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Seapaw planted her right paw ever-so-gently before her.
With slanted eyes she focused on the four mice barely a half tail-length away. "One more step." The smallest mouse froze, its whiskers fidgeting and its seed-shaped eyes moving slowly around. Seapaw tightened her grip on the ground and launched herself foreward, landing both forepaws on two mice tails each, allowing her prey try their luck at tugging themselves free. She released a paw and scored them all before they could run for their lives.
Seapaw snatched them with her mouth, letting the mice carelessly dangle from her jaws as she dug a tiny hole in the ground beneath her. She dropped them into earth and heaped soil over the still-warm bodies.
Seapaw glanced around, drinking in the smells of everything around her. "RABBIT!" She squealed in her kit-like delight. A sudden thumping of paws stole the grin right off her face as she realised she screamed too loud. "No! No don't go!!"
Seapaw called sheepishly, as if she could even stop the fleeing rodent.
She took off after the rabbit, jaws slightly open as she caught its scent. Soon, the scent flooded her lungs with each labored breath. Her eyes drove into her target as she caught a glimpse of it. But she completely forgot about the rabbit as soon as a heavy, sweet-like scent smacked her squarely in the face. "Oh no...ThunderClan!" She resisted the urge to claw her face to shreds when two ThunderClan cats came into view.
Instead, she dropped to the floor and lay completely still, thankful for the breezes carrying their scents to her.
"Everyone says we look decent together." One of them purred, a voice so thick and sweet it made Seapaw think that cat had stuck honey in its throat.
"Who's everyone?" Seapaw didn't have to see the puzzled cat to know it was Riverpaw.
"The entire Clan! I'm sorry if it sounds like...I'm pushing you to like me...but...I really love you." The thick and sweet voice mewed sincerely.
"Cloverpaw..." "So that's Cloverpaw!" Seapaw muttered to herself. "Don't you think since we're just apprentices, we should be friends and not think about relationships yet?"
"Yes, you're right, I just wanted to tell you what I just told you--Do you smell that?"
"Seapaw!"
"Who's Seapaw?"
"Uhh...Hi Riverpaw..." Seapaw replied, wincing at her own voice when it came out as a mouse-high squeak. "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention and I just...chased a rabbit into your territory." She rose feebly from her hiding place.
As she did so, she was almost whacked with Cloverpaw's stunning green eyes. Her contrasting, fire-ginger fur almost made her look like a StarClanner. She wouldn't stand a chance against the gorgeous Lilypaw, but she was still beautiful.
Riverpaw seemed to be examining an earthworm on the floor as his gaze went to the ground. His head bobbed back up with his mouth trembling. A few hearbeats later, soft, singing laughter fell from his lips. Riverpaw's magical gray eyes smiled along with his laughs.
Cloverpaw gave Seapaw a hard stare.
Seapaw was weighing her options. Should she stay, just to apologize some more and beg them not to turn her in? Or should she just run back and be done with it?
She decided to just run away, it was easier to do.
But as Seapaw was about to whirl around and flee, Riverpaw padded by her, brushing his fur lightly against her pelt.
Seapaw forgot to watch where he was going. As his body barely swept across her own, her senses stood straight up and grew more alert then it needed to be. A small spark of emotion raced up and down her spine, stretching to her paws, tail, and even her entire head. Everything was tingling pleasently on her fur. She could hear her heart beating faster then usual, and perhaps even louder.
"There's your rabbit." Riverpaw broke into Seapaw's near breathless moment, poking a paw into a mess of brambles that was behind her. "I thought I smelled rabbit blood, and I was right."
Cloverpaw trotted after him, tail swiveling gracefully. "Now that you've found a ShadowClanner's rabbit, why not send her home with it right now?"
Seapaw wanted to stay near Riverpaw, yet she yeanred to run back to camp and hold on to the remaining wisps of the strange feeling. Her ice-coated, sky blue eyes met a pair of dancing gray.
When their gazes locked, Riverpaw turned away and nodded weakly. "You should go home before you get in trouble."
000
"Why do you stink of ThunderClan?" Morningpaw demanded, sniffing her sister's fur.
"I chased a rabbit into their territory." Seapaw murmured. It was the truth...she had raced carelessly into ThunderClan.
"Whatever. Starsky wants to see you in her den, so c'mon, move!"
"Wait wait, Starsky...not Sorrowstar?"
"Yes Seapaw, I want to see you."
Seapaw tilted her head upwards, just to see the medicine cat glance down at her.
"Let's go into my den." Starsky meowed, flicking her tail to indicate that Morningpaw could leave and that Seapaw was to follow her. "How's Carolbreeze?" The pearl-gray apprentice asked as her forepaws entered the medicine cat den
"Still got memory loss." Starsky sighed heavily, sinking her head into her paws. "But that's not the reason why I asked you to come. Although its related." She paused to see if Seapaw was listening. "Three other cats have recieved snake bites too...but it's not in our Clan...one in each other Clan...I found that out a half-moon ago when I met with the others to go to the Moonpool. But I never told anyone until now."
Seapaw leaped to her paws, about to open her mouth for a remark.
"They all lost their memory." Starsky interrupted. "And, getting to the point, I want you to tell me all about the Hooded Snake and the pain of its fangs."
Seapaw withered back to a sitting position. "Well...The Hooded Snake had an immense, stretched out head thingy, with wierd, glaring golden eyes. And...and it was pretty big...umm..." She squinted her eyes, trying to peer back into the moment of the event. "It had scales of green, yellow, and red. It had pretty sharp--"
"Did you say green-yellow-red? All those colors?"
"Yeah...what of it...?"
"I've never heard of a Hooded Snake that looked like that. And believe me, I know their appearance all too well."
Seapaw stared at Starsky. That sentence had grabbed the breath right out of her.
"M-maybe it-t was--maybe...a n-new type?"
"I don't think it was just an ordinary new type...it was magical..." Starsky muttered the last three words to herself, although Seapaw heard it. "Continue with the pain of the bite."
"It was like...fire consuming my leg, like it had been twisted millions of times, as if had been torn apart, piece by piece, ever-so-slow. Then suddenly I couldn't feel my leg, and I think at that time I became unconcious."
"I see...thank you for the information...you may leave..."
Seapaw dipped her head respectfully before running from the den.
Starsky's reaction was making her cringe with horrible thoughts and possibilities...what was happening recently?
Awww...Riverpaw and Seapaw...but the snake bite(s)...?
