Chapter three is here. This chapter, like I said twice last chapter, will be longer.
At the end of last chapter, Frostpaw was being attacked by an orange tom because she
crossed the FireClan border on accident.
"No!" Snowpaw yowled, but he couldn't do anything but watch the outstretched claws
descending toward his sister's white head... With a shout, Eaglewing bowled into the orange cat.
"Get behind me, Frostpaw!" she ordered. Whimpering, Frostpaw shrank behind her mentor.
Eaglewing circled the tom, hissing. "Why did you attacked her, Flameheart? You knew she was an
innocent apprentice, accidentally crossing the border." The tom, Flameheart, shrugged. "How do
we know that? She could've been spying." Eaglewing looked confused. "We?" Flameheart raised
his tail. Three cats stepped out from the bushes. One, the closest to Frostpaw's attacker, was a
dull-colored she-cat. The other two were toms. One was pure white except for his paws,
which were stained red from the blood of the mouse that he carried in his mouth. The
other was barely an apprentice, looking just older than the littermates. The white cat dropped his mouse.
"Will we have to get Reedstar involved?" he questioned. "Again," Eaglewing began. "Frostpaw is
a new apprentice, named earlier today. She was just curious, and she ran across the border
without knowing." Flameheart spoke again. "Surely she smelled the scent marks."
Frostpaw's mentor stiffened. "Do you think, while running at full speed, she could've smelled
those markers?" The brown she-cat began a sentence, fire in her eyes, but Flameheart flicked his
tail across the other cat's mouth. "Stop. We're done here." And with that, the party of four cats
trudged away. Eaglewing turned to Frostpaw. The apprentice shrunk back, expecting
Eaglewing to berate her, but Eaglewing stepped forward with a gentle look in her eyes.
"Frostpaw, it's ok. Just listen to your mentors next time and you'll be fine." Surprised,
the white she-cat nodded. Skypelt began to speak. "As you now well know, this is the
border where LightningClan territory touches FireClan territory. They're pretty
secretive, and apparently paranoid. Flameheart usually wouldn't act like that..."
Snowpaw's mentor trailed off. "Let's go to the next Clan's border." The four cats
walked back along the path, entering the clearing again. Suddenly, Eaglewing raced
down the hill leading to the tree. "Catch me if you can!" she yowled. Snowpaw purred,
and ran after her. He could hear the other cats following him. Eaglewing stumbled, and
Snowpaw sprinted past her. There was a patch of grass in the leaves near the tree, and
Snowpaw skidded on it, slamming into the tree. He caught his breath and looked up.
The tree was much bigger than when the cats had seen it from the top of the hill.
The three she-cats walked up behind him. Frostpaw gasped. "It's giant!" she whispered.
Skypelt nodded. "It's great, isn't it?" The cats sat on the grass, admiring the tree for a
while, then Frostpaw got to her paws. "Can we see the next territory now?" she asked.
Eaglewing purred. "Whatever you say." So the cats started padding back up the hill.
"Why are we going back this way?", Snowpaw asked, confused. "Isn't the border
right there?" Skypelt looked in the direction Snowpaw was staring. "Yes, but that's
the boring section of the border. We want to show you the part of the border that's
nearer to camp. The tree is the only place in the forest where all four borders touch.
When we were sitting down there, did you smell a musty scent?" Both apprentices
nodded. "That's LakeClan. We don't border them, except for a tiny bit on the other
side of that tree, so we can't show you anything there, but at least you know their
scent." Snowpaw nodded, satisfied, and the cats set back off toward camp.
The telltale yowls of cats giving orders and squeals of kits playing signaled their
approach to camp. There were two paths, one that led back to camp, the one
that they had came from, and another one, veering off around the side of the camp.
"Do you see how the main path goes past the camp entrance, and farther?" Eaglewing
said as they were about to turn onto the other path. "That's Twoleg territory. There
are nightmarish things that you couldn't even dream of down there. Don't ever go that
way." Knowing that she had frightened them, she added,"Don't worry. They never come
down here. You'll be fine if you just stay away from over there. And with that, the
four cats turned onto the path to their right.
Thanks for sticking with this story, I promise it'll be exciting soon.
-SnowStar569
