-Sunstrike-

Yawning, I woke up to the bright sunlight as it entered the den. There was barley time to streatch before some dark forest cats ushered us out of the den for another day of training.

I walked alongside my ally's in these games. Furzepelt's gray and white pelt was pure gray in the dawn light. She had immediantly sought me out in hopes to prolong her paphetic life. I plan to kill her in the arena, after of course we get away form the rest of the cats.

Boulderfur however may be a useful ally. He is a new warrior along with Furzepelt but he is unusually strong for a windclan cat. I could count on him to keep away the enemies. Whiskernose is also a decent warrior, but i can't get over how he clawed my ear that one time in training. I almost lost that ear to infection.

Sharp teeth met my tail and i relized i had stopped walking. I picked up the pace until i was beside of Boulderfur.

"Where are we going to start?" I asked him. Yesterday we had spend most of our time at the fighting stations so we could take on any warrior and win with barley any scratches. Sadly we didn't do so good. Furzepelt and Whiskernose were not very strong at all, even for a windclan cat.

Bolderfur shrugged and just looked away. Furzepelt was to busy staring across the clearing at some shadowclan warriors, so i turned to Whiskernose.

"Well?" I prompted. "Any ideas?" She glanced at me and looked away before replying.

"Maybe we should climb some trees? They would be good for retreating."

I hissed just hissed at her. We are windclan cats. We are fast enough to run if we have to. "Were going to start at the swimming station." I meowed and shuddered. "Nobody would expect a windclan cat to know how to swim."

Eventually we were pushed out into the clearing once more, and after a brief speech from Tigerstar we got to go around again. I lead Boulderfur, Whiskernose, and Furzepelt toward the swimming station when something caught my eye. There was a cat standing on top of a few huge rocks, talking to a few cats below.

Boulderfur caught my eye and nodded. "Whiskernose, Furzepelt, why don't you two go to the swimming station without us?" He meowed to them. I nodded and told them the same thing.

Furzepelt looked confused, and like she was about to ask something but was cut off by Whiskernose.

"Where are you going?" Whiskernose asked. She shuffled her paws and seemed to relize something before shoveing Furzepelt away with a meow of laughter. Furzepelt and her trotted off toward the swimming section, which was all the way across the clearing.

Shrugging off the fact they belived Boulderfur and me wanted some time alone before our tragic deaths in the arena, I turned to him and meowed that we should get going. So we started off toward the rocks, when you won't belive this, but someone ran straight into us and knocked me into a small bramble thicket.

I hissed and i thrashed around... only suceeding in getting more tangled up. Boulderfur at least wasn't laughing. Struggling to turn around i caught a glimps of the careless cat. It was Leafpool from thunderclan. That traitor that made windclan the laughing stock because Crowfeather deserted us.

"Leeaaffffpooolllll!" I yowled and tore myself free of the brambles. I went to attack her but Boulderfur held me back by my tail, which only made it start to bleed. This is not my day...

Leafpool's fur was fluffed out with terror, which made at least some of my anger fade. "S-sorry." She had stammpered before running away. Shrugging off my anger I just turned back toward the place with the rocks.

"Boulderfur?" I asked him. I glanced at him for a heartbeat while waiting for him to reply.

"Yes?" He asked curiously before stopping. I didn't relize why until i walked straight into the rocks... i totally wasnt staring at him i swear!

"Never mind." I sighed before glanceing around. "Who is in charge here?" I demanded.

"I am." A light brown she-cat jumped down the rocks. Her fur was rather messy and she had a evil look in her eyes. The dark forest she-cat looked over me and Boulderfur. She continued on to tell us that this station was for practice battleing, however the trick was that it was against not warriors but foxes.

"How do you control the foxes!" He exclaimed in suprise, his fur bristleing. The dark forest she-cat seemed to pur in delight when she answered.

"We don't. These rocks are all you can stay on, at the bottom will be gaurded by a lot of dark forest warrior so the foxes can't excape. Don't you see them?" She he gestured with her tail to a few shapes moveing among the rocks. "The point is that you get to the top of the rocks be a tree branch and have to get down without looseing your pelt."

Yikes! That sounded dangerous, expectually with the games only a few days away."Never mind." I muttered before starting to turn away. I had a sudden.. how do you say... maybe weird feelin and dove to my right. A heatbeat later the she-cats claws had just raked the ground where i was.

"You have to try it now. Don't back down." She meowed and then a bunch of dark forest warriors surounded us. I spotted a young shadowclan cat near by and Antepelt, my own former clanmate, padded over to him and meowed something. The shadowclan cat raced over to join us and we were all hearded over to a tree and ordered to climb.

My claws scraped the back as me and Boulderfur slowly made our way up the tree. The shadowclan cat, who now i reconize as Olivenose, was way ahead of us and had to stop often. There was some silent agreement between us three that we should stick together.

Well anyways now I'm at the top and we have to jump down a few tail lengths to the top of the rocks. They must be bigger than i thought! the cats below look like tiny specks. (Its about 4 stories high, but there are foxes, no real paths, and tunnels).

So me, Olivenose, and Boulderfur lept out of the tree and peered over the side of the rock we were on. Below us was a couple foxes padding along a lone thorn bush. I backed up a few steps and so did Olivenose. Suddenly she vanished and there was a fadeing yowl. I causiously padded to where she was and discovered that part of the rock broke away into what looks almost like a small tunnel, big enough for a dog to get through. The problum was that it was steep.

"Boulderfur? What should we do." I asked as i paced around the hole. Last thing we needed was Olivenose's death on our paws. Me and Boulderfur has discussed that last night. They didn't seem to care if we died here in training.

I was so lost in thought i didn't notice Boulderfur next to me until he called out to Olivenose.

"Hello? Olivenose?"

"I'm okay!" She yowled back to us, though her voice sounded strange echoed like that. "Come one down. I must have fallen a few fox lengths at least, well thats what the bruises on my flank are saying anyways."

"Sunstrike, i think we should go down. With any luck we might be close to the bottom." And what he did next was unbeliveable. He lept down the hole without even letting me answer! How rude. I pouted for a minute until i finally decided to climb down after them.

I slowly tried to crawl down the hole but soon found myself slipping until i crashed into them.

"Ow!" I couldnt tell who that was but i felt someone under me. I got up and moved away toward the light. As i emurged from the dip in the rocks i glanced around for any foxes. I had just assumed we were safe when i heard a growl from above me and huge paws land on top of my.

I almost blacked out from the inpact and struggled to breath. I couldn't make sense of what i was hearing other than the ocasionaly fox barks and the yowls of warriors. When i finally regained enough sense i lept up to join the fight... to bad they just drove the fox away.

"Sunstrike are you okay!" Boulderfur meowed with concern. His shoulder was heavily bleeding and i thought to myself that that wouldn't be healed before the games started. After quickly checking myself over i concluded that i wasnt even badly hurt with only a few scratches and bruises.

"No... what about you Olivenose?" I asked her.

She just shook her head and pointed at something below us. I padded over to her and looked down. We were maybe a third of the way down, thanks to that tunnel. Suddenly remembering that the fox came from above i looked up. Luckly there was nothing there, but we were still out in the open.

Boulderfur motioned to the left and i noticed that not to far away were some jupiner bushs. Sure they wouldnt help any of our wounds, but we could hide in them and make out next plan. So we did. We discussed what to do for a while (in the bushs cover) until we agreed to head to the right and follow a path. Sure it wasnt even romotly hidden from view but if we were quick we could make it to the bottom quickly.

So on a silent count we all sprinted from the bushs and down the path. It circled around the rocks a few times before comeing to a sudden stop and to a small cliff. Olivenose and i slowed as we noticed it but Boulderfur didn't. He went right over the edge.

I raced over, careful to not fall over myself, but quickly enough to find him before a fox did. Olivenose was on my tail. I immediantly looked over and much to my relief the ledge only went down a few tail lengths. "Bouldefur! You nearly scared the fur off me." I purred warmly.

Olivenose spat with discust. "Oh come on already, were almost at the bottom." Already you could see that within a few careful leaps was the grass. We all flinched at the snarl behind us and I just ran. I didn't waste time by seeing how close the fox was.

Bouldfur yowled in terror, which i thought was odd. After all we already drove off one fox, and this was just one more right?

"Don't abandion me!" Olivenose spat as she started to fall behind. Windclan cats were faster than shadowclan, even just jumping down ledges. I quickly hit the grass and spun around to look. I gasped and now i wish i didn't look. The reason Boulderfur was so scared was because it was not because there was one fox, or two, or three, but a dozen. Thank starclan that most of them were to far away to have caught us.

I felt relived with Boulderfur at my side and went to say something to Olivenose. She wasnt there... I looked back to the rocks to see her leap down and hit the grass saftly. Dark forest cats ran to the rocks to drive the foxes back up and away.

"Sunstrike how dare you leave me! And to think i might have fought alongside you in these games." Olivenose slashed my muzzle before turning tail and fleeing the station. Now my muzzle really hurts...

-Whiskernose-

I just twitched my tail and kept from meowing with laughter. Sunstrike and Boulderfur were perfect for eachother. She watched as they padded off toward this place with giant rocks.

"Whiskernose? Lets get going already." Furzepelt meowed impatiently beside me. She raced off into the distance toward the swimming station. I sighed not wanting to get left behind so i raced after her. Sometimes Furzepelt didn't think about others.

Soon enough we started slowing as we reached the station, and found it much busier than we though. Cloudtail and Grasspelt were over at one end of the stream. Wern't they there yesterday? And on the other side across from us were a few thunderclan and windclan cats. I meowed a faint hello to Harespring but he didn't return it.

Furzepelt started over toward a small pool away from the stream. It looked really shallow, but it was still deep enough to practice in. I had the best idea, i'll go run ahead and splash Furzepelt and maybe we can have some fun. This whole warrior games thing is creepy.

So i dashed to the pool and lept in, sending water everywhere. I heard Furzepelt hiss with disgust before i relized something. I was in the middle of the pool and i couldn't swim.

"Help!" I yowled and started to thrash my paws. I tried to propell myself forward but ended up just sinking. Furzepelt was yowling something from the bank but i couldnt hear her. She didn't sound particularly worried which made me mad at her.

I grew more and more tired before finally decideing to give in. Give into the water. It would be a nicer death than at the claws of a warrior, perhaps one of my own clanmates. I let my paws grow still. Stop fighting the water. I feel my shoulders then neck go under... And i expect to then vanish under the waves and drown.

Just before the water reaches my muzzle my paws hit the ground. "What?" I exclaim outloud.

Furzepelt's voice sounded from behind. "You thistle brain! I kept telling you that you could just stand up but you wouldnt listen to me!"
I turned around to see lots of the cats staring at me. "Uh... opps?" I laughed nervously and started toward the bank. Grasspelt from riverclan called over. "Maybe you should stick to land." And a lot of the cats laughed, even Furzepelt.

I just climbed out of the pool and shook, trying to get the water on Furzpelt. "Fine... lets try swimming now okay?" Why couldnt Boulderfur be here. He'd defend me.

Furzepelt just shook her head. "Alright already." She motioned for me to follow her as she went around the pool, to where it was deeper. She reluctantly padded in, despite already being wet. I quickly followed her and we stood belly deep.

"Okay... on three should we push off?" I asked her.

"Yes... Petalfur was telling me you just move your legs like your running." Furzepelt quickly informed me. "One."

"Two." I meowed after her, then at the same time we both meowed three and pushed off. I immediantly started to run underwater. At first i was mostly splashing around but quickly i started to swim. Not that neatly but still.

Furzepelt was also getting the hang of it, but she kept going under occasionally. "This is-" She was cut off as water got in her mouth. "Ew disgusting!" She spat.

I just laughed. "Well its dark forest water." Then i glanced around to see if anyone heard me. There was a shadowy cat standing near by and it started to approach me.

"Whats so bad about our place." He hissed at me and i tried not to flinch. "We could make your life misrable in the arena. And i shall see to it. I am one of the origional leaders of the dark forest, Maggottail." He stalked away, his words sending shivers down my spine.

Alright, how do you like this chapter? Its kind of long and most of you probably would enjoy that. I would have posted it sooner but i forgot my email and password and had to play the guessing game for a while until i realized there was a reset password button. Back onto the topic of my story, seriously comment on whether you like first person (this chapter type) or third person (like the prolouge) better. Whichever gets the most votes i will write. During the actual games themselves i was thinking about at the end of each chapter posting who was still alive and stuff. /Its also a little early to be saying this/ but i am planning on makeing a sequel to this if it gets enough fans.

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