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CHAPTER THREE
Angelpaw froze in shock, slowly processing what this rogue was saying to
her.
"Sakie! I can't believe you're alive!" the rogue exclaimed.
"I'm not Sakie, I'm Angelpaw," Angelpaw said firmly, wondering why this
strange cat thought she was her kit.
The rogue gave her a look of confusion. "You're my kit, I'm your mother,
Jasmine" the rogue finally said, sure of her decision.
"Silverheart is my mother, not you," Angelpaw replied, trying to explain
reality to this crazy cat.Suddenly Redstar jumped onto Jasmine, biting the
shecat's leg. Jasmine quickly escaped Redstar's tight grip and
spun around to face him.
"You stole my kit!" she screeched fiercely , before leaping at the
leader.
She was about to bite him on the neck when Stormcloud dragged her off him.
She was then double-teamed and chased out of the camp.
Angelpaw spun around and faced a small black rogue. He tackled her and tried
to scratch her exposed belly. However she pushed him of with her back legs.
She bite him on the neck, not hard enough to kill him, but painful enough to
send him off, running into the bushes.
Angelpaw looked around the camp. The battle was coming to an end. The rogues
were retreating back into the forest with wounds, big and small. Before she
knew it, only clan cats remained in the clearing. They also held there own
wounds, a gash here and there. She quickly looked around to see if any cats
had been seriously injured.
Ravenclaw's ear was torn, and the side was bleeding, but Fallingwater was
tending to him. Then she looked over to Redstar's den and the large crowd of
cats that were there. Fear gripped her senses, she told herself that it was
impossible. She ran towards the group in hopes of seeing the leader, she
slowly pushed herself in the group and faced the motionless body of Redstar.
"He lost a life, don't worry he still has six left," Stormcloud explained,
"He's with Starclan now, but will awake any moment now."
Relief came over Angelpaw, she nodded and went to go look for Silverheart.
She was heading toward the nursery when she noticed Silverheart next to the
warrior's den. She hurried over to join her.
"Hey!"Angelpaw said, happy that the shecat wasn't injured.
"Hey, how was your first battle?" Silverheart asked, grooming herself.
"Interesting," Angelpaw answered "Some crazy cat claimed to be my mom".
Then Silverheart froze in mind air, her paw frigid by her face and her tongue
still.
"Which is crazy, because you're my mom," Angelpaw continued, sitting down.
She waited for Silverheart to reply, expecting a conversation about how crazy
and delusional Jasmine was to ensue. Silverheart set her paw down, her body a
little calmer. Silverheart turned to her with a serious and sad look in her
eyes.
"Angelpaw, It's time I told you. You'll old enough to understand now,"
Silverheart said.
"Tell me what?" Angelpaw asked, wondering what was going on.
"Ravenclaw and I found you out in the forest when you were a few days old. We
took you back to camp, assuming your mother was a rogue that had been killed
by Thunderclan a few days earlier. I had miscarried my own kits about a week
earlier, so I treated you as my own".
"So the rogue could be my mom," Angelpaw murmured after a few minutes of
silence.
Silverheart nodded her head slowly with a deep saddened look her eyes.
Angelpaw turned around , completed stunned and confused trying to comprehend
everything. She hurried to the apprentices den, not wanting to face
Silverheart.
Silverheart followed her wanting to help Angelpaw. Before she could even paw
a few pawsteps, Angelpaw cut in, "I want to be alone, please just go." She lay
down in a bed of moss in the den. Silverheart stood there for a moment and
then left the den, deciding Angelpaw needed time to process everything alone.
Angelpaw's head was spinning, why this have to happen to her. Everything she
thought she knew was a lie. She didn't even know who her parents where. She
wasn't even a clan cat! She was a rogue, the same ones they just chased out.
She realized that Jasmine most likely was her mom, no matter how much she
tried to brush the facts away. She wondered who her dad was. As it got darker
in the night, the darkness slowly took over her. She drifted off into an
uncomfortable sleep, still thinking of what had happened to her,
Angelpaw awoke early the next day, stretching her paws and yawning. Her head
was still confused from what she had learned the day before, but tried to put
it out of her mind.
She hurried into the clearing and grabbed a mouse from the freshkill pile.
Stormcloud padded over to her side, eating freshkill by her.
"Are you ready for training?" Stormcloud aked.
"Yes," Angelpaw replied, as she hurried to finish the mouse.
In a few minutes time they were in the training hollow. They were practicing
ways to stalk certain pray.
"Good Job" Stormcloud praised her as she finished practicing rabbit stalking,
and then Stormcloud asked, "Now do you want to hunt?"
"Yes" Angelpaw nodded.
"I'll follow you, and see how you do" Stormcloud said asthey left the
hollow.
Angelpaw had just caught a mouse and buried it when she heard a rustle in the
bushes. She turned toward it, wondering what was hiding there. She stalked
toward the bush, remembering Stormcloud's lesson of soft paw steps. As she
got closer she scented the air. Her eyes widened as she recognized the scent.
Rogues! By instinct, she ran toward the bush, ready to attack. She was about a
tail length away when Jasmine jumped out the bushes.
"Don't attack!" the shecat rogue said with a pleading voice, "I scented you
while I was hunting and just want to ask you to meet me here tonight, so we
can talk."
Angelpaw didn't have time to reply before Jasmine disappeared into the bushes
again.
Angelpaw stood there for a few minutes thinking about what happened. What was
she to do? She wanted to meet her, after all she was her mother. But she
didn't want to go against the Clan rules, and that she always had thought
Silverheart was her mother. She wanted so bad to believe all of yesterday
wasn't true.
Then Stormcloud appeared and broke her away from her thoughts. Angelpaw
stiffened, had he seen her with Jasmine?
"I saw you catch that mouse earlier, great job," he said.
Angelpaw slowly relaxed and looked at Stormcloud. So he hadn't seen her with
Jasmine.
"Thanks" she said.
"Let's go back to camp," Stormcloud said.
Angelpaw nodded and followed him.