Disclaimor: I do not own warriors, things would be very questionable if I did.
Daisyfur clawed at the stone wall. "Let me out!" She shouted out fearfully. What she had done to get trapped here was an accident! So she'd accidentally killed a cat. Does that mean I deserved to be trapped with only StarClan knows how many killers and psychopaths? She wondered silently.
"It's no use." A voice said from behind scaring Daisyfur more than she ever thought
possible.
Daisyfur stared at the stranger fearfully. He was a black tom with a white streak running down his flank. He was and probably is a killer! Daisyfur thought silently.
The tom took a step closer and Daisyfur ran for it without stopping to hear whatever the tom had been about to say. Hardly knowing where she was going until she got her haunches caught in a bramble bush. Daisyfur gave a yowl of alarm and pain as thorns dug into her hindquarters. She struggled to free herself only causing thorns to dig in deeper. With a gasp of pain she gave up and collapsed. Done in by a bramble bush? Everything is deadly here! I'll starve to death or be killed by another cat and it'll be all because of these wretched brambles! She thought silently.
A rustle in the bushes brought her out of thought but she didn't react. "Just get it over with." Daisyfur said aloud to the cat that had come, she wasn't going to try to sound strong. It was as plain as day that she was stuck, in other words a sitting duck.
"Do you need help?" Daisyfur was surprised to hear those words, and a kit's voice at that. She looked over towards the direction she'd heard the voice. It was a worried looking silver kit with black stripes and piercing icy blue eyes. It startled Daisyfur that a kit would have eyes like that already.
Where is her mother? Daisyfur wondered silently as she realizedd the kit was alone.
"Do you need help?" The kit, probably four moons old repeated.
"Uh, yeah." Daisyfur murmured but the kit seemed to hear and came over and started pulling tendrils out of the way, steadily loosing Daisyfur until she was able to pull herself out, but not without losing tufts of her blue and white fur.
"Thanks." Daisyfur said with an embarrassed chest lick.
"No problem." The kit said with a slightly polite nod, awkward as if she wasn't sure if that was a proper movement or not.
Daisyfur looked the kit up and down and noticed a slash mark on the kit's neck and shuddered wondering who would do that to a kit. "Err… not to be rude but where's your mother? I'm sure she's worried about you." Daisyfur said, the last thing she wanted was to have a killer mother after her.
"Why would she be worried about me?" The kit asked with a confused blink.
"Well you're out alone." Daisyfur pointed out.
"Is that wrong?" The kit asked still looking confused.
"You know what? Never mind." Okay so kits roam free in a place full of killers? That figures. Daisyfur thought privately, wondering what else was wrong about this place.
"What's your name?" The kit asked curiosity shone in her eyes.
"Uh, Daisyfur." Daisyfur answered uncertainly then nodded to herself. "Yeah, Daisyfur." She said more firmly. Truth be told, she wasn't sure she should use her clan name anymore seeing as the clan had banished her to this place.
"My name's Shatter. Daisyfur… not many cats I've heard of with names like that." The kit said rather thoughtfully for a kit.
"I would hope not! Clan cats are supposed to be loyal to their clans!" Daisyfur said with a certain fire in her voice.
"Clan cats? You mean like the one in the legend of White Tree?" Shatter asked curiously looking up at Daisyfur with wide and curious eyes.
Daisyfur was just realizing that the kit was fairly massive for one with that pitch of voice. "The legend of White Tree?" Daisyfur asked very confused as to what the kit was talking about.
"Yeah. Don't you know the legend of White Tree? It's about a clan cat that gets trapped here and finds a tree with white leaves. He bites a root and falls asleep. When he wakes up he says that the tree was like another Moon Pool, whatever that means." Shatter summarized the tale, you could tell because she didn't say what happened inbetween or after.
Like another Moon Pool? Daisyfur wondered quietly, if she could maybe find it and get help from Starclan... "Do you know where this tree is?"
The question seemed to take Shatter off guard but she answered anyways. Kits always answered if they could. "Under Bloody Lake."
"Under?" Daisyfur echoed confused as to how someone could know of such a tree under the lake.
"Yeah in a cave and everything." Shatter said noticing Daisyfur's confusion. "There's an entrance and everything."
"Do you know where the entrance is?" Daisyfur asked even though she had doubts the kit could give anymore information on the subject.
"Of course! It's just behind my den." Shatter answered like most kits would.
"Can you take me there?" Daisyfur asked realizing immediately it was a bad question from shatter's reaction.
Shatter's eyes widened as much as any eyes Daisyfur had ever seen stretched before in fear. In the kit's eyes Daisyfur could see the faintest traces of movement. Of a huge black she cat lashing out. Daisyfur knew now who would injure a kit, and who the kit's mother was. And this cat wasn't nice… this cat was just plain evil.
Before Daisyfur could say something Shatter ran faster than any cat about Shatter's age Daisyfur had seen before and disappeared into the foliage.
Curiouser and curiouser, no? (Yeah, love Alice in wonderland) I'm sure you all wonder what will happen now that Daisyfur kind of knows the story of White Tree. All I have to say is, read, and if it's not up yet, wait.