The Storm Among Us

"Darktalon?" A voice mewed through a bramble thicket.

"Fleetfall.." Coughed a dark tabby tom.

"Darktalon..." The cat emerged from the brambles, a pale ginger she-cat with green eyes. "Darktalon!" She screeched in the shadows of the night.

"Fleetfall, go. Save the kits, save yourself.. The storm won't find you in camp." The tabby collapsed under his own weight.

"B-but what about you?"

"Just go! Run, they're coming!" He hissed, jolting around to face 2 cats that leaped from the bushes, tackling him.

"Mystereon and Echo!" Fleetfall yowled, frozen in place.

"End of the line, for both of you!" Mystereon snapped, shoving Fleetfall down.

"NO! Don't kill me! I'll be having kits soon!" She screeched.

"Spare her, until the kits come." Echo mewed with a blood stained muzzle and paws.

"If you say so, Scorch should know." Mystereon rasped, padding off into the forest. Echo turned to face Fleetfall.

"Look, before those kits come, you will watch your family and friends be picked off one by one, and be tortured aswell. When those kits are born, they will no be your kits. They will be mine." She hissed.

"If that's what it will cost for my kits to live, I accept." Fleetfall mewed. The breath was knocked out of her and she fell to the ground, her neck fur bristling. She yowled as the world around her went back, and she passed out.

Chapter 1
Storm awoke, raising his head groggily. He was in the barn with his siblings. He had always refused to sleep on the hay, but after 3 nights of sleeping on the wooden floor and needing to get splinters out of himself and his pelt, he began to regret that decision. He stumbled up, and padded from the barn. "Mom?" He squeaked.

"Yes, Stormy?"

"I was wondering if I could go chase some of those chickens." He replied to his mother.

"But my darling, you see. You have a task today. Today you will put some thorns into the prisoners."

"Prisoners?" He asked.

Atlast, the white figure of his mother slipped from the side of the barn. "Minnow and Fern." She mewed.

"Shadow and Adder have already been thorned." Scorch padded by, purring at his kits.

Storm noticed that Fang, and Claw had already gathered behind him. "I guess i'll go put in those thorns now."

He trudged off, taking a few thorns to Minnow. "Get those thorns away from me!" Minnow snapped.

"Its my job, I don't wanna do it either." Storm hissed a reply.

"Well then don't do it!" Minnow shouted at the kit.

A screech ended the chat as Storm inserted the thorns, causing minnow to jerk in his thorn layers that kept him down. "Calm down!" Storm snapped. Minnow gave Storm a dirty look.

Storm padded to Fern, she attempted to avoid