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Moira stopped in her tracks, and slid a little in the mud that was under her paws. The voice sounded all too familiar. "What? Who's there? Show yourself, you little rat!" She yelled through clenched teeth, still haveing a good hold on the kits.
"Well, let's not get to hasty, here." the voice responded, "I don't want to hurt you, I just want what's mine."
Moira looked around frantically, trying to see or catch the scent of the perpatraitor. It was no use. The rain was falling faster and harder now, making it impossible to even see her own kits. In he last resort, she hunched up her back, and shot ahead into the darkness. Before she got far, something hard hit her in the flank, sending the two kits sprawling across the mud-ridden ground. Now the two kits were fully awake. "Momma, where are you? What's happening?" said the female of the two. Moira was still short of breath after the impact of whatever hit her. "Momma, are you all right?" was the reply of the male kit. Moira collected all of her strenght, and brought herself to her paws, limping towards her kits. "Momma's all right," she managed to gasp. "Momma!" they both said in unison. They both ran towards her, pushing their pelts against her warm body. "Momma, what's happening?" one of them asked, as Moira wrapped two of her tails around each kit. "Well, Daddy and I need to leave, and you're coming with us," she said, trying to say calm, still trying to locate her attacker.
"But where's Daddy?" the other kit asked, "and why do we have to leave-"
"SHUSH!" she told her kits, bending over them a little more, "Something attacked me, and I don't know where it is, or what it's doing. See if you can help Mommy find it."
One of the kits instantly broke away from his mother's side and started to try and sniff the air, "I can't smell anything, Momma. It's raining too hard. And I don't think I can use my fire here either."
"Todd, get back over here, now!" Moira half-yelled, half-whispered. The kit named Todd obeyed his mother and padded back to his mother's side.
"Well, I think we've danced enough for now," said the voice again.
"What do you want?" the other kit yelled at the stranger.
"April, Todd, I want you to not talk right now, Mommy can handle this."
"No, the kit's right. Please appologize my rude entrance. But surely, you have figured out who I am by now?"
The figure then walked out of the shadows and into Moira's line of vision.
Moira suddenly felt her heart skip a beat, "YOU!"

TO be continued!! ...again