Followers of the Rising Sun‏

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    Moonwhisper had caught four pieces of prey when she started to head back. The sun was peaking over the mountains. She heard a sharp snap of a branch and looked around, her ears perked up. She heard low growling but she had already started to run. She took shelter in an abandoned fox den. She watched as the creature prowled, looking for her. It was a sharp tooth. She had heard about them, nursery tales. She never knew they were real. After a while of waiting, she emerged from the den and hurried back to the cave to tell the others.

    Sunblaze heard the cats talking, and stretched as she exited the den. She saw Moonwhisper's puffed fur and moved faster to see what was going on.

    Moonwhisper was still catching her breath when Ashcloud said "no, I won't let it. Tonight I'm going to kill that sharp tooth. Russetwhisker will stay here and Moonwhisper and myself will go. "

    Sunblaze's head shot straight up, "B-but you all could die! I can't risk loosing a clan-mate and my sister!" She exclaimed standing up. "I-i won't have it! We should think about this reasonably." She meowed sighing at the end, her tail straight up in determination.

    "We don't necessarily have to use force to kill it." She meowed, realizing something. "If we could get death berries and plant them in something the sharp tooth will eat, we could poison it. We would need a lot, though." She suggested.

    "That sounds better than going into battle against a cat ten badgers your size... where would we find the death berries though? We don't know where anything is in this area." Sunblaze meowed looking at her sister.

    "They're pretty distinct in color and smell." She meowed. "I'll go find some. Ashcloud, you come too." The tom got up and followed her out of the cave.

    Sunblaze watched the two cats leave. "Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" She asked under her breath as she walked to the nursery.

    When Sunblaze laid down, a sharp pain began. She hissed in pain as it got worse, "Russetwhisker!" She hissed loudly till the tom came running in. "They're coming..." She hissed in pain as she squeezed her eyes shot another shot of pain going through her.

    When they had finally found a freshly killed deer, they began squishing the berries into the tears in the skin, the pulp of the berries mixing with warm blood. Almost all the berries were gone when the sharptooth's scent was coming closer. "Quick, hide!" She meowed, pulling Ashcloud into an old fox den. The space was so cramped she felt the tom's heart race.

    "U-uhh what do I do?" Russetwhisker asked panicking. "Get me a stick!" Sunblaze hissed the pain aggrovating her, as more pain shot through. 'Those two need to get back quickly!' She thought to herself.

    The sharptooth was quiet. Then, all Moonwhisper could see was a large paw lash into the den and bash Ashcloud into the wall of the den, knocking him unconscious. She was panicking now, but remained quiet. She pretended to be unconscious as well, as an attempt to wait out the sharptooth. She eventually fell into a deep sleep.

    Russetwhisker returned quickly with a thick stick and gave it to Sunblaze. Quickly she took it and bit down, her teeth hurting as she pushed. A black tom kit was the first, followed by a black and orange tortoiseshell she-kit like her grandfather Echostar. Three more kits came, but the fifth one a pure white she-kit didn't make it. The third one was an orange tabby tom, looking like his mother, while the fourth was a tortoiseshell tom that looked like Moonwhisper.

    When Moonwhisper woke up, Ashcloud was still sleeping. Blood was running down his face, but he was still breathing. She peeked out of the den to see the sharp tooth, laying on the ground with blood oozing from it's mouth. "Ashcloud! Ashcloud, wake up!" She meowed, nudging the tom. He woke up with a groan and Moonwhisper explained what had happened.

    Sunblaze was exhausted, but stayed awake to lick the kits and make sure there weren't any more that would die, being as it was hard enough that one died. Russetwhisker sat right outside the nursery, watching and probably waiting for the two to get back as the sun was now setting.