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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A month had passed since the battle with the Death-Phantom and His
Shadows, a month where all the Senshi were left to recuperate- and reflect-
to the best of their abilities.
The Digital-Senshi were in deep-reflection.
Agu-tai found himself at the edge of the Royal-Gardens, looking out
over the bay and distant ocean.
'Much has happened to us sinnce that day at summer-camp, so far away.'
He thought sighing to himself. 'We are home now.. and yet...'
"Do you wish to be alone, Agu-Tai?" A concerned voice came out in a
whine.
"Iie, Gabu-Matsuo!" The reptilian-humaniod motioned to the garden-wall
he was sitting on. "Please.. come sit down."
"You seem a bit restive, my friend", Gabu-Matsou noted.
"I do?" Agu-tai asked. "Well, I am. We have been here.. a month? And
when we came here, we were away from home.. how long?"
"It seemed to us two weeks." Gabu-Matsuo answered with a sigh..
and another whine.
"Hai. And yet, we were gone for over a thousand years! And, this past
month, I have suddenly felt every year."
"Hai." The young wolf-boy agreed. "It is as if the adrineline-high we
were on fighting the Death-Phantom and his puppets wore off and took everything
we had!"
"Hai." Agu-tai agreed. "But that if only part of it. I've been trying
to grieve.. for those we knew.. those we left behind. On Earth and the Digital-World."
"Hai." Gabu-matsuo said sadly. "I have fought to let myself feel that,
also. I had to say 'Goodbye' to one family, then meet and make another family," he
glanced toward Agu-tai shyly, "then reunite with my old family again just in time
to leave again." Gabu-matsuo started to cry as he grabbed Agu-tai and held on tightly.
"And I never got to say 'Goodbye'!"
"I know.. I know.." Agu-tai softly caressed his friend reassuring. "It
is only recently I've been able to say 'Goodbye'. We have been running and fighting
for so long, it is hard to slow down and think."
"It is." Tento-shiro softly said as he walked out from inside the garden.
"At times, I welcomed to need to fight, especially last month. It gave me a reason
not to say 'Good-bye'! After we came back from Odaiba, I knew my family was still
with me, in spirit, so I told myself I did not have to say 'Good-bye'!" He choked
back a tear. "But.. part of me.. knows that I have to.. let them go, if that is their
wish. But, I have never been good at partings. 'Sayonara' has never been an easy
word for me."
"Why should it be, Tento-shiro?" Byo-sora asked as she softly landed and
perched between Agu-tai and Gabu-matsuo. "Why should it be an easy word for any of
us? When we faced the Nyotismon the first time was also the first time.. I.. realized
how much Mama-san really LOVED me! And, when we got back home, all I wanted to do was
hide in her embrace! And tell her how much I loved her. But.." The tears started to
fall as Byo-sora whispered. "I never got the chance."
Chibiusagi stood by her mother as they listened to their friends,
concealing themselves in the shadows and foliage of the garden.
"Neither did I get a chance to tell my family how I felt." Ikkaku-jyou
said as he came from the palace' Hospital-Wards. "I know they know how I feel- as
Usagi-chan said, ghosts can do many things- but there is something to be said for
being able to speak your heart."
"You speak wisely, Ikkaku-jyou!" Lilly-Mimi spoke up, with some fruit
in her arms. "And from the heart! It is no wonder you are a Healer. And my heart
has stayed pained since the fight- and before. My heart is sad, because my lips
were not able to speak. My parents spoke of their love for me.. but I am still not
able to reply!"
"Why is the fruit in in your arms, Lilly-mimi?" Ikkaku-jyou asked.
"Gomen, Big-brother!" Lilly-mimi answered. "I have felt a little
nervous, and I eat when I am nervous!"
"No need for apologies, Lilly-mimi!" Tento-shiro smiled.
"Arigatou, Little-Brother." Lilly-mimi whispered.
"No need for 'thank-you's, Big-sister." Tento-shiro blushed.
"Nani?" Agu-tai asked. "'Big-brother'? 'Little-brother'? 'Big-sister'?"
"Gomen!" Lilly-mimi bowed to Agu-tai. "We have been through so much,
I feel we are all family, now. And, I have felt that way, to an extent, since we
fought the Apocolymon."
"So have I felt!" Tento-shiro said with a bow.
"And I!" Ikkaku-jyou added.
"That is how I have felt," Gabu-matsuo said softly, "that we are family
now! But, I still feel a need to grieve for my old family! May I have a banana,
Lilly-mimi?" Gabu-matsuo added apologetically. "I am a bit hungry."
"Of course, Gabu-matsuo!" Lilly-mimi handed a banana to the wolfen Senshi
of Friendship. "Would you care for one, Agu-tai? Byo-sora?"
"Hai, Lilly-mimi!" Agu-tai said. "Arigatou!"
"Iie." Byo-sora smiled. "I would love some of your apricots, however!"
"I hope Neo-Queen Serenity does not mind our eating the royal fruit."
Gabu-matsuo said between bites of banana.
"I do not mind," the Neo-Quen responded, "that is why the fruit is there."
"Your Majesty!" Byo-sora said with a start. "Your Highness! You.. heard us?"
"Hai." Serenity apologized. "We did not mean to! But, once we were here, we
decided you needed, as Lilly-mimi said, to let your hearts speak."
"Gomen, Your Majesty" Gabu-matsuo sighed, " I.. do not mean to sound ungrateful
for what you have done for us, and are doing. But, I need to say 'Sayonara' to my family
and friends. Although I know that sounds silly, as their spirits are still around us."
"It is not silly, Gabu-matsuo-san!" Neo-Queen Serenity smiled. "After the
Icy-Sleep, when I found my family had.. died.. I needed some time to grieve. And, after
both the War and Blackmoon Invasion, I found I need to grieve again, even for my
enemies. Hai, our families' spirits are still with us, but we need to mourn.. that which
is lost. Come! I had Makoto make some baskets. And, Usagi and I have gathered some blankets.
Night may fall before we return from Odaiba."
"May I come, too? Your Majesty?" A small voice said.
Ikkaku-jyou turned around. "Nori-chan?"
"She wished to come outside." Ami smiled apologetically.
"No need for apologies!" Serenity and Ikkaku-jyou smiled.
"You may come, Noriko-can", the Neo-Queen smiled, "if it is alright with
your doctors."
"Then it is settled?" Gato-Hikari spoke up.
Agu-tai looked up with a start at his sister. "How long have you been here,
Gato-Hikari?"
"Long enough to see Byo-sora landing." Gato-hikari admitted.
"And you did not speak?" Gabu-matsuo asked.
"There was no need." Pato-takeru answered his brother. "You spoke for us.
"I do have one question, though! When do we leave, Your Majesty?"
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The graves were just as they had left them the previous day. The Digi-senshi
with to straighten-up the area little, and then they straightened up themselves.
The royal-family and inner- and outersenshi kept a respectful silence on the
perimeter of the burial-ground. This time was for the Digi-senshi alone.
"You did not have to come!" Mrs. Tachikawa smiled. "We are always around you!"
"Hai." Lilly-mimi spoke reverently. "This I know. But, I needed to come! I need
to mourn.. what was, and what might have been.. like Neo-Queen Serenity said. And, I need..
to say 'Sayonara', to let you make your next journey. If that is to be he way."
"Lilly-mimi," her father said, "that is very kind of you. Not all would do so
for their parents. But, we will never leave your side! We love you!"
The flower-child of Sincerity felt loving arms solidify around her.
"Mama-san! Papa-san!" Lilly-mimi softly cried. "Arigatou! I love you!"
"Mama-san.. Papa-san..", Byo-sora began. "I never got to say, 'I love you'."
The bird-girl of Love began to tremble, and then cry. "And I wanted to.. so much!"
"Our daughter," Mrs. Takenouchi smiled as she and her husband solidified, "we
always knew you loved us! As we have always loved you!"
"Hai. But.." Sora held tightly to her parents as she cried, "I never got to say
it out loud to you! You needed to hear it." Then she whispered. "I needed to hear it."
"Papa-san? Mama-san?" Gabu-matsuo began, "I wanted.. I.. needed.. to tell you
that I love you. And I was never able to. Something, inside, always made me hold those back."
"Hai." Ishida Shigaru said. "It is something that haunted your mother and I, also,
not being able to express the good feelings toward each other. Always the bad. However, we
always knew how you felt. Inside. You and your brother."
"How could you?" Gabu-matsuo exclaimed. "I did not.. even know how I felt.. until
I realized I had to say it!"
"Then say it, Gabu-matsuo." Mrs. Ishida smiled warmly as she and her husband
enclosed Gabu-matsuo and Pato-takeru. "Say it, my son!"
"I love you!" Gabu-matsuo softly cried.
Pato-Takeru smiled through his tears.
"Why.. is it so hard?" Agu-tai softly cried in his parents' arms. "I can say
'I love you', but can I love you enough.. to let you go? How can I say 'Sayonara'?"
"You do not have to say it," Mrs. Kamiya said softly, "your father and I will stay
here as long as we have to! We will wait for you and Gato-Hikari!"
"But, that is not fair!" Gato-hikari cried. "That is not right! You deserve your
rest, and should go on!"
"We shall have our rest," Mr. Kamiya said, "when we are together once more. Then,
we may move on. We may."
The Kamiyas protectively held on to their children.
"I need to say this." Tanto-shiro said to the four spirits in front of him.
"We know." Aunt Kana said.
"We love you, our son." Uncle Soun smiled.
"Hai." Tento-shiro trembled as he spoke. "I love you, too. Which is why..
I have always.. found it.. hard.. to say.." Tento-shiro took a deep breath to still a
shakiness in his vioce. "'Sayonara'."
"You are.. leaving us, Tento-shiro?" his mother asked.
"Iie. I do not want to. That is why I found it so hard to say. I always
thought the parting would be permanant."
"And now..?" his father asked.
"I do not wish you to go! Not yet. But, if that is fate, how can I hold
you here? Especially, if doing so would hurt you. If.. part of me is to be lonely..
so be it."
"Iie." Tento-shiro's mother said. "You will not feel loneliness. We love
you, our son, and will only leave when you are with us!"
"I know.. that you wish to stay!" Ikkaku-jyou told his parents and Shin.
"And I know that you will stay.. for me. That is not why I'm saying 'Sayonara'. I guess
it is like Neo-Queen Serenity said. We all need to mourn. When we said our farewells
last time, I guess I thought that this could happen. But, I thought that I would be
the one.. to die!"
"Hai." Shin said. "You were not expecting it to be us."
"Hai." Ikkaku-jyou nodded and slowly closed his eyes. "So now, part of
me mourns, as Serenity says, for you, for me, for what was and might have been."
"Do not mourn too greatly our passing, our son." Mr. Kiddo embraced his
son. "We will still be here, waiting for you! And, if you need us, we will be around
you!"
"Hai." Ikkaku-jyou slowly opened his eyes.
The soft green aura of reliability shown around each of the Kiddo-spirits
as if reaffirming the Senshi of Reliability.
"Little-brother!" Shin said. "I see you have a friend with you!"
"Hai." Ikkaku-jyou smiled as he held to Noriko. "This is Nori-chan."
"Komban-wa, Oniisan!" Noriko bowed to Shin.
"Komban-wa, small one!" Shin smiled back.
"'Oniisan'?" The Senshi of Reliability asked.
"Hai!" Shin smiled to his brother. "Noriko is my great-granddaughter,
several times-over!" The ghost then asked, "would you watch over her, Ikkaku-jyou?"
The aura of green glowed even brighter around the Senshi.
"Hai."
Chibiusa looked up at her parents. "They will be alright", she smiled.
"Hai." King Endymion spoke softly. "They will be, with someone to guide
them. This is our home, we are used to it. But, the Digi-senshi are new here! It will
be lonely for a while."
"Hai." Neo-Queen Serenity added. "And they are YOUR Senshi, my daughter!"
"Hai." Chibiusa nodded. "I lead them to the deaths. Now, I will lead them
through their lives. It is the least that I can do.. for my friends!"
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The afternoon sun shown brightly on the hills around Crystal-Tokyo.
And, the air seemed filled with music. The wind blew and the birds sang.
And there was laughter.
The picnic was a happy affair, if a bit noisy. But the Royal-Family would
have it no other way.
"Who would like some more food?" Makoto asked.
"Who's gaurding the baskets?" Rei asked.
"Serenity." Makoto replied cheerfully.
"Is there any food left?" Ami and Minako chorused good-naturedly.
"Has she eaten all of it?" Ami continued.
"Maybe she's playing with it?" Minako countered.
Makoto and Rei looked slightly aghast and Haruka and Michiru tried to
supress their giggles.
Serenity tried to act offended, but the laughter spread from her eyes
to he lips.
"Lady Mercury! Lady Venus!" The Neo-Queen maneged the cry out between giggles.
"You have just marred my image of innocence. That in treasonous! I'll get you for that!"
"Promises! Promises!"
The Neo-Queen fell as the giggles became gales. "Oh," Serenity said with
a grin, "you two would just love that, I know."
"Well," Ami said, "correction is useful at times!"
"Did I just hear what I think I just heard?" Tento-shiro asked.
"Yes you did." Hotaru sighed.
"Is Mercury-sama ALWAYS this oblivious to what she says?"
"Hai." Hotaru lowered her face to hide her smile. "Chronic Foot-in-Mouth
problem!"
"I'll have some more pickles, please!" Pato-takeru said.
"Hai!" The Neo-Queen answered, grateful to the Digi-senshi of Hope for
veering the conversation back to the food.
"You know it will not last, Mama-san." Chibiusa smiled.
"I wouldn't give Pato-takeru too many more pickles, Your Majesty,"
Gato-hikari purred, "he's salty enough as is." She smiled and winked at the Senshi
of Hope.
Pato-takeru turned a few shades of red, and tried to slink off to
deeper shade, a sudden smile on his face.
"And how would you know about my apprentis' saltiness, Gato-hikari?"
Rei asked looking straight at the Senshi of Light with a wicked smile.
Agu-tai and Gabu-matsuo found themselves trying to hide their snickers,
and doing so rather poorly.
Gato-hikari scampered off into the deepest shade possible. "Pato-
takeru! HELP ME, PLEASE!!"
The snigkers of the Senshis of Courage and Friendship turned into
gales of laughter.
"I warned you, Mama-san!" Chibiusa laughed. "Once my Aunts start,
there is no stopping them!"
"Hai." Serenity sighed.. then burst into laughter.
Ikkaku-jyou just chuckled as he sat cradling a slightly-sleepy Noriko.
Pato-takeru and Gato-hikaru slowly crept back to the picnic.
"Your Majesties," Gabu-matsuo asked, "There is still one thing that
puzzles me! We have shown ourselves to be true-defenders to you and Crystal-Tokyo,
yet I still hear whispers in the city! Why?"
"I have heard the same whispers!" Agu-tai exclaimed. "Why is that?
Have we not prooved ourselves?"
"Hai!" Neo-Queen Serenity said a bit too quickly. "The Digi-senshi have
prooved themselves to me, and to all Crystal Tokyo."
"Then why are there still whispers around us?" Agu-tai asked a little
more sharply.
Gato-Hikari snickered a little.
"Well.." Serenity started.
"Hai?" Gabu-matsuo said. He took Agu-tai's hand for support.
"Haruka?" King Endymion said, his lips forming into a slight smile.
"Michiru? Do you know anything of this?"
"What would Haruka and Michiru know of this?" Agu-tai asked, with a bit
of panic in his voice.
"Well.. you see.. Agu-tai.." Haruka stammered.
"Nani?" Gabu-matsuo asked.
"They could have warned you!" Pato-takeru answered with a smile. "About
being the new targets!"
"'Targets'?" Gabu-matsuo asked.
"For gossip." Gato-hikari added with a wink and bow.
"'Gossip'?" Agu-tai yelped.
"Hai." Pato-takeru started. "It seems that the Princesses Haruka and Michiru
have been the focus of rumours for many dacades. Maybe centuries."
"Rumours?" Agu-tai asked. He was now griping Gabu-matsuo as if needing
support. "What kind of rumours? And why are we part of them now?"
"Well," Gato-hikari said slowly. "Supposedly, Haruka and Michiru have a Yuri-
relationship. So, it seems that the locals think you and Gabu-matsuo are.."
"YAOI?" The Senshi of Courage and Friendship yelped out. Then, they pulled
their hands away with a jerk. "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW!!!!"
"What bug bit you, Older-Brother?" Pato-takeru asked, as innocent-looking
as possible.
"Was it the same bug that bit you, Older-Brother?" Gato-hikari asked, even
less-able to hide a smile than Pato-takeru.
"Well.. ahh.." Agu-tai stammered. He nervously shifted his gaze from
Gato-hikari to Gabu-matsuo and back again. "Well.. ummm..", he whined. "Gabu-matsuo?"
"We will talk later," the lupine Senshi of Friendship tried to reassure his
friend and himself, "alone." Deep-blue eyes looked to the brown-haired reptilian.
"Arigatou, Gabu-san." Agu-tai smiled.
"Why are you two boys so nervous today?" Byo-sora asked as she stuck her
head between the Gabu-matsuo and Agu-tai. "You need something to calm you down! Here,
have some fruit!" She then shoved a banana in each boy's mouth.
Agu-tai whimpered a bit.
Gabu-matsuo made a face. "Iss nana doint khase quie hrie", he managed to
gag out somehow. "Khora, ats hrong wi oo?" He turned to look at Agu-tai again.
"Khe been arao fenus ayot hayint khee?" Agu-tai somehow muttered.
"They look like a couple of egrets." Tento-shiro observed.
"Typhoon Minako..", Sailormercury whispered slowly.
"Has given birth to Typhoon Sora." Ikkaku-jyou smiled as he laughed with
Noriko.
"I think they look adorable!" Lilly-mimi said. "They really seem to belong
together."
Sailormercury sat there in shock.
Everyone looked at Lilly-mimi, then shifted their gazes to Sailormercury.
Pato-takeru and Gato-hikari were trying not to laugh out loud.
The Royal-Family and rest of the Neo-Queen's Senshi sat around with sympathetic
smiles on their faces.
"Kami-sama!" Ami-chan gasped. "I was going to say something like that. That..
is me!"
"Hai!" Minako, Rei, and Mokoto sang out in chorus. They then hugged Ami.
'Do you think Lilly-mimi realizes what she just implied?' Tento-shiro
telephatically asked Ikkaku-jyou.
'As of now,' a stunned Ikkaku-jyou told the insectoid-senshi, 'I have no idea.'
Just then, the Senshis of Knowledge and Reliability found themselves being
gagged with bananas.
"Ambus." Ikkaku-jyou sighed, looking straight at Tento-shiro.
"Oo sedit." Tento-shiro agreed, grinning and blushing slightly.
Noriko fell to the ground, rolling in a fit of giggles!
"I don't want you two bishounen missing out." Lilly-mimi giggled. "POISON-
IVY!!!" Fingers of vine encircled first Ikkaku-jyou and Tento-shiro, and then the entire
party: the Royal-Family, Inner-, Outer-, and Digisenshi, and little Noriko. "Group-hug !!!"
As Lilly-mimi squeezed tighter, the laughter became more contagious!
It was good to be home.
Sayomara.