Here's the next episode and I'm hoping to update today on my other fanfics. Enjoy!

Episode 4:

First Deva Appearance

A small purple digimon walked through the forest, obviously looking for something. He had a red bandanna and gloves on as his green eyes scanned the forest trying to find something. He didn't notice the white cat figure appear behind him. The cat chuckled as she prepared to jump and, when he stopped for a second, she leapt into the air and tackled him. All the poor digimon saw was a shadow before his pursuer tackled him.

"I got you," the cat said in a song-like voice.

"Grrrr. Gatomon…would you stop doing that? I was lookin' for ya," he said.

She giggled and said, "Oh relax, Impmon. I know not to go too far away."

As Gatomon got off of him, he sighed and said, "Sometimes I don't know."

"So are we gonna rest somewhere soon?"

Impmon started to walk off and said, "Yeah. Over by the river here."

Once they got to the river, Gatomon went to get some wood for the fire as Impmon went to catch some fish, or try to at least. When Gatomon got back, she watched as he caught a fish but he lost balance and fell into the water, losing the fish. As he resurfaced, Gatomon was in a laughing fit. Impmon got out of the water, shook himself off, and glared at her.

"Why don't you try it if you think I look like a fool doing it."

She stopped laughing and said, "Fine."

Being a cat, she had good fishing skills and she soon had a bunch of fish lined up on the grass. Impmon watched her and then she came back with the fish.

"Look Impmon-chan! I caught a lot!"

"Great. And don't call me Impmon-chan."

"Awwww. Why not Impmon-chan?"

" 'Cause I don't like to be called that."

She shook her head. Impmon was one of those digimon who didn't like nicknames or titles. She only did it to tease him. As they let the fish cook, she watched her brother as he went down to the river and put his feet in it. They were twins, born from the same Digi-egg. Impmon was older than she was and they always liked to travel through the Digital World. They didn't fight other digimon unless they could beat it or if they attacked first. Gatomon didn't care about fighting much, which Impmon thought was weird. Even though he could act like a jerk sometimes, she knew that he truly cared for her, despite what everyone else thought.

"Fish is done!" she called out to him.

He shook his wet feet off and ate the fish with his sister. As night fell, they kept the fire going and slept by the river. Impmon slept while sitting up against the tree as Gatomon curled up and slept. He stayed awake a little bit longer, watching his little sister until he soon fell asleep.

The next day, they set off again not knowing where they would go next. After some walking, they found the end to the forest that led into an empty desert. The tall cliffs were the only things in the desert, besides the occasional data packets that would float and tumble around. As they walked, Gatomon didn't care for the desert too much. She liked forests where there were beautiful things to see and you didn't have to look for food a whole lot. The good thing about the Digital World was the fact that you didn't have to eat all the time and you wouldn't starve. But since digimon lived here, it was common for anyone to eat almost everyday. The only other thing she didn't like about it was it could get rocky but for now they were walking on smooth sand. She almost ran into Impmon when he suddenly stopped. His ears perked up and he was slowly scanning the area, as if looking for something.

"What is it?" she quietly said to him.

He didn't answer for a little bit as he continued to search. Finally he said, "I'm…not sure. I thought I sensed something."

Gatomon tried to sense for any digimon around, but she didn't find any. She thought that maybe her brother was being cautious again or that he sensed something for a minute, but it changed its course. Either way, there wasn't anyone else around except for them.

"I don't sense anything," she reassured him. "Let's find a place to sleep. It will be dark soon."

He nodded but found that they had walked into a clearer area where there weren't as many cliffs. Seeing some in the distance, they started walking toward there. They finally got there when night settled but they had to rely on their night vision since there weren't any supplies for making a fire. As they sat under the cliff, Gatomon looked up in the sky at the Real World.

"Hey Impmon?"

"Yea?"

"Do you think that we could go to the Real World someday?"

He looked at the glowing sphere that was so close to them and thought about it for a bit.

"I don't know. Maybe."

"I would love to go there someday. See what humans are like and the places they live in. It might be nice."

He closed his eyes and said, "Maybe, but I wouldn't plan on going there anytime soon. It'll be hard to get there and I heard that no one has ever been there before."
She smiled and said, "Then we'll be the first."

He smirked but it was soon overcome by a yawn. "Let's go to sleep."

Gatomon nodded and curled up beside him. "Good night."

" 'Night, Gatomon."

As they slept, Gatomon dreamt of going to the Real World and seeing all of the wonders of that world. Her dreams, though, soon turned ghastly as she slept. In one of her dreams, she was in the Real World where her brother was almost killed by a digimon. She couldn't see it clearly but she knew it was big. Luckily, someone saved him but the dream soon ended as another one took its place. This time, she was in a place in the Digital World that she had never been to. She couldn't say anything or find herself to do anything as her brother morphed into a bigger digimon. She soon found herself watching a battle between him and some digimon with humans. Gatomon tried to scream when she watched him kill another digimon but her voice was lost. The battle continued between them and soon another digimon digivolved to the same level as Impmon, or whoever he was now. Suddenly a blast knocked him over and the other digimon held out its lance at him. It reared its arm back and drove the lance through her brother as she finally found the effort to scream and shout out her brother's name.

Her blue eyes opened as she panted heavily from her dream. Impmon stirred and sat up when he heard her heavy breathing.

"Gatomon? What's wrong?"

She hugged him tightly with tears brimming her eyes. "Oh Impmon! I had a terrible dream about you! You…were in the Real World and you were almost killed and then you were back here and fighting with some other digimon and humans…and they killed you…and…and…"

He held her close and rocked her gently as she silently cried. He wiped away her tears and looked at her with his green eyes.

"Don't worry. Nothing like that will ever happen to me. I'll always be right here."

She stopped crying and nodded. After he reassured her some more, she asked, "Impmon? Can I…sleep with you tonight?"

He nodded and made room for her to sleep beside him. As he went back to sleep, she listened to him breathing and snuggled close to him. She had remembered when she was a small Salamon and had bad dreams or something would frighten her at night and Impmon would hold her close and let her sleep beside him. After she had gotten older and digivolved, they slept separately. Impmon was hoping for the day when he digivolved to his champion form like his little sister had, but he was still proud of her. She didn't know why this dream shook her up so much. She had had other bad dreams and she always went back to sleep after them, but this one was different. Gatomon decided not to worry about it as she fell back asleep to have no more dreams.

A few days passed and they were still walking through the desert. Gatomon had tried forgetting about the dream and now she mostly had. There were some parts in it where she remembered, but she had tried going on without thinking about it.

"This desert goes on forever, doesn't it?" Impmon said pulling her out of her thinking.

She looked around and said, "Yeah. I hope the next part of the Digital World we land in is better than this."

They kept walking, hoping to find another way out of this part of the Digital World. Normally when they got tired of an area, they would hitch a ride on one of the Data Streams, but none were around in their area so they kept walking. They walked for about half of the day and were about to rest, when Impmon sensed something.

"Feel that?" he asked.

Gatomon used her senses and found the source of what Impmon was talking about.

"Yeah. What are we going to do?"

"Not sure. Let's try to get out of here."

The digimon they sensed was strong and even though Gatomon was a champion level digimon, they didn't want to fight what was coming their way. Changing direction, they headed away from the digimon and went a different direction. Unfortunately, the digimon changed direction as well and was closer to them than it was earlier. Before they could react on what to do, it appeared not too far away from them and kept coming. Impmon saw how big it was and his senses told him it was strong. He told Gatomon to hide behind some rocks nearby. Even though she didn't want to, she listened to him and hid. The enormous digimon stopped a few feet away from Impmon and stared at him. Impmon looked at this digimon. It was very tall and resembled a horse, having purple skin, white hair, red eyes, and wore an interesting outfit with a conch-looking weapon on his back. He had never seen this digimon before but he stayed alert. Both were quiet for a while until Impmon spoke up.

"Who're you?" he said calmly so he wouldn't piss off the digimon.

The horse digimon smirked and said, "I am Indramon, one of the twelve devas."

"What the heck is a deva?"

"We were created from a powerful digimon and our destiny is to control the human world. Once we eliminate every digimon that sides with humans, we will begin our new world. My master is looking for a way into that world, so for now we reside in the Digital World, practicing and training until we go to the Real World."

Impmon nodded and said, "I see. Well, I'm not gonna stop you."

He planned to walk away without another word, but the deva had something else in mind. As Impmon started to quickly walk away, Indramon suddenly ran up behind him and punched him with one of his hooves. Gatomon tried not to yell as her brother yelled in pain and was thrown to the ground. He got up and looked at the deva as Indramon chuckled.

"You may not want to stop me or have anything to do with me, but like I said, I'm training until I go to the Real World. You will be a perfect punching bag for me and then your data will be mine."

Impmon looked at him but before he could say anything, he was pummeled again by one of his hooves. He didn't have time to stand up when he was suddenly kicked up in the air like a soccer ball. When he was close enough, Indramon punched him repeatedly until he finally stopped and let Impmon fall to the ground. Impmon groaned as every part of his body was in pain. He managed to open his eyes as the horse deva looked at him and laughed. Impmon could hear that laugh drumming through his ears as he tried to move and get up.

"You pathetic weakling. I almost feel sorry that I have to load your worthless data that would not even help me at all to reach my goals, but then I wouldn't want you to suffer under the hands of another digimon who would have a slower time destroying you. So…" Indramon raised one of his hoofs and smirked. "I will end it right now."

Impmon closed his eyes waiting for the blow. Gatomon couldn't take anymore of this as she ran at full speed and attacked Indramon.

"Lighting Claw!" she yelled as she swiped his face.

He yelled in surprise as he stopped from killing Impmon and stepped back a little. Impmon looked at her as she landed not too far away from him. Indramon looked at who attacked him.

"Well, well, well. Another weak digimon that wants to die?"

Impmon struggled to get up as well as speak. "Gatomon…run. Get out…of here."

She turned to him and said, "No way. I'm not letting you die, Impmon."

Before he could say anything else, Indramon came at Gatomon.

"I'll fight you and destroy you first!"

He tried to punch at Gatomon but she dodged them as she swiped at his face, chest, and legs with her claws. She tried her 'Cat's Eye Hypnotism' on him, but it had no effect. Indramon quickly caught on to her game so when she came at him again, he used his other hoof to punch her and send her flying into the ground.

"Gatomon!" Impmon yelled, as he was now able to stand up.

"Time to finish this," Indramon said as he brought out his horn weapon and placed it in front of him and blew into it. "Horn of Desolation!"

Gatomon got up and looked up at the attack that was inches away from her. Impmon started to run to her and called out her name.

"Gatomon!"

All she could hear was Impmon and before she could run, she felt the attack hit her and throw her a few feet away. Once the attack was over, she was a battered digimon that couldn't move. She felt cold and opened her eyes when she felt someone pick her up. Her vision was blurry but it soon became clear as she looked at Impmon's worried face.

"Impmon…"

Impmon was surprised how weak her voice sounded but tried not to worry as he held her close.

"Gatomon…why? Why did you try to attack him?"

"I didn't…want him…to hurt you. I just…wanted to help."

Tears brimmed his eyes as he said, "I know. I know you did…but I didn't want you to get hurt. I'm supposed to be protecting you, but…I failed."

"You…didn't fail me Impmon. You were a good brother…you've always protected me. I just…wanted to make you proud of me."

"I am Gatomon. I always have been…"

Gatomon felt colder and her vision was starting to darken. "Impmon…I'm scared."

He held her closer to him and said, "Don't worry. I'm right here."

"I love you…Impmon-chan…"

He looked in her blue eyes and said, "I…I…love you too."

"Don't change…please. Don't…die…like you did…in my dream…"

Her voice was weaker as he started to shake from the tears coming out of his eyes.

"I won't. Please…Gatomon…don't leave…"

She managed to smile and said, "I…have to. Bye…Impmon. I love you…"

He couldn't say anything more to her as she burst into data from his hands. He tried to reach out for the data to try to hold it close to him, never wanting to let her go. Indramon chuckled as he loaded the data into him.

"No…please! Gatomon!" he cried as the data went into the deva.

Impmon collapsed onto the ground and cried uncontrollably as the horse deva laughed again and looked at him.

"Pathetic. I won't destroy you…you're too pathetic to load data on anyway."

Indramon walked off, leaving a battered and broken Impmon to cry. After crying for about 10 minutes, he sat up and looked in the direction that Indramon had gone. He stood up with his tear-stained face. Anger, revenge, sadness, and loneliness went through him like a giant wave.

"I'm sorry…Gatomon. I will avenge you…" he whispered.

He then narrowed his eyes in the direction of Indramon and yelled, "Do you hear me! I'll destroy you! I'll make you pay…for what you did to my sister! I swear…I'LL KILL YOU!"

He then whimpered and slumped onto the ground in a shuddering heap as he cried and whispered his dead sister's name, wanting her to be with him now more than ever.

So sad. I hope you liked it and the next one will be about Impmon and what happened to him afterwards.