Authors bitchy note: Okay guys, listen. Snobby rude comments about not working on the story and adding more chapters are snobby and rude and a bunch of other words. I'm busy, I don't have much time to work on this, since I want to try and do a decent job and not upload a short piece of crap. Why don't I have time? I'm an international exchaqnge student currently living in another country. The year before I left was dedicated to doing as much as I could in my country before leaving, aswell as sport teams, keeping grades good enough to leave, and learning languages that would help on my exchange. So I prefer not to deal with crappy comments like that. So the day before Christmas Eve, I am writing this for all of you, and I only get a review every 4 months or so. Whatever, that's life. I tried to bring some new ideas into this chapter that could help the rest of the story keep going.
"Pay attention!" Foxstrike snapped, as I came out of blackness. Something sharp went acrross my face right at that time, and I opened my eyes in dismay to see Maplepaw looking at my in laughter and shock. "Oops, sorry Rainpaw, you know I have a problem keeping my claws sleathed! It's just on your cheek, doesn't look so bad!" I tried to look down on my cheek, but of course that didn't work. Ughh, Maplepaw. She was my best friend but sometimes I wanted to kill her. I pressed my paw to my cheek, and felt warm blood surrouding it.
"Maplepaw, be careful! And Rainpaw, you really need to start paying attention, how are you ever going to become a warrior if you are always day-dreaming? Assessments are coming soon, and you need to focus up! Is your cheek okay?" Foxstike scolded, then asked in a bit of alarm. I felt it again, the cut felt a bit deep, but not serious. I would just get Dreamsplash to look at it later. Noticing Foxstrike a bit more, I realized how tired my mentor was looking. Quickly scanning through the last few days in my head, I remembered why. Extra patrols with the Shadowclan border because of a potentional invasion. I also remembered my mentor stating I wasn't ready to fight, and made me stay at camp while Maplepaw got to go on lots of patrols. Ouch. Knowing what I was doing only while I was sleeping in the warrior world made it hard to have control over what I did. I started to wonder how I made desisions when I was awake in the real world, when Maplepaw pushed me over. "Come on Rainpaw, remember, we are going to become the two best warriors here! So let's get back to training!" I leaped, growling with playfulness, "I already am the best warrior, you're going down!"
Walking back to camp, I realized, if I'm here, I must be sleeping in the real world. And in the real world...where was I? Oh crap. 3rd period, math class. How long had I been here already? 2 hours, but the time didn't run the same in the two worlds. I needed to wake up, and fast, before I got in a lot of trouble in the real world. But how could I get back? Injuries obviously didn't work, or else I would have woken up when Maplepaw scratched me. Wait, that's it! I scrunched up my nose, and felt the wound sting on my cheek. Perfect.
"Dreamsplash, my cheek is scratched!" I loudly complained, walking into the medicine cats den. Immediatly, Dreamsplash hopped up from her nest, and sniffed at the wound. "A bit deep, but it should be okay, how did it happen?" she asked, quickly grabbing some cobwebs. What was the point, the blood was dry by now, right? "Maplepaw scratched me while batlle training. It hurts, can I have some poppyseeds?" I asked. It was the perfect solution, poppyseeds, sleep, wake up, I always woke up when I went to bed! "Don't be silly, it's not that bad, we need to save our stocks incase anything happens with Shadowclan, you can do without." Dreamsplash meowed, chewing up some marigold on the cobweb then pressing it to my cheek. Ouch that did sting! Worse was the fact I couldn't get poppyseed, what was I supposed to do now?
"Dreamsplash, Gorsekit fell and hurt his leg!" A kit wailed from outside the nursery. "Those darn kits, it's nothing, it's always nothing, but I have to go check just in case. Rainpaw, just go return to your duties, kay?"Dreamsplash left, to check on the kit. Immediatly, I sprang to the other side of the den, took a couple poppy seeds, swallowed them, then walked out like nothing happened. I went to my den, telling my mentor I needed a nap, then curled up in a ball and fell to sleep the instant my body hit the soft moss.
I woke with a start, waking up just as fast as I fell asleep. Nobody seemed to notice that I fell asleep, Michael was playing with his pen. Amanda, back from being sick, was reading a warriors book that was hidden in her text book. Carson was actually paying attention, the keener! I turned to Amanda, she would have obviously noticed I fell asleep and was pretending she didn't, she sat right next to me for goodness sakes! "Hey, dude, how long was I sleeping for?" I whispered silently. "About 20 minutes, you didn't snore so it was all good." Amanda replied, then looked up from her book. When she did, she gasped in shock and a bit of fear. Everybody turned to look at her. "Hey, what's wrong?" I asked, worried. Nothing seemed different, I didn't have any fur, and had five fingers on each hand, like normal. "Your...face! What happened?" Amanda yelped, as my hand went up to my face. In the same place Maplepaw scratched me, was 4 scratches,claw marks, running across my left cheek. "How is that possible?" I shrieked in dismay, standing up abruptly, knocking my chair over in the process. Everybody was looking at me, puzzled by my behavious, and the blood covering my cheek.
"Oh dear Raine, did you scratch yourself with your pencil or something? You better go see a nurse or something, it doesn't look the best..." she trailed off, poiting me towards the door. Covering my left cheek, I walked out of the room quickly, not to the nurse's office, but out the front door of the school, to go home. I just needed to be by myself, to think, to figure everything out.