Whew, I just noticed that Chapter 3 was almost twice as long as the other two! Now its time for the aftermath of the badgers vs cats battle. Stuff will happen! Things will be said! Chapters will be wrote!
Chapter 4
Blazekit glanced upwards and saw the moon rising in the sky, casting an icy cold sheen over the forest floor. He ran as fast as his short legs could carry him on the way back to camp. He needed to see what the patrol of cats would say after the fight. Soon the entrance came into sight and he sprinted faster. Had anyone noticed he was gone? He raced through the tunnel and burst out the other side.
"Blazekit! You're okay?" Mosskit and Mousekit scrambled over to him and pelted him with questions.
"What did you see?"
"Were you spotted"
"Did you get hurt?"
"Shhh! I don't want any cat noticing me yet. I need an excuse!" Blazekit told them urgently.
"I have an idea! Quick, get some moss!" Mousekit mewed. The three cats scattered gathering any moss they could see and met back together by the camp entrance a few minutes later.
"Ok, so what we do, is we take all the thorns and stuff out of this moss, then tell them we were collecting bedding for the elders!" Mousekit was getting excited about his plan.
"You're quite the planner." Mosskit commented. Suddenly the patrol of cats paraded into camp, covered with scratches from head to toe. The Sunclan medicine cat Owlwing rushed from her den, a huge bundle of herbs in her jaws. She began to tend to every cat, the most injured first, then working her way down to the cats who had suffered the least from the battle. Barkstar streaked from his den onto the low hanging branch of a tall tree.
"May all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath the highbranch for a clan meeting!" He yowled. Cats streamed from their dens yawning and sitting down below their clan leader. "Just now a patrol of cats battled against a huge pack of badgers. They were losing until a mysterious force let loose an avalanche the killed the beasts." Shocked murmurs came from the cats below at Barkstar's words. "And now, it is time for us to make a new warrior." Blazekit's heart sank as he saw Hawkpaw stroll casually forward.
Barkstar began to utter the words of a warrior ceremony,
"Hawkpaw. You fought like a warrior in this battle and you will now be made a warrior. I, Barkstar, leader of Sunclan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on this apprentice. He has trained hard to understand the ways of your noble code and I commend him to you as a warrior in his turn. Hawkpaw, do you promise to protect and defend this clan even at the cost of your life?"
"I do." Hawkpaw replied with much confidence in his gruff voice.
"Then by the powers of Starclan, I give you your warrior name. Hawkpaw, from this moment on, you will be known as Hawktalon. Starclan honors your ferocity and skill in battle." Barkstar rested his muzzle on Hawktalon's head and the huge cat gave his leaders shoulder a quick lick.
"Hawktalon! Hawktalon! Hawktalon!" The cats of the clan yowled his new name to the darkening sky. Blazekit mewed it more quietly. Something about Hawktalon wasn't right to Blazekit. He didn't trust the cat. Not one bit.
"You will now sit vigil and guard this camp until the sun rises. tomorrow and so we can have a night of rest." Barkstar told him.
"Yes Barkstar." The new warrior obeyed. Blazekit looked at Hawktalon closely. The dark brown cat was so big, that any cat who didn't know him would think he had been a warrior for many moons.
I don't know what it is but… I don't trust him at all.
(2 Moon Time Skip)
It had been two moons since Hawktalon had been made a warrior. He hadn't done anything suspicious but Blazekit still knew that something was wrong about the huge cat. In these two moons, Blazekit and his siblings had grown a huge amount, and had boundless energy. They were growing by the day and would soon be too big to stay in the nursery as much as they did.
"Let's play moss ball!" Blazekit suggested. Foxkit and Oakkit had reached their six moons and would be made into apprentices later today. It would be sad to see them leave the nursery but they were happy that they would get to train.
"It will help pass the time until the ceremony." Mosskit agreed. Blazekit grabbed some moss and molded it into into a ball shape then tossed it at an unsuspecting Mousekit. The tan kit yelped and jumped in the air.
"Hahaha! You need to pay better attention!" Mosskit giggled. Blazekit covered his mouth with a paw to muffle his laugh.
"Why did you do that!?" Mousekit asked indignantly.
"Because it was funny. Come on let's play moss ball!" Mosskit mewed.
After an intense game of moss ball all three cats were tired out and retreated to the nursery. They saw Rainpelt licking her kits fur to look nice for the apprentice ceremony.
"Stop it! I can groom myself!" Foxkit protested with her sister looking on in amusement.
"Hi guys!" Foxkit greeted in a muffled tone due to her mother trying to smooth her fur.
"You excited to be apprentices?" Mousekit asked.
"You bet we are! It's gonna be awesome!" Oakkit mewed. As if on cue Barkstars call rang over the camp,
"May all cat old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath the highbranch for a clan meeting!
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