The Adventures of Cloudclan 003
In the heart of a deep, deep, forest, there lives a great clan of cats. These cats are noble, fearless, and loyal. They will fight to the death to defend their clan. And in times of trouble, they call upon Starclan, the clan of great cat spirits, to help them. This is Cloudclan.
"Cloudclan, attack!"
Sunstar's battle cry was met with jingling of kittypet collars. Kittypets, cats who lived with Twolegs, swarmed through the forest onto the grassy plain, which served as the battlefield, and the tiny clan of Cloudclan stood to face them.
"Don't be scared, warriors. They're just kittypets. We can take them," said Rosepetal reassuringly.
"I'm not so sure," cautioned Snowfang. "Not all kittypets are soft. Some can be very dangerous, and these kittypets don't look like they're fooling around."
Ever since the Twolegs had started expanding their territory into the woods, cutting down trees in the process, the clan's life was difficult with scarce prey and water, not to mention all the kittypets that had been brought along. And now here they were, fighting for their own land. Skyclaw and Vixenstep started partner fighting against a brown kittypet. Skyclaw bit down hard on her scruff.
"We can't lose," she said through a mouthful of fur. "We cannot lose our territory."
Suddenly an ear-splitting screech tore through the air. Gingerpaw collapsed to the ground, with her leg broken by an enemy cat.
"Gingerpaw!" Rosepetal cried. "I thought I told you not to fight anyone bigger than you!"
"I-I thought I could defeat him," Gingerpaw cringed. Moonshine and Cloverpelt were waiting on the side with herbs to tend to wounds on the battle grounds. Cloverpelt immediately rushed forward to care for her wound. While healing Gingerpaw, Moonshine and Cloverpelt wanted to help others' wounds, but they were so caught up with Gingerpaw's wound that they couldn't. Meanwhile, Waterpaw, Sunstar, and Rosepetal leapt out of trees and landed on a handful of kittypets, flattening them. Tulippaw was tackled by a bunch of kittypets, only to be saved by Snowfang. Sunstar was desperately clawing off a swarm of kittypets. Suddenly, she whirled around to find herself face to face with a fierce kittypet. She hissed at her.
"You should know better than to threaten Cloudclan!" she spat. Suddenly, the she-cat jumped and clamped her jaws around Sunstar's neck.
"Your flimsy clan has lost," she hissed. "Surrender now!" Sunstar looked around at her fighting clanmates. Many had injuries, and Gingerpaw was already severely injured. She couldn't risk anymore of her clanmates getting hurt or possibly killed. Struggling out of the she-cat's grasp, she called out the heart-wrenching cry.
"Clanmates, retreat!" Her voice echoed throughout the forest. The fighting stopped immeadiately. With one final hiss, the clan slowly retreated away. We lost. The realization pounded in Sunstar's head. The words replayed over and over again in her mind. We lost. How could we have lost?