Here's chapter 4! Thanks for 14 reviews!
Poppyfrost's POV
Honeyfern's cell phone went off.
Every girl in the room turns to stare at her. Honeyfern blushes.
"Go on," I whisper. "Answer it."
Honeyfern presses the "answer call" button, and puts the phone up to her ear. I lean in to hear.
"Hello? Honeyfern?"
"Ummm… hi? Yeah, this is Honeyfern."
"Oh, good! Sweetie, Can I talk to Poppyfrost? I tried calling her, but nobody answered."
"Yeah, sure," says Honeyfern, handing me her phone.
Shocked, I hold it up to my ear.
"Hi mom," I quickly murmur. "This is Poppyfrost."
"Hi sweetie! I just wanted to let you know that you left your sunscreen at home, so I'll send it to the camp. Is that OK?"
I roll my eyes. Of course I forgot my sunscreen. Unlike my gorgeous sisters Honeyfern and Cinderheart, I don't tan. I burn. They don't need sunscreen. I do.
"Mom, I don't think you're allowed to send things like sunscreen. I'll just borrow someone else's."
"Are you sure? I can just throw it into the mail and send it right over."
"Yeah, mom, I'm positive. I gotta go now, so bye."
"Ok. Love you, sweetie, and say hi to your sisters from me."
I hang up and give the phone back to Honeyfern. Why, why, why? Why couldn't Honeyfern have her phone on silent, like I did? Why did mom have to call? She could've… I don't know, but she could've done something else.
I look through my bag and find my phone.
Missed call: Mom (9)
9 missed calls? Ugh.
After I got dressed and got my towel, I go over and lie down on my bed and wait for the foghorn to sound.
Blossomfall's POV
When the foghorn sounds, I take my things and race through the forest towards the lake. I know that it's only the second day, but I'm already homesick. I totally envy my sister Briarlight. Due to an injury, she can't attend camp. So instead, she gets to sit at home, doing whatever she pleases, while I try not to get devoured by mosquitoes. At least my brother, Bumblestripe, is here.
I'm the first ThunderCabin girl to reach the lake. The RiverCabins are already here, swimming and diving off of the diving board. The ShadowCabins are mostly sitting on picnic benches, either playing cards or listening to music, though a few of them are swinging on the two rope swings.
I head straight for the snack shop. I walk in and take a look at the little menu.
"An ice cream sandwich and some lemonade, please," I say to the worker.
"That'll be two dollars, please," replies the worker. I hand her two dollars and she gives me the lemonade and ice cream sandwich.
By the time I leave the snack shop, the rest of the camp has arrived. WindCabins are racing around, playing tag, and ThunderCabins are at the volleyball court. I decide to go and watch the game.
"Let's start with boys against girls," suggests Icecloud.
"All right! I'm ready," exclaims Dovewing. "Boys can start."
My brother, Bumblestripe, starts out with the volleyball. He serves it over the net. On the other side, Hollyleaf spikes it over to Cinderheart, who hits it over the net. Lionblaze leaps forward and gets it just barely over the net. The game goes on until Rosepetal hits it, but it only lands to the ground. Eventually, the game continues, with the boys winning in the end.
They're about to start another game when a tall, black-haired counselor walks up to them. "Hey, Thunderkids," he says. "The counselors would like our own volleyball game, if you don't mind."
"Crowfeather, don't be so rude," replies another counselor. Tawnypelt of ShadowCabins. Even though ShadowCabins and ThunderCabins have a pretty bad relationship, Tawnypelt has always been one of the nicer ones. Maybe because Brambleclaw is her brother. But I'm not so sure how that happened.
Anyways, the counselors pretty much chased the ThunderCabin kids out. But Toadstep pulls out a deck of cards, and everyone begins playing a card game called Egyptian Ratscrew. I even join, and we're all having so much fun. Whenever anyone would put down an ace, Foxleap would freak out and go, "BEWARE OF THE ACES!" We were all laughing and having fun. But then, the foghorn sounded. That couldn't have been two and a half hours. Could it? But as they say, time flies when you're having fun. And it looks like that was the most fun I've had in a really long time.
Ivypool's POV
Next up is cooking. Yay. In case you didn't know, I was being sarcastic. Cooking is Dovewing's thing, not mine. I can't even make a decent sandwich. But Dovewing, my "flawless, perfect sister"? Oh, you want a Cheese Soufflé? How about a triple-layered chocolate fudge cake? Or even some tomato soup? Go to Dovewing.
I enter the little kitchen building, and I see Daisy, the cooking instructor.
"Hello girls," she welcomes us with a warm smile. "Today, we'll start off with making some fudgesicles."
Oh. Well, at least we're making something that tastes good.
"So, divide into groups of 3, and I'll give you your ingredients and your recipe!"
I raise my hand.
"Yes?"
"Will we get to eat them?" I ask.
Daisy smiles. "Afterwards, yes."
We get to work. I join Dovewing and Blossomfall's group. I sort of sit back and let them do it, but Dovewing urges me to pour in some cocoa powder or sugar every so often. Finally, Dovewing finishes it. I'm sure they'll taste great, thanks to Dovewing.
Dovewing puts the fudgesicles in the fridge, and we're done. We have a few minutes to play some card games and such before we have to go to dinner.
For dinner we have spaghetti. I quietly sit as most of the girls chat. After dinner, we go to the Camp Tree, where we sit down and wait for Firestar. Once he shows up, we stop talking and listen.
"Tonight we will have a 'great race'," says Firestar. Well, this sounds interesting. "We will give further instructions later, but for now, you should get dressed in comfortable clothes and tennis shoes. Oh, and also, there will be four teams according to Cabins. You should wear your Cabin color. ThunderCabins are red, RiverCabins are blue, WindCabins are yellow, and ShadowCabins are green."
He dismisses us, and I run back to my cabin. I throw on my gym shoes and get ready to do this 'great race'. Sports are a talent that I have that Dovewing doesn't. Not to brag, but I'm the fastest girl at school, plus I'm on the soccer team. So, you can imagine that I'm pretty excited.
Dovewing walks in and puts on her tennis shoes, giving me a long stare. Her gaze isn't angry, just a bit… upset. What did I do? I haven't done anything wrong. What happened?
Berrynose's POV
"ThunderCABINS! ThunderCABINS! ThunderCABINS!" we chant proudly. Lionblaze brought some red bandanas for everyone. Of course he wants to be the center of attention. But I took one anyway and tied it around my head.
"Hey, boys," Ashfur says, peeking his head through the door. "Quiet down. We're leaving now."
We storm through the door and back to the Camp Tree. Firestar comes out.
"All right," he says. "Each Cabins will be together on a team. You will all start here, in a line, and your Head of Cabins will give you directions as to where to go first. You will be in groups of 3, going from station to station. At each station, there will be a counselor, giving you further instructions. The next group of your Cabins can only go when the previous group has returned. The first Cabins to be completely done will win."
"What do we win?" comes a voice.
"A prize," replies Firestar. I snort. "So, pick your groups, and get ready to start."
"I'll be in the first group," I exclaim immediately.
"I'll go with you," decides Lionblaze.
"No," says Hollyleaf, stopping him. "You need to be last, because you'll be fast and you'll help us win."
"So, who's coming with me?" I ask.
"I'll go," volunteers Honeyfern.
"I'm coming too!" exclaims Poppyfrost right away. Oh, great. Sister drama.
"All right," says Bluestar. "You three will go over to the dock by the lake, and the counselor there will give you further instructions. Good luck."
"Three, two, one!" shouts Firestar as I sprint off, with Honeyfern and Poppyfrost following behind.
Lionblaze's POV
I impatiently pace around, waiting for Dovewing, Ivypool, and Blossomfall to return. Next up is Hollyleaf, Cinderheart and I. We're the last group to go before ThunderCabins wins. So far WindCabins is in the lead, because the final WindCabins group dashed off just moments ago. I go up to Bluestar.
"When are they coming back?" I ask.
"I don't know. But you'll be going to the dock by the lake first, you know. So get ready, because they'll be back soon."
I finally see three figures hurrying over to us. "Cinderheart! Hollyleaf! Get ready!" I exclaim.
"We're back!" shouts Ivypool.
"Go!" exclaims Bluestar. I race off, making sure that Cinderheart and Hollyleaf are following. We sprint over to the dock, where Feathertail, a counselor of RiverCabins, is standing by.
"All right," she says, smiling. "Here you have to make 3 different human pyramids."
"Okay, who's the lightest?" I ask.
"Probably Cindy," says Hollyleaf.
"Ok, Hollyleaf and I will get down on our hands and knees, and Cinderheart, you get on top of us."
"Okay," says Cinderheart. She climbs onto my back.
"Great!" says Feathertail. "Two more ways left."
"Now, Lionblaze and I will each hold one of your feet, Cindy, okay?" Hollyleaf decides.
"Sure," says Cinderheart. She climbs onto my hand and Hollyleaf's, and stands up proudly.
"One way left!" exclaims Feathertail.
To get down from the pyramid, Cinderheart does a backflip and lands perfectly on her feet. She's so awesome…
"Lionblaze!" snaps Hollyleaf. I turn around. "Huh?"
"I said, do you have any ideas?" asks Hollyleaf. I shrug. "I only know one way, and that was the first way."
"How about knees?" suggests Cinderheart.
"What do you mean?" asks Hollyleaf.
"Like, you both get down on one knee, and I stand on top of each knee."
"Sure!" says Hollyleaf. We complete our final pyramid.
Feathertail nods. "I've seen more creative, but that counts."
"Where to next?" I ask.
"To the Camp Bulletin Board right outside the Cafeteria," says Feathertail. "And good luck."
We nod our thanks and quickly sprint off to the bulletin board, where we see Nightcloud, a counselor of WindCabins.
"All right, Thunderkids," she says. "Here you do a four-legged race."
"Four?" I ask. But she's already tying my left foot to Hollyleaf's foot, and my right foot to Cinderheart's foot.
"Now, you have to go from this line, to there. It's 25 feet, in case you didn't know," says Nightcloud. "So, get ready, set, go."
I jump off, but we fall down. "I thought we were walking!" protests Hollyleaf.
"Let's jump. It'll be quicker," I suggest. We stand back up and start hopping to the end line. I probably look ridiculous, but Cinderheart is smiling as if she's having fun. And if she's having fun, that's enough to make me happy.
We reach the end line without falling down.
"Great," says Nightcloud with no emotion at all. "Now you go to the swings near the lake."
"All the way over there?!" protests Cinderheart.
"Well, I'd suggest you hurry. I bet you that WindCabins has already won," Nightcloud says with a smirk.
"Fine," I say. "Let's go!"
We race off, going through a bunch of trees, and still we have to run across a large open field, over a bridge, and hurry to the swings.
"I can't keep up!" gasps Hollyleaf.
"We're almost there!" I pant. Finally, we reach the swings to see Rowanclaw, a counselor of ShadowCabins.
"All right, here you'll do some water balloon tossing," says Rowanclaw. "If you throw it to each other 10 times, you'll get to go. But if you drop it at all, you have to start over."
"Challenge accepted," I say. Rowanclaw gives me the first balloon.
"Spread out into a triangle," says Hollyleaf. We stand about 15 feet apart. I toss the water balloon to Cinderheart, but I guess I tossed too hard, because the balloon explodes onto her shirt.
"Lionblaze!" exclaims Cinderheart. I frown. I can't even impress her.
I take another water balloon, and this time I toss it lightly. Cinderheart catches it, and tosses it to Hollyleaf. Hollyleaf literally chucks it at me, but I somehow manage to catch it. I toss it back to Cinderheart, and she tosses to Hollyleaf, but Hollyleaf's fingers slip and the balloon drops.
"Oops!" she says. I don't even argue, I just take another water balloon and toss it to Cinderheart. One. She throws to Hollyleaf. Two. I catch it when Hollyleaf throws it to me. Three.
Finally, we make it to nine. I have it in my arms. I toss it to Cinderheart.
Ten! Cinderheart caught it.
"Nice," says Rowanclaw. "Well, this was your last station. Hurry back to the Camp Tree."
I race off, over the bridge, across the field, and through the forest. Finally, I reach Bluestar. She high-fives us.
I turn around to see a few other kids just reaching their teams. Then, I hear Firestar's voice.
"All right, everyone," says Firestar. "WindCabins has won this 'great race'. They will receive their prize."
I hear cheers from WindCabins. I growl.
"WindCabins will be able to eat dessert first as their prize. Second, ThunderCabins, third, ShadowCabins, and finally, RiverCabins."
Well, at least we got second place. Firestar dismisses WindCabins to the cafeteria for some dessert. After a minute or so, he dismisses ThunderCabins.
I sprint to the cafeteria. The only thing that keeps me running is that I know there will be some kind of treat waiting for me. I don't know if I've mentioned this already, but Camp Warriors has the best desserts.
I get in line to find that tonight the dessert is brownies. Warm, chocolaty brownies. Mmm.
And they taste amazing. I wish we could have seconds.
Afterwards, I run back to my cabin to take a shower before the other boys. Then, I settle into my bed and drift off to sleep, thinking about the girl of my dreams.
Thanks to CherryBreezeFeather, Guest, CandyHeart13, sunburstkitty, Stream that Flows Around Rock and QLKwriter for reviewing on Chapter 3! Anyways, I hope you liked it! ~Silver
