Warriors: Bio Bomb
Book 1: Alpha
How was September? Cuz mine sucked, a lot. Well, enough griping, time to get to work. By the way, if you have requests for any characters I can put into my story, cat, dog, or otherwise, just let me know. However, what happens to them is completely up to me.
Chapter 5: New Day
"Jet, Sun, is it your wish to join IceClan as Apprentices, and eventually Warriors?" Puddlefoot questioned from his vantage point on the chair. Early morning light seeped in through the windows, but we were all wide awake, and watching the Induction/Apprentice Ceremony of the two cats we rescued the night before.
Jet hardly quivered when he answered loud and clear, "it is."
However, Sun was shaking like a leaf in the wind, and I thought her throat closed up until she softly mewed, "i-it is…"
"Then by the powers given to me as leader of IceClan, I give you your apprentice names. Jet, you shall be known as Jetpaw." The newly named Jetpaw bowed his head, "it has been a long time since we've had an apprentice…Moonheart, you shall mentor Jetpaw."
Moonheart gasped with surprise, but padded forward, "as you wish Puddlefoot." She touched noses with the young black cat, and Puddlefoot turned to Sun.
"Until you earn your Warrior name, you shall be called Sunpaw. Forestshadow, it is time for your first apprentice, pass on all you know to her." The dark cat stalked forward and bent over to touch noses with Sunpaw. She shrank away for a moment, then shot her neck forward and collided painfully with Forestshadow. They both padded back into the crowd, with their eyes watering, and I could hear Mudtail chuckling behind me.
Puddlefoot cleared his throat, and as all went silent, he said, "There is another important matter we must discuss…" He broke off awkwardly, staring at his paws and shuffling them. "Flamefur is…uh…p-pregnant with my kits…" A shocked silence followed that announcement, until Flamefur spoke up.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of, just tell them what needs to be said." She said, annoyance clear in her voice.
The gray cat sighed and nodded, "right, we need another cat to take over the position of Deputy, and I've been thinking long and hard about this." He paused again, and I thought he glanced at me. "I want Iceclaw to take over the position." I nearly passed out, and was about to open my jaws to protest, only to shut them as he continued, "we have a custom, as you should know, to only take cats who have mentored an apprentice for Deputy. However, there are no cats left with that status, and it is only until Flamefur's kits are ready for Apprenticeship. If she still wishes to be Deputy after that, you will step down."
"In that case," I meowed, "I'll do my best."
Puddlefoot led the way out of the shack, and walked behind it. Puzzled, I followed, and he said "you already know what our territory around the dump looks like, so I'm going to show you where we hunt. You didn't think we ate just the rats and dogs did you?"
After about five minutes, we came to the edge of the dump, overlooking a road, at a small copse of trees. Memories of my childhood crashed over me like a wave, and I remembered visiting that spot often. I shook my head to clear my thoughts, and saw Puddlefoot tasting the air. "No dogs, let's go."
He sprinted across the street, and I struggled to keep up. We reached the forest in a heartbeat, and Puddlefoot said "we call this place Mouse Forest. It is small, and it also holds a lot of our prey."
We padded in, and almost instantly I picked up a small scuffling sound. Puddlefoot waved his tail in front of me as a signal to stop, and I obeyed wordlessly. I watched as Puddlefoot stalked forward with deadly precision, and I had barely spotted his target before he leapt and killed it before the creature even had a chance to squeak. "He dropped the mouse at my feet and meowed, "eat up, you'll need your strength for today," I nodded and dug in. It was unusually delicious, and after I finished, Puddlefoot pointed out another one with his tail. "Copy me as best you can, and I'll find out what to teach you."
As stealthily as I could, I crept towards the mouse, but it heard me coming from a few feet away and scurried off. "Apparently, there is much work to be done…" Puddlefoot said, chuckling lowly, and I subconsciously flattened my ears to my head in embarrassment. "Don't worry; I didn't expect you to be the best hunter ever on the first try. Let's start with this."
After what felt like a few hours, we returned home with a modest catch, because I scared off most of the creatures in the forest. Moonheart shrugged when I told her what a miserable job I did today. "How do you think I did on my first trip? Don't worry; you'll get better with practice." We both shared a mouse, and slept close together. I was thankful for the warmth of her fur.
All of my thoughts that night were…muddled. Flashes of obscure thoughts ran through my head like a mad dog, and the main thing I thought about was tomorrow. It should all be revealed, why the world became like this, and who was behind it. I didn't expect such a shocking answer when the blimp went overhead that day…No one did.
Well, that's about it. This is going to be the most peaceful chapter in a while. Almost the entire rest of this book will be filled with action and suspense. Who truly is behind this? Find out in the next chapter, which I'll call Bio-Tech Industries. That's a hint by the way, in case you didn't catch that. Well, later! Oh, and look out for my newest story for Halloween! It'll be a Detective Conan (Or Case Closed for the Americans) fan-fic, the Haunted House Murder Case! In case you're not into that, I've been thinking about writing a fic for Christmas based on Warriors, which I'll start as soon as Long Shadows is released! It'll be a sort of sequel to Burnt Feathers, my JayXCinder fic. Okay, I think that's it, see you soon!