Authors note: Alright, I have been a horrible updater. But my Grandpa passed away, and my friend recently just got lung cancer, and it's been hard for everyone. Updating isn't my top priority right now. ): But you guys have been patient and deserve updates. Here is the next chapter of The Last Prophecy!
Thank you Warriorcrazy, Leopparddrop, Bamblelegs, Bloodhunter, Aduial Rana, YAY ASHWHISKER (It seems Ashwishker has a fan :3), and Cresent of the Night for reviewing!
Chapter 8: Kittypet Help
"Skystorm, are you sure this is ok?" Spottedcloud asked, as they walked through the forest. They had left during the day-time, saying they were going to check out the Windclan border for a new herb Spottedcloud might have found.
"Spottedcloud, you're a medicine cat, you should know that protecting and saving your clanmates is part of the warrior code." Skystorm replied and looked back to see Spottedcloud sniffing a bright orange flower, pecking at the leaves and tasting them in his mouth. "What are you doing?"
Spottedcloud snapped his head up. "You said we were out looking for new herbs. Might as well try." He plucked a leaf from the plants and kept walking, stopping every moment or so to peck another.
"Spottedcloud we aren't going to get anywhere if you step every tail-length to stick your nose into plant." Skystorm growled in frustration. "I should have just brought Nighteyes."
"No! Its fine I'll stop. Let me just bury these somewhere…Ah-ha!" the medicine cat planted the leaves into an old rabbit hole and padded next to Skystorm. "Why didn't we bring Nighteyes?"
Skystorm shrugged. "I just…I didn't know if we would even find her kit and if we do, it may not be good. I don't want her to be disappointed. It's just to save her feelings."
Spottedcloud nodded, and they kept walking. Skystorm took the quiet time to survey what was around him. There was a big black crow perched a few trees ahead, studying them with caution. As they neared, the crow flapped its big black wings and took to the sky, circling around them. Skystorm ignored the crow, what harm could it do?
His ears flicked as a mouse scuttled, and the slight vibration of a rabbit hopping away was caught by his sensitive pads. Feeling the urge to hunt, Skystorm flecked his claws and took after the fast creature. He sprinted at his top speed, quickly catching up to the rabbit. Jumping, he was able to grab the rabbit's leg in his claws. The grey rabbit kicked, and disappeared into the brush. "Fox-dung!" Skystorm hissed.
"Good try." A light voice said from behind him.
Skystorm spun around, and saw a large ginger tabby tom sitting on a twoleg fence. Looking around, Skystorm hadn't realized he had run this far after the rabbit. He was already at the twoleg place.
"Who are you?" Skystorm asked warily. This wasn't Felix, the tom was the wrong color and too large. He also smelled like wet kittypet food.
"Ah but I should be the one asking who, are you?" he chuckled and jumped down from the fence, landing awkwardly. Sitting, Skystorm noticed that his stomach covered his hind legs, making him look like a large ball of fur with a cat head.
"Skystorm! If you were going to go chasing after that rabbit, you could have at least told me!" Skystorm hear Spottedcloud emerging through the bushes, huffing. He paused, seeing the ginger tom. "Oh good, you found a kittypet."
Skystorm sighed. Why Dirtspot was always talking to him, he didn't know. "I am Skystorm, warrior of Riverclan. And this is our medicine cat, Spottedcloud."
"I am Tiger. I live here with my twolegs. They have a dog, but it won't bother you. They keep it locked up in a crate while they're gone." The tom mewed.
"A crate?" Skystorm asked. He wondered if the clan could make one to capture dogs in.
"A cage that twolegs make out of this shiny hard stuff." Tiger explained. "May I ask why you have traveled so far from your clan?"
"We are in search of Felix." Spottedcloud announced, sitting by Skystorm now.
Tiger sat up at the name, and his grew wide, Looking around he got and motioned to the warriors. "Then follow me. If its Felix you want to know about, we can't talk here." He started to pad away. "He has cats everywhere."
Tiger leapt up onto the fence, and down into his twoleg's yard.
"Can we trust him enough to go in there?" Spottedcloud asked.
Skystorm looked at the medicine cat. "He's the only chance we got so far in finding Nighteyes kits. Let's go." Jumping to the top of the fence Skystorm looked around. Wow you can see everything from up here! He thought, before he sprang back down, his paws landing on the soft, green twoleg grass. Skystorm heard Spottedcloud land behind him.
"Over here!" Tiger was standing by a large bush, and easily slipped inside a gap under it.
Skystorm scrambled into the opening, and saw the bush had been hollowed out. "This is like one of our dens." Skystorm mused, but the bush was only large enough for about four cats, and even with three it was cramped.
"Really?" Tiger asked, sounding proud. "It took me a while but I hide here when the twolegs want me to go inside their nest."
"Where can we find Felix?" Spottedcloud asked, skipping through the easy conversation. His tail flicked nervously.
"Why do you want Felix? He's a no good tom. He basically runs the whole twoleg territory. I'm just closer to the forest so he doesn't bother with me. But he is the leader of the kittypets, even if we don't have as complex systems like you forest cats do."
"Because he is taking kits away from our queens, and we have come to take them back." Skystorm explained quickly. "It's part of our code, and we need to stop him and rescue the kits."
"I would love to see Felix be taken down." Tiger purred. "It's low of him to be taking clan kits. I wonder if he is trying to start a clan of his own, and using cats of clan blood to do so."
"I hate to interrupt Tiger," Skystorm mewed. "But is there anything you can tell us about Felix?"
Tiger nodded. "Felix has these two cats that travel around him with him. One was from a rouge group, her name is Yao and she came here once her brother was killed in a large battle with…oh with you guys!" Tiger laughed. "You sure showed them. Anyways, he had a brown tom named Caine, but he stupidly died and was replaced with a pretty white she-cat named Sassy. She has yet to be eight moons, but once she is old enough I know Felix plans to make Sassy his mate. If you get rid of those two, Felix will be weaker, and you could easily take him down."
"This she-cat, Sassy what else does she look like?" Spottedcloud mewed, his eyes wide.
"She has the biggest brown eyes you could ever see, and slim, but she has a temper when you get on her bad side, like a snake. Not very patient either." Tiger shivered. "Feirce for such a young she-cat."
"Do you think its Nighteyes and Snakefang's kit?" Skystorm mewed to Spottedcloud.
Spottedcloud nodded. "It's her, I'm sure of it. She has her father's personality."
"Then let's go, now." Skystorm mewed.
"No you can't go now!" Tiger gasped. "Felix would be with all the kittypets right now. You have to wait until night when he is with Sassy and Yao alone. They stay together in the same twoleg nest."
"Fine," Skystorm sighed, sitting down. "Tiger, will you help us defeat Felix and rescue, um…Sassy?"
"Anything to get back at Felix! I'm tired of him running this place." Tiger growled.
Skystorm nodded. "Very well, then we will be back at sun-down to get you."
"You guys can stay here, you know!" Tiger mewed as they slipped away.
Spottedcloud looked around the twoleg nest. It had bright flowers on tall stems, large sheltering leaves and a tree with no holds to climb. The wooden fence that sheltered the nest loomed above them. Spottedcloud didn't like feeling so enclosed. Luckily Skystorm saved him.
"Thank you Tiger, but we need to hunt and gather our strength. We will be back soon." They soon left, and looked around the forest.
"We might as well hunt." Skystorm mewed, and made his way through the forest.
Scenting for his prey he crouched down, slinking around the twoleg place for any signs of prey. Quickly he took a thrush down, and made his way back to where he left Spottedcloud. Going back to the clearing, Skystorm was that Spottedcloud had caught a sparrow and was plucking its fur out.
"You think we can take Felix down?" Spottedcloud asked.
"Yes, he's a kittypet, Spottedcloud. He's all hisses and no bite." Skystorm replied through a mouthful of thrush. "Now get some rest."
-x-
At sun-down they slowly made their way back to Tiger, who was waiting by the fence.
"I know where Felix stays, so let's get going. He should be there by now." Tiger mewed, making his way through two other twoleg nests behind his own.
"Say Tiger, you know all this information about Felix, but you don't follow him or trust him. How do you know it all?" Spottedcloud asked.
"I may not be part of his clan. But I listen and pay attention to the other kittypets around me." Tiger mewed as they made their way to the thick of the twoleg places. It reeked of monsters and they sat everywhere, sleeping silently. One roared to life, and rushed past the three cats.
Skystorm jumped, and landed on the hard white rock twolegs walked on.
"You are definitely from the forest." Tiger laughed at Skystorm, and crept past a bunch of tall, leaf plants that covered one wall of a fence. "But we are almost there."
They made their way to a long strip of hard black rock, surrounded by the red stones that some of the fences were made out of. Large grey things stunk of leftover twoleg food. Tiger called them 'trash cans.'
"Here we are. This is the alley where Felix stays."
"Alley?" Spottedcloud asked as they made their way through it, where a large den made of flappy brown things* was build up at the back. The smell of cats was here.
"Let's go, Tiger, you go inside. If Felix is awake, distract him. Spottedcloud and I will go through the top and surprise attack them."
"But Yao! I want to go hunt some more! I'm tired of sitting in the den." A voice said, as the shadows of two cats appeared around the corners.
"Hide!" Skystorm hissed, and rushed behind the trash cans. Skystorm wrinkled his nose at the smell, and peered between the cans to see the two cats. One was the black and white she-cat Tiger described, and the other was white.
"It's Nighteye's kit!" Spottedcloud gasped. "I know Riverclan cats when I see them."
Skystorm looked. Spottedcloud was right. The white-she cat couldn't have been more than eight moons old. And had the powerful legs of a Riverclan cat, with sleek and shiny fur that kept the water from weighing them down. Her eyes were full of determination. This had to be the kit Nighteyes gave away.
Both cats went into the den, and Skystorm looked at Tiger. "Go on in."
Tiger suddenly looked afraid, and crept up to where the opening was, slinking in. Skystorm and Spottedcloud leapt to the top of the den silently, landing on soft feet.
"Tiger!" he could hear Felix say. "Why are you here today?"
"I, um, wanted to know if…you were, um.." Tiger stuttered.
"Attack!" Skystorm yowled, and tumbled the top of the den down. He jumped in and found himself inside a large opening with an assortment of soft twoleg things as bedding. "Felix!" he called, his eyes locking on the grey tom before he pounced.
He glanced over to see Spottedcloud tackle Yao, and Tiger flump into Sassy, who screech but was no match against Tiger's large weight. "Help!" she called out and flashed her claws at Tiger.
We are helping you. Skystorm thought as him and Felix went rolling into the walls of the den, Felix's feet kicked out, and the den toppled around them. You just don't know it yet. Skystorm felt its rough ends jab into his pelt, and he hissed, crouching down as it fell around him.
"What do you want?" Felix hissed, jumping at Skystorm, who ducked and hooked his paws around Felix' hind legs, and dragged the tom down into the rough stone. Felix yowled as he landed on his shoulder.
"We want the kit you took from our clan." He turned to see Sassy looking at the fight with fear. Of course she would be scared, cats she has never seen are attacking her only family, and she can't do anything about it. "We want Sassy, to take her back to her birth home."
"What?" Sassy gasped. "Felix, why do they want me? What birth home?"
Felix growled. "I don't know what you mean. You pesky clan cats! Do back to the forest where you belong! Don't bring your troubles here." He patted his claws at Skystorm's face, and Skystorm felt the blood well up over his eye.
"You took her from her mother! Sassy has kin back in Riverclan, she can't stay here. You had no right to take her." Skystorm hissed.
Felix growled and shouldered Skystorm in the stomach. "She lives here now."
"Tell me what is going on!" Sassy called.
Skystorm felt his breath leave him, and gasped for it. Falling down he saw Felix take another leap. Rolling away Felix landed on empty stone. Taking the few seconds he had, Skystorm jumped up and pushed Felix down, placing his claws at the tom's neck. "You heard her Felix. Tell us how you took Sassy away from Riverclan when she was a kit. How you want to take another kit away from us and take advantage of a cat because you know of a secret? Away from her kin."
"You took me away from them?" Sassy asked, and Tiger let her up to walk over where Felix was.
Spottedcloud looked up. "You are a cat from Riverclan. I was there when your mother, Nighteyes, gave birth to you. You belong to the cats of the forest, to Starclan and the warrior code."
"You said my mother was dead Felix! You said she died in a dog attack." Sassy hissed. She pounded the ground with her paw. "Why do these cats tell me different?"
"They're lying!" Felix growled, he tried to say more but Skystorm dug his claws more against the tom's throat.
"We want to bring back to Riverclan, so you can live your life as a warrior." Spottedcloud mewed.
"I-I don't believe that.." Sassy mewed uneasily. She looked from Spottedcloud to Skystorm, uncertain.
Skystorm tooka deep breath. "Come to Riverclan with us Sassy. You can stay for a moon, and if you don't enjoy the clan life you were born into, then come back here. But we came so you could be where you belong." he looked around the musty alley. A Riverclan cat certainly should not be here. His paws already ached for the soft floor and the rushing of the river.
Sassy mused over this. "Fine the. I'm going." She mewed, and padded next to Spottedcloud. "I want to go to the clans."
Skystorm nodded and he turned to Felix. "I don't want to ever see you near the clans again...or next time, you will leave without a tail."
Authors note: This one was odd, seeing how it featured Riverclan camp in no way, shape, or form. (: Sassy is based off my own cat, name and description and all! Except she's ten times lazier. But read and review, here is your chapter finally! I worked on it all day and hope you enjoy it.
*I was describing cardboard boxes where the satr was.
