I'm back!

Shredded Tricks

I groaned in pain, I had taken a hit from Raph while defending Leo. My head spun and I was pretty sure the boys were scared out of their minds.

"Amberkit?"

I heard a soft but worried voice, I felt something wrap around me. I slowly opened my eyes to stare into lightning yellow ones. Raph? No, who was this?

"Are you okay?"

I struggled to sit up but anyone of my signs showed this talking cat that I was okay. He seem to call me 'Amber', funny maybe it was because of my reddish hair. 'Amber', I liked that name, but I already had one though.

It was April.

"Psst, Leopardpaw!"

"Huh-what?"

Leonardo rolled around in his nest, it was still dark outside but the moon shone it's brightest. "Leopardpaw!"

"I'm coming!"

He jumped up and crept silently past a very tired Fernstripe. The small she-cat had her warrior ceremony just yesterday. 2 days after the Gathering, but Leo had been desperate to see his brother Donatello again. Too bad he had to remain loyal to his adopted clan. It was amazing how him and Don met. Just a little stare and boom; you had found 1 of your 3 brothers!

Leo sighed as he padded out into the cool night air, Silverspot was on camp guard so it would be easy to persuade the friendly she-cat that he couldn't sleep and decided to go hunting.

"Leopardpaw?"

He jumped at the sweet concerned voice and whipped his head to see a pitch black silver spotted she-cat with dark emerald eyes reflected in the moon. "Nothing..."

Leopardpaw hesitated. "I just had a bad dream and I can't seem to go bad to sleep. Can I hunt for a while?"

Silverspot stared at her paws and then looked back up at him. "Yes, but don't be long!"

Leo nodded his head but before he went, he blurted out something that maybe he shouldn't. "Silverspot, can I ask you something? It's about Fernstripe..."

The she-cat stiffened and then relaxed. "Of course."

"Well, why didn't you want to be mates with Ashbreeze? Why did you leave him? Was Toadjump more of your taste? Do all your kits get along? What does Rocksong think?"

Silverspot closed her eyes and sighed. "Well, I thought Ashbreeze was my forever mate but when little Fernkit came into our world, I learned of my mate's ambition over Toadjump being deputy and not him. I was worried for Fernkit and decided to move on. Toadjump mended my broken heart, but Ashbreeze was furious. A couple of moons later I had Lilykit and Echokit. Once again, this stirred Ashbreeze but I told him that we were done. Fernstripe has a broken family, I know how that feels, but at least she'll always have Aspenwing." Aspenwing had been Fernstripe's mentor but now that she had confessed her feelings for him, the two were most likely to have kits sometime soon.

After that, Leonardo padded blindly through the woods, he would have to bring back something otherwise that would cause suspicions. Scenting the air for prey, he crouched down low and crept silently forward. He could hear a thrush carefully scratching it's nest as it tried to get comfortable. Don't worry, I'll put it out of it's misery.

He licked his whiskers and unsheathed his claws, keeping his tail very still and breathing lightly. Leo leapt into the air and pounced silently on the bird. It only jumped before it's death came. Leo picked up the plump bird and flicked his tail in satisfaction. Next he caught 2 fish, a mouse, a blackbird and dropped it all in his secret pile. There, that wouldn't call any trouble, now every cat would think he'd be out hunting all night!

He took off toward the WindClan border in hopes to speak with Donatello.

C'mon, c'mon, where was he?!

Donnie stood on the edge of WindClan territory waiting for Leonardo, his true brother. He loved Stagpaw, but he just wanted to talk to Leo. Speaking of litter-mates.

"So why are we waiting for Leopardpaw again?"

He turned around to face his brother, Stagpaw of WindClan, grooming his paw that had been injured by a pebble on the way here.

"I just need to tell him something for his clan. Nothing serious." Donnie said quickly, WindClan had trouble along the moor but Oakstar said not to tell anyone, thus having no visitors here. Stagpaw stopped grooming himself and stood beside Driftpaw.

Suddenly a green and brown tom, similar to Driftpaw, exploded out of the shrubs. He dropped a blackbird and wren at their paws and sat down licking his front left paw. "Leo!"

Donnie exclaimed, he was here at last! Stagpaw gave him a confused look. "Leo-pard paw!" Don quickly said.

"How are things in ThunderClan?" He straightened up and flicked back his ears and tried his best to look like a true WindClan warrior.

Leo dipped his head to them. "Well, WindClan?"

Before Donnie could reply, Stagpaw butted in. "Well! Why are you here?"

Don winced but Leo flicked his ears back and held the apprentice's stare. "I am here to talk to your brother, got that?" Don stared at the ground, just waiting for the fight to break out like it always did. But Stagpaw wisely chose to back down.

"Thanks for the prey, 'paw."

Stagpaw picked up the two birds and headed toward WindClan camp. Now alone, Donatello met Leo's icy gaze.

"I'm sorry-"

"No, I'm not here for that."

Donnie flicked his ears back and glared daggers at his former brother in wait.

"You're the best tracker there is in WindClan, true?"

Nodded his head in agreement Don looked back over his shoulder to see a feline on the horizon. Stagpaw!

"Not only that, I'm also your younger brother."

Leopardpaw dipped his head in thought. "I need you to help me."

"With what?"

"Someone killed Otterleap, now I need to find out who."

Donatello P.O.V

The next night we travelled across the forest, I was tracking the rogue scent that was left on Otterleap. I realized that this had been Leo's foster mother. It pained me to realize this and I almost collapsed of grief in thought of Runningleaf dead. But as always, we weren't alone. Leo's 2 foster litter-mates; Leafpaw & Cloudpaw came with us, as well as Stagpaw my foster brother and Goldenpaw who was the first to volunteer no matter what.

We were entering the Twolegplace when a powerful yowl stopped us. I spun around to see a massive muscular silver-shaded black tom with dark brown eyes. Beside him were at least five other smoky black lithe cats. "FootClan." I heard Goldenpaw whisper beside me in awe.

"Tell me, Flaw. Should the eagle take his prey or let the hawk fly for another day?"

Beside him, three lithe cats jumped down and hissed at us. I knew that these were the cats that had killed Otterleap. But what would they do to us? I felt Cloudpaw tense behind me, ready to fight. Leafpaw shrunk back to blend into Leo's fur. Goldenpaw unsheathed her claws and hissed. Stagpaw was frozen in shock. I knew that this was the end.

But suddenly, ShadowClan scents fogged my senses and I heard the faintest whisper of Raphael. "Shredder!"

Another chapter for you to hopefully enjoy! Donatello's revealed himself as Driftpaw of WindClan. We know Leonardo is Leopardpaw of ThunderClan. April O'Neil is Amberkit, so any guesses who she might be? What about Casey, Raph & Mikey?

Have a great day!

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