It was like a light like no other traveling to who know where, when it will get there, people just stopped to watch it, entranced by its shear radiance, it was something to behold as flew leaving a line of shimmer as it went. And was fast wherever it was going, it was in a hurry, it now headed out to sea in an easterly direction. It was clear that some people didn't take this thing as a good omen.

Sorami resolute her digimon partner stood across from her, they were in training, and the incident at Primary Village weighed heavily on their minds. How didn't she notice that Huang's digichip had been a fake the one she had given him several months ago? She couldn't get over the fact that Donica had used her to get her hands on the digichip of hope. Which she still has right now, and needs to be gotten back from her and given to Huang or he will never recover 100 percent from holding a fake one if he could recover at all from being tainted like that. Huang was back on his feet, but looking at him now was like looking at someone who had lost everything that meant the world to him, and Sorami blamed herself for that. But why was she beating herself up so badly about it, she didn't know the chip had been fake.

At this moment she saw something glint in the distance, and it was quickly coming in her direction, she went into a battle to prepare for its arrival. As she didn't know what it was, or who it was she and her digimon partner prepared for anything, she had an odd feeling about it like it was something familiar but foreboding in its nature.

Digimon Sync episode 37 "Kingdom Hearts pt. 1: Homecoming"

Takajin and Thania had been traveling together about a couple weeks now, and Takajin still couldn't tell what was going through the mind of his new traveling, she was a riddle wrapped in enigma wrapped in complete nonsense, he had to have met the silliest girl in the whole world maybe even the universe itself. Thania stopped, and just stared out into nothing, this often happened about two or three times a day often lasting for ten to fifteen minutes at a time, it was like his travelling companion got completely lost in a thought.

"What are you thinking about every time you space out like that?" Takajin said finally asking the question that had been on his mind for a while now.

"Life and the meaning of sandwich" Thania replied nonchalantly, then yawned very loudly not even covering her mouth while she did it, which was her usual attitude towards anything, she often acted like no one was around, even when there was a crowd of people. Lucky that wasn't the case right now.

As they made their way towards Digitopia, they had been through a couple, Takajin was getting use to Thania's personality and her quirks, and they were over a week away from their destination by foot. His thoughts we interrupted by being tackled from behind by Thania for who knows what reason, knocking the air momentarily out of his lungs. "Come on we don't have time for this" he said after regaining his breath.

"Sorry thought I saw something" Thania said as still pressed Takajin into the ground as a wagon appeared from around a corner, it looked like it was going to pass them but suddenly stopped.

Takajin looked up to see a very familiar face, it was Wilhelm, he know him from the previous time he had transported them, once to the kingdom of Suzubuya, and second time was through the wild woods also known as the forest of illusion.

"Takajin, nice to see you again, and who is the lovely lady that presently on top of you?" Wilhelm said smiling and trying to hold back a laugh.

"This is Thania Kole, and she thought she saw danger for some reason" Takajin said to Wilhelm light pushing Thania off him, he was slightly embarrassed but what it looked like they were doing. "She is coming with me as I head back to Digitopia"

Wilhelm stroked his beard thoughtfully "Now that I think about I would like to visit Digitopia, maybe they will have merchandise there that's not sold anywhere else, I didn't think of that when I passed by there the first time"

"Peace and Harmony!" Thania said making a weird gesture with her hands, she had done this several times on their travels.

But this time it got response, Wilhelm did a different set of gestures in return "Good health and wisdom" Wilhelm replied before going into a deep bow. "Hurry up and get on board we are burning daylight"

Thanks to their luck in meeting up with Wilhelm again, their journey to Digitopia was going to take less time getting there as fast as possible was one of Takajin's worries, both Takajin and Thania climbed into the back of Wilhelm's wagon and soon home would be in reach within a couple days.

"Thania is a pretty name, where are you from, I don't recognize you accent?" Wilhelm asked turning briefly to look back as his passengers, a gentle smile on his face like the uncle that's always everyone's favorite.

"My homeland is Primary Village, I have been traveling since I found my digivice and chip a couple months ago" Thania said looking into the distance longingly.

"Some say that's the cradle of the world, I have never been there but I heard it's rather lovely" Wilhelm said sounding rather impressed "Theres supposedly a statue of Kiseki Jinnouchi, one of the legendary digidestined there. I would like to one day to go there and see it for myself"

"I been there a several times, its good luck for traveler to touch the statue" Thania said sighing as she was now missing her home, which was the first sign of homesickness she had shown since Takajin had first met her. "There is legend that the world hatched from an egg"

"Yes the world egg, Lilithmon is supposedly trying to return earth to that form and then destroy it" Wilhelm said with the smile fading from his expression being replaced by a look of annoyance. "I hope for all our sake she never comes back and does so"

Images of the last time he saw Juniko flash through his mind, it was right before they fell of the cliff as they were fleeing Kurokami brigade. He wasn't sure if it had been Juniko who caused the cliff to shatter like it did, if it wasn't did she plummet into the abyss like himself and the others. This frame of thought made him hurt inside, and he put the matter aside, he did not want to think of the possibilities. "Yeah that would be horrible, hopefully we could rise up and defeat her like the legendary digidestined" he said trying not to look downcast.

It looked like Thania was about to say something then stopped holding back some sort of opinion on what Takajin had said, letting an awkward silence extend while Takajin and Wilhelm waited patiently for her to say something, it was a few minutes before she finally spoke but it wasn't what they expected at all or if it had anything to do with what any of them were talking about "I like cheese" she said with cheerfulness in her tone.

"Ignore her she is weird" Takajin calmly as he was use to Thania's non sequitur conversation killers, she had done this a lot since he had met her.

"The weird ones are always the most interesting people to know, they make life unpredictable, if the world was with just normal people than life would be boring" Wilhelm ruffling Thania's hair like an uncle to his favorite niece.

"I am just hoping that nothing has happened to my companions, I felt like we bonded while traveled I failed as a leader, I should just admit that Mikuni was the better leader than I was. If I was actually the leader to begin with" Takajin said now looking downcast, his depression finally setting in.

You didn't fail at anything, from what I have heard you and your fellow digidestined have done great things. I heard you guys freed Tabula Rasa, a kingdom trapped under a barrier for 20 years" Wilhelm said trying to encourage Takajin.

"That was Mikuni, she defeated NeoDevimon and Logene with her digimon partner MachAntylamon, and in the process destroyed the barrier" Takajin said while showing that what Wilhelm had didn't help one bit.

"What about Crispin Village, you defeated the monster and saved it" Wilhelm said hoping he was saying the right thing.

"No there was no monster, Tsubara angry because of the mistreatment of her friend tried to have the village buried under lava, Aru the one that had been mistreated saved the village while sacrificing her life in the process. The village was renamed Arukeni memorializing her selfless act" Takajin said giving a big sigh "as a Digidestined I have done nothing but fail, my fellow digidestined have dragged me out of one predicament after another, and they have digivolved their partner passed mine in level"

"Then your destiny has arrived yet, your digichip has chosen you for a reason I know this sounds cliché but you need to be patient, one day you will reach a glowing digivolution like no other" Wilhelm said placing his hand over his chest "maybe it's defeating Lilithmon once again, and finally ridding us of her for good this time"

"Maybe you are right I am a digidestined for a reason" Takajin said trying to convince himself of this and slightly elevating his mood.

The sub was not setting in the distance, and they stopped for the night, Wilhelm had some spare tents, pillows, and blankets for them to use. They set them up before it got too dark for them to see what they were doing. Wilhelm set up a fire to cook their meals, even though Takajin wasn't in the mood to eat, he reminded Kitsumon had said about his friends being alive, and starting eating his food. As the moon crested in the sky above they settled in their beds for a good night's sleep.

Takajin still had problems falling, he was afraid that he would have one of those nightmares, but as soon as he eyes a light lit up his face, he opened his eyes to see a figure standing at the door. They moved before he could get a good look at them, he jumped out of bed to chase after them, there was glowing person standing front, he went towards them, and they moved forward as fast as he moved toward it. Into the forest Takajin went chasing after, it was the same person who had appeared them several times before with information of a foreboding nature, he was hoping to find out who she was this time. She entered a clearing, he followed closely after her, and the only light in the clearing was the moons light. She had her back to him exactly like the previous times.

"Who the hell are you" Takajin said demanding her identity, he was sick and tired of the games she was playing with him, he decided to walk around her to see her face, he walked around but even though she didn't she always had her back to him.

"It's not time to know who I am, I am here to warn you, don't go home, something is waiting for you there, a dark presence that will kill you, wait here for the illumination" The girl in the light said "please heed my warning this time" her glowing brightening making Takajin look away because it was so bright.

"How am I supposed to believe you when I don't know who you are?" Takajin asked, as he almost shouted this time, he was really frustrated "Tell me who you are?"

"I am sorry I can't" The Girl in the light answered, before turning into a ball of light and flying into the night's sky. "The fate of the world depends, Digidestined!" those final words echoed from an above.

Takajin stood for a few minutes, before turning around to head back, and coming face to face with Thania "What the hell was that?" she said pointing to where the girl in the light had been.

"I don't know, she just appears from time to time and either helps us or gives us a warning I don't care I am going home despite what she said, so don't argue with me" Takajin said without thinking "sorry didn't mean to snap at you like that" he was stopped in midsentence by a slap to the left side of his face leaving a small bruise on his cheek, did Thania just hit me he thought to himself.

"You need to believe in yourself, you a digidestined and you have an extraordinary destiny, something greater than you ever could imagine" Thania said rubbing the hand she had slapped Takajin with "I agreed with you, and I know we are heading to your home, I will never argue with you" she turned around and head back followed soon by Takajin.

The next morning, they packed everything away, and continued their journey, a half hour into their travel, Takajin tapped Thania on the shoulder "Thanks I needed to have some sense knocked into me" he said sounding like some weight had been lifted from his shoulder "Soon we'll be home and hopefully I can introduce you to the rest of the digidestined my friends and not slip into a melancholy again on the way there"

A couple hours later they could see Digitopia in the distance, but still several hours about a half a day journey ahead, it was beautiful sight to behold, the paradise Takajin called home. At that moment there was a small flash that emanated from Digitopia, and smoke billowed from somewhere within it, there had been an explosion, Takajin now felt a happiness that he recovered escape him, someone had attacked his home. He had to reach home soon "did you see that or was it just me?" he asked struggling with words.

"Yes I very much did so" Thania answered, looking sympathetically at Takajin "And it very much didn't look good at all!"

"I was afraid of that" Takajin said feeling like he was sinking into his seat, one of his worst fears about leaving his home appeared to have come true. At that moment he remembered something, he had not just left home, he had been banished, he and his sister were exiled from their home, but he couldn't let that stop him.

They traveled for hours not talking at all, before Thania broke the Silence "one explosion doesn't mean an attack maybe it was an accident?" she said bringing up what was probably a good point, but it didn't ease the tension in Takajin at all, until they got there nothing would likely help at all. After that more time passed without a word, until they were mere minutes away from Digitopia, and then they came around a corner to see the silver armor bearing the coat of arms of the Suzubuya kingdom. Takajin felt like his heart was trying to rip its way out of his chest, and he felt like his world was closing in on him. "Why are they here?" he said to himself.

Coronamon seemed to materialize beside Takajin, and had an annoyed look on his face "If they harmed Digitopia I'll burn them all!" he said through gritted teeth, while also igniting the feathers on Biyomon's right wing.

Biyomon freaked out and doused her wing in a nearby puddle of water "Is there no problem you don't solve by lighting it on fire" she said, while looking annoyed at the burnt feathers, before pouncing Coronamon, and peaked repeatedly on the head.

Takajin face palmed as the tussle between Coronamon and Biyomon continued, before he decided to break them apart, and admonished his digimon partner. Then they continued their journey towards Digitopia, he hoped he wasn't still banished, and they wouldn't arrest him on sight. If something had happened to his home, it was his fault, if he hadn't taken the digichip from the stone, the barrier would still be protecting his home. That explosion had brought that reality up to the forefront of his mind, he would never forgive himself for that, and will fight to prevent it. They round and were on the straight away towards Digitopia, and in front of them a sight that Made Takajin feel worse than before, in front of him was an encampment filled with silver armor knights and it bore the family crest of the royal family of Suzubuya. This wasn't what he wanted to see, after seeing an explosion in Digitopia.

"This can't be a good thing?" Wilhelm said while halting the wagon's progression towards its destination, and eyed the tents like looking at a vicious predator "it could be worse it could have been a Kurokami Brigade encampment…" He stopped in midsentence, when he spotted Karone stepping out of a tent with another Kurokami Brigadier. "This really isn't good"

"We need to sneak in there without them seeing us" Takajin said as he looked around for anything familiar, but was interrupted when someone shouted in the distance, and within minutes they were surrounded by Suzubuya knights, all aiming their weapons at them. But another voiced called out and they sheathed them, they cleared a path as King Suzubuya made his way towards them, at his side was General Kizuguchi Ada, the grizzled war veteran.

"This is the Prince of Digitopia!" King Suzubuya shouted when got visual range of the wagon, and pointed at Takajin "I am very sorry about this, we didn't know you were arriving, is my daughter with you I really miss my beloved child" he looked with towards them, and hope she would appear.

Takajin was confused, the last time he had seen the king of Suzubuya, he had sent people to kill him, and then tried to barter him off to the Kurokami brigade "first why are you here?" he said summoning up a little courage.

"We are here as peaceful envoy to negotiate terms of union, and coexistence, we want Digitopia as an ally" King Suzubuya said with conviction, showing he truly meant it.

"I am sorry to say that Princess Mikuni is not with us, we were separated after a mission" Takajin said leaving out the part about where the mission took place, and the fact he didn't know if Mikuni was still alive "I am hoping she would be in Digitopia"

"if she's in your kingdom, she hasn't come to see me, I can understand why I haven't been the best of fathers I hope when we reunite I can prove to her I can change and be the father she needs" King Suzubuya said looking like he was about to tear up. "Please find her and tell to please come see me, if she's in Digitopia" as he said this the knights that had been surrounding the wagon departed to let them continue towards Digitopia.

Takajin wanted to ask one more thing before they went "what was the explosion about?" he asked trying not to shout about it.

"I have no idea, none of my kingdom's people have anything to do with it" General Kizuguchi Ida answered instead of King Suzubuya "We don't resort to cheap tactics" he did not let on the suspicion he had about the Kurokami brigade possible being involved.

After that confirmation Takajin, and company continued on, and entered through Digitopia main gate, and caught sight of the exploded roofs, and clock tower, at this point a familiar voice called his name, that point Captain Maeda, walked towards the wagon, Takajin lowered himself to the ground from it, not know what reaction.

"Not even banishment can keep you again, you have some nerve coming back here" said Captain Maeda right before hugging Takajin tightly, making it hard for him to breath, he then pulled away and bowed "welcome back you highness you parents will be happy to see you"

"I see you noticed the Clock Tower, which was the work of the Vigilante known as The Blackavar, we tried to capture him. He got away and detonated the tower to destroy evidence or make it hard to follow him.

So Mikuni is alive, and blowing up buildings in Digitopia Takajin thought, he sighed about her inability to possibly be less destructive "The Blackavar I heard of him, he save us while we were in the Kingdom of Suzubuya" he said while keeping out the fact that the Blackavar is really a girl, and a princess keeping Mikuni's secret.

"We know but I rather not have a masked person running around Digitopia thinking they are the law around here, it sets a bad example" Captain Maeda said, and then turn to look at something like he had just spotted something he didn't like.

"They never were able to catch him in Suzubuya, and that place was dictatorship with extreme laws and a very huge cadre of security. Which nearly killed me at one point. I am not questioning your ability I am saying the Blackavar is rather crafty and skilled of an opponent"

"More on that later I have to get you home, it's my royal duty to escort you" Captain Maeda said cutting off that of conversation that was beginning to annoy him, he was trying not to be rude about it. "By the way there going to be a tournament with a champion from our kingdom versus one from Suzubuya"

"Looking forward to seeing that, hopefully Suzubuya isn't up to something, I don't trust them they are in league with the Kurokami Brigade" Takajin stated, but hoped that King Suzubuya had been serious about a peaceful union.

"I hope so too, I never want to see a war in my lifetime, I read about them but don't want to be involved in one myself" Maeda said as they walked through the royal gates, the beautiful sky blue arch that expands its entrance. King and Queen Subaru were waiting for them, the word had reached them rather quickly of their son's return. They both ran up to Takajin and hugged him, they were so happy to see him, Queen Mizumi rapidly kissed her son all over his face, Takajin's face reddened with embarrassment. But he understood he had been gone for a while, and he had too missed them a lot.

King Zephirim suddenly noticed Thania "Um who is that young lady" he said pulling away from his son, and pointed in her direction.

"That is Thania, she is a digidestined like myself, but a little on the weird side. She has her quirks" Takajin answered, he was glad she had been quiet since they had arrived in Digitopia. "She is from Primary Village"

"The Cradle of life, I would like to talk to her in length about there, I always been curious about Primary Village and its legends" said Queen Mizumi rubbed her hands together excited about the prospect of learning more.

That night they had a feast, and Takajin recounted his adventure, while away from his home, everything from his first time at Suzubuya, the Village of Crispin, and the Anti Digimon cult in Tabula Rosa that ended up being a sham. But he left out everything that happened during the mission to the Infinite Citadel because he wasn't comfortable talking about that yet, where he and his friends were held and tortured. His parents the whole time never interrupted they ate up everything he said. He hoped that Captain Maeda will never ask him about Juniko. He wasn't sure what to say about that, he had no clue where she was or what she was. After it was over he headed to bed, he was exhausted, and he hadn't slept well in a while. He hoped being home would solve that problem for him.

Takajin entered his room, and there was someone waiting, they were cloaked in the shadows of the room, even with the attire making it hard to see them, the symbol of the Blackavar on their made it obvious who they were, "Takajin!" Mikuni shouted as she tackled him "You're alive, I thought you were dead!" she pulled away as she continued "This means the rest are alive too" she sounded relieved like she had been carrying a weight on her shoulders that was finally gone.

"I thought the same thing about you, and then you are alive and blowing up clock towers in my kingdom" Takajin said happy to see Mikuni, but annoyed at her at the same time having brought her brand of justice top his home of all place.

"I had no choice in the matter, there was stuff that would have identified me in that tower I had to destroy it as a champion of justice my secret identity must remain a secret" Mikuni said, as she spoke another figure appeared from the shadows and tackled Takajin, it was his best friend Rao, but in a similar costume to Mikuni. "Your friend is my sidekick Vee-Boy, the boy frustrating" She gave a brief acknowledgement to Rao before continuing "Kurokami are after the stone your digichip had been attached to, it's something called the annulment stone, Lilithmon needs it to destroy the world"

To Be Continued

That was some homecoming for Takajin, will he prevent the Kurokami brigade from getting the stone, and is King Suzubuya's interest in a peaceful union truly sincere? To answer these questions, and more, please tune into the next Digimon digital monsters!