DarkMoss woke up, something kept poking her in the side. She looked up, her eyes still a little foggy. Silverpatch looked down at her.
"Where were you last night?" She asked.
"What?"
"You weren't at camp when I went to sleep, and now I wake up with you next to me." DarkMoss sat up and cleared the fog from her head.
"Oh, I was getting those two rouges that I met a while back."
"Are they here?"
"Hopefully. I left them with Ashstar. So hopefully they're still here." DarkMoss followed Silverpatch out of the warrior den. DarkMoss looked around camp. Her gaze moved across the clearing, finally ending at the prey pile. Two odd cats were there, a red and white cat, then a grey tabby. She thought for a second before blurting out.
"Thistle!" DarkMoss shrunk down on her back legs, wishing that she would've said nothing. Thistle must have heard, he looked at DarkMoss then stood up and headed her way.

"I'm guessing that's Thistle, and his friend?" Silverpatch asked.
"Yeah, the red one is Fox."
"You like him, don't you?" Silverpatch caught DarkMoss off guard.
"What! Uh, no. Of course not!" She stumbled through her words.
"Well, thank you DarkMoss. I'm a warrior now." Thistle told her. Silverpatch gave a mischievous glance at her.
"Oh, it's no problem. This is my friend, Silverpatch. Silverpatch, this is Thistle."
"Hi Thistle." Silverpatch introduced herself.
"Hello, Silverpatch. As DarkMoss said, i'm Thistle. Now, how about you show me the territory?" He asked DarkMoss.
"Sure, will Fox be coming?"
"No, he seems to know another cat." DarkMoss looked over at Fox, she didn't realize that he was sitting by Sootnose.
"Ok, Silverpatch do you want to come?" DarkMoss questioned.
"Okay, but I might do some hunting."

They chatted a bit longer before leaving camp. DarkMoss asked Thistle how he was accepted into the clan. He said that Ashstar told him and Fox if they sat a silent vigil for a few nights, she'll accept them. She took him to the twoleg bridge first, he seemed to tense up a bit. Who knows, maybe the group of rouges chased him out of their territory once.

"And this is great oak." DarkMoss told Thistle. He looked up the massive tree. She looked past the tree, into the forest she tracked the fox into. It seemed like so long ago, and yesterday at the same time. They padded on, coming up to a willow tree next to the lake.
"We call the lake, well, the lake."
"I'm going hunting, I'll catch up with you guys in a bit." Silverpatch ran off from the patrol
"Alright, bye Silverpatch." DarkMoss told her friend.
"I guess it's just us then?" Thistle told DarkMoss, she replied with a nod.
"Up ahead is fallen tree, which is were we where last night."

After showing Thistle the large territory, they walked into camp. DarkMoss was able to catch a squirrel while by the waterfall. DarkMoss padded over and dropped it off in the prey pile she nosed through it for a second, finding a vole. She grabbed the brown critter and went over by the medicine cat den.

She laid down and took a bit of her vole. After a moment, Aquaspear flopped down next to DarkMoss; she ripped a bunch of feathers from her blackbird.
"Hello." She mumbled through a bunch of feathers.
"Hi, Aquaspear." DarkMoss took another bite of her vole.
"You know that Finchwing kitted today, right?"
"No I didn't. How many is there?" DarkMoss finished her vole.
"three, two toms and a she-kit. They haven't decided on names yet."
"Okay. I'm going to looked at the new kits then keep Lillykit, Snowkit and Quailkit busy so Finchwing can get some rest." DarkMoss stood up and walked over to the nursery.

She looked inside, Reedtail nodded, allowing DarkMoss to come in. The brown tabby was the father to the new kits. DarkMoss walked in, careful not to wake the sleeping queen. three kits were curled up at Finchwing's belly.
One of the toms was an orange tabby with darker paws, the other was a reddish brown with white paws, tail tip and muzzle, and the she-kit looked just like Reedtail.
"Do they have names yet?" DarkMoss whispered.
"Yes, this one is Sapkit, Hollowkit and Whitekit." Reedtail pointed to each of his kits.
"Those are beautiful names." DarkMoss told him. She backed out of the den and shook out her pelt. She trotted over to where Aquaspear was still laying down. DarkMoss sat down next to her.

DarkMoss scanned the clearing, looking for Quailkit, Snowkit and Lillykit.
"Aren't they cute?" Aquaspear looked up from her sprawled out lay.
"They're adorable. Oh, and they have names now."
"They do? Tell me!" Aquaspear propped herself up more,
"The She-kit is Sapkit and the toms are Whitekit and Hollowkit." Aquaspear only replied with an 'aww.' DarkMoss looked across the clearing again. She saw Quailkit, Snowkit and Lillykit stoped mid stalk. DarkMoss acted like she didn't see them. She continued to talk to Aquaspear.

She kept her ears pricked for any sign of the kits getting closer. After a few moments she glanced back over. Snowkit was crouching down into a lunging position. The other two was still stalking up to where Snowkit was, which was only a fox length away. Taking another look out of the corner of her eye. Snowkit was wiggling her haunches. Before she could lunge at DarkMoss, DarkMoss thrusted her hind legs down and twisted her body. She landed right behind the kit, causing her white fur to stand up in alarm.

"How did you know we were stalking you?" Snowkit sat down, her fur still stood on end.
"You where in plane sight. I could've seen you for a few tree-lengths away."
"Oh." Quailkit mewed. The kits stayed quite for a moments.
"Look out! It's a fox!" Lillykit squeaked.
"Nope there is two of us!" Aquaspear heaved herself to her paws. The two she-cats snarled and snapped at the kits as they threw made up blows at their muzzles.

"DarkMoss, Ashstar wants you." Thistle trotted over from the leader's den.
"I'll come back as soon as I can, okay?" DarkMoss padded over to the leader's den, the kits paused their game with an 'aww' before lunging on Aquaspear.

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