In Halfstar's Shadow
Chapter 2
Disclaimer : Gosh! Stop asking already, I am NOT the owner of Warriors! If I did, They would be too sucky!
Sablepaw followed Halfstar out of camp, and onto the soft mossy lands of Shadowclan territory. She could smell a blackbird not far away. Halfstar dipped his head to me, and told me to go ahead. She crouched down, shadows consuming her. She stalked forward, and could seen see the blackbird. She took another step, and then another. The blackbird turned away from her. She bunched up her haunches, and launched herself at it. She landed in a mass of feathers, her paw on the Blackbird, holding it down as it writhed in pain. She bit it and it soon died. She picked it up and carried it back to where Halfstar was, and then put It down.
"Well done. Bury it, and we'll keep going." He said to her. He didn't look very impressed. She dug a small hole and then put the blackbird there. She followed his scent trail, and found him waiting for her by a Thunderpath. She walked over and sat down next to him.
"This is the border with Riverclan. I know it's only a small Thunderpath, but cars run near here in Green-leaf. Since it's Leaf-fall now, they shouldn't be coming here. Come on." Halfstar got up and walked further along the border. I followed him, trying to recognize and get used to the smell, but it was kind of odd. She followed him for a while until he stopped at a fairly large rock. She could smell her father and some other Thunderclan warriors. She walked more cautiously towards Halfstar as he signaled her to hurry. She reluctantly sat next to him.
"A border patrol just came by. Don't worry, they don't know your in Shadowclan yet. As you probably already know, this is the border for Thunderclan. Ooh… Excuse me." Halfstar excused himself very politely, and then snuck away. I sat, and smelled the air. I could smell a mouse, so I suppose that's what he was going to get. She looked around, and saw a pair of eyes watching her. She peered closer, but could not tell what they were. They were in a bramble bush, and she opened her mouth to tell them to get away, when Halfstar returned, bounding down the slope towards her.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Nothing… nothing's wrong Halfstar."
"Alright, well, let me show you the end of our territory. Come on, now." He got up after burying his mouse and walked away from me. I peered once again, but could no longer see the pair of eyes. So I turned away suspiciously, and followed my new leader.
I lay near some of the apprentices that had been nice to me since I came here, like Poppyscar, and Bravepaw. We were sharing the blackbird I caught and a small mouse Bravepaw had caught just outside camp.
"I don't see why they have to be so rude about it though!" Bravepaw said, arguing with Poppyscar. Bravepaw fell into a puddle of mud this morning, and missed the thrush he was about to catch. His mentor, Twilightmoon, was the deputy. I guess she scowled him a lot…
"Well, … Okay, I don't know. But you shouldn't talk about her behind her back, she might yell at you more the next day!" I told him. Bravepaw snorted and then got up.
"Hey, do you want a tour of camp?" he asked me.
"Sure. Why not?" I said, pulling myself up. He nodded and then bounded towards an opening in a hollow tree.
"This is the elders den. Since we won't have many elders, It's smaller, and-"
"Hello Young'uns. Why, who is this Bravekit?" a crackly old voice came from inside.
"It's Bravepaw Whiteflame. This is Sablepaw. She's our new apprentice." Bravepaw explained.
"Hello Whiteflame." I said in my sing-song voice.
"Oh, your very young.. Well, I'm very tired, so why don't you continue on showing her Flamestar's cave." He said. I could see his white pelt from inside.
"Uh, Whiteflame, Flamestar isn't leader anymore. It's Hal-"
"Don't you think I know that? I know my own brother! Flamestar is leader, and his son is Halfpaw! Stop telling me what I already know!" he said, a little bit snappy. Bravepaw muttered something under his breath and then we continued on. He showed me the nursery next, and I could smell the wonderful scent of milk coming from inside. I peeked my head in and a brown tabby she-cat smiled at me and said "Hello." I said Hi back and then nodded at the other one. She smiled lightly back, but she looked weary. So I continued on with Bravepaw. I could hear some angry voices from the next on, and Bravepaw stepped inside, so I followed him.
"Stop messing up the bedding!"
"No! Don't tell me what to do!"
"Grrr… Umph!"
When I stepped inside I saw a black tom and a silver tom fighting. All the bedding in the den was messed up. Bravepaw gasped and made a face. I turned around and looked for someone.
"Poppyscar!" I called. She turned towards me and walked over. She sighed when she saw the two apprentices fighting, and she just gave them stern looks.
"Stop it this instant!" she yowled at them. They stopped, the black one with his mouth around the Silver one's paw. The silver one was about to bite on the others ear, when she called.
"Fangpaw! Lionpaw! Stop it! I want both of you to clean up this bedding now! No! Fangpaw, you clean up the bedding, and Lionpaw, go fetch new moss. Now!" she scowled them. I guess Bravepaw wasn't the only one.
"Yes Poppyscar." Fangpaw said with a touch of attitude. Lionpaw snorted and opened his mouth to protest, but he must have thought better of it and closed it once more. Lionpaw stomped out while Fangpaw hung his head low.
"Sorry. I guess you won't want to talk. My name is Fangpaw.. Well. I better get our nests ready." He said to me.
I nodded, slightly in confusion when he said "our".
"This is the apprentices den. We'll sleep here tonight Sablepaw." Bravepaw said, clearly understanding my confused look. I nodded, now getting it, and smiled at Fangpaw.
"Nice to meet you Fangpaw." I said to him. He smiled back at me and then continued working. Bravepaw showed me the warriors den, where a certain lazy tan tom was sleeping. Bravepaw insisted on putting mouse-bile on his paw, so he won't know where it's coming from, but I told him no. He said he would do that later. He then showed me the medicine cat den, which was in a cave like Blackstars. There was a small pool of water at the end, and I guess it formed into another small den, one made of brambles. Onixflame was sitting at the end of it, still hurt from the vixen attack. She slowly opened her eyes and smiled.
"Thank you Sablepaw. Huh, you saved my life. I guess I sound pretty pathetic." She coughed out slowly. I smiled at her.
"You don't have to thank me. They'll be plenty of times you'll be scowling me later and wishing I never came to the clan." I joked lightly. She laughed, still coughing, and Jayfire asked us to leave. Bravepaw stepped out, and fell over a kit.
" Umph, Toadkit! Move out of the way, and go back to the nursery!"
I guess this was Toadkit. He and his sister Forestkit hid under me, hiding from Bravepaw.
Bravepaw stood up, and stared at them under me. He gave them a stern look, and they started to leave, but before they did, I gave Toadkit a lick on the forehead and I nudged his sister forward, and they left right away, straight to the nursery. Since I already knew Halfstar's den, he left me to converse with everyone. I looked around, but some of them turned their backs to me. I sighed, but then laid down next to a rock near Jayfire's den. I didn't realize I fell asleep….
Pain
There was a burning sensation in my throat. I turned around, and saw a pair of eyes, the same ones I saw earlier, shining at me. Deep, yellow orbs burned into my gaze. I felt blood trickling down my neck. I gasped, as the figure jumped at me. I saw a flash of brown, and then felt myself being crushed upon.
I knew I was dying.
Pain stabbed at my head, I could hear snapping, and my front leg went numb. I saw one more flash, of white and brown this time, and the pain soothed. I heard the wind whisper, as I fell unconscious.
"The wind is Howling for blood, and the Stripes of the Dark will make their mark, as Brave Is no more and Silence is heard by all."
I was chilled to the bone, but all I could think of, was the wind screaming in the air.
Half, Half, Half.
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