"STOP!" Mossystar's yowl rang throughout the hollow, making Hawkkit stop in her tracks. "Are you crazy?! You mouse-brained kit!" Mossystar's angry hiss made Hawkkit's tail droop and head lower in shame.
Petalscar's eyes were wide as an owl's as she stared at Hawkkit. "She nearly killed me!" Her haunches were raised and her gaze was wild and she backed away dramatically from Hawkkit. Oh, but I didn't, my dear Petalscar.
Hawkkit was secretly enjoying her fear and wanted to laugh but then she felt her mother's disappointed gaze, as well as Mossystar's, she thought better of it. I bet she won't gossip about Plumkit anymore. She had to bite her tongue not to say the words out loud.
Mossystar looked at Petalscar, whose wounds were still bleeding. "Go see Seedfur." She mewed dismissively. Then turned her gaze back to Hawkkit. Hawkkit saw something flash in Mossystar's eyes other than disappointment. Is it rage? No, it seemed like fear. Mossystar is afraid of me?
But then the flash was gone in a heart beat. And she gestured with her tail to go wait in her den. Ugh. What did I just do?! She padded to a small cave-like structure that was the leaders den, and plopped down on the dusty floor.
She peeked outside and saw Mossystar speaking to Petalscar. She could make out what they were saying by reading the she-cats' lips. "What caused her to do this?" Mossystar tried to sound confident, but her whiskers quivered ever so slightly, expressing her worry.
"I don't know! I was just talking to Nightfang about how well prey was running this new-leaf and then... BAM! Hawkkit attacked me from behind with this crazed look in her eyes!" Petalscar lied.
That lying pile of fox-dung! Hawkkit was so furious she wanted to spit.
"Well, I'll make sure she's punished." Mossystar mewed to her reassuringly. Well thanks, Petaldung! Now I'm getting a worse punishment! Petalscar's wounds had ointment on them from Seedfur, and as she bounded away from Mossystar her pasty muzzle curled into a devious smile.
She couldn't help it and it just slipped out, "Enjoy your new scars, Petaldung." She murmured, not realizing her leader was approaching. "What was that?" Mossystar asked accusingly. "Oh, nothing." Hawkkit fibbed. Mossystar's gaze was serious. "Now tell me what actually happened." She knew Petalscar was lying! Her mood changed and hope fluttered in her chest as she explained what happened to Mossystar.
"You wouldn't have believed what she was saying about Plumkit." Hawkkit meowed, her defense coming to an end. "And then you snapped." Mossystar finished. "Precisely." Hawkkit mewed searching Mossystar's expression for a clue on how she felt. "I'm terribly sorry." Hawkkit tried to look as innocent as possible. But I'll do it again in a heartbeat if she keeps talking about my sister.
"Your heart was in the right place so I'll let you pass, but do not speak to Petalscar or Nightfang unless absolutely necessary." Mossystar looked at her with stern understanding, and Hawkkit sensed wistfulness stir inside her leader. "Okay." Hawkkit mewed, staring deep into the she-cats green eyes.
Hawkkit was about to walk away and see Oakpaw but then Mossystar meowed something else to her.
"Have you had any strange dreams?" She asked out of the blue. Why in starclan's name would she want to know? She answered anyway. "No." "Okay you may leave my den now, I think the patrols are back." she mewed with a wink. Finally! "Okay. Bye!" Hawkkit meowed then scurried off.
She ran right into Oakpaw. "I was just coming to see you! What happened with you and Petalscar? She's going around telling everyone you attacked her." Oh great now she's gossiping about me. He looked at her with his piercing amber gaze. "Is that true?"
He's one of the few cats I can tell anything to."Yes. But wouldn't you have done the same thing if they were saying those things about Rainpaw?" Hawkkit defended. Trying not to get caught up in the way his muscles rippled as he spoke.
"I guess... But let's just hope for her sake, it doesn't happen again" Oakpaw mewed playfully. A grin slowly crept it's way on Hawkkit's face. He can always make me smile.
Hawkkit's stomach growled fiercely. She remembered the delicious mouse she abandoned before she fought Petalscar. "Can we get something to eat? I'm starving!" Hawkkit asked, now happy that she would finally able to hang out with Oakpaw.
"Sure!" Oakpaw bounded over to the fresh-kill pile. A little ways of Hawkkit could see little splatters of blood were she fought Petalscar. She pushed Petaldung out of her mind as Oakpaw padded up to her, a large rabbit in his jaws. "I hought it myfelf." He attempted to speak though the rabbit's fur.
Just then Maplepaw approached Oakpaw batting her eyes. "Hey, Oakpaw! That was so cool how you caught that rabbit earlier! Maplepaw mewed flirtatiously. Um, excuse me Flirtypaw, but he was just about to share that rabbit with me so...
Hawkkit had her nicknames for lots of cats. And Maple's was Flirtypaw, although she would never say it out loud. Oakpaw put down his catch and looked seriously at her. "Maplepaw I have something to tell you..." Oakpaw shuffled his paws and looked down.
Maplepaw looked up at him with her hopeful amber eyes. Is he going to make Flirtypaw his mate!? "I can't go on like this..." He continued. Then he looked up at Maplepaw with his gorgeous amber gaze, his expression unreadable. "I don't like you so, you can stop making passes. I have my eyes on someone else..."
Then he looked at Hawkkit and his whiskers twitched nervously. Hawkkit sat with her poker-face the whole time, but her mind was buzzing. Is it me he wants? Oakpaw looked sadly back to Maplepaw "I'm sorry, I just don't like you that way. I hope we can still be friends." Hawkkit could sense Maplepaw's shock turn into sadness, and then anger.
"Fine!" she yowled at Oakpaw. Then she turned to Hawkkit. "And I promise you, I will make your life miserable." Her gaze was stone cold and she spat these words so grimly that it scared Hawkkit. She could see how serious her face was. She meant what she was saying, this was not a threat Maplepaw was making.
It was a promise.
Okay. So basically, Petalscar and Maplepaw have some 'issues' they need to work out and they want revenge. And can you figure out who's Maplepaw is distantly related to?