Taking Flight

by MudkipStar

The dragon cats, cats with dragon wings and bladed dragon tails, have been hiding themselves from the Clans for a very long time. When they reveal themselves to get the Clan cats to stop hunting on their territory, it changes everything. No characters from the books appear in this story.

5. Chapter 5

A/N: I apologize so much for how short this chapter is! I love reading longer chapters, unfortunately they aren't so easy to write. Hopefully it will gain length soon.

As the Dragonwing patrol approached the camp, they started to hear screeching coming from it. They looked at each other and, by unspoken agreement, sped up. When they reached the camp they saw that the twenty one angry hawks had found fifteen more angry hawks and were now attacking the Dragonwings' home. Since there were only about twenty Dragonwings, including the five kits and three elders, they were badly outnumbered, even though one adult dragon cat could easily fight a hawk. They needed help.

The patrol landed, and when Skystar assessed the situation, she knew they had no chance on their own against 36 angry hawks. She whirled to face the two apprentices. "Fly back to ThunderClan as fast as you can. Tell them we're under attack and need help!" she ordered them.

"But we want to help!" Stormpaw protested.

"You haven't been trained to fight, and if we don't get backup you won't be around to help anyone. Go!"

The two apprentices leaped into the air and flew towards ThunderClan as fast as their wings would take them. The three grown cats took off and threw themselves into the battle.

Reedfeather saw a hawk flying towards the space under the rocks where the kits were hiding. She dived and hovered in between the hawk and its objective, snarling. It attacked her, and they wrestled in the air, screeching. Eventually the hawk broke free and flew off, too hurt to continue. Reedfeather shrieked in triumph and landed to catch her breath, looking around to find her next target.

Just then, she was distracted as, on the ground, Sunnypaw and Stormpaw burst from the trees. They were followed by a patrol which seemed to Reedfeather to contain the whole of ThunderClan. Reedfeather yowled in relief that help had come. Then she felt a piercing pain in her side and everything went black.

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