Lightningpelt202: This chapter will tell you.
Lavenderheart73: I know... but I wanted to do my own characters, since the actual book with them in it hasn't come out yet.
Shira the Mage: XD... I hope
Hi guys. Sorry for my little dropout. Now that everything has settled down and I'm adjusted to school schedule, I have enough time to update on a regular schedule - hopefully.
By the way, if any of you are on the WarriorCats website and forums, is it not working? It's not for me on any WindStream computer, but it works fine in other places.
ON WITH THE CHAPTER!
Three days had passed since Hollypaw's rescue. Bramblestar returned the next day, and it was true that he had lost his first life. To make the bad news worse, he got no information about the loner. But at least all of ThunderClan was now intact. Everyday living could return. Except for a sense of security.
Hollypaw was usually quiet, but now she never spoke. Even Berrynose began to quiet down. No cat was allowed to travel alone or without a warrior. Three warriors had to always remain in the camp, and three cats had to be awake for shifts at night.
Hollypaw walked up to Sorrelpaw at dawn, and flicked her tail to Bumblestripe, who was organizing patrols. They walked to him side-by-side, and he assigned them a hunting patrol with Mousewhisker and Spiderleg. The patrol was smaller than usual, because Birchfall, Thornclaw, and Dovewing were staying at the camp, as well as Bramblestar, who would barely go to the dirtplace. He had an unhealthy attraction to the camp now.
When they were hunting, Hollypaw only left within a fox-length of Sorrelpaw when either of them were about to make a kill. It wasn't that she was scared that the loner would come back, but it was just a token of security, like a mother, but Cinderheart had to go on the dawn patrol.
The dawn patrol ended when the sun was all the way up, and Sorrelpaw had a good catch; she had a squirrel and a robin. Hollypaw had a plump vole, which Sorrelpaw half-caught by staying by her the whole time. Spiderleg had two shrews and Mousewhisker had a mouse. No one spoke, and the silence almost killed Sorrelpaw, so she quickly decided to break it.
"Mousewhisker, how dare you kill your own kind?" she meowed. Mousewhisker just looked at her, and she then felt quite uncomfortable. Hollypaw smiled, which made her feel a little better, but not much. The patrol padded back to camp in an awkward silence.
The day dragged on, Hollypaw not leaving either Fernpaw's, Cinderheart's, or her side. There was chatter in the camp, thankfully for her, and Spiderleg even brought up the joke Sorrelpaw attempted to lighten up the mood of the hunting patrol. Remembering the patrol, Sorrelpaw's stomach growled and she padded to the fresh-kill pile. She reached for a delicious-looking sparrow, and then, seeing a flash of ginger fur, she realized that Bounce was looking at the same piece. He quickly backed away and took something else, and she shrugged and picked up the sparrow. She couldn't really notice the sparrow's delectable taste though, because he kept glancing at her, and she began to feel uneasy. She had to wolf down the shrew and get Birchfall to go hunting with her.
Although the young tom was friendly, and meant nothing any harm, she couldn't help but worry.
Worry about the sparkle in his eye when he looked at her and she looked back.