Here's my first chapter. I`m sorry it took so long,but I am also working on a story for Suitelife,so I hadn't had time to update on this one.
Disclaimer:I do not own Warriors or else Ashfur wouldn't have been the traitor and they would still be in the old forest.
Sandstorm could see the mouse searching for food. The sweet aroma made her lick her lips.
Since the battle with Bloodclan, everything had been quiet and calm,
so there had been more prey out than usual, which every cat was happy about. She got into the hunter's crouch, and she was about to pounce when her apprentice came running loudly through the forest calling her name. The noise caused the mouse to scurry away and Sandstorm let out a slight hiss of annoyance, but she knew she had to stay patient with her because she was still fairly new at being an apprentice.
She turned around and faced her."Yes Sorrelpaw?" Sandstorm asked.
"I-I..." Sorrelpaw stammered,out of breath from running.
"Great Starclan Sorrelpaw, out with it!" Sandstorm told her apprentice,beginning to get annoyed.
"I was stalking a squirrel when I smelled rogues!" the young tortoiseshell said.
Sandstorm`s ears pricked up."Where?"she asked,starting to get worried.
"Over by that tree with the hollow at the bottom," Sorrelpaw pointed to a large tree with a hollowed out bottom near the twisted roots with her tail.
Sandstorm quietly made her way towards the tree, her eager apprentice following closely behind.
She was about two foxlengths away when she scented the rogues. As she got closer,she realized that two cats had been there and one scent seemed very familiar. She looked inside the hollow,and there was a pile of dead mice lying in the bottom. "Good work Sorrelpaw,lets go back to camp to tell Firestar."
Sorrelpaw lifted her head at the wonderful praise. Sorrelpaw and Sanstorm bounded through the forest and they slowed down when they got to the top of the ravine.
When they entered the camp, Sandstorm saw Firestar and Graystripe sitting under the highrock talking. They bounded over to them."We need to talk to you both,"Sandstorm said. Firestar just nodded and led the cats into his den. He sat on his moss and curled his tail over his paws. "What do you need to tell us?"Firestar asked the two she-cats.
"Well, Sorrelpaw thought she smelled rogues.I checked,and there where two scents" 'And one smelled awfuly familia,' Sandstorm added to herself.
"Okay Graystripe, tell the patrols to keep an eye out," Firestar said.
"Okay,I'll go tell the hunting patrol that's leaving now,"Graystripe replied and walked out.
Sandstorm turned to her apprentice."Go and get some freshkill for the elders,then pick something for yourself. Okay?"
"Okay Sandstorm," Sorrelpaw said,happily walking out of Firestar`s den.
"Firestar, what if it's Bloodclan?" Sandstorm asked as soon as Sorrelpaw was out of earshot.
"That's exactly what I was thinking," Firestar told his mate."But it also might have been just a couple of kittypets that wondered in our territory trying to catch prey, but failed and went home."
"Well, I wouldn't exactly say failed." Sandstorm said.
"What do you mean?"Firestar asked.
"Come on, I'll show you," she said,leading Firestar out.
Firestar followed Sandstorm through the forest and she stopped at a hollowed tree near the Shadowclan border. "Sandstorm, why are we hear?" Firestar asked, shooting Sandstorm a confused glance.
"This is where Sorrelpaw and I scented the rogues."she said.
As Firestar got closer to the tree and Sandstorm, he could smell the other cats too.
"Look inside."she said.
The dark ginger tom looked inside where there was a pile of dead mice about a tail length tall.
"How did all this get here?" Firestar asked.
"The rogues must have caught them, but I can't imagine a couple of rogues doing all that," Sandstorm said.
"Maybe I should go tell Princess. Just to make sure she`s safe." Firestar told Sandstorm.
"Okay, I'll go with you."
"Alright. Come on."
Firestar and Sandstorm jumped on the fence at Princess's twoleg's nest and Firestar called out her name. Just a few heartbeats after Firestar spoke, the cat door moved, and Princess stepped out.
"Firestar!" Princess yelled as she jumped up on the fence and began nuzzling her brother. Sandstorm couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness.
"Hi Sandstorm." Princess said,turning towards the pale ginger she-cat."What brings you two here?"
"Well,we wanted to warn you that there are rogues in the territory again, and to be careful," Firestar said.
"Do you think it's BloodClan?"Princess asked.
"I'm not too sure," Firestar said.
They kept talking, but Sandstorm wasn't listening. She kept thinking about that scent. 'It smelled so familiar too me. But who could it have been?'
Lost in her thoughts, Sandstorm almost didn't notice Firestar say her name.
"Sandstorm, are you okay?" he asked.
"Oh yeah, I'm fine."
"Well you seemed a little spaced, which isn't lke you at all," Firestar told her.
"I'm fine, honest," she replied.
They told Princess good-bye and walked back to the camp. When they got back to camp, Sandstorm and Firestar sat below the Highrock and began talking.
"I wish Princess wouldn't worry about me so much," he said.
"She only worries about you because she loves you. You should consider yourself lucky that you have a sister that loves and cares about you," Sandstorm said looking down. She got up and began walking to the entrance.
"Where are you going?"Firestar asked.
"I'm giong for a walk." she said.
"I'll go with you."
"Alone," she replied coldly and walked out of the camp.
Firestar stood there with a confused look on his face. Mousefur, who had over heard the conversation,walked over to Firestar.
"What was that all about?"Firestar asked.
"She just misses her sister. Surely you know that her sister died when they were kits,don't you?"Mousefur asked.
"Well,yes I knew that. But I didn`t know what happened."
"It was late one night when we all heard a yowl from the nursery. We all ran over and saw that Sandstorm and her sister Rainkit were missing. Bluestar sent two patrols to go find them. Then Sandstorm came back alone. She said that they went out to go play in the forest and a fox had chased them and caught Rainkit. She said she blamed herself for not going after Rainkit."
"That's awful," Firestar said.
"Yeah,it is. But just give her some time alone, Firestar."
Sandstorm sat on a rock at Sunningrocks and sighed as she stared down at the river.
"Where ever you are Rainkit, I hope you're safe,"Sandstorm said.
A young silver cat sat in an alley with an older tortiseshell she-cat."I am very proud of you, Rain," the tortiseshell said.
"Thank you Shadow. But are you sure I'm ready?" Rain asked.
"Yes,you will be a leader BloodClan will be proud of. After all,BloodClan does need a leader since those wretched forest cats killed Scrouge and half our clan.," Shadow said.
"They're not that bad."Rain said,"I mean, we did attack them."
"Yes, but that was for the best of our clan. But before you lead,we need to get the rest of the clan together." Shadow said."I have also already chosen a forest cat to take hostage."
"Really? Who is it?"Rain asked.
"She's a ThunderClan warrior named Sandstorm, I think. Their leader, Firestar, is her mate," Shadow said.
Rain's eyes grew wide. 'It couldn't be my sister, could it? I mean, what are the odds?' "Does she have pale ginger fur and deep green eyes?"
"Yes, I believe so."Shadow said.
'Oh,no.' Rain thought. 'I have to take my own sister as a hostage.'
I know it's not very long, but I had to have some way to start the story. Please review,and I will take anonymous reviews.
EDIT 4/28/13: I went back through and just fixed the grammar, punctuation, etc. I also took out a lot of dialogue that was unecessary so everything would flow better.