Chapter 6: Group Two's Chaotic Shopping Spree.
(Part Two)
A.N. Here's the beginning of Group Two's shopping spree. This is the second half of the whole story and means that it's half way over! Wow! And being Starclan to Starclan is a great job! You've got to love the power and authority that comes with the job of being an author and having so much control! And in my ultimate boredom I decided to have myself become a character. So I myself will be making an appearance as well as my friend/co-author. So…enough of my rambling, it's time to get the chaos started!!
(With Group Two At Sunhigh, At The Mall.)
Group Two consisted of the clan leader and deputy, Talltail, Aurorapaw, Stonepelt, Plasmapaw, and Stormpelt. (Stormpelt had been invited to stay to help Coldstar and Creamcloud in finishing their shopping as Starclan had requested.)
Stonepelt and Talltail grouped up with Aurorapaw and Plasmapaw, which left the original trio consisting of Coldstar, Creamcloud, and Stormpelt the ability to continue on as before. Both subgroups padded off in different directions.
Talltail smiled as the apprentices continued to bounce off the walls as the quartet entered Silver Eagle. "Perhaps we shouldn't have let them drink those cappuccinos before coming here." Stonepelt mewed as the two apprentices ran through the narrow walkway between the fragile glass vases and china tea cups looking at each object briefly before zooming off somewhere else, knocking down a majority of the shelves and the objects resting on them, causing some of the shelves to have a domino reaction on the shelves that they didn't already knock over. Suddenly the two stopped in their tracks, "It got quiet all of a sudden didn't it?" Talltail mewed with worry. Stonepelt and Talltail padded carefully through the maze of fallen shelves and broken glass to where the two apprentices were staring in wide-eyed panic at a statue of a cat that was staring directly at the two.
"Do you think it can see us?" Aurorapaw asked trying not to move an inch.
"I don't know, it doesn't seem to be moving." Plasmapaw mewed quietly.
Talltail stopped behind the two apprentices and decided that it was the perfect chance to scare the little foolish apprentices out of their fur. " And do you know how he turned to stone?" He asked in his usual voice he used when telling his made up scary story telling tone. When the two shook their heads, he accepted this as the opportunity to continue, "Starclan got angry with him for coming into this same shop many moons ago, when it was newly renamed to what it is now, The Silver Eagle, and while he was here, he angered Starclan by breaking everything and causing all of the shelves to topple over and everything broke in the process. And so, they turned him to stone to teach him not to break things." Talltail finished his story with a mew filled with artificial sadness.
The two apprentices looked up at Talltail then looked to the statue, then back at Talltail again, "really?" The two mewed together, their paws trembling uncontrollably.
"If you don't believe me then let's ask Starclan!" He mewed in a tone of fake knowingness before a small slip of paper fell from the ceiling and landed at Talltail's paws.
The note read: 'Starclan has gone out to lunch, be back when we feel like it! Flip to back…' Talltail flipped it. 'So until then, Starclan's Starclan and her assistant will take over, flip paper…' he flipped it again, 'Love and our greatest concerns as well as our greatest apologies, Starclan and management. Flip one last time…' Talltail flipped it again, "P.S. Good luck! You'll need it!' Talltail nodded his answer to Aurorapaw and Plasmapaw, "yes, and Starclan has sent message to us that they have hone out to lunch and left Starclan's Starclan and her assistant in charge until they get back."
Stonepelt took the paper from Starclan away from Talltail and it now read, 'Starclan now presents you with important information, flip card to receive it.' He flipped it again and again and again looking confused.
Looking over Stonepelt's shoulder, Talltail mewed, "Starclan's made a new version of a mean card! This is just like the one that says 'To find out how to keep a blond entertained for hours,, flip this card' on both sides." He mewed as he took the card away from Stonepelt to stop his cycle of reading and flipping the card. "Well…since we're at the mercy of Starclan's Starclan and her assistant, we might as well ask them to reassure you that my story is truth." Talltail cleared this throat. "Please give these two naughty apprentices a message proving my story is true." He meowed to the ceiling.
A bright light came from the ceiling as Starclan's Starclan came down to the floor. "A bit lower!" She called up to the person who must have been holding the rope that was keeping her steady. All four cats stared at the strange winged cat in disbelief. "I am Starclan's Starclan," She mewed in an authority filled voice, "also known as, The Author!" She exclaimed as she untied herself from the rope and stumbled before throwing the rope back up into the light. A loud "Ouch" was heard and then the strange winged cat called up to the light, "Sorry… Assistant close the portal and turn off the light! I'll call to you later when I'm ready to leave!" The rope was then pulled quickly back up the portal entrance and the light turned off, a loud swirling sound that signified the portal's complete closing. "You can just call me Kitty." The strange winged cat meowed as she turned to look at the group.
As the four Lightning Clan cats recovered from 'Kitty's' strange and overdramatic entrance, they noticed that kitty's wings were white and feathered, although beautiful, they were rather small which explained the rope. She was a Siamese cat with a dark brown face and paws. She looked like any average Siamese cat would except for the wings, and her eyes were sky blue.
"So you are the one and the only Starclan of our Starclan? The Author? The one who told Coldstar we should go to the mall in the first place and helped him choose the two groups and who was in which group? And you're also the one who gave me such a weird name?" Plasmapaw meowed his questions out as quickly as he possibly could without slurring his words beyond understanding, only stopping once in the middle of all his questions to take a deep breath, and then continued.
"Well young Plasmapaw to answer your questions: yes to the first, mostly to the second, well duh, to the third and fourth, and to the last one, yes.
"So why did you give Aurorapaw and I such strange names then?" Plasmapaw asked with a nod of satisfaction to the rest of Kitty's answers.
Kitty looked at her paws then up at the apprentices. "Well… to tell the truth," Kitty began to explain as her small wings shifted with slight embarrassment, "I was having a creativity block while I was in my Integrated Physics and Chemistry (A.K.A. IPC) class and deciding what to call you, and my teacher was showing a slideshow, we were supposed to take notes. I was kind of listening to the discussion over the slideshow, but I was writing the Lightning Clan character sheet, and since my usual random creativeness was dormant, so I chose to call the two of you each a nice sounding word I saw on the slideshow that would make reasonable names. And the two words ended up being Aurora and Plasma." Kitty mewed quickly, with a slight hope that there would be a click of understanding between them.
Aurorapaw and Plasmapaw exchanged excited glances with eyes wide with joyfulness that Kitty was cool enough to be able to get names out of the strangest of places. "That…is so…AWSOME!" the two apprentices mewed.
"Okay now," Kitty mewed, "Since I'm Starclan's Starclan, that makes me leader of the leader. And since Starclan is leader to the clan, that means that what I say, is always right!" She continued, "So you have to do what I want, not that you haven't already been doing that but now you're getting my orders directly and not indirectly through Starclan and then through Coldstar or Stormpelt." Kitty turned around and padded out of The Silver Eagle, "follow me," she requested kindly over her shoulder.
Talltail, Stonepelt, Aurorapaw, and Plasmapaw exchanged confused glances and then quickly trotted out after Kitty. In a dazed trance Talltail walked out slowly last of the group, accidentally knocking over the only remaining glass shelf which shattered into microscopic shards as it broke through the glass windowed counter and smashed all of its contents. Nothing was left there in one whole piece when they were gone. Nothing except for the statue cat, which by some strange accident or coincidence had survived the entire ordeal without receiving a single damaging hit.
A.N. This was a long chapter. So for now… To Be Continued. I'll have chapter 7 up A.S.A.P.