There was a golden she-cat walking in the stars looking down on everything below her with bright blue eyes. "It's amazing up here!" She exclaimed. She saw an older grey cat playing with her kits, she smiled, oh how she wished she could have those. Suddenly a cold blast of wind rippled through her fur, and the stars behind her started to disappear, the she-cat started to panic, her golden fur bristling. She jumped star by star but then she missed and plummeted into darkness.
She could see scarlet flames dancing at the bottom. She howled for help, but nobody did and she hit the bottom with a sickening crack. Before everything went blurry the grey she-cat padded up to her and she said: "Now you will rise above the darkness and bring the forest with you into the light." It all went black.
The golden cat awoke with a start. Realising it was just a dream, she flattened her fur and gave her white paws a lick. She sat in her soft fabric bed in silence, contemplating what she dreamed about when suddenly, "Posie!" Posie sighed and walked to her two-leg, sleep still clinging to her limbs.
She was met with a cold bowl of meaty slop, tummy rubs and kind words she couldn't understand. She devoured her slop and decided to stretch her limbs and go outside. She heard a mew from outside, so she squeezed through the cat door to see who it was.
Sitting on her garden fence was a white cat with black ears, his green eyes staring at her. "Hi Posie." Posie smiled as she saw her old friend. "Hey Snoopy, come in." Snoopy jumped from the fence and nuzzled her flank affectionately. "It's been quite sunny lately, and you know what that means!" They shared an amused look. "The barn?" Poise purred.
So with a bit of a struggle, Posie jumped over the fence (which took a few attempts due to her weight) and she and Snoopy trotted to the barn. They squeezed in through a hole and into the mouse infested, cat-filled barn. "Hey." Posie purred to Snoopy. "Let's see if we can find Pirouette, she's always here in this weather." Posie looked around the barn until a short white tail caught her eye. Her tail twitched with amusement.
"Hi Pirouette," she said softly. "Watcha' doing?" The small tan she-cat turned around, her fur fluffed up and her blue eyes wide. She smiled once she realized who the other cat was. "Oh, heh, I was just trying to reach that mouse in the corner, so what are you two up to?" She mewed.
The group of cats sat and shared tongues while hunting mice in the barn. More and more cats started to leave as the mice only liked to come out in the warmth of the sun. However many cats left, the group would stay, for another would be joining them soon.
A sleek albino cat peered his head into the barn, his pink eyes watching carefully. "Porcelain! We're over here!" The white cats head whipped around and sighed in relief. "Sorry, my night sight has always been weak." He slipped through the crack and came to join the group.
Posie looked up at the glimmering stars, memories of her dream flooded back to her. She looked at the group of cats. Porcelain was nervously chatting, afraid he might make some kind of mistake, while Snoopy was awkwardly cuddling up to Pirouette and when she asked why he replied with "Its just kind of… Cold."
Then the realization hit her like a monster speeding past. Interrupting the friendly banter, "Guys, I really think Snoopy and I should be heading back to our house folk, they must be quite worried about us." Pirouette frowned. "Oh house folk are such drags, why don't you become a loner like me?" She purred jokingly. "Posie is right, we should be heading back now, and Pirouette can I stick with you? I can't see very well." Meowed Porcelain nervously. Snoopy snickered "Porcelain you are such a wimp!"
The cats all mewed their goodbyes and gave the last few friendly licks on the head. Snoopy and Posie padded home until they could see the warm glow of street lights. They walked through the alley but suddenly stopped. They heard the mewling of kits nearby. Instinctively, Posie raced through the alley go find the missing kits. And Snoopy tried to catch up to her. After some short moments, they found the two squealing kits in a box.
Poise padded up to them softly and grabbed each one and slowly placed them on the ground. A small black kit looked up at her with stunning green eyes and mewed "Are you our mother?." Snoopy shook his head but Posie replied: "Yes, now let's take you home." They padded slowly to Posie's home and Snoopy helped get the kits into her yard. The sun was starting to rise.
She examined the two kits, which was quite challenging in the dark and with their kitten fur fluffed up. She noticed a scar on the little toms nose. This filled her with frustration that their mother would look after them so poorly. "What are your names?" Posie asked sweetly. The little grey tom answered: "I'm Whisper and my sister's Candy." Poise snuggled up to the kittens and in no time they all fell asleep.