Not an illusion..(Ice+ kits)

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Moonlight was happily outside her den. The kits where exploring out side. Another new member had joined the family. Sparkle was playing tag with Talon and Sparks was with Noche. Lily was out on hunting lesson with Clawtooth and Moonlight was relaxing...She knew that some how her kits Flairpelt, Crystallight , and Bluejay and Rosekit where all right. Ice still came into her head every now and then and she would be saddened for he was the only one she didn't know how he was getting along..

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Newcomer

Talon was playing with the other kits, laughing at the joy he felt. But then he stopped the game, raising his nose to scent the air. There was a new smell in the air, and he looked around to see where it was coming from. He could hear pawsteps coming closer. Who was it?

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I Remember You

Ice had taken his adoptive brother's tip and wandered back toward the gorge. From there, it hadn't been hard to find the scent of many cats, kits and older ones, and guessed that this was where Moonlight had gone to live. He kept padding on until the young tom came to a entrance of a den where kits were romping near a familiar she-cat. Ice purred happily at the sight of her. "Moonlight!" The pale tabby bounded over to her with his tail held high in the air. "Remember me?"

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Moonlight looked up to see Ice..wait Ice he had returned! Moonlight shot right up and ran to him. She wrapped herself around him holding herself as close to him as possible "Of course I do!" she mewed tears starting to come from her eyes.

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So Far Away

Ice laughed happily when the black she-cat wrapped around him. He nuzzled her with a purr. "I missed you, Moonlight!" The little tom licked his foster mother's ear. "I went back to RiverClan, but you weren't there. Flairpelt told me to find you out here."

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Clawtooth and Lily had come back from their lesson, Lily padded over to Ice and purred. "Hello Ice, It is great to meet you. I'm Lily." she smiled sweetly at him and sat down, "I have heard many things about you!"

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Past Coming Back

Ice pulled his head away from his mother for a moment to face the other cats. The unfamiliar faces made him feel a little awkward, but he gave them a smile. "Um, hi." He blinked at the she-cat who'd spoken- Lily, she said her name was. "Really?" The tabby looked up at Moonshine. "So I guess I was missed?" He said it jokingly, but was glad he hadn't been forgotten while he was away.

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The black tom was coming over to MoonLight, his muscles being shown underneath his short-furred pelt. He looked healthy and happy, for it was clearly shown in his bright neon-green eyes.

He was still clumsy, for he was still topling over one side to the other, looking like he might be a drunk little cat. But he wasn't, it was his nature.

He was near, when he saw an unfamilar cat. He had RiverClan scent all over him, oh, Noche remembered the scents rather well.

He paused right behind his mother, his lips curling back in a snarl, while his fur went up high. He wasn't there for the whole conversation that they had, and he wasn't even going to bother to know who this tom was.

He ignored how the other cats looked all goo-goo-ga-ga at him, he wanted this tom dead, for he didn't like clan cats. Not one bit.

"Leave my family alone!"

He growled, soon pouncing at him, landing next to him, but his paw still made it across to some point at Ice, hopefully.

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Let It Flow

The suddenness of the attack gave Ice no time to evade the tom, and with a yowl of shock he found himself being thrown to the ground. It took him a moment to get over the surprise, but he was quick to respond. The claws slashed the fur on his face without reaching the skin beneath, but still made pale tabby hairs fly from his face. His eyes narrowed with fury. "What's your problem?" he spat with fur bristling. He didn't even know this cat and he was attacking him! Is he one of Moonlight's kits? He's nothing like her

Ice bounced right back onto his paws and flung himself at the other kit. "She was my mother before she was yours," he spat. Battle instinct seemed to kick in. The tom's claws unsheathed, as if on their own will, and slashed them wherever he thought he could manage a blow. He was ready to fight, Moonlight's kit or not.

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Lily's ears pricked at the battle sounds. She cut between the two cats and mewed, "No! Noche, this is Ice, apart of out family. He is your brother, Ice, this is Noche. He is sensitive to his new family." she looked at each tom. "Don't fight!"

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The black tom had felt the tom fly himself at him, which he let himself do this. No longer was happiness flashing in his eyes, but pure fury and confusion. He landed back on his spine, and felt his claws try to rake across his pelt, but he immediately flew his back paws against the kit's underbelly, trying to kick him off.

"You were not! You look nothing like her, at least I look like Moonlight!"

He yowled.

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Moonlight came into between them "Enough! You are both my sons yes noche looks like me but on the other hand Ice looks like clawtooth we all fit in we are family not enemies" she shouted then bringing her voice down to a clam tone. She then sat down licking both the top of there heads "Boys I love all my kits weather they look like me or not they are family speeking of which Ice would you like to meet the rest of my kits?" she asked as she signaled everyone to come over into a group. She then lined them up when they did she started with Talon, Lily and Sparkle "these are the kits that I had at the time you left they have grown so much " she mewed with a smile. She them moved on to Noche and sparks "As you just met Noche probably not in the bet of manner but yes I took in him and Sparks" she mewed then signaled for everyone to come and get to know Ice.

Moonlight sat aside with Ice "I know you heard the story of why I left and maybe I will come back someday but not now" she mewed looking to her paws. Moonlight looked Ice in the eyes "Son I believe you will make one of the finest warriors Riverclan will ever have please make me proud" she mewed with a smile and giving him a lick between his ears. "Now why don't you go meet your brothers and sisters? then say hello to your father" she mewed happily.

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Noche wasn't done, he did stop when MoonLight asked, but his fur was still fluffed up. He was lined up with the others, but he looked angry, and maybe even intimidating, at least for his size.

He snarled his teeth at Ice, his eyes narrowed.

"I don't like him. I scent Clan, and I don't like clan. Clans can go burn!"

He hissed, leaping in the air in a ball of fluffed up fur.

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Moonlight turned and stopped Noche "please Noche can I have a word with you?" she asked her eyes sincere. She then walked past and waited over by a tree for him to join her.

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The tom let her pass, staring at Ice with threatening eyes, before turning around to follow. His tail tip slapped across Ice's face, and padded after MoonLight.

He sat down infront of her, his tail tip twitching with anger.

"What?"

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Something New

When Noche had thrown Ice off his belly, the tom had managed to land on his paws. But before he had been able to fight back, Moonlight had cut in. Family or not he would have been willing to give the kit a few cuffs to remember him by. He mewed a hello to the other kits, glad to know that not all of them wanted to attack him right then and there. A twinge of jealousy hit home. These were Moonlight's real kits. He was just an outsider.

The tom frowned when he heard that Moonlight wasn't coming back. He had hoped that maybe he could convince her to return to RiverClan. Everything had been going so well, with Firestar letting Miraclefur, Needleheart and him back into the Clan, he'd hoped against all odds. But he smiled at her praise; he was a glutton for it, and he'd grown up receiving it from the various she-cats he'd spent time with. It made him feel powerful and great, but of course he was still just a kit.

But then, of course, it all came back to the black kit, Noche. Ice's blue eyes narrowed into cold slits at his remarks, and he wrinkled his nose. "Sorry to tell you, but you don't smell like the poppy fields, yourself," he scoffed with a flick of his ears. This tom didn't scare him- few things did. They must have been the same age, judging by size, but the pale tabby tom still had the feeling of grander over this cat in terms of strength, whether it was real or imaginary. "Go jump in the river. Oh, that's right. I bet you don't know how to swim." Ice didn't either, of course, but Noche didn't need to know that.

He was glad when Moonlight took the tom-kit aside. His tail was still twitching with irritation. What? Just because he smelled like RiverClan, the tom hated him? It seemed a bit hasty to him. He return the tom's glare with one of his own, then met his tail slap with the unsheathed claws of a forepaw to avoid the blow. So immature.