Oh! I'm in second place! –dances- No one seems to be updating the 100 Tales Challenge except me…so…I think I might actually soon get ahead of Amberleaf, if she doesn't start updating!

The return of Dawnkit, all the way from chapter 1, The Beginning. Hope you like!

JUST GO AWAY

The other kits had never liked Dawnkit.

Maybe it was because she had no mother.

Maybe it was because half her fur was missing from her tail at birth.

She couldn't quite put her paw on it. But all she knew was that they disliked her. A lot.

But one single kit did like her-Redkit.

You've probably heard a story like this before. A kit being hated for being different, and one cat of the opposite gender defends her. Soon, they fall in love, and have a happy life. The cats who taunted her are perhaps exiled because of some horrible deed.

But this is no story.

This is real.

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Dawnkit crept toward the sleeping Redkit, grinning to herself. This was classic. She was going to pay him back for all those times he'd startled her awake. She crouched there, giving herself momentum, and pounced, landing squarely on his tail and nipping it.

Redkit leapt a mouse length into the air, yowling. His eyes were wide as the moon and his dark ginger fur was sticking straight up.

Dawnkit let go and doubled over in laughter.

"What did you do that for?" Redkit demanded, smoothing down his bristling fur.

"Oh, please," Dawnkit mewed, batting her friend over the ear with a sheathed paw. "You wake me up by pouncing on me all the time! I was just getting you back."

"Oh, really…?" Redkit peeked up at her, a mischevious expression on his face. He suddenly leapt into the air and bowled Dawnkit over, pinning her down easily.

Dawnkit squirmed underneath him. "Hey! Get off!"

Redkit stepped to the side while Dawnkit rose to her paws and shook the dust off her tortoiseshell and white fur. Then she tackled Redkit to the ground. Redkit gave a startled yelp.

The kits tumbled around for a few heartbeats until they crashed into someone.

"Oh!" Dawnkit leapt off of Redkit and gazed up at the cat that she crashed into. She gasped and bowed her head. "Sorry, Hawktalon…"

The enormous gray tom scoffed. "Tch. Can't you watch where you're going? You've got two working eyes, you know."

He stalked into the warriors' den, and Dawnkit flattened her ears.

"Ignore him," Redkit meowed. "He's just a big furball."

Redkit's sister and Dawnkit's stepsister, Snowkit, padded out of the nursery with their mother, Cloudfur, trailing behind her. "See? Dawnkit was being mean to Redkit."

"I was not!" Dawnkit protested. "I just…I was just playing a trick on him!"

"That's being mean," Snowkit hissed. Dawnkit had to dig her claws into the ground to keep herself from tackling that piece of mousedung.

"Dawnkit…" Cloudfur sighed. "I've talked to you about this before. I have nothing left to do but punish you."

"But I was just playing!" Tears of anger and frustration filled Dawnkit's eyes and she kneaded the ground with her claws. Redkit thankfully backed her up. "Yes, we were just playing around. There's no harm in what she did I do it to her all the time."

Cloudfur ignored their pleas and picked up Dawnkit by the scruff of her neck. Snowkit watched smugly as her mother carried Dawnkit into the nursery.

Redkit unsheathed his claws. "What'd you do that for? She was just playing, and you know it!"

Snowkit rubbed her face against his. "Don't be angry, Redkit. You know I've always wanted to play with just you, and not her. So…I kind of had to get rid of her!" She chuckled.

Redkit bristled and scooted away from her. "Leave us alone." He turned and headed toward the nursery. Snowkit caught up to him. "Redkit…" Her voice sounded hurt.

He almost felt sorry for her.

Almost.

But he stayed strong for his best friend and hissed, "Just go away."

Erm…

._. I kind of switched from Dawnkit's POV to Redkit's. Oh well! This was a pretty crappy chapter. Sorry!

xx-Starfall-xx