I finally got Chapter 2 up! I know it's taking a while, but I'll be able to update more tomorrow. :) I hope you like it! Please review it too! Thanks!
And sorry if this chapter is still kind of boring, it gets interesting soon!

Disclaimer: I do not own Warriors.

Out in the forest, Squirrelpaw felt a little better. She didn't have to worry about Hazelpaw bothering her at all. But she was worried about how Hazelpaw was acting. Why did she tell our mentors about when I was sleeping? That was the question that was continually bothering her. She shook her head to clear her thoughts. I have a job to do right now- I need to feed my clan, she thought determinedly. Squirrelpaw focused on a mouse that was scurrying between some tree roots.

Getting ready to pounce, Squirrelpaw quietly crept up on the mouse. Quickly she leapt at it, and although it tried to escape, she killed it before it had a chance to run. Squirrelpaw picked up the mouse, and proceeded to show it to Reedfur.

"Reedfur! I caught a mouse," she mumbled around the mouse she was carrying in her mouth. She heard no reply. Glancing around the forest's undergrowth, she dropped the mouse to try to scent her mentor. Padding through some ferns, she entered a clearing, and gasped at what she saw

"Reedfur!" She yowled, as Squirrelpaw saw her mentor trying to fight off a fox. His black pelt was covered in blood, and Squirrelpaw could tell that he was growing weaker with every attack. With growing dread she realized that since DesertClan has been short on prey, every cat had grown weaker.

Dropping the mouse she was carrying, Squirrelpaw leapt at the fox, yowling as loud as she could. I hope that Hazelpaw and Falconflight heard me, she thought to herself. StarClan, help me!

As Squirrelpaw landed on the fox's back, she raked her claws through its pelt. As it tried to roll over, she dug her claws into its back once more, and then leapt off its back. But she landed awkwardly, and fell onto one side. Suddenly the fox was looming over her, its teeth showing as it snarled. It swiped a paw at her, and she felt pain as the claws raked down her side. Jumping up, she slashed her claws across its muzzle. It lashed out again, sending Squirrelpaw flying into a bramble bush. With her out of the way, the fox turned back to Reedfur, who was lying on his side.

"No!" Squirrelpaw yowled. She struggled with the bramble bush, and felt it tearing her pelt more, but eventually pulled free of it. As she raced over to intercept the fox, she saw a streak of light brown tabby fur hurl into the clearing and slam into the fox's side, knocking it over.

"Falconflight!" Squirrelpaw gasped. Then another cat ran from behind a tree and into the clearing. Recognizing her sister, she ran over to her. Hazelpaw was helping Reedfur to stand up. "Hazelpaw! What are you and Falconflight doing here?" she asked as she ran over to help her mentor.

Before Hazelpaw could say anything, Falconflight yowled in triumph as the fox ran into the undergrowth. He padded over to join them. Squirrelpaw noted that he had only a couple scratches on his foreleg from the fox.

"Is Reefur alright?" he asked Squirrepaw. "What happened?" As he spoke, he turned to Reedfur. "We need to get him back to camp now," he mewed. "Tell me what happened as we head back."

Falconflight supported Reedfur on one side, while Squirrelpaw supported him on the other. Hazelpaw stood behind the three, to make sure the fox didn't come back.

"Will he be alright?" Squirrelpaw asked in a small voice. Most of his scratches looked pretty deep, but only a couple were still bleeding.

"I don't know," Falconflight admitted after a moment. "I hope he will be, as most of his injuries don't look too deep."

Suddenly Squirrelpaw remembered the mouse she had caught. "Falconflight, before I saw Reefur get attacked, I caught a mouse. Should I go back to the clearing to get it? We went out to hunt, and then I caught the mouse. But Reedfur wasn't where he was before I left, and then I found him in the clearing fighting the fox." Tears welled up in her eyes as she thought about it.

"We'll send a patrol out to get the mouse later. Hazelpaw and I also caught some prey too before we heard you, though we only caught a sparrow and a vole. Or Hazelpaw, do you want to take my place while I go get the fresh-kill?"

Hazelpaw nodded. "Sure, I'll help Reedfur." They stopped to let Hazelpaw switch places with her mentor.

"I want you to head straight back to camp." He ordered them. "Take Reefur straight to Goldenleaf, and have your scratches checked out. I'll be back soon." With that, he whipped around and dashed into the undergrowth.

"Let's go," Squirrelpaw murmured. And together they padded through the forest to the camp's entrance.