Chapter Eight
"Echopaw, wake up?"
Echopaw awoke the the voice of Dappleleaf, who was standing over her. "Is your head okay?" her mentor asked.
"Not anymore," Echopaw responded, she no longer felt dazed as she did the day before.
"Want to go on a border patrol then?"
Echopaw leapt to her feet, her first border patrol! "Yes!" she exclaimed.
"Okay then, follow me," Dappleleaf instructed, padding out of the den.
Echopaw followed her, excitement beating at her chest. "Hey Echopaw, what are you doing today?" Pricklepaw came bounding up to her.
"We're going on border patrol now and i'm not sure what we're going to do later," she replied.
"Sounds fun, i'll see you later," Pricklepaw responded.
"Bye Pricklepaw!" Echopaw called out as she continued to follow her mentor to the end of the thorn barrier, with them was Rainsplash and Lionwhisker.
"We should try WindClan's border," Lionwhisker suggested, "since tensions are high with them right now, we should be checking the borders more often."
"Good idea," Rainsplash agreed.
"Sounds like a plan," Dappleleaf added.
"Longwhisker used to tell me WindClan are the most hostile and selfish cats in the whole forest and they often accuse other clans of stealing prey when they haven't," Echopaw meowed.
"He's not wrong," Rainsplash purred, "It seems a bit odd that two clans would be stealing from the same clan at the same time."
"If they make more accusations at the next gathering, Stonestar is bound to do something about it," Dappleleaf chimed in.
"I think so, but he's not the type of leader to jump straight into an attack, he might try to do something more sensbile first," Lionwhisker agreed.
As they reached the WindClan border, the strong scent of rabbits and grass hit Echopaw's nose, causing her nose to tingle. "What do you ThunderClan cats want?" a large grey tom stood near what Echopaw assumed was the border between the two clans, his shoulders were hunched and he looked frail, the three cats that pelted him looked as if they hadn't eaten much either.
"They do look skinny," Echopaw whispered to Dappleleaf.
"I know," Dappleleaf agreed.
"We've only come to check the border, Flinttooth," Lionwhisker meowed.
"Well you won't find any WindClan scent on your territory," a golden tabby she-cat meowed curtly.
"And let's hope we don't find any ThunderClan scent on ours, I wouldn't be surprised if there was though," added a pale brown tom.
"You won't find any ThunderClan scent, we are competent enough to hunt on our own territory, thank you very much," remarked Rainsplash.
"Well I sure hope so," Flinttooth meowed," anyway, we'd better get back to our camp, if any patrols scent you on our territory you'll be sorry."
"Don't worry you won't," Dappleleaf assured him, "come on, we'd better go too."
Hope you all enjoyed this chapter, despite it being a bit boring, thank you all for the reviews, keep doing it!