Hi guys sorry for the very long wait! On with Le chapter! (Oh and BTW the Pinepaw chapters are done by Petalwish and the Gorsepaw are done by me!)
CHAPTER 9
(Gorsepaw's POV)
Gorsepaw's fur brushed Tanglepaw's as the tan and white she-cat walked beside him, they had been sent by Wildflame to re-mark the RiverClan border. Gorsepaw secretly hoped he would see Pinepaw, she hadn't shown up on the days they had promised to meet! "Probably some RiverClan tom," Tanglepaw had muttered when he told her, he hoped that wasn't the case.
He stared across the RiverClan border, "Do you think we'll see her?" he asked, Tanglepaw knew who he was talking about so he assumed he didn't need to tell her.
"Doubt it," she replied, "Like I said probably off mooning over some RiverClan tom."
Gorsepaw dug his claws into the ground, "Don't say that!" he yelled angrily.
Tanglepaw shrugged, "Whatever."
Suddenly he saw a flash of brown and white fur across the border, "Pinepaw?!" Sure enough after looking closer Gorsepaw found that it was his sister, "Pinepaw!" he started towards her but Tanglepaw stopped him in his tracks.
"Are you hare-brained?! She's RiverClan now! If you go over there you'll get caught for sure! And besides, Echoblaze says that RiverClan's accusing us of stealing prey, to go over now would be like suicide!"
Gorsepaw hung his head, he knew she was right, "I guess," he murmured, then added, "Can we at least stay and watch her, I think she's gonna try to catch a fish!"
"Fine!" Tanglepaw grumbled, "But if a patrol comes your on your own, if you need me I'll be marking the border over there," she indicated with her tail towards a grassy patch of land. Gorsepaw nodded absently mindedly to her and turned back to Pinepaw. She was bending over the lake (which was mostly frozen over) searching for a fish. Suddenly her paw flashed into the water and came up with a fish, she was about to deliver the killing bite when it flopped back into the water. Gorsepaw giggled in amusement, if Pinepaw was beside him she would have bit his head off. She was angry now, leaning over even more. She raised her paw up but suddenly lost her balance and toppled into the icy water with a large splash.
"Pinepaw!" Gorsepaw shrieked and started towards his sister.
"Gorsepaw!" Tanglepaw yelled tackling him and pinning him down.
"What are doing!"
"Saving your fur hare-brain!"
"But I have to save Pinepaw!"
"No!" she looked into his eyes, "She's gone and there's nothing you could do about!"
"But there's still time please-"
"No!" she meowed sternly, just then a RiverClan patrol burst from the trees, a black and white tom was in the lead, he leaped into the lake and a couple seconds later reappeared with Pinepaw.
"I knew she wasn't dead!" he meowed looking up at Tanglepaw, a sumg grin on his face. She rolled her eyes and got off him.
Gorsepaw sat up, he could faintly hear his sister talking and strained his ears to listen. "Gee thanks Strikepaw! I thought I was a going to StarClan for sure! Your..your really brave," she stammered.
"Told you so!" Tanglepaw giggled.
"Told me what?" Gorsepaw meowed rolling his eyes.
"Your sister's got a crush! Your sister's got a crush!" she sang prancing around him.
"No she-" Gorsepaw stopped, the way she talked to that tom...did she really like him? He wanted to storm over to her and remind her where she was from, that she couldn't like a RiverClan cat! But he knew deep down she could and he saved her life! Right? Gorsepaw suddenly felt horrible and helpless, he let Tanglepaw stop him from helping his sister when he could have thrown her off and saved Pinepaw himself. Never again! He thought, never again!
Gorsepaw munched on a rabbit, he thought about his sister, only earlier today he had seen her fall into the lake and almost drown. Suddenly Lilyflight burst into camp, Softwhisker and Hawkthorn close behind her the limp body of Shadepaw balanced on their backs.
Cloudstar stormed out of his den, Moorleap right behind him, "What is the meaning of this!?" the white leader demanded.
"Cloudstar," Lilyflight murmured, "Shadepaw's dead."
Shocked gasped came from Gorsepaw's clanmates, Dawnfire disappeared into the medicine cat den and reappeared with some sweet smelling herbs. She was about to rub them on the dead apprentice when suddenly Gorsepaw found himself beside her, "Stop," he meowed, "It's not like he was killed by a rabbit! We might have a chance of finding out who killed him if check him for scents. Gorsepaw looked over Shadepaw's body. He glanced at Shadepaw's wound, a large flank scratch. Sniffing at his denmates sodded fur he picked up a faint scent, "Poolflower."
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