OMG! :D I got a cat! It's a tom. He's sooo cute but I don't know what to name him...: /
So I'm writing this chapter as fast as I can before he treads all over my computer...which he's done at least seven times already today. I also don't have a lot of time, but I'm doing my best!
So here's the chapter. Oh and did I say to Skystar that Amberpaw was getting her full name last chapter? Sorry, she didn't...uh, I guess...lol.
The point of views will be random from now on, anyway.
Amberpaw's POV
Amberpaw quickly gathered Lilypond and Firesoul.
"You need to get your nine lives and name Firesoul as your deputy so you can challenge Sunstar!" Amberpaw hissed to her sister near the medicine cat den. She didn't dare look inside, in case she saw Grasslace's dead body.
So she tried her best to look away.
Lilypond nodded. "And you need to get your full name," she pointed out.
Nodding, Amberpaw quickly darted to the dirt-place tunnel, Firesoul and Lilypond following. Wriggling through, she saw a huge ThistleClan warrior gaurding it, who noticed her as soon as she started to enter.
"Is someone trying to escape?" the warrior cackled. "Sorry, Sunny-star would like all ThunderClan cats here in camp." Then he seemed to see who it was. "Oh! The leader, deputy, and medicine cat, fleeing for their lives! How sweet!"
Who is this and why has Sunstar hired a crazy cat to trap the cats who tried to escape? Amberpaw thought. Wait- Sunny-star?!
"Err...yeah. Running for our lives!" Amberpaw stammered. "Exactly right!" She was scared out of her fur.
Lilypond shot her a glare and stepped forward. "Look, Fishface, let us through!"
Amberpaw blinked. Is that an insult or...
"How do you know my name?" Fishface demanded. This made Amberpaw have to fight the urge to purr in amuesment. His name is Fishface!
"I've seen you at a Gathering. You were a new warrior. Now- I'll count to five and you better step aside before I say five. One... two..." Lilypond growled. But the cat- Fishface- didn't move.
"Three...Four..." Still the huge warrior didn't step aside, just standing there.
"Five!" Fishface didn't even bat an eye or budge when Lilypond finished. "Is that all? Count?" Fishface asked.
Suddenly he fell to the ground, eyes rolling into the back of his head as he plopped onto the dirt. "Ow... sunny...star..." the knocked out warrior muttered as his eyes closed. At least he isn't dead, Amberpaw thought as she gazed at him, wondering who had knocked him out. Then she looked up from the defeated huge tom.
Firesoul stood over him. "Let's go."
Amberpaw and Firesoul and Lilypond raced to the Moonpool, paws skimming the ground as they crossed into the moors. Finally Lilypond ordered that they took a break in a small dip in the ground on the edge of the moors, near ThunderClan territory.
"Thank StarClan!" Firesoul puffed as he sat down. Amberpaw looked around for herbs like juniper berries, but couldn't find any in the hollow.
Amberpaw managed a smile before she turned to Lilypond. "We need you to get your nine lives as fast as you can so we can get back and get rid of ThistleClan."
Lilypond glanced at her. "Oh- uh, okay." For some odd reason Amberpaw's sister didn't seem to be excited at the thought of being leader.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"I had no training from Yellowstar, and... well, I don't think I'm ready. I'm a new warrior- I shouldn't have to be leader yet." Lilypond replied.
Amberpaw rolled her eyes. "Mouse brain! No warrior ever feels ready to be deputy, or leader. I didn't think I'd be ready to be a medicine cat when Grasslace just died, but... now I am."
When Lilypond blinked and looked at her with something...else in her eyes, Amberpaw quickly swept on.
"It isn't easy to get your nine lives, become leader, or defeat Sunstar, Lilypond. But that's why Yellowstar chose you. Your strong, hard working, and kind she-cat. You have to kill Sunstar."
"Or as Fishface says, Sunny-star!" Firesoul grinned and made Amberpaw and Lilypond purr. "Then... we better get to the Moonpool. Time is running out." Lilypond growled as she stood up.
Suddenly something barreled into Amberpaw, knocking her over. She looked up but only saw a tuft of fur she couldn't recognize the color of the cat that was holding her down, pinned.
"Stay where you are and don't move if you want your friend to live," the cat ordered, claws piercing into Amberpaw's neck.
Graceheart's POV
"Just follow my lead," Hophare told Jumphare as they crept out of the apprentice's den. "Maplepaw, you and Shadepaw go to the left with Jumphare. Graceheart and I will go to the right. When we start running, you start running."
Graceheart blinked. "Okay. But what about Blizzardpaw, Skypaw, and Sandpaw?" she asked.
"Er... well, Sandpaw looks like he can't fight anymore-" Hophare was cut off by the cat he'd name growling, "That's not true!"
"Oh. Then you three will come from the back. Then, hopefully another ThunderClan warrior will figure out what's going on and attack from the front. Don't get separated from at least two Clanmates." Hophare told the rest of the young group.
Graceheart nodded. "Lets go then."
After getting into their positions, Hophare flicked his tail to the battle- or at least, what used to be the battle. Now ThistleClan was circling ThunderClan's cats, and trying to fight them... a little.
"On three," Hophare hissed. "One...two...THREE!"
He burst forward, Graceheart scrambling after him. She heard screeches from the apprentices and Jumphare as they too raced to ThistleClan.
Graceheart slammed into a ThistleClan warrior and raked her claws down another. After hearing a "What in the Dark Forest?!" she slapped the mouth of whoever said it.
That out to hurt or sting for a while, she thought in satisfaction as she heard a yelp, and then a hiss. She then tore off clumps of fur from the first and second cats, and one fled the battle.
Then she heard battle yells- ThunderClan battle yowls! Her clanmates were attacking again! Yes! Hophare's plan worked! She thought.
Amberpaw's POV
"Let her go!" Lilypond hissed.
The cat replied, "No. Back away. If you attack she dies."
Amberpaw felt claws started to feel claws sink into her neck when Lilypond and Firesoul didn't take a few steps. Finally, after a few heart beats that seemed to be moons, the two backed up a little. The claws slightly retracted.
"Good. Now, stay where you are." The cat mewed.
"wait!" Amberpaw saw Firesoul's fur fluff up. "What are you going to do with her, rouge? She's our sister and we have to save our Clan!"
"I don't care of the business with the Clans. I only care about survival." the rouge shot back.
Then the weight disappeared and left Amberpaw confused. Huh? Then she, scrambling to her paws, looked up to see a small cat pushing the rouge out of the way.
The rouge who'd threatened to kill Amberpaw was white, but the other one, an older kit, was gray-brown white a white chest and paws.
"Who are you?" Amberpaw demanded.
The white rouge snarled, "Snug." Then she started to attack the kit.
"Whoa!" the kit squealed as he dodged out of the way. "M-my name is Canute."
Firesoul narrowed his eyes. "Okay." Then he ran at the rouges, lightly pushing Canute out of the way and shouldering Snug. He then twisted and tackled her, sending her into the dirt and grass. "Oof!" Snug grunted as she fought Firesoul, who called out, "Go on ahead! I'll fight and stall her!"
Amberpaw nodded. "Come with us, Canute."
The gray-brown tabby looked up with wide amber-green eyes. "O-okay." He started to scramble up the slope of the hollow.
The three ran to the Moonpool, Canute being asked questions by Lilypond. "Why did you save Amberpaw?"
"S-she seemed nice, and t-that rouge, Snug, i-isn't very nice," Canute responded.
"Oh. Then, who are you?" Amberpaw pressed.
"Well I'm all alone, I have no home," Canute mewed sadly. "My sister and brothers left me, and my parents are dead." Lilypond and Amberpaw exchanged glances.
"Hm... I'm going to the Moonpool, a small pool of water, to earn my nine lives since I'm now the leader of my Clan. Amberpaw, my sister, is the medicine cat. But she needs to get her full name."
Amberpaw expected Canute to be surprised and curious at the thought of a full name, or nine lives, or leadership, but was shocked when all he did was nod and say, "Oh I've heard of the Clans do that!"
"Okay... then, our brother, Firesoul, the ginger tom back there, is deputy or second-in-command." Lilypond told Canute.
Why are you telling me all of this? Amberpaw was sure the question burned in Canute's mind, as it did in hers. Canute's just a rouge... a kit, but still a rouge.
"Well, would you like to join our Clan...?" Lilypond asked. "It looks like you can fight, and we're in a huge war right now."
"U-uh, I'm going to stay a r-rouge I think." Canute mewed. "But thanks."
Then the trees started to get thicker as the three headed up the slope to the Moonpool. The dirt and moss underpaw became rocky and harder. Soon the trees slightly became less dense and the undergrowth became more and bigger.
Pushing through some thorns, Amberpaw led her sister down into the dip in the ground, the Moonpool glistening.
Okay! So NEXT chapter will be nine lives and full name! Sorry about that!
Also, the top of the chapter was from yesterday. One whole day to write a chapter!...well, I was busy with my new cat so...
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