AN: Something short to start us off. And as warriors stories have before... we begin with a kittypet.
PROLOGUE
It was dark inside the small cage-box.
Within the small cat stumbled as the cage bounced about, unsecured. She yowled in protest at the rough treatment, but the twolegs in the front of the moving monster simply shouted angrily. The she-cat flattened her ears, eyes wide, and fell silent, not wanted to incur their wrath any further. Snow could understand twoleg jabber only a little, but nothing they said she could pick up on; only that they were angry and stressed.
These were not her own twolegs. She had only been with these ones for a few days and nights. They had picked her up from her yard as she lay sunning herself on the front step; tempting her to them with treats and sweet voices and soft hands. She wasn't sure what she had done wrong, but suddenly this morning everything had changed, and they had grabbed her up and put her in the cage-box. She missed her own kindly two-legs now. Even the little one that sometimes harassed her when she wanted to be left alone. It was cute and earnest, in it's own strange way.
Suddenly she was bounced about even further, her head hitting the roof of the cage-box. Snow hissed, but only quietly. One of the twolegs had hit her before. Her side still hurt. She didn't want them to again; and making noise made them angry. She couldn't see outside the monster; only to the twolegs up front, but the thunderpath the monster was running on must have gotten rougher. They had been inside the monster's belly for a while now… she knew they could travel far and fast. It was how she had reached her twoleg owner's home after being taken from her mother. So, where were they?
The monster slowed, and then stopped. Snow crouched low, though she craned her neck and watched the one of the twolegs get out of the monster. Then it's side next to her opened. The twoleg grabbed her box. She could see grass, trees. Hills and the largest pool of water she had ever seen! All sorts of smells hit her nose, pungent and mostly unfamiliar.
The twoleg opened the cage door, and abruptly shook her from it. She flopped unceremoniously onto the grass. The twoleg was glancing around, seeming nervous. All around was a flat field of grass. A few twoleg things around; tables, a small building and those structures the little ones liked to play on. The sun was setting; a mix of a golden glow and creeping shadows. There was nobody around. Further beyond was the big water on one side, the hills on the other and a forest further down along the way.
She blinked up at the twoleg, mewing in a confused and inquiring way. Why had they brought her here? The twoleg then shouted at her again, kicking a leg out toward her. She managed to evade the blow and darted away a safe distance before looking back, wide-eyed, more confused than ever. Why did they do that? What did she do wrong? Where were her twolegs? What was going on?! She cried out fervently at the twolegs, begging them to hear her, but they had already gotten back into the monster which was already speeding away down the dirt and stone thunderpath and her yowls wouldn't reach them.
Snow ran behind the monster, screeching at the top of her lungs. Her soft paws hurt as they pounded against hard earth and sharp gravel. Wait! Stop! Come back! I want to go home! Her pleas went unheeded and she was left to sit behind in the billowing dust.