Dreampaw raced out of the apprentice den. Bounding up to her mentor, Hollyclaw, she waved her tail excitedly.
'Can I go on this patrol? Please?'
Hollyclaw nodded. 'As long as you don't wander off again! I need to talk to Lionstar now, but can go with Honeypelt. Listen to what she says. I'd better not hear her complaining about you again.'
Dreampaw scurried happily away. She was very hot in the sun filled camp, her silvery jet-black fur soaking the heat up.
Dreampaw was a very pretty she-cat, with unusual dark blue eyes- or at least some times they where dark blue. Her strange eyes seemed to change colour with her emotions. When Dreampaw was angry, her irises went a piercing ice blue. When she was startled, or frightened, her eyes go a turquoise/aqua. At the moment, Dreampaw was happy- deep, dark blue.
'Hey, Dreampaw!'
Rockpaw, a grey tom with amber eyes, stood in her way. 'Are you going on border patrol?'
'Yes! I'm going with Honeypelt to the Windclan border.'
'Can I come too? Foxfang said that I could.'
Dreampaw nodded. Flicking her tail at him, she went over to Honeypelt, who was organising the patrol.
'Can Rockpaw and I come? Foxfang and Hollyclaw said we could.'
Honeypelt sighed. 'Two little trouble-makers? Isn't one apprentice enough? Still, of course you can come. I just need one more cat. Go wait over at the gorse tunnel, I'll be there in a second.'
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Icepaw swum desperately. In his minds eye, he could see Tigerstar, amber eyes glinting in triumph. The thought have him a little more strength, but he couldn't go on… Just in time, Icepaw felt his paws scrape rough sand and pebbles. They had reached Thunderclan territory!
Sunclaw scrambled wearily onto the sandy bank, a few seconds before Icepaw.
Turning to look at his apprentice, he noticed Icepaw's scared eyes.
'Icepaw? Icepaw, what's wrong?'
Icepaw motioned with his tail. Sunclaw turned around, just in time to see a black Thunderclan cat emerging from the forest.
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Dreampaw looked in alarm at the sodden cats hauling themselves up onto the shore. There was a bright ginger cat who was turned away from the Thunderclan cats. A smaller pure white cat was standing beside them. Dreampaw noticed his eyes where white as well, with a black out-line, which made his black pupils stand out. Still staring, Dreampaw remembered that they were intruders.
'Hey! What are you doing in our territory? Which clan are you from?' spat Dreampaw as angrily as she could.
The ginger cat stepped froward. 'We're from Riverclan. We just came to go to Moonpool, and we'd like to be on our-'
'Wait a minute. You swam across the lake? From Riverclan territory? Just to go to Moonpool?'
Dreampaw couldn't believe it. Not only had these crazy furballs swum an impossible distance, but they had done it just to get to Moonpool! Couldn't they just walk?
The pure white cat walked forward.
'We need your help. There was a prophecy, in Riverclan, made a while ago. I understand it now…. Thunderclan and Riverclan are destined to fight against Darkclan.'