground and landed. The back of her her neck, upper body
and back were covered in feather of vivid reds, and her wings were red, pink, yellow, and blue. Her tail
was red, yellow and blue.
As she landed, the woman took a more human apperance, though not entirely loosing the
feathers. Her parrot-like beak became a helmet on her forehead, shielding her eyes a little as they
shown like rubies. The grey tunic she wore , and the cape the went with it, were neatly trimmed in red.
"Sora-chan?" Venus asked in a hushed tone.
"Iie." The woman-child in the uniform spoke, smiling lovingly to Venus. "We were Sora
Takenouchi. Andm we were the digimon know as Yokomon, and Byomon, and Birdamon. Now, we are more." She
embraced the Senshi of Venus. We are Byo-Sora, Minako Aino-san. We are Love."
Byo-Sora gave a suddenly trembling Venus a kiss to reassure her, then turned to the
Death-Phantom. Byo-Sora looked straight at the Phantom. "Hate, Pain, and Death have no place here. You
must leave."
"And WHO will make me LEAVE, little-girl? YOU? You, who claim to protect LOVE? Yes. YOU!
The Pleasure-child! Heeheehee..."
"You know of what I was thought to be, Phantom. You know what I thought of myself back
then when I was raped. Hai. I remember what others said. But I know what my Mama wrote. I know what
she still feels for me. And I know what I have become! I protect the LOVE of my family amd friends!
And OTHER families! With OTHER friends! YOU cannot destroy that love! And that animal that VIOLATED
me cannot destroy me! The love I protect feeds me, and I feed it!!" Byo-Sora took to the sky worse
more. "METEOR-WIND!!!!"
"You cannot fight alone, Byo-sora!" Agu-tai said.
"And HOW will YOU defeat ME?" the Death-Phantom asked. "YOU? Who call yourself 'COURAGE'?
To have courage, means to have no FEAR! And my Shadows brought out the FEAR that lives IN you, Taichi
Kamiya! GO !! RUN liked the scared rabbit you are! You will welcome DEATH when it comes. It is a perfect
world for you- no more fear." The Death-Phantom laughed maniacally.
"Hai. I was scared of your Shadows, Phantom." Agu-tai admitted, "I was afraid of me. But
Courage is not the absence of fear. It is not the covering up of fear. It is FACING your fears and
CONQUERING them! NOVA-BLAST!!"
Flames buffeted the Death-Phantom from two sides, pushing him away from the Royal-Family.
"BAKA!" The Death-Phantom shouted. "You may be STRONG. But I am STRONGER! For I am DEATH!!
And Death controls ALL!! I have you friends, now, and I CONTROL their POWERS!!"
"That the annoying thing about Evil," Ikakku-jyou chuckled from under a greenish glow.
"It makes grandiose statements it can't back up. Hello, Agu-tai!"
"Hai. It's your basic flaw-in-the-program!" Tento-shiro smiled from within a purple glow.
"The Villians NEVER take in all the variables that can happen. Kind of sad, actually."
"A flaw?" The Death-Phantom sneered at the young warrior. "In MY plan? If there is, you will
never exploit it, Dust-Child! You are flawed yourself! You do not BELONG!!"
"The Shadows gave you the wrong information, Phantom! It was wrong centuries ago, and it is
wrong NOW! I know where I belong! The Neo-Queen and Princess told me where I belong! The Aunt and Uncle who
love me told me where I belong! My PARENTS told me where I belong! And." Tento-shiro looked defiantly at the
Death-Phantom, "my HEART tells me where I belong! It is YOU," the boy pointed at the Phantom, "who does
not belong. Leave !"
"I belong here." The Death-Phantom bellowed, "This World BELONGS to DEATH!!!!"
"It's actually rather boring if you think of it, the way the villians fight and what they
fight for?" Lilly-Mimi thought aloud. "Death? How more monotonous can a world get?" Her pink aura began
to fade around her.
"You DARE speak against ME?" The Death-Phantom roared. "I am DEATH! And you are mine!"
"We've heard that already." Gabu-Matsuo's soft voice floated on the on the breeze as the
young man's blue aura fade. "As for Death controlling us, I certainly don't feel dead."
"That can easily be arranged." The Death-Phantom growled.
"Gabu-Matsuo!" Byo-Sora cried out.
"You are HERE!" Agu-tai cried out as he hugged the young man.
"Hai. I am here." Gabu-Matsuo whispered softly as my embraced his two companions.
"Friendship will always be here!"
"Death no longer has a place at the tables of Crystal-Tokyo!" Gato-Hikari cried out as she
bounded through the fog.
"And the Fear of it is banished FOREVER beyond the horizons!" Pato-Takeru triumphantly cried.
"We will see about that." The Death-Phantom snapped. "I will HAVE my vengeance on the House
of TSUKINO!!"
Agu-tai calmed himself down. 'Listen, minna!' He telepathically called the the Digital-Senshi,
along with Sailors Uranus and Venus and the Royal-Family. 'The Death-Phanton CAN be hurt! Byo-Sora and I
found that out already. And, he said can be destroyed. But, we will need ALL the Senshi here to do that!
Also, we need to make sure the the King, Neo-Queen, and Princess stay safe. Our families will be let down
greatly if we fail our promises to them!"
'What is your plan, My Brother?' Gabu-Matsou asked, his eyes steady and a smile curling on
his lips.
'A little tricky.' Agu-tai grinned. 'You Majesty? Your Highness? You will have to trust us
enough to go air-borne for a time ! Will you be able to?'
'Hai, Agu-tai!' Serenity and Chibiusa responded.
'Hai.' Agu-tai continued. 'Byo-sora! You, Lilly-mimi, and Tento-shiro will take flight!
Gato-Hikari and Pato-Takeru will digi-volve and join you. You must keep Serenity and Chibiusa away from
the Death-Phantom and help distract him long enough for the other Senshi to arrive! I, Gabu-matsuo,
Ikkaku-jyou, King Endymion, Uranus, and Venus will try to occupy his thoughts here until the others
arrive. Now, Go!'
Byo-sora then took flight once more, circling around The Death-Phantom and diverting his
attention. "Meteor WING !!"
Lilli-mimi and Tento-shiro then grabbed Serenity and Chibiusa and flew up into the sky.
"Pato-Tekaru! Digivolve to.. ANGEMON!!"
"Gato-Hikari! Digivolve to.. ANGEWOMON!!"
"Hey! Death-Phantom!" King Endymion called up. "Have you seen my wife and daughter?"
"Nani?" The Phantom looked down. "Where are Serenity and the Small-Lady? I will rend their
marrow from their BONES !!"
"We are up here, Death-Phantom!" Serenity smiled. Then, she was tossed from Tento-shiro to
Byo-sora.
"Whoops," chuckled Tento-shiro, "I seemed to have misplaced someone. Oh, well.. ELECTRO-
SHOCKER!!" A bal of electricity hit the Death-Phantom, staggering him.
"Celestial ARROW!!"
"Hand of FATE!!"
Angewomon and Angemon hit the Death-Phantom from behind, throwing him off-balance.
"NANI?" The Death-Phantom roared, spinning around to face to angels. "You think me a toy,
to be played with?"
Lilli-mimi tossed Chibiusa to Tento-shiro, then cupped her hands together and aimed.
"Flower-CANNON!!" The seedball hit the Phantom in the neck, throwing him off even more. Then, Lilli-mimi
flew to another location before the Death-Phantom spun toward the direction she'd hit him from.
Byo-sora tossed Serenity to Angemon. "Spiral TWISTER! BWAAAAH!" As the Death-Phantom
turned towards her, Byo-sora struck again. "Meteor WING!!" She caught the Death-Phantom in the face!
"You will PAY for that!!" The Death-Phantom screeched.
"Just put it on my bill!" Byo-sora laughed.. and flew just out of reach.
'This is FUN!' Neo-Queen Serenity laughed.
'Are you alright, Your Majesty?' Angemon asked mind-to-mind.
'Gomen.' Neo-Queen Serenity blushed. 'It is just that I have never felt this alive in over
a thousand years!' Serenity giggled.
'Quite understandable, Your Majesty!' Angewomon said.
'You've been reading my MIND!' Serenity giggled again. There was no use to appear angry. It
would have been a lie.
'Gomen.' Angewomon apologized. 'It is just the psychic-links we established seem very strong
at the moment!'
'It is alright!' Serenity smiled. 'Just one favor, please? Do not let Mars or Mercury know?
They would kill me!' Another giggle escaped the Neo-Queen.
'Angemon? When you get ready to toss me again, use a slow-pitch.'
'Why?' Angemon asked.
'You will see!'
Angemon pitched Serenity to Angewomon as instructed. And Serenity drew out her scepter.
"Moon.. Cosmic.. Haert.. ACHE !!!!"
"YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH !!!!" The Death-Phantom screamed. "You will PAY for that,
Serenity ! You will SUFFER !!"
"Pink.. Sagur.. Heart.. ATTACK !!!!"
Chibiusa had been quietly listening to her mother's plan, and considered it a good one.
And, so, she hit the Death-Phantom from where she was, directly across from Serenity! The "Pink-sugar
hearts" struck in a line across the Phantom's shoulders.
"BAKA!" The Death-Phantom screamed. "I shall grind your bones to DUST! The eagles shall
grow THIN for lack of you!"
"Agu-tai ! Warp-digivolve to.. WAR-GREYMON !!"
"Gabu-matsuo ! Warp-digivolve to.. METAL-GARURUMON !!"
"Ikkaku-jyou ! Digivolve to.. ZUDOMON !!"
King Endymion, Venus, and Uranus scambled to take their positions.
"URANUS.. WORLD-SHAKING !!!!"
"VENUS.. LOVE-CHAIN WHIP !!!!"
"TERRA-FORCE !!!!"
"METAL WOLF-CLAW !!!!"
"Vulcan's HAMMER !!!!"
Silently, Ensymion threw an unerring hail of razor-like roses. Each one was embued with
the power of the planet he was King and Protector of.
"Nani?" The Death-Phantom froze a little. "A two-front attack?"
"We shall be RID of you, Death-Phantom !" Neo-Queen Serenity cried.
"Hai!" Tento-shiro responded, "Just as we DEFEATED your allies !"
"Hai?" the Death-Phantom asked casually. "And HOW was that?"
"TEAMWORK !!!!" Sailorsaturn cried out as in answer for her Digi-Senshi partner. She
then closed her violet eyes and concentrated.
'Fall back, minna.' Tento-shiro advised.
The airforce, Neo-Queen, and Neo-Princess retreated retreated back to ground-level.
"Ah!" The Death-Phantom smiled. "You are giving up? It IS a let-down.. makes it
makes it so much EASIER to DESTROY you with one BLAST!!" The Death-Phantom let loose his darkest
energies. "SAYONARA !!!!"
Tento-shiro took careful aim again with the Silence-glaive. "ELECTRO-SHOCKER!!!!"
The Death-Phantom screamed in pain and rage.
"SILENCE WALL !!!!" Sailorsaturn shouted in defience as Tento-shiro gave back the glaive.
The dark energy wasted itself on Sailorsaturn's defence field.
"You have not learned from your last defeat, Demon!" Sailorjupiter shouted as Sailorsaturn
lowered the defensive shield. "You STILL OVERestimate YOUR stengths and UNDERestimate your opponents!
JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION !!!!"
"Ohhhh.. That TICKLES, Ladyjupiter! And WHO, tell me," the Phantom asked tauntingly, "are
my most-worthy opponents?"
The answer was quick in coming.
"Flower-CANON !!!!"
"Electro-SHOCKER !!!!"
"Metal WOLF-CLAW !!!!"
"TERRA-FORCE !!!!"
"WING-BLADE !!!!"
"Vulcan's HAMMER !!!!"
"Hand-of-FATE !!!!"
"CELESTIAL ARROW !!!!"
"Saturn Silence-WALL !!!!"
"Neptune Deep-SUBMERGE !!!!"
"Uranus World-SHAKING !!!!"
"VENUS WHIP !!!!"
"Mercury Aqua-RHAPSODY !!!!"
"Mars Flame-SNIPER !!!!"
"Pluto Dead-scream."
The Death-Phantom was staggered- but not fallen- by the blasts.
"That.. HURTS !!!! But! It.. did not kill! There is only ONE
thing that will.. destroy me. And THAT.. I will NOT let you USE!!!!" The Death-
Phantom gestured. "I am DEATH! Come to ME, my children! Come, the Armies of the
DEAD!!!!"
The mists thickened and moaned- then chanted.
"Ghosts ?" Agu-tai glanced up worriedly.
"What can ghosts do ?" The tone in Gabu-matsuo's words expressed
more fear than he wished to expose.
"Ghosts can do many things." Answered Chibiusa. "Including bring
painful memories back to life."
"Hai!" The Death-Phantom giggled. "And these ghosts bring back-
ALL those dirty little memories that continue to gnaw at the Senshi! The
memories that will DESTROY them !!!! My children, DO MY BIDDING !!!!"
"Iie."
"Nani?" The Death-Phantom asked increduously.
"Iie. We will not harm our own."
Tento-shiro looked up in suprise as he look up, recognizing the
small voices of defience. "Aunt Kana? Uncle Suon?" He looked around "Mama? Papa?"
"We said we would always be here." Tento-shiro's father said.
All the Senshi looked around. All could feel love and concern
cocooning them. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto felt the presence of their parents,
long-dead but always around. Sailorsaturn felt her father's, Dr. Tomoe's, loving
arms protectively embrace her.
Agu-tai and Gato-Hikari looked around them at their Mother and Father,
and Wizardmon and the Numamon.
Gabu-Matsuo and Pato-takeru looked around them at the reassuring smiles
of their parents. And Gabu-matsuo felt something else- or, someone else.
Gabu-matsuo looked around. 'They are here for me', he smiled. Hiro, Ikiko,
and Harada smiled back, and joined Mr. and Mrs. Ishida in a protective circle around
the brothers.
Sailormars looked around at the spirits aiding her. She saw her parents
and grandfather, and Yuuichirou. She also felt the presence of another. She felt love
emenating from that presence.
"Jadeite.."
Sailorjupiter dared to open up her eyes in responce to the comforting
warmth around her. She saw her parents tolding her lovingly, their smiled driving away
all her fears. She saw Shinozaki gaurding her, as he said he always would. And she felt
another, weaving a coccoon of loving-protection around her.
"Nephrite.."
Lilly-mimi found herself in the protective embrace of the Tachikawa-clan.
She also felt others around her- Sukamon, Chuumon, and Piximon.
Byo-sora found herself in the protective embrace of her mother and father.
Venus found herself supported by her mother and father. The Ainos smiled
at their daughter. Motoki and Unazaki were also there to give their strength.. as was
another.
"Kunzite.."
Murcury found herself surrounded by her family once more. Her mother and
father were supporting her, as was Ryu Uwada, with a love she thought she felt only too-
honored to feel again. And, then, she felt another, just as loving and protective.
"Zoisite.."
Ikkaku-jyou closed his eyes and smiled. It was good to feel his family
with him once more. All the Kiddo-clan was gathered around him, with his mother, father,
and older-brother, Shin, closest to him. 'You with never to alone', they seemed to say,
'we will never allow it!'
Ikkaku-jyou slowly opened his eyes.. and smiled. "Hai", he responded, then
whispered as a look of resolution set his face, "You will be alright, Noriko, I promise this!"
"Mama-san.." Chibiusa whispered. "It is strange.. but I feel safe, even
in the midst of this battle." The Neo-Princess then looked around her.. and gasped slightly.
In a circles around her family, she saw them: Her grandfather, Kenji; her uncle, Shingo;
and her grandmothers, Ikuko and Serenity. How she remembered her mother speak of them all
so lovingly! And, beside her father, Chibiusa saw two shades that looked so much like the
King, they could only be her Grandmother and Grandfather Chiba! And there were others Usagi
knew, two who had survived the Icy-Sleep- Naru Oosaka and Umino Gurio. They were as much
family to Serenity as she and Mamoru. And there was one other.
She was a ghost the Neo-Queen remembered with awe and a bit of fear.
"Beryl.."
"DEATH-PHANTOM!" Beryl's ghost spoke defiently. "When Sailormoon fought the
Generals and I to our deaths- especially me- she freed our souls from servitude to the Dark
Forces! That is a debt I cannot begin to repay." She smiled sweetly to Neo-Queen Serenity.
"But it is a debt I will start to repay. We will NOT be used by evil AGAIN! And Serenity
will NOT die by your order! This.. I SWEAR!!!!"
"'The dead shall return'.." Tento-shiro began, remembering the Prophecy.
"'To aide those whome they cherish'." Ikkaju-jyou finished the line.
"Give all your energy to the Senshi!" Beryl cried.
Ghostly energies flowed in and around the Inner-, Outer- and Digital-senshi.
And a protective dome formed over the Senshi.
"DEATH-PHANTOM!" Neo-Queen Serenity shouted. "You have memory has haunted my
family and friends for the LAST time! With every part of my being, I will destroy you NOW!"
"Yes. YES!" The Phantom goaded Serenity now. "DO that, Your Majesty! Do what
you KNOW you MUST! Heheh. use GINZHUISHOU! It is the ONLY thing that will rid us of each
other!"
Slowly, the Ginzhuishou formed between Serenity's hands.
"Mama-san.. do not do this.." Chibiusa whispered through her tears. "You will
die.."
"Hai, Serenity!" The Phantom giggled. "Hitoribocchi." The Phantom whispered.
"You will meet death. Hitoribocchi."
The Ginzhuishou began to radiate power .. the life-force of it's Mistress.
The protective-circle of spirits around the Royal-Family began to flicker.
Chibiusa, in desperation, joined her life force to Serenity's.
"Sayonara.." Neo-queen Serenity whispered to Chibiusa through her tears.
"My revenge is HERE!" The Death-Phantom cackled. "I will be destroyed. Hai.
But, the House of Serenity shall be NO MORE!!!!"
'Iie.' Gato-Hikari's thoughts rang loudly over the cries of despair. "The
House of Serenity will not die this day.' Then, with a nod of understanding from Pluto,
The Digital-Senshi of Light spoke up. "Senshi, do what you MUST!"
The Innersenshi and Outersenshi then poured their totality, everything
they were and hoped to be, into the Digital-senshi.
"MERCURY STAR-POWER!!!!"
"VENUS STAR-POWER!!!!"
"MARS STAR-POWER!!!!"
"JUPITER STAR-POWER!!!!"
"SATURN STAR-POWER!!!!"
"URANUS STAR-POWER!!!!"
"NEPTUNE STAR-POWER!!!!"
"PLUTO STAR-POWER!!!!"
As the Inner- and Outersenshi fell from the giving of themselves,
the Digital-senshi took aims with their now-combined powers and gave them to
Chibiusa.
"Reliability!"
"Love!"
"Hope!"
"Sincerity!"
"Knowledge!"
"Courage!"
"Friendship!"
"Light!"
Chibiusa now fed this energy into her Mother.
"Death-Phantom!" Serenity screamed. "BEGONE!!!!"
In a flash, the war was over. The Death-Phantom was vanquished,
as the Victor lie near death.
Slowly, the spirits of the Dead wer able to coax the victors back
to the Land of the Living. As a soft rain answered prayers to revive them, the
Royal Family and the Senshi slowly opened their eyes and looked around. Neo-Queen
Serenity was the last to react.
"What hapened ?" Serenity got up and looked wildly around.
"Endymion ! Chibiusa !"
A soft, amused chuckle reached the Neo-Queen's ears. "Still my sister,"
Shingo laughed. "Up late.. and oblivious to the world!"
"Shingo!" Endymion's voice, even as soft as it was, boomed over the
ghost's words. "Let my wife rest."
"She may be Queen, and a Goddess," the spirit said in mock-indignation,
"but she is still- and will always be- my sister. I would never intentionally hurt
her!"
"Arigatou, Shingo." Serenity smiled.
"I will always be here, Serenity. Usagi." Shingo bowed to his sister.
"As will we all." Naru smiled. "We will wait for you to join us."
"I wish to be with you all, again!" The Neo-Queen smiled, then hugged her
daughter. "But, I can not leave just now."
Chibiusa hugged her mother lightly.
"Nor would we expect you to!" Serenity and Ikuko sang out in unison.
"It is still hard," Serenity said, "fighting Ginzhuishou's pull on
your life. You put up a valient battle, my daughter!"
"It was not me, alone!" The Neo-Queen gently corected the lunar-spirit.
"It was also my daughter's doing!" She softly hugged her daughter. "Arigatou, Chibiusa."
"I could not have done it without my friends and advisors, Mama-san!"
"And who are they? May I ask?" said Beryl.
Chibiusa bowed in introduction. "Mama-san? Papa-san? Honored spirits.
These are the Keepers of Reliabilty, Love, Hope, Sincerity, Knowledge, Courage,
Friendship, and Light! These are they who will advise me when the time of my ascent
comes. These are my Senshi!"
As the curtain or family and friends parted from around them, Ikkaku-jyou,
Biyo-sora, Pato-Takeru, Lilly-mimi, Tento-shiro, Agu-tai, Gabu-matsuo, and Gato-Hikari
stepped forward and bowed before the audience, and to their presesnt and future Queens.