"And this is tall tree." Raindrop finished. Ivykit stared, her mouth gaped in awe. It was the largest tree she had ever seen.

"Woah!" Lynxkit squealed. "I'm  going to go climb it!" She dashed off towards it.

"No!" Raindrop drop shrieked. She ran off, catching up to the kit easily and dragging her by her scruff back to Ivykit. 

"Never, ever  do that again!" She hissed as she dropped Lynxkit who landed with an "oof".

Ivykit stared at her sister who was muttering angrily.

"Let's go back to camp." Raindrop suggested.

As the kin padded back to camp, they heard angry hisses. Raindrop stiffened. She pushed her two kits into a bush and crouched on top of them. Lynxkits meows of protests was cut off as Raindrop slapped her tail across their mouths.

"Hush, little ones." She whispered. Not making a sound, Ivykit peered in to see outside the bushes. Five cats were hissing at another five cats. Ivykit gagged at their stinks.

"We are hiders! " one of the cats snarled. His cats howled agreement. The other five cats growled. "How do we know? You might be seekers!" One of them hissed, taking a challenging step forward.

"We would have slaughtered you by now!" A cat from the other side snorted.

With no hesitation, the others let out caterwhauls of fury and leaped at the five cats. Ready, they clawed and bit them.

Shrieks, hisses and growls filled the sky, sending birds squawking into the trees. Lynxkit let out a gasp of horror, Raindrop had to cover her eyes with her tail. Ivykit nudged it out the way and blood stung her nose. She shrank back into the warmth of her mothers tail.

"Retreat! MistClan, Retreat!" She heard a yowl, followed by an angry, muffled hiss. "You aren't allowed to retreat! Either death or life!" There was a screech, followed by four more, but all were abruptly cut off. There was panting, sighs, heavy breathing and moans. Ivykit flattened her ears. Paw steps sounded, growing fainter and fainter five of the cats padded into the distance.