Guardians of the five Dimensions
Clans in the Forest
By Raineyes
{pictures of several clan cats, the three and golden tabby with blue eyes}
Chapter 1- The Faerie Lord Erin's POV
Erin looked up just in time to hear Anai's joke and laugh along with the others. She turned back to her book. She was in the book club. She and her friends ,Laurel, Anai, Kaylen, and Keelie, were the club. A lot of people called their group that because they each had a series that they were each obsessed with. Erin's was Warriors by Erin Hunter, Anai's was Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto, Keelie's was Rave Master by Hiro Mashima, Laurel's was The Guardians of Ga'hoole by Kathryn Lasky, and Kaylen's was Dragonball Z by Toriyama. Though she was she only one that moved on to other series. Now she was reading The Faerie Wars Chronicles-The Faerie Lord.
Against Hodge's furious protests, Henry bundled him into the cat carrier. "It's for you own good," he hissed, sucking one thumb where the brute had drawn blood. "You really don't want to hang around here." It was going to a pain racing off to 's house to feed Hodge in the middle of exams, but he couldn't see any alternative. He knew his mother.
As he waited for the bus, Henry thought about Charlie and what she said about not going out together any more. He was surprised how little upset he felt. He'd been close friends with Charlie ever since they were little kids ,but the romantic interest had started less than a year ago and to honest, Charlie had been keener about that the he was.
The bus journey was a nightmare. Hodge wailed all the way and several passengers looked at him as if he were committing murder. But he settled once they left the bus and by the time Henry was carrying him along 's cul-de-sac he was looking through the mesh of the carrier as if he reconised the place.
's house ,the last one on the street, was looking distinctly the worse for wear despite Henry's best efforts. Most of the trouble dated back to the days of 's own occupancy-he'd pasted brown paper on the bottom panes of the downstairs windows to prevent people looking in, seldom bothered with minor repairs and had a habit of leaving half-eaten hamburgers to rot down the side of his sofa. Now it was unoccupied, the process of decay was accelerating. Even if Henry hadn't been planning to leave, it would make sense to sell the place before it fell down.
He carried the caged Hodge to the front door and let himself in-he had his own set of keys. Then walked through to the kitchen, set the carrier on the floor and unlatched the side. Hodge stretched, looked around suspiciously, then walked slowly out.
RING! The bell rung and she snapped the book closed. The others had stopped talking and were getting their bags. She got her bag and threw away what was left of her lunch. She joined Laurel and Kaylen for math. Anai had her hair dyed pink after her favorite character in Naruto, Sakura. She had shocking blue eyes and freckles on her cheeks. Erin could see the ninth Naruto book sticking out of her bag. On the front it displayed Hyuga Neji and Hyuga Hinata with Uzumaki Naruto in the middle of them.
Kaylen was Kielee's twin so they looked exactly alike. She had short choppy brown hair with green eyes and freckles on her nose. Today she had on a skinny pink headband with a red shirt and pink shorts. In her hand she was holding Dragonball Z vol. 20. It showed Gohan, Videl, and the chibis, Goten and Trunks, on a capsule motor bike.
They walked into math they all took a seat. The club had formed a way to read in class: put the book in the desk where the teacher can't see it and read but glance up every few minutes. Erin did this and started reading again.
"Do you want your Whiskas now or would you prefer to go out the back and kill everything that moves?" Henry asked conversationally. Hodge walked to the back door and sat down facing it. He waited patiently. "So it's the killing fields, is it?" Henry said. He walked over, shot the bolt, then unlocked the back door.
Two strangers were standing on the lawn outside.
Henry frowned. He wasn't anything like as paranoid as , but the back garden was private property and he couldn't see any reason for these two to be poking around.
The man was in his mid-thirties, stockily built with a shock of red hair that was turning prematurely grey. He had on a sharp green suit and suede shoes. The girl seemed a lot younger. She might have been his daughter, except that she was dressed in a blouse, skirt, and coat that looked like they came from Oxfam.
"Can I help you?" Henry asked coolly.
It was like one of those scenes from a movie where everything goes into slow motion and movement seems to leave trails. The man turned (slowly) towards him. "Henry…?"
Erin was walking home. It was chilly and windy. It was weird because it was April and the temperature felt as if it dropped 10 degrees. She rubbed her arms. This had never happen before and she didn't want it to happen again. This morning she was sweating and now she felt the need for a wool sweater. Somehow rubbing her arms warmed her up again, though now she realized that she needed to shave her arms and probably her legs again.
She cursed under her breath. Her head was aching again. The last time it ached was this morning and now the pills she took were wearing off. What's weird was that it was the top of her head, just above her forehead that hurt. She rubbed her head and itched her spine. Today was obviously not the best of her days. Her vision began to blur and she blinked. She was probably catching a cold. Stupid weather. She saw her house and ran to it. Dropping her bag by the door, she walked into the kitchen and grabbed some pills that would help. She poured a glass of milk and swallowed the pills.
Pouring the rest of the milk in a small water bottle, she grabbed a sweater and walked outside. By her house was a lake called Sanctuary Lake. At least that what the club called it cause it looks just like the Lake from Warriors. They always hang out there and she found it comforting on the 'ThunderClan territory' and that's where she went.
She sat on the beach, looking at the waves crashing on the sand. Suddenly, a wave of pain rolled over her. She groaned and put her hand up to her head. Her eyes widened when she realized that two bumps had grown on her head. That's why, she thought suddenly. So many times when she was more little and had first started Warriors, she had wished that she could turn into a cat and join ThunderClan. She felt the place on her spine where she had itched early. She let out a breath hat she didn't know that he was holding when she nothing there. She was probably just paranoid. Another wave of pain rolled over her. She curled into a ball. Somehow she felt her ears getting smaller and her cat ears getting bigger. When she had blinked the haze away, she could feel her tail wiggling behind her. Looking at her arms she discovered that she had fur all over her body. She stood up and ran over to the lake. Looking into the water like a mirror, she put her hands over her mouth. Her hair, hairclip, and clothes were still there thankfully, but she was feline all over. She had cat pupils and whiskers, fur and cat ears. She looked at her hands. One had a white star on it. StarClan's doing of course. Hmm.. She had new muscles in her hands. Working them, she unsheathed her claws. Sweet!
She smiled and back flipped away from the water. "This is awesome!" she laughed.
She began eyeing the star on her hand. She pressed it. Immediately she began to change. Her clothes and hair disappeared. Suddenly she had paws and she was standing on four legs.
She let out a mrrow of laughter. She pressed it again with her other paw, and she transformed again. I should probably find somewhere to sleep, she thought and catapulted into the forest.