Untold Lies Chapter 10: Ideas

This chapter was a bit challenging, but I think I did it. One way to find out.

Arrowhead padded around the area and inspected the guards. Lilystorm did a great job He thought looking at the morning sun and the long shadows that covered the mountain side. "Alright, you flea-pelts are done!" Arrowhead heard Lilystorm's yowl come from everywhere when she was foxlengths away. The night guards warily slipped to their nests, while the day guards took their positions.

Arrowhead saw Zee come out of her cave. Oh no He thought as she said, "Get out of here! You are wearing my cats out and-"

Lilystorm cut her off, "I'm positioning your guards in two shifts to protect this place while you didn't even place a single night guard!" She countered.

"The maze would take care of any cat that found it! There is no need for a night guard!" Zee hissed.

"Zee, she has a point. She wants to help fortify this place so that the cats that live here will be safe, and if Streak returns early and sees his home more protected than before, he would trust you more and not send us." Thundertail said, noticing the fight that was about to break out.

Zee looked away. "Fine." She hissed. "But if I hear one complaint about this being to difficult, then I will kill you four in less than a heart beat." Zee hissed as she walked back to her cave and was was swallowed by the shadows.

"She might kill cats for fun, but she cares about her friends and her home." Thundertail said turning to Lilystorm.

"Feelings don't make up for murder." Lilystorm growled as she padded away.

Lightheart appeared out of the cave that Horn was in. He walked up to Arrowhead and whispered, "Two guards are on duty at all time. Four shifts in all, you were right. You have seen the inside of the cave, so you should be the one to escort Horn out."

Arrowhead nodded and replied, "Alright, come find me later. We need to find an opening to get my father out." Lightheart gave a small nod and stalked away. Arrowhead watched him leave before returning to his inspection. We don't have a long time... He thought. If we could get him out of the cave and into the maze... That's it! Arrowhead did not show any expression due to the guards that were swiftly glancing at him. what am I...a fox? He thought as he passed a small cat, about the size of an apprentice, that took a step back when he saw Arrowhead coming. Arrowhead stopped and looked at the cowering with expressionless eyes and said, "If you don't give me a reason to be my enemy then I'm not going to hurt you." The small tom looked slightly stunned but got back into position instantly.

The sun made the shadows grow shorter and then longer as it went below the horizon and the moon took it's place. Arrowhead woke up from his nap and went to find his friends. He padded outside onto the moonlight drenched mountain side. He looked to the starry sky. He remembered what Roundstar and Froststar said to him, "We will stop you." Arrowhead shook his head and continued on with his search.

"Arrowhead!" Lightheart whispered behind a large boulder. Arrowhead looked around before going to him. "What are you doing? Get over here!" He hissed.

Arrowhead trotted over to him. "I was making sure I wasn't followed." He replied. "You chose a good spot." he meowed in awe as he walked behind the large boulder which was actually a small abandoned cavern.

"There you are!" Arrowhead saw Lilystorm and Thundertail coming out of the dark caver. "We were getting worried you were caught." Lilystorm meowed sarcastically.

"You know Starclan just can't stay away from me." Arrowhead replied. She shrugged and looked at Lightheart.

"Alright, I have an idea but it has some problems." Lightheart began while the others made themselves comfortable on the hard ground. "Two cats are always on guard at all times. We need to get in there but Zee is the only one thats allowed to see Horn. If we can come up with an idea to get us to Horn then it should be easy from there on."

"I have an idea," Thundertail meowed. "Though it's very risky. Someone has to become a traitor. We give them away to Zee and then we hope she puts them with Horn."

"That is risky." Lilystorm replied. "Could we trick Zee into letting us see Horn?"

"There is no possible way for us to know what will happen if we try these ideas." Lightheart said, sitting down. "We can't fail, this is our only strike."

"Then we go with Thundertail's idea." They all looked at Arrowhead like he had gone insane. Arrowhead ignored their stares. "Turn me in tomorrow morning." He said as he padded out of the cavern and into the moonlight.

"I guess we will have to come up with a story for Arrowhead." Thundertail commented.

Lightheart nodded his head. "Wait! We forgot to figure put how to figure out how Arrowhead is going to act. If he acts normally than Zee is sure to think that we are up to something."

Lilystorm shrugged. "Oh well. I hope he is prepared. We will need to do everything we can to convince Zee he is a traitor without us being traitors as well." Lightheart and Thundertail nodded.

"Get some sleep tonight. Morning is going to be tough on us." Thundertail said getting to his paws and heading to their dens.

I did kind of have a better idea that I would have used, but I needed one thing to happen first.