Thank you so much for all your reviews! I love them so much!
GardevoirLove4ever: lol! Tigerstar. Suicidal. That's funny. Hm. I'll announce plushies at the end…
warriorcrazy: Barley? Hmm…
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MyrtleFalls: Aw. I wish Ravenpaw had his name too. I would name him Ravenheart, but that wouldn't really work, cuz ravens aren't necessarily very nice… I kind of like Blossomfall's name, but it's really random. Like I could get where Firestar was coming from with "fall" cuz the tortoiseshell patches on her pelt, but it's really random.
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Chapter 10: Different Route
"Great StarClan, what happened?" Snow wailed. Frisk, Sissy and Lime stared over the cliff in horror. Rocks were torn up from the earth, trees were cut down, leaving only stumps, grass was torn up and twolegs swarmed the place.
"Momma, where are the clans?" trembled Sissy. Snow's mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out.
"Dears, let's go find Violet. Ask her where the clans have gone." the white and gray queen ushered them back to the smaller twoleg nests. The zig zagged through tons of nests, and the deeper Lime went into the twoleg place, the more uneasy she felt.
Soon they approached a large white twoleg nest. Snow circled the door, and started to yowl. "Violet! It's Snow! Help!" Momma stopped yowling as a pretty orange tabby stepped out of the flap in the door.
"Snow? What are you doing? It's almost night time!" her green eyes were dull with tiredness, but also sparking with happiness. Lime could tell she was very happy to see her friend, and happy with her twolegs. Violet was just a happy type of cat.
"Vi, the clans have gone! Twolegs have taken over the territories and all the land has been torn up!" Violet's eyes widened in horror. Her tiny white paws trembled and she raced past Snow, Frisk, Sissy and Lime.
"Barley!" she cried. She turned back and flicked her tail for the other cats to follow. "Follow me. My brother should know what happened." she turned back to face the territories. "If he's still alive." Lime heard her whisper.
~oOo~
"Barley! Open up, this instant!" yowled Violet smashing the door with her tiny body. The door rattled, but didn't open.
It was almost dark. Lime couldn't hear the yowls of the battle cats, but she knew it was happening. She knew cats would be dying tonight, and she wasn't there to help them.
It killed her.
"BARLEY!" screamed Violet throwing herself against the door. She failed, and tried again. This time, the door swung open to reveal a jet black tom with a white tail tip.
"Stop making such a racket! Barley's sleeping, who are you? "the tom rasped. Obviously he had been sleeping. He eyed Snow, Sissy, Frisk and Lime warily. Violet sighed in relief, knowing that Barley was safe.
"You three smell of BloodClan, therefore you are not welcome here." the tom trembled. Lime snarled and stomped up to the tom.
"Just. Get. Barley, you mangepelt, or we BloodClan cats will barge in there and take him!" I hissed. The black cat trembled violently and unsheathed his claws.
"I… I am trained to fight! I can kill you a single strike! I… I was born a clan cat! Remember we clan cats eat bones!" he stuttered. The light brown kit's eyes widened. Snow, Sissy, and Frisk gasped in the background.
"You are a clan cat!" Snow trilled happily. "We are looking for the clans! Where are they?" The black tom relaxed slightly and meowed, "they left a few moons after they helped us beat you BloodClan cats from taking our barn." he snipped.
Lime growled and stepped closer to the tom. "Don't test us kittypet." The tom cowered against the barn door, his eyes rested on the much younger cat's bared teeth.
Snow interrupted. "That wasn't all of BloodClan. That was only the outcasts that Bone exiled. Besides, we aren't BloodClan cats anymore. We run away to live with the clans, but we saw their territories. Did they all die?" the tom chuckled, half heartedly.
"I hope not! Some of my closest friends besides Barley lived there!" the 4 cats stared at him cluelessly. The tom coughed awkwardly. "I mean, they all fled up across that mountain over there called Mother Mouth. They went looking for a home after 6 cats came back from each clan saying that there was a home just over the sun drown place." Frisk rolled his eyes.
"You lost me at Mother Mouth." he snapped. "Talk normal cat please!" the tom pouted at the small brown and cream tom.
"They went far away to find a new home." the black cat said dully. Snow smiled.
"Thank you. May I catch your name please?" the cat looked confused.
"Only if I catch yours." he meowed warily. Snow laughed tryingly.
"I am Snow. These are my kits-" Frisk shook his head at her.
"Not my name!" he hissed. Lime nodded. "Nor mine!" the white and gray dappled she cat glared at them.
"Frisk, Sissy and Lime." she said quickly. Frisk and Lime hissed and unsheathed their claws. The black tom purred, his white tail flicking in amusement.
"I'm Ravenpaw. If you want to see Barley, he's back there." he looked back into the barn.
"Thank you." Violet said impatiently and pushed past Ravenpaw. The black tom looked baffled, then faced the former BloodClan cats.
"Well. What now?" Snow blushed. "Well, I was going to guide Violet home. It's dark and very dangerous. Can my kits stay here?" Frisk looked horrified at the barn.
"No way! It smells like dog int here!" Ravenpaw blushed. "That's hay, kit. The barn is full of it. The twolegs use it to bed the chickens." The 4 cats cock their heads, confused. What was a chicken?
"Okay. Chickens. I'm gonna stay out here. Maybe find a hole or something." Frisk meowed backing away. Lime sneered.
"Scared?" Frisk turned red. "You wish!" he snapped. The light brown she cat unsheathed her claws.
"Wanna fight pipsqueak?" she challenged. Frisk purred. "My pleasure!" and he lunged at her, claws unsheathed. A large white paw batted a flying Frisk back down.
"No, kits. You will sleep here where it's safe, and that's final!" Snow growled. She called over Violet and started to head away.
"Stay safe kits!" she yowled as she crossed the ThunderPath with Violet. When both she cats were out of sight, Lime, Frisk and Sissy turned to Ravenpaw.
"Well? Can we come in?" Frisk meowed sarcastically. Ravenpaw narrowed his eyes.
"Okay. We're gonna lay down some ground rules." he started. The 3 its rolled their eyes, biting their lips. "First, no yowling! Barley needs his rest, or else he will be as cranky as a twoleg in the morning, and I'm gonna have to deal with that!" the black tom shuddered.
"Second, you never go outside the barn. The ThunderPath is never safe. I had a friend who's apprentice's leg was crushed severely by a passing monster. She has a terrible limp now. She was a clan cat." Ravenpaw sighed. "Of course Tigerstar did that to her, or else she would have never been there in the first place."
Frisk's eyes gleamed. "Tigerstar?" Ravenpaw eyed the little tom warily. "Yes. Tigerstar. Do you know him?"
"No, but Bone tells- told us stories of how he came into our camp one day and challenged Scourge to fight with him." Ravenpaw nodded.
"Tigerstar was my mentor. You have mentors, right?" Lime shrugged. "Yes. But we call them killers, and we are killers to be. Except for me, I am a killer." Ravenpaw stared at her, then continued setting rules.
"No jumping from the top floors, no jumping on Barley and me and no hunting while we aren't watching you!" Frisk rolled his eyes again.
"Fine. No yowling,ThunderPath, no jumping, no hunting. I thought you were a clan cat!" he snapped at Ravenpaw. The black tom hissed.
"Come inside now." he growled and he led the 3 kits inside.
~oOo~
"Lime! Lime! Wake up! We have to go!" a paw shook Lime awake. The light brown she cat groaned and turned to the voice.
"Sissy, I'm tired. Go away. Tell Bone I'll be there in a minute." she groaned and flopped back over.
"Er. Lime? We're not in BloodClan anymore." Sissy meowed shyly. Her green eyes snapped open, scanning her surroundings.
Sis was right. They weren't in the cement walls of BloodClan anymore. They were in the smelly hay of Ravenpaw's barn!
"Eughhh!" she screamed and shot straight up. She danced across the barn, trying desperately not to touch the hay.
"Get me out of here!" she wailed. Sissy's light green eyes widened and she spun around, looking for Snow.
"Momma! Lime is freaking out!" and she was. The light brown kit bounced around the hay, screaming. Her paws barely touched the ground, but that wasn't good enough. She had to get away from this filth.
"This is disgusting!" she cried. A black tom peeked from the barn door.
"Gee. Thanks Lime." it was Ravenpaw. Lime hyperventilated and raced for the exit.
"Getmeout getmeout getmeout!" she cried. When she finally reached the outside, she collapsed onto the sweet cement floor.
"Oh, great! Nice rock. Nice cement. Ahh…" she hummed. Frisk snickered from behind her and she hissed at the tom.
"Lime! Never seen you have a panic attack before!" he guffawed. Lime snarled at her little brother.
"Don't forget I can pummel you to dust!" she snapped as she dug her claws into the sweet cement.
"Lime, honey. We have to leave now. We must go find the clans." Snow reminded her. Lime's breath caught in her throat.
"I… Can we stay here for just one moment?" Snow shook her head.
"Lime you are too close to the ThunderPath. We need to go now." Lime's bottom lip shook. She didn't want to go any further from BloodClan. She couldn't she was too…
Scared.
She looked up at the sky. It was early morning. The sky was a faint orange and the sun was rising just over the mountains. Or Mother Mouth as Ravenpaw called it. As beautiful as the sky was, the ground didn't compliment it as it should have.
There were no twolegs at the old clan territories, but it still looked as terrible as ever. Trees were still uprooted, rocks were still thrown to random spots and there was no sign of prey.
Lime's stomach grumbled. She hadn't eaten since last night's rat hunt in Ravenpaw's barn.
"Snow? Can we go get some food?" she asked timidly. Frisk chuckled and Sissy smiled. Snow shrugged.
"If we can find some food, we can." she promised. Lime nodded. She didn't want to step into Ravenpaw's barn, even if it meant prey.
"Well. Let's get going!" Frisk meowed optimistically. Sissy laughed and Ravenpaw led the way.
The trekked a little over the large rocks, Sissy occasionally trailing behind, so they had to stop ever time she fell too far behind. Soon, they reached Mother Mouth. Lime looked over the mountain and gasped.
All that Lime could see was a large span of twoleg nests. Frisk's eyes widened and Sissy gagged at the smell. Ravenpaw shrugged and pointed at the direction the clans went.
"They headed towards the sun set. That's all I know. I'm sorry." Ravenpaw apologized. Snow nodded unsure, and said goodbye to the black barn cat. She flicked her tail and signaled for her 3 kits to follow her.
Lime looked back at Ravenpaw. She inhaled and looked at the large twoleg place. And the journey begins to who knows where.
That was HORRIBLE ending! I'M SOOOOOO SORRY! There is only one more chapter left, and I'm so sorry that this one was so bad. I had a very bad writers block. SOO SORRY!
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