Sora Takenouchi's Group's Secret Dream/Toshiko's Legend/History Lesson

*(Later that day, Sora's group, consisting Sora, Biyomon, Serena, Lillipup, Kairi, Namine, Xion, Aqua, Olette, Hayner, Pence, the Dream Eater pets, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Milhouse, Nelson, Martin, Ralph, Santa's Little Helper, Tai, Agumon, Izzy, Tentomon, Mimi, Palmon, Joe, Gomamon, Kari, Gatomon, and Mabel, secretly snuck out of the apartment and rode with Epona to the archery grounds with Sora’s bow and arrows in tow; The same ones Yupa, Haruhiko, and Toshiko gave her on her third birthday twelve years ago. As they rode, Sora fired each of her arrows at each target perfectly while singing and her friends happily watched proudly)*

Sora: **When the cold wind is a’calling**

**And the sky is clear and bright**

**Misty mountains sing and beckon**

**Lead me out into the light**

*(Then she and her group practiced fighting with a bunch of dummies)*

Sora: **I will ride, I will fly**

**Chase the wind**

**And touch the sky**

**I will fly**

**Chase the wind**

**And touch the sky**

*(Later, Sora's group climbed on a rock hill and enjoyed the view as Sora finished decorating her bow with carvings)*

Sora: **Where dark roots hide secrets**

**And mountains are fierce and bold**

**Deep waters hold reflections**

**Of times lost long ago**

*(Then later, Sora's group were enjoying a ride on Epona, collecting some edible berries)*

Sora: **I will read every story**

**Take hold of my own dream**

**Be as strong as the seas are stormy**

**And proud as an eagle’s scream**

**I will ride, I will fly**

**Chase the wind**

**And touch the sky**

**I will fly**

**Chase the wind**

**And touch the sky**

*(Then they ride back to the apartment as the evening arrived)*

Sora: **And touch the sky**

**Chase the wind**

**Chase the wind**

**Touch the sky**

*(After they dropped Epona off in her stable, they hurry inside with the berries and arrived in the nick of time in the dining hall, where everyone is preparing dinner, and Haruhiko, Drake, and Fenton are telling an interested Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, Tiff, Tuff, Kirby, and Honker and Tank Muddlefoot the story of how Haruhiko lost his foot to Ganon)*

Haruhiko: Then from nowhere, the biggest beast you’ve ever seen appeared!

Tuff: And that’s Ganon?

Huey: Really?

Haruhiko: Yes.

Drake: He is as black as a shadow, his hair red as blood, and blood gold eyes burning like flames.

Fenton: And he is really battle-scarred all over from past battles!

Rarity: (Agreeing) Which makes him really ugly.

Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, Tiff, Tuff, and Honker and Tank Muddlefoot: Wow!

Kirby: (Interested) Poyo....

Honker: Then what happened?

Tank Muddlefoot: Did you get hurt next like you said?

Fenton: You really want to know?

*(Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, Tiff, Tuff, Kirby, and Honker and Tank Muddlefoot nodded eagerly as Mrs. Beakley chuckled a bit)*

Mrs. Beakley: You children always get into these crazy things.

Thunderlane: Especially since they were very young and/or not even born yet that time.

Haruhiko: Well, what happened next, like everyone has told me….

Tiff: You mean you were knocked out?

Abe: Of course he was knocked out. Like one time, I got knocked out fighting off invaders from the Gerudo Kingdom long ago, only for me to recover quickly....

*(Then Rainbow Dash, after giving a bit of a chuckle while rolling her eyes, finished his story at the same time as Abe finished)*

Rainbow Dash and Abe: (At the same time, which Abe lets her) Thanks to Haruhiko saving my (your) life, despite his broken leg, and then we saved the day before they almost won.

Haruhiko: Yes, but….

*(Then Sora's group butt in, which he, Drake, and Fenton lets them proudly)*

Tai: From what all of us witnessed….

Izzy: Ganon knocked Drake and Fenton aside....

Serena: When they were Darkwing Duck and Gizmoduck....

Mimi: Then Ganon knocked Haruhiko out with his claws and the handle of one of his swords....

Joe: Then with one swipe…!

Kairi: Chomp! Shunk! Haruhiko’s left foot was clawed, bitten...!

Xion: And lopped off!

Sora: And gulp! Down Ganon’s throat, his foot went!

Aqua: Like its his dinner!

*(Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, Tiff, Tuff, Kirby, and Honker and Tank Muddlefoot got amazed)*

Kirby: (Amazed) Poyo....

Tiff: And you survived it?!

Louie: Even after that attack lopped your foot off?!

Honker: Normally, you could die from that!

Dewey: From blood loss!

Sora: But not Dad, thankfully!

Marge: For we rescued him, Drake, and Fenton!

Homer: Thanks to Elmo, Reggie, Jack, and Bud, along with us, chasing him off by throwing rocks at him, along with some of us with our weapons!

Lawrence: Technically, it was me, Tucker, and Dale who threw the rocks.

Elmo: Me, Jack, Bud, and Reggie never did throw rocks.

Dale: And I used my flamethrower as well.

Homer: (Realizing) D'oh! *(Sheepishly)* Sorry, I forgot.

Selma: Yeah, like a senile snail.

Patty: Mm-hmm, a slow, dimwitted, senile snail.

Homer: (Nonchalantly and sarcastically) Well, excuse me for being forgetful.

Tuff: This story is getting better every time I hear it!

Webby: It always does, Tuff.

*(They chuckle a bit, but then stopped when Toshiko comes in with her plate with a piece of steak with an over-easy egg on top of it, making everyone compose themselves, acting natural while Lisa filled her plate with mostly a vegetarian meal since she's a vegetarian)*

Patty: (Whispering to Selma) Here comes the fun adventure wrecker.

Selma: (Whispering to Patty in agreement) Mm-hmm, always ruining our fun and chances of adventure.

*(Toshiko then sat at the table when she saw Sora put her bow on the table)*

Toshiko: Ah-ah! No weapons on the table!

Sora: But it’s just a bow.

Toshiko: I think you should never have weapons in my opinion.

Sora: (Agitated) Aw, Mom!

*(While Sora said this and placed her bow off the table, everyone calmly rolled their eyes at what Toshiko said to Sora; For the past thirteen years since Haruhiko lost his left foot to Ganon, Drake and Fenton, as Darkwing and Gizmoduck, nearly getting killed by Ganon, and Yupa was killed, Toshiko changed her tune about Sora becoming a knight princess, out of fear of losing her like she almost did Haruhiko, Drake, and Fenton and did with Yupa. And because of that change, Toshiko had not only become ignorant that everything is fine, despite the traumas and tragedy from the past thirteen years, a'la the Five Stages of Grief, but also became neglectful of Sora’s dream and never understood how she feels about the change for the past thirteen years, making Sora feel left out by Toshiko, especially when Toshiko is never there for her lately. Anyway, after Sora said this, Toshiko spoke up)*

Toshiko: Sora Takenouchi! Don't "Aw, Mom!" me, and do not use that tone to me!

Launchpad: First of all, Toshiko, she wasn’t having an attitude.

Haruhiko: Secondly, no weapons or not, this is what she wants.

Scrooge: This is what she dreamed of thirteen years ago, just like you used to believe she would.

Marge: You should realize that.

Toshiko: (Sarcastically) Yeah. Suffer the same fate Yupa did and what Haruhiko, Drake, and Fenton almost had.

*(Sora glared flatly and then started eating)*

Marge: (Whispering to Homer, Patty, and Selma) There she goes, speaking in sarcasm.

Homer: (Whispering to Marge, Patty, and Selma) Trying to reach out to her as usual.

Patty: (Whispering to Homer, Marge, and Selma) I'll say.

Selma: (Whispering to Homer, Marge, and Patty) Never listened as usual.

*(Not hearing Homer, Marge, Patty, and Selma, Toshiko then changed the subject, speaking to Sora)*

Toshiko: Anyway, what did you do today?

Sora: Oh, my friends and I just got some edible berries with Epona.

Pence: Edible berries that are both sweet and sour.

Hayner: Just how we like them.

Drake and Fenton: (Secretly winking at Sora's group) Exactly.

Homer and Marge: (Secretly winking at Sora's group in agreement) Very delicious.

Homer: (Hungrily) Mmm, edible berries....

*(The reason they winked is because they, along with everyone else, except Toshiko, told Sora's group to sneak out and practice while getting berries)*

Toshiko: Hence why we got edible berries tonight.

*(She almost resumed eating when she suddenly got suspicious upon a double take as Sora finished eating her meal)*

Toshiko: Wait a minute! Drake, Fenton, what did you mean by "Exactly?" And Sora, did you go to that berry patch near…?

*(Gene, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Gosalyn, Joe, Gomamon, and Tank Muddlefoot spoke up)*

Gene: Wait a minute, Tosh!

Huey: All they did was gather edible berries.

Dewey: The sweet and sour kind.

Louie: Just like Uncle Scrooge, us, and everyone else asked them to do for them.

Gosalyn: Because you know how much we like those berries.

Joe and Gomamon: Rode Epona to the berries like the wind!

Tank Muddlefoot: Not to mention rode through the archery range with Epona....

Joe and Gomamon: And shot arrows at targets….

*(Toshiko got surprised)*

Toshiko: Archery range?!

*(Joe, Gomamon, and Tank Muddlefoot got shocked; The three accidentally spilled the beans, that even the Mane Seven's pets and Maggie palmed their faces in shock and annoyance)*

Homer: D'oh!

*(Sora's group and even Homer, Marge, Drake, and Fenton made a brief dagger stare at Joe, Gomamon, and Tank Muddlefoot. Now Sora is really gonna get in trouble, for Toshiko, since Yupa’s death and Haruhiko’s foot loss, has also forbidden Sora from playing archery and becoming a knight princess)*

Lisa: (Dagger glaring at Joe, Gomamon, and Tank Muddlefoot) Nice going, guys.

Bart: (Dagger glaring in agreement) Yeah.

Toshiko: You practiced some archery *again*, young lady?!

Sora: Nothing happened….

Toshiko: (Groans a bit in annoyance) Oh, Sora! How many times do we have to go through this? You could’ve gotten hurt, or worse, killed!

Sora: But I didn’t, right?

Toshiko: But you would.

Drake: Toshiko, just because she went to the archery range, doesn't mean she's in mortal danger.

Marge: All she did was shoot a couple of arrows.

Toshiko: But that's no excuse to lie to me!

Abe: (Rolling his eyes on annoyance) Excuse, my foot! When I was a pup, my dad would occasionally train me how to fight at a young age, because what if something bad and dangerous were to happen?

Toshiko: (Scoffs) That was in the past. Nothing bad's going to happen nowadays.

Scrooge: (Aghast) Excuse me?!

Grace: You saying that, that is considering Haruhiko's foot loss and Yupa's death never happening before.

Volteer: That's right.

Toshiko: (To the others) But nothing happened lately. *(To Sora)* Don't you agree?

Sora: (About to answer) A little, but....

Toshiko: (To the others, cutting her off) See? I rest my case.

*(Sora sadly excused herself from the table and went upstairs to her room. Toshiko then got up and went upstairs after Sora)*

Reginald: Oh, boy.

Bud: Another lecture coming up.

Jack: Involving the Downfall of the Gerudo Desert Kingdom.

Elmo: My sentiments exactly.

*(Upstairs, Toshiko found Sora gently fiddling with her pillow in a calm moody way. Then Toshiko started a story of some kind, getting Sora’s attention)*

Toshiko: Fifteen years ago, there was once the Desert Kingdom of Gerudo….

*(Sora groans a bit in annoyance)*

Sora: Again with this history/lecture?

*(Toshiko flatly glared, then resumed)*

Toshiko: Gerudo was once a prosperous kingdom ruled by a king whose four sons were chosen to compete who will rule in his stead after his time. It was even rumored that he, along with his three brothers, built a whole army of human-sized shapeshifting robots to act as their and their people's souls' bodily vessels when and if they die eventually. However, Ganondorf, the oldest, along with two of the king's brothers, wanted the power for themselves in a selfish way after Ganondorf's father died, and one of the alleged shapeshifting robots disappeared following his death, that Ganondorf and the king's two brothers literally caused a rift between this entire kingdom and the people by tearing apart Ganondorf and the king's two brothers' people’s fate for theirs, while one of the king's brothers refused to join them. But thankfully, Leomon, with the one brother's sacrificial help, stopped the three's tyranny and Ganondorf and the king's two brothers disappeared after the three were banished into the Forbidden Forest to be eaten by its beasts, never to be seen again. As for the brother that helped Leomon, he died from his sacrificial help, and then later, three more of the alleged shapeshifting robots that survived the entire kingdom's war, disappeared following the two brothers' banishment and disappearance with Ganondorf and the one brother's death.

Sora: And that’s why Leomon got Excalibur out and married Beastmon; As a reward for defeating Ganondorf and the king's two brothers with his heroic valor and kindness, combined with the one brother's selfless heroic sacrifice. I know this story.

Toshiko: Sora, it’s more than just a story. It’s a lesson, teaching us that we can’t make the same mistake like Ganondorf and the two brothers did when it comes to following our path of fate. I just want what’s best for you.

Sora: Well, you could if you just move on from our thirteen year old trauma and tragedy and let me follow my dream.

Toshiko: Sora, that's not....

Sora: Fighting evil, rescuing other damsels in distress....

Toshiko: Sora….

Sora: Heck, even make everyone *and* you proud...!

Toshiko: (Starting to get angry) Sora…!

Sora: By following the six virtues wh....

Toshiko: (Angrily cutting her off) ENOUGH!! YOU ARE NOT, BECOMING A KNIGHT PRINCESS, EVER!!

*(Silence, then Sora got angry at first, wanting to speak again, but then got sad, tearing up a bit, and then walked to her bedroom door)*

Sora: (Sobs softly) It's not fair! Why can't you listen to me and understand? Especially move on?

*(Silence as Toshiko remained quiet as she calmed down her anger, then Sora storms off. Later in the master bedroom at night, Toshiko is sadly finishing ironing a cloth tapestry with pictures of everyone looking straight ahead sewn on it. Haruhiko, Drake, Scrooge, Volteer, Grace, Homer, Marge, Abe, Patty, and Selma comes in and saw Toshiko looking sad)*

Patty: (Sarcastically) I take the lecture didn’t go well?

Grace: (Sarcastically) As usual?

Toshiko: (Sighs sadly) No. I don’t know what to do.

Haruhiko: If you could just….

Toshiko: I’m not letting her become a knight princess. And I wish Yupa....

*(She stops herself hesitantly, and then changed her answer)*

Toshiko: (Corrects herself) *Sora and all of you*, should understand.

Grace: But whatever happened to you supporting that?

Toshiko: You know why.

Patty: Well, that's denial for you.

Marge: Along with anger.

Selma: Two stages of the Five Stages of Grief.

Volteer: You just have to learn to move on.

Abe: Move on to the other three stages; Bargaining, despair....

*(Toshiko hesitates a bit during this, but composed herself)*

Scrooge: We know, Abe. Acceptance.

*(A short pause, then….)*

Haruhiko: Anyway, I was just gonna say practice what you try to say to Sora.

*(Toshiko looked at him in confusion)*

Toshiko: I know what to say, but….

Homer: Come on.

Drake: Pretend I’m Sora. You know….

*(Then he pretends to be Sora)*

Drake: (Imitating Sora) I don’t want to be a simple girl running the farm all the time! I want to be a knight princess, fighting in battles for what’s right like my Uncle Yupa!

*(Then he spoke up normally)*

Drake: (In his normal voice) How was that?

Homer: Good impression, DW.

Patty: I have to admit, it was a good imitation.

Selma: Mm-hmm, a good imitation indeed.

Marge: Come on. Like Drake just did, say what you want to say to Sora, please?

*(Then Toshiko gave in calmly and practiced)*

Toshiko: Sora, I know you want this dream and why you and everyone else wanted me to move on. After all you’ve learnt from taking care of the farm animals, the barn, everything in our home, I just want what’s best for you.

*(Outside in the horse stable, Sora, already composed from her teary-eyed reaction, is also practicing her reasoning with Toshiko with her group while cleaning it)*

Sora: But you did want what’s best for me when I had this dream of becoming a knight princess, and you supported.

*(Then we switch between scenes, as if they are talking to each other)*

Toshiko: I know it seems unfair, but what other choice do we have for your future? We can’t just run away from what we choose.

Sora: I wasn’t planning on running away from it like you're running away from the trauma and tragedy.

Toshiko: But are you willing to pay the price like Yupa did and your father, Drake, and Fenton almost did?

Sora: I’m not doing this to hurt you. I just want to make you proud of me, *and* help you move on.

Toshiko: If you could just see what I mean from all of this, then you’d understand.

Sora: But I *do* understand. I just need support, like you need support on your grief.

Toshiko: But you’ll understand, if you just….

Sora: I want to make you understand my dream and get better, if you just….

Toshiko: Listen.

Sora: Listen.

*(In the stable, after Sora said this, she then changed the subject to her group)*

Sora: Is that good enough?

Tiff: It might be good enough.

Izzy: Maybe even possibly good enough.

Twilight Sparkle: Or both.

*(Sora then went glum)*

Sora: Both “Might” and "Possibly," huh? I don’t think it’ll work. She’ll never understand or be there for me like she never has for the past thirteen years.

Lisa: (While Maggie pats Sora's arm in comfort with a soft reassuring smile behind her pacifier) Let alone move on from the trauma and tragedy.

Martin: Stuck in the first two stages of the Five Stages of Grief.

Webby: It’ll be fine, Sora.

Mimi: Yeah, chin up.

Gosalyn: Those changes will come in time.

Sora: What makes you say that, Webby, Mimi, and Gos?

Webby: We don't know.

Mimi: But maybe one day, if you prove it to her and help her....

Joe: She’ll understand and be there for you again.

Fluttershy: And hopefully go through the three remaining stages of the Five Stages of Grief.

Braeburn: You got that right.

Stallion Eight except Braeburn: Yep!

Gosalyn: I mean, Dad's always there for me and my dream of becoming a knight like him, despite getting nearly killed from what he told me.

Honker: Just hopefully as long as it’s not another fight.

Applejack: In the form of an argument.

Tank Muddlefoot: Like any other shouting match.

Pinkie Pie: Which will not end well if that happened again.

Mane Seven except Pinkie Pie: Yep!

*(Sora smiled softly a bit)*

Sora: Thanks.

*(Then with that, the stable was cleaned and they head inside)*

***Coming up: Fourteen mysterious villainous creatures, consisting a bat-type Digimon, an anthro Arabian thief dog, a mutant warthog, a mutant rhinoceros, a mutant kangaroo, a mutant koala bear, a mutant potoroo, a mutant kangaroo/gorilla hybrid, an anthro lanky alien, two mutant Komodo dragons, and three anthro thief dogs, and a familiar female villain, break in Camelot and after injuring Leomon, steal Excalibur. But thankfully in an unfortunate way, the fifteen would-be thieves lose Excalibur in the Forbidden Forest thanks to a certain caped Dream Eater, a magic tiki mask, six mutant bandicoots, and two young knights intervening. Then the next morning, all of the kingdom’s warriors, under Sora and her friends and families' request under Toshiko’s suggestion, partake in an archery tournament, which another group of young knights won, but doesn’t end well for Sora when she partakes after the winner announcement to please Toshiko and not only change her mind, but also help her cope with her thirteen year old grief.***