Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Shepherd ❯ Chapter 4

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The Shepherd.

A Digimon-Sailormoon "what-if" crossover-fiction.

DISCLAIMER:

The The Digimon, the Digidestined, The Sailorsenshi and
their families (except for Kelly, Selena, Agamemnon, and Penelope ) are not
my property! They never were, and never will be.

The Digimon, the Digidestined, and their families are the property of
their creator, Miyoshi Houso, Toei Animation (in Japan), and Haim Saban
(in the USA).

The Sailorsenshi, their friends, and families are the Property of their
creator, Naoko Takeuchi, Kadansha Publishing and Toei Animation (in Japan),
and DiC (in USA) and CWI (in Canada).

NOTES:

Here are the "givens" in the actual Anime. In "Digimon",
Izumi Koushirou ("Izzy" in the English dubbing) is orphaned and adopted.
And in "Sailormoon", the parents of Mizuno Ami ("Amy" in the dubbing)
are divorced, and Ami lives with her mother.

I don't know if "Ayumi" is the actual name of Ami's mother
in Sailormoon or not, or if she's even named, but that's the name I've seen
in a previous fan-fic. So, that's her name, here !


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Kelly's P.O.V.

To say that I was feelimg a bit odd that morning as Selena, the Wizardmon, and I
walked on to the Tsukino-house for breakfast with my daughter would have been an
understatement. While I was overjoyed at being with my daughter for the first
full day in over ten years was happiness beyond belief, and a joy, it was
tempered by the fact my sister was with me! I only hoped I could meet with Ayumi
on my own, and that Selena and Izumi Soun could somehow avoid each other! I was
afraid that my sister would remember (as she had a habit of doing) the letters
Koushirou's uncle kept writing me, telling me what a sorry father I was to
neglect his responsibilities! Selena would be particularly pissed because Soun
had always failed to mention that it was was Ayumi who ran away from home, and
,later, abandoned her twins! And, I kept getting this feeling that today will be
payment-day for every hurtful thing Izumi Soun wrote!

Soon, we were standing in front of the Tsukino's house, and a stranger-looking
crew has not been seen on Nippon's shores, I was sure, since Admiral Perry had
opened up Japan to the West! Part of me wondered what Usagi's family would think
of my family.. and what Usagi would think of my family! While I had no doubt
of Wizardmon's tact, I was wishing I could have said the same thing for Selena!
And, I was also wondering how my sister would take the fact that her eldest-niece
was also the daughter of an long-dead extraterrestrial royal-family?! As with my
being Digi-Destined, I had felt a certain need to withhold the fact of Ami Katherine's
origins from Selena... even though there were many times I had to bite my tongue
until it bled to keep from confiding this thing to her.

I knocked on the door.

"Ohayo, Graham-Sama!" Usagi bowed at the door. "Ohayo, Selena-san! Ohayo,
Wizardmon!"

I grinned.

Selena facefaulted, her jaw almost hitting the thresthold!

"Hehe! I see that Uwada-san had a chance to warn you!" I motion to Selena,
unhinged jaw and all. "This is my imouto, Amanda Selena Graham! Selena, close
your mouth, please!"

"Ohayo, Your Highness!" Wizardmon removed his hat and bowed.

"Ohayo, Wizardmon! I was surprised to hear Ami's otousan had a Digimon!"

I chuckle, motioning to Selena, "You were not the only surprised one,
Usagi-chan! So was my imouto! May we come in?" I leave my shoes at the door.

"Hai!" Usagi smiled. "We have been waiting for you! Come in!"

"'Your Highness'?" Selena looked at me. "Kelly? Is Usagi royalty?"

"Yes." I reply, trying not to grin. I have a feeling I know what's coming up.

"She's related to Emporer Akihito?"

"No." I answer as calmly as I can. "The Line of Serenity is far older than the
current Japanese Dynesty."

At this point, part of me wants to laugh myself silly to help release the tension,
while the other part of me wants to run and hide!

"Who.. told you this?" Selena asked suspiciously.

"Queen Serenity VII, the last Monarch of the Moon." I'm grinning like a Baka at
this point. And I hope nobody sees me.

"'Last Monarch of the..'?" Selena whispered out.

This is gonna take some getting used to, I can tell. The look on Amanda's face
says it all.

"She's been dead a thousand years." I reply.

"My niisan sees dead people." Selena sighed.

"In my dreams."

"In his dreams."

We then stepped into the Tsukino-kitchen.

"CHICHI!!" Ami hugged me tight.

"AMANDA-OBASAN!!" Ami then jumped into Amanda's arms!

"My Ami-saru!!" Amanda squealed with joy! "Were you glad to see your Daddy? And
are you glad to see me?"

My Ami Katarzina had tears in her eyes. "Hai Hai!" She gently got her feet back
om the ground. That was a good thing, too! For, a second later, the Wizardmon
turned and spoke to Ami.

"Ohayo, Your Highness!"

"Ohayo, Wizardmon."

"'Your Highness'?" Amanda asked, a bit pale. "Kelly?"

"Ami Katherine is my daughter.. and the reincarnated Princess-no-Mercury."

THUD !!

"Amanda? Imouto-chan?? Salty?!"

"What did you just call me... Niisan?!" Selena growled. She HATES the nickname
"Salty", but I keep telling her in was Mom's fault for naming her "Amanda
Selena"!

"It's alive!" I kid to my sister. "Up you go, Amanda! Are you ok? GOOD! Now,
then.. any questions before the pop-quiz?"

"Only one! Two!" Amanda stands up straight, looking me as much in the eyes as
she can.

I try not to laugh. Amanda's about a half-foot smaller than I am, so the scene
is a bit hilarious!

"Yes? Want to make it three?"

"Funny. When did you learn my niece was a re-incarnated ET? And why didn't
you tell me about it?"

"Before she was born. Agamemnon and Hippolyta told me about her." I smile
at my sis.

"Agamemnon and Hippolyta?"

"The last King and Queen of Mercury."

"And you never told me this?"

"Amanda, as I said earlier today: If I had told you I had gone to a
Digital-World, you would have helped Mom and Dad call the Psychotic-Hospital!
And, if I had admitted to you that I was talking to ghosts, you would have
helped the Doctors net me! Right?"

Amanda sweat-dropped. "Hai."

Then Amanda face-faulted.. then hit the flood again.

THUD!!

AMANDA'S P.O.V.

"Ahhh.. Salty? Are you alright? Earth to Salty? Come in, Salty!"

I can just hear my Baka-brother smiling.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..."

"Ami?" I smile as sweetly as I can through clinched teeth, "Am I allowed
to bite Daddy's head off?"

"If you're willing to take responsibilty for me, Mimi, and Koushirou! Hai."

"Damn! There's always a catch!" I grumble. Then I grin.

"Smart thinking!! And I know you got that from me!!"

"Yep! She did!" Kelly smirked. "From the woman I've had to get out of half
of the jails in the State of Nevada! That's where my Katarzina , Mimi Ann,
and Kou got their smarts from.. Not!"

"Hey! It takes brains to make plans good enough to get thown in half of the
jails in Nevada!! Besides, none of the charges would have stuck!" I stick my
tongue out at Kelly.

Kelly takes the bait.. and the tongue-war is on!

"That... looks familiar..." Usagi starts to fidgit.

Ami sweatdropped.

However, on hearing my neices and nephew mentioned, my mind started slowly
turning back to the reasaon my brother and I are here in Japan. The.. ULTIMATE..
reason...

Kelly's ex-wife...

And, for a minute, I forget where I am.

"Damned Gaishou! Ayumi-no-saseko!" I spit out as much venom as I can.
"That.. woman.. will not have to worry about children when I'm through with
her.. I'll feed that slut's uterus to the CROWS! Them I'll use her brains
for SHARK-BAIT! And I'LL EAT THE GD-DAMNED REST OF HER! How DARE she screw
around with my niisan's heart! I'll KILL that Dragon-bitch!! She'll FCKING rot in HELL!!"

It's then I feel a slight touch on my shoulder, which I start to toss
over me, as well as the arm it's attached to!

"AHEM!"

I suddenly jerk back to reality.

"Kelly?"

My head snaps around to my brother.

All he's doing is motioning for me to turn back around.

I turn back around.. and feel a bit sick.

Usagi-chan is standing in shock, the rest of the Tsukino-clan were
cowering behind her, and Ami was sadly shaking her head.

I did it again.

The Tsukinos are afraid of me, and I don't blame them. My sweet, calm
niisan is the cool. refreshing watermelon of our family. Me? Salty-Baka..I'm the
God-damned chili petite!

"Gomen nisai!" I start to fall all over myself. "I did not mean to be
so rough. I ask your forgiveness?"

"It is.. all right, Selena-Sama!" Ikuko smiles as she comes forward.
"The way you feel.. is understandable!"

"What is NOT UNDERSTANDABLE is how that YOU can calmly DEFEND that little btch
after what she done this you family, Niisan!!" I start up again. "Or, How a people as
'civilized' and as family-oriented as the Japanese can allow her to WALK TO STREETS!!
And.. don't ANYONE talk to ME about 'saving face'! The only onee to save FACE are
the CRIMINALS and the COWARDS!! Of course.. these people over here are too damned
COWARDLY to admit to..!!"

Kelly turns me toward the Tsukinos- again.

DAMN! Mt. Graham has erupted again!

"Just stay calm. Selena!" Kelly smiles. "Things will be alright!"

'That's right, Selena! Just stay calm.. stay calm...'

I actually stay calm for my brother's sake.. for a couple of minutes!

"So..Daddy?" Ami asks. "What will you do today?"

"Well. Katarzina.. I need to learn your Mother's habits here,
and I would be best to do that as she's working! So, since she is probably
off-work today, I was thimking of seeing your brother and sister!"

"Then I guess I should contact Aunt Kana?" Ami asks.

"Hai!" Kelly answers a bit too crisply. He's afraid of something.

"It.. would be best..", Kelly is speaking too nervously, "to speak to..
your Aunt Kana.. rather than.. Uncle Soun."

I find my next target!

"Do now worry, niisan!" I start to say in a deathly-calm voice that
then rises in pitch. "If that.. bastard.. says ANYTHING to you.. I'LL RIP
HIS PENIS OFF AND SHOVE IT DOWN HIS THROAT! I'll make sonofabitch
STEW out of that Son-of-a-Bitch! In all the letters that Baka has written
to you, he never asked WHY Little Kou wasn't in his home, in his father's
arms, where he should have BEEN! All he's ever done is complain about
taking over your 'problem', as he called it!"

Then I start to mutter, hoping no one will hear me.

"Little Fucker, Izumi Soun probably thinks raising a half-breed Asian
is a SHAME! Gddnmed Japs! Haven't changed their attitudes in over..!
Think they're the gods of the Pacific and East Asia!"

Unfortunately, someone heard me.

"Amanda Selena?" Kelly speaks in that low-whisper of a voice he
knows I have to strain to hear. "Just calm down, imouto-chan! OK?"
"Are YOU gonna DEFEND that little fking little BASTARD, Soun,"
I still rant, "like you DEFEND that little BITCH, Ayumi, Kelly?"

"No. I'm just asking you to remember where you are."

"Where I am? WHAT THE...?"

Oh, shit!

I turn back around, just to see the whole damned Tsukino-clan
kowtowing to me! As much as I'd like to see Ayumi-Gaishou and Soun-Baka
groveling at my feet- or better, my brother's feet- I should be worshipping
at the Tsukinos' feet for taking my niece in when she needed a family!
Once again, I try like Hell to apologize!

Kelly starts to chuckle low. "I swear, Sis! Mount Vasuvius hasn't
erupted as much as you have! Calm down, girl!"

"I AM CALM, DAMMIT!!" I screech.

"You are not calm, Amanda-Sama!." Wizardmon says "You are loud. Big
differance!"

Oh, great! It's bad enough my brother has to lecture me. Now, his DIGIMON
is doing it!

After a while, we manage to finish breakfast, and are still sitting
at the table, talking about things and actually joking around- much like we
would be, back home- when Kelly slowly rises from the table.

"Gomen nisai. Ken-Sama, Ikuko-SAMA! But, I need to try to introduce
myself to to my son and youngest-daughter.. again. I hope I can locate the
Izumi's residence! It is in the.. Odaiba-District?"

"I can show you where it is, Graham-Sama!" Ikuko bowed. "Then, I will take
you to see the Tachikawas! I will be able to speak with both of my itoko this day!"

"Arigatou." Kelly bows respectfully.

I feel the knot in my stomache tighten. I'm torn. As much as I'd like
to tear Izumi Soun to pieces, I'd hate to hurt Kelly! And getting into a
fight, here, would be the surest way to hurt him.

"Gishin muyo, Amanda-san! We will not be going to the Izumi's! Not yet."
Wizaerdmon spoke softly. "I know where Mimi and Koushirou are! As a mystic-
digimon, I can sense other digimon.. including the Palmon and Tentomon! And,
where their partners are, we shall find them! Come! The children await!"

How in the Hell could the Wizardmon have read my mind?

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