Welcome Skysta5 lovers who I so dearly love back! So it took a while but here's another chapter. You have 3 chapters to sponsor someone. Ok that rule about only 3 sponsors to a cat… I broke it so if you sponsored someone and I said no and you aren't up there now. Please let me know. Only 4 cats aren't sponsored! They are Goldtoe, Snowflecks, Daisystem, and Mosshadow. Ok just for the image I trie to put in NW stands for Nightwhisker, DF Dark forest warrior, Cloud tuft CT, Thistleclaw TC and so forth you'll get it in about a minute. And with that, this is the last chapter before the games! May the odds be ever in your favor!
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Chapter 10- Nightwhisker- ShadowClan
It was hot. Lots of sun and a black pelt really doesn't help anything. We left today. We left the island. Moving slowly, flanked by the Dark forest. The hills of grass began to thin. The last hill was conquered. It felt like the top of the world. You could see WindClan's moor, ThunderClan's forest, RiverClan's stream and thin forest. The five tiny loner camps. My pines.
"Look one more time!" Thistleclaw sneered. "Only one of you gets to come back!" I had the unfortunate "honor" of having Thistleclaw as my Dark forest mentor. The twenty-five of us were arranged in a brick. ThunderClan was arranged in a row. ShadowClan behind them. I was next to Sunpelt and behind Cloudtuft. Snowtuft, a dark forest warrior stood to my right. In his guarding postion. WindCLan was after my Clan Stormcloud behind me. I'd heard she'd been having health issues. She seemed fine now. Riverlcan stood behind the moor cats. Loners behind RiverCLan. Dark had ended up behind Ruffledfern and the two had been whispering the whole trip.
This is the illustration I was talking about:
TC
DF DF DF DF DF DF DF
DF VT GT BT PS CT DF
DF MS SF MF SP NW DF
DF LS LS BF SL SC DF
DF DS RF PP SF SS DF
DF S D G ThSt DF
DF DF DF DF DF DF DF
Okay worst square ever but oh well some of the names you have not gotten: the first LS is Lightstreak, the second Leafspring, sorry didn't know they had the same initials! And in the back S is Snake and ST is Starla. Ran into an initial problem there too. So pretend that's a perfect brick shape and that's what the cats are organized like. Make sense? And now back to your scheduled program.
We kept moving, soon the hills flattened into open moorland as far as the eyes can see. Buzzing bees, and lazy butterflies floated in the air. Clouds drifted slowly across the beautiful pale blue sky. I hoped we weren't fighting here, it was too peaceful. We stopped marching awhile past sunhigh.
"We make camp here! You train 'till moonrise then sleep until sunrise!" Thistleclaw called. WindClan cats instantly scattered into the tall blond grass hacking down long stalks next to the roots, taking the long stems and bending them into nests. I copied the movements and came up with a heap of grass. Which was nothing compared to the neatly crafted nests of the WindLcan cats had so delicately made. Oh well. I escaped the throng of cats all attempting to make beds out in the open moor. I caught a whiff of rabbit and began tracking it. Soon the brown coarse furred creature came into my sight and my paw steps slowed. Little by little, closere and closer I grew nearer And was to slow. The rabbit hopped off content an full at lightning speed. I wandered around for a long while searching for anything that wasn't rabbit. I wasn't WindClan! I finally settled for a tiny field mouse and ate it right then and there alone with only the sky. After my meal I headed back towards the little circle of short grass we were staying in. My many failed attempts at catching a rabbit had wasted the time leaving me to go to sleep with the setting sun.
"Hello!"
"Aghhhhh!" I was woken by afriendly hello only to find a young black she-cat nearly nose to nose with me.
"Time to get moving!" She announced.
"Who are you?" I shouted instantly, not thinking twice.
"Rosethorn. Now get up. I nodded and slowly followed the sleek she-cat. I felll into line with the other tributes. Today it was Rosethorn guarding next to me. I attempted to strike up a conversation.
"So… What Clan did you used to be in?"
" A Clan that should have been named HAwkCLan.
"Um… RiverClan?"
"Duh."
" So I assume you like fish?"
"Trout and carp yes."
"What about pike?"
Not a huge fan of it. Too many teeth." I shuttered what was it like to have prey with sharp teeth? From what I knew Mouse had tiny teeth frogs with none.
"So… no pike?"
"Are we done yet?" She rolled her indigo eyes.
"Fine." I grumbled. And began to go on auto pilot walking mindlessly as I let my thoughts wander. I thought first of Needlestar. And Russetwing my best friend. Tigerlight, our current medicine cat. A pretty good friend. I began to miis the shady pines and the pretty green saplings The blotches of white and blue that shone through the trees. Fresh caught squirrel that was easy to capture and didn't taste like rabbit! Soon thought wandered to my training. The way the piles of leaves stuck together with rock hard honey and stone solid tree sap A string swing of my paw and the pile was dimished and majority of the leaves shredded. I liked the strength I felt. I like the felling. The power, I felt like HAwkfrost. No. I wasn't going to become strength obsessed I would stay sweet little old me. For my mother.
My mum's name was Purepuddle. (There was an actual warrior character named Mudpuddle! :)) Ironically she was a pure mud brown but beautiful none the less. Either way. Her sister was sent away to the games. Soon after I was born she became grief stricken. And she tried to escape to SkyClan. It was just a rumor the 5th Clan but she was determined to go. She was in the mountains. On the outskirts of Tribe territory. They caught her and she never came back. Though scarlet stained the paws of returning dark warriors. I would win. Bring glory to the LCans who have lost to the loners the past 2 games. To ShadowClan. Where my heart lies. To my family and friends who love and believe in me, who I love back. For Needlestar I wasn't going to llet him lose another loved one. I would win for my mother.
End scene! That's it! The next chapter is the games! So it took us 10 chaps. But we are here! Readers I love you and I hope you review. Plus MY POLL! Is up for a few more days that's it. Only 5 voters SILVER you said you voted but it didn't come up that you voted so please vote again. And I don't think anyone cared but the first tribute name I thought of was Violettail. So,
Live, laugh, love, learn, life
-Skystar