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CHAPTER THREE!!

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Buddha blinked. "S-sure. We'd be honored. Thank you." Firestar dipped his head and padded away, Leafpool following him, as Buddha rushed over to the other Buddies.

"Hey, dude," Mudbud greeted. "Guys, I just took us up on a great offer!" Buddha exclaimed. "We can stay here as long as we please!"

"That's awesome!" Rosebud said.

"Well, as long as I get something to eat..." Budderball mumbled.

"Fine, dawg," B-Dawg replied. Mudbud nodded. "Sounds fine, so long as there's some mud somewhere here. I need another mud bath."

"That's great," a voice said. The pups looked back to see a muscular dark brown tabby tom staring at them with fierce amber eyes. It was Brambleclaw, the ThunderClan deputy. "Seriously, how can you stand to be covered in mud?!" the tom spat before stalking away again. The pups shrugged.

"Man, this place is so tight, dawg! It's all so organized!" B-Dawg pointed out.

"I know! It's really neat to see the way cats behave in the wild!" Rosebud added.

"Well, here's something Budderball won't like," Mudbud muttered, staring at a pile of something in the center of the camp. "I think this is what they eat."

"Food? Where? I'm starved!" Budderball exclaimed, hearing the word 'eat'. He skidded to a halt by the pile. "Ew-kay... is that a squirrel?"

"I was going to take that to the elders, but I suppose you can have it..." a voice said. Spinning around, Mudbud and Budderball saw a small white she-cat with ice-blue eyes looking into the fresh-kill pile.

"Naw, it's cool. We ate before we left," Mudbud said before Budderball could open his mouth. Delicately he picked up the squirrel and dropped it in front of the she-cat. "Here."

"Oh, thanks. I'm Icepaw, by the way," Icepaw said, picking up the squirrel in her mouth.

"I'm Mudbud, and this is Budderball," Mudbud introduced. Icepaw nodded before trotting away.

"Man, do they have any chicken?" Budderball muttered, sifting through the fresh-kill pile. Rosebud sighed, seeing her brother disgusted at the avaliable food. "Come on, Budderball. We need to eat something, and this could be a nice way to learn more about their way of life."

"She has a good point. It is always good to experience things you would not normally do," Buddha added. Budderball sighed. "Alright, alright, yeesh." He picked up a vole and tried to knaw on it. A reddish-brown tabby tom purred in amusement as he walked by.

"That's not how you do it," he said as Icepaw walked over. She cuffed him around the ear. "Foxpaw, don't be that rude!" Turning to the Buddies, she added, "Ignore Foxpaw, my brother. But, he's right, that's not how you do it."

"It's how we usually eat our food," B-Dawg said. Thinking some more, he added, "But, then again, our humans buy us that jank bagged food that's in those little pellets."

"What's a human?" Icepaw asked.

"Well, a human is a creature that walks around on two legs," Rosebud explained. "You've never seen one?"

"Oh, I see enough of them," Icepaw muttered. "We call them Twolegs, and they're really annoying to us. They destroyed our old home, you know, which made all four Clans move here to the lake."

"Wait, there's more than just this ThunderClan thing?" Mudbud asked. Icepaw nodded. "Mm-hm. There's ShadowClan, the night hunters; they live in the pine trees. WindClan are the swift cats; they live out on the moor and chase rabbits. RiverClan is on the opposite side of the lake. They like to eat fish from the streams and lake."

"Wow, everything seems so organized!" Rosebud burst out. Icepaw nodded. "Yeah, it is. I can show you around our territory, though going into another Clan's territory is forrbidden by the warrior code."

"Well, I'd like to see your territory! Lead the way!" Rosebud exclaimed. The female pup followed the white she-cat out of the camp as her brothers and Foxpaw just watched. "Have fun!" Mudbud called at the last second.

"So... want me to show you guys around camp or something?" Foxpaw asked. Mudbud and Buddha shrugged and said in unison, "Sure, why not?"

So Icepaw has befriended Rosebud and it looks like Budderball, Mudbud, Buddha, and B-Dawg just might become friends with Foxpaw. Stay tuned for the next chapter, where actiony things actually happen! Yay! Oh, and don't forget to review!