I failed my New Year's Resolution XD

Don't get me wrong; I've been super active on FanFiction. But school just started back up and I've been busy. So I'm writing the next chapter now :D

I've also been busy on the BEST COMPUTER GAME EVER, FeralHeart! I probably already talked about that, right? Right.

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Let Us Begin!


Twist's muscles ached. Echo had shown her every street, building, trashcan, streetlamp, box, shadow, you name it. They were the same age, but to Twist, Echo seemed like a peppy kit.

"And this is my favorite dumpster! It's right outside an Italian restaurant! They throw away such good food!" Echo leapt onto the giant garbage can, throwing open the black shutters and thrusting her head inside as the awful stink filled the air.

Twist wrinkled her nose in disgust. "You eat crow-food?"

Echo's head popped back up, a plastic bag in her jaws. Jumping down from the dumpster, Echo cocked her head. "Crow-food?" she asked. "Is that some sort of Clan word?"

Twist flattened her ears. "Oh, sorry. I know Rikah told me to stop talking Clan-slang. It means rotting or old, thrown-away nasty food."

Echo cocked her head. "Nasty? This stuff is a delicacy of the Squads!" With a swift paw, Echo knocked over the bag, sending its contents sprawling on the concrete. Horrid scents wafted from the old gunk.

"Ew!" Twist shrieked. "That's disgusting!" At her paws lay the half-eaten, burnt leg of a bird.

"What? It's chicken. It's been fried, too." Echo nudged it towards Twist. "Have a bite."

Twist shook her head. "No thanks!" Twoleg stench was all over the bitten spot, and an old, crow-food odor hung around it. The leg looked burnt, and a bone stuck out one end. "It's burnt! And half-eaten!"

"It's not burnt," Echo insisted. "The Twolegs fried it. It makes it taste better. And it was in the garbage. Twolegs don't throw away whole meals, only partly used ones."

Twist cringed as the odor filled her nostrils. "I'd take a mouse over that slop any day!" she pushed it back. "No way I'm eating that!"

Echo shrugged. "Suit yourself." Stuffing the chicken-leg back in the bag, she shoved another "delicacy" out. A large, smoked slab of stinking meat.

"What's that?" Twist asked with a sniff. "Another chicken-leg?"

"No," Echo mewed patiently. "It's steak. It comes from cows."

"Cows? That's big prey!" Twist's eyes widened.

"Twolegs are pretty amazing. They fence the cows up in fields and then take them to a den called a slaughterhouse. Gruesome, really."

Twist gaped. What a way to kill! It seemed disrespectful by what she'd been taught. The warrior code demands to respect your prey, and thank StarClan for its life.

Twist shuddered, thinking about the cow's terror. Suddenly, she remembered the horses in horseplace. "Do Twolegs kill horses for meat?" Twist imagined the majestic way that the animals galloped throughout the fields, their beautiful manes waving as they ran.

Echo shook her head. "Rarely. Almost never. Horses are hardly used for their meat. Mostly for services. They can serve as a means of Twoleg transportation."

"The Twolegs ride them?" Twist asked, bewildered.

"Yes," Echo replied.

Twist glanced back down at the steak. "So about the steak. Do they tear the cow apart?"

Echo cringed. "Yes."

Twist gasped. "Great StarClan!"

Echo shrugged. "Want it?"

Twist glanced back down. The meat was rotting on one edge. "No thanks."

"Fine," Echo mewed. She shoved the meat back in. Some spindly, bendable yellow sticks spilled out. Echo explained spaghetti.

"Twolegs eat a lot of weird food," Twist commented.

"Well, they eat it fresh, not old and from the garbage. So it's not smelly and rotting." Echo seemed unconcerned by her own words, picking up the prey and setting off. Twist wrinkled her nose one last time.

Upon getting back, Twist was swarmed by Yarrow and Rikah.

"Do you like it?" Yarrow asked quietly yet excitedly.

"Yes. How did your trip go? Is the city appealing?" Rikah seemed much more serious.

Twist smiled shyly. "It was nice, I guess. All but the food," she added, sticking out her tongue.

Rikah frowned. "You don't like it?" he asked in his ever-serious tone. "That's our main source of food, Twist."

Echo and Yarrow lowered their heads. "It kind of is," Echo admitted. "It's the most abundant food source found in cities. There's not much hunting here."

Twist sighed. "I know. But it's crow-food," Twist complained, pinning back her ears in shame as she realized that she had used a Clan word.

Rikah's gaze narrowed. "Crow-food?" he growled. "What in the name of the town is that?"

Echo bit her lip. "Clan-slang," she mewed quietly. "It means old, smelly, rotting, disgusting food. Stuff that crows and scavengers like."

Rikah growled. "I told you to stop talking like a Clan cat." Suddenly, he snorted. "You call our food disgusting?"

"N-no! I mean, well…" Twist was at a loss for words. "Well, honestly, yes. I'm sorry." Twist crouched down in preparation for a lecture. "I'm sure I can hunt rats or mice or something. They live in towns… right?"

Rikah opened his mouth for a stinging retort when a small group of three cats walked up.

One of the cats was a calico tom with very large green eyes. His paw was burnt, and pink, relatively healed skin peeked out from where the fur was missing.

The second was a very dark, almost black, blue-gray she-cat with ghostly white eyes and a ragged, unkempt pelt.

The third was a mottled blue, gray, and white tom with yellow eyes, and to Twist's surprise, they were permanently crossed.

The calico stepped forward. "I'm Singe. These are my littermates, Zorn," he motioned to the blue-gray she-cat, "and Pathogen," he motioned towards the cross-eyed tom.

Pathogen quickly ran forward. "You're from the Clans?" he asked. Twist nodded. "I'm not, but I tried to get in. They rejected me because of my eyes. I believe it was RiverClan."

Twist blinked. "You were born in RiverClan?"

"No," he answered quickly, "but I attempted to join as a very young cat."

Twist nodded. "I see. I'm of WindClan." Twist shook her head. "I mean, I'm from WindClan."

Pathogen, satisfied, nodded and walked back to his brother and sister. "Pathogen wanted to speak to you," Zorn explained. "Sorry for the disturbance." The trio walked away, casting interested glances back at Twist until they were lost among the crowd of Squad cats.

"Strange…" Twist mewed.

"Yeah. They're different," Echo agreed. Nudging Twist, she leaned over to her ear. "I've wanted to ask you this for a while, but, will you teach me to hunt?"


Yippee! Echo wants to hunt!

Totally boring chapter. I had no inspiration at all XD

Wellp, Singe, Zorn, and Pathogen belong to Staticlash. I'm trying to introduce cats so I can get them out of the way. My list of cats that people have given me is so long that I went through all my reviews, copied the name requests and their descriptions, and pasted them on a Word document. There are 18 names ;-; 7 of them are warrior names so they won't show up for a while XD

Those who gave me the following characters will have to wait:

Moonsplash

Ratfur

Flamepaw

Meadowpaw

Darkstream

Fadeddawn

Hawkfire

Those who gave me rogues will see their charries soon :) Anyhoo, I'm going to put up those links to the forums soon, so yeah.

Oh and in chapter 13, I accidentally said that Twist was 5 moons old, and my reviewer Gummysaur pointed it out, THAT WAS A MISTAKE. She's actually six-and-a-half moons. Cause how could she be an apprentice if she's five moons old?

Oh and Staticlash? I know that you wanted Pathogen to be a former RiverClan cat, but Twist is supposed to be alone in all of it, she's supposed to feel different. So another exiled cat due to messed-up features would screw up the story XD I did make him at least a bit incorporated with RiverClan, though ;)

See ya'll next chappie!