| abstract | - And don't forget to read the Allegiances before reading! _____________________________________________________________________________________ It was late leaf-fall and the trees around the Twolegplace where starting to have their leaves float off the trees. The outside garden was cold, too cold for any of the kittypets to be outside. Except for one- "Holly, come outside!" A large gray tom cat yowled. There was no answer. "Holly?" The cat meowed again. The tom cat hopped off the fence and trotted back through the small door. The tom cat spotted his nestmate in the window of the inside nest. "Holly, what are you doing? Don't you wanna come outside? I could hear other cats in the distance." "No, Hermine, I don't. You know I hate the cold. Don't you ever listen to me? And I don't give a rat's tail about other cats. If they weren't the other house cats, I don't care." Holly retorted hotly to Hermine. Hermine felt a hot flash of anger stir within him. "I don't know what's gotten into you, but I surely don't like it! You-" Hermine was cut off by a loud screeching noise from outside the nest. In the window Holly obviously saw something Hermine didn't. Her back was arched, her neck fur was bristled and her lips were drawn back in a snarl. "H- He- Hermine!" Holly hissed, her paws trembling. "What is it? What do you see, Holly?" Hermine wanted to dart through the door and take on whatever Holly saw, but he made sure he was frozen to the floor beneath him. "Strange cats! In our garden!" Holly yowled. "Oh, no! This isn't gonna happen, not today!" "Can't you ever just be good? You're always looking for a fight! M- Maybe they're looking for someone, or something. . ." Holly mewed, trembling. "You don't sound too convinced." Hermine hissed. At that moment four cats exploded through the small door. They where hissing and snarling. "This is the end, kittypet!" The largest one said. They seemed to not see Hermine, because they all headed straight for Holly up on the window. "Holly!"
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