Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Shepherd ❯ Chapter 10

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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 !

"Koneko", Japanese for "Kitten", is Sailoruranus'- Haruka's- name for Usagi.

Chief Joseph was a leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Inians in Oregon.
In about 1877, while being forced to a reservation in Idaho Territory, some
warriors killed some white men, and Joseph- as village-chief-
was forced to flee the US Army. The chase ended at Bearpaw Mountain in Montana..
40 miles from the Sanctuary of the Canadian-border.

"Half-Breed" was a song recorded by Cher in the mid-1970s.

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Kelly's P.O.V.

I walked back down the streets of Juuban, and I was beginning to get
depressed. Again.

Back Stateside, in college, the Fraternities traditionally have what they call
"Hell Week". That is when the novice-frats get initiated into the ways of the
fraternities! Well, since I never was in a Fraternity, the heavens must have
decided to let me have my "Hell Week", now. I get to be initiated into the (for
lack of a better word) "workings" of the Japanese governmenmt!

Lucky me.

This is a test. It has to be a test. God's testing my patience. And,
I'm failing.. miserably.

My first week of trying to get my children back Stateside with me
was not what I had hoped it would be. And, that was putting it mildly!
Although I had all the documentation showing that Ami Katarzina, Mimi Ann,
and Koushirou Odell were American-citizens by birth, and that Ayumi had become a
U.S. Citizen a full year before Ami Kat's birth, and had renounced her
Japanese-Citizenship.. on paper.. I was still having problems with the
government!

Some Paper-shuffler in the Diet doesn't believe Ayumi's renunciation to be
valid, since she later renounced that. Therefore, in the eyes of Tokyo, my
children are citizens on both countries and, as my wife had not voided her
responsibilities as a parent to the proper-authorities, they were
still her responsibility!

I hate dual-citizenship!

"Also!" , the .. gentleman .. from the Diet explained to me, "You must
understand, the one you call 'Ami Katarzina' is part of a great, living,
national-treasure that Nippon would be very unfortunate to lose! As for the
others.. they have a special-relationship with their heritage that makes them
treaures, too!"

So.. we were talking about treasures, now, to be hoarded and put on display.
Maybe to, also, be used as security? Nevermind the fact that they are still
children, in need of loving parents! Iie.. they are treasures!

I had to fight a sudden urge to push this bakayarou out of his fourth- story
office window!

"You do not need to worry yourself, Graham-Sama!" The Bakayarou smiled,
"We in Nippon know how to best care for our own!"

That may be.. but half-breeds are considered Gaijin! They are NOT "your
own".

That started Monday. It's now Friday.

As I said.. "Hell Week".

Uwada Ryo warned me this would happen. But, that warning doesn't ease the pain!
I am, at least, grateful that the twins have someone to stay with temporarily,
although I hate not being able to look after them, myself!

They are my children. They are my rsponsibility! But, I couldn't have asked the
Tsukinos to house all of us! Putting up Katarzina, Salena, and myself was
stretching their living-space, enough! And, although Rei and her grandfather
offered the use of their Shrine.. I had a feeling that would just have caused
unease among the regular-patrons.

So, the Family Kido offered to house Odell and Anne! I am going to have to thank
them after this mess is over. Jyou was well-chosen to be the Bearer
of Responsibility! And, it gladdens me that, when the situation requires it,
his father- Dr. Kido Shin- is just as reliable!

As I come to within three blocks of the Tsukino-house, my contemplative mood
vanishes. And my uneasiness takes over! My Japanese is rusty, but it sounds like
the locals are betting on a fight. I recognize alot of curses,
and the word, "Gaijin" is being tossed around too much!

The story about my kids finally made the rumor-mill. DAMN!!

Somehow- and don't ask me how- I make through the ever-thickening crowd
of hostiles. They are seemingly-oblivious to the red-headed giant that is wading
through their sea. Because, nobody has threatened me, yet. Or, maybe,
my size intimidates them. I secretly hope that is the reason for their
submission.

Then, I get to the house.. and start to cry...

Haruka's P.O.V.

I cannot believe what I am seeing! I do not want to believe it! We Senshi are
having to watch as one of our own is getting attacked by those who
ask our protection?! While it is true that we Senshi of the Outer Planets
kept our distance from the Inner-Count - we did not think of them as the best of
Senshi - I never-the-less admired the Senshi of Mercury for her intelligence..
and her loyalty to the Tsuki-no-Hime! And this is supposed to
be her fated-end ?? She will be killed by this mob.. and the Senshi are
POWERLESS to stop it ??

Iiede.. not powerless. We could stop the murder of three young children,
if Mizuno-baka would just let us help! Demo.. we cannot help. She will not
let us. Not after the way we hurt her. Not after we tried to tear her from her
family. And.. can I really blame her for feeling that way? I would have called
her 'selfish' and 'stupid', before, for thinking like this. The needs
of the many outweigh the needs of the one. That is what we are taught, to
deny our wants and needs for the good of the community! But, seeing Mizu..
GRAHAM Ami-chan, now, I can only think of what Hida Iori-kun said two days
ago! What will the Senshi, what will the Messiah, have to work with when her
time comes? Will Mercury be living and useful? Or, will she be dead inside, and
cold as ice?

And what about Koneko? I saw the tremors in her face, and the fear in her eyes.
Sometimes, like now, it seems as Koneko can feel every hurt and every fear that
we do! No one should have to feel that pain!

I wish Mimi would stop staring at me like that! That same accusitory stare! It
makes me unsteady and short-of-breath and.. DAMMIT, GIRL!! Can you
not see that I am not your enemy?? I swear, if you die and I see that same look
in your eyes.. I will NEVER be Senshi again! I will go and drive
off a CLIFF!!

And, I will make sure I take a certain Gate-Gaurdian with me to pay for our
crimes!

Is this what you wanted, Setsuna, when you called us to meet at the market? Is
death what you wanted?? Because It is what you shall get.. Damn you!!

I am just glad that Hotaru is not here...

Setsuna's P.O.V.

Is it worth all this pain? I wonder. I have seen how this will all end,
from my station at the Gates of Time. I am allowed glimpses of what it to come.
I have to remind myself everything is working for the best-outcome! Demo.. no
one would believe me if I told them. Shimatte! I do not believe
it, right now! And I was lucky enough to see BEYOND this!!

I will have much explaining to do, after this is over.. WHEN this is over.
Haruka looks as if she wants me dead! I can't say that I blame her for
feeling that way. She fears for Mercury-Sama.. and for Hime! If she only knew
how much her fears are warranted!

Hime is terrified, now! Terrified of what she can do.. of what she may
do! The power of Ginzhiushou is great.. especially, since it is fed by the
Hime's passions. And, now, as her friend.. her imouto.. is threatened, the
wanting, the passion, to protect her grows exponentially! If something is not
done.. and, soon.. none of us may live through this. For, we Senshi have all
hurt Mercury-no-Hime in the last few hours.

DAMMIT, Graham-Sama! Where are you?

And.. where the HELL is Hotaru?

Ami's P.O.V.

Why? Why? WHY??

WHY can't I have at least SOME normalcy in my life?? Is that too
DAMNED much to ask?! I have spent my short life in loneliness, my only
saviours being my mother, Usagi-niisan, and the Senshi, and then my MOTHER
winds up KICKING my out for being BORN!! Hai.. for being born.. for I could
no more deny my powers and rsponsibilies than I could deny my breath and
heartbeat! Then.. the Senshi.. my SECOND family.. deny me my FIRST when my
father comes to claim my siblings and I! And, now? I feel like the great
Native-American chief, Joseph! Sanctuary is so close.. 40 miles away..
yet so far.

Part of me thinks my mother has something to do with this! Somehow,
she had managed to call forth every demom in Nippon and brought them here..
Well.. as Aunt Selena would say.. "Bring them On!" Let us finish this!
I am glad my father is not here, for I have the feeling that here I will
die.. surrounded by me enemies. I just wish Odell and Ann were not here! They
should not be touched by this..

Ryo! How I wish you were not here. You do not deserve to even see this!
But.. you have ever been my Knight, through this Hell! So, I can only guess
you think it your fate and duty to die with me.

Usagi.. Gomen nissai.. Aishiteru, aneue..

Then, as the crowd tightens it's circle around us here in the street and in the
Tsukino's yard, I hear it.. somewhere.. the pounding of what HAS to be a
war-drum...

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"My father married a pure Cherokee,
My mother's peope were ashamed of me.
The Indians said that I was white by law,
the White-man always called me 'Indian-squaw'."

"'HALF-BREED'! That's all I ever heard.
'HALF-BREED'! How I learned to hate the word!
HALF-BREED! 'She's no good!' They warned.
Both sides were against me since the die I was born."

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Suddenly, I feel a staff in my hands.. As I let my element wash over
me and around me! These predators around my family are nothing more than sharks,
homing in one the scent of blood! And I am the dolphin! So.. I let them glide by
me- then, I hit HARD!! Let the blood they feast on be their own!

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"We never settled, went from town to town.
When you're not welcome you don't hang around.
The other children always laughed at me,
'Give her a feather, she's a Cherokee!'
"'HALF-BREED'! That's all I ever heard.
'HALF-BREED'! How I learned to hate the word!
HALF-BREED! 'She's no good!' They warned.
Both sides were against me since the die I was born.

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Somehow- stealing a moment from my fury- I turn to check on my sister and
brother. An evil smile caresses my lips:

Mini Ann is throwing all of her weight into her arms.. and all of her two arms
into her opponants' throats and faces! With all the speed and skill of a
Commando, Ann keeps throwing the webs of her hands.. between her thumb and
forefinger.. right above the enemy's trachea! Then- if that doesn't make them
collasp from choking- she throws the butt of her palm under their jaws! This
makes them fall, like a sack of grain! Sometimes, Ann also throws her palm into
someone's nose in a effort to break it.. or maybe send the cartilage into the
brain.. or ram her fingers into their eyes!

Usually, this happens so fast that, if I can see her, I can go right back to my
fight. And, unfortunately, there's alot of fight to go around!

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"We weren't accepted and I felt the shame!
Nineteen, I left, now tell me who's to blame?
My life, it's said, has been from man to man.
But, I can't run away from what I am.."

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As I continue to fight- much to the susprise and, I am sure, sheer torror or
certain Senshi- I look with concern to my brother, who is busy pounding him
group of attackers into so much miso! There is, in America,
I have read, an animal called a "Wolverine", that can rip open earth,
logs, almost anything with its claws! Odell reminds me of a wolverine! If
he had claws, his tormentors would be corpses now! His knuckles are everywhere
on his adversaries: under their ribs, in their stomaches, against their kidneys,
cutting into the diaphagms, and in their groins! And, I hear him crying as he
fights back. His opponants hurt on the outside.. Odell
hurts on the inside.

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"'HALF-BREED'! That's all I ever heard.
'HALF-BREED'! How I learned to hate the word!
HALF-BREED! 'She's no good!' They warned.
Both sides were against me since the die I was born."

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It looks as we are winning, as the Senshi and Digidestined and Digimon
hold back any outsiders that may want to join in. But, too soon, things turn
sour for us. Suddenly, their is a cry, and the line is breached!! Next, Ann,
Odell, and me are in a defensive-circle as the crowds rush around our friends!

Then, I hear the sirens! The Police finally come!

Dad and And Selena are right.. shit happens!

Then, I feel a light, yet firm, tug as suddemly my staff is taken off my hands..

MY STAFF ?! Fucking GLORIOUS!!

Kelly's P.O.V.

I start coming off the roof and down the tree when I see the crowd start to
break through the Digi-Senshi line! I have to act fast.. or friends are going to
get hurt and die! By the time I hit the ground, the Kamiyas and
Yamato and Takeru are already surrounded by swarms of angry natives! And,
although they are fiercely loyal, the digimon can't fight a group this size!
Not without help.

So, with Wizardmon as backup- just like old times- I take action!

Pardon me, Kat! Papa has to borrow your staff.

Jyou told me that- as the bearer of the Crest of Reliability, he wound
up doing things that- in retrospect- were positively foolhardy!

Some things never really change.

As I wade into the surging crowd around the brothers Ishida and Takaishi, and
their digimon, I start sweeping the staff from side to side!
These Bakayarou thought my daughter was dangerous with this stick? To borrow a
movie-phrase: "Waitta they Get a load of me!".

Soon, I have a reaping-motion working for me, swinging the tip of the staff into
one Baka's mid-section, just below the ribs, and picking him or her up and tossing
them into two of more Baka, clearing a descent path in the process! Wizardmon,
meanwhile, is doing much the same thing as I, and working his way to the
Kamiya-children! I don't see it, or even hear it, as much as feel it! It's a
strange.. bond.. that we seemed to have developed back in the Digital-
World, and I guess we never really lost it!

Then, some jackass grabbed for my staff. BIG mistake!! He's just making it
harder.. and more fun for me!

I let the Baka grab onto the staff.. and, as I expected, he eased up a bit.
Then, I force the staff to the ground, pulling the Baka to the ground head-first
while weakening his grip on the stick.

Step-one, complete!

Now, for step-two.

As I force the other end of the stick down, I raise my end up. Then, as he lets
go of the stick, I slam the free-end with as MUCH FORCE as I can onto
the Baka's neck and shoulders!

THUNK!!

Then, someone grabs the staff, again.. and I really get mean...
These Baka start encircling me like vultures! They must have more balls
than brains!!

Wait a minute! "More balls than.."? Did I just say that?

I start giggling like a maniac.. then start shoving the ends of the staff into
everybody's private-parts!!

Does it hurt?? Hell, YES!!

Do I care?? What do you think??

Then, I hear the sirens. Oh.. shit. Here, I've been telling Selena to behave
herself, and, now, It's ME that it probably wind up being thrown under a
Japanese prison!

Just then, I hear a small female voice.. one I've heard before?.. say to me:
"Peace, Graham-Sama! The war is over! I, Sailorsaturn, in the name of Princess
Serenity, COMMAND it!! It is time to get back to your family."

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