Chapter 1
"Winded."
9/8/16
Green leaf brought plentiful prey out of hiding in August, and the cats were on the hunt. Six moon old Windpaw was one of these cats. He slowly stalks behind a squirrel, distracted by its acorn.
He puts one paw forward, a the winds blew his scent in the squirrel's direction.
The grey squirrel stiffened and ran up the tree.
Fox dung!
Windpaw lashed his tail in frustration. He still can't control the stupid wind to his advantage. Every time he tries to make one paw step, the wind would blow him down and warn prey of his location.
You'd think that me being half-WindClan, I wouldn't have an issue with this.
Windpaw didn't want to return to to his mentor, Squirreltail, without anything in his possession. Windpaw opens his mouth and caught a scent. He pads to the border that separates WindClan and ThunderClan, and sees a rabbit nibbling on the grass.
His tail stood up straight, and a gale of wind pushed him forward in a charge.
Windpaw traps the rabbit under his paws as it cried for mercy, he bites on the neck and kills it.
"Hey!"
Windpaw carries his rabbit in his jaws when a dark grey tabby skidded to a halt and glared at him. A pretty light brown she cat stops next to him.
"That's my prey!"
Windpaw shook his head, his mouth muffled his jaws.
"Yes it is! It came through WindClan territory-!"
"Grasspaw, let's just go." The WindClan she cat whispered.
"Falconpaw, if we don't show these ThunderClan rats who's boss-."
"Windpaw!"
Squirreltail bounds to Windpaw as the WindClan deputy arrived. Squirreltail dips his head.
"Brackenfall!" Grasspaw said. "That ThunderClan cat was stealing my rabbit!"
The white and brown striped tom looks at Squirreltail, but Windpaw puts his rabbit down.
"It's not true." Windpaw said. "The rabbit was on our territory, so I get to keep it."
"Why should we believe the grandson of Lionstar?" Grasspaw spat.
Brackenfall puts his tail in Grasspaw's mouth.
"Brackenfall," Squirreltail said. "Windpaw has never told lies, and if he says so then it's true."
The WindClan stared at Squirreltail evenly, and nods.
"I'll report this to Creekstar, next time you won't take another prey, understand?"
Squirreltail nods. Brackenfall leads Grasspaw away despite his protests.
Falconpaw gave Windpaw a long stare before following her deputy.
Squirreltail nudges Windpaw.
"Let's go home."
Windpaw drops his rabbit in the fresh kill pile and tries to groom his fur when he hears mewing near the thorn barrier. Goldpaw came back with a dove, and the senior Warriors were purring at her.
"Look at that dove."
"She's a great hunter, just like her mother."
Windpaw bit his lip and continued to groom. He was grateful to Ravenwing for taking him in and raising him, but he often wondered. What if? What if Redfawn regretted her mistakes and returned to ThunderClan to make amends.
What if she traded her pride for him?
Probably not. Windpaw remembered what Darkstar told him after he became an apprentice.
Redfawn cared about nobody but herself, not even my own father, my real father.
"Hi, Windpaw."
He inwardly scowled at Goldpaw's happy tone. He forced himself to smile.
"Hey."
"Sweetflower said I have a gift for hunting, isn't that great?"
"Sure, sure." Windpaw muttered.
"I heard you caught a rabbit near the border." She says. "You're really fast to catch one by yourself."
"Of course he is!" Windpaw stiffened when he heard Pricklepaw. "He's half-WindClan, it's nothing new with his kind."
Windpaw gets up and pads away - smacking his tail across Pricklpaw's muzzle - and went inside the apprentices den.
It's not my fault that Lionstar was a stupid traitor.
But somewhere inside his heart, Windpaw couldn't shake his tainted bloodline from his mind.
Welcome to The Unwanted, Book 3!
We've had a look into Windpaw's training. He's resentful toward Goldpaw, but he's got no idea of their connection to each other, and to Graypaw and Rosekit.
I've realized that I've never gave a shout out to the reviewers here.
*Kyubi pulls out her reading glasses and reads a note*
SierraStanley52, Snowcrystal Of ThunderClan, and AFadingStar, who is also known as RedRodTheRebel Jr.
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