Challenge - Thawing Love
It was an early leaf bare morning, and Moonlight and I were going out of camp before everyone woke up. I wanted to ask her today to be my mate, for life. I prodded Moonlight to get up. Once she woke up, were stepped out of camp. Our camp was a clearing surrounded by trees, except for the tunnel entrance. All the dens were made onto the huge hollowed oak trees, and the moss and oak was a great den.
Which the two clans being small, we didn't fight, each warrior slept with their apprentice, the kits with their mothers, and the leader with the deputy. I loved it in MoonClan. The crisp air touched my nose. I looked at my oak nest, at my apprentice Leafpaw, before I took walked out.
I slipped out of clamp with Moonlight by my side. We went out onto the hill over looking the lake and the other clan, PineClan.
I tossed snow at Moonlight's face, and the next thing you know it, we were tussling and playing in the snow. I was playing in the snow with Moonlight, the cat I loved so much. She is the MoonClan deputy. We were tussling in the snow, it was early. I picked some more snow up and tossed it at Moonlight. "Haha!" I laughed when the snow landed on her unsuspecting face.
"Aww, Duskleap, what gives?" she asked playfully. She dashed at me, and we tumbled and turned in the snow, near the slop leading the the lake. I prodded her, "Hay, watch it there!" I said with glee. "And who are you to talk!" Moonlight said, patting my belly with her paw.
I blushed, "It was only a few mice." I smiled, and she smiled too. That smile, and the way we made fun of each other, that's why I loved her. We stopped playing and sat, side by side with our tails twinned together.
"Don't you just love leaf bare?" she said letting her gaze sweep the lake MoonClan and PineClan resided at. "Yeah." I said admiring the lake.
The lake was frozen, and the leaves were battered down from the frost. The grass was cold, but the cats of MoonClan enjoyed leaf bare. The way it brought a sudden peace over the lake, and how beautiful it looked. I looked down at the lake, and I was reminded on how I chose to swim. "It's an essantial to learn, but very few cat know."
Suddenly, Moonlight prodded me in the shoulder, "You're it!" I loved it when we played like this, even if Moonlight has responsibilities.
"Oh, are you sure about that?!" I laughed, and we tumbled down the hill, and we landed on the frozen lake. I pushed Moonlight playfully across that lake, and I came skating towards her. We were about two tail lengths from land, and the ice started to crack. "Uhh, Duskleap, this isn't getting exciting anymore!" she warned, "Maybe-" she started, but the ice cracked under her feet and she plunged beneath the surface.
Instantly, I raced to the hole and jumped in to get Moonlight. Hold on! I swam deeper and deeper into the lake. I was very few cats who knew how to swim in the lake. Moonlight pattered her legs, attempting to reach my paws. I grabbed her and pulled her up, but she was to heavy. I'm not loosing you now! I then, with my last bit of strength, pushed her up to the surface onto the ice.
I was overwhelmed with fatigue, and didn't have the strength to keep swimming. But I was glad I got to save my mate, The next leader of MoonClan. I sunk to the bottom of the lake, and saw Moonlight stare helplessly down at my drowning figure. I urged her to go, go to the camp, I'll watch her from StarClan. She just stared at me, stuck in place, like time was frozen. She jumped into the water, I presume to try and save me.
I tried to shake my head, but she pattered down and up, not knowing how to swim and hold her breath like me. I shook around, signaling that it was useless. She looked at me with growing eyes, and swam to the surface and walked away from the hole.
I closed my eyes, wanting for this to all be over. And a darkness overcame me.
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I can't believe he's gone. Those words rang over and over in my head. But he saved me. Tears dripped down my face, as I walked back to camp in sorrow. Once I reached it, I stood in the clearing waiting for the cats to trickle out, ready for a patrol. "What do I tell Smokestar?" I asked, when suddenly Cloudmist, our medicine cat, shot out into the clearing. "Smokestar is dead!"