Sora was ready to go. Takeru and Kari were loading up their gear onto the back of their digi-armor digivolved digimon. It was more comfortable flying than in their ultimate and champion forms. The bags that Sora, Takeru, and Kari Packed had mostly contained food and clean water.

Biyomon was in digivolved of Birdamon for their flight. The giant flames that covered Birdamon's body was a sight Sora had missed. The fire reminded her how love burns and just how Birdamon's flame never go out, so love does not either. Sora from experience had learned that loving is hard a painful. It's much easier to walk away from someone than continue to choose to love someone after they had determined they were done with you. Sora was realizing that goodness was intertwined with love and goodwill was also based on love too.

In Birdamon's eyes lied great excitement for their flight, and Sora knew she couldn't wait to stretching those long wings of hers again. Sora was sure Biyomon missed digivolving into Birdamon since they had last parted from each other.

Birdamon lowered her head to Sora's level wanting Sora to stroke her beak. Sora chuckled and gently ran her hand up and down the smooth surface of Birdamon's beak.

On Birdamon's foot was something Izzy and Franz had invented. They had made a sort of saddle that went around Birdamon's toe and also wrapped around her leg. The saddle was more like a cockpit. It had protective glass that opened and locked like on an airplane. The glass protected the seat that was within it and there were seat belts and an intercom system. Intercom was so Sora could communicate with Birdamon. The frame was metal that surrounded it and seemed like it would be hard for anything to break through it and get to Sora in the cockpit.

Sora stared at the cockpit and remembered what Izzy had said prior to the commencement of their gear load up. Izzy had explained that whenever Biyomon digivolves to Birdamon it will automatically be there on her leg. He also said they had designed it specifically for battle and if they need to escape while under fire. It was to allow Birdamon to focus on flying and not have to worry about Sora who hung on her leg.

Sora was greatly relieved to have secure spot on Birdamon. The seat belts reassured her that she wouldn't slip and that Birdamon could pull off air maneuvers she needed to without worrying that Sora would fall off.

They were currently outside the castle walls, just before the town ended and made its way to the transition of the castle. Cephas town was a castle town after all, and the castle lied right in the center of the town. The rest of the town circled around it. It very much reminded Sora of the middle ages from history class. The way the castle was built to protect the town and how land had been loan to people. The design of it seemed the same, but Sora understood that this was in no way feudalism. The castle was once used as way of protecting the town. Sora was told that legend has it they use to have a powerful digimon that lived in the castle and protected all the land that fell within that region. The castle was meant as deterrent from digimon that thought taking over or attacking the town would be easy. When digimon caught site of the castle they knew the town was protected and had a fierce protector.

The stuff that Sora, Takeru, and Hikari had pack wasn't much, but the problem was more of securing the belongings to their digimon. Sora had encountered problems with this task as Birdamon was on fire and she had some concern about tying her stuff to Birdamon's leg. Kari had decided Sora's stuff would be safer riding with Nefertimon and Kari's things. The bags were easy to secure on Nefertimon and also have room for Kari on her back.

They officially were ready for takeoff, and everyone had come to see them off. Their friends stood in a straight row behind the digimon.

"Good luck, guys! Have good flight and remember what I said about flight sickness," said Joe. He was the first one to speak to break the awkwardness of their goodbye. It was strange for the digidestined to be saying goodbye and knowing they would be separated for a while on this adventure.

"We will, Joe," Kari replied and let out a giggle.

Tai, come up and hugged his sister tightly. Sora could tell both the brothers were worried about their siblings. Tai especially.

Sora could tell that with Kari getting older, her and Tai didn't talk as much. Sora assumed it had to do with them getting older and going through puberty, but Sora also suspected it had to do with Tai being busy with sports and Kari being involved in so many clubs. They were simply really busy people. However, even if they weren't as close, they still loved each other immensely.

Tai pulled away from Kari and held her shoulders and looked her in the eyes, "Be careful out there, Kari."

Matt tried to act chill and cool, and gave his brother a nonchalant hug. Sora, knew that Matt had trouble with being affectionate. It was sort of embarrassing for him. When she had picked up on this, everything made sense with how he acted with Takeru in their first adventure. He had a hard time expressing himself and his emotions. He had been conditioned with this sort of detachment. Where he tried to appear distant. Luckily, it had gotten a lot better since the first adventure and Matt was learning he didn't have to end up like his parents. He was learning that he didn't need to always protect himself by hiding how he felt.

Sora and Matt had already shared their goodbye, before she started packing. They had shared it alone on top of one of the towers of eth castles. From what Sora remembered from history class, where they had been was in one of the battlements.

They were both admiring the view from the battlement.

Wind was blowing through Matt's hair and getting in his face. He was leaning against the rough stone of the castle. His arms rested on one of the merlons as he looked out at the town that surrounded them. This had been Matt's spot to runoff to when they first arrived here.

Sora had sound him multiple times up here when she had gone looking for him. There was one night on their stay at the castle that Matt had prepared an evening of watching the stars with her there. It was a really nice date and Sora cherished it very much. It had just been them looking at the stars and spending quality time together.

You could say that it had become her and Matt's spot. And it was only fitting that Matt asked her to meet him up there that morning.

"Sora, Izzy was only able to pull strings so that Takeru and Kari were stationed together. His request was officially denied last night about having you stationed with Tai and me," Matt said with regret in his eyes. His voice was grim and had sadness in it.

"Its fine Matt, I can take care of myself," Sora said and covered one of his hands that was folded on top of the merlon. "I figured anyway, since I haven't been notified that I am to be reassigned to different location," Sora continued and intertwined her fingers with his.

The gently breeze was enjoyable for Sora, but the breeze kept blowing Matt's hair into his eyes. From the battlement she could see the green horizon. At some point trees took over the grass land and so the horizon that she could see was just a sea of dark green. The warmth of his hand in hers felt comforting and reassuring.

"Takeru talked to Izzy last night about whether the dark fog was connected to the Dark Ocean. Izzy isn't sure," Matt stated and changed his position so he could stare into her pretty brown eyes.

"That's where Kari was taken that one time, if I remember correctly. Hasn't Ken also been there?" Sora responded as she sorted the information she was just given.

"Yeah, Takeru doesn't talk to me much about Kari, but I know he is worried. Izzy even called Ken in after Takeru put forward that theory. Ken has a belief that it's connected to Dark Ocean too," Matt said.

"Well, then it's a good thing Takeru and Kari are being stationed together," Sora replied. "He can take care of her. It's silly, but I think he still thinks he has promise to keep. He promised me he would protect Kari when we had our battle with Piedmon," said Sora.

"If so, he is probably using that as an excuse," Matt said with a smile lighting up his features.

Sora loved his smile. Matt caught her looking at his smile and lean forward and captured Sora's lips in his. The kiss was a sweet chaste kiss, but Sora could feel his sweet feeling for her within it. His lips were warm against hers. She was used to getting chaste kisses from her. He would sometimes do them unexpectedly and surprise her.

Matt's kisses were not like her ex's. His had this sense of respect for her in them. And they revealed that he wasn't after something more than just being with her and sharing moments together. His kisses showed her that he cherished her. The previous kiss she had received from guys were never like that. Plus, Matt communicated his feelings often through kissing her.

He pulled away from her, much to Sora's dislike. He gently placed a hand on her cheek and said: "Please stay safe. If you ever need me, please call me. I will be there as soon as I can. I know you don't need me, and you and Biyomon are great fighters, but I want to be there for you. Stay safe and kick some butt. Show them why the digital world has been saved so many times. And if you ever just need to talk, you know how to reach me."

Sora could feel Matt's thumb gently stroking her cheek as he held. She simply replied back to him by pulling him close to her and bringing her mouth up to meet his.

Abruptly, Sora was startled when Yolei grabbed her into a fierce hug, breaking her from her memory of this morning.

"Make sure to write," said Yolei as she pulled out of her hug with Sora.

"I defiantly will," Sora said and smiled, "if I get a chance."

Sora had almost said her goodbyes to everyone. Everyone seemed to want to drag it out so they wouldn't have to leave, but there is only so much time you can waste by saying goodbye. There was only one more person that she needed to give her a sendoff. The last culprit, was finishing his quick hug with Kari. It was Matt. Even though they said goodbye earlier, she wanted a hug from him before he left. She had given Tai a hug, so she figured she could give her own boyfriend a hug without any one suspecting anything.

Sora made eye contact with Matt and seemed to know what she wanted or maybe he was doing it because he wanted the hug. I guess it doesn't matter though. Sora hugged Matt tightly and Matt held Sora to him. Their hug ended up lasting a little too long, because Takeru gave a cough to get their attention.

"Have a good trip, Sora" said Matt once he broke the hug and Sora was heading towards Birdamon's foot.

"I'll try," Sora called out as she climbed into the cockpit on Birdamon's foot. She buckled herself in and pushed a button on the side wall of the cockpit to close it. The glass moved above her a clicked when it locked into place.

Sora gave a nod and called out on the intercom speaker, "Ready, Birdamon."

All three digimon took off into the air. They circled around the town once before Pegasusmon took the lead and become the leader of their directions. The directions were located in their digivice, so they all had directions, but it was kind of hard to communicate them to their digimon without showing them the digivice. So Takeru realizing this took the lead and had the others follow him and Pegasusmon to make it easier.

When the digimon circled around the town before taking off into the direction of their first location, Sora stared at Matt's figure until she couldn't see it anymore.

There was one thing Sora was sure of in this new adventure. She knew that it was going to be very different from the others, but she also knew that this one might be a little harder for her then she realized. However, she also recognized this would be her opportunity to show Matt not to worry about her. She knew she was going to be fine. Though, she couldn't blame him for worrying since she knew she was going to be the same way once Matt got deployed into action.

On the bright side of things, she realized this adventure and being away from friends meant that she could also prove herself. She was determined to work her way up to leading her own squad when she gets to her station.