Yo everybody! Blaze here, and thanks to all the reviewers who sent in characters! You get cookies, and so do the other reviewers! *tosses cookies of awesome* Okay, anyway, we still need some characters, and I ask that you, the reader can send in some characters from Heatherclan, Torrentclan or Scarletclan, there will be a gathering soon; I need some characters to be buddies with our characters. Okay? Kay good. Now enjoy this chapter of Mirrors!
"Hey! Wake up, sleepy head! We have to go on patrol with Lightpaw and Shattersoul!" The warm, familiar voice of Rosepetal slowly fished Skyblaze back from his dreams, and back into reality.
"Wha… Okay…" He got up, and padded behind her to the entrance of camp, where Lightpaw and Shattersoul were waiting.
It had been two moons since Lightpaw had first come to Timeclan. According to his mate Rosepelt (also the mentor of Lightpaw), Lightpaw's progress was so-so, with her hunting terrible (despite her miraculous results on the first day of training), but strangely, her battle skills were very polished, and Rosepelt didn't even need to teach her how to fight.
Rosepetal was shivering from the cold of leafbare, and I rubbed against her. Lightpaw was jumping, and hyper.
"Let's hurry up, and go faster!" She said to Shattersoul, who looked cold and empty as usual. He ignored her, and stayed in the front of the patrol. Skyblaze sighed. She's probably like 11 moons; how can she be so darn hyper in the middle of freaking leafbare.. And not be cold? That's just plain creepy.
Shattersoul sprayed the border that separated us and Torrentclan, and we began to turn around, when..
"Hey you, stupid deputy who's always blunt and cold. Guess what?" A huge, muscular black tom approached us, with two other buff looking brown tabby toms behind him, and two apprentices. Skyblaze had seen this tom at gatherings before, and tried to find a name. After some searching in his brain, he had found the right name. Stormblast.
Shattersoul glared at Stormblast with a look of pure, cold hatred on his face. "Get off our territory."
"No way, we're marking the borders here from now on." Stormblast proceeded to mark the stump that was at least 2 feet away from the actual border.
"Get off. Now." If the look on Stormblast's face before Stormblast had marked the stump was a lightning storm on a rainy night, his face now was a lightning storm in the middle of a hurricane and heavy rain.
"Can't we just rip their entrails out now?" Lightpaw asked loudly, out to all of us.
There was awkward silence for a minute, and Shattersoul flashed a raged look at Lightpaw. Rosepetal looked shocked, and gasped. Skyblaze pushed against her in an attempt to calm her before he unsheathed his claws. The battle started.
LIGHTPAW'S POV
This guy is almost as bad as that one jerk from school.. Time to finally have someone to beat up, and not get arrested! Lightpaw sunk her claws deep into Stormblast's back, before Shattersoul could take him. Stormblast tried to push her off, but instead, Lightpaw raked her claws down hard, watching a layer of flesh fall from the claw mark. Stormblast managed to knock her off and swipe a claw out at her, but she batted the paw away, and pinned him down. She just decided to claw like crazy. Closing her eyes, she felt blood and flesh under her claws, and loud yowls. She looked a different direction, still clawing Stormblast, then opened her eyes to see Rosepetal fighting one of the buff brown tabbies. Skyblaze was taking the other one; and Shattersoul had both of the apprentices pinned down at once, and he appeared to be sitting on top of them while they yowled loudly. She looked back down at Stormblast.
Ew.. Okay maybe I shouldn't have gone overboard…
He was bleeding very heavily; and she could see some of his innards.
"Okay, I won't hurt you anymore, just stay down, got i-"
A loud yowl pierced the air.
SKYBLAZE'S POV
"ROSEPETAL!" Skyblaze gave one final swipe to the buff brown tom he had been fighting, and ran to his mate, whose leg was bleeding heavily. The brown tom she had been fighting with was now backing away, and then running to join the rest of the invaders.
"Ugh… My front leg…" Rosepetal groaned in pain. Skyblaze gaped at her, and then slowly looked down, until he saw her two front legs, which were hanging at awkward angles
"He got me, and then he twisted them really hard, and then stomped on them…" Blood was flowing from the legs at a fast rate. Shattersoul approached them, and saw the wound.
"Let's head back to camp. I'll carry her." Shattersoul simply grabbed the scruff of Rosepetal, and began to drag her back with Skyblaze's help. Lightpaw followed silently, her body covered in blood.
A FEW HOURS LATER….
"Skyblaze, she'll be fine, but she won't be going out to hunt or patrol anytime soon. She might never be a warrior now.." Scarletweather quietly looked down at her paws, obviously not wanting to meet the miserable eyes of Skyblaze.
No.
Skyblaze sunk down, and quietly began to speak in a kit's tiny voice. How pathetic he sounded.
"But.. Her leg will recover, right? And then we'll go on patrol and hunt together…"
"I'm sorry, Skyblaze. I'm not sure she'll walk again.. Not having two front legs is hard, you know.." Scarletweather gave him a quick lick of sympathy before she slowly went back to the back of her den, where Rosepetal now lay, covered in cobwebs and poultices.
"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather by the Hightree."
Skyblaze sulkingly walked to the clan meeting, knowing what was going to be announced.
"Today, I regret to inform you that today…" Blizzardstar spoke about all of the details, stupid Torrentclan, the border, and the battle… Skyblaze's head was spinning so fast, he wouldn't be surprised if he vomited.
"..And since Lightpaw, the apprentice of Rosepetal needs a new mentor due to the fact Rosepetal may be unable to walk any time soon, she will need a new mentor. Skyblaze, you are the mate of Rosepetal, and she would be happy to know that you will be her mentor."
Skyblaze's head spun faster.
