Hope you all liked it! Now, the next chapter!
Disclaimer: All charecters in the story belong to their role-players. Well, except the cute kittypets. They're all MINE! Also, I did not make up Warriors. That would be Erin Hunter.
Qweenie flinched at every little noise. It had been foolish to go into the forest alone, she knew. But she had, just HAD to find the clans! It was an obsession that drove her on even when her paws ached so badly she was sure they would fall off. Mostly it was determination to prove Lilo wrong that drove her on. She would find the clans, and when she did, her friends would have to always respect her!
Qweenie felt guilt well up inside her. Who was she to feel this upset? Her friends had always respected her, always. Just because they didn't agree to search for the clans with her, didn't mean they didn't respect her. iOh, Princess was right… What if I've come out here for nothing? Smokey is crazy… He thinks mice have a secret organization called DTKC – Destroy The Killer Cats. How lame is that? I should go back…/i
Qweenie turned around and set back determinedly.
"Whiskers, Whiskers!" cried a voice, waking Whiskers from her nap in the window. She yawned and looked out the window for the source of the noise. It was the members of the little click! What were they doing here? She jumped down and padded out the cat flap to join them. "What's going on?" she asked Princess, looking at her blearily.
"Qweenie is missing." Princess replied bluntly.
"She might have gone to look for the Clans!" added Pepper. His eyes were huge in shock.
"What?" demanded Whiskers. "That's crazy! Why would she do that?" Princess shook her head.
"I don't know, but she never came home from the barn… Remember how she was asking Smokey where the RiverClan camp was? She might have been intending to look for them!" wailed the golden siamese. "This is all my fault! I should have gone home with her!"
At once the members of the click crowded around Princess.
"It wasn't your fault, Princess! We all should have been more open-minded!" insisted Pepper.
"Peppers right… We all know Qweenie always goes the extra mile to prove her point… Oh dear, oh dear.." mewed Lilo.
"We'll have to go look for her! Right away before she gets lost or something!" exclaimed Whiskers. Princess nodded, her green eyes watery.
"We'll have to go right away!" she meowed softly. "Come on!" She stood and, with her tail held high, led the little click away from Whiskers house, towards the forest.
"Um… Princess?" mewed Lilo in a tiny voice. The golden siamese turned to look at her. "Yeah?"
"Uh… This place looks… Scary…" she meowed, looked at the tall trees that cast spidery shadows on the forest floor. Princess' green eyes glittered. "We have to go in there!" she mewed urgently. "Qweenie is in there!"
"Are you certain she went in there?" Pepper spoke up. He, too, was looking at the forest apprehensively. Princess sighed.
"Got any other bright ideas on where she went?" she growled. "Come on!"
Qweenie's heart thudded against her chest franticly. Once more, she took about three steps forward, with the same result. The scent of the forest changed! Three steps backwards, it smelled of autumn and musty leaf mold, but three steps forward and she could smell the river and many fields of long grass. iIt must be a clan boundary! What else could it be/i she thought, her blue eyes sparkling with delight. iI was right! I was RIGHT! The clans are really here/i She did a little happy dance, laughing wildly. She had found the Clans after all! She bounded across the scent once more, and further into the forest. Was she on RiverClan territory? She hoped so, though she really had no idea how to tell one clans scent. She bounded through grass that went way, way, way, over her head, chasing grasshoppers and giggling.
After a while, Qweenie wondered where she was. There was no way she could return to her home after she iknew/i the Clans were really here, but how could she find RiverClans camp? She paused, her ears pricked. She closed her eyes ad listened… She could hear… She could hear…. The river! Her eyes shot open and she took off, racing through the grass while the sound of running water grew louder and louder until…
"ReeeOOWWW!"
Qweenie shrieked as she was knocked backward by a cat, like, two times her size! He was white, with pale ginger around his ears and all of his tail. His green eyes burned fiercely as he placed a paw on her chest, pinning her to the ground. "This is RiverClan territory! What are you doing here?" he growled. iRiverClan territory/i
"No-nothing! I was l-looking for R-RiverClan!" she meowed shakily. The warrior growled. "What do you want!" he hissed.
"Redcloud!" meowed a voice from behind the warrior. "What are you doing?"
Redcloud stepped back, still pinning Qweenie to the ground, to reveal a light gray she-cat who looked remarkably like Lilo.
"I found a spy on our territory!" growled Redcloud. The warrioress leaned down and sniffed Qweenie gingerly. "Redcloud, she's a ikittypet/i She's not here to spy! Let her go for StarClans sake," meowed the siamese. Redcloud growled, but let Qweenie go. She rose shakily to her paws. This wasn't how she had planned to find the clans.
"What iare/i you doing out so far into the forest, kittypet?" asked the she-cat.
"Give me the word, Fuzzyfur, and she'll be gone!" growled Redcloud. Fuzzyfur shook her head.
"I… I came to find RiverClan… Because… Well, to prove that there really are clans in the forest. My… Friends don't believe me." Qweenie mewed in a small voice. Fuzzyfur sighed.
"Kittypet, you really shouldn't wander into the forest alone, whatever the reason. It's a wonder you didn't get eaten by a fox or something!" meowed Fuzzyfur. She turned around and began padding away, making Qweenie panic. She did NOT want to be left alone with Redcloud. But Fuzzyfur called over her shoulder, "Come on, kittypet! You to Redcloud, and Eveningpaw!"
A tortishell apprentice appeared from the tall grasses, staring at Qweenie with wide, blue eyes. Qweenie glanced at Redcloud and raced to Fuzzyfurs side. "Where are we going?" she asked the warrioress. "To camp," replied Fuzzyfur.
"Whiskers! Pepper! Lilo! iAnyone/i Where did you all go!"
Princess looked around for her friends. "Well!" she mewed. "I never thought… How could they… Those… I'll get them… When I find them… GUYS!" she shouted. "Arrg! When I get m paws on them they'll--"
"What do you think you're doing, scareing all the prey like that?" mewed a voice.
Princess jumped and whirled around. A young cat, a ivery/i young cat was poking her head out of the weeds. She was light gray with dark spots speckling her body.
"Who are you?" gasped Princess. The kitten stepped out of the weeds calmly.
"Silentkit!" she mewed. "You know... Well, my mom is Dreamcatcher. Who are you?"
Princess gulped. Silentkit? That sounded like a clan name! "P-Princess. I'm Princess."
Silentkit stared. "That is a strange name… What was your apprentice name? Princepaw?" meowed the kitten.
iApprentice/i Princess stumbled backward. "There really are clans in the forest!" she gasped. The kit blinked. "Well iyeah/i! What are you, a lost kittypet?" she mewed scornfully. "Hang on…" She sniffed the air. "You are a kittypet! What are you doing here anyhow?"
Princess sighed. "To make a long story short, I'm looking for my lost friend. There were three more friends with me, but they seemed to have abandoned me. I can't find them anywhere," she admitted. Silentkit wriggled her tail. "I could help you look!" she squeaked.
"Silentkit! I know you're there!" called a voice suddenly. Silentkit jumped. "Oh no! Hide me, I'm not supposed to be out here!"
Too late. A silvery bengal padded from the weeds, followed by a golden tom.
"Hi mom! Hi uncle!" squeaked the kit. "Nice day, isn't it? I thought I would, uh, soak up the sin maybe… But you know, now I'm headed back to camp. Goodbye!" she mewed, and started to inch away.
"Oh no you don't! Don't you realize you're keeping the camp waiting? It's time for your apprentice ceremony!" growled the golden tom. Silentkit stopped in her tracks. "Oh! My ceremony! Is it really time? Wow! Amzing! This is great!" she mewed spinning around in circles. The silvery cat sighed. "Remind me again why Scarcewhisper named her Silentkit." She meowed to her friend.
Silentkit stopped. "Hey mom, can Princess come too? Hey Princess – Princess?" She looked around.
iOh Silentkit, you're going to give me away/i thought Princess, hiding behind a rock.
"Who's Princess?" asked the golden tom, looking puzzled.
"I smell kittypet!" declared the she-cat.
"Oh, there you are, Princess! Come meet my mom, Dreamcatcher, and my uncle, Troublemaker!" squeaked Silentkit. Princess sighed.
Troublemaker trotted over. "Kittypet!" he growled. "What are you doing here?"
"I'll drive her out," declared Dreamcatcher. "No! Wait!" meowed Princess. "Wait. I'll leave your forest, I promise. But first I have to find my friends. They're lost," she explained. Dreamcatcher looked exasperated. "More kittypets? Just how many are lost out here?" she demanded.
"Uh… Including me, there's be five."
Troublemaker sighed. "We could let her find her friends…" he mewed slowly.
"We have to drive her out!" agrued Dreamcatcher. "My father would be mad if we didn't."
Majicou, Princess reflected, was Dreamcatchers father.
"Yes… Well, we'll take her to him. He can decide."
Princess's jaw dropped. From the stories, she knew Majicou would inot/i be happy to have her.
"Yay!" mewed Silentkit. "Now you can see my ceremony!"
"Well, this isn't good!" declared Lilo. "We're out on a search-and-rescue for Qweenie, and iwe/i get lost! Where is Princess and Whiskers? How could we have gotten separated?"
Pepper shook his head. "No idea," he mewed glumly. "I would say we should go back home and wait, but we have no idea where home even is."
"Hear hear," grumbled Lilo. "Why did Qweeine even have to come out here in search of the clans anyways? How dumb can you get?"
"She was just curious," Pepper defended Qweenie. Lilo sighed. "Sure, come on."
The two friends were buffeted by strong winds as they traveled upwards across the bare moorland. "You know…" mewed Pepper. "Maybe Qweenie was onto something." Lilo looked at him incrediously.
"What do you mean?" she demanded.
"Well… If the clans were real, this would be the perfect place for WindClan."
"Yeah, if they were real."
"Hey… You never know. They could be real."
"Yeah, but how could they possibly live out here? Smokey says they'd catch prey, but I haven't seen so much as a mousetail!"
"Maybe you weren't looking hard enough. You know, Smokey lives off mice."
"Yeah, but Smokey is one cat. A whole clan? Highly unlikely."
Pepper didn't answer, and Lilo felt guilty. She hated arguing with the gentle tom, even if she knew she was right. After all… She did like him. She sighed and leaped over some scattered brambles. Why couldn't Pepper see she liked him? What would it take for him to notice her, anyways? iHe won't never notice me… He's to busy padding after Qweenie all the time/i she thought bitterly.
"That's it! That iit/i!" shouted Lilo about fifteen minutes later. "I swear we've passed that bush like, three times already! We're going in circles!" Pepper raised a paw and covered his eyes. "I wanna go home!" he moaned.
"If only Qweenie hadn't gotten that mouse-brained idea in her head!" fumed the siamese. Pepper didn't reply. Lilo peeked at him. The black-and-white tom was sitting straight with his ears pricked forward and his jaws parted to scent the air. "Get down!" he hissed suddenly, ducking. Lilo obeyed without question, her heart beginning to quicken.
"What is it?" she hissed.
"Cats!"
"Cats?"
"Shh! Yes… Look!"
Lilo peered over the rock and saw three cats padding across the moorland, jaws laden with birds, rabbits and mice.
"Clan cats!" whispered Pepper. "Qweenie was right!"
"Impossible!" muttered Lilo.
The cats trotted over a hill and disappeared from view. "Let's follow them!" mewed Lilo excitedly. Peppers eyes grew huge. "What?" he meowed shakily. Lilo didn't answer, but bounded away, leaving Pepper no choice but to follow her.
The two friends padded across the moorland, Lilo's eyes fixed on the place where the cats had disappeared. iClan cats! Real Clan cats! This mst be WindClan… Oh, Qweenie was right! Where are the others? I hope they're okay…/i she thought as she traveled upward. Pepper took the lead, his jaws parted. iHe's a natural at this… He would make a good Clan cat, maybe./i she thought with a sigh, admiring his stance. Suddenly he crested the ridge, stopped, and backed away. "Lilo!" he hissed. "Come look at this!"
Lilo quickened her pace until she stood side-by-side with Pepper. What she saw took her breath away.
Below them, moorland grasses and brush was taken and made into a protective wall, and inside was a bunch of cats. Two elderly cats sat outside a den made a brambles, along with a little kitten. One appeared to be telling the kit a story, her tail waving like Smokeys did whenever he told the little click a story. Outside another den, two cats, about the same age as Pepper and Lilo were in a play-fight, hissing playfully and pouncing on eachother.
Two warriors sat by a pile of fresh-kill, sharing a chaffinch. One was silvery gray and the other was dark gray with burning amber eyes.
A high stone stood proudly at the edge of camp, and from where they stood, Pepper and Lilo could see that it was hollowed out. Standing in front of the high stone was a proud-looking fog-pelted tom, his fur neatly groomed and shining in the setting sun.
It was the WindClan camp!
Now I bet you're wondering what happened to Whiskers. Hahahaha...,. Please, R&R!