Either you've read some of my past FanFictions and saw this one, or you've stumbled upon in looking through the warrior fics. No matter how you got here, read ahead! Chapter one is listed below, so make sure to scroll!
Credit goes to Simply Peachy for creating the whole plot for this FanFiction along with the characters Brightspring, Icestrike, and Silversong. She did the hard part, I'm just writing it down. ^.^
Thank you to DragonFlames-and-WaterWhisper for Flyingshadow, and Sunshadow-and-leaffang for the cat Sunshadow.
Allegiances:
Thunderclan
Leader: Aspenstar- a russet she-cat with a long-haired tail
Deputy: Adderfang- large grey tabby tom
Medicine Cat: Kestrelfoot- small brown tom with tabby stripes
Warriors:
Falconstrike- golden tom with brown eyes
Nightmask- black and white tom with bright green eyes
Small-leap- timid black she-cat
Finchfur- light brown tom with white paws (Apprentice: Cloverpaw)
Sunshadow- light ginger she-cat with brown eyes
Birchtail- a blue grey tom
Brightspring- ginger she-cat with dark tabby stripes and white underbelly
Sageclaw- small light brown she-cat (Apprentice: Ashpaw)
Flyingshadow- dark grey tabby tom
Icestrike- broad shouldered grey and white tom
Mossnose- mossy colored she-cat
Silversong- pretty silver she-cat with blue eyes
Apprentices:
Cloverpaw- pretty white she-cat with green eyes
Ashpaw- dark grey tom
Queens:
Berrythorn- grey tabby she-cat (Expecting Finchfur's kits)
Elders:
Breezewhisper- frail old tom, most of his body white with age
Shadowclan
Leader: Larkstar- broad shouldered brown colored tom
Deputy: Hawkfeather- a long haired black tom
Medicine Cat: Brindleface- a golden colored she-cat with darker brindle stripes
Warriors:
Yewclaw- dark ginger she-cat
Snakestrike- a broad shouldered grey tabby tom
Riverclan
Leader: Sorrelstar- a sandy colored she-cat with odd black and white splotches
Deputy: Quailtail- a sleek silver she-cat
Medicine Cat: Reedwhisper- a quiet brown tom with white paws
Windclan
Leader: Swiftstar- tall sleek she-cat with light tabby markings
Deputy: Beechfur- a light brown tom with amber eyes
Medicine Cat: Fernfall- a cream colored she-cat
Cats Outside the clans
Fox- light grey tom with a white underbelly and a torn ear
Ashes- ginger she-cat with tabby stripes
Dusk- dirty grey tom with bright green eyes
Chapter One
"I need Brightspring and Sageclaw to come on a border patrol with me." Thunderclan's deputy called.
Brightspring pricked her ears. A border patrol? Finally! She was feeling as cooped up as a kittypet sitting around camp all day. "I'm ready to go, Adderfang!" she called to the grey deputy.
Sageclaw padded up. "Can I bring Ashpaw with me? He needs to work on tracking scents." Her ears twitched. "He needs some more work before he's ready to become a warrior."
A flick of the deputy's tail signaled a yes, and soon Ashpaw was standing by his mentor. Brightspring curled her claws into the camp ground. She was ready to go now. Why did the planning of patrols always take longer than the patrol themselves?
They padded through the thick forest, and Brightspring took in her favorite scents. Pine. Mouse. The cool wind ruffled her ginger fur, pushing it close to her body. She always felt better outside the camp, being able to let her legs out and run. She had tried running camp as an apprentice. . . sometimes her ears still rang with the disciplinary bat Nightmask gave her. She made sure to give the dark tom a wide berth whenever she felt the need to stretch her legs.
"We need to check up Shadowclan's border today. Falconstrike mentioned they were getting too close our side." Adderfang instructed, his ears searching for sounds. Brightspring did the same but all she heard was light call of a crow and the rustle of prey shifting between the undergrowth.
"Do you smell that?" Sageclaw mewed. Her attention turned to the grey apprentice beside her. "I want you to scout ahead, see what scents you can find."
"What am I looking for?" Ashpaw asked.
Sageclaw shrugged, as if she didn't know. "Whatever you don't smell in Thunderclan. Anything unusual."
Ashpaw surged ahead of them. Brightspring swore to Starclan the apprentice created a breeze, that's how fast she flew by. She envied the young apprentice. As a warrior she could not longer run off, she had responsibilities to the clan. She glanced at Sageclaw. Though she wouldn't mind having an apprentice to train. . .
With a lift of her head and an opening of her maw the sense of the forest surrounded her. The Shadowclan border was not that far from here, and Ashpaw's trail continued on front of theirs for many tail-lengths.
Speaking of Ashpaw, here came the small apprentice now.
"Sageclaw, Sageclaw!" He gasped.
The light brown she-cat looked at her apprentice. "What is it?"
"I did it." Ashpaw's chest puffed out proudly, making him look like a fat canary. Brightspring held back a laugh. "I scented Shadowclan. They're really close."
Brightspring's laugh disappeared. Shadowclan? "Let's go." she mewed to Addercrawl, quickly going forward.
"Get back here Brightspring!" Addercrawl yowled, but she already was at the border, her heart pumping to go against the smelly Shadowclan cats.
There they were! Ashpaw was right, they were close to the border, sniffing around the tree edges and talking to each other. They were probably looking for prey. Brightspring growled, no pesky Shadowclan cat was going to take her clan's prey. There was an unfamiliar dark ginger she-cat and grey tom, but she recognized the deputy's long black fur.
"Hawkfeather!" she called to the tom, stepping out of the bushes. "I caught your patrol crossing our territory."
Hawkfeather's head turned to her. He let out a chuckle. "I enjoy when new warriors think they take on a whole patrol. I know you, though. You're Brightspring."
"Yewclaw I'm so afraid!" the grey tom cried to the ginger she-cat.
Yewclaw sneered. "We haven't even crossed the border line, bee-brain."
Brightspring sniffed. Yewclaw was right. . . her confidence quickly faded. "Well. . . make sure you don't!" Good threat, Brightspring. Real frightening.
Adderfang pushed through the brambles. "Hawkfeather." He greeted, Sageclaw and Ashpaw not far behind.
"Can you control your warriors, Adderfang? She's making accusations of us crossing you border." Hawkfeather called.
Adderfang sighed. "My apologies, Hawkfeather." Brightspring met his eyes. "Brightspring, we're leaving now."
Brightspring followed her deputy back into Thunderclan territory, looking back at the Shadowclan cats, only to see the smug looks on their faces. Her head hung in embarrassment. She had made a fool of herself and Thunderclan. Great.
"Don't you smell that?" Ashpaw piped up, head up. "I've never smelled that before!"
Sageclaw placed her tail on his shoulder. "We're done scent training for today, Ashpaw."
"I smell it." Ashpaw pressed. "It's not Thunderclan."
But they padded on, Brightspring smelled the scent too and it wasn't Thunderclan. It flared in her mind. She knew it from somewhere, but where? I was foreign, faintly of twolegs and musk.
Brightspring sighed. Don't say anything, Brightspring, wouldn't want to make a fool of yourself again.
Author Note: Just a small introduction. Brightspring is an impulsive she-cat, always going right and left at the same time. It gets in her a lot trouble sometimes.
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