Payne. Hair Flip. Wow.

[J I N G O]

"Yes. They're apprentices now-- training to be warriors." Dustcloud mewed, letting her fur lie flat again. Her kits would be safer when they learned how to fend for themselves.

[amaterasu]

"You must be proud." Demyx sneered at her.

Suddenly a brown and white tom entered into the den, stopping a fight from breaking out.

"My name's Rowanblaze," he said to Demyx and the sleeping Axel, "I'm here to check you for fleas and ticks. We don't want them in camp."

Demyx narrowed his eyes at the tom, but Rowanblaze wasn't intimidated. He walked over and started to push his paws through the toms golden fur.

[J I N G O]

Briarpetal followed Rowanblaze into the den with some mouse bile in case the rogues really were flea and tick infested. She put it down for a moment to ask, "Is he going to attack me if I wake him up?" pointing her tail to Axel.

[amaterasu]

"Hm," Demyx said, staring at the red tom, "Probably not. I'll do it though."
He reached out with a hind paw and started to prod Axel.
"Hey, Hey Axel! Wake up!"

"Ugh," Axel groaned. The tom stretched and blinked open his green eyes. "What is it?" he asked angrily.

"Checking for fleas and ticks." Rowanblaze replied, clawing a flea on Demyx.

[J I N G O]

Briarpetal nodded her thanks to Demyx and began to paw through Axel's fur, searching for fleas and ticks. She killed a couple of fleas, quickly and put some mouse bile on a tick that she found. When the yucky bug thing fell off of the tom, she quickly crunched it.

[amaterasu]

Axel shooks his fur after it was touched with mouse bile. He narrowed his eyes at Briarpetal, but didn't say anything.

"I think you're finished for now," Rowanblaze said, "I'll send the apprentices to check you every day, and Briarpetal can look after you once in a while."

[J I N G O]

Briarpetal nodded her head and picked up the wad of mouse bile again. She gave a quick blink to Dustcloud that screamed GOOD LUCK. She wouldn't want to be the one guarding these grumpy gills.

[amaterasu]

Grumpy gills.

Rowanblaze exited the den, not looking back. He didn't appreciate that he always had to look after the rogues that came in here. It upset him.

Axel rolled over so that he was on his back. He closed his eyes, but it was hard to tell if he was sleeping or not.

Demyx angrily curled up. He didn't like then treating him like he couldn't take care of himself.

[J I N G O]

Dustcloud had watched the going-on's from the sidelines. She didn't really want to say anything because it seemed like Demyx was now in a sour mood. And it looked like Axel was going back to bed. Lazy ass.

[amaterasu]

Suddenly Axel rolled over so that he was sitting on his paws. "Do you hear that?" he asked.

"Hear what?" Demyx mewed, not actually caring.

Suddenly an explosion of kits entered the elders den! "Attack!" one kit screamed, and they jumped on to Demyx and Axel.

Demyx leapt up and yowled, not expecting this. Axel on the other hand, just let the kits attack him. He was rather amused.

[J I N G O]

Dustcloud even jumped at the invasion. She let out a small mrrow of laughter before calling out, "Kits, kits!" and pulling them off of the rogue cats. Tigerkit clung hotly onto Demyx, not wanting to let go. Dustcloud grabbed the scruff of her neck and lightly pulled the little she-kit off of Demyx. "Don't you know that rogues are dangerous? Do you want to end up like Applepaw, Blazepaw and Swiftpaw? They made it back... but who's to say you will!" Dustcloud meowed, with fake menace in her voice. Willow's half of the kits looked up at the queen, wide-eyed.

[amaterasu]

Demyx shook his fur when the kits toppled off of him. He backed away from them with narrowed eyes and kind of hid behind Axel.

"Why yes," Axel purred smoothly, "Maybe you should all return back to your mothers. They wouldn't want you to get caputured by rogues and never come back."

Crystal's kits went running out of the nursery, scared for their lives.

[J I N G O]

Willow's kits also ran out of the nursery, but Tigerkit gave Demyx one more bat on the nose with her front paw before retreating back to her mother.

Dustcloud let out a mrrow of laughter at the kits. They were so funny. And the rogues couldn't really kidnap them. And if they did, ThunderClan would eat them for breakfast the very next day. So yeah.

[amaterasu]

Demyx glared after Tigerkit. He did not like that kit.

Axel laughed at Tigerkit. Demyx in pain was amusement to him. He liked Tigerkit. Maybe one day he could mentor her. Yeah, like that's gonna happen soon.

Axel curled back up and closed his eyes.

Demyx walked up to Dustcloud and hissed, "You queens obviously don't take much care of your kits. They wander around and get kidnapped and attack cats three times as big as they are!"

[J I N G O]

Dustcloud lashed her tail back and forth at the sudden hostility towards her. "They've got warrior instincts. They know who doesn't belong." she hissed at the tom, narrowing her eyes into slits. Don't diss the kits.