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Chapter Six
"One more! Please?" Lilacpaw whines, running ahead of me to look me in the eye.
"No, beside you need to rest or else you'll be too sore for tomorrow's battle training."
"Please?" She continues to beg. Ugh. She is so stubborn! This cat will be the death of me I know it.
"Unless you want to care for the elders all day…" I warn.
"No!" Her eyes widen and she shakes her head.
"Thought so, now let's get back to camp." I mew picking up the prey we caught. It's not much; well for me anyway. Three scrawny mice, one crow, and a small thrush.
We deposit our catches in the fresh kill hole. The hole keeps the prey from freezing.
"Midnightstorm!" Lionblaze calls from the Highledge.
"Yeah?" I call back.
"Have you set the patrols for tomorrow?"
"No, I will now." I mew my voice as even as I can get it.
"Okay."
You don't have to remind me. I grumble in my mind.
The evening patrol is gathered at the thorn tunnel about to leave. I pad over to them.
"Hey Midnightstorm," Brightheart greets, her eye tired and lifeless.
What's wrong with everybody? It's so lifeless and dull at camp. The war with the Dark Forest is like a sickness that is raging in the Clans. Draining all of our emotions and taking our lives, emotionally.
"Brightheart, would you mind doing the dawn patrol tomorrow with Jaggedwind, Dustpelt, and Sandstorm?"
"Okay, I'll tell them after I get back."
"Great, thanks Brightheart!" I meow and watch them exit camp. I stand by the thorn tunnel, trying to decide if I want to get out or if I should stay in.
"Hey Midnightstorm," A cat says from behind me.
"Hmm?" I hum turning around. It's Sorreltail.
"Have you seen Echosong…?" she asks hesitantly.
I'm definitely going out now.
"No, but I'll go look for her." I say turning and sprinting out of the tunnel.
The cool winter air whips my fur, sending shivers down my spine. I can feel her presence ahead, at the ShadowClan border. Surprise, surprise. Oh why Echo why?
Slowing my pace to a crawl I crouch down low to the ground and creep forward as close as I can get without her knowing I'm there. Smokefoot must have left a while ago, they seem to have fought again. They'll get over it, and continue to see each other, I know it. Endangering the Clans and themselves.
You know I can hear you. Echosong hisses in my mind. She turns to look at me, her face wet with hot tears and her eyes blazing with anger.
"I sensed you awhile ago. Next time you should keep your thoughts quiet." She snaps.
"Back at you," I retort. My patience is thin. I'm done keeping their secrets. It needs to end now.
"Don't even start," Echosong hisses flattening her ears against her head.
"Echosong…" I say softly, trying not to anger her, I feel like I'm walking on the edge of a ravine around her.
"Stop!" She screeches, "Don't you remember when you told me you would never take love away from me?"
"But this has gone too far!" I hiss, my anger getting to me.
She looks away, her head dropping. She looks defeated.
I know. She thinks bitterly.
So, you'll stop?
"No!" Echosong screams, her anger flaring up again.
"Why won't you see how much this is hurting everyone?" I demeands.
"How is it hurting anyone?" She asks naïvely.
"Nightwhisper misses you," my voice breaks on his name but I don't get any pity, "Your parents miss you, your friends miss you!"
She looks away again, gazing up at the sky. I miss you!
"I don't need them." She whispers, barely audible.
"Yes, you do." I reply softly.
"No! For all you know I could go join ShadowClan!" She yells.
"Please don't do that," I beg, thinking of how bad life would be for her there. And I know she's lying she could never leave or at least I hope, because secretly that's my nightmare.
"If you cared for me then you would let me love him!" She screams.
"They will punish you."
"Who?" She asks whipping her head back around to look at me.
"StarClan! They will punish you for having a forbidden love. It's against the Warrior Code, the one you promised to abide by. Duh." I mew, wondering how she could have become so stupid.
"No they won't," She says stubbornly.
I can hear her thinking in her mind. She thinks that because she's gifted that she can get away with it. Na-freaking-ïve .
"No, it doesn't work that way. They only let you get away with it when it works to their advantage." I reply to her thought. She shoots me an icy glare.
"Stop reading my thoughts!"
"It's my gift." I emphasize the word letting her know what I really think, "Echosong, just please stop seeing him."
"No."
"Fine!" I snap, finally sick of it all, of being the bad guy because I actually followed the freaking Dark Forest code and got my heart annihilated because of it. Sick from all I've lost, all the friends I don't have any more, "Just remember that you will get punished, and when you do, don't blame me come to me for comfort!"
"Why would I come to you?" She sneers.
"Because in case you forgot we used to be friends. And I want to know how in the Dark Forest I lost you because I never want it to happen again, but I guess you aren't going to tell me. And here's proof that you're wanted, your mom's worried sick about you. But I guess that's just something else you don't care about anymore." I hold her gaze until she looks away and starts home. I know she's going and not just faking me out.
So I wander in the opposite direction from her, slipping through the night, not sure what to do, I can't seem to fix anything. I end up at the moonpool, it's beautiful but I don't want up end in StarClan tonight. Sitting there staring at it, I feel all my regret pile up.
My stomach feels sick. I don't want to think about it. She could die because of him. I can feel it, they are watching. This is bad, this is really bad.
And I can't stop it.
If only I knew how to save a life.
I just love Lilacpaw. But this was sad=( I hate fights. Especially catfights. Okay that was lame, my only excuse I'm tired and need to get off of the computer. So with that said, Night & Review!
