I watch my prey carefully. It doesn't see me in the shadows as I stalk it. I stop as it twitches, then relax as it stopped moving, it hadn't seen me yet. I prepared to pounce and the second to rose to move I jumped at it. I caught it between my paws then gave it the killing bite.
"OW!" my father yelped as he awoke from his noon nap. Turning his head to look at me, amused with the look on my face as I spat the black and white fur out of my mouth.
"My tail is not a mouse, Star." he purred.
"Blah," I spat getting the last bit off fur out of my mouth, "if you'd let me hunt real mice I wouldn't need to use your tail." I meowed as I hunched up to attack his hind legs.
"Your only two moons, Star." he turned quickly and put a paw on me lightly to stop me but this wouldn't do with me. I pushed hard and lifted his paw some only to roll out and into some hay. Ravenpaw laughed softly as I walked out and shake all the hay from my pelt.
"No far, your ten times my size!" It was true. I was a strong kit for my age, but still only a kit, and a small one at that.
"Yes, Ravenpaw leave her be," I look up to see Barley laying comfortably on the hay above me, "come here Star and I'll tell you a story of your father and the clans."
My eyes lit up. I loved the stories about the clans that lived in the forest here before all the twolegs. With a great deal of difficulty I manage to climb up to the hay with Barley. I curl up next to him as he began his story.
"Blood clan attacked….."
"She's growing well, and strong." a soft she-cats voice meowed.
"We must send her soon." A tom meowed agreeing with the she-cat's statement.
"Are you both mouse-brained? She's to young." A raspy she-cat yelled.
"There's no time to waste, Yellowfang, we must send her." The tom countered.
"The Three need her as soon as possible, Lionheart is right, there's no time to waste." The she-cat said.
"Gah, you two are hopeless, how will she get there Spottedleaf?" Yellowfang rasped again. Spottedleaf rose and walked to the pool near where they were sitting. She gazed into the pool and watched the kit sleep.
"I will lead her there myself."