Untold Lies Chapter 4: Chasing Shadows
If anyone has ever been in ice cold water before...they should know how they feel right now.
The forest canopy thinned out and the moon showed bright as Arrowhead lied passed out on the bank of the river. "Wake up. Come on, Arrowhead, wake up!" Arrowhead rolled over on the bank of the river. "Arrowhead!" He opened his eyes and scrambled to his paws. He looked around and saw Lightheart a few fox lengths away. "Oh, thank Starclan! I thought you were dead." Lightheart sighed in relief.
Arrowhead stretched and asked groggily, "Where are Lilystorm and Thundertail?"
"We lost them. I don't know where they are. It appears that you can stand again."
Arrowhead didn't notice. "How far down river did we go?"
"Uh, I don't really know. Must have been far though." Lightheart answered. "Oh, sorry about your shoulder."
"My shoulder?" Arrowhead repeated as he looked. His shoulder showed signs of bleeding and parts of his fur were completely gone. "Ah! It looks like one of those foxes bit me!"
"Well I'm not going to let you be swept away without me. Besides, you said no one travels through this forest alone."
"Well you three never listen to me."
"I could say the same for you."
Arrowhead glared at Lightheart and Lightheart glared back. They both spun around when they heard a twig break behind them. The forest became quiet and every sound that was made could be heard. "Thundertail? Lilystorm?" Lightheart asked.
A shadow in the bushes darted away from them. Both Arrowhead and Lightheart instinctively ran after it. "Hey! Wait up!" Arrowhead yowled. The shadow didn't slow down. Arrowhead noticed the canopy had thinned and the moon was overhead and full.
The shadow escaped their view and they burst into a clearing with the thunderpath in the middle dividing the forest. They both stopped and looked at each other. "We made it!" Lightheart said triumphantly.
"Hey!" Lilystorm yowled as she and Thundertail spotted them coming from the forest. They had found the thunderpath first and decided to wait. Arrowhead and Lightheart ran down to them. Lilystorm spoke first. "Where have you two been?"
"Chasing a shadow through the forest." Lightheart breathed heavily.
"A shadow?" She looked at Thundertail. "Do you think-" Thundertail nodded. She saw Arrowhead and Lightheart were confused. "We saw a shadow too. It lead us here. But when we have been here since the moon came out."
"Then it must have been waiting for me to wake up." Arrowhead said.
"It could have." Lightheart answered. "I didn't hear anything suspicious while you were unconscious. Anyway, we made it here, where do we go now?"
"No where tonight. I vote we rest and then continue in the morning." Arrowhead answered. Thundertail agreed along with Lilystorm. As they decided a monster roared by and all of them had their fur spiked.
"How about we rest away from the thunderpath." Thundertail suggested. The other three nodded and they rested on the very edge of the forest.
Arrowhead opened his eyes to find that big, grey and white tom and Froststar standing over him in Echocave. The tom put a paw on Arrowhead's throat and was nose to nose with him. "You and your friends are causing more trouble than good." He hissed.
Arrowhead scrunched his nose at his foul breath. "Good to know I could make your day." Arrowhead answered, weakly. "Mind getting off of me?"
The tom ignored his question. "Either you turn back now or I will force you."
"You can't force me. You know I would fight back and then you would be forced to kill me; and I know how much that would please you."
He growled and released Arrowhead. "You better turn back. Or it will come to that."
"Telling me to turn back isn't going to get me to turn back. I want to know why and I want to know what would happen if I don't."
Froststar attacked but missed. "That is not your business!" She hissed. It has too be important Arrowhead thought.
The tom rammed into Froststar and hissed at her. He turned back to Arrowhead and said, "She is right. It is not your business."
Arrowhead knew he had one chance to try and get the information he needed from them. "Actually, it is," He tried making this sound as convincing as possible. "You and Froststar hold Nightsign in number two priorities. The answer that Starclan is hiding from me, I know for a fact, is related too Nightsign. You of all cats know I can kill Nightsign. I need all the help and information I can get if you want me to kill him."
"The reason we chose you is because you are capable of killing him without knowing that answer."
"But will I? Not unless I know the truth." The tom charged at him. Arrowhead barely dodged before he jumped at him. The tom counter jumped and they collided in the air. His claws hit the mark on Arrowhead muzzle and Arrowhead aimed at the tom's chest. Arrowhead barely made a scratch on the tom. The tom had given Arrowhead a couple of small scratches that bled.
"You can't beat me." The tom said getting ready to launch at him again.
Arrowhead looked at his blood on the ground. He remembered how badly Wolfstar had looked and his anger flared. "Can't I?" Arrowhead hissed as he looked at the tom. He launched at Arrowhead. Arrowhead charged him. Arrowhead thought of Echoclan's forest during leaffall. The cave changed to forest and Arrowhead skid under the tom, spraying leaves evrywhere, and clawed at the tom's chest again. The tom yowled in pain as he fell into a pile of leaves, sending them into the air. Arrowhead looked at the tom through the falling leaves. The tom looked at the red gash in his chest before turning to look at Arrowhead. The tom froze in fear as he looked into Arrowhead's eyes. Arrowhead turned and walked away. He heard Froststar gasp in horror as she examined the tom's wounds. The next thing he knew, he was awake with his friends asleep all around him. He looked at the full moon which was starting to go down. if he dares to show his face to me again, I'll tear it to shreds He thought to himself. I will find that answer, and the only I'm going to do it, is to find them
For the shadow that led them out of the forest, who do you think that was? Put in reviews or pm me.