Hello puppitos!

Welcome back to Warriors High!

I still need a better intro!

Ahem, sorry about the slight wait, but we are back! To anyone also reading One in Five, I hit a slight writer's block but I have ideas so hopefully I can release another chapter of that soon!

Responses!

Ivystorm: Tomorrow I blow stuff up, science is fun. Enjoy le cookie before Mountainshine steals it. Really? Do you have flying cars yet? Yeah, Hollyleaf is a noob at typing non-grammatically, and she hates it too. And he really isn't. Ashfur, hehe, long live the memes! Dammit I still don't have one either. I need to learn it. I know the lyrics but ye. Still not 9am? How long have you been doing that for?

SunKatt: Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! Maybe, just maybe

Ice that falls like snow: Enjoy le cookie

Fawnstep: Memes are beautiful. Thank you!

Hope ya'll enjoy the chapter then!

Jayfeather POV

I listened to Lionblaze grumble on about how all his homework was stupid and tiring. He was currently on a 2000 word history assignment on medieval Britain, which was way easier than he made it sound. Even if it was to 'Include your opinions' in some parts.

"I can't see the logic in this way of attack planning," Lionblaze thought out loud as I listened to the hard scrawl of graphite on paper.

"If you're aiming for two-thousand words, make it 'I can not'." I helped him out.

"No," Foxleap interrupted, "make it 'henceforth I am unable to can'."

"Henceforth I am unable to can when it comes to seeing the logic in this way of attack planning." the golden-haired teen corrected himself.

I rolled my eyes. That didn't really make sense, but it was better to let him see his own mistakes. When he got graded with an E. Don't ask me why he was still doing it, he gave up History and he wouldn't have needed to hand it in.

Meanwhile I was deciding my options. Because of the medicine course I was doing required chemistry, biology, physics and maths, so that was an immediate 'yes'. English was required, so I ticked that too. The other requirements were at least two sciences and a language, and the medicinal course covered the former, so I just had to decide on a language. I was not taking anything extra. So what was easy and enjoyable?

I decided on Latin and ticked that, then went to deliver the copy.

?'s POV

The hallways were dark, and the lights seemed to grow dimmer with each passing day. Something I hadn't really noticed before. Sometimes I liked it like that, dark for being stealthy and sneaky, but that wasn't really a trait I liked sticking to anymore. I leant against the wall, hidden from sight by two rusting lockers, hoping I wasn't found in my shadowy corner.

Footsteps

I sighed internally and shuffled back a bit further, careful to avoid making a scuffling sound. I gazed out of the window near me, looking at the glistening stars and the dark indigo sky. It was clouded slightly, but the crescent moon still glowed silver from its bed of mist. The approaching footsteps were glowing louder, and the person walking had no intent on softening them so they were sneaking. They had a purpose here.

"Hey, you! Girl who always wears a hoodie! Are you down here?"

I rolled my eyes and stepped into view.

"Me?" I asked boredly.

They turned towards me, and I could tell that they were one of the lower ranked BloodClanners, most likely a messenger or something. They had a cyan collar with a single tooth on it, scruffy dark hair and narrowed green eyes.

"Yeah, you! Scourge wants you!"

Ah, Scourge. What now?

"Ight, where is he?" I asked.

"Where'd ya think?" he spat back before turning briskly around and stalking off.

Sorry hard, I thought to myself before beginning my walk through the corridors to Scourge's room. Experience had led my footsteps to being automatically soft, and the darker shade of my hoodie allowed me to blend into the shadows fairly well. The hallways seemed empty, but if you paid enough attention there were the figures of people lying still atop lockers, blending in with the shadows, and just the few who crouched in the blind spots.

Bone and was once again stood guard by the entrance to Scourge's room, this time accompanied by Snake.

"The messenger found you then?" Bone growled.

"Yup."

"In you go then."

I walked past them to see Scourge sat on the table like it was his throne, which -to be fair- it was. There were a couple of other individuals sat blank-faced on tables near him, his messengers and fetchers. I paid them no attention, just kept my eyes on Scourge.

"So you've come," he spoke, voice demanding authority in a calm way, "I have a new task for you."

"Stealth or assassin?" I asked coolly while sounding patient. Any sign of rudeness or impatience around Scourge could greatly lower your rank.

"I'd say a combination of the two." he replied, "Kidnap."

Again starsdamnit

I raised my chin. "Who?"

"Do you know an Ivypool?"

I paused, keeping my expression blank.

"Sadly not, no."

"Understandable. I have been given a description." He pulled out a sheet of paper, "Mottled silver and white hair, blue eyes, slender and lithe. Got it?"

I nodded.

"Alright, go fetch, your help is greatly appreciated."

Ivypool POV

I'd been hanging around with Sagefeather a lot more recently. She was nice and funny, and had a skill in wit and sarcasm to those usual idiots in Shadow Team who thought they could make everyone's lives a misery but couldn't. Those were always funny.

She could also tell when something was wrong, as I found out the day before New Year's Eve. We were talking in my new room -the one I shared with Hollyleaf, Icecloud and Cinderheart now- with me sitting on my bed and her leaning against the wall, just discussing random things. She had become a great help in recording the tricks me and Foxleap did for the WarriorsPP and we could perform routines that included the both of us now, so that topic often strayed to that, but I wasn't replying as eagerly as I usually did, more quiet, and she could tell.

"Hey...are you okay? You seem quite quiet, is everything alright?" she asked, tilting her head, eyes light with concern.

"Hmm?" I didn't hear at first, "Oh, yeah, everything's fine it's just…"

She waited as I hesitated.

"Don't tell anyone this, okay?" she nodded, "I...think I want to break up with Foxleap."

She paused, thinking. "But you still want to be friends?"

I nodded. "Yeah, I really love our relationship as 'parkour buddies' and really close friends, I-I just can't look at him and say to myself 'He's my boyfriend', do you get what I mean?"

"Yeah. He's not the right kind of guy for you. I get you."

I breathed out a sigh of relief. "Can you help me tell him?"

She blinked in surprise. "Now? Me? Are you sure?"

"Now, you, I'm sure. I trust you."

She held onto that for a moment. "Okay, face-to-face or calling him? Or text?"

I thought for a moment. "Can I call him? I think he's busy with homework or something right now, I don't wanna disturb him too much."

"Okay. Start the call, I'll talk while it rings."

I did, dreading the moment. Whether we were a couple or just close friends, I didn't want him to be upset.

"Okay, so you've got to be gentle and careful with words. Don't apologise too much. Highlight that you love him as a close friend." Sagefeather listed as it dialled. She'd barely finished speaking when the ginger picked up.

"Hey Ivypool, what's up?" he greeted.

"Hi Foxleap, hope I'm not disturbing anything."

"No, no, I'd much rather talk to you over doing homework. To be fair, I'd rather talk to Dustpelt when he's in a mood than do homework."

I laughed. "Wow. Hey, listen...I've been thinking about this for a bit now, and I think that we should break up."

I took a deep breath as there was a silence from the other end, then continued.

"I'm sorry if it offends you or anything, but I can't look at you and see you as my boyfriend. But I can look at you and see you as my best friend, my trust, my partner in crime. I want it to continue like that, where we can laugh and joke and still be close, but I don't want it to be in a whole 'love' relationship. So I'm sorry, but I just want to continue as normal."

I let out a silent sigh as I finished, and looked up at Sagefeather. She gave me a thumbs up. I put it on speakerphone as he went to reply.

"It's fine, Ivy, I completely understand. I-I actually kinda wanted to do the same, y'know?"

I was relieved to hear that. Sagefeather gave me another thumbs up.

I laughed. "Coincidence, huh? Thanks for understanding. Friends?"

"Of course. Got to go now, bye."

"Bye!"

He hung up and I let out a huge sigh of relief and fell backwards onto the bed.

"Well that wasn't so bad was it?" Sagefeather laughed, sitting cross-legged on the edge.

"Relieving. Wow." I replied, slightly breathless.

"Sooo...you got your eyes on someone else?"

"No, not right now," I replied honestly, "How about you? Seen anyone cute around?"

"Sheesh Ivy it's been ten days!" she chuckled.

I looked at my watch and realised it was seven.

"I'm going to go take a walk outside." I decided, rolling off the bed and straightening out my clothes.

"Okay, see you soon!"

She left the room and I waited a minute before following, taking the stairs down. It was chilly when I reached outside, but not cold enough to need a coat. It had snowed a tiny bit a couple of nights ago, but it had melted immediately, and I was hoping it would again but stay before the end of December.

A colder breeze suddenly rushed by, ending almost as soon as it started but made me shiver nonetheless. I suddenly had a feeling something was off, but something I was almost prepared for. I had a gut feeling and they were almost always right. I moved closer to the wall, where there was a gap in between the school and the gym.

"Are you coming or not?" I called out softly with a slight laugh.

A voice replied "Dammit I hate this." with a growly sigh, then something made contact with my head and I blacked out.

Muahaha

I'm going to get slaughtered

So our lovely little '?' is back, who do you reckon it is? I wanna see your theories!

If you have any

Welp, not much else to say really

Apart from see ya'll on teh flipside where I will hopefully have a better intro and outro

~KT