Chapter 18: Almost time

Millenniumon sat on his throne and tried to remain calm. It was soon the end and excitement awoke in him. He knew that soon, what he wanted the most will come true, his destined partner.

"Soon. Very soon," Millenniumon whispered with excitement.

The Devidramon entered in the throne room with food and gave it to Millenniumon. It didn't escape his four red eyes that his lord was excited about the upcoming battle.

"You are waiting impatiently for the fight. Right my lord?" the servant asked.

"Of course. The final battle is coming against the chosen children," Millenniumon replied. He chuckled before replying: "Something interesting is finally coming and I will enjoy watching each of them fall against the darkness."

"I agree that they will fall. I couldn't help, but wonder why you let them obtain the keys for great power. They already went there to claim it," the Devidramon said.

"I want to fight them when they are at their best. It's funnier when the enemy struggle longer with everything they could. I am also interest on how Ryo could defeat me and how long he will fight with Agumon. It is always boring when a battle is too easy and especially when they died in one hit," Millenniumon answered.

"I understand you point of view. You are extremely powerful," Devidramon replied. He left to the food for his lord and turned around: "I hope you are invisible."

"I am. I don't need to say why. The chosen children are destined to lose against me," Millenniumon chuckled.

The Devidramon also chuckled lightly as he walked outside the throne room. As he walked out his lips was a long line on his mouth as he adjusted his tie uneasily.

Millenniumon ate his food and wondered where his destined partner was now. He knew he already went to search for something, but he didn't know what it was or where he was going. Millenniumon grunted a little, wondered what it was. It was outside his prediction right now. It was the only thing outside of his plan right now.

He put his claw in the air and tore space once again to see what his destined partner was doing. He looked at the other side and saw the chosen children walking in an unknown place. Millenniumon grunted.

"A place that I am not aware off," the dark god said.

He silently watched their progression in the unknown location. Millenniumon saw it was an underground cave sculpted, meaning that a digimon made it long ago. Something that wasn't existing in his reality.

Maybe it existed in my reality, but it never manifested itself. It must be because I was less powerful than now and when I reached my full potential, I wasn't really alive anymore. No. It would have reacted anyway. It doesn't exist in my reality. Millenniumon quietly thought about it.

He saw through the image that everything started to get a little blurry and darker. Millenniumon lightly jumped surprise by the sudden change. He noticed that Ryo and the other chosen children traits started to disappear. He couldn't read their face anymore.

"What is going on? It never happened before. Something is interfering with me," Millenniumon said surprise. He was enraged that something stood in his way and tried using his power to find it. He grunted in frustration and shouted: "It's not in the castle! The interference comes from elsewhere!"

He increased his power and tried to pass the interference, but it didn't work. The deeper the chosen children were in the cave, the less Millenniumon could see them. The dark god tried to maintain contact, but lost it in the end.

Millenniumon was silent, he saw absolutely nothing. His mouth was lightly opened as he saw that something overpowered him. He wasn't sure what it was, a seal, another digimon god, or something else. Rage awoke in him, pure cold and silent rage. Nothing on his face revealed his rage. The only sign of his fury was that when Millenniumon clenched his fist, he clenched them so hard that blood came out of his flesh and painted the floor.

Something bested him and it wasn't the only thing he knew was higher than him.

"Who dares standing in my way?" Millenniumon whispered his lips lightly moving.

He wanted to kill something, anything. He forced himself not to do it. It took his entire will to prevent himself from killing the first thing he saw. It wasn't because he was compassionate or good. It was just worthless and unworthy of him to kill something out of frustration against something unknown. It was also strategic, if he killed any digimon every time he was annoyed, his followers wouldn't follow him anymore because terror will be in them and not fear. If he didn't kill any of his followers when they disobeyed him, they wouldn't fear him and could try and betray him.

"I don't know...What's standing in my way. But it won't change...anything," Millenniumon filtered out of his mouth. It was almost nothing compare to what he wanted to say. He closed his eyes and grunted as if he was a predator about to attack his prey. "No matter what happen. Ryo will become my partner. I am ready to do everything for that to happen."

He sighted and could only wait. He usually shouldn't have any problem, but this time, even if he said he won't stop Ryo from obtaining something hidden by the keys, it made him a little uneasy. The unknown factor was more than the chosen children remaining present or Ryo state when he entered in the digital world. It was something that could really stop him. If the object could stop him and he didn't know how to counter it, he won't be with Ryo and story will repeat itself.

The unknown stood in the way of his ultimate goal. The only thing he couldn't fight against. Unknown.

"When there is unknown, anything could happen. I made my first mistake because of the unknown. I didn't know Ryo was my partner. It was a dangerous element I wasn't aware off. The secret of those keys are the same thing. A dangerous unknown element that could stop me from being with my destined partner," Millenniumon whispered. He sighted out of frustration before saying: "I need to do something."

Millenniumon meditated again. He tried to relax his mind from his frustration and his silent rage. It wasn't a success, but he wasn't feeling like killing anything in his path anymore. His core wasn't calling for blood and data, but it was still violent. Millenniumon slowly breathed and his body calmed down. He opened his eyes and his mind was clearer now.

"Even if I don't know what they are doing, I just have to be what I wasn't the first time. I have to fight carefully, wisely and I have to be convincing. If Ryo believed my words, I shall be victorious. No. Ryo will believe my words. The chosen children will end up either dead or forever caged. Whatever hurt Ryo the less," Millenniumon said from his mouth instead of his mind. He had a very small smile at the thought of his victory.

Millenniumon walked outside his temple. He marched until he was near the cliff of his floating domain. He looked down at the digital world as if it was inferior to him. He smirked at the actual true. The digital world was big and he could only see a small portion of it through his gaze. He knew that the digital world will be his one day.

"I once thought to conquer the human world, but their world had no value for me. It is only a waste of time," Millenniumon whispered.

He watched the green and blue land of the digital world for a while, he could to turn it into decay if he wanted, but he had another agenda. To rule the digital world, it must have something worth ruling. If the world was left in a pure wasted state, it would have been useless. The other reason was that, once the world would be in darkness, it needed something to sustain the darkness digimon. Desolation couldn't accomplish that, even if the digimon of darkness wanted to destroy everything.

"Controlled destruction is more efficient than absolute destruction," Millenniumon whispered. He thought back about his old self and also most of the evil digimon that existed before him.

The final reason he wanted the digital to be sustainable for living digimon was for Ryo. He knew that Ryo would forever hate him if he destroyed everything. He never accomplished it, but he knew Ryo enough to know it would definitely be the case. Also, Ryo, just like him, need to resource to live. Millenniumon was a dark god who control time and represented the chaos, he couldn't bring life.

Millenniumon had enough thinking and tried to reach Ryo location once again. It wasn't a success once again. The dark god grunted in frustration, but he knew that his destined partner will resurface eventually. He bit his patience and waited.

It took a while, but he tried again when darkness started to claim the digital world. He opened it up and saw Ryo and the other chosen children back in the village.

"Looks like I missed a lot," Millenniumon commented. It was clear that the chosen children wrapped up what they were talking about. He tried to observe whatever Ryo brought up from the cave, but he saw nothing. Millenniumon sighted, defeated. He looked at the chosen children and Ryo. The dark god saw the lips of his partner moving and knew what he said. "I am waiting for you tomorrow, partner," Millenniumon whispered.

Millenniumon ended his observation and finished his welcoming committee for the chosen children. His followers knew what to do and the only thing left for the dark god was waiting.

AC: This is the end of the chapter. I focused on Millenniumon so I won't show what Ryo found. The story is supposed to focus more on Millenniumon.

Until the next chapter: In the dark temple of the god.

The beginning of the end, for the first Arc started next week.