(Moss here. I got this really good idea out of nowhere whatsoever. Well maybe it was my 3 cats... anyway, enjoy! Plus, I do not own Warriors, however much it would be awesome to own my favorite series in the universe... and yes I know it's a small allegiance, but I'll add more as the story goes on and more characters are introduced :) )
Allegiances
Frost- dark gray she-cat with blue eyes. Later a dark gray she-cat with white paws, belly, and white-tipped tail after her banishment.
Dash- black tom with golden eyes. Brothers with Quick.
Quick- black tom with yellow eyes. Brothers with Dash.
Spike- leader of the rogues in the alley, black with two white paws and yellow eyes.
Chapter 1
Frost looked at the puddle in which wavered her reflection. A grayish black and white she-cat with copper eyes. Was this really her? She'd never had time to take a glance after the guard cats had chased her out of the alley. It had been such a long time since saw herself. Last she remembered, she was a dark gray she-cat. Had she changed because of her powers? When she was angry of her banishment, and turned the guards to ice? She didn't exactly remember.
Now she was away from the horrid alley where every cat seemed to hate her. Except for Quick and Dash. A huge hole had been in her heart ever since she had to leave them because of Spike. She missed their silver garbage can with a dent, where they curled up each night ever since her parents abandoned her. But now, she was away from her life as she knew it. No more garbage cans to hide in, rats that fight back, or nasty cats at every corner. There was no turning back.
As she passed by a puddle, she touched its water, and it turned to ice, frost slowly covering it. The reason she was considered a freak. The reason she was on the run. She could make everything and anything cold, or turn it to frost, snow or ice. No one, not even her family seemed to accept her. They had been scared of her powers, as with everyone else. Who wouldn't? She could turn them to ice as quick as an owl caught its prey, as her father stated. This was why, she realized she couldn't stay in one place for long, because of her powers. No cat would accept it. (besides Quick and Dash. She missed them terribly now!) No cat could find out her secret, like her parents said. So her parents tried to keep it a secret from Spike, the rogue's leader where she lived. They even kept Frost away from themselves. She hated her parents for this. But, of course, Spike found out eventually after a cat saw her turn another cat to ice when she got angry when he insulted her. Frost lowered her head in pain of the memory of her banishment. She pushed the thought away, for now anyway, and thought of another memory when she was with Quick and Dash. She smiled when she remembered their daily race...
*Flashback*
"Frost! Wait up!" she heard a voice behind her. She turned around. Quick and Dash! Of course. Always following her everywhere she went. She smiled when the two toms approached. "Hey guys!"
Quick and Dash looked exhausted and were panting and breathing very hard. "There you are! We were wondering what happened to you! Do you want to go hunting for some rats in the alley?"
"Sure!" Frost bounded after them as they started to gallop away. How did she forget? Their every day race that no one ever said when it started. It was supposed to help them run away from ambushes in emergencies, or at least that was what Quick said. It felt more like a race they shared between each other.
"Oh, and no cheating by slowing us down with ice!" Dash shouted to Frost, a slight smirk on his face. She narrowed her eyes in half annoyance and half amusement. She had told her two friends about her powers a few years back, and they had never revealed it to any cat at all. They did, however, tease her a bit about it, like right now.
"Fine! I won't!" she called back as she gained speed on Dash until they were side by side.
The three cats raced until they got up to a huge silver garbage can with a dent; their meeting place.
"I won!" Frost and Dash said at the same time.
"No I did!" Dash said, annoyed.
"It's clear I won the race this time!" Frost yowled.
"Guys, be quiet! I think I hear some rat." Quick said, silencing the argument instantly. He was rotating his ears backward to hear the sound of the rats movement better.
Frost checked the air for the scent of rat. Most of it was stale, and she couldn't scent any fresh scents of rat. Then she heard some scuffling like Quick had in a garbage bag a few fox lengths away. She felt like she needed some cat to bat her for being so oblivious. Why didn't she think the rats would use the garbage to disguise their scent?
The three of them waited for the right moment, and finally when the rat in the garbage bag stilled, she signaled with a flick of her tail at the two toms to creep forward. They silently snuck up on the garbage. With, of course, their scent upwind.
Slowly, slowly, Frost, Quick, and Dash crept upon the garbage bag. Then, with a look in Quick's eyes that meant: pounce- now! The three of them pouncing simultaneously.
And with a swift bite, Dash killed the rat in the garbage bag, making it go limp. All three cats dragged the rat out from the bag, Dash carrying it in his jaws, walking back to the silver garbage can. She was surprised it hadn't fought back like the rats in the alley usually did. It was probably the cold season.
As they approached the silver garbage can, Quick jumped into it, Dash following, and finally Frost. Inside was some fluff that they had found in other cans for sleeping on, and a bit of bones for playing with when they got bored. Frost sighed. This was the best to "Home sweet home" she got to now ever since her parents decided that it was "too dangerous" for her to live with them. She snorted at the thought.
"What're you thinking about?" she heard a voice say and someone nudged a piece of the rat toward her. She turned around. Quick. She didn't expect him to go and comfort her. He wasn't exactly known as the sympathetic type, even as her friend.
"I said, what are you thinking?" Frost heard Quick ask again as Dash jumped out of the can to hunt some more rats. She realized she had zoned out completely for awhile, thinking about her parents. Leaving her here in the alley when she was 5 moons. How sick...
Quick waved a paw in her face. "Anyone there? Frost? Where are you?"
Sighing again, she looked at Quick. "Yes?"
"What's on your mind?" he asked for the third time.
"Well... it's... I've been thinking about my parents. How they abandoned me."
"I think they did that because they loved you, and they wanted to protect you."
Frost rolled her eyes, taking a bite of the rat. "Yeah. Protect me. They didn't even help me learn how to hunt, how to scent, anything. Your parents taught me. Not my own." She knew shamefully that she had lied a little bit to Quick when she said that.
"Like I said, they were trying to protect you."
She ignored the last comment.
"If you want to talk again," Quick flicked his tail upward. "You can ask."
Frost nodded as he too jumped out of the can, ready to hunt again. She finished up her share of the rat in silence. She realized they were very low on food. Frost knew, somehow, it didn't have to be this way. Had she done something wrong? Yawning, she curled up in a ball on the fluff and feathers. No matter how her parents had seemed to hate her, a small part of her she missed them. She missed her mother's white pelt brush against her's, adding gentle snow onto her mother's pelt. And her father, how he taught her to hide her scent and hunt in the winter. Frost sighed at the small memories. The only ones of her parents. They seemed to drift away, bit by bit...
*End of Flashback*
Frost woke up near the puddle. She must've fallen asleep thinking about her old life. It was time to move on... but where? And do what? What was the point of her life? she thought sadly. Where was her story going to take her?
(This took a really long time to finish since the idea was still bouncing around in my head, and I couldn't catch it for awhile. Plus I've been busy painting walls... anyway in the next chapter, you'll have to wait a bit since I take awhile to write stories since I edit them a lot. I'll write about her banishment next! No flames or cursing in reviews please! This is one of my first fanfics.)
