Chapter 15, The table and the teeth
Shadowflight looked around. They were in a large, very bright room. There was a table in the middle of the room, and a transparent floor. The walls seemed to extend out forever, a swirl of constantly moving colors.
"What do you think we do?" Leafcloud asked.
"Lets walk over to the table," Shadowflight said. She cautiously put a paw on the transparent floor. Nothing happened. She strolled over to the table.
It was the same one she had lain on in the creator of Mudpaw's Twoleg nest. It was darker though, a deeper brown.
And it was spinning. Not fast, but then it speeded up, and slowed down again. It went like that, a never ending cycle.
"Let's all leap onto it at the same time," Shadowflight meowed. She crouched beside it, and all the cats came up beside her.
"On the count of three," Rockpool muttered. "One…two…THREE!"
They all sprang into the air and landed on the small table. Shadowflight was in the middle.
Instantly, the speeding sped up very fast, and slowed to a dull rotate. The table began to sink ditto the transparent floor- which wasn't transparent anymore, now a dull, light brown- and then stopped, as soon as the part where the five cats sat on was three feet under the floor.
Shadowflight looked up. Where they had come in was quickly closing. The whole roof was covered in metal teeth. Some teeth were huge, others tiny.
She leaped off the table. There were other jaws on the floor too, the same sizes, but a very thin path wound between them and out the entrance of the cave.
Instinctively, the cats got on the path and padded toward the exit. But instantly the jaws on top came slowly down, ready to crush anything beneath it.
They sprinted along the path, wide-eyed with pure terror.
They streaked out the entrance, and one of the smaller teeth sunk into Skyfeather's tail. She jerked at it, and it pulled loose, leaving behind a few white hairs.
Shadowflight looked round the room they were in now. It was dark, with two light tan dirt paths going off in two different directions.
Rockpool and the others started walking down the path that went right. Rockpool looked back. Shadowflight was sitting in the middle of the path going left.
"Aren't you coming?" he asked her. She shook her head. "I think this is the right way," she muttered.
Rockpool looked at all the cats. Then he strolled over to Shadowflight. "Come on, I'm with you."
The other cats looked at him.
"You go right," he told them, "And see what you find. We're going left."
He started walking.
"Bye, handsome!" he heard Skyfeather call.