I woke up on flat, hard stone. Blinking, there was a dark grey sky, shielded by dense clouds. There was not a single sights of plant life, or normal creatures that scurry on the ground. There was an non-natural shape in the distance, and cats bigger than Darkclaw were fighting against mutant creatures.

Darkclaw meowed, "Nice pet." I looked around, "What?" The huge red beast was floating above us. It's breath was in scarlet flames, and two teeth jutted out from its long, scaled snout. The huge wings flapped on the creature's side, and big claws barely touched the stone ground. It's eyes glowed like flames, and spikes ran down the spine. It had firery scales, which arn't as small as a normal reptile. I sat, dazed at the wonderful-looking beast, and wondered out loud,

"What is it?" Darkclaw turned his head to me and replied as if I was a young kit, "It is a dragon. They help protect the fighting cats. Usually they are considered, "pets" but they don't like that." The dragon growled as he said, 'pet' and flicked its large, muscular, scaled tail. Darkclaw gave it a sharp glance before continuing, "You can only control them if they chose you to be their leader. Looks like this one believes in you."

My face grew hot as the dragon nudged me with its red snout. He added teasingly, "What are you going to name it? It's a boy by the way." I gave him the how in the world do you know? glance. He just shrugged, muscles rippling through his tabby pelt. Trying not to focus on that, I thought of names for the mighty dragon.

Hmm... Red? Fire? Lava? Fang? No, that's my sister. But wait... "Lavafire!" I blurted out loud. Darkclaw purred in amusement and Lavafire flew up into the air as if he liked the name. Then a shriek cam from behind us. A huge mutant dog was running straight at us, it's snake-like toungue lolling in the air. The fangs were sharp and long, able to sink through a cat's neck while poking through the other end. Frozen in terror, I stared at the dog, the distance shortening. Darkclaw's fur puffed out, and he snarled, looking like a brown tiger.

Lavafire grabbed my scruff in his jaws and threw me on to his back. The wings moved rapidly, nearly making me stumble. Darkclaw hissed aleaped on top of the mutant dog, his dark aura think and full of power. I shrieked in terror and Lavafire flew in circles over the battle. The dog snapped its jaws shut a mouse length away from Darkclaw's whiskers. He ducked and threw the dog up, it yowling in horror. Lavafire blew a fireball at the dog, turning it into blackness. The dog turned into black dust as it floated to the stone ground.

In the distance were screeching cats fighting mutant badgers, foxes, and dogs. Maybe they are the only creatures here, I thought. A mutant, brown fox charged towards me. It was twice as big as a normal adult fox, and muscles bulged from its shoulders and legs. It snarled as it sprinted, sharp, yellow fangs sticking out of its mouth. I sveered out of the way, wind batting against me. The fox turned his head and snapped its jaws right on the tip of my ear.

Yowling in pain, I jumped onto the fox and started to rake my claws down its back. The creature howled, and tried to shake me off. Holding on with all my strength, I bit down on its huge neck. The fox whipped its long tail against my side and shoved me off the brown back, now covered in bleeding wounds. I gave a quick glance at Darkclaw, who was fighting a horde of badgers, Lavafire battling on his side.

Then the fox leaped, it's huge claws extended. I duck and ran under its legs. Then I raked my paws on its fur less belly, and it shrieked in pain. I then darted out of his tail end, stood on my hind legs, twisted, and leaped onto the fox's head. I bit and raked my claws on its neck until it collapsed onto the dark grey stone. The grey clouds never went away, so I had to keep squinting to see well. Once I checked the mutant fox was dead, I ran into Darkclaw's battle.

Black auras blocked and shoved the mutant badgers around like a mother pushing around her kits. Lavafire dove at the badgers and made a huge explosion. I ran away, feeling the blast right behind me.(for movies, this moment is very popular to see) Darkclaw ran beside me, and Lavafire flew above us, carrying dead mutant badgers as if it was prey. We ran for a while until we got to a safe spot. Lavafire put down the badgers and started to pull them apart.

"Gross." I grunted. I layer down, tucking my paws under my chest. Darkclaw sat beside me, his brown and black tail resting on my shoulders. He asked Lavafire, "Can I try some of that?" As in answer, the fire dragon tossed a badger leg to Darkclaw. He unexpectedly jumped up, catching the huge leg in his jaws. Then he set it down in front of me after he tore a piece of muscle from the leg.

I raised my head and sniffed at the meat. It smelled like rubbish. I twitched my nose in disgust, then Darkclaw protested through a mouthful of mutant badger, "Just eat it. It's good!" Sighing, I took a nip at the stinking meat. Nearly vomiting, I chewed on the dead "prey". Then a wonderful taste exploded in my mouth. "Just like prey." I muttered through a mouthful. Lavafire grunted agreement, and we ate for a long time. Once we were done, we saw a large army of cats charging towards the large structure.

Darkclaw stood up and pelted after the army. Some cats unusually gripped on dragons' backs. I climbed onto the firery dragon as it lifted into the air. We flew after the forest-big army, soaring over the dead landscape. We headed straight for the huge structure and charged right in. The cat army ran into a large room, where a mutant Twoleg sat on a rock. It said something that no cat could understand, then a black cat with a white underbelly jumped onto the rock next to the Twoleg and translated,

"Looks like we have some wimpy cats in here."