Sailor Kari ~ Crest of Light

Chapter One

Episodes One and Two

Episode #1: Digi-Star Discovery! The Truth Revealed!

It was a fine day in Kari?s new bedroom. She was only eight years old, and she was sitting near her window.

"I'm so bored . . ," Kari said to herself.

Hikari Kamiya (mostly known as Kari) was a perfect student in school. Now that school was done for now, she could talk to her friends from school sometimes. She was caring, a good friend, and now, she was totally bored.

Her only friend at the time was her pet cat, Meko. Her older brother, Tai, was at a soccer camp for the next two months. Kari?s mother looked for camps that Kari would like, but after school was over, she was very tired.

She scanned the Japanese city out of her clear window. The sun?s bright rays dazzled the summer sky overhead. The breeze patted her soft face while the birds sang a happy medley of chirps to make her a bit sleepy.

Suddenly, Kari spied three balls of light falling from the sky. One was green, one was a dark pink, and the last one was a pink and it was heading right towards her window!! She began to step away from the glass window, but amazingly, it passed right through the barrier. Kari gasped a little as the glowing sphere landed on her lap. The pink aura disappeared and was replaced with a sleeping cat-like creature.

"Hello," Kari said softly to the cat, "Wake up."

The cat moaned and yawned as its eyes opened slowly. It stood up with its tiny white hind legs. It was cute looking, but it didn?t look like a normal cat. Suddenly it started to speak.

"Hello, Princess," The cat bowed as if it was doing a curtsy. "My name is Gatomon, your majesty."

"Your Majesty?!" Kari said in shock. "Princess?! I must be dreaming or something!"

"It?s not a dream. I came to find you, Princess Kari."

"You . . . you . . .You know my name?!"

"Of course I do!" Gatomon rubbed against Kari and purred softly. "Your mother sent me here to find you and your two sisters."

"My mother?! Two sisters?!" Kari shrieked, "I don?t have any sisters! I only have a older brother! You must be joking!"

"It's not a joke, Princess Kari," Gatomon said while she began to make another pink sphere in her hands (I think they are paws!). "I'll show you. Hold this, Kari."

She placed the glowing ball in Kari?s hands. Suddenly, Kari and Gatomon started to disappear into a pink light.

"Where am I?" Kari said slowly. "Where are you, Gatomon?"

She stood up and looked around this new terrain. There was a broken palace in front with dozens of burned rose bushes and rusted fountains on the sides of the entrance doors. She walked slowly to the huge gray doors of the palace, careful to not harm anything. Finally, Kari pushed to doors open and tip-toed inside. A sky blue light formed in front of her and Gatomon appeared with a tiny figure of a young woman inside the azure sphere.

"Gatomon?" Kari whispered, "Who is your friend? What is this place?"

"You're in the DigiWorld, Princess," a beautiful voice answered.

It wasn't Gatomon's voice at all. It came from the figure in the ball.

"Kari, meet your mother, Queen Keri," Gatomon nudged her toward the royal figure.

"Mother?" Kari said, "I remember you now . . I know who you are now . . What happened to you? I don't remember the end of the Digi-Kingdom, Mother," She fell to her knees and asked, "Tell me the story, your majesty. Tell me."

Episode #2: Destruction of the Digi-Kingdom

"I guess it's time for you to discover the truth about the Digi-Kingdom. I'll show you the last days of our paradise." Queen Keri, Kari, and Gatomon faded into the past as the queen told her tale.

"It was many years ago, my Princess. You had just learned that when my reign was over, you would be the high queen of the Digi-Kingdom. Your older sisters, Mimi and Sora, would help teach you how to be a perfect queen, but you fell in love with a young prince from the planet Earth. He would visit you all the time when he had the chance to see you at nightfall.

"Finally, a celebration began in your honor as the beginning of the Crystal Twilights arrived. You invited your future husband to the Crystal Ball that night, and you were so excited after he answered ?Yes, Princess. I will dance with you, my love.?.

"Princess Kari!"

"Mimi, what is it?"

"Your prince is here! You don't want to miss the beginning of the Crystal Twilights Ball, do you?" Princess Sora yelled.

"I'm coming!" The young princess replied as she ran to the doorway where the prince stood with a bouquet of elegant roses of many colors.

"Takeru, my prince, you came!" Kari ran towards him and stopped to talk with him.

"Princess Kari," Prince T.K. said to her, handing her the roses, "I have some news for you."

"What is it, my love?"

"Evil forces are headed to the Digi-Kingdom. You and your family is in great danger."

Kari thought for a second and asked, "Are you going to protect your home on Earth, or will you protect us?"

"Of course I will protect you, Hikari. I wouldn't let anything happen to you or your people. The queen herself asked me to stay here to watch over you."

"Thank you, Takeru," the princess said in his ear, "I love you so much."

"I love you too, Hikari," the prince told her as they embraced each other.

Takeru moved in closer and kissed her on the lips. A breeze blew and several fireworks were shot into the crystal night sky. Their romantic kiss ended and the prince walked his princess to the main ball room.

The Crystal Ball had begun. The air was filled with laughing and conversation as couples began to dance. Queen Keri and her advisers, Gatomon and Vixemon, sat by her side as they watched Takeru and Hikari dance near the moonlight above them. Hours began to pass by as the dancing ended. There still was some talking around with the other two princesses as they sat at their table.

Princess Kari and Prince T.K. walked to a balcony near the ballroom. They stared at the beautiful stars and the crescent moon above them. Then they turned to each other and stared into each others eyes.

"It's beautiful," Kari whispered in the breeze, "I see diamonds in your eyes that shine like the stars."

"This world is perfect, Hikari," the young prince murmured, "Just like you." He looked deeply into the princess?s eyes and said, "Your eyes seem to melt my heart. I wish I could stay with you forever, until the end of time. Oh, Hikari...."

He leaned toward the princess and kissed her softly. Her left arm wrapped around his shoulder as a small tear dropped from her eyes. It looked like a shimmering pink diamond glistening in the perfect midnight sky.

Suddenly their romantic moment of passion ended when the floor began to rumble. The princess screamed loudly and pointed at a dark force from the horizon. Princesses Sora and Mimi quickly transformed to their Digi-Scout uniforms and prepared for the battle. Gatomon woke up the warriors of the Digi-Kingdom Palace while Vixemon ran to get some digimon to help fight the evil forces ahead. When they were ready for battle, the forces of evil were approaching quickly.

"Who is that?" Kari asked.

"Vilemon," Queen Keri replied, "He's an evil digimon who is destined to control the universe, and that includes the Digi-Kingdom as well!"

"What can we do, Mother?" Princess Kari shivered.

"Run and hide!" She turned to Prince T.K. and said, "Protect her for me. She needs you."

"Yes, your majesty," Takeru replied, bowing quickly.

He grabbed Kari?s arm and yelled, "Come on!" They ran to the deepest part of the castle as the battle started. She could hear her sisters and the digimon fighting. Queen Keri followed Gatomon to safety as Vixemon helped fight.

"Sonic Star Wave!" Vixemon shouted. Little boomerang stars attacked Vilemon?s minions. "Love Sparkle Dart!" Sailor Sora yelled. Several darts shimmered in the air as they hit the evil digimon.

"Sincerity Flower Beam!" Sailor Mimi sent a floral ray towards the dark cloud of evil.

Vilemon laughed loudly as he attacked, "Dark Ray of Destruction!"

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Sailors Sora and Mimi were hit so hard that the blast had killed them.

"NO!!!!" Kari cried. "Mimi! Sora!" Tears flooded her eyes as T.K. took her away.

Vixemon ran to the queen and told her the terrible news. The prince and princess ran to a far-away window. They thought that Vilemon would never reach them now.

"We'll be safe here," T.K. told her. "I'm with you now. Don't worry about anything. Okay?"

Kari nodded. A loud crash sounded. She screamed shrilly, and the prince covered her mouth, telling her to be quiet. But Vilemon had already heard the princess's cry. He turned to the direction of the scream and floated to the royals' location.

Vilemon transformed into his true form, an evil king (he called himself King Vilemon)

with a cape of transformation. The cape could change anyone into anything they desired, including their true form. He slowly walked to the room where the princess and prince hid.

"I hear him," Takeru whispered, "He knows we?re here."

Kari shuddered quietly and said, "I?m scared, my love. Hold me closer, and protect me."

T.K. held Kari tightly and kissed her. Suddenly, King Vilemon crashed the door open and saw the princess and the prince.

He laughed and said, "Scared, are you? I'll end this now by destroying you!"

Takeru stood in front of Hikari and shouted, "Stay away! You won't hurt my princess!"

Vilemon chuckled, "You pitiful weakling! You think that you can stop me from destroying this entire Digi-Kingdom? What can you do?"

T.K. stood his ground and shot a magic diamond arrow at Vilemon. It struck him, but it amazingly, bounced off of him!

"Is that all you've got? HA HA!" He laughed as a dark source of power grew in his hands. "I'll just destroy you both then!" He was in battle position as he shouted, "Dark Ray of Destruction!!!"

"Move, Hikari!" Takeru pushed her away from the blasts aim just before a beam of darkness formed from the sky. Prince T.K. was soon floating in the black beam.

"Takeru!" Kari ran to the beam's base and began to jump.

"No, Kari! Don't jump!" the prince yelled to her.

"Take me with you, my love!" Hikari jumped into the beam and floated to her prince's arms.

"Why did you do that?" Takeru asked her, "Are you crazy?"

"No," Kari replied, "I'm just in love with you. I can't leave you, Takeru."

Their lips touched in a romantic kiss. Tears fell from their eyes as if it would be their last kiss for all eternity.

Vilemon saw them together and said, "Now that they are together, they will be destroyed together! Death Scream of Destruction!!"

The black and blue bolt struck both of them as they yelled to each other with their last breath.

"Takeru!!!"

"Hikari!!!"

Queen Keri saw Vilemon destroy the future couple. Gatomon and Vixemon began to sob in their sadness of losing both the prince and the princess of the Digi-Kingdom.

"NO!!!! HIKARI!!!!" Queen Keri yelled as she watched them float in the beam. A tear fell as she grabbed a blue-tinted diamond from Gatomon.

"Your majesty?" Vixemon asked, "What can we do?"

"Maybe this diamond can save them," She attached it to a small wand with three balls of light on the bottom of the crystal. It began to glow brightly as the queen said, "Royal Crystal Power!"

Many blue rays shimmered around Vilemon and the bodies of the lost prince and princesses. They disappeared from the ground to the crystal's light.

Queen Keri fell to her knees, weak from her loss of power. Vixemon and Gatomon scampered to her quickly to help her. She stared at the crystal with her sad, green eyes.

"You look weak, your majesty," Gatomon said, "Rest for a while to regain some of your strength."

"No," she replied, "I will use my remaining energy to save Takeru, Hikari, Mimi, and Sora. Unfortunately, Vilemon will be sent to the future as well as the prince and the princesses.

You two will guide them to their true destiny in the future: To create peace in both worlds, both Earth and the Digi-Kingdom. They will remember nothing of their past, and I will never see my little princess again until the time is right."

"We understand, your majesty," Vixemon and Gatomon said in unison. "We will follow all of your commands. They will be okay."

They rubbed against the queen's arms as a farewell. Then they began to float away in a sky blue beam of recreation. The others floated up with them as the queen said her silent good-byes.

"I will always be with you, my daughters. Take care! I love you . . . " Queen Kari's power went from her body and into the azure ray. She fainted and was frozen solid on the ground. Her crystal glowed softly as it soared around the beam, protecting them from harms way in the futuristic beam that took them to the future in Japan.

To be cotinued...