The night air was freezing, seeping through Mouse's thick coat.
Her kits now had new names, the tom's name is Dapple and the grey tabby she-kit is Hawk.
Dapple layed on his side. His stomach full of milk.
Mouse greatly licked his head and sniffed Hawk.
Her scent smelled alot like Toby's and her fur was smooth and silky.
Smoke softly padded into her den and cautiously sniffed the kits.
Mouse left a scar across his muzzle after he tried to sniff her kits the first time, now she let him.
"They're beutiful." He murmured, his breath reeked of blood.
Mouse was once more surrounded by wolves with bloody fangs and dead cats between their teeth. Smoke was one of them.
Mouse's vision vanished in a flash. Her neck fur bristled and she stared at her, now alive, brother.
''smoke," Mouse said with clenched teeth. "you're in danger, all of us are."
Smoke tilted his head and laughed, sitting on his haunches now.
"I think you have moss in youre brain!" He laughed. His blue-green eyes glinted with sadness.
"No Smoke, I had a dream.."
Smoke lowered his head and sighed.
"I know, i've had the dream too." His huge bulky head shook in a sad way that made Mouse's heart sink.
"Why didn't you tell me?" She whispered. Hawk let out a shrilled yip as her brother Dapple scatched her nose. Mouse calmly licked them.
"Because, I don't want anyone to worry." Smoke mumbled, smiling at at his newest neice.
"Smoke, you should have told me,we're all in great danger."Mouse mewed with an edge to her voice.
"I know,but we don't know when it will happen, so what do we do?" Smoke said with slints for eyes.
Mouse slowly stood and glared at her brother. "We tell the family."
Smoke opened his mouth to protest, but Mouse walked away before he could say anything.
Frost was busy gathering fresh moss, Honey was laying on a pile of rocks, her stomach big with kits, Sun laid right there beside her while Oscar snatched a salmon out of the stream and shook the freezing droplets from his face.
Mouse found a tall rock with beutiful flowers surrounding it. Could this be a Highrock?
Mouse thought.
She jumped onto the rock and noticed Sun staring at her.
Her dark ginger pelt glowed like fire in the morning sun and her brown eyes were warm and soft.
"I have an announcement!" Mouse yowled.
Honey,Sun,Frost, and Oscar sat upright and glared at her in confusion. Smoke sulked in the back like a shadow. Sandtail popped out his broad head and sniffed the air before gathering around.
"For a few nights, Me and Smoke have been sharing a dream," Mouse paused as Sun whispered something to Honey. The she-cat shrugged and looked back at Mouse. "in this dream-Smoke dies."
The words choaked her like dry sparrow meat and made it hard for Mouse to swallow. Smoke looked at his paws as all the cats looked at him.
"What do we do?" Sandtail asked, his low voice cracked with age.
"We send someone to a clan." Mouse meowed.
"A clan!," Sandtail wailed. "were!" her father was clan born,so it was no surprised he was exited.
"Near the twoleg dens." Mouse sighed. Toby's warm gaze burned in her memory.
Frost shly stepped forward.
"Who do we send?" She mewed, her voice soft as honey.
Mouse knew Honey should leave, she was heavily kitted.
"Honey needs to go, if the wolves from the dream come, they'll kill her," Mouse saw hostility in her sister's eyes. "and her kits!" Mouse added in a warning.
"I'll go with her." Oscar mewed, standing protectivly beside his mate.
"No, we need strong cats to stay here." There was a long pause. "Frost, will you go?"
The white she-cat purred and nodded, stepping beside her sister.
"When do we leave?" She asked.
"Now," Mouse mewed. "Stop by a twoleg den with a bunch of cats, a grey tabby named Toby will tell you where to go."
After Honey and Frost ate the traveling Mouse gave them, they sett off into the dense freezing woods.
As Mouse watched them leave a series of howls split the air.
Three tall and lanky figures appeared out in the open.
Wolves- one white, one tan, and one grey. They snarled reveiling long,slender fangs.
This was it. Smoke's destiny.