"Hello my kits!" greeted Squirrelflight as she entered the ThunderClan nursery. The sun was setting outside bringing orange light streaming into the den.
"Hello," mumbled Jaykit in response.
"Hello!" responded Hollykit and Lionkit brightly.
"Aren't you supposed to be hunting or something?" mumbled Jaykit who was lying on the ground resting his head on his small paws.
"Well," began Squirrelflight. "I'm done with all of my patrols for today and I just wanted to spend some time with my kits."
"Can't you spend time with us sometime else?" asked Jaykit unenthusiastically burying himself in some moss scraps. "I have not had a good day/"
"I can tell," Squirrelflight mewed coldly, not liking Jaykit's attitude one bit. Swiftly she plucked him out of the moss by his scruff. Jaykit gave a tiny hiss of annoyance. Squirrelflight plopped him down right next to his siblings.
"How about a story?" asked Squirrelflight.
"Yes please!" chorused Hollykit and Lionkit.
"Oh grow up!" exclaimed Jaykit turning onto his siblings. "Stories are for kits."
"And if you haven't noticed you are one," mewed Squirrelflight sharply. That silenced Jaykit. "Anyways, once upon a heartbeat there was a she-cat, an eagle, and a badger. The Eagle made a nest at the top of an ancient oak. This ancient oak also happened to be the home of the she-cat who made her den in the middle of the tree in one of its hollows."
"Is that against the warrior code?" asked Hollykit.
"What is?" asked Squirrelflight quizzically.
"Sleeping in trees," responded Hollypaw.
"I don't think so…" mewed Squirrelflight a bit puzzled. "Anyways a badger also made its set underneath the tree."
"Is that cat crazy? I mean she is living with an eagle and a badger in the same tree," mumbled Jaykit.
Squirrelflight silenced him with a cuff to the ear before continuing. "The she-cat didn't like the eagle and the badger especially since they were so close to her kits which also lived in the oak's hollow. So the she-cat devised a plan. She first scaled the tree so that she could reach the top and found the eagle there in his nest. The she-cat told the eagle about the badger. She told the eagle how the badger was digging away at the oak's roots and that the tree will soon topple over if the badger continued digging and that the eagle would lose his home. This frightened the eagle. Afraid for losing his nest he flew down and started a fight with the badger."
"What happened?" asked Lionkit.
"They both killed each other and the she-cat lived undisturbed for the moons to come," finished Squirrelflight.
"That she-cat sure was clever," yawned Hollykit.
"Of course," mumbled Jaykit. "We are more intelligent than anything else; at least most of us are."
Squirrelflight caught Jaykit shooting a glance at her as an insult but she didn't say anything.
"Well I'm going…" began Jaykit.
"Where are you going?" asked Lionkit.
"To sleep."
Up Next: Firestar and Sandstorm (As suggested by Goldsong)