The rain had finally stopped, reminding the soaked clans on why they were here. Sky shook her cloud pelt lightly, and jumped to the wet ground with hunger. The Clan of Clouds and Forest started to descend from their tree branches and came to Sky and Crimson to see what was next. “I’m starving,” a creature from the Clan of Forest growled, twitching his ears to the creatures behind him. Crimson narrowed his orange eyes, “every creature is, Acorn,” he replied dryly.

Sky clawed the moist earth beneath her, they were deep in the Clan of Water’s territory. They had to find them immediately. “We are still in a territory that we have no knowledge of,” Sky reminded them, wiping her cloud tail over the long grass.

Creatures began to send unappreciative calls;

“We know they live in water! Why have territory if they can eat fish?”

“They have boundaries for a reason, don’t they?”

“I say we just take what we can get, there’s tons of us anyway”

Sky couldn’t help but growl, who knew creatures could get so annoyed when they were hungry. Crimson’s fur bristled, “these creatures have boundaries. When there’s boundaries, that means we cannot steal from it. Have you all lost your sense?” He growled lowly. Sky flicked her tail over his forelegs, “we’ll decide what to do,” she told the famished creatures.

Crimson followed her behind the oak tree, sitting in a patch of dew covered ferns as he waited for Sky to join him. Sky sat down, looking back at the two grumpy clans. “What do you think?” She breathed, tapping a paw over the ground to show him that she needed a quick answer. “You know boundaries Sky, we fought over them for years. We can’t just take what we want from their territory. They marked boundaries for a reason,” Crimson answered her silence. Sky twitched, sheathing and unsheathing her claws as she looked back at the clans, “our clans have a point though, if they live underwater, why hunt above ground? They can’t bring it down there.” Sky stated.

Crimson blinked, surprised on Sky’s response, but finally sighed and spoke, “ my Clan does eat shrubs and ferns” he muttered, “we can eat those, but it won’t satisfy us like prey.”

Sky twitched, “you eat plants? Never mind, I say the Clan of Clouds just take a bit of prey, your clan can…” She made a gross face, “you can eat plants. But not my clan.” Sky uttered, blinking her unchangeable eyes. Crimson made a slight glare, “I feel like you’re breaking multiple things.” He told her, rising to his insecure paws and padding off with a flick of his tail. Sky watched him go, narrowing her eyes.

She drove herself back to her clan, “we’ll hunt, but you mustn’t achieve much, share your finding with each other-“

A sharp paw touched Sky’s side. She yanked around and growled when it was Crimson. “What.” She hissed, lashing her tail out to show she wasn’t happy with him.

“Don’t you hear that?”

Sky shut her mouth and reached out to her surroundings. Somewhere near, she could hear voices, and not the clan’s. “Who’s that?” She whispered to Crimson, unsheathing her claws as the voices drew nearer. Crimson didn’t answer and instead started to snarl at a shaking bush.

Five lithe shapes emerged from the wet bushes, their faces glazed with shock and hostility. They’re scaled pelts had tons of vibrant colors, with long fins along the sides of their faces. The creature in the front, stepped out of the shadows, baring her teeth into a snarl. Her eyes were narrowed into hostile slits, her fins quivered as she saw how many creatures there was. “The Clan of Clouds and Forest I presume?” She snapped, her claws unsheathed. Sky and Crimson walked forward, reflecting the hostile gaze. “Yes” the two leaders told them,

“and we’ve come to deal with you.”