Chapter Nine
The cats set off in search of food. This turned out to be harder than expected. Cloverpaw wouldn't eat anything from a dumpster, and all the rats and pigeons were gone, which eventually let the cat's to a place that smelled of fish. The place was near the river, and twolegs swarmed all over it. The fish themselves were caught in clear tendril mesh's."Oh wow" Said Cloverpaw " I would eat one of those huge twoleg fish any day" "Now that you mention it" said Wild "If we got one of those fish we could take it back for Stormflower!"
"That would be great" said Pebble "But how are we going to get one? Those twolegs are tricky about their fish." "Me and Pebble have lived here for seasons, and we've never been able to get one." "Oh I have a plan" said Wild coyliy."
A short time later, the cat's were cornered by an angry twoleg with a large fish in their jaws, after they had ducked behind piles of fish and snuck up on the pile they wanted. Everything was going according to plan until Cloverpaw tripped right into the twolegs line of sight "Umm Wild." she said "About that plan you had? "Oh uh RUN!" Wild shouted.
The cat's took off through the harbor with the angry twoleg on their tail. Soon more twolegs had joined in on the chase. The heavy fish weighed the cat's down and they weren't used to running in unison. Then Wild had an idea, she leaped up on a mesh full of fish and cut it open with her claw, the fish went spilling out prompting enraged yowls from the twolegs. Wild run back to the group. The distraction gave the cats enough time to escape.
By the time they managed to get back to the den the sun was setting. Both wild and Cloverpaw entered to den, dragging the fish. Stormflower squealed happily "Oh how did you get it" she said "It was all Wild's idea" said Cloverpaw happily "When the twolegs were chasing us, she knocked a pile of fish in front of them and we escaped."
"You know, Willow and Pebble had schemed, for days trying to get a fish" said Stormflower "At one point they tried climbing on the those trendle mesh things to get one. Willow got tangled so bad that a twoleg had to help her free. Than she clawed him in the face and bolted." Grasswhisker laughed and said "Stormflower's been telling me so many stories from her time here, but Wild there was something she wanted to ask you."
Stormflower nodded and said "The twoleg camp is a nice place, but I don't want my kit's to grow up here. I want them to grow up in the forest like me and Grasswhisker did. So please,will you let me take my kit's to live with you?" "I want to come to!" Willow said bouncing "Stormflower's my best friend, I would never leave her." "I guess this means I coming to?" Said Pebble giving a mock sigh "Only if you want to find a new hunting partner" giggled Willow. "Now wait" said Wild 'I haven't decided yet if you can come to the valley with us." "But you're going to say yes, or face my wrath" said Cloverpaw screwing her face up adorably. "Oh fine than." Wild said relenting. Then Cloverpaw noticed the kits "They're so cute" she squealed looking at them. Wild looked at the kits to, one was a large brown tabby tom-the one who had gotten stuck-and the other was a tortoiseshell she-cat. "Thank you." said Stormflower "I'm going to call the tom Beaverkit, and the she-cat Emberkit" "They're beautiful dear but you need to eat" said Grasswhisker pushing the fish to Stormflower.
"Grasswhisker's right" said Cloverpaw " You need to keep your milk rich for the kits." " And you need some rest for tomorrow's journey" said Wild pushing a reluctant Cloverpaw out of the den. Where she sall Willow and Pebble huddled under a twoleg discard hole. She and Cloverpaw joined them, and fell asleep to the quiet rumbling of twoleg place.