A/N: Woo Hoo! Here's Chapter 5, and im gonna leave you with a cliff hanger. Well I've been doing a lot of writing lately, and I realized I only need about 4 Hours of sleep to function, so I can stay up till 6:00 AM writing and wake up at 10:00 AM. Well I will probably only write half the time, watch horror movies the rest. And by the way for you horror fans they've announced two films for 8 films to die for! YAY!!!! Please review and you shall get a Aquashine plushie.
~Leo~
CHAPTER 5
Scarlet sunlight filtered through the willow trees, as the sun set beneath the horizon. Cool sand lay beneath Emberpaw, as he lay outside the Medicine Cat's den. Fernstar had said once his head healed, that she would give him a mentor, that way he would learn the ways of a warrior.
But Emberpaw wanted to be a warrior now! He needed to learn all the battle moves, in order to take down Lightningcloud! Emberpaw batted at a leaf in the water as it floated by, making droplets of water splash his pelt.
"Oh don't look so sad" a meow came from a silver-blue she-cat that stood above him.
"I remember when I became an apprentice" she meowed stepping forward, "I had twisted my paw on the first day of training, and had to wait two moons in order to start it again. My sister Troutstream became a warrior even before me."
Emberpaw perked his ears, "When did you become a warrior?" the she-cat certainly looked old enough to have been one for a couple moons.
She bent her head, "Only a moon ago" she meowed, "My name's Aquashine, nice to meet you."
Aquashine, Emberpaw breathed, what a beautiful name!
"Your the one that helped me out of the river" he exclaimed, remembering what Berryshade told him.
Aquashine nodded, "Foxscar and I were hunting down by the nursery, and we heard a splash in the stream. He tried to get you out, but Foxscar isn't the best swimmer. So I fished you out and turned you over to Berryshade."
Emberpaw gasped, she had done all this to save his life! He would be dead without her!
"Thank you" he meowed graciously, "I'm not exactly that used to water. I never encountered any where I lived, other than a few puddles." He never imagined the lake would be so big, there must had been a lot of Rain storms in order for that to happen.
Aquashine smiled, "You'll get used to the water sooner or later. We're RiverClan for StarClan's sake, we're surrounded by it!".
Emberpaw smiled as she cuffed his ears playfully, he hadn't expected to meet such a nice cat, especially so soon.
"Hey" she meowed, "Want to come to the nursery? I'm supposed to bring the queens some fish, and I can take you around to meet the rest of the clan."
"Okay!" it would be good for Emberpaw to meet the rest of his clan, and to learn about his kin.
Aquashine turned around and padded across camp, heading towards a large bramble patch. The scents of milk and kits were almost overwhelming, exactly how many kits were in this nursery? Emberpaw watched as the young warrior squeezed through the brambles easily, some catching her fine blue fur.
Next Emberpaw crouched down, and easily slid through the opening, and appeared on the other side. The bramble den stood tall, much taller than he had expected. Three queens lay in the nursery, one he had already met, the golden and black queen named Leopardspots.
"Is this the loner you told us about?" a brown and white tabby asked, gazing to Leopardspots.
Aquashine stepped forward, "Hawkdawn" she meowed, "This is Emberpaw, he was a loner, but now he's an apprentice of RiverClan."
He bowed his head in greeting to the queen, as she eyed him suspiciously.
"The more apprentices the better" a meow came from the side, as a milky white she-cat lay suckling three tiny kits.
"Milkfeather" Hawkdawn hissed, "Your only saying that because you want them to bring you fat mice and clean your bedding every single night. We have apprentices for a reason you know." The other queen snorted and turned away, as her three kits mewled in protest for more milk.
"That's Milkfeather" Aquashine whispered into his gray here, "And those are her three kits. Fallowkit , Poolkit, and Otterkit."
Emberpaw nodded, and was about to ask who Hawkdawn's kits were, when a persistent mew came from the back of the nursery. A black and ginger kit clamped down on Hawkdawn's tail, as he lashed his tail playfully.
"Torchkit go take a nap, It's already past Sun-High!"
"I took a nap before"
"You barely slept!"
"Well I'm still not tired"
"Then go outside and play "
"It's to cold"
"Then find something to do in the nursery!"
"It's to boring in here, I want to play with Shellkit!"
"To bad, she's sleeping!"
Emberpaw gave Aquashine a confused glance, as the mother and kit argued on and on, it never seemed to stop. The she-cat was about to respond, when a crash of thunder rumbled from far off, shaking the floor of the nursery.
All of a sudden, shrill mews came from Milkfeather's kits, as they cowered in the corner.
"The sky's going to eat us!" a small gray tabby she-cat cried out.
"I don't want to go to StarClan yet!" a blue-gray kit yowled, "I'm to cute to die!".
The kits continued crying in the name of StarClan, as Milkfeather tried to comfort them.
"I swear those kits get more dramatic as the days go by" Leopardspots snorted, turning to lay on her side.
Emberpaw couldn't help but smile as Milkfeather chased Poolkit around the nursery, trying to keep her from running away in fright. Rain began to patter on the roof of the nursery, as lightning lit up the air in bright white lights.
The storm had come on so quickly, Emberpaw didn't even remember seeing a cloud!
"It sounds bad" Milkfeather remarked quietly, as she finally calmed Otterkit and Fallowkit down, only Poolkit was yowling near the entrance.
"Well we have been getting a lot of storms lately" Aquashine meowed, giving Emberpaw a glare.
He knew what that meant, a bad storm had hit when he fell into the river, but that would never happen again! Suddenly Emberpaw turned, as the bramble entrance trembled and a cat appeared.
He was a golden tom, with very distinctive curved eyes, that shone a bright amber.
"Archeyes?" Leopardspots meowed, getting up to greet the tom.
Archeyes was panting heavily, something wasn't right. Emberpaw immediately sniffed the air, there was a faint scent of smoke.
"What's wrong?" Aquashine hissed to the warrior, "Talk already!".
He gasped one more time, then turned to face the queens and Emberpaw.
"It's WindClan territory" he spat out, "There's a fire in the middle of their camp, and It's coming this way!".