Chp 21

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"Hey, dude, Flamechaser, get up!" Sharpfur nudged me. I lifted my heavy eyelids, struggling my way into consciousness. His whiskers were twitching, he looked…hyperactive as always, I suppose.

"Skyteller's gonna name you the second deputy!" he crowed in excitement.

If you don't think that sentence was weird, you should turn back and read it again.

It's like this, folks, Mouseclan has different rules than cats. We usually have two deputies and one leader. When the leader dies, the two deputies will be judged by the clan.

Usually, their talents and quality results in a tie, so the two mice would have to fight, often to the death, and the winner gets to be leader.

Our clan hasn't had two deputies cause there wasn't enough warriors, they were all apprentices, and one deputy always seemed to be dying off.

Hmm. If Skyteller dies, that means I get to beat the crap out of Batwing.

"That's great." I said to Sharpfur as I stretched and got up. My muscles felt sore, because of the battle, and because of the cold, we were way into leafbare now.

"Come on, you should clean yourself, the ceremony begins at moonrise." Sharpfur told me.

Many days later:

"Alright, what's the deal now?" Icefur plucked 2 quarreling mouslings off each other.

"She did it!" Dolphinfang and Dawnfang shrieked as one. Icefur sighed.

It's been a week since the battle with Riverclan and I was a deputy. The mouslings have been…acting weird.

They won't eat, or rarely ate, yet they did not lose weight.

In fact, they were growing at an amazing rate, they were the size of apprentices now.

They grew that much in ONE WEEK. That, scares me.

And they're so violent now days, they were always quarreling, Foxfang even got so worked up he snapped at an elder.

They were also surprisingly strong, I was play fighting with them the other day, and Dolphinfang gave me this H-U-G-E bruise. I wish you could see it.

I wonder what's wrong with them.

And you know what? I went back to bury the rat babies, but they were gone! I searched everywhere but I couldn't find them.

I was too busy with my deputy work anyways to care.

Here's what happened on my first day of being deputy:

-Flashback-

First day of deputy:

Me: Skyteller, what do I have to do now?

Skyteller: Ok, here is your duties: Wake up at 5 before sunrises to meet night patrol, ask night patrol for any news, lead the dawn patrol, when you finish the dawn patrol, report to me, organize the midday patrol, organize the hunting patrols, lead a hunting patrol, help train some other warrior's apprentice, feed the elders, feed the queens, visit the nursery and report to me about the kits, battle training, stalking techniques, help Whitemoon gather herbs, organize the evening patrol, lead an evening patrol, sleep at 12 midnight.

Me: WHAT?

Skyteller: Like it or lump it.

Me: It's not fair! What does Batwing have to do?

Skytelller: Batwing? Batwing wakes up at 3 at dawn to do the night patrol, wait for news by you from the dawn patrol, report to me, do the midday patrol, report to me about the midday patrol, lead a hunting patrol, train an apprentice, teach battle training and hunting training, make sure the fresh kill pile is full, feed the elders, feed the quee-

Me: OKOK! I GET IT!

-End of flashback-

This moment:

"FLAMECHASER! I NEED YOU IN MY DEN!"

I sighed. I didn't move, just flopped down on the spot.

"FLAMECHASER! IT"S ABOUT LOTUSNIP!"

My head perked up and…

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