"Run! Go!" a black she-cat told her kits, but they were trembling, too scared to move. The enemy was gaining on her, and a strike of lighting lit up the sky, and the cats were shown clearly.
A group of battle-fit warriors, with scars crisscrossed along their pelts and their eyes bloodthirsty. Their long, curled claws gleamed. Trees whipped in the breeze, making it hard to see clearly. And the kits strained to keep sight of their mother, who was leading the angry cats away from them. They stared at each other, fright in their eyes, their wind-battered pelts fluffed up against the storm.
"Mama!" one of the kits cried out, but the sound of it never reached her. One of them fell asleep, and when the other kits tried to wake her up, her fur was cold. They ran under the shelter of a tree, each of them finally snapping out of their daze. Then one of them spotted a flash, and they pointed it out to one another.
"What happened?" one asked. "Is that mother?" another one called out. It was hard to see her in the forest of night, where all the scary things were shrouded in darkness. Then they saw thier mother was pinned down, by one of the scary cats. His claws dug into her pelt, the ground puddles already tinted red.
"I'm sorry! I didn't know!" the black she-cat pleaded. The tom pinning her down snorted in amusement.
"You didn't know, huh? There's a border! Just don't cross it!" He growled in her face. Her face was pressed to the ground. "I won't ever do it again, I swear!" she promised. One of the other cats came up to him, a slender light brown tabby. He touched the dark tom's shoulder with her tail. "Just let her go, Grasseyes." she whispered, and he backed off the black she-cat.
"Fine" he growled to her. "But consider this your last and final warning." he said, and then stepped closer, getting nose to nose. "But if you ever cross our borders again." he said. "That's be the last this you even do." then he flinched closer, making her back up, and run towards the tree where her kits were, gathering them up. "Stay away for the clans." Grasseyes yowled. "Forever"
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