Chapter 8: The Confrontation
A/N: Yay! The confrontation gets it's own chapter, cause it's awesome.
"Eaglestrike!" Clawfall tensed.
"Clawfall, at last! We see each other plain! Crowhaze, you'll wear a different chain!" Eaglestrike looked into Clawfall's aqua eyes.
"Before you say another word Eaglestrike! Before you chain me up like a slave again! Listen to me, there is something I must do!" He thought of poor Dawnpride's kit.
"This she-cat leaves behind a suffering kit! There is none but me who can intercede! In mercy's name, three days are all I need! Then I'll return, I pledge my word! Then I'll return!" He swore.
"You must think me mad! I've chased you across the years! A cat like you can never change! A cat... Such as you." The gray tabby sneered.
"Believe of me what you will! There is a duty that I'm sworn to do! You know nothing of my life!" He swiped at Eaglestrike, who meowed, "Cats like me can never change! Cats like you can never change!"
"All I did was steal some mice!"
"No, 24601!" He said, clawing at Clawfall's face.
"You know nothing of the world! You would sooner see me dead!" He told the blue-eyed cat.
"My duty's to the code! You have no rights! Come with me, 24601!"
"But not before I see this justice done!" He bared his teeth to the tabby.
"Now the fight has turned itself around! Clawfall is nothing now!" He spat.
"I am warning you Eaglestrike! I'm a stronger cat by far! There is power in me yet! My race is not yet run!"
"Dare you talk to me of crime! And the price you had to pay! Every cat is born in sin! Every cat must choose his way!" Eaglestrike snarled as Clawfall growled back, "I am warning you Eaglestrike, there is nothing I won't dare! If I have to kill you here, I'll do what must be done!"
"You know nothing of Eaglestrike! I was born half-rogue! I was born with scum like you! You are not the only crowfood!"
Then Eaglestrike was pinned down by Clawfall.
"And this I swear to you tonight.." Clawfall muttered to Dawnpride.
"There is no place for you to hide!" Eaglestrike slowly sheathed his claws, knowing it wasn't any use under the strength of this convict.
"Your kit will live within my care.." Clawfall mewed.
"Wherever you may hide away!" He growled, Clawfall's grip tighter.
"And I will raise her to the light.." He promised.
"I swear to you, I will be there!" The black tom and gray tabby meowed.
Then Eaglestrike broke free, and leaped to Clawfall, who ducked, making Eaglestrike unconscious.
Clawfall ran into the forest, going to find Larkkit.