Dapplepaw here. I am back with my third challenge. I think Idid really good on this one. What do my readers think? Please R&R!
Shadows in a Sunlit Place
Vinestar stood on a hill of boulders. He looked at the clan below him. He was truly an Iceclan warrior. He was never happy in Forestclan and look at him now. He is a leader of Iceclan, and it is all because of a fox. Well, it might be easier to start from the beginning.
A frosty gray tom with green eyes padded through a forest. He looked around to make sure that there was still a young cat behind of him. The young cat was a black tom with blue eyes. He smiled at the older tom. The frosty tom smiled back. They stopped in a small clearing.
"Okay, Blackpaw, what do you smell?" the older tom meowed.
"I smell something strange... I think it is... Fox," he yowled. Not more than a heartbeat later, the two saw a bushy ginger tail.
"Run, Blackpaw. Run," yowled the tom but as soon as the apprentice turned to leave the fox leapt from the bushes and landed right in front of him.
The black apprentice opened his eyes wide and he started backing up.
"Help, Vinefrost," the scared apprentice meowed. The fox looked at Vinefrost and back at the apprentice. Not waisting a second, the fox leapt onto the apprentice. Vinefrost leapt at it and scratched its nose but it had already gave Blackpaw a blow on his side. The fox yelped in pain but didn't give up. Vinefrost was flung away and he crashed into a tree. Not a second later, the apprentice was in the fox's jaws.
"No," Vinefrost yowled and bounded foreword, not even flinching at the pain caused by a large wound in his shoulder. He leapt onto the fox's back and the fox dropped the helpless apprentice. Vinefrost bit the fox's neck, making it very weak. The ginger animal grabbed Blackpaw again and flung the hardly alive cat at a tree.
"Blackpaw," Vinefrost yowled and watched Blackpaw crash into the tree. The black cat's spine snapped, he was dead. Vinefrost froze for a moment. The fox noticed this and it rolled over. It then pinned Vinefrost to the ground. Vinefrost growled.
"Big mistake," he growled before grabbing the creature's neck, scratching it, and bit its neck. The fox yelped and fell. Vinefrost's victory feeling was short because only two tail-lengths away was his apprentice, his dead apprentice. Vinefrost felt tears forming as he grabbed his apprentice's scruff and dragged him back to camp. He knew he would be in trouble. Blackpaw was Nightstar's son. The gray tom watched as he entered the camp and it became silent. He watched as an amazing midnight black she-cat with green eyes came out of her den.
"Vinefrost, is that my son?" she asked carefully.
"Yes, Nightstar. There was a fox and it..." he was cut off by the black cat.
"Silence! You have led Blackpaw to his death and you shall be punished! You are sentenced to exile," she yowled, growled after. Many cats were shocked. Gasps and growls flooded the clearing. The growls were not at him though, they were at Nightstar.
"Leave now. I never wish to see you again, murder! I said leave," she yowled, unsheathing her claws. He felt tears leaving his eyes. He closed his eyes. He knew that his daughter, son, and mate were coming towards him. He opened his eyes and ran. He ran as fast as he could. He ran until his paws hurt. He stopped. He was on the border of Forestclan, his old clan, and Iceclan, a clan who lives in caves under mounds of snow. He smiled.
"I will fit in there better anyway. Maybe my mate and kits will come eventually," he meowed before running into their territory. I would never go back to that clan again. At least, not as long Nightstar is leader.
"Vinefrost of Forestclan? What are you doing in Iceclan territory," said Flamesnow, a white tom with red streaks on his fur and amber eyes.
"I was banished from my clan because of a fox attack. Because of something I did not do. Because of Nightstar," Vinefrost meowed. Flamesnow nodded before taking Vinefrost to the Iceclan camp. The clan quickly accepted him. Snowstar, the leader at the time, trusted him more than most. When he had his first apprentice, he was quickly made deputy. Within only six moons, he was leader.
That is how he got where he is now. He suffered through pain and hate only to rise to the very top. His mate and kits eventually came to his clan. Nightstar died of green cough only two moons after Vinestar became leader. Vinestar also became a father of six more kits. They were named Nightkit, Frostkit, Snowkit, Flamekit, Blackkit, and Foxkit. He died of old age. Flamesnow became leader after him and made Frostkit, now Frostwing, deputy. She became leader and made her father and mother proud. They had battles with Forestclan when Nightstar was leader. When Nightstar died, though, the fighting decreased until they only had one fight every three or four moons. The memory of Vinestar lives on still. Remember the cat who faced his problems. Remember the cat who suffered only to rise again.