I'm waiting for something in a minecraft world so I thought "Hey! Why don't I write while I wait?"

And thus this chapter was born… XD Funny thing? I'm waiting for a dragon named Phantom to hatch! Heheh. The irony…

DISCLAIMER: I don't think I'm Butch or Erin… Or am I? JK!

Nightfang

Chapter 9: Freezing

"Nightfang!"

Nightfang shot up in her bedding, getting ready to shoot an ectoblast when she realized it was just Stoneclaw.

"Sheesh, Nightfang," he replied after he jumped back from her sudden battle stance. "I know you were gone and all, but how long did you sleep in over there?"

The she-cat thought back to her times with Danny. She usually didn't have to get up till 11 or 6 on a school day (Yes, Danny helped her use the clock). "Um…" she stuttered. "Noon- I mean sun high."

Ignoring her mess up, Stoneclaw nodded. "Well, you can't do that here. Come on, Sleepy head. We're on the hunting patrol."

Nightfang followed her brother to the camp entrance where Lionclaw and Waterheart were waiting. 'Wow,' she thought as they approached them. 'A family hunting patrol. This is probably because I'm back, isn't it?'

The morning hunters headed out into the forest, the parents in the front, with Nightfang and Stoneclaw in the back. It had been a few more days than a week since she last saw Danny, maybe even more! She missed his bright, blue eyes greeting her in the morning and ghost fighting at the strangest of times. But she was also complacent with her life now; hunting with her clan, helping with apprentice duties, even just lying in the clearing sunbathing. Though, nothing could compare to snuggling up in Danny's lap by the fireplace or just in his bed.

"So how's it like being back?" Stoneclaw whispered for the fifth time that week, ears alert for prey.

"Awesome," Nightfang replied bluntly, creeping into the bushes, searching for the mouse her enhanced senses could smell. She found it by the trunk of a tree a little away from the others. It was cleaning off its head with its paws by licking them and rubbing it on its head.

Getting into a hunter's crouch, Nightfang stalked towards the prey, but shivered and ruined her stance a bit. Without wondering why it was so cold or trying to correct herself, she pounced once she was close enough. It scurried away just in time under a tree root.

"Foxdung!" Nightfang hit her paw on the ground in frustration.

"You get a bit rusty while you were gone?" Stoneclaw said mockingly from behind her. "Though I have to admit, I didn't smell that mouse back there."

"Well sorry!" The she-cat stood up and turned on her brother. "The only times I hunted was a rat or two in the allies by FentonWorks! Other than that, Danny fed me fish and chicken!"

Stoneclaw tilted his head. "Fenton-what?"

Nightfang's eyes widened. "Oh, uh…" She looked around her surroundings. 'Distraction, distraction, come on! I don't want to explain this!'

"Squirrel!" Nightfang ran up the nearest tree, using some of her ghost flight so she zipped up the trunk faster than a squirrel could. Sure enough, the rustling she heard was indeed a squirrel, which she pounced and killed with a bite to the neck.

"Gosh!" Stoneclaw said from below her as she dropped the body from the branches. "I didn't know you could climb so fast! And how can you not catch a mouse, but you can catch a squirrel?"

'Great job, Nightfang. Pretty much blow your cover when you tried to save it!'

"Uh… Being gone has, um, changed me a lot!" She wasn't lying; she was, after all, now half ghost.

Nightfang jumped from the tree branch and grabbed the squirrel. A shiver ran up her spine, but she rushed off to find her parents. Stoneclaw narrowed his eyes. "Why do I feel like she isn't telling me something…?"

X.X.X.X.X

After about an hour of hunting, the patrol came back to the camp. Nightfang dropped off her squirrel and rabbit at the fresh-kill pile while Lionclaw brought his mouse and robin, Stoneclaw his mouse and vole, and Waterheart her dove and jay. It was a good hunt; the forest was rich with prey. They even got to catch up more on the past few moons.

The rest of the day went by quickly. Nightfang didn't have to do much; she just helped Leopardpaw collect some herbs for Grasswhisker and had rabbit at sundown.

By the end of the day, she was curled up in her moss bedding again next to Stoneclaw. 'Why is it so cold today?' All day Nightfang had been shivering at the strangest of times; even when she was sunbathing. No one had noticed, luckily.

Soon after she had fallen asleep, she woke up to a prod in her side. The she-cat opened her eyes to see her father standing over her, concern clear in his face. "L-Lionclaw. W-What are y-you d-doing?"

"Nightfang, you're shivering!"

"W-What?" Nightfang just realized she was indeed shaking from the cold; pretty severely, actually. She looked back at the golden tom. "H-How c-come you can st-stand this f-freezing t-temperature?"

"Nightfang," he whispered, "it's hot in the den."

"W-what?" She looked around at the other cats in the den. Many were spread out to try to cool down. 'Then why am I- No… Not now! Of all times!'

"L-Lionclaw. I-I n-need to h-head out." The dark she-cat stood up shakily and began walking to the exit.

"But Nightfang," he protested, stepping in front of her, careful of the snoozing cats, "what about-"

"I-It's a g-ghost th-thing." Nightfang walked around him and out the camp. 'Why do animal ghosts' powers develop slower than humans?' she thought as she headed towards the Thunderclan borders. 'I could have gone through this with Danny!'

Soon enough, she was at the border of the clans' territory. Nightfang changed to Spiritfang (as she now called her ghost form) and flew farther from the lake. 'Starclan, I don't know how to handle this!' she thought as she got farther from her family.

'Maybe I could get to Danny. He went through this! He could help.' With her course set, she followed her memory back to Amity Park. By that time, she was shaking violently; the she-cat could barely stay airborne!

Not able to take it anymore, Spiritfang collapsed on the sidewalk. Ice started forming on her fur and the sidewalk around her. She looked up to the moon, trying to find out the time. 'Maybe around 10. Oh Danny, I hope you missed your curfew right now…'

Spiritfang struggled to her feet and looked around. She recognized the place, sort of. The she-cat was about a block from FentonWorks. 'Crap!'

Changing back to Nightfang so she was more camouflaged in the darkness, she started making her way to Danny's, keeping an eye on the sky. After a few minutes of very slow walking, Nightfang finally spotted the black and white form in the sky.

"D-Danny…" she practically whispered. The figure kept moving. 'Come on, Nightfang! You're a warrior now! And a ghost!'

Gathering as much energy as she could, she said a bit louder, "Dann-ny!" Nightfang's legs buckled under her. She lay on her side, trying to keep as warm as possible. 'I feel like a kit in a snowstorm! Or like I'm with Klemper…'

X.X.X.X.X

Nightfang blinked her eyes open. The first thing she noticed was she wasn't as cold. She was still cold, but not freezing. She looked around. The she-cat was surrounded by darkness. 'D-Did I die? Well, die fully?'

She tried to stand, but a light weight was on her back. 'What the…?' Pushing up on still shaky legs, she nudged her way through the darkness. Nightfang finally found an opening, leading to the light. She poked her head through, squinting at the brightness.

'Oh my Starclan…' The she-cat looked around. She was back in Danny's room! She looked back at the darkness that had entrapped her. A dark, blue rag. She was under a blanket; a warmed blanket too!

'But that doesn't explain the weight.' Crawling fully out of the hot rag, she turned around.

The rag was near the end of Danny's bed, with none other than Danny sleeping on the other side. His arm was still on top of the blue rag that was against his chest. He almost looked like a little kid with his blanky.

Nightfang smiled. She had finally gotten to Danny, and it was only morning-

'CRAP!' Her black head shot towards the window. The sun was barely hovering over the horizon. 'This will be SO hard to explain! Maybe Lionclaw will cover for me…'

The feline turned her attention back to the sleeping teen. If it was a school day, Jazz should be here soon. She really hoped it wasn't a school day…

Nightfang got closer to the human halfa, wanting desperately to just curl up in the blanket again and sleep for another hour, somewhat warm and with her best friend. But she knew she had to get back to the clan before it rose suspicion.

"D-Danny," she whispered, poking his head.

He swatted her paw away. "Five more minutes, Nightpaw…"

Nightfang smiled. "A-Actually, D-Danny, it's N-Nightfang n-now."

Those beautiful blue eyes she missed so much snapped open. "Nightpaw!" He grabbed her waist, pulling her in to a tight hug. "I've missed you so much!"

"I-It's only b-been a w-week or t-two." Nightfang smiled and nuzzled his chin. She missed him so much, despite her own words.

He pulled away, setting her back on the warm rags. "I see you're getting your ice powers, huh?" he said while wrapping the cat back in the blankets.

"Y-Yeah. K-Kinda sucks, c-considering only t-two cats k-know."

Danny looked shocked. "Who knows?"

"M-My dad s-saw m-me t-talking to y-you and I h-had to t-tell S-Snowst-tar."

The teen nodded and smiled. Nightfang curled up in the blanket, but looked at the boy seriously. "L-Look, D-Danny. I know th-this is g-great and all, b-but I n-need to h-hurry. L-Lionclaw c-can't c-cover f-for me f-forever."

"Right!" Danny picked her up and walked to the window, turning into Phantom on the way. "You're lucky it's Saturday."

X.X.X.X.X

"Okay, first things first!" Phantom said when he set the shivering cat down in the forest next to Amity. "Y-You n-need t-to s-stop sh-shivering."

Spiritfang narrowed her eyes. "Sh-shut up. Y-You th-think I'd s-still b-be freezing if I-I kn-knew th-that?"

Phantom rolled his eyes. "I know, I know. Just let all that cold energy build until it can only go out."

'Build up, build up… Okay…' Spiritfang closed her eyes and focused on the freezing cold. She started glowing a slight blue color before it all exploded around her. Peeking an eye open, she looked around herself. "Oh, uh. Opps?"

The area around her was covered in a thick sheet of ice. Phantom poked his head around a tree. "Yah, I froze Frostbite doing that." Spiritfang giggled.

"Okay, now…" Phantom tapped his head, trying to remember his time with Frostbite. "Your Ghost Sense is a part of this. Blah blah blah… You probably won't need to know that… I guess we just do some target practice, eh?"

Spiritfang rolled her eyes. "How am I supposed to know? You're the teacher!"

Phantom helped Spiritfang build the energy in her paws and mouth [where she shoots her ectoblasts, just so ya know :D kinda like a Pokémon] and shoot at both stand still and moving targets (otherwise known as trees). She was better than Danny had been when he did this with Frostbite; she hit the targets almost every time. Almost. A few hit a bush or animal behind the target and one of the first ones went flying towards Amity.

"Thanks Danny," Spiritfang said as she flew off the ground a bit. "I don't know what I would have done if I didn't find you."

Phantom smiled sadly. "Be careful, Nightpaw. Come visit soon, or I'll come to you."

Spiritfang chuckled slightly. "I'd be happy either way. And please, it's Nightfang. And Spiritfang. I'm a warrior, but I'll always treasure being your kittypet."

Phantom floated up to her, leaving the icy forest behind him. "I'll see yah soon." He pulled her into a hug before she pulled away and flew back to the lake.

'Now to think of some excuse of why I was gone for so long…'

Okay, this was kind of sad to write. Not as sad as something I have planned for Phantom Spirit, but still. :) I was gonna have Nightfang deal with this alone, but decided going back to Danny would be better. :D

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~BloodBlossom88