Chapter 30: Strange enemy
Millenniumon and Devidramon head pupped from the hill they were hiding and they watched the chosen children moving forward.
"You know. It's weird that we stalk our enemy without attacking them by surprise my lord," Devidramon commented.
"Especially when I'm like...the final boss." Devidramon gave an incomprehensible gaze and the dark god said: "Anyway, we have to keep Ryo in our sight. It's for his safety Devidramon."
"I know that, it's just weird," Devidramon replied.
"I know. I just want to be close and act as fast as I can if Ryo cannot fight the new enemy, if it is the case," Millenniumon grunted. He dropped his head as he thought that his servant was right. They were both in that weird situation.
"They are moving away my lord," Devidramon said adjusting his tuxedo.
Their head disappeared and they moved to the next hill close from the chosen children without being spotted. Their head popped again and watched as they walked toward their destination. When Monodramon looked behind him, the two digimon of darkness hid behind the hill.
Millenniumon heard Monodramon saying: "I'm starting to get paranoid."
"What do you mean Monodramon?" he heard his partner saying.
"I always feel like someone is following us," Monodramon replied.
"It's probably the case," Ryo replied.
"Not helping!" Monodramon shouted fearfully.
The two darkness digimons forced themselves not to giggle or they could be heard.
"Monodramon is getting a little crazy," Devidramon commented with a smile.
"Yeah, but he can feel my presence, this is not really helping us to follow them," Millenniumon replied with his eyes lightly covering with red veins.
"He is made to counter you my lord."
"True. Devidramon."
"What is it my lord?"
"When you spoke about feeling weird to stalk them, there's something important for you to know."
"What is important for me to know my lord?"
Millenniumon looked in the red eyes of Devidramon and said with a lightly threatening tone: "When I'll rebuild my palace and my army of dark digimon, you must never never tell them that we stalk the chosen children at any cost."
"Like I'm going to tell them that my tuxedo got covered with sand. I'll have to clean it up after this," Devidramon said brushing his tuxedo.
"As I said, you should have left it behind and- they reach their destination," Millenniumon said as he looked back and saw them.
"Good to know and, about my tuxedo, never," Devidramon replied continuing to brush his tuxedo.
The chosen children reached their destination and looked at each other's.
"Anyone had an idea how the enemy will look like or from where it will come out?" Jou asked the others.
"I have no idea. I never obtain any information's about it. One thing is sure; it will be a strange digimon we never saw before," Ryo replied, thinking about the information he had by the Will of the Digital world and Millenniumon. He found nothing else.
"I think I find out what you meant by erasing," Mimi said.
They looked at what Mimi pointed and saw a spot with nothing. There was the desert around it, but at the spot they were looking for had nothing. It looked like a hole with some green light and a few binary coded that used to be the portion with the sand on it.
"That's really erasing. A small portion of the desert had nothing. This is really nothingness," Monodramon commented.
"It means that it is the digimon of the fourth attribute here and not a digimon," Ryo commented.
"I don't think this is reassuring me," Jou replied.
They fearfully watched the empty space around them and saw nothing. Ryo looked at the others and they were speechless.
After a while, Palmon said: "We should search for the enemy."
"He must be around us," Gomamon agreed.
Mimi and Jou used their digivice and evolved their partner to their perfect form.
Lilimon was ready for anything dangerous while Gomamon evolved into Zudomon. Zudomon has gray skin covering his body while his hands were covered with orange fur, his feet, his long orange tail and his face, except his gray jaw, brown eyes and two long teeth on his mouth. He had a big silver hammer in his hand and his back is covered with a dark green shell.
Monodramon looked at Ryo and said: "Can you make me evolve too?"
"I think I can. I'll try the digivice," Ryo replied looking at his bracelet.
Ryo never knew how the digivice usually work, but tried to cause the evolution. It didn't work as he was expecting when he remembered that a bond between them was needed for it to work. He wasn't sure if he had such a bond with Monodramon yet, but knew there was something. He tried focusing on the bond and the digivice shined with his light.
"Monodramon Shinka! Strikedramon!"
Monodramon evolution was complete. His skin was still purple except his belly and his jaw which were white, but his belly also had red symbol over it, a long purple tail finishing with a metallic plate, two long arms finishing with three sharp claw, two legs finishing with three toes forward, two on his knee and long orange hair at the back of his head. He wore a metallic silver mask with a backward horn over his neck attack under his jaw by a black belt, a green pant attached with a black belt over his hip and one over his left knee, metallic plates at his hips his hands, his shoulders, his feet, over his feet and at the middle his arms.
Strikedramon stretched his arms and legs', preparing to fight whatever was coming.
"Now, we only need to find the enemy and deal with it," He looked at the two perfect digimons before looking at himself and said: "I'm still lacking in power."
"Do not worry, we can do it even if you aren't a perfect or ultimate digimon Strikedramon," Zudomon said.
They started to search for the digimon of the fourth attribute and looked around. They saw nothing out of the usual for a while, until they heard a grunting behind a hill. They looked at each other's and walked at the direction of the sound. When they reached the top of the hill, they saw behind it a strange digimon.
"I think it's the one of the fourth attribute," Ryo said.
The digimon had lifeless skin having the color of the desert sand on his body. His arms were long and ended with long claw with green digital number on it and his legs were similar to his arm. When it moved his head on his long neck, the chosen children didn't see a face.
"It doesn't look like the nothingness," Lilimon commented.
The others nodded, but when they saw the claws dig in the desert, the part of the desert disappeared and turned into nothingness. It left a mark, but it was the desert that showed that something was there a second ago.
"We have to deal with it, but we don't know in which stage of evolution this thing is," Jou commented.
Millenniumon and Devidramon watched the enemy actions and both were shocked by what they saw.
"I knew the enemy was erasing things, but I wasn't expecting it to do it so easily," Devidramon said nervously as he looked at his lord.
Millenniumon wasn't nervous what he saw the enemy. He observed it and analysed it.
"My lord?" Devidramon observed.
"I cannot feel anything from him. It is here and it is something, but it is just what we are feeling right now. What we are seeing might be or isn't his unique form when this fourth attribute is here. It erased some part of the desert, but the color of his skin looks like the desert sand; a pale yellow skin like the sand. I think it is only a hollow body," Millenniumon said after watching it.
"Is it powerful?" Devidramon asked his lord.
Millenniumon didn't reply while his servant waited for an answer. The dark dragon was getting more nervous as he didn't have any answer. He wanted to ask the question again, but knew it was risky.
"I can't know it for sure until the chosen children fight, but I estimate it is around the adult form minimal. One thing is sure; it's that this one isn't the most powerful digimons. It's probably one of the weakest," Millenniumon said.
Devidramon didn't like the answer, if it was the weakest, he didn't want to cross path with the strongest.
They heard a powerful scream and looked at the enemy. It looked at the direction of the the digimon with his faceless head. Millenniumon watched how the enemy would attack.
"How could it scream without a mouth?" Devidramon asked.
"I do not know how, but maybe it's with his real body and not the current one," Millenniumon replied.
Zudomon charged first with his hammer and strike at the faceless digimon. The faceless being dodged the hammer. He didn't have time to turn at the faceless one that he slashed his back. He grunted in pain and jumped away from it. Lilimon was behind the faceless monster and fired with her flower a ball of energy that hit the back of the monster and was thrown on the ground.
Strikedramon dashed under the faceless being and prepared himself for its landing. When he was close to him he gave his most powerful kick and thrown it back in the air.
Zudomon jumped in the air and charged his hammer: "Hammer Spark!"
The hammer hit the enemy with lightning hammer and hit it right at his face. It crashed on the ground and stood up.
"Dammit. It's really tough," Strikedramon said.
"You're alright Zudomon?!" Jou shouted.
"Yes. It just hurt a lot, but it's not really deep," Zudomon replied.
Ryo watched the back of Zudomon and didn't see anything like the damage on the ground when the enemy slashed the sand of the ground.
"It's an adult one...I think," Mimi said after watching it standing up without too many damage.
"But it take a lot of damage from perfect form without any trouble," Jou said.
"I don't want to see one of them with the power of a perfect level," Ryo said after hearing that.
"True," they replied.
The three digimons were fighting without any trouble the eraser, but it was taking some time to beat it. It's resilience to damage was dangerous, but he was eventually defeated when the three digimons attacked it at the same time. They tore it apart and exploded in data.
They watched the data flying in the air and it returned to the part where the data was erased. The desert was back to normal and the chosen children sighted, relief it was over.
"Looks like everything back to normal here," Mimi said relief.
"I am gladly surprised that nothing was permanently destroyed like I thought. They are the erasers, I thought everything would be erased forever," Ryo replied.
"I am surprised too, but at least, we know we can restore what is erased," Jou said.
"What do we do now?" Mimi asked.
"As Taichi and Yamato said, we return back to the village, maybe they are waiting for us," Ryo replied.
The digimons returned back to their child form and Monodramon dashed near Ryo and joyfully shouted: "Did you see that?! I evolved into my adult form!"
"I saw that," Ryo replied with a smile and patting the head of Monodramon.
Millenniumon thought about the fight and the result. He was glad that Ryo didn't need any help, but it worried him that the words « this time » resonated in his mind.
"What do you think of this enemy?" Millenniumon asked his servant.
Devidramon thought about it as he grunted and replied: "They are more resistant than usual digimons. The good news is that the dessert has been restored from the damage."
"Yeah. It's normal that the destruction wasn't permanent. It comes from a simple rule Devidramon. When data are erased, it can always be restored unless new data replaced the empty space," Millenniumon said.
"What do you mean by that?" Devidramon asked.
"To make it clear, the form of the Eraser attribute took came from the element it erased. He erased the sand of the desert and took the physical form of the desert. When he was defeated, the part that was erased was restored before the data originated from there and nothing replaces it," Millenniumon replied.
"Taking the form of what it erased...It didn't really communicate; do you think they are mindless beast?" Devidramon asked.
"I don't think so. Some digimons are mindless beast and some that can think and are aware of everything. If they are sealed and not exterminated, I think their leader will think like us," Millenniumon explained.
"They I hope we don't cross any of them for a while," Devidramon said.
Millenniumon watched the chosen children leaving and he put his claw on his chin, thinking deeply.
"What are you thinking my lord?" Devidramon asked.
"The next Eraser that will appear, I'll eliminate it myself. I need to ascertain my power against them," Millenniumon answered.
"Understood my lord," Devidramon replied.
AC: This is the end of chapter 30.
Not a lot of action, but this story isn't centered on it.
Chapter 31: Raziel Information's.
Raziel will come back in the next chapter. He was gone for a while.