Here is Chapter 5! (Nightpaw: Oh goodie...) (Sandpaw: When do Crona and Ragnorok come in?) I think... Maybe it could be this chapter I don't really know. My mind does the think while I'm typing. (Nightpaw&Sandpaw: Oh... That makes perfect sense on which you are!) Why yes! Know- Oh wait! Before we begin, if Crona and Ragnorok do appear here are what clan they are in and what apprentice's names they have!
Shadowclan
Graypaw-unusual tom with a pink pelt and gray eyes
Darkpaw-a black tom with a white muzzle and paws, unusual white eyes
These names were thought up by DevilAngelScytheMiester! I asked if she could help me with the names, because I couldn't think of anything! Anyways let's get back to the story at hand!
(Maka's POV)
I looked at Darkstripe shocked that he had a guilt expression looming his face. I could still fell Ashpaw's pelt against mine, but that still stop the shivering on what will happen next. "Darkstripe care to explain any reason on why you seem guilty of something?" I heard Nightpaw asked. I could hear the shuffling of Darkstripe's paws against the ground. "Well... I... When we were still in camp doing the hunting patrols I decided to hunt for the clan over at Snakerocks." He began. I felt myself getting colder and colder and I could feel Ashpaw pressing harder against me. He placed his muzzle on my ear a whispered, "Are you cold, Sandpaw?" He asked. I looked at Ashpaw and saw his worried expression and smiled. "I'm fine." I lied. I then looked back at Darkstripe. I saw Nightpaw pad towards his former mentor.
"What did you do then?" Darkstripe still looked at his paws.
"Well... When I was hunting I came across an adder I've never seen before." I pricked my ears to listen as I looked at my paws.
"What did it look like?" Darkstripe shook his head.
"It's a black snake with a red belly, and had yellow arrows around its whole body! It also had yellow eyes." After saying that I could feel my heart beating faster. I looked at Darkstripe.
"Did you hunt the thing and brought it back?" Darkstripe looked at his paws and mumbled something. I turned to look at Nightpaw, but he was already padding towards the fresh-kill pile. I could see all the clan members looking at him with curious eyes. After rummaging through the pile Nightpaw stopped turned his head around and spat the black snake with yellow arrows on them to the ground. Nightpaw then turned his whole body around and stared at the snake. He then looked at Darkstripe. "May I ask why you want to know all this?" I heard Bluestar asked, but I couldn't bare to look at the leader as I kept starring at the snake.
"Because Medusa can only control these types of snakes!" The whole clan then burst out yowling.
"What! You mean to tell me she found us by that snake!"
"I thought Tigerclaw was the one to show them here?"
"SILENCE!" The whole clan went silent after Bluestar shouted. The she-cat looked at Nightpaw.
"Are you sure this isn't some sort of a joke?" Nightpaw shook his head.
"No. It's not."
"Then may I ask who the two people that killed Medusa were?" I looked at Bluestar then at Nightpaw then at Bluestar again. I padded towards Nightpaw and I felt a sudden coldness hit me when I moved away from Ashpaw. I stood beside Nightpaw.
"A friend of ours was the first to kill Medusa. I was the second one to kill her." All the cats went silent. I could hear some of the kits scrambling towards their mothers, so they could protect them. I stared at Bluestar waiting for what she was about to say. After a few heartbeats she said,
"I want to ask something." I nodded for her to continue. "Did your friend kill her out of cold blood and did you kill her out of-" I cut her off before she could say anymore.
"No! My friend killed her because she did something wrong! I killed her because I thought she killed her own son!" Bluestar then narrowed her eyes.
"What do you mean by 'thought' she killed her own son?"
"He didn't really die he was just injured." Bluestar nodded her head in understanding. I saw she was looking at the sky. I looked up and saw that it was almost time for the Gathering. I looked back Bluestar.
"It's almost time for the Gathering! I shall take Fireheart, Nightpaw, Sandstorm, Sandpaw, Whitestorm, Whitepaw, Swiftfur, Cloudtail, Thornclaw, Brightheart, Longtail and Sunpaw to the Gathering! The rest must stay here and get your wounds treated!" I looked at the other apprentices. Then I hear Fireheart say, "What about the ones you called for the Gathering Bluestar? We should stay and rest until our wounds heal." Bluestar shook her head.
"We have no time to rest, Fireheart. We have to attend the Gathering." Fireheart nodded. Bluestar then looked back at all the cats. "This battle has proven a new start to Thunderclan! We will be prepared in the future and we will become victorious in the end!" All the cats yowled in approval. "Now the meeting is dismissed. The cats that are going to the Gathering meet me over by the entrance, so we may leave!" After that was said and done we walked over to the entrance. I looked over at Ashpaw and saw that his tail was drooping as he stood up. I looked over and Nightpaw and whispered in his ear, "I'll be right back. I have to talk to someone." Nightpaw looked at me then nodded. I turned around and padded towards Ashpaw. When Ashpaw saw me he smiled.
"Hi Sandpaw. You better hurry towards the entrance before Bluestar leaves without you." I nodded then licked his cheek.
"Thanks for being at my side, Ashpaw." I then turned around and bounded towards the group at the entrance.
(Ashpaw's POV)
I can't' believe it! The love of my life just licked my cheek and complimented me for staying by her side! I looked over and saw Ravenpaw and Lightpaw smiling at me. The two she-cats padded towards me then stopped. "Hi Ashpaw." Ravenpaw said. "Hi Ravenpaw, Lightpaw." I replied back to them. Lightpaw looked over at the entrance and I did the same. I saw Sunpaw bouncing around Nightpaw and Sandpaw and yelling, "I'm going to break those rouges necks whenever they show their ugly faces!" I then remembered that Sunpaw was Lightpaw's sister. I looked at Lightpaw.
"Aren't you sad that Sunpaw's going to the Gathering without you?" Lightpaw looked at me then sighed. "Yeah. But Bluestar's leader and she seem to have made the right and the wrong choice at bringing my sister to the Gathering." I stared at her.
"What do you mean?"
"Like I said before Sunpaw's to hyperactive and would yell things out." I then nodded understanding what she was saying. I then caught her smiling at me.
"Wh-what? Is there s-something on my face?" Lightpaw and Ravenpaw chuckled. Ravenpaw shook her head.
"No, no, nothing like that. It's just that we saw Sandpaw lick your cheek that's all." I felt my whole body grow warm as I thought about that.
"Yeah..." Lightpaw then pawed my flank. I hissed as I felt the after effects of the battle going near.
"You should really go see Yellowfang or Cinderpelt." I looked at Lightpaw and Ravenpaw then sighed.
"I guess you're right." Ravenpaw smiled.
"I noticed that you're trying to impress Sandpaw right?" I stiffen then nodded. "Well just don't try to protect her unless you absolutely need to." I stared at her, shocked.
"What do you mean?" Lightpaw's whiskers twitched.
"Sandpaw hates it when someone tries to protect her." Ravenpaw said. "Protect her if she asks you to." I nodded and padded towards Cinderpelt who was looking at Dustpelt's wounds.
(Soul's POV)
I saw Sandpaw running towards us and stopped and stood in between me and Nightpaw. "Did Bluestar come by yet?" She asked. I shook my head. "No not yet. She must be talking with the medicine cats." I replied. Sandpaw nodded. I looked around the clearing and saw blood and tufts of fur everywhere. I shook out my pelt so that I looked twice my size. I'm not going to let anyone mess with me! I thought. I stopped when I saw Bluestar talking with Fireheart and two gray she-cats. Must be medicine cats. I looked over at Sandpaw and Nightpaw.
"Hey do you know who those two gra-" Before I could finish I was cut off by Sandpaw's tail hitting my muzzle. I winced as the scar on my muzzle stung. "Those two she-cats are the medicine cats. The older one is Yellowfang and the younger one that's limping is Cinderpelt." Nightpaw explained. I stopped myself from wincing again and looked at Nightpaw.
"What do you mean 'limping'?" Nightpaw and Sandpaw looked at me and they opened their mouths, but two tails moved towards their mouth and closed them. I looked over and saw Longtail and Swiftfur close their mouths. They looked at me. "Cinderpelt fell in to one of Tigerclaw's traps when he was trying to kill Bluestar." Longtail explained.
"He thought he got Bluestar, but instead he got Cinderpelt. This happened when Cinderpelt was an apprentice. Her former mentor was Fireheart." I nodded. "She had a lot of troubles after that accident, so after Yellowfang showed up she took Cinderpelt under her paw and showed her how to become a medicine cat and here she is." I looked back at Nightpaw and Sandpaw and saw that the tails were not in their mouths anymore. I looked over and saw Bluestar and Fireheart walking towards us. Bluestar walked towards the front and flicked her tail. "Let's go! The other clans might be waiting for us!" She shouted then she darted out of the camp. We all followed her.
After all that running we made it to Fourtrees. And I could smell three different types of scents. I could smell the earth scent, WindClan. I could smell fish scent, RiverClan and I already know what ShadowClan smelled like. I looked over at Bluestar and saw she was padding down with the rest of the clan behind her. I followed Whitestorm and we walked over to our space. And out of the corner of my eye I saw an unusual pink furred tom with gray eyes and alongside him was a black tom with a white muzzle and paws and he had unusual white eyes. Then it clicked. The cats I was seeing were none other than Crona and Ragnorok!
(Maka's POV)
I looked around and saw that all the cats were talking and sharing tongues. I looked over at Sunpaw and saw that she was talking with some apprentices from the other clans. I then looked over at Nightpaw who was still by my side and looking around. I felt a nudge on my flank and saw Whitepaw. "What's the matter?" I asked. He looked at me and pointed his muzzle over at some cats. I looked over and my eyes widen. Crona and Ragnorok! I dashed towards them and skid to a stop. I saw Crona shaking and I saw Ragnorok turn around and glare at me then he stopped. He looked at Crona and poked his flank with his paw. "Hey Graypaw! We have someone to see to." He said. I rolled my eyes. Graypaw looked at me and his eyes widen. "M-Maka... Is that y-you?" He asked. I nodded. "But my names Sandpaw now." I said. Graypaw nodded.
"I'm Graypaw and this is Darkpaw." He pointed his tail at Darkpaw. Darkpaw licked his flank and I sighed. My ears twitched as I heard pawsteps running towards us. I turned around to see Sunpaw, Nightpaw and Whitepaw stop behind me and saw Graypaw and Darkpaw. "Is that..." Sunpaw and Nightpaw said. I smiled at the two and looked at Graypaw and Darkpaw.
"Graypaw, Darkpaw. These are Sunpaw, Nightpaw and Whitepaw." Graypaw nodded and Darkpaw huffed.
"Like I care about everyone else." He hissed. I glared at Darkpaw, but he didn't seem faze (like always). I looked over at where the leaders are. They were in one little circle on top of the Great Rock and were talking in hush tones. I strained my ears to listen in on what they're saying, but they were two high for me to hear. That's when I felt someone poke my flank (I winced) and I turned around to see it was Sunpaw. I blinked a couple of times then smiled.
"Hi Sunpaw. Are you happy to have met up with Graypaw?" Sunpaw grinned and nodded. "Of course I am! But I want to show you to some of the other apprentices!" She shouted. I nodded and Sunpaw lead me towards a group of apprentices and to my surprise Nightpaw, Whitepaw, Graypaw and Darkpaw were already talking with them. (A/N: Now in the warriors wiki it didn't say anything about the color pelt the apprentices are, so I'm just going to introduce them.) Sunpaw flicked her tail to the apprentices I didn't know.
"That's Brownpaw and Oakpaw. They're from ShadowClan like Graypaw and Darkpaw. Then there's Webpaw, Tawnypaw and Whitepaw, who are from WindClan and last we have Heavypaw and Shadepaw who are from RiverClan!" I nodded to the apprentices and I saw something flicker in their eyes. I felt another poke and I winced and looked over at Graypaw who had worried in his eyes.
"What happened to ThunderClan, Sandpaw?" I looked at Whitepaw, Nightpaw and Sunpaw. Whitepaw and Nightpaw were playing with their paws and were looking around except at me. Those mouse-brains! I thought. I looked at Graypaw, Darkpaw and the other apprentices and sighed.
"ThunderClan was attacked by rouges." The apprentices gasped.
"Who were the rouges?" Brownpaw asked suddenly wanting more information. The other apprentices nodded. I shrugged.
"I have no clue." But that was a lie. I couldn't tell anyone one what I told Bluestar and the rest of ThunderClan. They'll think it's mouse-brained and plus... Graypaw can't know about Medusa lurking around the- My eyes widen after I thought about that last sentence. I looked at Nightpaw and flicked my ears. Nightpaw nodded. "I'll tell you what happened in ThunderClan and the rouges." He said. All the apprentices looked at him and nodded. Graypaw looked at me then looked at Nightpaw suddenly interested as he told them about all the apprentices going after one of the toughest cat. I turned and padded away knowing that the apprentices might ask me questions and tell me a lot of compliments. When I looked up at the Great Rock I saw that the leaders were still murmuring. I looked up at the sky. Still night time. I looked back at the leaders.
"Bluestar?" The leaders stopped murmuring and looked at me. Bluestar flicked her tail and I padded over towards the leaders and sat down. Bluestar looked at the three leaders and nodded towards me. "This is Sandpaw. Sandpaw meet Crookedstar, Nightstar and Tallstar." She said. I dipped my head to the leaders and they nodded. Tallstar looked at Bluestar. "This cat has a funny scent." He said. Bluestar nodded.
"She does. And so does her friends, in which three are here and the other three are back at camp." Tallstar nodded.
"But what is it? It's hard to tell what it is because of the ThunderClan scent."
"Her friends and herself were kittypets, but abounded their life as kittypets and stayed in the woods. What they forgot was that they didn't know how to hunt, so we took them in and trained them." Tallstar and Crookedstar nodded. Nightstar snorted. "You should have left them in the woods. You do realize that it was their own fault for abounding their old life to start a new one." He hissed. I shook my head then looked back at Bluestar.
"Bluestar I need to tell you something." Bluestar nodded.
"If it's about the rouges don't worry I've told them what happened." My eyes widen and I looked over at the leaders. Tallstar nodded along with Crookedstar. Nightstar sat down and dipped his head.
"In all my life I've never seen a inexperience apprentice attack Tigerclaw let alone command the other apprentices." I licked my chest and looked at Bluestar.
"May I ask?" Bluestar smiled and nodded. "I think Medusa may be watching us right now." The leader's eyes widen. Nightstar growled so only we could him.
"What! How do you know that? Bluestar told us everything about the rouges that attacked ThunderClan and you come here and telling us that we're being watch! If we were being watched then the warriors would have picked up this rouges scent." I ignored the ShadowClan leader.
"I just realized that maybe she's watching us through some cats eyes." Crookedstar snorted. "Bluestar you should teach that apprentice how to act more respectfully." He hissed. Bluestar ignored him.
"What makes you think that, Sandpaw?" I looked over at the cats and saw that they stopped talking and were looking up at us. I scanned the cats and looked at their eyes. I closed my eyes and breathed. I have to figure out how I can see the souls of these cats... Come on, come on! I opened my eyes and instead of seeing their souls I felt their feelings. Confusion, disbelief, anger, sorrow, excitement, and pain. I then stopped at one cat. His emotions were guilt and then... What was it? Oh yeah hunger! Wait hunger for... Oh no! I looked at the tom and my eyes widen. Longtail!
(Kid's POV)
I looked at Sandpaw's expression as it turned to one of pain and sorrow. I cocked my head to one side then looked over at where she was staring at. My eyes widen as she was staring at Longtail. Why is she looking at Longtail? I thought. I looked over at the other apprentices and saw them stare at Sandpaw in envy and disbelief. "What's so special about her?" Oakpaw asked his clanmate. Brownpaw shrugged his (A/N: I'm sorry if I got the gender wrong for Brownpaw. I just don't know it and it never said what the gender was in the book!) shoulders and glared at Sandpaw. "She better have some sort of excuse for being up there! I can't believe the leaders would let an apprentice up there! That breaks Starclan's rules!" Brownpaw hissed. Whitepaw glared at them. "Shut up or I'll stuff you're tails in your mouth!" Whitepaw snarled. Brownpaw snarled back.
"Oh! What are you going to do about i-" I flicked my tail at Brownpaw's face. "Be quiet!" I hissed. I then looked at Whitepaw. "She must have seen something or she might have a bad feeling about Longtail." Sunpaw padded towards us. "Is it because of Medusa?" She asked. Graypaw cowered on to the ground. "M-M-Medusa is alive?" He whispered. Whitepaw stared at Graypaw and sighed.
"Yeah she is. She was the one who lead the rouges to attack ThunderClan." Oakpaw growled.
"Are you saying that Longtail was the one to help he-" I flicked his muzzle with my tail.
"No mouse-brain! And this doesn't concern you!" I looked at Whitepaw, Sunpaw, Graypaw and Darkpaw. I flicked my ear. "Come on; let's talk about this with Sandpaw and Bluestar." They nodded. Brownpaw snarled.
"I thought you said this doesn't concern us?" I looked at the tom.
"It doesn't concern you guys, only us." And with that I lead our little group over to the Great Rock. I padded over and was about to touch the rock when Bluestar yowled, "It's time to being the Gathering!" I sighed. Looks like this could wait until we get back to ca- No! We have to talk about this while Graypaw and Darkpaw are present! I thought as I sat down with the other cats. I noticed that Whitepaw was sitting next to Sunpaw, Graypaw and Darkpaw with the other apprentices. I flicked my ears. Should I sit with them or-
"There you are, Nightpaw!" I swung my head around to come face-to-face with Sandpaw, who was still a little down. I nodded to her.
"I saw you staring at Longtail," I whispered. "Did you get you're abilities to see souls again?" Sandpaw shook her head.
"No, but it was similar to it." She replied. I stared at her.
"What do you mean 'similar'?"
"I mean that I was able to read the other cat's feeling instead of looking in their souls." I gawked at her. I opened my mouth to speak only to see Whitestorm looking at us. "Keep in down you two," He said. "I know this is you're first ever Gathering, but please don't speak. We need to know what's going on in the other clans." Me and Sandpaw nodded. I looked up to see Nightstar looking at the crowd of cats. "Shadowclan is doing fine," He started. "We also have two new apprentices! Graypaw and Darkpaw!" I looked over and saw Graypaw cowering in the floor mumbling something and I saw Darkpaw raise his chin high. I blinked and shook out my pelt. I looked back at Nightstar. "That is all I have to say." And he stepped back waiting for one of the leaders to step up. Tallstar was the next leader to step up and he looked at the crowd of cats. "WindClan is doing good this Newleaf(1) and the prey are running around the moorlands as always." The black-and-white leader said. "However, we are experiencing troubles from some rouge and a few stray kittypets around our territory." Wetfoot, a Shadowclan warrior, stood up and yowled, "Having troubles with a few weak rouges and kittypets! Ha! That's a laugh!" Tallstar looked at the warrior.
"This is really a surprise to WindClan, since there hasn't nor have there been any kittypets in our territory." Crookedstar looked at Tallstar. "Is that all you have to report, Tallstar?" He asked. Tallstar nodded and as the leader stepped back Crookedstar stepped forward.
"RiverClan is doing fine as well! The fish are swimming in the rivers and there has been no sign of any Twolegs in our territory!" Crookedstar then stepped back and Bluestar stepped forward. I gulped. Is she going to announce us and the rouge battle? Bluestar looked at the crowd of cats.
"Thunderclan is doing well and we also have new warriors! Swiftfur, Cloudtail, Thornclaw and Brightheart!" All the cats cheered the new warriors with high yowls. When it quieted down Bluestar spoke again, "We were also attacked by rouges and Tigerclaw was among them." There were gasped of shock going throughout the crowed cats.
"Tigerclaw betrayed his own clan!"
"Why would he do that?"
"What does he gain from this?"
Bluestar ignored the side comments and continued talking, "We also have new apprentices, but three of them could not come because of injuries. But the other four are here! Sandpaw, Nightpaw, Whitepaw and Sunpaw!" Sunpaw jumped up and down, Whitepaw just sat there looking at the crowd of cats, smiling, Sandpaw raised her chin high and I copied her. I heard all the cats yowl our name and when the noise died down Bluestar nodded. "The other three are Ravenpaw, Bluepaw and Lightpaw. I also appointed Fireheart as Thunderclan's new deputy." Fireheart raised his chin as all the cats cheered for him. Bluestar nodded again and looked back at the cats. "That is all I have to say." I saw Nightstar, Crookedstar and Tallstar stare at her with confusion tinted in their eyes. I think they're wondering why Bluestar hadn't said anything about Medusa being in the group. I thought. I looked around and saw Sandpaw still staring at Longtail, while the pale tabby warrior was talking with some other warriors from different clans. I nudged Sandpaw's side and I saw her ears go down.
"I'm sorry," I apologized. "I thought the scratches weren't going to hurt." Sandpaw looked at me and smiled.
"It's not your fault. Graypaw and Sunpaw did that to me." She replied. I sighed in relief. I then remembered something.
"You still didn't tell me why you were staring at Longtail?" Sandpaw looked back at Longtail and saw him nodding his head as he saw Heavypaw do a new move he learned. She then looked back at me and leaned in and whispered something only me and her could hear, "I felt some sort of emotions coming from Longtail." She leaned back and I stared at her.
"What kind of emotions?"
"Guilt and hunger." I cocked my head to one side.
"He must be hungry then." Sandpaw shook her head.
"No! Not that kind of hunger! I mean the bloodthirsty kind of hunger." I stared at her, wide eyes.
"What are you trying to say, Sandpaw?"
"I'm saying that Medusa could be using one of her magic tricks on Longtail. Don't you think it was kind of strange on how she retreated when she got injured only once?" I stared at Sandpaw for a few heartbeats then nodded. "She must have some sort of plan going on and we have to find out what it is!" I nodded in agreement. I looked over my shoulder in time to see Whitepaw, Sunpaw, Graypaw and Darkpaw walking up to us.
"Hey you two, Sunpaw and I made a meeting with Graypaw and Darkpaw." Whitepaw said. Me and Sandpaw stared at Whitepaw.
"Why would you do that?" We asked. Whitepaw looked at us, shocked.
"'Cause we need their help when it might come to facing Medusa again, and plus Bluepaw, Ravenpaw and Lightpaw are supposed to be with us two." I hear Sandpaw sigh and I shook my head. I looked back at Whitepaw.
"Where do we meet and when do we leave?" I mewed.
"We meet back here and we leave when everybody's asleep." Whitepaw replied. Me and Sandpaw nodded.
"That sounds reasonable," Sandpaw pointed out. "But we also have to catch prey while we're out." Sunpaw stared at Sandpaw with confusion.
"Why's that?" She asked. Sandpaw looked at the light brown she-cat.
"Because whoever's watching the camp from the outside would want to know where we were." I looked at Sandpaw.
"We have to tell whoever's guarding the camp that we're going hunting, right?" Sandpaw nodded. I sighed. "Okay."
"ThunderClan it's time to get head back! We have to get these wounds healed or they'll get infected!" Bluestar yowled. I looked over and saw all the warriors padding over to the ThunderClan leader. I looked back at Graypaw and Darkpaw.
"See you two tonight." Graypaw nodded and Darkpaw huffed.
"I don't understand why I have to tag along." He hissed so only we could here. I rolled my eyes and turned around to walk over to Bluestar. I heard Sunpaw, Whitepaw and Sandpaw say their farewells and caught up to me. When we made back to the ThunderClan group, Bluestar nodded.
"Good everyone's here. Let's go!" She turned around and started padding away. I didn't realize I was being watched, but when I did, I turned my head around to see Whitepaw staring at me. She smiled slyly and looked away. I could tell she was warm under her pelt, because back at Death City every girl did that except for, Kim, Jackie, Maka, Tsubaki, Patty and Liz. When I turned my attention back at my group I followed them up the slope and we continued to pad towards our camp, when WindClan raced ahead of us and stopped us in our tracks. Tallstar stared at Bluestar.
"Why didn't you tell the rest of the clans your apprentice told you," He hissed. "I know you're trying to protect every clan, but these rouges could be a threat in the future." Sandpaw raced up ahead to stop beside Bluestar.
"This doesn't concern you," She hissed back. "This only concerns ThunderClan!" I then saw Whitepaw and Webpaw step up beside their clan leader.
"That's what Nightpaw said, but he took Graypaw and Darkpaw with him when we were discussing the battle with the rouges and ThunderClan." Webpaw snarled. I stepped beside Sandpaw.
"That's because they were our friends when we were kittypets. We have some connection with those rouges, so they're most likely to come after ThunderClan or ShadowClan…." I trailed off as I thought about it. Medusa would go after Graypaw and Darkpaw now that they're here! I thought. I looked over at Sandpaw and saw her staring at the WindClan cats. Tallstar snorted.
"How would you know some of the rouges?" Bluestar stepped forward nose-to-nose with the WindClan leader.
"Sandpaw is right. This only concerns ThunderClan and no one else. But if Nightpaw's right and those rouges head over to ShadowClan then it's up to ShadowClan and ThunderClan to settle with these rouges." She replied, calmness and wisdom mixed in her voice. Tallstar stopped glaring at Bluestar and dipped his head.
"My apologize, Bluestar," He looked back at the ThunderClan leader. "If you or ShadowClan need our help against these rouges, then WindClan will fight beside you." Bluestar nodded. Tallstar turned around and faced his clanmates. "It's time to head back to camp!" And with that they ran off faster then ThunderClan. I blinked amazed at how fast WindClan can fun. I looked over and saw Bluestar flicked her tail.
"Let's head back."
I yawned as we made it to ThunderClan territory, near ThunderClan camp. When I opened my eyes I saw Runningwind on guard. Bluestar stopped the patrol. She looked over her shoulder. "Swiftfur, Brightheart, Thornclaw, and Cloudtail after you get you're wounds treated I want you four to take Runningwind's place and stay on guard. And remember to not talk." She said. The four newly warriors nodded, but didn't say anything. Bluestar nodded and turned her head and continued padding into the camp. When we entered the patrol went over to the medicine cats, who were waiting for them. I looked over and saw Ashpaw dash over to Sandpaw and smiled. "So what was the Gathering like?" He asked. Sandpaw looked at Ashpaw and smiled.
"It was great!" She exclaimed. Ashpaw purred.
"I knew you would like it." Ashpaw licked Sandpaw's ear and Sandpaw laughed. I felt my stomach tie up into a knot. Am I feeling jealous? I thought. I turned my head away and saw that Cinderpelt was finished looking at Whitepaw and was heading my direction. I sat down and saw her stop in front of me and laid down her herbs. She looked at me. "Are you feeling okay, Nightpaw? You look like you're thinking of something." She said as she moved the herbs around. I couldn't tell what the herbs were, since I wasn't with Sandpaw this morning listening on which herbs were which. I looked back at the medicine cat and saw she was chewing one some leaves.
"I'm doing fine and yes, I was thinking of something." Cinderpelt nodded then put the pulp on her paws and lifted it up to me.
"I'm going to put this on you're scratches, alright?" I nodded. She placed the poultice on my shoulder and I winced. "Sorry. I forgot to mention it might sting." I nodded. I looked over at Sandpaw and saw she was getting herself patched up by Yellowfang. The old she-cat was whispering something in her ear and Sandpaw kept staring at her paws. I saw her nod from time to time then I saw her looking at the medicine cat and, she must have said something, because Yellowfang was nodding, almost like she was agreeing with something that Sandpaw said.
"Alright all done!" I looked at my body and saw that there was poultice almost everywhere. "I want you to come by the medicine den every now and then if the poultice disappears or is dried up!" She said. I nodded. Cinderpelt picked up her herbs and headed over to Sunpaw, who was talking about the Gathering with, Bramblekit and Tawnykit listening to her. I looked over at Sandpaw who was sitting alone looking at the night sky. I looked around for any signs of Ashpaw and sighed. Must have gone to sleep. I thought as I padded towards Sandpaw and sat down next to her. I looked at the she-cat.
"Are you alright, Sandpaw?" I asked. Sandpaw looked at me and smiled.
"I'm fine thank you," She replied. "It's just that I get the feeling that Medusa planned this whole thing out." I sighed.
"I can't help but think the same thing, Sandpaw." I looked at the darken sky and saw a star shinning brightly then the other stars. I cocked my head a little bit to the side. "Hey Sandpaw, do you see that star?" Sandpaw followed my gaze and just out of the corner out of my eye I saw her nodding. I looked back at her.
"Do you think it's one of our warrior ancestors?" Sandpaw looked at me and shrugged.
"I think it is. But it's hard to tell." She then looked back at the other cats. I did the same and saw that they were already inside their dens leaving me, Sandpaw, Whitepaw, Ravenpaw, Lightpaw, Sunpaw and Bluepaw. I saw Whitepaw look at us and nodded. I looked back at Sandpaw and saw she was already walking towards the camp entrance. I followed her with the others close behind.
(Soul's POV)
I followed Sandpaw and Nightpaw with the other four behind us. When we left the camp entrance we saw Swiftfur, Thornclaw, Brightheart and Cloudtail looking at us. "We decided to hunt while the clans are asleep. You know to strengthen our warriors." Sandpaw said. The four warriors nodded, not breaking the silence. Sandpaw lead us forward through the path we just took through Fourtrees. I just realized how tired I was when we made it to Fourtrees. I saw Graypaw and Darkpaw pacing around and when they saw us they stopped. "You guys made it," Graypaw exclaimed. "I thought you would be tired because of the rouge fight." I saw Sandpaw shook her head.
"Nope, we're fine!" She said. Graypaw nodded. Darkpaw snorted. "Are we going to figure out how to transform as weapons or are we just going to talk all day?" He asked. Sandpaw nodded. She looked at us.
"Alright let's see if we could try it." I nodded. I closed my eyes and concentrated on transforming into a scythe. Come on, come on, come on, come on! I need to do this for my friends! I thought. I opened my eyes and I glowed blue then I transformed into a scythe, which Sandpaw held me with her teeth. I showed myself at the end of the blade and smirked. "Looks like that was easier then I thought." I said. I transformed back into my cat form and looked at everyone else.
"So what did I look like?"
"You still looked the same as before, but the size changed. So you basically looked like a metal stick with a black-and-red dog tooth at the end." Nightpaw explained while smiling. I snorted.
"Why don't Sunpaw and Lightpaw transform into their weapon form?" Nightpaw looked at the twins.
"Can you guys try?" The two twins did the same thing I did and in no time they glowed pink and transformed into their gun forms, which were like water guns, but slivery. Nightpaw grabbed one in his mouth then his tail. He pointed both and me. I stared at him, shocked.
"What are you doing, mouse-brain? I'm you comrade!" I heard Nightpaw chuckling.
"I was seeing if you were scared." He said, muffled by the gun in his mouth. I heard Sandpaw and the others start laughing. I looked at my miester.
"You're laughing, too?" Sandpaw shook her head.
"I'm sorry, but that was really funny," She said. "And I was thinking Nightpaw was going to shoot you." I sighed then looked back at Nightpaw and saw Sunpaw and Lightpaw transformed back into their cat form and stare at their miester. "What did we look like?" They asked. Nightpaw shrugged.
"You both looked the same, but you changed sizes and kind of looked like water pistols instead of the regular pistol you usually transform into." Sunpaw bounced up and down. Lightpaw smiled. She then looked at Bluepaw and Graypaw. "Ravenpaw you're up!" Lightpaw shouted. Ravenpaw nodded and glowed yellow. I gawked at her. How in the name of StarClan was she able to do that without closing her eyes? I thought. When Ravenpaw transformed she transformed into her ninja mode and Bluepaw grabbed her with his mouth. Bluepaw smirked. "With Ravenpaw in her ninja mode I won't be stopped by anyone!" He shouted, muffled by the ninja sword. Ravenpaw then transformed back into her cat formed and landed beside her miester. "Did I look the same?" She asked. Sandpaw nodded.
"You did, Ravenpaw. You looked kind of like a…. Dog's tooth or a fox's tooth." Ravenpaw nodded. I looked over at Darkpaw and Graypaw.
"It's you're guys turn." I said. Darkpaw huffed.
"We know that mouse-brain!" Darkpaw hissed. He glowed black then transformed into a sword. Graypaw grabbed the sword in his teeth. I stared at the sword.
"It looks the same, but it kind of looks like Ravenpaw's weapon form." Darkpaw transformed back and shook out his pelt.
"Can we go now? I'm tired of this stuff." I looked at the sky then looked back at Darkpaw.
"We've only been here for three minutes." Darkpaw glared at me.
"Three minutes, too long," He hissed. "Besides don't we have to go back to our clans before the guards become suspicious?" Sandpaw and Nightpaw nodded.
"You're right, Darkpaw," Sandpaw said as she looked at us. "We should head back to our territory and catch some prey." I nodded. I looked over and saw Graypaw and Darkpaw leaving.
"See you two later!" I shouted then looked at Sandpaw, who was already leading the others back to ThunderClan territory. "Hey! Wait up!" I started bounding after them.
(Ashpaw's POV)
I yawned as I woke up and started stretching. I looked around the den. Fernpaw was sleeping next to me, Nightpaw, Bluepaw and Whitepaw were sleeping in the other nests and Sandpaw, Ravenpaw, Sunpaw and Lightpaw were sleeping in the others. I cocked my head to the side. When did they get to sleep? I thought. Maybe they were talking about something and lost track of time. I padded out the den and saw Cloudtail stretching along with Thornclaw. "Finally! I thought I wasn't going to speak for the next moon!" Cloudtail exclaimed. Thornclaw nodded. Swiftfur looked over at me and smiled. "How are you doing, Ashpaw?" He asked. "I'm doing great, thanks for asking, Swiftfur!" I shouted back. I looked over at the fresh-kill pile and saw that it was overloaded with prey. I looked back at the warriors.
"Did you guys go out hunting after the vigil?" Brightheart looked at me and shook her head. "No. That wasn't us." She replied.
"Then who was it?"
"It was Sandpaw, Nightpaw, Whitepaw, Lightpaw, Sunpaw, Bluepaw and Ravenpaw." I stared at her. So that means they went late night hunting. Maybe they did that because they felt bad for not telling us about themselves. I thought. I felt someone bump into me and turned my head over my shoulder to see Sunpaw.
"Oh! Sorry Sunpaw!" Sunpaw shook her head and look at me. Her light blue eyes were filled with tireless energy and she bounced up and smiled. "It's alright, Ashpaw! But you better move out of the way before Bluepaw wakes up!" She shouted then bounced towards the fresh-kill pile. I stared after her feeling my stomach fill with butterflies. Am I crushing on two she-cats? I then moved away from the apprentices den a padded after her. I picked out a sparrow from the pile and sat down next to Sunpaw.
"How's Sandpaw?" Sunpaw looked up from her mice. She gulped the piece of the prey.
"She's not doing to well." She said. I then realize that her smile faded as she looked at her paws.
"Why's that?" Sunpaw shook her head.
"I'm not sure. She just seems a little down. She was feeling that way last night after we caught a lot of prey." Ashpaw looked over at the apprentices den and saw Bluepaw and Whitepaw stretching outside. Ravenpaw and Lightpaw were talking with Fernpaw and Nightpaw and Sandpaw were talking about something. I strained my ears to her what they're saying, but I couldn't make it out. I saw the Sandpaw was flexing her claws and she turned around and stormed outside the camp. I looked at Sunpaw and saw she had a worried expression on her face.
"Do they always get into fights like that?" Sunpaw shook her head.
"No. Nightpaw and Sandpaw NEVER get into fights. Whitepaw and Sandpaw are the only ones who do." I nodded and looked over at Nightpaw and saw he was sitting down sighing. It looks like I have to pick which she-cat is going to be my mate and so far…. I am thinking both.
(Fireheart's POV)
I looked over at my apprentice and saw him and Sandpaw whispering to each other. Next I saw Sandpaw turn around and storm out of the camp. I looked at Sandstorm. "Can you follow your apprentice and show her how to battle, Sandstorm?" I asked. Sandstorm looked at me and nodded. "I will, but what do you think those two were arguing about?" She asked. I shrugged.
"It's not our problem, Sandstorm. But if you want to get involve ask Sandpaw." Sandstorm nodded and padded away and out the camp. I looked over at the warriors who were gathering around me. "Alright the hunting patrol will be lead by Thornclaw. Thornclaw pick two warriors and make sure you have one apprentice in the patrol." Thornclaw nodded and started listing the cats that are going with him. "Next is the border patrol. I will take Swiftfur, Darkstripe and Nightpaw!" I saw Nightpaw raise his head at me and narrowed his eyes. I looked at Whitestorm. "Whitestorm you, Runningwind, Bluepaw and Whitepaw will guard the camp." Whitestorm nodded. I looked back at the other cats and saw that the hunting patrol left already. "Let's get a move on!" I padded over to the camp entrance and waited for Nightpaw, Swiftfur and Darkstripe. When they came Nightpaw looked at me. "You saw me and Sandpaw arguing with each other, right?" He asked. I nodded and looked at Darkstripe and Swiftfur. Darkstripe snorted. "Almost half the camp saw the two of you arguing over nothing!" He exclaimed. I looked back at Nightpaw and saw he was looking around.
"Are you looking for someone, Nightpaw?" Swiftfur asked. Nightpaw nodded and ran up ahead.
"I'm looking for Sandpaw, so I could apologize for what happened."
"What did happen? Why were the two of you arguing in the first place?" I asked. Nightpaw looked over his shoulder and sighed.
"I was just worried for her. She seems kind of…. Inspirited this morning and I'm trying to figure out why." I stopped and stared at Nightpaw. Nightpaw's expression showed that he was worried and guilty. That's when we heard a yowl coming over from Sunningrocks. I bounded towards Sunningrocks with Nightpaw, Swiftfur and Darkstripe following me. When we made there we saw Sandpaw under the paws of Heavypaw and he wasn't alone. There was a patrol made up of Blackclaw, Stonefur and Graystripe!
"Get off of me, you big fur-ball!" I heard Sandpaw hiss. "What are you doing on RiverClan territory in the first place, Sandkit?" Blackclaw asked. I walked up to the RiverClan patrol. "What's going on here?" I asked. Stonefur looked up at me. "You should teach this apprentice where the territories end." He said. I looked at Sandpaw. She kicked Heavypaw off of her with her hind legs and got up on her paws. She shook her pelt and turned around and walked into the holly bushes. I looked at Nightpaw and saw he was trying to move one paw on the ground and he kept looking at me then at the holly bushes. I sighed.
"Go get her, Nightpaw." Nightpaw charged into the holly bush and I looked over at Stonefur. "I'm sorry about her. She was never like this when I meet her." I heard Darkstripe snort.
"She must be still mad that I brought a dead adder back to camp." He said. My ears flicked, but I didn't say anything. Graystripe looked at me confused. "What happened?" He asked.
"I want to know this, too, Fireheart. If she was so upset with a dead adder and didn't want to pay attention to borders then you have to tell us why." I sighed and shook my head.
"I'm not sure what's wrong with her. Yesterday she was a leader now she's a helpless kit. I guess this had something to do with the rouges." Stonefur cocked his head to the side.
"What do you mean?"
"Sandpaw knew about four of the rouges and said that the leader was very dangerous. The leader was snake-like and when Darkstripe bought in the dead adder, she seem mad and worried at the same time." Graystripe looked around.
"Did you guys hear that?" We looked at the gray warrior. Blackclaw snorted.
"No we didn't hear anything you, mouse-brain." That's when Sandpaw and Nightpaw exploded from the holly bushes and rushed towards the river. We looked at the apprentices and saw them leap over the river and land on the other side, perfectly, and turned right and started running. I looked at Stonefur.
"Something must be wrong." I followed the apprentices along with the RiverClan patrol and my patrol. When the apprentices stopped we did the same and my eyes widen. Two whisker-lengths away from the Thunderpath stood Bluepaw, widen eyes and shaking, along with his mentor Runningwind lying lifeless on the ground. I looked up and saw the golden she-cat along with Tigerclaw on the other side of the Thunderpath smiling. I heard Sandpaw growled, "You fox-hearts!" And she charged towards them running across the Thunderpath.
"Sandpaw get back here there's a monster coming!" I shouted. Sandpaw glanced over at the monster and stopped and crouched. The monster moved on, not knowing that Sandpaw was below it and disappeared. Sandpaw then started racing towards the two and leaped at Tigerclaw and bit down on his shoulder. I looked over at Bluepaw and saw him growling and racing towards Tigerclaw as well. I saw the golden she-cat hiss at us. "I'm sorry. We didn't get a good introduction last time we met, Fireheart. My name is Snaketail and I'm going to kill you know." She said. She was about to charge over at us when Sandpaw leaped on her back and grabbed her scruff.
"I'm not going to let you go that easy, Snaketail!" She growled through a mouthful of fur. Snaketail kept shaking, trying to get the sand pelted she-cat off of her. I looked at Nightpaw and saw he was looking right and left of the Thunderpath.
"Are you tying to get yourself killed?" I hissed at the black tom. Nightpaw shook his head.
"I'm not letting them fight those two alone!" He said. Heavypaw looked about reading to follow.
"Well I'm ready for a fight." Heavypaw shouted. He was about to pelt over to the other side when Nightpaw stopped him.
"No! At this point Snaketail and Tigerclaw are now ThunderClan enemies!" Nightpaw hissed then he charged towards Tigerclaw and racked at his muzzle. I looked at Stonefur.
"Should we stop them?" He asked. I looked over at the apprentices and saw Nightpaw and Bluepaw working together and beating Tigerclaw and Sandpaw and Snaketail were still fighting clawing and racking each other. I shook my head.
"They're in ShadowClan territory, but I know those two rouges will move out sooner or later." Tigerclaw and Snaketail started running across the Thunderpath and ran passed us into the bushes. I looked over and saw Bluepaw, Nightpaw and Sandpaw following them. When the three apprentices made it passed the Thunderpath Swiftfur and I blocked their path. Bluepaw looked at us. "Why are you blocking us? I have to avenge Runningwind's death!" Bluepaw shouted. I shook my head.
"No. You don't, Bluepaw. Those two learned their lesson. A warrior never kills in battle." I looked at Runningwind's body and looked back at Swiftfur. "Let's get him back to clan and prepare him for StarClan." I murmured. Swiftfur nodded and we picked up Runningwind's body and started padding back to camp with Bluepaw behind us.
(Kid's POV)
I watched as Bluepaw followed Fireheart and Swiftfur carry Runningwind disappear into the forest. I looked back at the RiverClan patrol and dipped my head. I then turned around and padded after Bluepaw when I heard Stonefur yowl, "Hold on!" I looked back and saw them catching up to us. I looked over Stonefur's shoulder to see Sandpaw's head down and her tail drooping. I looked back at Stonefur. "Can you please move aside for my friend?" I asked. Stonefur nodded and moved a little, so Sandpaw was standing next to me. I looked back at Stonefur.
"Is there anything you need?" Stonefur looked at Blackclaw and Graystripe then back at me.
"Who was that golden she-cat?" I looked back at Sandpaw.
"You can go on a head Sandpaw. I think you should rest." Sandpaw looked at me and shook her head. "No, its okay I'm fine." She replied and looked back at the ground. I sighed and looked back at Stonefur and the rest of the RiverClan patrol. I opened my mouth to speak only to be interrupted by a high screech. We all looked over and saw the rouge cats from yesterday charging at us. My eyes widen. StarClan help us!
Ohh…. Cliffhanger! =D I wonder what will happen now. (Sandpaw: Don't you already know that?) Yes, but I want to see if anybody else does, too. (Nightpaw: Who's going to be Bluepaw's mentor now that Runningwind is dead?) That you'll have to find out in Bluepaw's POV next chapter! (Sandpaw&Nightpaw: We can't wait!) Hope you enjoyed the chapter!