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Chapter 8: Kittypets
"No! Turn faster! If you can't manage on two paws you'll never manage it on one!"
Tigerpaw was panting hard. "I still don't really get it..." Thistleclaw snarled. "Do it like this!" He suddenly charged at full speed towards his apprentice. Tigerpaw's hiss of surprise was cut short as Thistleclaw slammed his head into his chest. He instinctively flashed out a paw towards his mentor. Thistleclaw spun on one hind paw and knocked him from behind. Tigerpaw let out a muffled "oof!" as he hit the hard, frozen ground. "Do you get it now?!" Thistleclaw spat. Tigerpaw jumped up. "Please! Let me try it on you!" He hated to beg, but his weakness made him even more desperate to become stronger. His mentor was about to reply when Bluefur stepped out from a bush. Thistleclaw narrowed his eyes. "What do you want?" He growled. Bluefur sighed. "Sunstar asked that we check around the territory for kittypets. He says there were a few straying around." Thistleclaw's ears pricked up. "It's about time! Come on Tigerpaw! It's time to try those moves in some kittypets!"
Tigerpaw's dark tabby pelt quivered with excitement. He was finally going to prove himself by fighting some weak, lame kittypets! If he actually fought a kittypet and won, he would gain trust of all his clanmates and never have to hear that silly rumour about him becoming a kittypet again! And maybe Goldenpaw would trust me enough to become ma- "I smell a kittypet up ahead!" Thistleclaw was bristling. Bluefur lifted her head up and tasted the air. "That kittypet smells like a kit!"
Thistleclaw hissed. "Kits turn into cats!" "Not in one afternoon." As the two warriors were having the argument, Tigerpaw sniffed the air. His mentor was right. The reek of twolegs and a strange cat mixed together in the air, forming the scent of a kittypet. "I found the scent trail!" He meowed back to Thistleclaw and Bluefur, though mainly to his mentor. Thistleclaw's eyes lit up. "Great! Lead the way Tigerpaw." Tigerpaw replayed almost all of the moves he learned so far in his mind,as he lead the warriors. Twist, turn, attack... Twist, turn attack... He shook his head. He didn't think that he needed to waste his energy in that complicated move for a kittypet. A hiss would scare them away! Suddenly a small pitiful mew jerked him back to reality. "Hello!" A small black and white kit stood before the patrol. Thistleclaw snarled at the intruder. "What are you doing here? This is Thunderclan territory!" He flicked his tail towards Tigerpaw. "Let's hear what you think we should do with this scrap of fur." Tigerpaw flexed his long, curved claws, that every cat said had outgrown his body. "I think we should teach this kit a lesson. A lesson he won't forget." He mustered the most menacing voice he could manage. Thistleclaw nodded. "So be it. Go teach this pathetic fur ball a lesson."
Bluefur stepped forward. "Wait, all this isn't necessary-" Tigerpaw had already launched himself at the kittypet. A million thoughts bounced around his head in the moment his paws left the ground. This is my chance! Stop the rumour, prove I'm strong! But a chilling though entered his mind. Ha! You think the clan is going to be impressed you defeated a kittypet? Let alone a kittypet that was a kit? He pushed the thought to the back of his mind, and realized the black-white kittypet was already between his claws. He instantly flung the kit up into the air, the kit gave a wail and the small yellow thing on his collar gave a pathetic tinkling sound. the kit landed heavily on the ground and this time Tigerpaw ripped his collar and the tinkling yellow thing bounced to the ground. He flung the black and white kit up into the air several more times. Thistleclaw seemed to be getting bored. "Show him your teeth." He said, urging Tigerpaw to cause even more intense pain for the kittypet. "Please!" The kit begged. Tigerpaw sank his teeth even deeper into the kit's neck. "PLEASE!" The kit was screaming now. Tigerpaw felt something inside him, something strangely warm, soft. I.. I don't want him to kill him!... I.. He pushed the thought back and softened his grip only slightly, and started to feel pleasure when he saw the fear in the kit's wide, scared eyes. "Tigerpaw, that's enough!" Bluefur's voice startled him. He turned to face her, claws still pinning down the kittypet. "I was only defending our territory." Bluefur seemed slightly sad, desperate for the kit's safety. I wonder why... It's just a weak kittypet... Bluefur went on. "You've already taught him a lesson, right? A lesson he won't forget. Now let him go." In a added whisper, she uttered one more word. "Please." Bluefur's eyes were pleading with him now. "Yeah." Tigerpaw sneered into the kit's face. "You'll never forget me."
No one forgets a lesson I teach. No one.
Guess who little black and white kittypet was? (If you read the manga, you'll know!) Hint: reeaally fierce, but small!
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