Hi! I know… back so soon? Well, here's the story of HOW: Last night, I realized, 'oh, wait, since there's two days until Halloween, why not a Halloween special?' (Though, there's one day left now.) So, here I am!
Congrats goes to leafdapple3 for getting the last chapter's riddle answer right!
Replies to Reviews (RTR):
Indigostartherandomkitty: Yeah, that idea was random! It just popped into my mind like, "Hey, you know what? Jayfeather should be dumb." Later: "Hey, now Jayfeather should be really smart!" (::)
leafdapple3: Yam, kay, u r right. Blah. Randomness. YOU'RE MY SISTER, SO I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE RANDOM AT YOU AND give you a cookie (::)
Riddle!:
When I bite,
My hourglass shows how much time you have left;
Though through the pain of my poison,
You might survive just yet.
And though I may hide in the dark, away from any seeking eye,
If my fangs sink in your skin,
It is your time to die.
What am I?
Creepy, right? (The hourglass doesn't really show when you're gonna die)
Hint: You'll see the words of what it is at least four times in the chapter.
Oh, announcement! From now on, you get a virtual cookie every time you get the riddle answer right!
Onto da chapter! (BTW, this is a continuation of the last chapter, just a few moons later, and the school isn't there anymore.)
Chapter Six:
Werespider
In StarClan….
Firestar was bored.
As a matter of fact, he was super-double-extra-crazy-random-one hundred and ninety nine percent-bored.
He turned to one of his past lives (he had been hanging out with them all day). "What should I do?"
"Um… what about this?" The speaking past life explained his idea.
"Brilliant! I'll go get him immediately." Firestar disappeared.
A Few Days Later, Down at the Lake:
Dovewing was noisily stalking a squirrel (which had ran away long ago) in ShadowClan territory, when another cat, which had eight legs and huge fangs, landed in front of her. She screeched, and ran back to the ThunderClan camp.
As soon as she got into camp, small pointy things that were yellow, orange and white, started raining from the sky.
"IT'S FIRESTAR AND YELLOWFANG AND WHITESTORM!" Screamed the insane cat who previously screamed, "VAMPIRES!"
"No, it's not," said a sane cat.
"They taste yummy!" Said Jayfeather, who was dumb again.
The insane cat screamed. "SOMEBODY! HELP! JAYFEATHER IS EATING FIRESTAR AND YELLOWFANG AND WHITESTORM!"
Suddenly, a sparkling Firestar rose from the pointy thing Jayfeather was about to eat, and said, "I am-"
But before he could finish his sentence…
"STARFIRE BECAME A VAMPIRE! AHHHHHHH!" The insane cat ran in circles until he bumped into a wall. Jayfeather continued to eat the pointy things. Dovewing stared...
...and Firestar face-pawed. "My name is Firestar, not Starfire."
Above, on the edge of the hollow, a cat- well, more like a cat dressed as a black widow spider, watched this happen while trying not to laugh. That bag of candy corn really caused a scene, he thought.
He quietly went to the camp entrance, as he had been instructed, and noisily ran inside the camp screeching, "I AM A BLACK WIDOW! I WILL KILL YOU ALL UNLESS YOU SERVE ME!"
All the insane cats immediately started running around in circles saying, "DON'T KILL US! We'lldoasyouaskwe'lldoasyouaskwe'lldoasyouaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaask!" While all the sane cats, who were smart enough to tell the difference between a spider and a cat, hissed and said, "We won't bow to you! You're a cat, just like the rest of us!"
The cat/spider turned to the insane cats and purred. "Thank you. Now, go and stick the sane cats in a tree."
"Yes! Just don't kill us!" And the insane cats took the sane cats and stuffed them into trees.
"Now, I'd like to speak to Firestar."
So, Firestar and the cat/spider went into the leader's den, kicked out Bramblestar despite all his protests, and sat down.
"This plan is brilliant, Firestar!"
"I know, right? Well, Smudge, I planned a field trip!"
"What is it?" Smudge asked eagerly.
Firestar leaned in and whispered his plan.
"Alright, that's it."
Smudge nodded gravely. "It will commence now." He headed out and yowled, "ThunderClan, we are going on a field trip. Get into the bus."
The school had disappeared, but the bus hadn't. They'd left it on the Island, so that's where ThunderClan went. They piled into the bus, and headed to the place they were going. (This time Snowkit drove.)
When the got to their destination, breaking several driving laws again, Firestar went to the drivers seat. "Snowkit, what are you doing here?" he hissed.
Snowkit didn't answer.
"I said, what are you doing here?"
Silence.
This time, he said it right into Snowkit's ear, a the top of his lungs. "I SAID, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"
No answer.
This time, he shook him and said through clenched teeth, "I asked what you are doing here."
Snowkit tipped his head sideways in confusion, and Firestar AT LAST remembered he was deaf.
"Oh, um, never mind. Sorry about tha-"
And before he could finish, he was trampled by the rest of the passengers. At the end of the line of passengers, Smudge came over. "Uh, are you alright, Firestar?"
"Yes," Firestar growled, picking himself up and brushing off his fiery fur with dignity.
Smudge and Firestar headed out of the bus, where the rest of the cats were waiting and staring at the place in front of them. "What is this place?"
"It's a Two-leg place."
The cat's gasped. "Let's explore it!"
"Not so fast! I need to tell you the plan."
"Okay! As long as we get to go inside."
"Alright, can everyone hear me?"
"YES!"
"Okay then, listen up! Tonight is a night that Two-legs call "Halloween." On this night, they go to other Two-leg nests with pelts that often look like some sort of monster. Got all that?"
"YES!"
"When they go to the other Two-led nests, they say, "trick or treat?" and the Two-leg they visit gives them something sweet called "candy," got all that?"
"YES!"
"Well, we're going to follow one of the Two-legs, and when the other Two-leg gives them candy, we will knock the thing they're using to hold the candy out of their paws. The we'll take the candy, and start following a different Two-leg. Got all that?"
"YES!"
"Do you all still remember how to read?"
"YES!"
"Alright, then don't take these candies: Snickers, Kit-Kat, Three Musketeers, Twix… oh, never mind. Just check the ingredients and make sure there's not something called, "chocolate." Got all that?"
"YES!"
"Any questions?"
"YES! What is chocolate and why can't we eat it?"
Before Smudge could answer, Jayfeather whispered something to the cat who was carrying him, got off the cat, and answered the question (since he was apparently the worlds smartest cat again):
"Chocolate is a delicious brown substance that is often used in candy, and there is a popular brand of it called "Hershey's." It melts in the heat and freezes in the cold, and most Two-legs like it. However, it is poisonous to both cats and dogs. That is what chocolate is and why we can't eat it." Jayfeather straightened his glasses which had just come out of no where so he could look cool about knowing what chocolate was and why cats couldn't eat it.
Smudge nodded to Jayfeather. "Thank you." For a whole essay. He turned to the rest of the cats. "Did everyone get all that?"
"YES!"
"Good. Any questions?"
"YES! If chocolate is poisonous for dogs too, why don't we keep some to defend our camp with?"
Jayfeather answered again. "A small amount of chocolate is likely not to do harm, and it is known that some dogs have no reaction to the chocolate in the matter of health. Therefore, it is more efficient to use our claws." He straightened his glasses again.
Smudge nodded to Jayfeather again. "Thank you again." For another whole essay. He turned to the other cats again. "Did everyone get all that?"
"YES!"
"Good. Any Questions?"
Crickets.
"Shall we raid Two-leg place, then?"
"YES!"
So they all stormed Two-leg place, got tons of candy (literally, it took them one hundred trips to bring them to the territories.), headed home with it, and all got sugar-high. Here's the story of Sugar-High:
Foxleap gorged himself with Jolly-Ranchers, and suddenly felt a whole lot of energy flow through him. He started bouncing off the walls, thinking he could fly, and so on.
While the rest of the Clan dodged Foxleap's bouncing, Bramblestar was gorging himself with A LOT of candy; more than Foxleap had gorged himself. Since he ate WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much, he lost a life and came to back life without anyone noticing.
Jayfeather had become dumb again, and had eaten as much as Foxleap. If he were still smart, he wouldn't have eaten even one.
That concludes the story of Sugar-High.
The next day, Smudge left.
But let's go back a bit.
…
Ivypool was eating her morning meal. She'd made sure to get up at a time where none of the crazy cats would be awake.
That's right. She was one of the sane cats. Okay, let's get back on track.
So, Ivypool was sitting in the shadows, when she saw a cat emerge from the leader's den. But… it looked like a spider. That cat!
Ivypool pushed her food further into the shadows. I'll finish that later.
She waited until he had gone into the tunnel, then raced after him. When she got out the camp, she found the cat pulling off the spider-thing.
I knew it! "Hey, you!"
The cat looked up with a startled expression. "W-what?"
"Get that thing back on and come back in the camp."
So they both went back into the camp. Ivypool led the cat onto the High Ledge.
"ThunderClan, wake up!" She yowled.
All the cats immediately came out of their dens, and Ivypool explained to them what had just happened. Then she turned to the cat who had pretended to be a spider. "Take off the thing."
He obliged, and the reaction of the crowd went like this:
Sane cats: "New it!"
All insane cats except Jayfeather and the cat who previously called Firestar Starfire: *Gasp* "That cat must have defeated the black widow! How did he do it?"
The cat who previously called Firestar Starfire: "HE'S A WEREWOLF!" Then he fainted.
Jayfeather: He straightened his out-of-no where-glasses. "The correct term for someone who transforms into a spider would be, "werespider." But, since he is a cat, and werespiders do not not exist in the fictional world or the real one, it would only be correct to call him a cat." He straightened his glasses again. "Whenever I have been in my smart state, I have known that he-" he flicked his tail at the cat, "-was a cat the whole time." His voice slowly grew into an evil crazy one at the next part. "Of course, I neglected to tell you this because it was so much fun to watch you suffer in fear of the supposed black widow spider! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH-" he suddenly stopped laughing and fell to the ground, then spoke again. "Hey, where am I? Why am I on the ground? Is that a bug?" And so on.
End of reactions.
"Well," said Ivypool, "tell us who you really are and why you are here."
"I-I'm Smudge, and I'm an old kitty-pet friend of Firestar's. Firestar got this idea, because he was bored, and so I was supposed to dress up as a black widow and take over ThunderClan, and go back home the next day. And when I first came, he told be to rain candy-corns on everyone first."
So that's what those things were…. "Alright, you can go home now."
Smudge let out a sigh of relief and ran away before you could say. "candy."
That concludes "Werespider."
Hopecha' liked it! First time I did a holiday special! :)
Yeah... once our dag ate a whole chocolate cake without dying. Weird, right?
Anyway, I'M OUT OF IDEAS! So please gimme some? *Puppydog eyes*
Remember, if you get the riddle answer right, it's a cookie for you! Plus, you get a cookie per review!
Thanks, R&R-ers!
~leefpool