CHAPTER 2

Radiant rolled about on the cold groundboredly. It is already moonhigh and those two still hadn't come back. Radiant sighed and decided to catch another prey in the forest, to practice and for her poor stomach.

Observant black eyes darted around the forest, looking for prey. Radiant padded softly behind a thick log when she spotted a mouse chewing on a piece of Twoleg rubbish. With a swift leapt and swipe, the mouse was dead.

Radiant grinned victoriously before picking it up, but a flash of gray stopped her, knocking her off her feet.

Radiant hissed at the attacker-a gray tom, at the same time, regaining her steps.She leapt forward suddenly and bit into the tom's shoulder. The gray one roared in pain and attempted to shake her off. Radiant let go of his shoulder after leaving deep teeth marks on it.

"That's enough." A deep voice called out. It belonged to a white tom with a fair number of battle scars on him.

"Quaintpaw, you should always look before you pounce, or one day you would leap into a badger's claw without knowing..." The tom continued calmly.

Quaintpaw, the small gray tom protested," But she trespassed our territory! A cat from another Clan trespassing our clan is forbidden! You should know that, Streakfur."

"By the scent of it, I would assume that she's a kit of a loner, Quaintpaw. Don't go assuming loners as Clan cats, sniff first. Loners have aided us a lot in the past." Streakfur continued," Besides, Northwind would have our tails if you killed a loner."

Quaintpaw simply snorted rudely while Streakfur glared at him.

Streakfur then turned meowed to Radiant softly," Little one, what is your name?"

Radiant blinked for a moment before the question finally soaked in.

"Radiant."

"Ah. A good name, sounds very hopeful and optimistic." Quaintpaw snorted at the praise and muttered something along the lines of "shiny" and "blinding" before a glare from Streakfur shutted up his complaints.

" Given by your parents?"

Radiant shooked her head and replied," I only have a mother.My father dissappeared, accoreding to her.She and her goodfriend raised me, and her friend gave me that 'shiny' name."

Streakfurchuckled for a whilebefore meowing," Sorry about your father and that tiny furball." Ignoring the protests from Quaintpaw, he continued, " What is the name of your mother and her friend?"

" Merry and Zone."

"Zone!"

The younger tom then questioned," Who's Zone?"

Streakfur then meowed a reply," Zone is also a loner. He had helped us in the past when Crosswind's group suddenly attacked our camp in the night moons before, remember?"

" How could I possibly remember, you old lump of fur. I was only a couple of weeks old when that had happened."

"Oh."

Radiant, irritated that the two toms are ignoring her, suddenly meowed," Hey! So are you gonna let me off or what?"

Quaintpaw sighed at the sudden interruption and then asked Radiant," Where did Zone and your mother went?"

"They said that..." Radiant was cut off when a pretty sleek she-cat padded out into the clearing, tailed by a couple of other cats.

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