Chapter 2: Invaders have killed my rose

I know the last chapter wasn't very interesting, but I made sure this one was. Soooo, ENJOY! (& REVIEW!)

It has been 3 moons since my apprentice ceremony. Silverkit and Blazekit are now apprentices; they became apprentices like a week after Duskpaw, Rosepaw and I were. Duskpaw and I have been doing really well with our training. I have most of the battle moves mastered perfectly and I hunt for my clan every single day. Rosepaw seems to be doing well too. She says that she has memorized all the herbs by sight and scent. I can't help but feeling happy for her. She loves being a medicine cat apprentice, I mean when Shadeflower tells her to apply a poultice of herbs onto a wound; she gets as excited as if she was asked to be clan leader!

(In the forest with Darkwhisker, on border patrol with Ambernose and Winterstorm)

"Hey, did you hear that Clawface is moving to the elders den this sundown?" Winterstorm asked us while marking the border along the ShadowClan territory.

"Really? This sundown?" I asked.

"Yep, and about time too. He just can't do things anymore without pulling a muscle or something," Ambernose said gravely.

"He was a great mentor, but it's time he retired," Darkwhisker sighed.

I patted Darkwhisker's shoulder with my tail, but stopped abruptly as I heard a rustling and smelled something strange behind. I whirled around and saw five unfamiliar cats come charging towards us. One sprang and landed on top of Ambernose. The rest ambushed Winterstorm and Darkwhisker. But just before one of them landed on Darkwhisker he cried to me, "Go and get help!" I raced into the trees but I heard heavy footfalls chasing me. I turned around unexpectedly and leaped at the bewildered huge tom. I landed on his back and slashed at his ears. He tried shaking me off but I dug the nails of my back legs into his back and dug my forepaws into his nose. He cried with pain, and flung me off his back. I landed in the dust as he charged towards me with blood running down his face. I quickly got up and skipped to the left, he couldn't stop because of his clumsy paws and crashed into a tree. I raced back towards the camp, praying to Starclan that he wouldn't come after me.

I crashed through the thorn tunnel and yowled, "There are intruders in the forest!"

Sunstar leaped to his paws and asked, "Where and who are they?"

"At the ShadowClan border, but they are not any cats that I recognize. I think they have more cats!" I panted.

"Skyfeather, Dawnpetal, Duskpaw, Mossclaw, Snakepelt, Swiftfoot, Fireslash, Willowsong, Tancloud, and Goldenpaw will come with me to help them. The rest of you will stay here and guard the camp. Clawface, you're in charge." He glanced around. "Is everyone ready? Okay, let's go."

We ran to the Shadowclan border and found Ambernose, Winterstorm, and Darkwhisker struggling with 8 cats and they looked overwhelmed. "Now!" Sunstar screeched and launched himself into the battle. I slammed myself into a mangy russet colored she-cat.

She toppled over, and for a second her eyes clouded with worry but they hardened and she raised her paw to rake my pelt, but I ducked and I bit down on her leg as hard as I could. She yowled and swatted me with both her paws and her claws raked down my ears. I cringed and let go, but I ran away pretending to flee and she ran after me. I climbed a tree and waited for like two seconds and she came into the clearing. She looked triumphant, the stupid cat, until I leaped out of the tree and landed on top of her. Her legs crumpled beneath her in a weird way and I heard something crack. She caterwauled and I ran away, I didn't think she'd be fighting anymore.

I came back into the battle scene and I saw that the mysterious cats had brought backup and we didn't have enough cats to fight. We had to ask for help from ShadowClan. But before I could move, a humongous black tom whammed into me. I might have been big for my age, but this guy was huge. My breath was knocked out of me and I fell into the grass. His massive forepaw raked across my flank and he pinned me down and I tried to batter his belly to get him off, but it was useless. His teeth were about to sink into my neck when someone pushed him off of me. I leaped to my paws and gasped, Nightpaw had saved me from death.

We both ran up to him and tripped him. He fell, and tried to swipe at us but we ducked and started clawing and biting him. Finally he couldn't take it and ran off into the trees. I was about to thank Nightpaw but he ran off to fight a skinny white she-cat. I looked to my right and saw the intruders running into the forest, in the direction of the camp.

Okay, now we really needed help! So I immediately ran up to a rock to get a higher view to find the fastest runner in the clan, Swiftfoot. I found him and helped him tackle a mangy tom, and then told him to go to Shadowclan to go ask for help. He agreed and asked me if I wanted to go with him but I said I was going to help protect the camp.

I raced to through the trees and weaved my way through logs and rocks. When I reached the clan I headed for the nursery and told Rainshine to go into Sunstar's den with her kits where it was safer. I called Silverpaw to help Rainshine carry her kits and asked Blazepaw to help me get the elders in Sunstar's den too.

When that was finished, I heard many paws coming close to the camp, and I yowled, "They are coming!" Clawface and the rest of the warriors raced in a line with me and formed a ring around the entrance. A swarm of cats came flooding out and I lashed out at a tabby rouge. After I left him fleeing with his tail between his legs, I heard a bloodcurdling scream come from the medicine cat's den. Rosepaw! I shot off towards the Medicine cats den and found Rosepaw lying on the floor with her legs sprawled awkwardly and her blood was all over the place coming from a wound in her neck. "NO! ROSEPAW!" I screamed. My world was spinning and nothing seemed real, I was drowning in my own grief.

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Ambercloud of SkyClan