Chapter 33: Test of strength
Millenniumon had been watched his partner during the day. He saw, the other chosen children came back to the village when it was diner time. He knew it was at that time because his servant Devidramon brought diner. The dark god wondered how he found all the food and cooked it, but chose not to ask it. It wasn't that important after all. He ate quietly as he listened to the chosen children. They weren't saying anything worth of his interest except that they beat the Eraser in their path. He saw his servant sitting in front of him.
"You have something to say?" Millenniumon asked.
"Not at all this time my lord. I was just thinking about how to clean this," Devidramon replied.
Millenniumon looked at the tuxedo and saw it was covered with dust and sand: "Should have listened to me."
Devidramon rolled his eyes before replying: "Never. I love wearing this tuxedo. I feel naked without it," he said before taking another bite of his meal.
Millenniumon sighted when his servant replied that way. He eventually said: "But most digimons are always naked and I am naked. Clothes aren't that important compare to humans. We don't have a...whatever they want to hide," Millenniumon said never really understanding why humans were shy when it came with that part.
"It's in our mind. That's why," Devidramon replied.
Millenniumon glared at him and said: "You are the one giving a lesson this time."
"S-sorry my lord," Devidramon said bowing to his lord.
"There's nothing going on right now. The enemy aren't as active as I thought," Millenniumon changed the subject to something more important.
"The seal is still on, as you said. The pace of their coming should vary depending on...I...have no idea how," Devidramon said confused about the pace the enemy would attack. He looked at his lord and asked: "Did you figure out anything about this Raziel?"
Millenniumon shook his head negatively before saying: "Nothing. I spoke with Ryo in our dream and we are stuck in this situation. We won't find anything else for now," he concluded raising his shoulder before taking the final bite of his meal.
"This Raziel is a strange one. You never heard of him until he appeared and you couldn't predict his presence compare to Ryo."
"I give up on finding who he is for now. Thinking about him isn't important at all. I have to focus on my two objectives."
Devidramon twisted his head confused and asked: "What are your two objectives? I know the first one is-"
"Making Ryo my partner and conquer the Digital world so we can spread the darkness. My second ob-"
"That's two objectives already."
"Nope. The first one had two things in it. The second one is to defeat the Erasers, who are putting my initial objective in danger. They are the major threat here, more than the chosen children."
"Understood," Devidramon said.
Millenniumon raised his head and looked behind him. His senses were on alert as he said: "I feels the presence of one Eraser near here. This is the perfect opportunity to test my power," he said walking at the south of the village.
"The chosen children will come here soon my lord," Devidramon said.
"Do not worry. I can win some time anytime I want. I control the time after all," Millenniumon chuckled.
"True," Devidramon replied with a smile.
Millenniumon turned around and walked at large step at the source of the disturbance. He wondered how his adversary will look like. His servant followed him and wondered how easily his lord would defeat the Eraser.
It didn't take a long time before they reached their destination. It was a small forest in which Millenniumon had his upper chest over the trees and his vision on the ground was limited because of his size while his servant had his long neck and his head over the trees.
"He was there not long ago," Devidramon said as he saw the hole in the forest. It didn't have any trees and the green grass was absent while the Earth of the forest was also absent.
"I guess the enemy will have the appearance of the trees and the ground," Millenniumon said, giving a small glance at the dark dragon with a small smile before he continued walking forward: "Take the air while I take the ground."
Devidramon nodded before opening his wings and flew in the air. He did a recon and searched for the Eraser. He didn't take long to find it when a tree disappeared. He flew at the direction and the dark god followed his servant.
Once Millenniumon was close to the Eraser, who was visible in a small hole in the forest, it turned at his direction and looked at him as if he was a prey to him. Millenniumon smirked at the way the head looked at him.
The Eraser had a humanoid body made of the brown tree with two green arms looking like leaves while his legs were made of the dark brown ground of the Earth. The Dark god found it uncanny that it looked close to a human, except from his claws like the branch and the absence of a face and his animalistic actions. It was much smaller than Millenniumon.
"You think you can defeat a god?" Millenniumon asked with a bigger smirk. He cracked his hands and his heads as he observed it: "You have the power of an adult digimon. This won't help you."
It let out a loud screech before charging at the dark god. Millenniumon grinned and was about to counter when it disappeared in the forest.
"Where are you?" Millenniumon ordered. He tried using his senses, but the Eraser had the attribute of the forest, including the smell.
"Behind you!" Devidramon shouted.
Millenniumon didn't have time to reply that he felt the claw pierced his butt. Argh! That's embarrassing. But, never an adult digimon could inflict damage at me. He hurt me as if I was nothing. That's what the Will meant by underestimate them. Against them, it is as if I have no defense.
The dark god spun around the Eraser, but it didn't let go of his godly ass and lacerated it. He tried to grab it, but couldn't reach it. Millenniumon moved to a simpler plan and just sit on the ground. Millenniumon winced in pain when he sat right on his injury. He felt the body of the Eraser crushed under him. The eraser slashed him once again and Millenniumon grunted annoyed. He stood up when he knew it wasn't grabbing him anymore.
Devidramon looked at the blood coming from his lord butt and slap his face: "That's an embarrassing start," and thought about it. Compare to the first one, he saw the different, just like his lord. He used the environment at his average. He aimed behind my lord, right on his ass. From my lord reaction, it's not a place he could easily do anything to counter.
My size is turning against me. Millenniumon realised as fury awoke in him. He turned around and once again, the Eraser was out of his sight. His skin color helped him to hide in the forest. My servant saw him when he was out of his cover. Let's change strategy.
Millenniumon stopped searching for the digimon and waited for it to strike.
"He's behind you again my lord!" Devidramon shouted.
Millenniumon grinned and summoned his shield just before he was hit. He then modified his shield to trap the Eraser in the shield and turned around: "A shield isn't always used to protect, it can also become a prison. Let's look a little before I destroy you."
Millenniumon observed the Eraser while Devidramon landed by the side of his lord. They watched the Eraser trying to escape his shield without any success. The dark god studied the claws of the being and tried to understand how it could pierce his natural defense. As his eyes scanned the Eraser, he realised that the claws acted just like with the environment. It erased the natural protection of a digimon into nothingness. The question was: It can't damage the shield. The question is: can it pierce an armor liked the one WarGreymon had? This question was important, because metallic digimon could be more efficient against the fourth attribute.
"You are no longer useful. If you have a leader and can reach him, the message will be self-explanatory," he broke the shield and grabbed the erasers with his hands and crushed it, restoring the damage part of the forest. For an extremely short moment, the dark god saw something in the remaining of the Eraser body before it disappeared. He smiled before hearing footstep behind him. Millenniumon turned his head around and his left amber eye saw the chosen children with their partner: "You are too late chosen children. I took care of it. I'm stealing your job now," he observed the chosen children and noticed they didn't quite listen to him: "What?"
"That digimon got you," Monodramon replied.
The dark god knew what he meant. He turned around and replied: "It was to test his strength against me."
"So you let you use your butt as a target?" Ryo asked, not really believing that at all and also being aware that he won't suffer any consequence.
Lucky it was you who asked. "He attacked behind me," Millenniumon replied before giving a small warning glare to his servant, who witnessed the event.
"Yeah," the chosen children eventually replied.
"Now would be the best moment to eliminate all of you, except my partner of course," Millenniumon noticed as he looked darkly at the chosen children. He pointed his canons at them and charged it with energy. The chosen children were ready for the battle when the canons suddenly dispersed the energy meant to destroy them: "Like I'm actually to do that right now."
The chosen children looked at the dark god and were confused by his reaction: "What do you mean by that?" Taichi asked.
"Erasers," Millenniumon replied.
"Like my lord is going to do a job made for lackeys, or pests in this case who could take care of it," Devidramon added, causing Millenniumon to chuckle.
The dark god stopped chuckling. He smiled instead as he gave his comment: "It would be an insult to me."
"Not really. I almost defeat you, if you didn't escape," Agumon said.
That ended the smile on the dark god face: "Insolent one," he then crossed his arms and said: "Those weaklings aren't worthy of my attention. I thought they were strong, as I saw how difficult you have fighting it, despite being at adult level and you were three against it. I was wrong about it. I wish they managed to kill you. To the next thing, since my partner is with you and whatever I told him would be shared, I'll say a few things now."
"What is it?" Yamato asked, knowing that his cooperation wasn't honest.
The dark god closed his eyes and grumbled, disliking the fact that he was helping his enemies: "I studied this one before killing it. Knowing your enemy is important, and this knowledge is sharable, since it's not helping you destroying me and will surely protect Ryo's life. First thing I found out is that their claws are extremely dangerous. No matter how heavy your natural defenses are, like my skin or exoskeleton, the Eraser pierces it without any problem, as you've seen already or feel. The claws damaged us like the Digital world. Second and more important thing, this one was smart and used the world to his average."
"That's how he got you," Koushiro concluded, thinking about the explanation.
Millenniumon grunted and glared at Koushiro: "Forget about my ass you spoiled children," he uncrossed his arms and added, while Koushiro gaze unfocused at the dark god replies: "That is all you're going to get from me. I have to go for now, see you later Ryo."
The dark god stopped the time except for Devidramon. The dark dragon looked around him and was impressed by his lord power while at the same time afraid of it. A digimon could die easily without ever being aware of it when time started again.
"Let's go," the dark god ordered with a lightly pissed off voice.
"Of course my lord," Devidramon replied as they walked away.
"Those stupid children and Ryo had to enter into this," Millenniumon grunted.
"I don't think any of them will forget about your behind my lord," Devidramon said, keeping a small distance from his lord.
"I know," Millenniumon grunted back at the true. When I'm going to casually talk with Ryo, he's so going to bring that up.
AC: This is the end of chapter 33.
Chapter 34: Casual talk.