Chapter 14, dog-bears
Skyfeather swallowed, and everyone was quiet. Skyfeather's eyes were closed.
Ashfur gave a small squeak. Skyfeather still didn't move.
Then she opened her eyes and took another sip, then another and another and another. Soon she had drunken the whole tiny pool.
"Are you okay?" Ashfur asked.
She opened her eyes and looked at him. Then she smiled.
"Yes…I am. I can't believe that a tom as handsome as you are would ask me that."
She sauntered over to Ashfur and brushed her tail over his nose.
He smiled and looked over at her.
"So…" she said in a voice heavy with flattery, "Do you think we should have a life together?"
"Er…okay." He said.
Shadowflight understood. This was a love poison!
"Let's go," Shadowflight muttered.
"Well fine, ugly face, can't a have a moment with…?" she licked Ashfur's nose.
"Er, we really need to get moving." Leafcloud said.
"Wait, skinny beam!" Skyfeather shrieked.
"We have to go," Rockpool said calmly.
"Oh…so…" Skyfeather looked as if she was in a trance. She slowly walked over to Rockpool. He turned around and ignored her.
The roots were gone from in front of them, but still they were behind.
Shadowflight stepped foreword, toward the darkness. She took another step, then…slipped really fast, and really far.
All the others had slipped too, and all around them was paradise.
Leafcloud was in a Clan, a fat, well fed Clan. She was lying next to Brownclaw, and cats were bringing them prey and talking to them. Oh, how wonderful…
Skyfeather was in a meadow, with Darkflame and nobody else beside her. They were walking through the tall grass slowly, their pelts brushing. How nice, to be alone with her true love, with no one thinking about how forbidden it was…
Ashfur gazed around at a bunch of happy cats sitting below the Highrock, and he was on top, yowling out orders. Then they were serving him mice and new bedding…Then three pretty she-cats all sat beside him and cleaned his pelt.
Rockpool looked up, and he was deputy. Aspenleaf lay beside him, and there were a few leftover quills from the recent departure (and death) of Demon. Shadowflight was far below. He smiled. Owlclaw was also dead.
But it was Shadowflight who actually saw something interesting.
She was leaping foreword to Demon, who had Nightwind pinned down. Then she pulled him off and took her friend away to safety…
All five cats just stood their, wrapped in their own visions of what they really wanted.
They must have stayed like that for at least half an hour, before sharp teeth fastened in the backs of each of their throats.
Instantly, they all snapped out of it, and found themselves in a muddy cave. Huge dog-like, bear-like shaggy animals were on top of them, trying to kill them.
Quickly all were fighting. Shadowflight scratched and bit so hard that bits of skin fell of the animals.
She lunged, and threw all her weight on one. It smashed a paw into her side. She fell, then leaped back up and attacked it. She raked her claws into its big chest. It picked her up in its sharp, long teeth and shook her. She dropped to the ground.
Two big creatures were guarding the way out. Shadowflight and Rockpool leaped foreword and each claws at one. Shadowflight could barely get her claws through the thickly matted fur. And when she did, their skin was so tough that she couldn't even get it in.
She tried using her teeth. With her claws, she pulled out a huge hunk of the matted fur.
She then clamped her teeth hard into the bare skin, then pulled her head out and threw it in again.
Blue blood spurted all over. With a squeal of pure revolt, Shadowflight sprang backward. A beam of bright green light came and shot through the creature. There were three flashes, and in everyone Shadowflight could see the creature's skeleton, surrounded by soft green light, before, with a pop, the creature vanished.
The other guard was already gone.
"Quick!" Shadowflight screamed. She leaped foreword, and sprinted into a thin muddy passage. Soon Leafcloud appeared, looking a little muddy, then Ashfur and Rockpool, and finally Skyfeather, stained with blue and red blood.
"Okay! Are we all here?" Shadowflight asked.
"Yep," said a few cats.
"Let's go to the next…step," Shadowflight said, and smiled a little bit.
They stepped into another room, but this one was very much different…
WEE! One more chapter for you guys before I stop (No, that doesn't mean the story is over) and then you must wait until tomorrow morning for three more chapters. And tomorrow evening I will send out four more!! PLEASE REVIEW!!