Dapplepaw pushed through the undergrowth, inhaling deeply, trying to catch the scent of his brother. He'd lost Duskpaw's trail almost as soon as he'd left camp but he knew where to go even without his brother's scent leading him. Duskpaw had to be by the river; he was too curious to let the strange cats go without a fight.
After traveling through the forest for a few minutes, Dapplepaw picked up a familiar scent. It wasn't his brother's scent, but a whiff of the marsh from the night before.
Attentive about where he was placing his paws, he slowed down and became more alert of every sound- his brother must be near.
"…what's going to happen?"
"I can't tell… leave!"
Dapplepaw strained to hear the words drifting through the dark forest. One of the voices was Duskpaw's, and the other must have been one of the river cats from the night before.
Pushing through the bushes, Dapplepaw arrived at a small clearing where Duskpaw and a faintly glowing Frostpelt stood arguing.
"I'm not going to leave until you tell me what is going to happen tonight!" Duskpaw hissed.
"I can't tell you! You wouldn't understand! But if you stay out here any longer the chance of you getting hurt becomes greater and greater!"
"Then I'll get hurt." Duskpaw answered, sitting down and staring at the other cat, challenging him.
Before Frostpelt could protest, Dapplepaw stepped forward and spoke.
"Something is going to light up the night sky. What is it?"
Frostpelt's head snapped towards the apprentice, and then he shook his head in disgust. "It's a stone. That's what's going to light up the sky. You happy?"
"A stone?!" Duskpaw meowed, jumping to his paws. "It was a stone that you wouldn't tell me about?!"
"It's not so much a stone, but a rock. I would explain it, but you two are just apprentices so you wouldn't understand-"
Before Frostpelt could finish his sentence, a brilliant light surrounded the cats, searing their eyes and blinding them to the world around them.
Sorry it's a short chapter, I haven't had much time to write. Thank you for reading, please review! Reviews are one of the things that keep me writing, and thank you to those you already have!