Warriors of the Leaf
By: Deolureium
Chapter 1
The call of the Wild
She woke up, and only seen a forest. Her eyes blinking in the mornings light, as she slowly rose to her paws. 'Where are we?' she thought glancing around, and seeing strange cats around. Also, did she seem.. closer to the ground?
She seen one of the cats stir, it was a lovely dark brown pelt. She loved that colour, it almost looked like wet dirt. "Where am I?" the cat mewed. How she was able to understand was beyond her. "Who are you? And why am I talking to a stupid cat?"
"Nicole?"
"Ariel?"
"Yeah.. You look like wet dirt."
"You look like... Actually your pelt is very nice.."
"Thank you, sorry for the wet dirt, although it is true."
"Who are they?"
"I'm not sure, wake one of them up." Ariel stood up on her four paws and padded over to a short hair. She could hardly make out the colour since it was in the tall grass. Nicole went to another short haired. It looked brown.
"Hey," Ariel whispered, prodding the cat. "Wake up, before your chicken feed."
"Huh? What?" the she-cat as Ariel just figured out, got up groggily.
"Welcome to the animal kingdom, you mangy mutt!" Ariel purred, messing with the cat.
"Who you calling a skank?"
"I called you a mutt, you called yourself that," Ariel purred.
"Shut up," the short hair hissed. "Or I'll punch your lights out!"
"Easy, I didn't know you were so sensitive." Ariel said and walked to another cat.
"Two more minutes, mom."
"Lori?"
"Ariel?"
"Hey, long time no see stranger." Ariel purred.
"This one's, Rebecca," Nicole said and padded over to the two cats.
"Rebecca?"
"Taylor?"
"Ariel."
"Nicole."
"Lori."
"Now that we all know each other, how did we get here?" Ariel asked, looking at the five cats around her.
"I don't know," Nicole said, and looked around. "But it sure is nice here."
"Yeah, much better then Kamloops actually." Lori mewed.
"You live in Kamloops?" Taylor said disgusted.
"Who asked you, you live in Hope."
"Oh yeah, Lilloette breath!" Taylor hissed at Rebecca.
"Chill!" Ariel meowed, "I've had enough with fighting, I get enough of it at home. Now, we either fucking fight, or find a way out of this mess!"
"I'm with Ariel on this one," Lori said siding with her friend.
"Me too, little sister, and.. big sister." Nicole said.
"What ever," Taylor said annoyed. "So what's the big plan, genius?"
"I wouldn't call myself a genius, but thanks," Ariel purred and glanced around once more.
"That's it!" Taylor called out hissing, as she jumped at Ariel. Nicole, and Lori dodged out of the way, but Ariel stayed where she was, and bravely got ready to fight back.
A golden tom with black splotches watched the group of six cats, and seen one of them attack the other. He seen that the long haired she-cat could take care of herself, the way she fights was almost.. Ninja like.
"What's the statues?"
"Those six have no idea of how they got here either, Leader-sama, hm." the tom said not looking away from the scrapping cats. "The long haired seems to know how to fight though, she took down the short hair with no problem, hm."
"Are we going to have any more trouble from you?" Ariel hissed at Taylor, and watched as Taylor crawled back to her spot glaring. "Thought not."
"So what are we going to do, oh fearless leader?" Taylor hissed. Ariel sighed, and thought for a moment. "Well?"
"As for how we got here, I'm not sure. But what we are going to do, is not fight with one another. Are we clear?" Ariel mewed, and looked at each and every one of them.
"Yes." they said, with a nod.
"Good," Ariel said with a nod back. "First of all, let's go find some other cats and see where we are. I'm sure humans can't understand cat."
"No shit," Taylor hissed. "Well, lets go already!" Taylor stood up, her tail in the air.
"Lead the way, stranger." Ariel said and also stood up, but kept her tail low to the ground.
"Fine, we go this way." Taylor said and turned tail and marched onward towards some bushes. She stopped short when another cat walked out. "Who are you." she hissed, head low to the ground, and her fur standing on end.
"Even I know your not the leader of the group, black hair, come forth." Ariel didn't trust this cat much, but did as asked.
"What do you want, ginger?" Ariel purred, and seen that it got no reaction at all.
"Do you know where we are?" the ginger tom asked, and Ariel sat down curling her long tail around her paws.
"No, but you are free to join us and find out where exactly we are."
"No, thank you." With that the ginger turned around and walked through the bush where he came from.
"What was that about?" Nicole asked Lori.
"I don't know." Ariel strained her ears to see if the cat would talk to other cats that might be near by.
"You're right, Deidara. She doesn't know where we are."
"Well, what are we to do, hm?"
"We could follow them."
"Shut it, Tobi, hm!" Ariel got up them and padded through the bush, poking her head through and seen an assembled circle of cats. One cat focused their eyes on her, while she looked at the different coloured cats.
"Hello," the one staring at her said. "Shouldn't you be looking for other cats?"
"I've found other cats, but I don't think they would tell me where we are." she replied to the sleek black tom, with red eyes.
"Hey, what did you find?" Nicole asked, crawling through the bush, only to stop short when she seen the cats have now turned towards them.
"I've found cats. But it seems as if they don't know where we are, since Ginger over there came and sought us out."
"Uh, right.. I'll go tell the others.." with that Nicole turned tail and jumped back into the bush to the other side. Ariel crawled out, and sat down, curling her long tail around her paws.
"How did you guys get here?" she asked. She seen that none of them didn't want to answer, so she got up, and started for her own group on the other side. "Alright, then, see ya round."
"Wait!" Ariel stopped and turned her head towards the one that has spoken. "Who are you?" a dark ginger asked.
"I'm not sure anymore," was the reply Ariel gave and jumped through the bush. "Well that was a total bust," she said and glanced around, seeing no cat. "And you ran off.."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that, trespasser!" Ariel turned to the voice and seen it was a white cat with some golden splotches. The tom hissed, at her. "I chased them out, just like I'm going to do to you, if you don't leave right now!"
"I think I'll stay right here."
"Just leave!" she heard Lori call from a tree. "They are strong! They beat Taylor!"
"They?" Ariel caught the key word, and glanced around and noticed the eyes staring at her. She stood up on her hind legs and got a better look around her. Indeed she spotted three other cats with the white tom.
"How could they beat Taylor? I can hardly stand my ground against her," Ariel muttered and seen the white one jump at her, she used a paw, to guide him out of her way, and stepped back. Another cat jumped at her and she ducked out of the way, and swiped at one that was aiming for her muzzle. She got out of the way of another cat and jumped over the white tom. That all happened in fourteen seconds, she had to admit that they moved fast, but she was well trained in defence in her home town that she didn't have much of a problem.
All cats jumped at her, all at once, until a call stopped them. They were so close that they could bite her whisker off.
"What is the meaning of all this?" a black she-cat mewed as she walked towards them, from the forest line.
"This is an intruder, we were trying to chase her off," the white tom said.
"Tried is right," Ariel muttered and took a few steps back to give herself some room.
"Who are you?" the black she-cat asked.
"It's rude to ask for someone's name before giving your own."
"I'm Tallstar, leader of Fire Clan." the black she-cat said. Ariel turned towards the other cats and waited.
"Talk!" the white tom hissed. She kept her silence, and continued to wait for them to give their names.
"I'm Mousepaw." a little grey tom said.
"Ashtail." the voice belonged to a light grey she-cat. She nodded to them and turned to the white tom whom yet to have a name.
The white tom growled lightly, "Mossriver," he said still looking like he could fight. "Now, who are you, before I claw your pelt off."
"I'm with no name." Ariel purred.
"You.. don't have a name?" Tallstar asked, "Did Star Clan strip you of your name?"
"Star Clan?" Ariel questioned. With that confirming it, that she did not belong to a clan, and did not know of Star Clan, Tallstar thought.
Just then, Lori, and Nicole came over and stood by Ariel. She didn't pay them any mind, since they came back after the fight was called off. She now knew that she couldn't trust them to watch her back, and that they were cowards. 'I bet Rebecca stayed with Taylor,' Ariel thought bitterly. Mossriver hissed at her, and Ariel showed her raised claws.
"Well, cat with no name," Tallstar spoke, breaking Mossriver's sight from Ariel to the leader. "Who are they?"
"I don't know," Ariel said, "They just showed up and stood beside me."
"I see.."
"We chased them off just like the other two," Mossriver hissed once more.
"We didn't mean to leave you.."
"I'm sorry, I only talk to cats I know," Ariel said, and went on to ignoring them. "You were saying, Tallstar?"
"You are quite interesting, no name," Tallstar mewed, and looked at the two cats beside her. "As for you two, I'm not interested in kittypets." she looked at them more closely, and turned. "No name, you are to come with us. The other two get them off our territory." Ariel followed closely to Tallstar and seen that Nicole, and Lori were chased off. 'Sorry, you guys, but we need to split up to get better ground.' she thought and the white tom followed closely behind her. Ariel watched as Tallstar started to move faster along the marked path. She folded her ears back and started to pick up her pace. Then Tallstar broke out into a run, and she followed along. They stopped near a creek, and she quickly glanced around and then back at Tallstar. She was across the creek her stomach, and her four paws were a darker color. She took a slight step back and jumped across with ease.
"I see you won't be too troublesome to train." Tallstar purred and moved on once more, with the same speed as before. She kept up very well, then Tallstar, and Mossriver jumped on a log and jumped off the other side. She took it in one go. She couldn't understand how she could do this, but it felt as if someone was helping her. She looked up and seen the two cats run off. Ariel looked to the sky and silently said 'Thank you' then ran off to catch up with Tallstar, and Mossriver.
Deep within the darkness, lies in wait, a girl named Deolureium.
Sin: I thought I lost this with my other files of my updated stories... luckily I found them ^w^' Also, this is the last time I'm changing my name. I'll forever be known as Deolureium. I've got this name from one of my original stories that I'm working on. I'll now be on fictionpress as Deolureium, so far, I've only got one yaoi story... I'll be working on that more then my stories here. Ah, for my in activeness, my internet kept cutting out on me, hopefully it won't do that anymore as I update more of my stories. See ya round ^w^