Chapter 11
Darkpaw gasped as she saw muscular cats standing before her. There stood the leader among the group, Icestar. The muscular leader hissed at the apprentice and raised his paws that filled with sharp deadly claws and swiped at the apprentice. Darkpaw dodged the first swipe but felt pain on the tip of her ears.
"Darkpaw!"
She heard her family shout and felt a pair of jaws grabbing her scruff and pulled her away from the leader. She looked up uneasily and saw her sister looking down at her with concerned eyes,
"Darkpaw stay away from this as much as you can!"
Darkpaw was about to protest before a cat pushed her sister right off from where she was standing! The apprentice looked around, cats were fighting her clan mates! She looked around quickly, eagerly to find her leader and family, but everything was going to fast! Soon enough she felt a heavy weight pushing her down to the ground, knocking the air right out from her. She turned around quickly, clawing the cat right across the cheek. The cat and her eyes meet and immediately they both stopped and stared at each other with shocked eyes. The tom before Darkpaw looked very similar like her…almost as if they were twins! The tom's wide shocked eyes immediately turned back to his burning furious eyes and leaped at Darkpaw. Darkpaw was pinned to the ground but clawed the tom with the back of her legs furiously, she wanted this tom to get off from her before he would get the chance to kill her! The tom yowl in pain and jumped off quickly, landing on all fours and glared at the young apprentice,
"Not bad…for a weak clan apprentice!"
Darkpaw glared at the older tom before her with hated eyes,
"Why are you attacking my clan?! We didn't attack your clan at all! You killed Sunflower!"
The black and grey tom eyes widen,
"Wait…did the badgers kill one of your clan mates?"
Darkpaw nodded with anger in her eyes,
"Yes! She was about to have kits! She was Barkstalker's mate you mouse brain!"
"But…but I thought the badgers didn't hurt any of your clan members!"
Darkpaw shrieked with anger and leaped at the tom who stepped aside, making the young she cat crash into the grass. He turned to face her quickly,
"You're young…I shouldn't be fighting you!"
Darkpaw ignored him and clawed his nose but earned herself a deep scar mark across her back, she yowled in pain as she sink onto the camp floor. She tried her best to get up but the scrawny tom pushed her back onto the camp ground, sinking his claws into her back. Darkpaw cried in agony but the other apprentice didn't stop but continued sinking his claws into her back. Darkpaw's vision was fading slowly until she felt the weight pushed off from her back. She saw the same tom before her but this time wrestling with Whitefire! She saw her brother clawing the tom down and ripping paw full of pelt off from the tom's body. The same tom clawed at her brother but her brother swiftly ducked the attack, and whammed him head into the grey and black tom's chest and pushed him deeper into the ground. Darkpaw was slowly losing consciousness but heard a sharp crack and the tom screaming in pain as her brother slammed him onto a sharp rock before everything went black.
Whitefire hissed at the tom who was shuddering in pain and blood was soaking his right arm. Whitefire spat out the pieces of fur that was in his mouth and clawed the young tom's stomach furiously,
"You did the worst thing you would have ever done in your life! Nobody hurt's my sister!"
He yowls at the tom and clawed his ears.
"I was doing it for my clan!"
The young tom shouted at the white warrior. The two cats looked at each other. Whitefire noticed how similar the tom looked like to his sister but he shook his head and hissed. The tom didn't had the chance to get up as Whitefire finished him off by slamming him into the rock head first. The unconscious tom slipped off from the rock and fell to the floor limply but Whitefire didn't care. He turned around and noticed his sister on the camp floor with her eyes closed! She ran towards her and looked down at his youngest sister,
"Darkpaw?! Darkpaw? Are you there?!"
His sister did not answer him but he then noticed her sister was slowly breathing. He grabbed her by the scruff and quickly ran behind the queen's den where Fawneyes was complaining as Ashheart and Lillyflower were healing cats as quickly as possible. Ashheart's eyes widen as she noticed the warrior and the blood covered apprentice appeared before her eyes.
"Please take care of Darkpaw. She's been attacked from another fool…I'll be back."
Before the medicine cat would say anything the warrior ran off and clawed at another cat.
Rainmist dodged a cat from clawing her sides as she glared at the cat, it seemed like an apprentice, and the silver she cat was hissing at her with a sneer.
"Is that how Stoneclan cats fight?! Always running away? Don't you take in attacks?! Pfft you guys are nothing but weak cats, just like my father explained it to me!"
"I don't care about your father! Now tell your stupid clan cats to get out from our clan! We didn't do anything!" The silver she cat purred in amusement and narrowed her eyes,
"Make me."
With that she leaped into the air, Rainmist dodging and grabbed the young she cat by the neck and slammed her on the hard ground, a shrill scream of pain escaped from the young she cat.
"I said, tell your leader to get out from our camp!"
She hissed as she sink her jaws into the young she cat's shoulder. The she cat yowled in pain and clawed at Rainmist, scratching Rainmist's nose as did. The warrior ignored the pain and tasted blood in her mouth, it made her sick but she went on clawing and biting the apprentice.
"Ok! I'll tell him!"
The young apprentice quickly shouted before the warrior would bite her anymore. Rainmist let her go, making sure the apprentice run to her father. And to Rainmist's satisfaction the leader growled at the clan cats and shouted, "Frozenclan retreat!" The Frozenclan cats froze as they heard their leader hiss out the order and they did as they were told. Rainmist sigh with relief as she saw all of the cats running back to their territory, a few of them had their tails between their legs which made her giggle in amusement. Her smile faded away when she noticed her clan mates have several claw marks and blood was spilled on the camp grounds. Not too far she noticed Whitefire glaring down at a body that Rainmist did not recognized, but the pelt looked so similar! She gasped as she ran and stopped next to her brother, there before her was a cat…a cat that looked so similar to Darkpaw! She felt her ears flatten,
"Who…who is this?"
"Some mouse brained apprentice that attacked Darkpaw."
"Where is Darkpaw?!"
Whitefire looked up at his sister,
"Don't worry, Ashheart and Lillyflower are taking care of her."
She sigh and looked down at the still body, "Did you kill him?" Whitefire snorted,
"Wish I had. He's still breathing, but you can barely notice it. I wish he was dead, he deserved it anyway. Stupid Frozenclan apprentice attacking our sister!"
Just then they noticed the young Frozenclan apprentice getting back to his conscious,
"Huh…uh?"
He asked as he opened his eyes and turned his head to see who was making that noise. Whitefire hissed as he forced the apprentice's head back to the ground with his giant paw,
"Don't you dare move mouse brain!"
Rainmist glanced at her brother,
"Don't be too harsh on him…I think you hurt his arm bad anyway, he won't be able to run now. He's helpless now."
This made the young cat shocked,
"What?! N…no!"
The young tom tried to get back on his feet but he winced as he fell back to the ground,
"Th…this can't be happening to me!"
He shouted in a quiet voice as he franticly looked around for his clan mates,
"Silverpaw? Father? Scarface? Any of you out there?!"
He asked with a pair of desperate eyes. Whitefire sneered,
"There's no use, kit! Their gone, they left you behind!"
The black tom narrowed his eyes at Whitefire but his voice was shocked and desperate,
"I…I don't believe you! My clan mates would never leave me behind like this!"
Rainmist sigh as she looked into the young tom's eyes,
"They apparently have. You might as well tell us your names."
"Why would I tell you mouse brains my name?"
Whitefire rolled his eyes and his claws came out from his paws,
"You sure you want to play a game with me kit? Because I don't want to get my claws filled with Frozenclan stench right now."
The apprentice gulped as he saw Whitefire's sharp claws,
"It's…it's Greypaw…"
He finally answered and looked away with his eyes narrowed with guilt. Whitefire flattened his ears and snarled,
"I hope I get to claw your eyes out Greypaw! Because you hurt my sister!"
"She started to attack me. When I backed down…she started to attack me! And…she deserved to get hurt for insulting my clan!"
Whitefire lips curled and raised his paw that revealed his talon like claws but his sister stood over Greypaw, shielding Greypaw. Whitefire hissed at his sister,
"Rainmist, move over! This apprentice really needs to feel pain right now!"
"No Whitefire, he's just an apprentice. He's been hurt enough, you hurt his arm…that's bad enough for him." Whitefire glared into his sister's eyes with burning yellow eyes. He rolled his eyes but then his eyes meet Greypaw's. He hissed at the apprentice one more time,
"Remember this Greypaw, the moment you touch my sister, no, come even close to my sister I will KILL you!" Greypaw looked up at the older warrior with feared eyes as Rainmist said nothing but stared at her brother. Whitefire glanced at his sister,
"Rainmist, this apprentice is not worth to protect, he's nothing but some fox hearted, fox dunged kitty pet! And you can't protect him forever like this!"
The white she cat did not argued as she saw her brother running towards the medicine cats. Rainmist looked down at the young apprentice who looked back at her with narrowed eyes,
"Why did you stand up for me?"
Rainmist answered,
"Because I know that you were just following your leader's orders. And the fact that you are very young to get into a fight with Whitefire…"
"You're not angry even though I hurt your sister…?"
"I am. But you're still just an apprentice. Behave though, unless you want my father to kill you next."
The apprentice slowly started to close his eyes. Rainmist flattened her ears, looking away from the apprentice.