Skysong: I lied. Again. Okay, how 'bout this. Why don't I just say I'll update whenever I can. :)
Wightshadoo: Shoe your Moom.
Morningsky: Your Moom is an unwanted body hair remover.
Moonglow: Shoe the Moom!
Wightshadoo: Shoe YOUR Moom!
Skysong: Guys! Quit shoeing your mooms and get on with the intro.
Wightshadoo: One MOOMent please...
Skysong: hahahahha. Very funny. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany way, Chapter 9. Yeah, I know there are a lot of apprentices. The rouges can't take adult cats cuz they'll pose too much of a threat, and kits are too small to take hostage. So apprentices. Yup. :D-|- In Shadowpaw, a ShadowClan apprentices' point of view. Enjoy. And remember this scene and the one sorta before is at moonhigh, or midnight.
Shadowpaw leaped to her feet and started racing out of the clearing the second Moonpaw yelled 'Run!' She felt guilty about not helping her fellow Clanmates and the RiverClan apprentices, Dawnpaw and Treepaw, but if she hesitated, she would be caught.
Racing paws drummed behind Shadowpaw, and she dug her paws harder into the forest floor, trying to gain more speed.
I won't be caught! I won't!
"Ha, caught ya!" A voice of the rouge that was talking to Skypaw earlier rang out through the forest. Shadowpaw prayed to StarClan that it wasn't Moonpaw or Tigerpaw, but then felt guilty.
Those other apprentices need to escape too.
Suddenly, a red- brown tom appeared next to Shadowpaw's left side. It was Tigerpaw.
"Hurry! They're catching up!"
Shadowpaw turned her head around sharply, and sure enough, two rouges were following them. And getting closer. Much closer.
"Faster!" she yelled.
"You go on ahead!" Tigerpaw spoke determendly. "I'll hold them off!"
"No, you can't! They'll take you prisoner!"
"Just trust me!" With that last statement, Tigerpaw stopped running, and charged toward the rouges instead of away.
Shadowpaw turned and focused on running. "Foolish mousebrain," she muttered, "He'll never beat them on his own." But inside, Shadowpaw was secretly proud of the red-brown apprentice. He sacrificed his freedom to let me escape!
Finally, she scented the ShadowClan border up ahead. Gratefully, she sighed in relief.
Those rouges won't dare cross the border unless they want to feel the wrath of ShadowClan.
Shadowpaw raced over the border, stopped, and turned around. The forest was eirily silent. No sounds of pawsteps racing over the ground. No yowls of terror. Just... silence.
Bushes rustled to the black apprentice's right, and she turned with a growl, her yellow eyes flashing in the moonlit darkness. "Who's there?"
Treepaw, one of the RiverClan apprentice's that had joined the fight stepped out. "They have Dawnpaw," he whispered. "They caught her."
Shadowpaw, Moonpaw, and Tigerpaw had lagged behind their Clanmates coming back from the gathering. They had heard the yowls of fighting from over above ThunderClan territory. Well, Moonpaw had actually.
For some strange reason, the quiet, silver apperntice had a gift for hearing things long distances away. No matter how hard she tried, Shadowpaw couldn't match her. The trio had reached ThunderClan, when two RiverClan apprentices had appeared behind them, Dawnpaw and Treepaw. Dawnpaw had tracked the ShadowClan apprentices, even though they had traveled through the shallow waters of the lake. Dawnpaw, Shadowpaw had learned, was Treepaw's sister. And the rouges had taken her.
Shadowpaw lashed her tail and hissed sharply in fury. She had grown a liking to the orange she-cat. "We'll get her back," she spoke, determend.
Just then, a white and gray cat and a gray tabby stepped out of the bushes. The gray tabby spoke. "I'm Streampaw of ThunderClan, and this is..."
"Whitepaw of WindClan, and those are soon to be dead rouges for taking my sister hostage, AND my best friend!" Whitepaw's eyes glared daggers, and Shadowpaw got the impression that this was not a cat to cross paths with on a bad day. She felt that she could handle the angry apprentice, though. Shadowpaw was already better than her mentor at fighting, and no cat in her Clan could beat her. She had only been an apprentice for less than a moon. But she wanted revenge too. Tigerpaw, her best friend, had been taken by the rouges too. Shadowpaw was prepared to do anthing to get him back.
"Look, I understand that your angry. I am too, but we can't risk losing any more cats to the rouges." Shadowpaw explained.
"Are we really the only cats that escaped from them?" Treepaw trembled. "There have got to be more than just us!"
Moonpaw promptly stepped into sight, answering Treepaw's question. She turned to Streampaw. "Your sister, or whoever she is, the white and gray one, was taken."
"What?" Streampaw gasped. "In that case, we have to go looking for them, or we'll never see them again! But you're right...umm... what's your name?" Streampaw nodded at Shadowpaw.
"Shadowpaw," the black she-cat answered for her.
"Shadowpaw. You're right, we can't make a hasty decision. We've seen that mere apprentices can't beat them in battle. I mean, this is my first day as an apprentice."
"Seriously?" Whitepaw asked, "And hey, why in the name of StarClan was Morningpaw with you? You got her captured!"
"Actually," Streampaw said dryly, "She was looking for you. I just accompanied her, and besides, I was looking for Skypaw. She ran off after the Gathering. One of her visions again, I suppose."
"Skysong has visions?" Moonpaw asked curiously. "That's strange. Too strange almost..."
"What do you mean, Moonpaw?" Shadowpaw questioned.
"Never mind," Moonpaw sighed. "So what are we going to do about our missing Clan mates?"
"Let's wait a few days, tell our Medicine Cat or something," Streampaw paused for a moment, "Or our Leader for that matter. If that doesn't work, try to meet back here at quarter moon."
"What will we tell our Clanmates about the others?" Treepaw asked.
"Act like you don't know a thing. Well, tell your Leader or Medicine cat the story." Streampaw explained.
Whitepaw cut in angrily. "Oh, so we tell them, 'Well, we were all tresspassing, when we found the rouges that took Sorrelpaw captive, so we barely escaped, and lost oh, I don't know, FOUR cats?"
"Yeah, yeah, so we messed up. Bigtime." Shadowpaw spat. "You don't have to rub it in. But what else can we say?"
"Let's just meet back here in a quarter moon." Moonpaw said, "Then we can decide."
With that, the five cats parted ways.
"What are we going to tell our Clan about Tigerpaw?" asked Shadowpaw.
"Nothing." Moonpaw replied, "Nothing at all. Pretend you don't know anything."
Thorn leaped at Tigerstar, striking a glancing blow to his shoulder. Quickly he dodged out of Tigerstar's counter attack.
"Very good," the deceaced ShadowClan leader praised. "You're learning quickly."
Thorn nodded sharply.
"I also liked how you lied about being a ShadowClan apprentice. That should fool Skypaw even more."
"So she's an apprentice now, is she?" Thorn inquired, no emotion escaping him.
"And taken prisoner by your rouge pack."
Thorn smiled. "Perfect. And it's my job to get her on our side. The Dark Forest will finally triumph over StarClan."
Tigerstar grinned evilly. "That's the plan."
Skysong: okay, you already know Skypaw/song, Morningpaw/sky, Whitepaw/shadow, and Moonpaw/glow's names, but you don't know the others'! See if you can guess! I've already made up my mind on most of them, but others like Tigerpaw and Sorrelpaw I haven't, so your choice/ review does count for it, whatever that means. Just a heads up, there's more to Skypaw than just on prophecy. It's much bigger than that. Sorry, I can't tell you more than that. Well, I could, but I'm mean. The list of apprnetices in da story will come in a couple of chapters so you can guess what there names are. It gives me an excuse to make you review. :D
Wightshadoo: and no, Whitepaw's warrior name is not somethign like Whiteshadoo or Wightshadow or Wightshadoo. It's WHITESHADOW!
Morningsky: Skysong just said that.
Moonglow: I LIKE PROPHECIES!
Skysong: Speaking of which, there is another one. I shouldn't have said that. Okay, no more spoilers.
Morningsky: Agreed.
Skysong: I just read the Percy Jacksong and the Olympians series, and that has a different type of prophecy thingy, so I'm having issues coming up with a legable one for SOL. (Sky Of Lightning)
Moonglow: !
Wightshadoo: For those of you who have issues understanding Moonglow, she asked you to please review, otherwise the next chapter won't be posted till like August or something.
Skysong: There there Wightshadoo. You know that that sort of persuading is not good. IT'S COMPLETELY guud. :) So review, please. I get the happies when you do. :D :D :D :D)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Smiley with like 17 chins. hehehehehe