It's been seven days...? *blinks*
Chapter 9
It was absolutely horrid in the Land of the Bound Souls.
No words could describe the horror and trauma that Twilightshadow, once a fierce warrior princess she-cat, experienced as she was hauled through the camp clearing to where a giant, gaping tunnel entrance lay beyond- one that she had never once seen before.
"What is this?" she exclaimed, trying to break free of the guards that flanked her on both sides. Dear reader, you must excuse our great protagonist and hero for not being able to suppress the evil... but the truth was, she was too tired to really fight back.
Soon, they entered the darkness of the mouth of the tunnel.
Only the glinting eyes of Twilightshadow and the dull gleam of the guard's could be seen through the forbidding darkness. Twilightshadow almost felt like crying, which she had never done before, even as a very small but powerful kit. She had failed.
She began monologuing in her deep, black, inner pits of sadness and despair.
Twilightshadow had failed to run fast enough to the Moonstone so she could stop the evil of Fieryclaws- now Fierystar because of her. She could not find Silentfoot anywhere, even if she was right in the camp at the moment... and her pitiful friend, Twigmuzzle, was stuck back at the entrance to the Moonstone.
That poor, lonely she-cat. Twilightshadow thought that she must be standing there, afraid for her powerful ally and friend and perhaps in danger herself. Twilightshadow was right, of course, as she almost always usually was.
Her monologue was cut short as the guards suddenly pushed her forward. Suppressing a weak-sounding cry of shock, Twilightshadow managed to balance herself up just in time to avoid falling flat on her face, which would have been a very embarrassing deed for a ferocious warrior assassin queen.
"Ha ha ha!" the guards laughed cruelly, bending over with amusement.
Twilightshadow unsheathed her claws, but the guards just kept laughing until they saw the sheer length and sharpness of them. Slowly, they stopped, staring at her weapons of rage and her snarling face, so deadly and so beautiful.
Unfortunately for Twilightshadow, but very fortunately for the guards, one of them was so intimidated that he backed out of the cave entrance, motioning with his tail for his friends to follow. "Come on!" he said frantically.
The guards soon trailed after their leading friend like lost puppies, which they might as well be.
Before Twilightshadow had a chance to stand up, brush the dust off of her fur, and run out of the horrible cave, the few pinpoints of light that had found their way inside disappeared, and all of a sudden, Twilightshadow was alone in the dark.
Forever, she thought.
Please forgive our great female protagonist a chance. She has been through so much, and lost so much, and there are moments in life when you cannot seem to succeed at anything. Twilightshadow is like that, too, however great she is.
Please do not stop reading this story because she appears to be failing, losing to the dark side. She needs you to get back to the light.
I think this is my most cringe-worthy chapter so far.