Run to the Shadows

This is a new story I just thought up. It is based in a different world, so some things are different. I hope you enjoy it :) -Firebird 20:03, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

Important Terms:
Lupus: wolves the size of horses and are of all different colors, and have retractable claws. Usually travel in groups of 2-4 (Plural: Lupii)

 Renard:  black foxes

Tigris : fierce tigers the size of Golden Retrievers; run in packs (Plural: Tigree)

 Cattus:  just like cats, but are the size of beagles (Plural: Cattii)

Monachus: looks like a mixture between a monkey and a human. About 4 foot in height with fur and tails. Fur and eye color ranges from blck to snow white. Live high in the trees, out of sight of predators (Plural: Monachii)

 Red Water Lily:  a blood red water lily that releases pollen and a thick fragrance that causes a strange illness; has been extinct for ages

Red Death: an illness caused by the Red Water Lily; only affects the Cattus; causes red blisters and bumps on the skin, bloody crust on the nose, bloodshot eyes, tiny pupils, eventually causes death

Blue Gum Willow: a blue-leave weeping willow tree whose thick, sticky blue sap cures Red Death

Note: All plant-life is huge compared to what it's like now. Year old trees are about twenty feet tall, and the bushes and underbrush have grown to scale with that. The colors of the plants are very vibrant, and sometimes colors you would not usually think to see on plants.

Characters:
 Red:  ginger she-cattus with amber eyes and white front paws. Sibling: Blue

 Blue:  blue-gray she-cattus with blue eyes and black back paws. Sibling: Red

Conch: pinkish-white she-cattus with green eyes

 Hop:  small black tom with amber eyes and gray legs

Star: silver-gray tom with blue-gray eyes. A sort of leader

 Slither:  brown tabby elder tom with snake-like yellow eyes

 Crank:  black she-lupus with green eyes

Glass: white he-lupus with dark amber eyes

 Clap:  gold he-lupus with blue eyes

 Rivera:  lone white she-tigris with blue eyes

Prologue:
The world, in a way, did come to an end in 2012.

Nuclear explosions, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes destroyed everything. All species were wiped out, including humans. The ash from the volcanoes blocked out the sun. There was no life on Earth.

In this darkness, the world went through a rebirth.

Bacteria spawned, plant life sprouted from the ashes of this beaten world, birds flew in the smokey skies, insects crawled on the rocks, fish swam in the seas. The Earth, over centuries, millenia, became alive again with new creatures. Some were similar to tose of the old world, most completely new. All creatures had their own ways of communicating, but there was one universal language that all could understand. This is the world of the New Clans.

A world without humans.

Chapter 1:
Our Clan of twenty moved quietly through the thick underbrush, keeping the green-blue lake in sight. The chatter of the Monachii high in the trees above us masked the sounds of our pawsteps on the old, decaying leaves. My sister, Blue, stayed close to me as we made our way to the cave.

"Almost there," a cattus whispered infront of me.

This cave was to be our new camp, as the Tigree had moved too close, and we could not afford to lose yet another cattus to their overly aggressive claws.

"There!"

The Clan, on a signal that would go unnoticed to the rival factions of cattus, broke into a run and closed the gap to the cave.