Another short one, but it is interesting.

Surrender

Oh, the day started innocently enough.

I was out hunting with my mate, Appletail, when we began to hear the screaming. The screams of our Clanmates.

My head came up from the shrew I just caught and I looked Appletail in the eye.

"Horsetail, you hear them too, right?" she mewed. She sounded worried and I pressed into her fur. I nodded, and we turned toward the camp.

An earsplitting screech came from the camp, and we began pelting toward our Clanmates.

We dashed through the camp entrance to see a huge, furry creature looming over the rest of our Clan. Its huge jaws dripped saliva from teeth

sharper than a cat's claw. It was covered in thick brown fur, and from its paws sprouted very long claws that were pointed at the end. I froze in

terror as I looked at its pointed muzzle and glaring red eyes. What was this thing?

I watched, horrified, as cats sprang toward the huge animal. Their claws dug into its skin, but it seemed to barely notice the sharp daggers. More

cats screamed and fell to the ground just when the huge think shook itself. They lay there, dead, as the thing continued scooping warriors and

apprentices out of dens with its huge claws.

Suddenly, in a pure moment of sheer terror, the thing turned its gaze on Appletail. Before I could save her, the thing lumbered toward us and

flipped Appletail onto its paw. It flipped her back onto the ground and tore into her. She did not even have time to scream.

Anger flooded my senses as I watched the great thing kill my precious mate. Unsheathing my claws, I leaped at the thing, ignoring the calls from

my Clanmates and the leader. I ripped my sharp claws into the thing, but it gave a great roar and attempted to fling me off. My claws ripped out

of my paws as it dragged me off with its own huge paws. I cried out in pain as it threw me to the ground. I heard one last thing as its huge jaws

closed over my throat and suffocated me.

"Surrender!"

Can you guess what the creature was? Anyone that guess correctly gets a Brackenkit plushie!