The sun glinted on the dew covered rocks casting sunlight on the flowers of the neatly decorated garden, a cream colored she-cat sat down and watched as two kittens fought playfully with each other, she traced her attention to a beautiful butterfly with golden wings and smiled. She then looked over to the two kittens again. " Dark, Sun! Come see the butterflies, they are very pretty this morning. " The two kittens stopped playing as the yellow she-kit stalked over to her mother and glared at the smaller butterflies, while the dark grey she-kit attracted her attention to the beautiful butterfly which had golden wings and pounced up. The bushes rustled as a dark ginger tom-cat leapt from them and sat down next to the cream she-cat, he had yellow eyes and his tail was short. " How are they doing Faith? Smudge wants to know. " Faith smiled at the dark ginger tom-cat and pointed her tail towards the two who were playing with the gentle butterflies while trying to hunt them. The tom-cat smiled and pulled two collars from behind him, he mewed alerting the two sisters as they sat down to glare at the mysterious cat. Ginger gently strapped the collars around their necks and once done glared pridefully at them, one collar was white and the other was a dark purple which looked great on the two. " I'll let Smudge know, and they look so beautiful since I left. " He purred, Faith turned her head and watched Sun and Dark with a slight smile on her face, Ginger darted forward and plunged himself onto the fence and spun around carefully trying not to slip and winked. " See you soon Crybaby, " He flirted. Faith sighed and stuck her tongue out to insult the frisky tom, he giggled and disappeared behind the wooden structure.

Wind howled in the heavens as the sun prepared to set and the moon was rising high into the sky, Faith curled up covering Dark and Sun in her long fluffy fur. Dark opened her eyes and glared at Sun's tail in curiosity and gasped tugging on her mothers fur, Faith yawned and turned her head. " Yes little one? " Faith purred lovingly as she lowered her ears in affection, the little she-kit then tugged on Sun's tail as the other she-kit yowled in disturbance turning her head to glance at Dark, Faith laughed and lifted Sun's tail with her paw, the tail twitching as Sun lowered her ears. " Don't you see my kit? Sun is very special, like you. " Faith then revealed a second tail hiding in her fur, Dark smiled as Sun grunted closing her eyes. Dark glared up hopefully at her mother as Faith then tightened her grip on the small kittens as rain fell from the sky, the tiny she-kit lowered her ears glaring out into the open forest and curled up. But then she heard more rustling in the bushes and slowly crept from her mothers fur and stalked forward toward the moving vegetation, she then stumbled more into the open place looking side to side looking for the source. To her surprise an orange tom was glaring straight at the small kit and darted forward with claws unsheathed, Dark perked her ears, and in a heartbeat was lying pinned to the ground. She mewled out for her mothers comforting voice and soon the orange tom quickly realized his foe and let the small kit go from under his large paws, Dark quickly gathered strength and darted forward leaping up to a rock and stalked quietly towards her mother, she then curled up in Faith's fur and cuddled up next to the two figures. In the next sunrise, the heavens were covered in light as the soft winds carried small leaves up into the sky, Faith opened her eyes to sound of growling and lifted her head to look around, a large paw came and pressed her cranium down. Faith growled and glanced down realizing her kittens weren't with her, she yowled kicking the other malkin with her hind legs and darted up. She looked around and her ears lowered to the sight of Dark and Sun pinned the ground as they mewled in horror.

" Why are you here you savages! " Faith hissed as she slowly backed away, the cats laughed as the larger malkin who pinned the small kittens to the ground tightened his grip on them. Faith yowled in distress as her kittens squealed trying to fight back against the larger paws with their tiny talons. " You know the penalty of keeping kittens on our land, not to mention, that you're trespassing anyways! " Faith crouched down as salty aqua ran down from her eyes into her fur, she extended her claws as she heard the cries of her kit's, and being unable to do anything. Then the rustling came from the bushes once more as Ginger and Smudge darted forward placing their position in front of the horrified she-cat, the other tom-cats glared at the two malkin as they bared their teeth unsheathing their claws. " What is this? Kill those kit's before they get to them! " Ginger sprung up slicing the grey tom's ear and clawing the area's near his eyes as Ginger yowled taking a strike to his chest, Smudge darted forward in a leaping run and bared his fangs digging them deep into the large brown tom's neck throwing him off the small kit's. " Faith! Take them! " Smudge tossed the small kittens by their scruffs as Faith caught them in her mouth and began to run away with salty aqua running down from her eyes, the cream colored she-cat then stood and looked back at the fighting toms and watched as blood was spilled and the tom's began to collapse. She then looked back and began to walk with sorrow while the two horrified kit's dangled in her jaws, Faith stopped near the last tree facing the twoleg place and curled up with Dark and Sun in her grasp.

" Get up. " Faith woke suddenly with the words and lifted her head, she was at the presence of a large black and white tom, and the collar he wore was worn out and dog teeth were studded along the brim. She then looked down and sighed in relief as Dark and Sun were curled up in her fur and were breathing correctly, she then lifted her head and carefully stood placing the sleeping kittens on her spine. " Follow me, if you want to live. " Faith raised her tail in alert and began to walk forward pacing behind the large tom, she looked around carefully as they entered deeper into the twoleg forest. Her fur bristled as they then ambulated more into the heart of the forest and stopped in an ally which was filled with different cats, who looked famished. A cat stepped forward towards Faith and unsheathed their claws with hunger in their amber optics. " Stay off the kittens Red, not yet will you have them. " The large tom snapped towards a grey looking she-cat. Dark opened her eyes and nudged her sister as they squealed in surprise, they both clung desperately onto Faith's fur in fear. " Scourge, I present to you a she-cat. She's a cream colored one with two kittens, you still want her? " A tiny black tom emerged from the dark abyss and scanned the cream she-cat and lowered his eyelids with interest as he slowly sheathed his reinforced claws. Faith warily stalked over to the black tom and gently lifted Dark and Sun from her back onto the cold, rough, ground. Faith turned her head and felt her head swell up in embarrassment as the black tom smiled softly towards her, Dark slowly walked over to the tom-cat and prodded his paw with one of her small talons, while Sun just sat and watched.

" So, who's scraps are these? " Scourge asked politely, Faith shot a glance at the tom-cat but resisted the urge to wacky him across the head. " Mine, no one else's. " She mewled, Scourge nudged Dark away with his paw and purred, he looked down at her and smiled, while Dark followed and showed her tiny fangs. Scourge perked his ears and paused, he then replied. " That's quite the shame, but I could adopt them with you? " Faith glared deeply into his eyes and smiled nodding with agreement as the salty aqua appeared once more but ran happily through her fur, she trembled a bit as the image of a saddened Ginger shot through her mind. Scourge pressed his nose up against her forehead and clawed her front leg with friendliness, a dark shape then came into eye-site. HScourge leaned over and gently took Sun in his paws and glared down at her tails, he smiled showing his yellowish teeth, and chuckled as his collar rose and fell on his chest. Faith purred and nudged Dark towards him and she, herself, wrapped her tail around Scourge along with her kits and smiled. " Faith, I want you to be my head leader, and my mate. A strong leader needs his queen. " Faith looked back towards him and widened her eyes, Dark looked at her mother in confusion. The cream she-cat stood and backed away, but calmed herself and looked peacefully towards the comforting tom, she then heard the sound of growling and looked behind her and yowled. " That was my rank! " The brown tabby growling darting forward, Scourge stood and leapt up but the tabby swiped him away with a single claw and pounced on the she-cat raising his paw, Dark and Sun stood with horror and Dark screamed when she saw the larger tom. The brown tabby sliced Faith from head to tail with his claws as Faith screamed with horror and began to convulse, Scourge then pounced on the tabby and clawed his mouth. " Get out of here Tigerstar, and never return! You have meddled with my plans for a last time, you have doomed our deal. " Tigerstar stood and looked at the dead corpse of the she-cat and grunted, he then shifted his eyes towards the kit's and hissed. He darted away into a leaping run, Scourge watched from his place and when he could no longer see him the black tom turned his head towards the corpse and sat down leaning his head over her with the two sisters wrapped in his tail.