Fire is not always the little angel most people think she is you know- this shows how even the best of us can go astray and get confused sometimes... and why we need good friends to set us strait.
It was about a week later that Jade, Fireheart, Jako and Creamy crept up into the barn where they had had their sledding adventure a few days before.
“Are you sure about this Fire?” Jade whispered worriedly.
“Of course I am! This cat has no right to order us around! We rule and protect this land, she owes us service!” Fire hissed back to her friend.
“Besides Jako and Fire can turn into living fireballs if we need them too- now that would frighten anybody away!” Creamy said confidently.
“I guess… But doesn’t it only work if you’re doing what the White Cat thinks is right?” Jade countered.
“Then the White Cat thinks stealing pies is OK, then? Don’t worry Jadie it’ll work. And why would the White Cat want a strange cat wandering around our territory? She might even be a spy!” Fire assured her friend.
“I still don’t know… remember when…” began Jade but she was interrupted by Jako.
“Are we gonna get moving or stand here till our paws freeze? Jade quit worrying and lets get a move on!” he said irritably.
At that moment they heard a devious chuckle. All four kits froze and instinctively formed into a protective back-to-back circle.
“W-who’s there?” asked Fire, her breath billowing in front of her in the cold night air.
“You foolish kits! You dare to anger the mighty Miranda you will suffer the consequences! Leave now and don’t come back and even now you shall be spared!” a booming voice said.
With squeaks of terror the four kits started to scatter. Then Fire looked to the side of the wall and saw a tube-like structure that was connected to a hollow curved metal cylinder. Behind it was a hole, just large enough for a cat to fit through. Then with a yowl Fire shot after her siblings and friend.
“Its just that cat!” she cried to them when she found them huddled outside like terrified newborns, “She’s got a sound-magnifier in there and has been using it to scare us!”
“Well then maybe its time for us to scare her!” Creamy hissed furiously. Taking out his flint he struck it close to Fire’s paws. Immediately a spark caught- as if drawn to the fiery kitten’s pelt- but instead of leaving Fireheart unharmed as it normally did the small orange she kitten gave a cry of pain and shoved her paw into a snow-drift to relieve the unfamiliar pain that had just lanced though her forepaw.
“What happened?” Asked Creamy quizzically.
“What happened? Nothing happened you stupid furball! Except that I burnt my paw!” Fire hissed angrily.
“Our powers must not be working.” Muttered Jako.
“Oh ya think?” Fire growled.
“I knew they wouldn’t.” Jade said softly, “Stealing pies is one thing Fire- terrorizing innocent cats is another. At any rate we get punished when we steal because its wrong, this is something nobody except us will ever know about- maybe the White Cat is trying to tell us that he knows too and that we need to stop.”
They stared at the young dark-furred cat who seemed to have more knowledge than any of them even though she was the same age. Jade’s words made sense and it also made the kits feel guilty about what they had been doing.
“Maybe we should go home and tell Mama and Mozart.” Jako suggested quietly. They all agreed and set back out silently for Reandalawo.
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