Aaaand, I'm back with another chapter to FtF as well! I just finished this chappie right now and thought I should post it for ya XD I personally like where this story is going so far, but that's just me. You might or might not like it, but that's your own opinion :P

Enjoy~

The rest of day had pretty much gone by without any problems. No casualties, no injuring or illnesses, no battles, no border arguments. It was pretty much a normal day. And Soulshine was glad for this. She was able to give a nursery queen one of the fish she had caught, and ate the other one in peace, sharing it with Willowshine. After eating, they started grooming before Willowshine had to go back to her medicine cat duties, leaving her friend to bask in a corner of the clearing by herself.

Soulshine lay peacefully on her belly as she basked in a quiet corner of the camp, her tail flicking every now and then. The soft pad of paws drawing near arose her from her doze and she opened one blue eye. A silver tom stopped in front of her, looking calm and slightly nervous as his striped tail flicked behind him. His amber eyes avoided her gaze, but flicked towards her every few seconds. She lifted her head.

"May I join you?" He asked softly, glancing at her for a moment to see her reaction.

"Sure, Minnowrush," Soulshine said before setting her head back down.

Minnowrush gave a smile before laying down beside her, only a mouse-length away from having their fur touch. He was slightly turned away from her as he found everything else more interesting to look. Though, occasionally, he did peek over at her to see her resting peacefully.

"Was there something you needed?" Soulshine asked calmly, not even bothering to open her eyes.

"Uh...I just…" Minnowrush fumbled with his words, unsure of what to say to that question. "...wanted to be near you…"

Soulshine opened her eyes at this and lifted her head. She shifted her gaze to the tom and saw that he was purposely avoiding her gaze with his head turned. Her calm tail began to flick about as she stared at the back of his head. "You've been avoiding me purposefully for a while, always finding an excuse to be away from me. Now you want to be near me?" Her nostrils flared as she breathed hard through her nose, a seething anger rising within her that was not normal at all. "We used to always play and train together, and then you decide to shut me out like I'm some sort of piece of crow-food," she hissed softly.

Minnowrush turned his gaze to her, his amber eyes wide with guilt. "I...I didn't mean to make you feel that way...I just-"

"Didn't mean to make me feel that way?" She echoed, rudely interrupting him. "For the love of Starclan, Minnowrush, make up your mind!" She pushed herself to her paws and towered over him, making him shrink into his fur with fright. "Are we friends or are we not?" Without waiting for an answer, leaving the tom with an open mouth, Soulshine stomped away with a lashing tail and entered the warriors' den, climbing into her nest and curling up so that her back was to the entrance.

Any cat could tell she was peeved, and no cat wanted to mess with her. Last time she was angry, she nearly turned a border-crosser into crow-food. She was normally a rational cat, but once something gets on her nerves, the cats better scatter. Stones will be turned and the fur will fly.

Soulshine opened her eyes with a frustrated sniff and lifted her head. It was dark so it was easy to tell that Silverpelt had awoken. She could just make out the pelts of the other cats illuminated by the moonlight, and she narrowed her eyes when she spotted Minnowrush's pelt rise and fall with his steady breathing, indicating he was asleep. Not wanting to disturb her clanmates, she got up and quietly exited the den. She knew she had overreacted with Minnowrush, but it was too late now. If she felt like it, she'd apologize to him during the day.

Feeling restless, she decided to go out for a midnight hunt. She told the guarding she-cat at the camp entrance that she was going out and padded silently through the undergrowth towards the lake. That was the one place she was able to think in peace without being disturbed. She padded onto the shore of the lake and stopped at the water' sedge, allowing the water to gently lap at her paws. She closed her eyes and breathed in deeply through her nose, letting it out as a heavy sigh as she lashed her tail slowly from side to side before it grew still, the tip flicking ever so slightly. She thought about what had happened earlier as she stared at the glinting stars above.

She had good reason to be angry at Minnowrush. Ever since they had started to play together as kits, they had been best friends. They trained together as apprentices and often spent their time together when they had free time. But, a few moons before their warriors' ceremony, he had completely stopped talking and spending time with her. He avoided her at every turn and always found an excuse to not go on a patrol or cross paths with her. She often wondered what had happened to bring this change in their relationship. Had she done something wrong? Said something offending? What had she done wrong? She couldn't remember anything that might have lead to the end of their friendship.

Just thinking about it made her tail lash and she flattened her ears as she tried to calm herself down again. Her ears perked up at the change of sound to the water lapping against the shore. Normally one wouldn't notice such a thing, but she had gotten used to hearing the waves that the sounds had become engraved into her ears. It was almost natural to her. A sudden splash made her flinch, fur bristling at the shock of the sudden sound, and opened her eyes wide. She glanced around at the water, and noticed the body of a cat laying half out of the water and half in the water a few fox-lengths down the shore towards the Windclan border. The cat was half-turned to her and watched her with curious bright blue eyes.

Soulshine blinked as she stared back, but a little nervously. Her tail-tip flicked back and forth slightly and she turned her head slightly. But she noticed something. Why wasn't the cat getting out of the water right away? Even Riverclan cats don't stay in the water that long. She stalked over to him slowly. "Uh, hello," she said, a bit unsurely. "Aren't you, um, going to get out of the lake?"

The black and brown tom blinked at her confusedly as he lifted his head from the sand, tilting his head curiously. "Why would I do that?" He asked, completely curious.

Soulshine stopped in her tracks a few tail-lengths from him. "Uh...because you're fur will get sodden?"

"It will?" The tom lifted his front leg and stared at the fur that was being weighed down with water. "Oh," he blinked as he set his leg back down in the sand. "Well, my fur is always sodden."

"You must really love the water."

"I live in the water."

Soulshine blinked at the bluntness in his tone. "You liv-...!" She gasped softly when she saw a large fish dark blue tail rise out of the water just behind the tom and sway in the air, almost as if it were wagging slowly. She realized then that the fish tail was actually...attached...to his body. And she realized just how different of a cat his upper body was. His ears were extremely long and skinny, almost like a rabbit's, and he had large webbed paws. And his lower body...well, it was a fish tail. He had no back legs or hind quarters, it was just a really long and large fish tail.

"Like what you see?" The tom smirked as he waved his tail high above his head, before letting his lay on top of his head.

Soulshine blinked in surprise and glanced away shyly. "Uh...wha-what are you?" She murmured, just loud enough for him to hear her.

"I am from Merclan."

Hmm. Another clan huh? Interesting. And yes, if you hadn't guess, he is a mercat. I personally like his design x3 If ya don't really like the idea of where this story is going, then you don't have to read it. I won't bore you with my story.

Anywayz, plz review!

Luna WhiteWolf~