I'm still happy from the ending of the last chapter
Warriors belongs to Erin Hunter
Willowleaf widened her eyes. She just couldn't believe it, there he was.
Duskfang looked down at them with cold golden eyes and she felt a chill go down her back, but all she could do was just stand there and stare.
His gray and black pelt was sleek and well groomed, he didn't look like he was missing the clan food either, he was well muscled as well.
"They where looking for you, and they said they where old friends of yours." Snow said nervously.
Willowleaf turned to the she-cat Snow and noticed how she suddenly seemed bashful around the handsome tom. She was even more shocked by the barb of jealousy that hit her. She attempted to shake it off.
"Really?" he said. He leaped down from the mound and landed near the cats. His muscles rippled under his pelt as he landed in the red flowers.
He had grown! He was taller then when Willowleaf had last seen him; she had to tilt her head to look at him straight in the eye, but his glare was enough to make her look back down.
"Duskfang?" Hunter looked at him with admiration first and now looked worried. He gave a look at the three clan cats that indicated regret, probably regretting bringing the clan cats here.
"Don't worry you've done nothing wrong." The exile said with a flick of his tail "You and Snow should go. Me and my old friends are going to talk." He reassured them.
The two loners looked at one another then nodded they trotted off Snow looked back one last time to Duskfang then they disappeared.
"Now." He turned fully to them his golden eyes as cold and bright as the stars "Why are you here?"
XOX
"Well we need you to come back with us." Willowleaf said as confidently as she could
"Back where?" Duskfang asked, but he wasn't stupid he knew.
"You need to come back to Nightclan."
"And why in the name of Starclan would I do that?"
They where in the exile's den. The sunlight from outside gave them enough vision inside the dug out den. It was big enough so that the four cats could sit up and talk to each other, and in the corner was a moss made nest.
Duskfang listened to them although not happily, but he was curious to why they where here. So Starclan had called for him, amazing really. That after all this time… But he could care less really; he was still going to tell them to get lost. He picked up one of his front paws and licked it absent mindedly.
He pricked his ears when they said that the flowers had led them here. He looked outside at them, they're scent filled the air. His only connection to his dead mother, he had been surprised when they had bloomed so well, he had been worried that they'd die before new leaf came. He sighed, it was kind of a shame that they had bloomed so well then the clan cats wouldn't have been able to find him. He'd been told that bringing the flowers here would back fire. One of the few times I don't listen to you and this happens. He thought bitterly.
"Born a rouge, raised as a warrior, branded a traitor, the outcast will be our Savior." Eagleflight recited. "That's you."
Duskfang stayed silent swarming in his own thoughts.
Then he narrowed his eyes, he didn't want anything to do with them not any more he'd wanted to leave it all behind.
Just when you don't need them anymore, they need you.
"What's the rest of the prophecy?" he asked being careful to keep his voice neutral.
Willowleaf spoke now "You're supposed to save the future of the clan as far as we know, but Redfern knows the rest."
He looked at Willowleaf pretty as ever, but even she couldn't convince him to go back there.
Redfern… he felt warm at the thought of the medicine cat, the only cat that had stood up for him the night he had been exiled.
Train, train, train… He blinked why was he thinking about that, then an idea came into his mind and he looked at the clan cats.
"I'll come back, that is if you beat me at a certain game."
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Duskfang led them never slowing down from his run the clan cats followed him. Willowleaf still couldn't get over it, Duskfang was actually stronger and faster then he had been when he'd been a warrior, why had she imagined him scrawny, weaker? Because that's your image of a rouge, Willowleaf looked at Duskfang. He was definitely not that.
He led them to a two leg garden and leaped to the top of the fence with ease, followed by Eagleflight and Dawnbird who where known in the clan by their high leaps.
Willowleaf scrunched herself up and leaped she was short of the top of the fence but hung on with her claws to the side wooden fence she began to slide down when suddenly someone grabbed her by the scruff and pulled her up. She looked up to thank Eagleflight but was shocked to see Duskfang grasping her neck.
"Clumsy as ever." He muttered through her fur. He let her go and she backed up to Eagleflight who was glaring at Duskfang. She didn't know why but her heart was racing, she excused it as being in the fangs of a murderer.
Duskfang snorted and jumped down into the garden where strange thin green trees where growing all over like a miniature forest.
"These are called bamboo," Duskfang told them. He turned around to them and sat down. "And here is where we are going to decide whether I go back to Nightclan or not."
"What?" Dawnbird said her fur bristling. "Why does it matter?"
"Because we're going to play a game, if you guys win I'll go to Nightclan without any argument. But if you lose I get to stay and you three leave."
The warriors looked at each other uncomfortably, but before they could speak Duskfang stopped them.
"If you don't agree to this and try to take me I'll fight and runaway." He waved his tail "Do you really want that?"
"What's the game?" Eagleflight asked.
"Hunter and Prey." He said. "Remember we used to play that all the time when we were kits"
Willowleaf remembered, she saw them calling out and playing happily, saying weather they where a mouse or a warrior. Them chasing each other around.
"You three are going to be the hunters, and you have to catch me to put it mildly." Duskfang said standing up.
"Rules?" Eagleflight asked.
"We cannot leave the garden, keep your claws sheathed, and…" he looked up at the sun "You have until sun-high to catch me."
Willowleaf looked up and her fur stood on end. That was barley half an hour.
"Understand?"
The three clan cats nodded.
"Then go." He said, then suddenly he turned around and ran.
"How are we going to catch him?" Willowleaf asked. "He knows the territory better and…" Duskfang was still ahead of them not even looking like this was the best he could do "he's fast."
"There are more of us so we can corner him."
Dawnbird lighted up and sped up "So let's kick his ass." (Author's note: I know that warriors don't use this term but I couldn't help it, the moment was perfect.) Eagleflight shook his head and sped ahead of her. Willowleaf followed.
Duskfang made a sharp turn so quick that the warriors had to slide a bit to follow him.
It led to a fence and Duskfang stopped short, the warriors came up behind him.
"No were to go." Eagleflight said as he walked towards the loner, fully intent on catching him.
Duskfang turned back to the other tom and smirked. Alarms went off in Willowleaf's head, this could not be good.
Duskfang suddenly launched himself at the warrior. Eagleflight let out a startled sound, Duskfang went around him and was behind the tom. Before the warrior could do anything Duskfang was laying down on his side and kicked out at Eagleflight's legs. The tom came down hard letting out a grunt. Duskfang got up with ease and grinned coldly.
He looked back at the queens who where preparing themselves to launch at him.
Then just as they leaped he jumped into the thick of the bamboo disappearing from sight as the she-cats fell right next to Eagleflight.
"Fox-dung" Dawnbird cursed. Eagleflight looked like he agreed with her.
"Let's find him before he gets too far away." Willowleaf muttered getting up.
The three cats where off following the rouge's scent. Dawnbird rushed ahead when she saw his gray fur, not listening when her brother told her to wait.
She ran to Duskfang who turned around and jumped over the she-cat, as her face suddenly made contact with one of the thin green trees.
Eagleflight ran over to her and Duskfang ran away. Willowleaf followed him the best she could when she looked up at the sky she couldn't believe it.
Twenty minutes had already passed and the sun was nearly in the center of the sky.
She looked ahead at the gray tom and sped up until she could nearly get his tail.
They where coming up to the two leg fence Duskfang jumped up onto the fence and launched himself over Willowleaf.
She followed but she knew that this wasn't going to work they needed another way.
"Please, Duskfang you need to come back to Nightclan." She called out desperately.
The exile glanced back at her with one cold golden eye "Why should I? I don't care about Starclan's prophecy and what happens to Nightclan. For all I care Nightclan can burn to ashes." He sped up.
Willowleaf thought for a moment, she needed a Duskfang reason to come back to the clans. She thought of the one cat that had been there for him, the only cat who had believed him.
"Don't you want to see Redfern?" she asked.
Suddenly Duskfang stopped dead and looked back at Willowleaf.
Out of no where Eagleflight jumped out and tackled Duskfang. He let out a triumphant yowl.
"We win!" Dawnbird said jumping out of the bamboo. Just as she said that the sun moved to the center of the sky.
Duskfang easily pushed Eagleflight off of him and sat up, he shook himself. In his eyes it wasn't defeat or even disappointment. Something told her that Duskfang had every intention to lose. That stop hadn't been an accident.
He looked up and spoke.
"I guess I'm going back then."
I am so sorry it took so long to get this up; I hope it was worth the wait.
Schools starting on Monday I can't believe it I'm going to high school! I'm not going to have as much time to write Outcast of the Clans as I did before.
Anyway now I have very important questions about my characters.
Who's your favorite? Why?
Who's your least favorite? Why?