Untold lies Chapter 3: Numbing River

Well...this chapter was hard to think of, but i made it work...i think.

Lightheart and Thundertail returned from their hunting with two black birds. Lilystorm still slept while the rest of them ate. "So, did you talk to Froststar?" Lightheart asked licking his mouth.

"Uh, it didn't go as planned." Arrowhead told Lightheart and Thundertail what happened. "I didn't have time to ask." He finished.

Lightheart looked at Thundertail and he looked back. "I followed all of that except the part about the tom and Starclan's secret." Lilystorm yawned crawling out of her moss nest.

"You were awake?" Lightheart asked. Lilystorm nodded and took what was left of Lightheart's black bird. Lightheart turned back to Arrowhead. "So what now?"

"You three are going back to camp. I'm going onward." He answered.

Lilystorm stopped chewing on her bird. "We're going to." She said firmly.

"No, I'm going alone. That's final."

"No your not. We agreed to do this together. You are not leaving us out." She growled.

"I'm not letting you three become rogues. If we find that answer then Starclan is going to try and kill us. I'm not going to let you three die due to an answer."

"Thats not your call to make. If it comes down to fighting Starclan then we fight. They know your the only one who can kill Nightsign and-"

"But that answer is more important than Nightsign. There has to be a reason why that answer is more important than killing a mad cat."

"But we don't know what the question is that the answer goes to. How do you know it's even related to Nightsign?"

"Wolfstar asked me to find it. He suffered in Nightsign's dream attack and he probably learned something. He might have been crazy but he has his reasons. I'll lead you three out of this forest, but then you go back to Echoclan." Thundertail and Lightheart watched as Lilystorm and Arrowhead argued.

"I'm not leaving you to fight alone." Lilystorm sat down and was clearly not going to leave Arrowhead. He growled as he padded away. "Where are you going?" He didn't answer. She raced after him leaving the other two baffled.

"I can't hunt in peace?" He growled.

"You said to hunt in pairs." She countered.

"Well go hunt over there." Arrowhead pointed his tail in the opposite direction he was going.

She shook her head saying, "Nope, I can't risk you leaving, so I have to always watch you." I'm about tear this cat to shreds! Arrowhead thought. She is- His thoughts were cut off by that strange feeling that pulsed through him and he felt like he was going to get thrown. Just then Thundertail burst through the bushes with Lightheart right behind him.

"Do you feel that?" Thundertail asked more curious than afraid. Arrowhead nodded.

"I feel something." Lightheart said, his fur spiking.

"What are you three babbling about?" Lilystorm asked irritated for being left out.

"We have to leave. Now!" Thundertail said shoving Lightheart ahead of him.

"Agreed. Follow me." Arrowhead said taking the lead. The feeling kept growing more and more as they traveled lost in the forest. Lilystorm finally started feeling something.

They came to a river, that felt colder than snow, cutting the mysterious forest in half. Lightheart bent down to lap, but jumped when he felt how cold it was. "That river Freezing!"

"Why would a river be that cold?" Thundertail mumbled to himself as he dipped his paw in and then yanked it out.

"Are we supposed to cross this river?" Lightheart complained.

"No, we need to follow it downstream. That way." Arrowhead pointed his tail downstream. "The river might lead to-"

Lilystorm cut him off. "We have bigger problems. Fox, and there are many. There has to be a fox den nearby."

"Can we avoid it?" Thundertail asked listening for any movement nearby.

"I don't know. But I think the closer we are to the fox's den, the stronger the feeling gets. It has to be a warning."

"But I haven't smelled any fox scent yet. Are you sure it's a fox?" Arrowhead asked.

"Who likes to fight more? I can sense an enemy before I smell one. I'm sure it's a fox and there are at least six."

"Five, we could possibly handle, add one more and things become complicated. Avoid it for now, if we have to, we fight." Lightheart said.

Arrowhead looked at the river and said, "I would rather avoid a fight at all costs. We could swim across the river if we have to."

Thundertail padded up next to him. "I want to avoid a fight as well but I'm not getting in that river." Arrowhead agreed when he put his paw in the water.

"I think I just figured out the feelings." Lilystorm said. "You two want to avoid a fight, Lightheart doesn't really want to fight, but will, and I want to fight. The more you resent from fighting, the stronger the feeling gets."

"So we should fight?" Lightheart asked.

"I don't know. But we need to decide before dark." She answered.

They thought for a moment but Thundertail broke the silence, though he wished he didn't. "We need to follow the river. If we get caught, we fight." The others nodded and started traveling down stream. The more they traveled, the stronger the feeling got. Arrowhead and Thundertail were having a hard time picking up their paws to keep going. Thundertail collapsed after three more paw steps. He could barely move. Arrowhead stopped and tried to help him, but he wasn't any better off. Arrowhead collapsed next to him and couldn't move.

"Are you two ok?" Lilystorm asked.

"Just fine if you don't include being unable to move and being lost." Arrowhead answered.

"They're fine." Lightheart said amused. Arrowhead glared at him.

"So what should we do?" Thundertail asked, open for suggestions.

"I'm not carrying you." Lilystorm blurted out.

"Not now!" Arrowhead growled. "We have to get into the river and follow the current downstream."

"That river is freezing cold. You wouldn't last but a couple of heartbeats." Lightheart said sticking his paw in the water.

"Any other ideas?" After a moment Arrowhead said, "Alright then. Push me into the river." Lightheart and Lilystorm pushed and rolled Arrowhead into the river. His tail hit the ice cold water and he suddenly had second thoughts. "That's cold!" He shivered.

"I told you, I'm not getting in that river!" Thundertail meowed, trying to stand up. A bush close to him rustled and Thundertail froze. "Uh, did you hear that?" He asked in a weak voice.

"Thundertail, don't make another sound." Lilystorm growled staring in the direction of the rustling bush. "It's the foxes, they found us and I didn't even know." She growled which was barely a whisper. The cats heard movement all around them. they are surrounding us! Arrowhead thought, trying his hardest to stand up. Before Thundertail could breath a fox jumped out of the bushes but Lilystorm intercepted it in midair and sent it stumbling away. Lightheart had four foxes surrounding him. He ran at one. The fox braced it's self but was caught off guard as Lightheart jumped over him and grabbed Thundertail by the scruff. He hauled Thundertail to the river's bank where Arrowhead was. Lilystorm joined them after she clawed another fox that tried to sneak up on her. Six foxes had surrounded them. The four cats had no where to run.

"Into the river!" Lightheart growled throwing Thundertail into the ice cold water. Lilystorm rolled Arrowhead into the river as Lightheart jumped. Lilystorm jumped in last. Thundertail broke surface along with Lilystorm. "Where is Lightheart and Arrowhead!" She yowled.

"I don't know!" Thundertail answered, taking in a mouth full of water.

Arrowhead couldn't breath. He felt his life slipping away, along with a sharp pain in his shoulder. The pain suddenly became numb and Arrowhead and Lightheart were swept away with the current.

I couldn't help but separate the cats and end in a cliffhanger. Revenge for all the other stories that end in cliffhangers.