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'Give them to me,' he hissed at her.

'Never,' spat Leopardstar, guarding her kits with her body.

The other queens in the nursery shrank back, admiring the she – cat's courage and love. This was what meant to be a leader: brave, loyal, gentle, understanding and calm. Not mad, cold, greedy, powerful and cruel, like Tigerstar.

At this moment Tigerstar leaped, grabbed her by the scruff roughly and threw out of the nursery. Bravekit roared with rage and was about to leap at the huge leader when someone grabbed him tightly.

'Don't,' he heard his brother's voice, 'Or it will all be worse.'

Bravekit gulped and nodded, wondering how Goldkit became so smart.

Meanwhile Leopardstar dropped on the cold earth outside the nursery her old wounds blowing up in pain. She closed her eyes for a second trying to concentrate hard, making her head hurt even more.

'Get up,' a huge black paw prodded her hard.

'What?' mewed the gold she – cat weakly.

'Are you stupid or what?' spat the tom, as Leopardstar recognized Blackfoot.

Leopardstar did her best, but dropped back down.

Blackfoot sighed irritably and then grabbed her scruff gently and carried toward Tigerstar's den.

Leopardstar saw Cinderpelt hurrying out with herbs, but Runningnose and Mudfur pulled her back into their den.

It was a huge rocky cave, covered with moss, and closed with hanging ivy leaves.

When the big white tom dropped Leopardstar to a nest in the back of it, she didn't even protest.

'Don't hurt my kits,' she begged desperately. Blackfoot spun around and sneered.

'We'll see, Leopardfur,' he laughed coldly.

'My name is Leopardstar,' spat the gold she – cat.

'Tigerstar said Leopardfur,' snarled Blackfoot, 'so good bye, Leopardfur.'

Leopardfur sighed.

'Great,' she thought sarcastically, 'I just got my warrior name back.'

The golden she – cat sighed again and curled in the nest her body aching all over.

***

A dark brown tom pushed the three kits into a small deep hole.

'Fox dung,' spat Bravekit as the hole entrance was covered with a huge rock, 'What do we do now? Try to push it away?'

With these words he pressed against the stone with all his might, but it didn't move.

'We have to you brains here,' Goldkit observed softly, 'not strength.'

'Use them then,' hissed Bravekit irritably.

'Don't disturb me then,' his brother snapped back.

'Calm down, both of you,' purred Sunkit gently.

Goldkit sat down and curled up to think. All was quiet.

Suddenly he opened his eyes, stood up and began exploring the hole.

'There is a tunnel here,' he whispered excitedly and urgently, 'Come here.'

His brother and sister bounded to him. Bravekit adjusted his eyes to the dark and looked deeper. Indeed there was a small tunnel.

'I'll check it,' he advised.

'No,' answered Goldkit sternly, 'We'll all go together.'

His sister and brother nodded and squeezed inside after Goldkit, who was padding first. The tunnel was big enough for only kits to fit in. Of course not apprentices and warriors. The dark hall was long.

After preety much time all the kits began to feel tired.

'Maybe we should rest?' asked Bravekit cautiously.

'No,' hissed Goldkit, 'the tunnel is going upward; whish means we'll get into fresh air soon.'

'So?' Sunkit objected, 'We don't even know how to hunt for ourselves.

'Follow the instincts,' her brother snorted, but then mewed excitedly, 'It's getting lighter. We must almost be there.'

The three kits fastened their pace and soon ran out of a small rabbit hole. The area where they were looked strange. It was certainly far from camp though, there was no familiar cat scents.

'Where now?' asked Sunkit quietly.

Just then a warm voice sounded from somewhere.

'Here, little ones.'


My other Warriors stories:

What if? .net/s/5782443/1/What_if

Rainy Owl's Night .net/s/5791771/1/Rainy_owls_night