Sorry for the long update, I have been busy for quite some time. But I hope everyone enjoys this latest chapter of Blazing Wind.
The next day came and it was as beautiful as yesterday had been. For Rusty, this was the day he had to decide if he wanted to go and join the wild cats on the moor.
His housefolk had already left for the day and had left food for him in his bowl. He stared at his food bowl for a long time. What would life be like out there in the wild? I'm sure my housefolk would miss me.
Rusty shook his head and then decided to take a drink of water instead of eating from his food bowl.
I should go, I wouldn't want to stay here for the rest of my life. Rusty wiped the water off of his chin and then walked quickly towards the cat flap.
Outside, the smell of the flowers was strong, but he was looking forward to smelling the new scents of the moor.
When Rusty got to the fence, he lept onto the post of the fence. He turned his head to the right to see that Max was waiting for him.
Rusty still remembered what happened yesterday. I should do the right thing, to make up with him. "Hi Max, I'm sorry about yelling at you yesterday," Rusty meowed.
His friend was silent for a moment. Is he now mad at me for being rude to him? "I forgive you Rusty, I should of respected you better yesterday, but did you happen to see any wild cats?"
Rusty told Max everything, about the mean forest cats and of the less meaner moor cats. "I feel like that out there is my true home, I don't want to stay here for the rest of my life and become like Chakra".
Sadness filled Max's eyes. "But I won't see you anymore, what if those moor cats are lying to you?" his friend asked him.
"They were good cats, different then the forest cats that wanted to kill me. I don't think they were lying at all. I'm still going to go and join them, but I will always remember you, Max."
Max's eyes cleared of sadness and he looked a Rusty with a small grin. "I can't stop you from following what you think is right, I would never want you to feel trapped," Max replied.
"Thank you," Rusty meowed and lept off the fence to head into the forest. "Rusty!" he heard Max's voice yowl and turned to get one last look at his friend.
"No mater where you are, well always be friends".
By the time he got to the moor, the sun was about to set. The sun shone down on the grass, making it almost like the grass on fire.
"I see your enjoying the sunset, did you forget I would be waiting for you?" Rusty turned around to see that Deadfoot was standing behind him.
Beside Deadfoot was another warrior he had not seen before, this made Rusty very worried. "Don't worry about him kittypet, this is Emberblaze," Deadfoot meowed and the other warrior steeped in front of Rusty.
"You must be the kittypet that Tallstar was telling me about, like Deadfoot said, I'm known a Emberblaze. You don't have to be afraid of me".
Rusty nodded and then turned to face Deadfoot. "I have made my decision, I will join your clan". Deadfoot smirked lightly.
"Well then, let's be on our way. Tallstar will be looking forward to your arrival," he replied and flicked his tail for Rusty and Emberblaze to follow.
The calm breeze of Green-leaf followed them as they ran faster into the territory of moor. Rusty tried his best to keep up with the moor cats.
His breathing was becoming faster and stronger, his legs felt like they were becoming even more powerful then ever before.
It wasn't long before they reached WindClan's camp that was surounded by gorse. "Alright then, I'll go first and you can go after me. But be careful when your going though the gorse tunnel," Deadfoot meowed and without another word went into tunnel.
Rusty then followed him with Emberblaze behind him. Carefully, Rusty went though the tunnel. I wonder what will be waiting for me on the other side...
Finally Rusty got to the end of the tunnel and was amazed at what he saw. The camp was beautiful, the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.
"Nice, isn't it?" Rusty turned his head to the right to see Emberblaze sit down beside him. "I never thought it would look this beautiful, it must have took such a long time to make your camp as nice as it is," Rusty replied.
Emberblaze nodded his head. "I'm sure when the clan gets used to you, maybe you could learn the legend and history of our clan. Until then, I believe it's time I show you around".
Emberblaze sat up and Rusty quickly followed him. Rusty soon saw the different dens, the warriors den, the apprentice's den, and even the medicine cat den. I never knew that so many wild cats lived together in one clan!
"I saved the best dens for last," Emberblaze meowed and pointed to the largest den, "That's the nursery where new kits are born".
Rusty dashed ahead of Emberblaze and looked into the nursery. He was amazed even more by the sight of the kits playing with each other as a she-cat watched them.
Emberblaze soon came and looked into the den as well. "Aren't they wonderful? The one to the right is my son, Onekit," he meowed pointing to the light brown tom playing with the other kits.
Rusty noticed that all the kits were his friends, but was were his siblings? "Does Onekit have any siblings? Like the other kits?" Rusty asked Emberblaze.
Emberblaze became silent for a long time, there seamed to be a hidden sadness in his eyes. Did I say something wrong? "Hey Emberblaze!" both Rusty and Emberblaze turned to see a dark brown she-cat.
Emberblaze, no longer silent, turned to speck to her. "Wernflight, I'm glad to see you. This is Rusty, he's going to join WindClan".
Wernflight looked down at Rusty and grinned a light smile. "Well, it's nice to meet you. As you already know my name is Wernflight, I'm Onekit's mother," she purred.
Before he could talk anymore, Emberblaze spoke. "Well we better be going to see Tallstar, he'll be wondering where we are". Wernflight nodded her head in agreement. "Alright then, I'll see both of you later," she meowed and then disappeared into the nursery.
Emberblaze lead Rusty to a den that was shadowed by the huge rock on top of it. Is this Tallstar's den? I wonder how big if must be in there...
Suddenly a black and white tom came out of the den with Deadfoot beside his side, Rusty knew that it could only be Tallstar.
Tallstar walked up to him and then bowed his head in greeting. "Deadfoot has told me how well you did to get here, he says that he has never met a kittypet as bold as you are," Tallstar meowed.
"Yes I think he would make a good warrior over time," Emberblaze repiled, agreeing with Tallstar. Tallstar then looked at Rusty with friendly glance.
"Are you ready to become part of the clan, Rusty?" Tallstar asked him. Rusty nodded. "It would be my honor to join your clan, Tallstar".
Without another word, Tallstar lept from stone to stone to reach the top of his den and then spoke out for everyone to hear.
"Let all cats that are old enough to hunt on the moor, join me at the Tallrock," he yowled, cats of Windclan came quickly. Once everyone was sitting, Tallstar spoke.
"I have found a cat willing to join our clan, his name is Rusty".The cats of WindClan looked confused. "Who is he? Where did he come from? Wait, is he a kittypet?" a voice sounded above the yowls of questions.
Pushing though the crowd was a muscular dark brown tom, his amber eyes looked angry. "Tallstar, why have you brought a kittypet into the clan? You know better to let this fox-dung of a cat into the clan," he yowled pointing his tail to Rusty.
"Mudclaw!" Tallstar growled, silencing the tom. "I expect better from you as a senior warrior, now let me continue!" Mudclaw glanced angrily at Rusty and then went back into the crowd as Tallstar continued.
"Rusty has proven himself to me that he has the heart of a warrior. But he well need to leran the ways of of hunting and fighting as a WindClan cat".
Tallstar carefully made his way down from the Tallrock and went up to Rusty. Then crowd backed away as Tallstar began to talk again.
"From this day forward, until you receive your warrior name, you shall be known as Blazepaw. Like a blaze carried on the wind, you will grow with each passing day," he meowed and the WindClan cats began to cheer his name.
"Blazepaw, Blazepaw!" He liked the name very much. He was no longer Rusty, but Blazepaw. When the cheers stopped, Tallstar spoke.
"Your mentor will be Emberblaze, may he show you the way to blaze brighter then anyone before us". The crowd cheered once last time as Blazepaw touched noses with his new mentor.
"I never thought I would be yours to train," Blazepaw whispered. Emberblaze chuckled. "Neither did I".