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Cop and Mocha belong to Rebel Islander
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Shimmerlight stormed out of camp, her fur fluffed out and her claws unsheathed; suddenly she remembered she was supposed to be showing Fogpaw out of the territory, not wandering aimlessly. She stopped in her tracks and turned around, seeing the small apprentice struggling to keep up, Fogpaw wheezed heavily and coughed a few times before she reached Shimmerlight.
As Fogpaw reached her she shakily sat down, looking at the ground "Where am I supposed to go?" she meowed quietly "I can't go back to my clan, and I can't stay here". She whimpered sadly, her green eyes dull with grief.
Shimmerlight frowned feeling the apprentice's despair emanate from her like waves. She tried to imagine being in Fogpaw's position, betrayed by her clan, chased out by her friends and family and left to wander unfamiliar territory in search of a place where she belongs. She shuddered at the thought; she couldn't imagine life without her friends and family. No Shadowsplash or Bluecloud or Rowanflight, no Tansystalk or even Minkstripe, her secret hero.
"I'll take you to twolegplace" she meowed carefully "I'm sure the twolegs will be able to heal you"
Fogpaw nodded sadly "I guess that will be ok, and if I ever want to leave and be a loner I can I guess" she whispered. She slowly began padding in the direction of twoleg place and Shimmerlight padded beside her.
Shimmerlight nodded and soon they reached the edge of the forest, taking her first step out of the forest and into the openness of twolegplace she felt shiver's crawl across her spine. The twoleg nests emerged in neat rows; they sat side by side almost touching, each nest separated by a tall wooden fence.
Shimmerlight turned her head to the left staring down the line of twoleg nest, then she looked to the right, the nests seemed never ending. The grass was mowed short and there was no cover to be seen anywhere, she felt exposed as they began to trot along the wooden fence, Shimmerlight feeling equally as lost as Fogpaw.
Up a head Shimmerlight spotted a plump black and white figure crouched on top of the fence, she picked up the pace, reaching the tom in a few heartbeats.
"Hello? Can you help us?" she meowed, her ginger fur prickling uneasily as she spoke to the stranger. The large tom turned his head to look down at her with bright yellow eyes, the bell on his collar tinkled as his head moved.
The tom lashed his tail back and forth, yawning instead of responding and Shimmerlight flicked her ears in annoyance as she patiently waited for his reply. The tom stood to his paws and stretched more, his haunches raising high in the air as he dug his claws into the fence, finally, stretched to his satisfaction, the tom plopped into a sitting position.
"I dunno, what is it you want? He meowed, beginning to wash his face delicately.
Shimmerlight lashed her tail, irritated with this tom already "My name is Shimmerlight and this is Fogpaw, were looking for a twoleg that can help her, she is sick" as if on cue Fogpaw went into a bout of coughing that lasted a few heartbeats.
The black and white tom blinked his large yellow eyes then tilted his head "What's a twoleg?" Shimmerlight growled as Fogpaw whispered "Let's just keep looking, this kittypet is obviously not willing to help us"
Just as Shimmerlight was about to agree a small light brown tabby trotted across the top of the fence toward the tom.
"She is talking about housefolk Cop" the brown tabby turned soft green eyes on the two clan cats "I'm Mocha" she meowed "Sorry about him, he has pretty much been useless since he went to the vet last week"
Shimmerlight's ears pricked at the word "Vet? Those are twolegs that heal sick cats, right?" Mocha nodded "Yeah, why do you need one? Aren't you one of those wild cats that live in the forest? I've never heard of you needing a vet before"
Shimmerlight nodded "Yes we are clancats, but Fogpaw needs to see a vet, can you take us to one?"
Mocha blinked thoughtfully for a moment "Yeah actually I can, there is one not too far from here about four houses down that way" she pointed down the thunderpath with her tail "Follow me" she leapt down from the fence and began trotting down the thunderpath.
Shimmerlight hesitated before following her but gathered her courage and quickly began following. She followed Mocha closely and could hear Fogpaw just behind her. She felt uneasy as the brown tabby lead them through gardens and crossed thunderpaths, winding between small hedges and tiny little trees the seemed to be used as a decoration.
Mocha stopped in front of a pale yellow twoleg nest "This is the vet, just go up to the door and meow loudly, the vet will come out and take care of you" Fogpaw nodded tentatively stepping up to the door, as she opened up her jaws wide to meow Mocha suddenly stopped her.
"Wait not yet, I have good housefolk" she hissed "I need to be away from the door when you do it or they will take me too" she turned to Shimmerlight "And unless you want to go in there to you had better come with me, I'll take you back to the forest" as she trotted away Shimmerlight quickly touched noses with Fogpaw "Good luck" she whispered.
"Thank you" Fogpaw replied "For helping me"
Shimmerlight raced after Mocha and the two she-cats padded along the fence back towards Cop's house folk's nest.
"How do you know so much about clan cats?" Shimmerlight asked, trying to start a conversation. Mocha shrugged "The nest next to mine has a cat who told me that the cat that lived with my housefolk left to go live in the wild"
Shimmerlight pricked her ears, interested to know which clan cat she knew had originally been a kittypet "Oh really? Tell me more" she begged.
"Well all that I know is what Layla told me" she began "She told me that the cat, Rebecca had kittens with a clancat, only one survived and when the she-cat was five months old she disappeared and then when my housefolk went on her camping trip the cat just disappeared"
Shimmerlight felt her fur prickle at the familiarity of the story "What did Rebecca look like?"
Mocha thought hard for a moment "She was all black but with a tiny splash of white on her chest" she stopped in her tracks "Oh and she only had three legs".
"Shadow!" Shimmerlight yowled "Her name was Shadow, her daughter Leopardlight was my mother"
Mocha stopped outside Cop's house "That's nice" she meowed "Well this is where I stop, it was nice to meet you Shimmerlight" she leapt up back on top of the fence, disappearing into her garden.
Shimmerlight stood in place, stunned and shocked, unable to head straight into the forest like her muscles urged her to do. Instead she simply sat in place and thought. Suddenly a strange scent floated towards her and as she looked toward the scent she could see a white shape racing toward her, she was knocked off of her feet as it slammed into her.
Clambering back to her paws she looked down to see what had run into her, it was a large white cat, younger than her but still large none the less, the she-cat had a large scar over her left eye the scar was carved in a crescent shape.
Suddenly the white she-cat leapt to her paws, her claws unsheathed ready to fight. Shimmerlight bristled ready for the fight that was to come.
"Oh, it's just you" she meowed sheathing her claws and sitting down, curling her long white tail over her paws. Shimmerlight stood defensively unsure of how this cat knew her, suddenly it dawned on her, this was the kittypet kit Sunvine had attacked as an apprentice, and wow she had grown huge.
Shimmerlight relaxed her muscles and sheathed her claws "You remember me?" she asked "I'm Shimmerlight now"
The white she-cat nodded "How could I forget that cat that saved my life" she purred "I'm Moony" she scuffed the ground with her forepaw "I guess you can see why"
"Is that from the attack?" she meowed stiffly.
Moony nodded "Yeah but the name also came from the other kittypets calling me crazy" she laughed "They call me crazy because I wanted to learn how to fight" she looked at the ground embarrassed "So this would never happen again"
Shimmerlight purred "I think it is great you're learning to fight".
Moony nodded excitedly "And hunt" suddenly her eyes lit up like she was remembering something "Oh, foxdung" she spat "I'm supposed to be on a hunting assessment" she leapt to her paws "I gotta go, my mentor is following me" she touched noses with Shimmerlight quickly "Don't be a stranger" she called over her shoulder as she leapt into the bushes, the limbs quivering under the large cat's size.
Shimmerlight stood to her paws to go back to camp, curious and confused who could be training Moony, she was using clan terms. Like mentor and hunting assessment. Is she being trained by a clancat? She was so caught up in her thinking she didn't see another cat coming her way and was roughly shoved aside as they collided.
"Watch it kittypet" a voice spat.
Shimmerlight shook the dirt from her pelt and stood up turning to see who had shoved her, catching sight of the golden, brown and black dappled pelt leaping into the bushes after Moony. Foxbrain! She thought, heading back into the familiar forest.