TIGERCLAW'S TALE
My first Fan Fic. Sorry about the clan alliengences! I know that this doesnt make any sense if your eading Bluestars prophecy, but deal with it!
Tigerpaw pounced at the mouse. It escaped his paws by only by a few mouse lengths. Whitepaw snorted behind him.
"You missed everything that moves Tigerpaw!" he taunted. Dappletail cuffed him over the ear.
"Whitepaw! You were a young apprentice too, you couldn't even catch a leaf before it fell to the ground." She scolded.
"I wasn't as bad as him! Besides, his sisters can catch more than he can! He's old enough he should be able to catch anything, but he cant even catch my tail!" Whitepaw mewled. Tigerpaw's two sisters looked over from where they where play fighting at the mention of their names.
"Did you call us?" Daisypaw asked, pulling out some moss from her brown tabby pelt.
"No, he's just making fun of Tigerpaw. I really wish you'd stop that, Whitepaw!" Ripplepaw was stalking towards Daisypaw again. "He'll get better."
"No doubt," Tawnyspots, the deputy, was lying in a patch of sun licking his paw. "He's my apprentice and I intend to train him, now Whitepaw, why don't you go back to the nursery with Snowfur unless you change your attitude."
Whitepaw snorted and stalked away with his skinny little tail held high. Tigerpaw looked up at Tawnyspots. He always took Tigerpaw's side, even if Whitepaw was right. He had always wanted to be like him, at a high point of power, no enemies.
"Alright Ripplepaw, show me that stalking move again."
His tortoiseshell sister began stalking towards him, but Tigerpaw didn't pay attention when she pounced. What if he was a leader someday? Tigerstar the great. . . Ripplepaw crashed into his side pushing him into the ground.
"Excellent stalking Ripplepaw, Tigerpaw pay attention a little more and maybe you'll get it."
Tigerpaw walked into the nursery with a bundle of moss. A little bundle of fur crashed into his side nearly knocking him over. He dropped the moss and looked down.
"Tigerpaw!" Darkkit mewled. "Longkit! Yellowkit! It's Tigerpaw!" Longkit and his sister bounded over. "Tigerpaw! Tigerpaw! Teach us a battle move!"
"Okay, okay, let me think. . . Alright, use that stalking move I showed you and pounce on that moss over there." He instructed.
Darkkit pounced sending bits of moss at Longkit and Darkkit.
"Playing with kits, I see," The voice made Tigerpaw jump. Whitepaw was flicking his tail back and forth letting Stripedkit play with it. "The only cats you can beat."
"No he's not playing with us, he's teaching us battle moves!" Yellowkit hissed.
"Oh, show me then." Whitepaw was flicking his tail right in Spottedkit's face. Yellowkit stalked around the nursery and pounced on Whitepaw knocking him off his paws.
"Very good Yellowkit," Tigerpaw tried to sound like Tawnyspot's, but he couldn't supress a mrrow of laughter, "As for you, Whitepaw, maybe you should keep practicing."
"At least I wasn't trying to fight!" He spat pushing Yellowkit off him and stalking away. He looked back over his shoulder adding, "Yellowkit may become a warrior before you, by the looks of it."
Tigerpaw couldn't stand it anymore. He pounced, landing squarely on Whitepaw's back. They tumbled out of the nursery and into the clearing. Tigerpaw had the advantage of size, although he was much younger than Whitepaw. He pinned him down and slashed at his face, missing by a mouse tail. Whitepaw slashed at Tigerpaw's ear getting his claw stuck and then slashing at Tigerpaw's nose, while Tigerpaw clawed viscously at his stomach making his paw's turn red. Before he could do anymore damage, he was lifted by his scruff and dropped down. He looked around to see Tawnyspots above him. Snowfur and her sister, Bluefur, where licking Whitepaw's reddened belly fur.
"What were you thinking?" Tawnyspots calm tone was now angry.
"I. . ." Tigerpaw was ashamed of himself. Before he could say anything else. Rosetail ran squealing out of the nursery.
"My kit!"She squealed. "She's, injured!" Yellowkit! What had happened to Yellowkit after Whitepaw pushed her? "It's all his fault!" Rosetail mewled flicking her bushytail at Whitepaw with her bushy tail. "It's all his fault."
"Whats wrong?" Featherwhisker asked coming over to Rosetail.
"Yellowkit is hanging in the nursery! By all the brambles in her pelt." Hanging?
Snowfur looked up, "How do you know?"
"Longkit and Darkkit said 'Whitepaw did this'" Rosetail was now yowling in terror for her kit.
"I'll get her to the medicine cat clearing, Tigerpaw and Whitepaw might as well go too." Featherwhisker said, trying to calm down the queen."Just make sure Longkit is okay."
She nodded and padded back inside.
Tawnyspots touched Tigerpaw on the shoulder with his tail tip, making him jump, he had completely forgotten the deputy's precense.
"You were protecting Yellowkit, your not in trouble after all." He mewled softly, then he walked away, towads the Highrock.