Chapter 11: Unexpected Attack
Hi, hi! :D How is everybody doing? I haven't updated in a long time, and I probably won't be updating this until June, because that's when summer break officially starts! Yay! When summer's here, I can update so much more, and play around with friends, and…….stuff….. So yeah, I'll start my trilogy then too.
I truly like this chapter best out of all the chapters I've written for a few reasons. 1, something unexpected happens in this chapter, 2, her personality really comes out in this chapter and you can really see what she's like, 3, I put more description into it. So I hope you enjoy this chapter if you will!
I woke groggily to something nudging my side. I warily opened one eye and saw the amber eyes of Flowerpaw staring at me. She motioned with her head to go outside of the den, then left. I stood up and stretched my legs out before yawning and following after her. As soon as I left the bush den, I looked around for Flowerpaw and caught a glimpse of her walking out of camp with her mentor.
"Hey, you gonna stand there all day or are we going to train?" The voice of Breezeflower broke the morning silence and made me jump. I whirled around to see her washing a forepaw, then getting up and padding toward the camp entrance.
"Are you coming or not?" She said mischievously before dashing out of camp. I sighed and ran after her. The sun was rising now, and let me tell you, it was beautiful. It cast shining colors of orange and pink into the sky, mixing with the clouds and forming colorful shapes, and with the birds singing gracefully, it was like one of those perfected scenes from a story. After watching it for a few minutes, I followed Breezeflower down to the river that bordered Riverclan territory.
"I'm going to tech you how to hunt on the moorlands, and then later we'll join up with Flowerpaw and Coalpelt to train in battle."
"Really? Battle training? And Hunting? That's so cool!" To think, I had a real mentor now, and I was gonna be trained to battle and hunt from a real warrior. Sorry Whitestar, I know you're a warrior and all, but your kind of, how do I put this, dead?
"What, you've never had a mentor before?" Breezeflower asked, a hint of surprise in her voice.
"Well, Duskpaw was my make shift mentor, if that counts, but no, I've never had a real mentor before." It was the truth, and I was sad to admit it. Ok, not really. I just wanted dramatic effect there.
"Well, I'm proud to be your first mentor!" Breezeflower said, brushing her tail tip over my head.
"And I'm proud to be your, er, um……" How many apprentices had she had? I had no idea. Uhhhhh, what to say, what to say?
"I'm proud to be your first apprentice who came from another clan and has never had a mentor before?" I said to her, more of asked her, but you get my point.
Breezeflower laughed lightly, then looked at me.
"Yeah, you're most definitely my first of that." She smiled and stopped to scent the air.
"What do you smell?" She asked all mentory like. I scented the air. There was a nice, prey smell that was rabbit, another prey smell that was most definitely ground squirrel, and then an odd tangy scent that smelt like sour milk and decaying mouse meat.
"Oh, great Starclan, what is that smell?" I wrinkled my nose at that last one, I mean seriously, what kind of sane or insane cat would want to smell sour milk and decaying meat?
"Hm? What do you mean?" Breezeflower asked me, confused.
"There's this awful smell in the air! Don't you smell it?" I put my paw over my nose to try to get the scent away- it didn't work out so well. Breezeflower scented the air one more time, then alarm flashed in her eyes.
"That's badger. It's fresh too. We should find Icestar and tell him about it. That's a good nose you have there, Forgottenpaw." She flicked my nose with her tail and started back for camp.
"But isn't he going to horseplace to train with Duskpaw?"
"Yes, but not until sunhigh. I asked him about that this morning." She headed back for camp again. I looked to the sun. It was up fully now, only about an hour had passed. I began following her back to camp when I heard this sound. It was just a lumbering, slow moving sound, but it was there.
"Breezeflower! Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?" We stopped for a few seconds, but there was nothing. She shrugged it off and we headed back to camp again. Then I heard the same sound as before, only a bit closer. It was as if it was following us or something.
"There it was again! I heard it again!"
"You must be hearing the wind, because I don't hear anything besides that." Oh great; not only did my mentor have poor scenting skills, but she was also deaf! I stopped as she went on, then stopped.
"Hello? What are doing?" She asked. I think she was getting annoyed with me, just by the tone of her voice, but you can never be sure, especially with the ones with bad senses.
"Oh, um, I have to make my dirt….I'll catch up with you in a minute." I lied, knowing it was the only thing that would get me away from her so I could trace what the noise was.
"Hmmm……" She stared at me suspiciously, then turned and started back, "Just hurry up! We have to get back to camp!"
I sighed, relieved, and began to walk towards a bush incase she was watching. I waited until she was out of site and over the hill that led back to camp before turning around and heading to where I heard the noise. It was pretty easy to find it, judging it kept making noises and such. It made me think- should I really be doing this? It could be really dangerous, and I could get killed, but hey, what's the fun in following the rules?
Then I saw it, this hairy white and black thing that trudged around on all fours with huge paws and sharp claws. I guess it saw me too, because it growled at me and began barreling its way over to me. I squeaked in alarm and began to run, but what's the point? With it being so big and me being so small, no matter how fast I was and how slow it was, it still caught up with me. And when it did, did it ever hurt. It hurt so bad, I wish I wasn't myself anymore. I would have rather been drowning in the lake again, only in the winter with cold, sharp ice shards flying at me, than this.
It made its way over to me, the swung out a massive paw and hit me directly in the ribs, sending me flying, the rolling along the ground. And worse, as soon as I stood the thing was lumbering back and picked me up in its jaws and shook me back and forth so many times my brain was mush and I was ready to puke. I wanted it to kill me right then and there so I wouldn't have to deal with this anymore.
It finally dropped me, the roared out and swung out another paw, but this time I rolled painfully to the side so it missed. At least I still had some of my speed, even through this pain. I think I had three broken ribs, and on that fall, I hit my paw against a rock really hard and snapped a claw right off and it was bleeding. It reared up for a death blow. If you had to choice between running like a coward and getting killed, or fighting in battle and getting killed, which would you choose? Well, I chose the stupider one, the one with little chance of survival.
Putting the pain to the back of my mind, I rolled ran under the badger. It came down, and I rolled onto my back and racked my claws against its belly, doubt it did any good though. It gave a small screech of surprise, but not pain. Then it squished me, like a leaf. It hurt like…..like…..Like being hit by a monster on the Thunderpath, then surviving, then being hit again, and surviving, then getting clawed by some rouge who says your on his territory, then being thrown down a hole with sharp rocks at the bottom, where you get pierced through the chest with a sharp rock, but you still survive, so your stuck with all that pain, oh, and you live for eternity and can't get out of the rock hole with no prey and you have to starve and you can't die from starvation, but you can feel all the energy seeping from your body. Yeah, it hurt that much, especially the part when he got off me and scratched up my shoulder pretty badly and ripped my ear to shreds.
I wished it was the end then, but I guess it wasn't because it tossed me around and into the air more, broke more of my ribs, a back leg, and fractured a front paw. My eyesight was blurry, I was crying now, and I was bleeding quite massively from my shoulder. Now, now was time for the death blow. It reared up yet again, paws aiming for my neck, and I closed my eyes then. I wanted to die now. At least if I did, the pain would be over. Then it happened- it was over then. No, I wasn't dead yet, if that's what your thinking. The blow never came. I opened an eye, focused my vision the best that I could, but that wasn't that great to see why the blow never came.
There were three cats there now, no- four. Three were warriors, one was an apprentice. They were all fighting the badger thing, and I guess it gave up- it ran away, out over the hills where there was no territory owned by the clans. The small one came over to me.
"Hey, you. What were you thinking? Trying to battle a badger by…." His voice was gentle and kind, yet cold, and shielded. I couldn't hear anything anymore, couldn't even see anymore. Everything had gone black. The only thing I remembered was the scent of the apprentice and the scent of the warriors. The warriors were Riverclan, I was sure of it…..but……what was a Shadowclan apprentice doing in Riverclan territory?
Oh yesh!! I will leave you hanging right here! Now you must wait until summer to find out what happens!! Mwahahahahahahahahaha!! Well, unless I get at least 15 reviews on this chapter. Then I will have a total of 65 reviews all together! Hahahahahahahaha!! You had better review if you want to find out what happens!! You had better review anyways!!
Well, Have a good spring, stay in school, and don't do drugs!!
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Feathersong