Hello peoples! LL23 is back in the houuuuuuse! I was soooo happy because I got a review! Yes, it may be weird for someone to get excited over one little review but I am soooooo happy someone reviewed already! Yesyesyesyesyesyes! I am hoping my next chapter will be better than this one which I suspect is going to be extremely crappy.

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Rusty stared out his windiw into the alleyway, daring himself to check it out. It strectedh out farther than he could see... if only he had the guts. For the past few nights he always looked there before he went to sleep. The wind ruffled his ear tufts and hair magestically, practically telling him to go.

But he had been warned by this other hybrid with white and black hair to stay away frim the alleyway.

There are wild hybrids that attack other hybrids and sharpen their claws on old bones. He had said. Rusty kinda thought the story was an old load of crap.

He looked one more time, Smudges voice playing in his head, spweing more rumor and yelling he shouldn't go.

However, Smudge couldn't stop him. Using his cat like agility he jumped frok his second floor window into the alleyway, like a cat, landing on his feet. He quickly stood up from the couched position he had landed in and surveyed the alleyway, the darkness still keeping him from seeing the beyond.

Slowly he walked down the alleyway, scrunching up his nose a little at the smell of the garbage.

Rusty sensed movement. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw a flash of brown and then he saw the mouse, only inches away, nibbling on a discarded piece of apple. A weird sense of hunger crept into his stomach. He had never thought about eating a mouse before... come to think of it, they didn't sound so bad. Being a cat after all. His cat side won, and he conversed from standing up to crouching down in a cat like position, his cat tail coming from his shorts swishing slowly. He hesitated, then jumped. The mouse got away. Dammit, he thought.

Then he sensed another piece of movement. Not a mouse, though. Another hybrid. Immediately his reflex told him to move but it was too late. The hybrid jumped his slashing as he went. They tumbled through the alleyway, fighting like cats. Rusty was down with this thing on his back, digging its claws into his back. He gritted his teeth. Then he got an idea...

He flipped to his back. Hearing a satisfying oomph from below, he kicked the cat off and it landed far away into the alleyway. He hissed. Weird...

He stood up, still in a fighting pose.

Then the hybrid approached him, a lot less threatening than before.

"You fight good, for a kittypet." he mewed/said.

"And I'll do it again if I have to!" Rust spat, unsheathing his claws from his fingers again.

"Calm down. And if I had even been half a warrior, I would've given you some real wounds to think about!"

"Warrior?"