Chapter 31: Raziel Information's
Ryo, Mimi, Jou and their partners were back in the village. The night came once again and the others weren't back yet.
"Why aren't they here yet?" Jou asked a little worried.
"From the map we saw, maybe they took more time. They have a bigger distance to reach," Mimi said.
Ryo was also worried until he remembered an important fact: "I'm not worried. Each of the team had a digimon that could evolve to the ultimate level. There is no reason to be afraid if we took care of it ourselves."
"That's true," Mimi replied.
"It's too bad that none of us can reach the ultimate level," Palmon said.
Ryo looked at them and replied: "Me neither and my partner could only evolve at the adult form for now."
"I'll be bigger and stronger one day! You'll see it," Monodramon replied.
"You were very brave in the battle Monodramon," Mimi told him.
Monodramon blushed shyly before moving near Ryo: "I have no reason to be afraid if Ryo is safe and I wasn't fighting alone," he opened his mouth and yawned loudly: "Sleepy."
"We should rest," Jou suggested: "We are not sure if it they will come soon."
They told good-bye and went to bed. Ryo slept on his bed with Monodramon putting his head on the boy's shoulder. Ryo smiled and pat the dragon's head. Monodramon purred before falling asleep with a smile.
Ryo felt asleep and woke up after a few hours without dreaming about Millenniumon. It was still the night and saw Monodramon turned around, no longer on his shoulder, and whispered kindly in his sleep: "Ryo," Ryo pat the head of the purple dragon and Monodramon said his name again with a smile.
Ryo felt the desire to walk outside and take some fresh hair. He walked outside of his bed and made sure that Monodramon was warm in the bed before he walked outside. Once he was gone, Monodramon opened his eyes and grumbled: "Wha-," He turned around and didn't saw Ryo. He stood up and used his nose to follow the trail of Ryo, worried that he wandered alone and that the dark god waited for him.
Ryo walked outside and thought back at the beginning of his journey; from the start until that point. He looked at his body and saw it was healed. He also felt stronger and more confident with himself compare from the beginning of his journey. He remembered how he crossed the path with Raziel. It was that way that they met each other's. The man was a man of mysteries that Ryo couldn't see over it. He appeared and disappeared at his will.
"Hello Ryo," the boy heard the familiar voice he didn't hear for a while.
"Hello again Raziel. It's been a while."
The man walked near Ryo while maintaining a certain distance so he won't make the boy wary: "Yes. As I told you, I'll meet you after the fight of Millenniumon, but a lot of things happened."
"...Did you know that Millenniumon would trap us here?" Ryo asked suspiciously.
"Not really, but I knew that you would come back here. The danger that is coming would call you back," Raziel replied with a small smile.
"That is true," Ryo replied.
"I have to announce you something important Ryo," Raziel said.
"What is it?"
"Sadly, this is going to be the last time we'll meet each other's."
Ryo looked at him surprised and took a few seconds before asking: "Why?"
"My presence here is now useless. You share a link with Millenniumon and you don't need me to explain everything that is going on. The dark god will do this at my place."
"But-"
Raziel raised his head and continued: "I was here to guide you Ryo. It was only temporary, until you were with Millenniumon, who is more knowledgeable about the digital world than me. As a dark god of the Digital world, he has more knowledge and also as a stronger link to the Will than me. I was only hearing his whispering while Millenniumon could hear it talk to him. He is more important than me and you need him to answer the questions. You might not see him, but he is watching you and the enemy you are facing. I'll never face the Eraser compare to him."
"This is our last meeting then," Ryo replied, wondering if he could obtain a few answers about the man with the name of an angel.
"Yes. I'll stay here as long as you like, but when the light will rise, I'll be gone, unless there is an important urgency that even the dark god couldn't communicate with you."
"Raziel. There is something I want to know about you," Ryo asked looking at Raziel a little nervously.
"You can ask it Ryo."
"How did you come to the Digital world? You never explain it yourself."
Raziel looking in the dark sky with his shoulder lightly jumping, showing that he was taken by surprised: "I wasn't expecting a question like that," he opened his mouth to say something else, but nothing came out. He closed it and dropped his head before facing Ryo and saying: "I am not sure of how I came to the Digital world Ryo. Maybe the Will of the Digital world asked me to come here. The how and the when is long forgotten. I gave up in understanding the reason and I'm doing as I am asked."
"So you cannot explain it," Ryo grumbled.
"What is important for me is that I do what the Will of the Digital world wants," Raziel answered.
"Is it your fate?"
"Yes. It is my fate."
"You are alright by accepting your fate to the Will of the Digital world. Are you forced to accept it?"
Raziel lightly chuckled at the boy's question and replied: "I am free of my choice Ryo and I have my own choice. I choose to accept my fate because it is for the best, but mostly because there is something in this fate that I want to obtain. Just like Millenniumon. The part of the fate that he wants the most is for you to be by his side. Is it loneliness that motivated him? Is it the fact that you are chosen child and makes him feel special, or is there something deeper, so deep that no one can clearly see it or accept it from a dark god?"
"So...Destiny and fate is only one path we could choose," Ryo understood. He smiled and added: "Nothing is decided for us, but fate is one suggestion or something we say to justify something that happened."
"That is correct," Raziel said. He looked once again at the sky.
"You often talk about Millenniumon Raziel," Ryo noticed as he looked at the man.
"Because your fate, or possible choice is interline with him. You are the opposite, but you are attracted to each other's in a strange way that I cannot explain. Usually, light and darkness clashed, but you two are another thing."
"I don't understand it either. I can speak to him in my dream because we have a small bond together. He's never aggressive or hateful against me, but with the chosen children, it's different. I'm sure he's also watching us right now and listening to us."
Raziel chuckled and replied: "Let him do what he want and we do what we want Ryo. Do you remember Ryo when I talked about the three types of light and three types of darkness?"
"Yes," Ryo replied thinking back. He also thought about it when he saw Millenniumon.
"Do you have an idea of which type of darkness Millenniumon is? Is he the bright darkness, just darkness or blacken darkness?" Raziel asked looking at Ryo.
Ryo hesitated to reply as he thought about it. He didn't have a definitive answer, but he said: "It depends. I'll say that he's only the darkness because he isn't trying to conquer the Digital world right now; the Eraser is something that must occupy his mind and ours. He is kind to me, but not really to anyone else. I know for sure that he isn't purely evil."
They heard a sound and they looked at the source of it.
"Looks like we have a little guest. You can come Monodramon," Raziel said.
They heard someone gasping and Ryo knew it was really the purple dragon. Monodramon appeared and walked with his head looking down and his eyes silently apologising for spying on them.
"You must be Ryo's partner, I'm Raziel," the man said with a kind smile.
"Yes. I am Monodramon," the dragon replied before looking at Ryo. "Are you sure about what you said Ryo? I don't doubt you, but everything could be a façade, I could have been one to you and to myself."
Ryo smiled and said: "Neither are you and Millenniumon putting a façade to me. That is why I trust you and I know Millenniumon isn't purely evil. He could have done so many things to capture me, but he didn't. He had occasions to kill Taichi, but didn't, even after he said that he would if anything else pissed him off. Although he sent his minions to destroy me and said some cruel things," Ryo frowned when he thought about what the dark god said about his father. He remembered that Millenniumon regretted it and apologised about it.
"Millenniumon is a weird one, but not really inconsistent in his actions and intentions," Raziel replied.
"True," Ryo replied.
Monodramon opened his mouth and said: "Why wouldn't he kill Taichi? He's trying to conquer the Digital world and eliminate the chosen children stand in his way."
"That's one mystery, but it's easy to guess that he believes that you wouldn't want him to die Ryo, so he spared him. His actions remain consistent if it is his reason," Raziel replied with a smile.
Monodramon and Ryo looked at each other's. They knew it made sense if it was that reason.
"Anything else?" Raziel asked.
Monodramon looked at Raziel and asked: "Are you really a human?"
"Yes," Raziel said, but his voice sounded unsure. Ryo guessed he had some doubt about it. Monodramon frowned at the answer and wondered who he was and if he would eventually hurt Ryo.
"I don't have anything else to say. It's just too sudden that you tell us that we see you for the last time," Ryo replied.
"I said maybe, it depends on what Millenniumon knows and tells you. Speaking of him, I'm sure he'll talk to you when you'll sleep. He surely has his thought about what we discuss and maybe some counter argument," Raziel replied with a smile.
Raziel turned around and Monodramon said with some suspicion: "I want to be here next time you come to Ryo."
"If it happens, I'll make sure you are here. I have nothing to hide, except from what I ignored," Raziel replied before raising his hand and waving good-bye.
"Thank you for your guidance Raziel," Ryo told him.
"You are welcome," Raziel said before disappearing from their sight.
Ryo looked at Monodramon big eyes and asked: "Why did you ask if he was a human or not?"
"It's because I smell something strange about it. It feels like he was hiding something, or maybe not aware of something about himself. He doesn't have the same kind of smell like the other chosen children or you."
Ryo looked at his partner perplexed and replied: "What do you mean by that? We all have different smell."
"It's not that way. What I mean is that he doesn't have the..." Monodramon scratched the back of his head and he thought about the correct words or something comprehensible and makes sense: "How to put it...Well...Let's say organic smell."
"Organic smell?" Ryo asked confused.
"He smells like a digimon. He has data smell and not organic smell," Monodramon replied.
"You mean it's a digimon disguised as a human?" Ryo finally understood.
"I think so. I just don't know if it's a good digimon or an evil one," Monodramon replied.
Ryo watched where Raziel was and wondered what was going on with Raziel.
"AH!" Monodramon shouted. Ryo looked at his partner and before he asked why he shouted, Monodramon whispered: "What if it's Millenniumon disguised as a human?"
Ryo looked at his partner and was surprised it was a possibility. He thought about it and replied quietly: "Maybe. Millenniumon has many powers and could change form to come closer to me without alerting the digimons, but why didn't Agumon or the other digimons detected him?"
"The smell is weak and it's already gone. It's not something that last long like food," Monodramon replied.
'Speaking of him, I'm sure he'll talk to you when you'll sleep. He surely has his thought about what we discuss and maybe some counter argument.' Ryo thought about what Raziel just said about Millenniumon. I'll have to ask Millenniumon once I'm sleeping. I have to make him talk about it. "Let's go my friend. We both need to rest."
Monodramon followed Ryo, but often looked behind him and wondered if Millenniumon was closed or closer than anyone thought.
AC: This is the end of chapter 31.
Chapter 32: Raziel mystery.