The sun rose for another hot blistering day. Much of the vegetation was already starting to turn brown due to lack of water making the green forest look like a brown dying forest. Poppyfrost woke up feeling uneasy about what happened to Cherryfall and she was worried. She spotted Cloudtail who had gotten up early to help Jayfeather keep the herbs moist, preventing them from becoming ineffective in case a battle breaks our among the very irritated clans. She padded up to him while he groomed his cloud like white fur.
"How long has she been like this?" She mewed worried.
"About the past quarter moon she should be feeling better by now but He's keeping her inside the den." Cloudtail mewed to her.
"What's the reason?" She mewed wanting an answer from him.
"It's unclear." Cloudtail mewed as he went to give some prey to the elders.
Jayfeather soon woke up and he went out to greet the pair as he told her about her condition. He soon took a fresh mouse from the pile as he began to speak.
"What is it?" She mewed puzzled and a bit worried.
"I would like to speak to you, Berrynose and Alderheart in private later. Cherryfall is feeling better but something I found about her made me want to speak to you about." He meowed showing worry as well.
"I will." She mewed as she went off to give prey to Cherryfall when she thought of about her other kit. "Will Molewhisker be attending this meeting?"
"No, he won't. He'll be about patrolling the lake and maybe getting us more water." He mewed assuring her.
Cloudtail padded his way out to the elders den when Bramblestar greeted him with a mew.
"Morning leader, how are you feeling?" He asked wanting to greet him.
"I'm fine." He grumbled. "Hey Cloudtail, can I speak to you alone?" He asked wanting a response
"Sure." He mewed as the two of them padded to the outside edge of the camp.
"What is it my leader?" He asked.
"Look Cloudtail, I wanted to talk to you about why I hate dogs." He began.
"Okay I'm listening." He mewed.
"It all started when you we're the newest warrior in the clan and me and Brightheart we're still apprentices. That was when the dogs attacked." Bramblestar began. "They killed Swiftpaw, Brindleface, and then finally Bluestar. I never trust them, if there's one, there is more to come." He told him trying to tell him to stay away from the mutt gang.
"What about Gastonia? He seems harmless and wouldn't put up much of a fight. And if you did try to fight him, he would most likely hug the ground and make himself too difficult to attack. Cloudtail mewed to the leader trying to point it out to him.
"That's the point, if one dog comes; he's always going to bring extras with him in case a fight would happen. Whether or not he is harmless or not, we can't always be as soft as you." He mewed sternly wanting the clan to be a little more defensive on who comes along and visits the clan.
"Wait how did that scratch get there on your face right there, I've never seen it before?" Cloudtail mewed seeing the scratch for the first time.
"It was his tail that caused it." He mewed.
"Yeah but it's confusing since a dogs tail is mainly either skin or fluff." He mewed. "Wait I have an idea, next time he comes around you will go into hiding and study his tail, then you would be able to report to me about it." He said getting the leader's idea.
"Are you interested in killing him as well?" Bramblestar asked out of curiousity.
"Not really. He's pretty much harmless and we should also use our energy for more important things such as fending off the other clans rather than going after a mutt." Cloudtail mewed to the leader.
The two of them padded back to the camp as they began to organize the events of today. As the day continued to get hotter and the orders were organized, Jayfeather wanted to speak to the three cats as the padded into the Medicine cat's den as they met alone.
"What is it?" Alderheart mewed out of curiousity.
'Cherryfall is going to be fine. She's not infected with anything she ate but I found something that made me worried about her, especially in a drought such as this.
"What is it then?" Poppyfrost mewed worried about her.
"She's expecting kits." He mewed answering her question bluntly.
"KITS!" Berrynose yowled as his ears rose high with fury.
"Calm down!" Jayfeather hissed tackling Berrynose to the ground trying to calm him down.
"Where is she now?" Poppyfrost mewed to the medicine cat worried about her.
"Cherryfall is in the nursery being expected by the queens." Jayfeather mewed. "Everyone is dismissed."
They padded out of the den as they were all shocked as Molewhisker came in with a fresh mouse in his mouth to greet Poppyfrost.
"So what is it? Is she going to be okay?" He mewed curious feeling worried about her.
"She's going to have kits." Poppyfrost mewed to him wanting him to lighten up a bit.
"That's nice." He mewed dropping the mouse as he smiled a bit feeling that he would have kin to watch over. "Anyways, Cloudtail wants us on his next patrol with us." He mewed telling her the plans for today.
"Sure thing I will attend." She mewed.
That afternoon when the sun was on a slant, it was shining on the lake that was still drying up but there was still plenty of water in there some of the deer were drinking from the lake to get the fluid. Thornclaw, Leafpool, Cloudtail, Poppyfrost and Molewhisker were walking alongside the sandy soil. From a few fox lengths away, they picked up noise from nearby. They turned their heads to see what it was and it was just Gastonia and a couple of other mutts deep in conversation. They soon slowly padded up to them to see what it was. The mutts on the other hand, were oblivious to them coming as they kept on the chatter.
"I saw my long-paw playing this simulator of some sort last night." One of the mutts opened up to the others.
"What was it called? The leader asked curious about it.
"It's called The Isle created by a dog called the Dondo." He said laughing as the leader began laughing.
"I'm sorry but I don't know what this isle really is?" Gastonia asked out of his curiosity.
"The Isle is an open world dinosaurs simulator game my long-paw was playing." He said. "I wish there were more fanfics about that." He soon grumbled as the leader laughed thinking it was hilarious.
"But I don't know so I might ask what is a dinosaur?" The leader asked him as he burst out laughing.
"It might be Gastonia, or Tyranno? I don't even know." He said as he began laughing the air out of his lungs.
"Hey." Gastonia growled as his chops were wet with water as he didn't like that remark.
The clan cats were watching their conversation eyeing the dogs with curiosity wanting to know what they were talking about.
"What are they talking about?" Leafpool asked.
"What I hear is that they do not want to go to war with the clans." Molewhsiker mewed as his head turned back eyeing the dogs.
"Whatever it is, it makes no sense." Thornclaw mewed as they edged closer for a better look.
"I know this game is funny." The leader of the mutts asked as he continued to laugh harder about it.
"Also you know what happened to my long-paw's huge allo pack? They were all attacked by both the raptors and rexes, a trike ran in there and fought all of them and a stego ran in there and maybe even a couple of carnos from what I was watching." He said laughing like it was the craziest experience that he had the privilege of watching.
The mutts were completely unaware that a couple of tail lengths away, the cats were slowly encircling them but they didn't want to attack.
"Now long-paws on The Isle get into massive fights that might end up with many of their dinosaurs extinct!" The mutt said as the soon began to laugh thinking it was completely ridiculous but still really funny at the same time.
"Then the next thing they know is when you're about to fight and a single raptor joins in!" The mutt said as all three of them began laughing thinking the joke was the funniest thing ever. However, the laughter came to an end when the leader of the mutts accidently backs himself into Leafpool. They stopped their laughing as they turned to greet the clan cats.
"We didn't see any of you." Gastonia said greeting them.
"Okay two questions. First, why are you with other dogs? Second, what are you talking about that makes it so funny to you?" Thornclaw growled as his temper rose from being annoyed.
"Calm down." Cloudtail mewed trying to keep him from attacking.
"Okay first of all I'm hanging out with a couple of good friends since I'm sadly a stray, second we're just joking around." Gastonia told them not wanting a fight.
"So you're a stray." Poppyfrost mewed feeling some empathy seeing he isn't as well-groomed as his friends.
Unaware to them Bramblestar had followed them this whole time and wanted to see what the mutt's tail was like. He got close enough as he studied the tail seeing it was a long tail but the fur was so matted together it formed like the spikes on both sides running up and down. He also knew that the mutt had a lot of matted fur running along his back making him very difficult to attack by just simply biting down on his neck and calling it a day.
"Darn the mutt looks a lot tougher than I realize." He said to himself as he began thinking of ways on how to take him down.
"Hey need some help over there?" A familiar Wind clan tom mewed.
"Well who are you?" Bramblestar mewed as he went to the voice.
"Well you've seen me at the gatherings I'm Moltedclaw." He mewed.
"Well I'm Bramblestar." He greeted him.
"I just became deputy and I want to make Wind-clan fierce." He mewed.
"That's nice, also I was wondering if I could team up with me so we can kill this mutt." Bramblestar mewed.
"You mean that gold and white one named Gastonia?" He asked looking at their conversations.
"Yeah that's the one." He said.
"I've been contemplating on taking him down as well." He admitted.
"You have?" He said.
"Yes I have, and then it will be Onestar next." He mewed in a coarse language.
"Wow I would never be able to think that." Bramblestar said.
"Listen to me if you want to kill that mutt, go after his legs or underside. They lack any of that steel tough fur." He suggested.
Soon Bramblestar gathered up his clan as they headed back to camp with the new information that he collected as he soon began to plot against the clans to help Wind clan win the lake, unaware that this was going to be a recipe for complete disaster.
[A/N]: This has come early since I had some free time today, and also I want to help out to TheDondi the creator of the dinosaur simulator "The Isle." Who apparently is sick I hope he gets better soon so I can have my updates coming from him. All thoughts and prayers go to him hope he feels better.
