LIONBLAZE IS HAVING TROUBLE TELLING CINDERPAW HOW HE FEELS ABOUT HER. SO HE SEEKS ADVICE FROM SEVERAL CLANMATES, WITH TERRIBLE RESULTS.
" Hey, Cinderheart. I have this feeling about you, and I just thought that maybe if I told you then maybe- Darn it!" Lionblaze growled to himself, his tail snapping back and forth in frustration. How could he ever admit to Cinderheart how he felt about her when all he could come up with is crap! " I will never get this myself." he snarled, digging his claws into the dark, moist forest soil. Then he got an idea. " That's it! Not by myself, but there must be somecat in the clan who knows something about this! My quest begins...now!"
CAT #1 BRAMBLECLAW
" Hey, uh, Brambleclaw? Can I talk to you?" Lionblaze asked, poking his head around the bracken fronds that Brambleclaw was sunning himself behind. " Yeah, sure, whatever." he meowed, rolling over. " What is it?"
" Weellll..." Lionblaze hesitated, then jumped in with all four paws. " I sorta like this one she-cat, who is an AMAZING warrior, and I, uh, need some help telling her that." " You're asking me?" Brambleclaw meowed, surprised." Well, I...yes."
" Huh." Brambleclaw meowed thoughtfully. " Well, it depends. Who is she?" Lionblaze felt his fur grow hot. " Uh, do you really need to know?"
"Yes."
" Ah. Um, it's, uh, Cinderheart." Lionblaze stumbled a little bit over her name. " Oh, yes. I thought I noticed you padding after her. Hmm. Well, when I was a young warrior, and fell in love with Squirrelflight, I-"
" Oops gotta go bye!" Lionblaze got the heck out of there. The last thing he needed was a "when I was a young warrior" speeches. They made him sleepy, and he needed to be everything even distantly related to alert if he was going to admit his feelings to Cinderheart.
CAT #2 CLOUDTAIL
" You have to be romantic!" Cloudtail meowed authoritivly. Lionblaze listened, a tiny bit worried about his advice. " Try lines like these. Ahem. ' So, Cinderheart, how about a mouse together at midnight?"
" Um, that's not really what I'm looking for-"
" Or, ' Oh, you missed a tuft of fur between your ears. Let me get that.'"
" I don't think-"
" ' Oh, beautiful Cinderheart, your eyes shine like stars and your fur is softer than duck feathers!"
" She really wouldn't-"
" Ooh, or my favorite: ' My love for you is deeper than the sun-drown-place, and it runs faster than the swiftest river, and flares in my heart like a wildfire! Oh, Cinderheart...!"
Lionblaze left Cloudtail to his romantic ramblings, trying not to gag. " He's about as useful as a thorn in my pad."
CAT #12 FIRESTAR
" Well, my love-life started with a beautiful medicine cat who died by Clawface of ShadowClan, and then Sandstorm, even though she started by hating me, became my devoted, spirited, and fierce mate! Does that help?"
" Ah, no."
CAT #19 DUSTPELT
" Ridicule! Ridicule everycat! RIDICULE THEM AAALLLL!"
" Uh, heh heh, bye."
CAT #23 JAYFEATHER
" I fell in love with a long-dead cat who walks the stars with the Tribe of Rushing Water's ancestors-!"
" Why did I think you'd be any help?"
CAT #38 PURDY " Purdy? Do you have any experience with she-cats?" " Eh?"
Desperate, Lionblaze walks up to Cinderheart and meows, " Say a tom liked you, how would you prefer he acted?"
" Like himself, of course!"
" Oh, okay." As Lionblaze turned to leave, Cinderheart gently tapped him with her tail. " Um, if your not busy, would you like to go night hunting?"
" ABSOLUTELY!"
SEE? IT ALL TURNED OUT OKAY!