"What are you doing in shadow clan territory?" A rough voice hissed. Moon paw trembled, "I was um, uh, h-hunting." "In our territory!" Bramble claw called out from the other side of the river, "She chased a mouse from our territory to yours. She's very sorry, Moon paw, come back here!" The silver she-cat slowly stepped backwards, away from the menacing cat.
"But that's not possible seeing there's a stream crossing into both clan's territories. If she chased the mouse to the stream, it would've drowned." Moonpaw made a distance between them by pacing back a bit. Brambleclaw's tail pointed at one of the river's large pebble, "It must've jumped onto the pebble." The Shadowclan cat still glared at them unsatisfied. "Liars, you've been stealing prey from us haven't you? Teaching your little apprentice to be a thief, as expected of Tigerstar's son." Brambleclaw yowled back in protest, "We did nothing!" Moonpaw spun around and plunged forward, only to dive into the deep river's murky depths. Her head bobbed up from the stream, "Brambleclaw help!"
Her mentor cut the conversation short and jumped into the water. Wading into the pool. "Moonpaw where are you?" Her head was pulled back into the water with no time to reply. The waves washed her along. Tugging her farther and farther away from him. Brambleclaw paddled with his paws. He wished despratley to be a riverclan cat right now. He glanced back, but the Shadowclan warrior wasn't there. His paws swept through the icy water, but he struggled since he hated the water and didn't know how to swim. Moonpaw's silver pelt still glowed in the water making it easier to see her, but he was slowing down.
He jumped out, and ran away. He swiflty leaped across the field, and pounced into riverclan territory.
Moonpaw's blue eyes squinted at the warm sun that shone on her. She heaved herself up, and shook her pelt. Her teeth chattered madly. She looked around her surroundings. She was on a smooth rock, right next to the river. Moonpaw let her jaw hang open, she drank in the scent. Her mouth shut...Riverclan...She leapt of the stone and into some reeds. They tickled her whiskers. The silver she-cat couldn't find her way so she gave up, padded back to the rock, and thought of a way to explain everything to Firestar and her mother. As Moonpaw pondered and excuse, a glowing shadow jumped onto the rock.
"Hi." Moonpaw spun around, claws unsheathed, scraping the stone. She bared her fangs at the ginger tom. "Look, I know it seems like I've invaded your clan but I didn't." The mysterious tom licked his paw and brushed it against his ear. "I know, I'm the one who brought you here anyways." Moonpaw let her claws sheath once again, "What did you say?"
"You heard me, I brought you here, weren't you drowning anyways?" She felt heat rise to her face, "I had everything under-control!" The Riverclan apprentice shook his head, looks like everything far from that." Moonpaw could feel herself getting all flustered. "Alright, but I didn't mean to, just please don't report to Leopardstar! I reaaly didn't mean to." The tom shook his head, "You don't have to apologize over and over again, by the way, I'm Sunpaw, what's your name?"
"Moonpaw."
"Wow! Moon and Sun!
"Who's your mentor?"
"Hawkfrost."
"Really? Mine's Brambleclaw!
"Great starclan! This is such a coincidence."
"This very odd!"
Moonpaw purred, gazing into Sunpaw's glowing amber eyes. She blushed and looked away. Suddenly all was silent, "Um...you have nice eyes..." Sunpaw mewed. Bashfully swiping a paw over the reeds. "Thanks..." "Moonpaw! Are you okay?" A voice yowled. Brambleclaw charged forward with Hawkfrost pelting by his side. "So that's where you were." Hawkfrost meowed glancing at Sunpaw. "We've got to train. Come on." The ginger tom took one last look at the silver-she cat and whispered so only she could hear, "I really hope we can see each other again." And with that, his mentor lead him away, waving his tail at Brambleclaw, his half-brother, "I hope things go well with Squirrelflight!" Moonpaw and Brambleclaw went back, across the river and into Thunderclan territory.
It was late, the sun was sinking in the sky, colorful streaks spreading around the golden orb. Sorreltail was the first to meet them, seeing both of them drenched to the bone, she let out a mrrow of laughter. They looked quite odd especially since parts of their pelt were dry and some fur sagged down with water. Than her expression became serious. "Where were you two? You didn't even get any prey!" Moonpaw looked down at her paws. Brambleclaw stepped forward, "She fell into the river and I was trying to get her back." "Did it really take that long?" Sorreltail mewed, "Save your story for Firestar, I'm going to help Moonpaw dry up. Moonpaw padded after her mother, then she remembered Sunpaw and those words. Would they ever see eachother again?
So how'd ya like? Sorry this is mostly romance in the first couple chapters. R and r!
