Turtle's POV
Turtle looked at his surroundings. Turtle sat on the riverbank. With the sand in between his toes. He looked at his reflection in the water. It felt like the sand back home except with hard river stones. Back home the ocean shore had sharp seashells and hermit crabs littered across the beautiful sandy beach. He jumped in the river, feeling the cold water run through his fur. He waded until he had to swim. He made it the other side safely and shook his thick silky fur as dry as he could. It didn't feel as good to be wet in his small cat body. The water didn't seep into his scales and make him feel refreshed and healthy now. All it did was make him feel heavy and cold. He still liked swimming though. It reminded him of home.
There was scuttling in the reeds. He turned around to see a tawny she-cat with white splotches. "Oh, hello." He began as relief seeped into she-cat growled and began walking towards him threateningly. He backed away until he bumped into a tree trunk. She jumped to pounce on him but panic struck him and he ducked and she just barely almost ramming her nose into the tree. She changed direction midair. He ran under her, which was not a very good idea. She landed on his back digging her claws into his back to hold onto him. He ran around, and rolled onto his back. (Almost like a turtle!)
The she-cat was not expecting this as he crushed her with his weight. He squirmed out of her grip and now he had her pinned. "Well that wasn't very nice!" Turtle said letting confusion leak into his voice. "Why did you try to attack me?" Turtle asked still very confused. Did I do something to make her angry? What could I have done? "I'll tell you if you get off me." The she-cat growled. He let go of her and sat down on the river bank. He patted his paw on the sand next to him. "Come sit." He meowed. "I'll stand thanks." The she-cat said. "So, why did you attack me?" He asked calmly. The she-cat sighed and sat down next to him and stared into his emerald green eyes. "I'm not lying," she said "But I thought you were going to steal my fish." She looked down at her paws now. Turtle could tell she was embarrassed. "It's fine." he said with a smile. "By now my fish will be gone." The she-cat said. Glaring down at her paws. She dug her claws into the sand. "I'll catch you one or two." Turtle said. She looked up at him with a look of sheer surprise. "Really?... You don't look like one who would know how to hunt." She said with a smirk. (Turtle is a little chubbier than most clan cats or rogues) Turtle laughed, he liked this cat. "Come watch." He smiled as they walked to the water. He watched the water being careful of his shadow. As the fish swam past he flicked the fish with his paw out of the water. He broke the fish's spine with a quick movement of his paw. "See" He said with a wide smile. "Here" He pushed it towards her. "Are you sure? You did catch it." She asked licking her chest fur.
"I only caught it to give it to you." Turtle said softly. "It's fine I'll just catch another." He said more loudly. He turned back to the water and caught another fish in at least 30 seconds. "Hey what's your name?" She asked "I've never seen you before."
"Turtle." He said plainly. He killed the fish with a swipe of his paw. "Let's eat!" Turtle said smiling. "What's your name?"
It looked like she was thinking if she could trust him. "Cats around here call me Cotton!" She said with a big wide smile. He smiled back. "Come on, let's eat." He said while taking a bite out of his fish. Cotton took a bite as well and finished in a few ravenous bites. Turtle only now just realised how skinny she was. "Here you can have mine." He said pushing his in front of her paws. "Are you sure?" Cotton asked. "Sure I'm not very hungry." Turtle said even though he hadn't eaten since this morning and now the was going down.
Right after he said this a large rumble came from his stomach. Cotton giggled. It was like the sound of ripples of sweet honey dripping from a honeycomb. He looked at her embarrassed, his cheeks turning pink.
He turned from her and caught another fish. He killed it and this time he ate it in a few ravenous bites. "How are you so good at catching fish?" She asked with a chuckle. He Ignored the question, he couldn't tell her he used to be dragon. "See now you have to eat it, I've already eaten." He joked with her getting another honey sweet giggle. Just now at this moment Turtle noticed he'd never been this confident in his life. Was it this cat or was it this new place? He looked around after he heard another scuttling in the reeds. "Darn is somebody else here to attack me?" He asked looking at Cotton. It looked like guilt flashed through her eyes before she started laughing again. She had a nice laugh like Kinkajou. Kinkajou. He missed her. If she were only here to meet his new friend. "Hey do wanna be friends?" Cotton asked almost mimicking his thoughts.
He heard the reeds rustling again and looked over there to see Kinkajou. Her eyes were dark. He ran over to her, but she ran away before he reached her. He looked at the spot she had been, he smelled it but all that was there were her small paw prints and a few wet drops. He wasn't sure what they were so he called Cotton over for her opinion on the matter. "Hey, Cotton what are these?" He asked with an almost unnoticeable hint of worry in his voice.
"They kind of look like tear drops." Cotton said. "Why do you know that she-cat?" Cotton asked. "Yes." He said looking at the spot where Kinkajou had been only moments ago. "Hey do you know a good place to sleep around here?" Turtle asked. "Not around here." Cotton said. "Riverclan would kill us." "What's Riverclan?" Turtle asked. "Riverclan is one of the four clans who live in the area and eat all the prey. They guard the area claiming it's "their" territory. No one else is allowed anywhere near their territory or they will drive you off the territory." Cotton explained her voice laced with interest. "Are we on Riverclan's territory?!" Turtle asked fear in his voice. "Yeah. I guess we should probably get going." Cotton said without an ounce of fear or worry in voice at all. They continued talking as they walked. Turtle didn't know where they were going, but he trusted Cotton a cat he had only known for less than a day. "What are the other clans?" Turtle asked curiously. "Thunderclan, one of the better ones. They let you join if they think you're good enough to join. I always thought it would be cool to join a clan. Have other cats be your friend and care about you." She explained with a daydreaming look on her face. "You seem like you would like to join a clan." Turtle said with a small smile.
"What? Did you say something?" Cotton asked loudly. Turtle looked at her with a small smile. "Oh let me think, what are the other ones?" Cotton asked herself.
"Oh yeah! Shadowclan and Windclan! Shadowclan are fierce night stalkers. They are very mysterious. I don't know very much about them. Windclan is cool! They chase rabbits and run like scared mice on crack!." Cotton said that followed by a flurry of giggles from herself. Turtle looked at her and asked
"Where are we going?" They walked into a moonlit clearing with a redbud tree in the middle. They were far past Riverclan territory they were past the moors and past a large cave they walked past. They had walked till it was dark, the Moon was high in the sky. "Do you live here?" Turtle asked in surprise.
"Yeah." She smiled and climbed up onto the tree. She patted her paw on the spot right next to her.