Gold ran around his house, his housefolk being mean again. Kicking, screaming, and punching. He needed to get out of this place. He couldn't live here anymore. He dashed out the cat flap. He dodged through the thorns surrounding the fence. Once he was on the other side he jumped up onto the fence and jumped off and ran, blindly, straight into the forest. He sprinted across the hill in that part of it, eventually stopping, out of breath, in a clearing.

He collapsed on his side. He was free, no more having to deal with his rude housefolk. He was now free to roam where ever he pleased.

But then out of the bushes dashed a dark gray she cat, the cat tackled gold to the ground and the two tussled around the ground he pinned the she cat to the ground. Then a reddish brown she cat with the same belly and muzzle threw him off the she cat. He tossed the she cat to the side and. Bared his fangs at the two cats; all three had their fur on end.

Gold prepared to launch at these two. When two cats dashed infront of him and stood in between him and his opponents, one of the newcomers; a dark gray tom with a black neck, tail, and stripe; turned to the smaller cats.

"Applepaw, Smokepaw what in the name of starclan are you doing!"

The two dipped their heads. "Sorry Shadowclaw?" the reddish brown one apologized.

The other; a white tom with multiple scars across the body; looked gold right in the eye. "What's your name kittypet?"

Gold backed off before dipping his head. "My name is gold."

"Humph," grunted the tom, "well my name is Tornheart and this is my clan's deputy Shadowclaw." He nodded to the other tom.

Shadowclaw nodded to the she-cats. "These are Smokepaw and Applepaw."

Then, out of the bushes, emerged what looked like a cat size grey furred dog. But gold realized it was just a cat with long skinny legs and a strangely elongated muzzle.

The tom turned his golden gaze to gold. "What are you doing here kittypet?"

Tornheart turned his head to look at the tom. "Your kits just attacked this kittypet without a reason, Wolfstar." He explained.

Wolfstar turned his head to look at Applepaw and Smokepaw. "Is this true?"

The two nodded.

Wolfstar returned his gaze to gold. "That still doesn't answer my question."

"My name is gold," gold explained, "my housefolk chased me out."

"Housefolk?" Wolfstar asked.

"Giant things that walk on two paws."

"Oh you mean twolegs." Wolfstar nodded.

'Twolegs,' gold thought, 'what an odd name for them. But then again, so is kittypet.'

"Well kittypet," Wolfstar continued, "since you have no place to return to you may come back to camp where your fate will be decided."

Gold followed without complaining as they headed off.