A/N: Told ya it would be quick! Now we know which Clan Maia belongs to……
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"Hey!" Dawnkit squirmed as her brother Yellowkit pinned her, and Grasskit grabbed the ball of moss they were playing with right out of her mouth. "Sootkit! Snowkit! Get them!" Snowkit, who had scrambled up onto the roof of the nursery, jumped onto Grasskit's back from above. She tugged on the ball of moss, trying to pull it from his grip, while Sootkit tried to yank Yellowkit off her.
The play-fight spilled over into where Icekit, one of Snowfur's litter, was napping in the sun, close to his mother. He squeaked in protest as his tail was stepped on by one of the much larger kits, and Snowfur's head shot up at the small noise of pain. She barreled into the fight, bundling her kit away from the others." You're getting too old for this!" she snarled, giving Icekit a soothing lick on the head. "If you can't play calmly, you need to go back to the nursery!" As she bundled him into the nursery, she muttered "They're six moons, they should be apprenticed before they hurt some cat!"
As soon as Silverfern came back from making dirt, she was informed of the misbehavior of the quintet and bundled them back into the nursery. As it turned out, this was a good thing.
There was a yowl from outside the camp, and the dawn patrol came skidding back into camp with their fur on end. Dawnkit, peering through a small hole in the bracken, recognized her dad, Redclaw, the deputy of ThunderClan, and a couple of new warriors, Suntail and Mouseleg. They were panting and looked like they had narrowly escaped being run over by a monster!
Rainstar, the Clan leader, padded out of his den and came to meet them. He asked something of Redclaw, who replied with an indistinct but panicky mew. All of a sudden, there was a crash back behind and to the left of the nursery, where the queens made dirt, and a yowl of panic.
A couple of warriors ran past, and Snowfur and Silverfern took up a defensive position in the entrance to the nursery. Around them, Dawnkit could see a ball of ginger and white fur rolling in the dirt, which she realized was her father and a rogue, fighting!
She laid her ears back flat, even though nobody seemed to be trying to attack them so far, and bared her teeth. She could feel her brothers on either side doing the same, and heard Sootkit trying to comfort Icekit and Cloudkit in the background. Snowkit restlessly paced the den.
A cracking noise came from the side of the den, and claws poked through the wall of the den an inch from Icekit and his brother. Sootkit hurriedly pulled them into the center of the den, but part of the wall tore away to reveal a rogue snarling in at them! His large claws, with fur caught in them and a coat of blood, shined in the dawn light.
Dawnkit looked to her mother or Snowfur, but they were fighting other rouges, She looked back at the black tomcat, who was enlarging the hole he had made.
There was a pause……….
And then Yellowkit yelled "ATTACK!"