Nightmare
Ivypool woke up in all to familiar forest. At first she thought it was the ThunderClan forest, but then she recognized the mist swirling in between the trees and the black oozing river winding through the forest before her. Oh, StarClan help me. How am I back? She thought in a panicked frenzy.
"Oh, hello. What have we here?" A she-cats voice called from somewhere near Ivypool. She looked around frantically and finally spotted two glowing yellow eyes in the moonless undergrowth. "Finally come back?"
"M-Mapleshade?" Ivypool asked cautiously.
"Why yes." said the tortishell she-cat who had now fully emerged from the undergrowth.
"Why did you b-bring me h-here?" Ivypool stammered, unable to hide her fear.
"Why, whatever do you mean?" The sinister she-cat meowed in mock confusion. "You came here of your own doing."
"N-no! I would never come here! Leave me alone!" She meowed, gaining a slight edge of confidence in her tone.
"Traitor!" Mapleshade growled. Suddenly yowls and chants began to echo through the air and across the clearing. Cats of all shapes and sizes started to slink from the shadows to form a circle around Ivypool. Every one of them had dark glowing eyes that glinted with malice and hate.
"Traitor! Traitor!" They yowled into the starless sky. Every cat then leaped towards her in unison, their claws and teeth glittering in the light of their eyes. Ivypool ducked her head and waited for claws and teeth to meet her flesh and tear away to her bones.
"Ivypool! Get up!" A voice called from above her. She slowly lifted her head to find that she was back in her nest in the warriors den in the ThunderClan camp. "You've got to go on dawn patrol with me!"
Lionblaze was standing over her nest and gently prodding her with his golden forepaw. Ivypool got up and shaked off her dream
It was just a dream. Just a dream… Just a dream… she thought, trying to calm herself and steady her shaking limbs. Just a nightmare.