Enjoy the shock and cliffie! Muahahah!

Standing Still

"Come on, you slow fuzzhead!" Nightspark purred, looking back at Stonetail. The tom was still limping a little from the gash his brother, Tigerstripe, had inflicted a few days before. "We're going to practice!"

Stonetail smiled and closed his eyes. In a few seconds, he was at the small glade where Nightspark had wanted them to go to. Nightspark appeared there a few minutes later, pretending to be angry with him. "Now, what would have happened if someone spotted us?" she mewed, her soft voice washing over him. Her eyes sparkled and she smiled at him.

After a moment, Stonetail shook his head. "So, Apocalypse, what are we going to do today?" he mewed.

Nightspark cuffed him over the head. "You're in this with me. Now," she mewed, growing serious, "StarClan came to me in a dream last night. They said Thunder, Water, Air, and Shadow are the elements of which we must learn to control. They also said we need to try other things and see if they work." Stonetail nodded, and they began.

They closed their eyes, touched their tails together, and focused on a roaring river. Suddenly, in front of them, a huge wave of water was crashing, but it was not coming any closer or going farther away. Together, they opened their eyes and brought their tails away, and the wave crashed for its final time.

"That worked," Stonetail mewed. "How are we to control shadows though?" Nightspark shrugged.

"I suppose we do what we just did, but focus on shadows instead."

Closing their eyes again and focusing on shadows, Nightspark and Stonetail breathed slowly. They felt a dark power creep within them. Their eyes opened, shining red, and clouds began to swarm over the sun. Everything went black, but their sparkling crimson eyes were visible and terrifying to anycat. They suddenly went blue again, and sunlight shone down. Stonetail shuddered.

"That felt terrible," he mewed, looking at Nightspark. She nodded. "I never want to do that again."

"We can't dwell on it now," she meowed. "We must try controlling thunder next."

Again, they closed their eyes and focused. Rain started coming down, and ear shattering thunder cracks split the air. Lightning struck the ground, and the two cats felt a shock go through them. The rain and lightning stopped abruptly when they opened their eyes.

"Air now?" Stonetail mewed.

"No. You won't be doing anything now," a voice growled, and their eyes widened in shock to see Tigerstripe crawling out from under a bush.

They stood, frozen. Time was standing still.

O_O; Oh. NO!