Of course, it went downhill the next day.

Basically Berry decided to teach me and my siblings how to camouflage within our surroundings, and he disappeared while I was hiding behind some thorn bushes. I went to check and saw him leading Moth away from her brothers.

"C'mon Moth" Berry purred. "I want to show you something."

"Can't you just tell me what it is?" Moth said with innocent eyes.

I clenched my teeth, I already knew what he was going to do: tear away Moth's innocence. I had to stop him.

"Hey Berry!" I yelled annoyingly.

Berry gave a yowl of shock and turned to me with bristling fur.

"What?!" Berry snarled. "I'm busy teaching Moth!"

"So that's what you call it?" I retorted. "Teaching?!"

"What is he talking about?" Moth whispered. Berry walked up to me and unsheathed his claws.

"You little-"

"Berry!"

I felt a wave of relief as Martha landed on a branch above me. She looked at Berry and Moth and then at me.

"What's going on?" Martha asked. "Anyways, Edward needs you for a patrol watching the human tribe that moved in."

"What for?" Berry growled. "They haven't harmed us anyway!"

"You can go ahead and take it up with Edward if you like!" Martha retorted. She gave him no time to answer as she spread her wings and took off.

"So what were you going to teach me?" Moth asked. I glared at Berry challenging him to say it.

"Nothing, go away" Berry snarled. Moth looked slightly injured as she ran off. Berry charged at me and stopped right in front of me.

"You mess with me again, and I'll make you wish you were never born" Berry whispered.

"Mess with what? You may have a need for mating everyday, but you cannot touch my friends, let alone your children!" I snapped.

Berry looked at me with huge eyes.

"They are not my children!" Berry hissed.

"Yes, they ARE!" I lashed my claws, just barely missing his nose. "I KNOW THEY'RE YOUR CHILDREN! MIRA'S FATHER IS YOUR SON!"

"THAT'S NOT TRUE!" Berry lashed his tail in a livid motion and stormed off. I bared my teeth at his retreating figure.

This wasn't the end, no, it was only the beginning.

"Are humans big and scary?"

"Do they kill us for fun?"

Thunder and Pixie walked around Pine Nose, pestering him as he tried to sleep in his and Blaze's burrow.

"Is it true that they stab pups and kits as a spectator sport?" Pixie whimpered.

"Enough!" Pine Nose muttered. "They're just creatures that stand on their hind legs and like to be left alone."

"Oh, OK" Thunder and Pixie walked past me and returned to our burrow. I was about to leave when Pine Nose lifted a purple-furred paw.

"Wait"

"Do you need something, Dad?" I asked.

"I caught a Starly earlier" Pine Nose said. "I left it under an Oak tree at the far corner of Willow Creek, it'll take you about ten mintues to reach the spot. Can you retrieve it for me? I got to rest."

"Of course" I replied. "Anything else?"

"Maybe catch a piece of prey or two on the way there and back?" Pine Nose added. "Thanks."

"You're welcome" I left the network of burrows and walked beside one of the river trails to lead me as my guide.

I heard shuffling, and running. I decided to sniff the air to see who it was. Nothing.

"What the-?"

Then two huge figures burst from the bushes.

I gasped as one reached for my neck, it held a gray blade in its front paw. I screamed and jumped over its shoulder.

I ran like a thousand Entei were chasing me. I did not stop till I found a huge structure held by sticks and ran inside.

I opened my eyes to see very confusing things. One, the structure felt soft even though sticks were supporting it. Two, it felt comfortable, unlike any patch of grass I walked on.

Three, there was another figure staring at me.

It was bigger than me, but not as big as the other figures that tried slashing my throat earlier. It was naked except for flashing colors on its chest and on its legs, it only had long glossy brown fur on its head.

Then it hit me. Like a wave of icy water.

It was a human. A female one.

I began tripping out and backing away from her, but she placed a hand on my right shoulder.

"Don't scream" the human girl whispered. "I won't let Dad kill you."

Was that the huge figure that tried to slice my throat open?! What if it runs in the family or something?

I felt like I was going to wet myself, and I inched away from her.

"Must you go?" the human girl then petted me. "OK, but don't forget me."

I ran out of the structure and kept running till I smelled dead meat.

Of course, the Starly!

I picked it up and ran for dear life till I saw the beautiful sight of safety and ran in Pine Nose's burrow. I jumped onto him and he looked startled.

"What's up, son?" Pine Nose asked. "You looked like you ran there and back five times."

"Saw...Humans"I gasped, dropping the Starly on my Dad's chest. "One had...a gray blade."

"Oh, no" Pine Nose looked horrified. "THUNDER! PIXIE! STAY IN THE HOLLOW!"

That evening Blaze came back and was horrified that one of those naked creatures almost killed me. She pulled me in a hug and cried.

I went to sleep with thoughts of the earlier events on my mind and decided to get a drink at the river.

However I saw Blaze sitting with her back turned to me in the grass, holding a marigold in her paw.

"I said I'd protect your pups, Yew" Blaze whispered. "I promised."

I looked at her in horror. Who's Yew?! Were we not Blaze's pups?! Or Pine Nose's?!

"They still believe that Pine Nose is their father..."

"That's a lie"