Hi! So this is my second Warriors story I'm starting, I hope you guys will give it a chance. I'm sorry the first chapters short and kind of boring but I put a lot of work into it and I'd really like to continue this. So I hope you give it a chance!
"Greetings. My name is Arrow." said a calm tortoiseshell tom, surrounding patrol of WindClan cats. At his calm tone, the WindClan patrol seemed to relax ever so slightly. Ashfoot stepped forward, looking the tom in his amber eyes.
"Greetings, I am Ashfoot, of WindClan. What business do you have on our territory?" she asked.
"I merely wish to meet with your leader, Onestar, I believe his name is. You are the deputy are you not?" he said, his amber eyes calm as he spoke, giving way nothing.
"You know a lot for a rogue." she commented.
"Perhaps I am a lot for a rogue." Arrow countered simply.
Star woke earlier than usual, the images of the strangely vivid cats from his dreams still caught in his mind. He'd been having strange dreams like that ever sense he could remember. Dreams of vivid cats, in a beautiful place beside the lake. They seemed to live in four separate very organized groups, but something happened… the tortoiseshell tom seemed to have something to do with it. He was in almost every dreams and his presence was foreboding. Like his arrival had meant the inevitable end.
Beside him his litter mate, Lightning, was still deep in sleep. No light was showing through the mouth of the badger set he and his brother shared, along with their mother, her five kits of three and a half moons and a she cat named Sapphire who'd basically been he and his brother's littermate. Her mother had been their mother's best friend and when she'd died, their mother had taken her in. So she lived here, helping out with the five kits who were more than a paw full now that they were old enough to cause mischief.
Stepping carefully over his larger brother, Star slid out into the barely light cracked morning and had a nice stretch. I'd been so dry this green leaf, dew dried off the grass in the morning before first light, sucked into the ground. Streams has all dried up and prey had seemed to migrate closer too the river. The river was a slow until a part far down when in picked up into rapids, and was too wide to jump in a leap but still rather narrow, opening up when the rapids started.
Star and Lightning usually lived in an old rabbit hole, that was far away from the river. It was under a tall oak tree and had a stream running close by it. With the drought, though, they'd had to move closer to the river which meant back with their mother for a while. Which really wasn't a problem other than the crowded den.
With a shake of his pelt he plunged off intro the woods for something too eat. A shiver ran through him awhile later, and he swore he could feel eyes burning into his silver and black pelt. He looked around, scanning the area with his blue eyes, ears pricked. Finding nothing, he shook it off blaming it on his bizarre dream and got back to hunting. He'd catch something for himself then see what else he could find. Watching over five mischievous kit rarely gave his mother, Angel, time too hunt and the kits were eating prey now as well. So he, Lightning and Sapphire usually helped out by hunting for Angel and the kits.
He'd barely gotten over the paranoid feeling when his paw grazed fur and he jumped, tail fluffing out and whipped around to see what it was. He came face to face with a pair of green eyes and dark tabby furred face that nearly seemed back in the dim morning light. The tom looked back at him, his eyes pained but calm.
"Who are you?" Star questioned, heart still racing he came off more aggressive than he meant too.
"My name is Thorn." the tom said, his voice was rough like he hadn't had water in a while. Star noticed he could smell blood.
"Are you okay?" Star asked, in this light he couldn't see could barely make out tabby markings on his pelt, never mind any wounds he might have. Thorn said nothing, as something that might have been shame flashed in his eyes. Star realized he didn't want to admit he desperately needed help.
"My name is Star, let me help you to the river its only through those trees." he said, stepping closer. Thorn eyed him suspiciously for a moment, then struggled weakly to his paws, favoring his back right leg. Now that he was standing, Star could see this cat was big and sturdy and having him leaning on him for support, Star felt just how sturdy. By the time they made it to the river Star felt like his own legs were going to give, he himself being small and slim, especially compared to Thorn.
Thorn lapped hungrily at the water, crouching in such a way that there was no weight on his back leg. In the now stronger morning light, Star could see he was covered in fresh claw marks and there was a deep gash in his back leg. The gash looked painful and a slow flow of blood was coming from it.
"What happened too you?" Star asked carefully, hoping he wasn't pushing anything.
Thorn remained calm though, and with a few more laps lifted his head licking water from his whiskers, "There is a groups of cats, they don't like what I'm trying to do so they're trying to scare me out of it." He said, sitting up tilted awkwardly to the left.
Star was about to ask him what hes trying to do, but a rustle in the undergrowth and the appearance of a familiar ginger pelt and an even more familiar black pelt drew his attention away. Sapphire and Lightning had found us. Sapphire was a ginger tabby she cat who got her name from her bright blue eyes, while Lightning got his name from a single, jagged silver streak through his black fur. The two of them looked curiously at Thorn and then to Star.
"This is Thorn, I'm helping him." he said, they nodded.
"Is he okay or… should-" Sapphire tried to figure out the situation
"We can bring him too the set after we hunt… if he wants…" Star said, casting a glance at Thorn.
Thorn looked back at him for a moment, then nodded, "That'd be good." he said.
"I'm hunting around the river today so you can stay here." Lightning said, Lightning was the most skilled hunter of the three of them.
Thorn nodded, standing, his green eyes on a shady spot in the grassy roots under a tree. He an Lightning were of the same size and build, big with broad shoulders and lean strong muscles. He limped stiffly over to the soft shaded area, and settled down.
"My names Lightning by the way." Lightning informed.
"I'm Sapphire." the orange tabby said, Thorn nodded to the two of them.
"So… sense Lightnings hunting around here… you want to take the tall grass field and I'll take the up stream wood?" Star said, turning too Sapphire.
" Alright." she said, and with a quick nod good by to Lightning and Thorn and each other, the two cats set out.
Star found himself having to move much farther up stream than he usually did, had all the prey sent out warnings too one another? It sure seemed like it. He'd finally take down his first mouse, much farther down stream than he cared too be, when a wait crashed down on top of him.
Star let out a yowl of surprise as claws dug into his pelt, and he quickly rolled onto his back to shake his attacker off. Quickly he whipped around to face his attacker; a dark gold tom with glaring blue eyes. The tom leapt at him almost before Star could turn around, and it was all Star could do too stumble out of the way.
"Fang!" a voice called, and both cats turned there heads. Ice short through Star's veins. Standing only tail lengths away was the cat from his strange dreams.
Again sorry its so short and kind of boring, I'm trying to set the scene and I promise it'll be more interesting. Show me a sign you like so I know whether too continue or not!
-Ancell
By the way here is a list of the cats seen so far, so everyone can keep track.
-Star: Silver and black tabby tom with blue eyes
-Thorn: Big, sleek, thick furred, dark brown tabby tom with green eyes
-Lightning: Big black tom with a jagged streak of silver through his fur and blue eyes
-Sapphire: Ginger tabby she cat with bright blue eyes
-Arrow: Tortoiseshell tom with amber eyes (from Star's dream)
-Fang: Dark gold tabby tom with blue eyes