A loud clap of thunder echoed as the rain began to ease. When lightning struck, the shadows of two almost full grown cats were seen on the wall of a strange Twoleg den.

Both cats rushed in, shaking water off their pelts.

"Another moment in the rain and I will have a fit!" one of the cats exclaimed.

"Woody," the another cat sighed, "we can't stay here long. What if the Twolegs saw us and bring us in? You never know what the Twolegs would do to us."

"There's nothing to be worried about," Woody insisted. "The Twolegs here were long gone. Smoke, let's just stay here until the rain stops."

Smoke flinched when the Twoleg den suddenly litted up. "There are Twolegs here!" he hissed. "We have to go now!"

"In this rain?" Woody protested.

Smoke's reply was drowned out by Twoleg voices.

"What are they doing?" Woody yowled.

"They are doing something to a cat!" Smoke's voice rose in panic as he looked through some sort of clear stone.

"Well, do something!" Woody called.

"I can't," his friend sounded defeated. "Even if we try, we will be killed as well."

Before Woody could speak, they heard a yowl. A yowl of rage and fury.
Smoke narrowed his eyes, trying to understand what the Twolegs were saying.

"... not... supposed... happen," were the words he managed to understand.
"What are the Twolegs saying?" Woody asked, his voice low.

"Something's not supposed to happe-" Smoke's answer was interrupted by yet another yowl.

A black and gray tom appeared in front of them, his pelt covered with many scars.

Without warning, the cat lunged at them.

"Run!" Woody screeched, barely escaping the cat's hungry grasp.

Smoke broke into a run, for his life. The mysterious cat chased after them, he ran so fast that Smoke wonder if that was even possible.

"Woody, come on!" he yowled.

"I can't!" the brown tom gasped. "I'm not fast enough-"

Woody's words were cut off as the cat pounced onto him with a snarl.

"Save yourself!" he cried.

As Smoke climbed up a tree, he caught a glimpse of the cat biting on Woody's throat.

"He's dead," he whispered in horror.

Without another word, Smoke dropped down from the tree and ran away from the cat who had just killed his friend.