Okay, character thingy closed! I've got all the characters put where they are going to be. You'll be a character as a kit in the next book, and then after I finish the fourth book, I'm gonna write some more stories in Ravenflight's kits, and some other kit's POVs. It won't be later in time though, like the TNP. Your character will be put in then.
Chapter 12, rescue
Ravenflight entered the camp. Hollypaw dropped her prey on the fresh-kill pile. The camp had churned snow all over it where the cats had walked.
She remembered snow from the mountains, but then it had been much scarier.
Snowpaw charged over to her, smiling and happy.
"This reminds me of the mountains," The white apprentice meowed.
"Do you miss the mountains?" Ravenflight asked carefully.
Snowpaw stared out at the bleak whiteness. "What I do miss is my old name," she mewed.
"Glacier." Ravenflight said, trying to give the apprentice happy memories.
"Yes," Snowpaw stared out, her eyes looking at nothing in particular. Then she mewed, "And Spiderpaw."
Water sloshed around, driving Ravenpaw under the waves. Glacier wailed beside her. The kit made a lunge for Spiderpaw, and caught him by the neck.
"Help!" Glacier screamed.
"Shut up!" Ravenpaw snapped at her. The three cats were moving again. For a second they stopped, jammed into a tree. Glacier was drowning. Spiderpaw was drowning her. They were all going to drown.
"Let him go!" Ravenflight shouted at Glacier.
The kit didn't move. Water covered her eyes.
Glacier took a huge breath and sank below.
And Ravenpaw reached foreword and unclamped Glaciers jaws from Spiderpaw's scruff.
He swirled down the water. Ravenpaw had let him go.
"Yes," Ravenflight choked, her eyes filling with tears.
Snowpaw looked on. "Every time I see the river….I remember. I remember him."
Snowpaw looked up into Ravenflight's eyes, her own blue ones filled with grief and guilt. "I let him go!"
"No." Ravenflight whispered. Unbearable pain lashed through her as she confessed. "I unclamped your jaws….I let him go."
Snowpaw stared at her with huge blue eyes.
"I miss him. I really do."
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Ravenflight walked out of camp, on a hunting mission. The snow was falling very thickly now. A tail length of snow covered the ground.
Ravenflight was near the river. It was completely covered in ice. It sparkled like morning dew.
There was a roar of sound from in front of her. Ravenflight padded quickly over, until she was by Sunningrocks.
There was two dogs in there. Two huge hunting hounds. They wore collars with metal teeth sticking out. Large teeth jutted from there gums.
They had something pinned down. Was it a rabbit? Ravenflight edged closer until she saw that it was Hawkfrost.
She opened her mouth wide in a silent yowl of shock. "Hawkfrost!" She yelped.
Ravenflight sped into the clearing. One of the hounds looked up at her with saliva dripping from its mouth. It looked at the other hound, the one that had Hawkfrost in its jaws, and the two lunged for her.
Ravenflight instinctive reaction went up. Her fur puffed out and her ears flattened. Her claws went out and she gave an angry hiss.
She slashed at the nearest dog. Her claws sank into its soft nose. It yelped at her then growled with big teeth.
Ravenflight backed away, a snarling ball of dark tabby fur. The other dog held Hawkfrost out, ready to devour him.
Big claws came for Ravenflight.
"No…" she moaned, her defenses down.
Teeth came near her throat.
"Hawkfrost…" she moaned, her body going limp.
And then the world exploded in a blast color and sound.
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Ravenflight opened her eyes, looking around at her surroundings. She was by Sunningrocks, and the hounds were circling around something else.
She tried to stand, but she couldn't. Her shoulder was on fire. She staggered, and collapsed.
She finally hoisted herself up, keeping her paw close to her belly. She hobbled over to the hounds on three legs.
There was a terrible ripping sound and Ravenflight closed her eyes, trying to block out the sound, but she still knew what it was.
She ran over as fast as her three legs could carry her.
Hawkfrost was lying between the dogs paws. But he wasn't hurt. The ripping sound had been a rabbit that one of the dogs had been eating.
The dog licked its lips then trotted over to Hawkfrost. One dog lunged for his neck.
Ravenflight's hind legs buckled beneath her and she sprang into the air. She landed on the dogs back and scratched at him. The dog roared, whirling around. One of its claws snagged on Hawkfrost face. The tabby warrior was flung aside, blood pouring from his cheek. He landed on the ice a skidded across it.
Ravenflight dropped from the dog she had been clinging to and dived after the RiverClan warrior. She landed on the edge of the ice. She slipped, and lost her footing.
One of the dogs lunged at them, and landed on the ice. There was a horrible thundering noise as the ice cracked and Hawkfrost slid into the water.
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Ravenflight let out a desperate wail and clung to the wet moss on the bank as the ice below her tipped into the water. She began to slide, down to the rushing black current below her.
She managed not to fall in, but saw a large tabby shape slip into the water, into the blackness, into awaiting death.
"No!" she shrieked, thundering across the ice. The dog had fallen in and was long gone, with the other dog yelping behind it. Ravenflight thundered after the tabby cat who was rushing down the water.
She made a lunge for him, and fell into the water. Her teeth grasped onto his scruff and she pulled. She managed to drag him partly onto the ice.
He was heavy with freezing water. Ravenflight dragged him slowly off the ice.
She laid him in the snow, and licked at the wound on his face, slowly, gently.
"Wake up, Hawkfrost," she whispered, "Please wake up."
His breaths came raggedly.
"Don't die, Hawkfrost," Ravenflight whispered, "Please."
His eyes flickered open. He looked up at her.
"Ravenflight…" he let out a heavy breath. "I-I…"
"Shhh." Ravenflight told him.
Much later he stood up. "Goodbye, Ravenflight." He whispered, he crossed the river on the stepping stones, then looked back, as if he had something more to say. But it never came. He turned around and headed over to the RiverClan camp.
How did you like the chapter? Climax coming! I've written out the entire story now, and there will be 17 chapters! That's the longest I've ever written.