School holidays are over, so I can't post much

Chapter 12

Eaglepaw found himself in a mucky dull forest, the water was black ink and the meadows were ugly. His throat was parched with thirst, it was worth trying out the strange water. He cautiously sniffed the inky water, a horrible stench blew out. Eaglepaw spat in disgust, swallowing the drops of black disgusting water.

Leaving the river to be, he ventured to find his way out of the terrible forest, he found himself walking in circles- a terrible booming voice rang throughout the forest. "What's the matter little coward?" Eaglepaw looked over his shoulder, nothing but thick air.

"What do you want you annoying tick!" He retorted, smacking the dust, a ginger tom appeared in front of him- hatred in his eyes and maroon stripes. Eaglepaw shivered, biting back the words. "S-Scarletstripe," he choked. A terrifying smirk appeared on Scarletstripe's face.

Eaglepaw shrunk back glaring at his great-grandfather, the evil tom bent down, Scarletstripe's claws glinting in the moonlight. "I promise you shall suffer and be tortured very painfully," he hissed, unsheathing his claws.

"W-what?" Eaglepaw yowled, Scarletstripe's evil smirk spread across his face as he trailed into the forest.

"At dawn you shall see one die and one suffer," The tom meowed before disappearing into shadows. Eaglepaw felt a pang in his heart, whatever Scarletstripe was planning was something not good of course.

The murky terrain disappeared in front of him- he felt moss and feathers under his paws and his gaze burning into the den walls. Shadepaw and Tawnypaw were up, focused on grooming themselves, Eaglepaw knew that he had to check on things to see if his clan was perfectly fine. At dawn you shall see one die and one suffer, the blood-curling whispers faint in his mind.

Eaglepaw growled and shook the thought away, "Just a lie," He muttered under his breath. He saw a glimpse of gray and white, was it him or did he see Briarkit peek through a hole? He watched as the she-kit crept through a tiny hole that he never had noticed.

Annoyance prickled in Eaglepaw's pelt, he squeezed through the hole- managing to struggle through. Twotail was pawing at the river- scooping a fish effortlessly. He did not notice the she-cat casting a narrowed glance at him. "Where are you going?" Twotail demanded. Eaglepaw recited what he saw.

Without another word, Eaglepaw trudged on- Twotail hot on his heels. A scream bounced off on the grass- echoing for a few heart-beats. Lying a foxlength a front of him was a she-kit- Briarkit, lying next to her was a black and white tom- Stripepelt. Their pelts were matted with blood. Scarletstripe was right- dead right.

He let out a wail and hurled himself beside Briarkit- silently sobbing and cursing himself. Stripepelt seemed emotionless but he shifted twice, "S-Scarletstripe..." The dying tom whispered, between Stripepelt's claws were a tuft of ginger fur. Twotail put a paw on Stripepelt's side.

"We'll help you I promise," Twotail whispered, Stripepelt weakly shrugged.

"Briarkit must be healed, a kit's life is most important," Stripepelt choked, refusing Twotail's offer, the tom closed his eyes and drifted in a long slumber.

Eaglepaw cast glances with Twotail, "May he have a happy hunt in Starclan." He meowed, gently lifting Briarkit's frail body. Twotail dragged Stripepelt's body, forgetting the fish that she'd caught.

Flutter shyly walked to Alder and looked up, "C-can I play?" She stammered, Alder grinned evilly and called out his rude friends. Daisy gave her a mean sweet smile.

"Of course, and it'll be fun," She added awkwardly, "For us." Flutter's face seemed perplexed, she was obviously overwhelmed by the older kits.

"D-did I say something wrong?" Flutter stammered, inching back a few steps. Vine appeared, Willow beside him, all six kits cast glances at each other- a smirk on each of their faces.

Alder rose his tail, which Flutter guessed a sign for something and she was right, "Flutter kitten, Flutter kitten stupid as an eagle brain!" They continuously sang, giggling rudely. Blaze and Winter seemed annoyed that their sister had been teased.

Blaze didn't hesitate to leap at Alder, Alder stopped singing and fought back- Blaze was still powerful- despite the age difference. The shouting had woke Jasmine up, much to her relief. "Blaze what are you doing?" Jasmine scolded, Flutter flinched and spoke up quickly.

"It wasn't his fault!" Flutter squealed, "It was..." She trailed off as she stared at the bully, she didn't want to be hurt again. Jasmine ignored her, and ran to Blaze, pulling him away. Flutter cast a glance at Winter, her brother seemed annoyed with Alder and his 'bully' friends' triumphant faces.

Flutter quickly leaped to her mother's side, huddling away from Alder. Blaze let out a snicker and settled on a haystack, Flutter noticed Timber sitting next to her, his fur bristling as he stared at the gang of kits.

Rainpaw was overjoyed with her catch of prey, slowly she walked over to the hay den, her gaze caught Flutter who was playing with a moss ball with her littermates.

Just then she caught a glimpse of Alder and his friends, each had a mischievous smirk on their faces. Blaze snarled, flexing his claws. Rainpaw was growing impatient, she hoped that the three young kits would grow and start to walk but it seemed Starclan let things go the normal way.

Sparkpaw greeted her, helping her carry prey to the sleepy Jasmine and Rowan, after she left the two cats to thank her and start chowing down.

For a few heartbeats Rainpaw thought she'd saw a badger but snickered in an anoyance as she found it was a pile of black and white rocks. She was tired, a nap would do.

Shadepaw gleefully rolled in the grass, the scent of Caveclan was close. It wouldn't hurt to check Petalpaw, he silently padded off, Twotail was nowhere to be seen so he guessed he got to enjoy a tad of free time. Petalpaw was alone sniffing for prey, much to Shadepaw's relief, it wasn't soon before the she-cat spotted him.

"Shadepaw! What are you doing?" Petalpaw exclaimed softly, Shadepaw grinned and touched her shoulder with his tail.

"It wouldn't hurt would it? Just to spend time together?" Shadepaw meowed, Petalpaw purred and nudged Shadepaw. There was dull silence before Petalpaw bounded off.

Just then Shadepaw heard a growl, "Great I hope I don't get lost this time," The gruff voice ran out around the clearing. Shadepaw flexed his claws as the stranger appeared, fox! Letting out a cry Shadepaw pounced, feeling his claws land on the patch if ginger fur, he felt himself being thrown off.

"You almost killed me there!" The 'fox' snapped.

"A talking fox?!" Shadepaw exclaimed, his eyes wide as the moon. He let his fur lay flat against his neck as he realized it was a harmless she-cat kittypet.

The kittypet let out a snort of disbelief, "How can a fox talk? Do they teach wild crazy cats to be murderers?" She exclaimed.

"Kittypets like you aren't welcome here so leave!" Shadepaw retorted, the kittypet snorted and threw her head to her side.

"Name's Fox by the way," The kittypet muttered before fleeing into the darkness, Shadepaw watched, dumbfounded that such a stupid thing could happen right in front of his eyes.

He started a start journey to home, only to hear a thin wail in his direction. Curiously, Shadepaw gathered pace, pausing at the entrance. Lying in the clearing was Stripepelt, deadly silent. Flightfeather didn't move, her eyes grave. Twotail and Eaglepaw were left of the body.

"How could you let this happen?!" Flightfeather screeched, reaching the end of her tether. Wavestar cast a sharp look at Flightfeather.

"You have no right to blame them," Wavestar comforted the stricken medicine cat, "You still have a life to save." His tail pointing to the limp body of Briarkit, Shadepaw jumped in shock.

Flightfeather said nothing, turning to work on Briarkit. Shadepaw padded over to Eaglepaw, "What happened."

"Scarlet-" Eaglepaw began, but was greeted by a warning glare from Fishleap- much to Shadepaw's confusion, Eaglepaw continued, "We found Stripepelt and Briarkit by the stream, Stripepelt said that Briarkit had to be saved and then he died," Eaglepaw croaked.

Shadepaw sighed and looked at Starclan, why? He asked the cats hiding beneath the bright blue sky.

I do not own Fox, she belongs to Ravenflight!