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Smell

Hollypaw padded through the forest, trying to see if she could smell any kind of prey. Birchfall had hurt his leg so had to stay in camp, he had told her to go and hunt, so that's what she was doing, not that she was having much luck though, she couldn't find anything.

Before she knew it she was thinking about Darkclaw, she didn't know why, she just couldn't get him out of her head. Maybe she admired him, he was deputy of course, but of another clan.

Hollypaw shook her head, why did Darkclaw matter, she was hunting for her clan, she could find out more about him at the next gathering, if she went, hopefully she would, she would probably do a bit more talking at her next one, now that she understood what actually happened.

She padded through the forest, now concentrating fully on finding food for her clan. Breathing in the forest scents and smiled as she scented a mouse. She saw it scrabbling around underneath a hollybush and got down into a hunting crouch, ready to make her first kill of the day.

She pounced and landed on the mouse, killing it swiftly with a bite to the neck, she buried it so she could collect it later and carried on walking through the forest.

She saw a bird hopping around the bottom of a tree, carefully she stepped forward, she was almost close enough to pounce when a big crash from a bush nearby startled the bird and sent it flying up into the tree tops.

"Who was that?" She yelled, storming towards the source of the sound that had frightened her prey around.

Hollypaw didn't hear anyone say anything, "Oh, that how you're playing is it? You scare my prey away and don't even admit, you are so dead." She muttered underneath her breath.

She took a long sniff up her nose but something caught her attention, it was a different smell, and it was faint, but definitely recognisable, Shadowclan.

She started to follow the scent and suddenly another loud crash reached her ears, were they really that stupid. She sped up a bit, realising how close she was to the intruder, or intruder's.

A dark pelt was now becoming visible, she decided to get closer and see who it was before she did anything, but as she got closer she saw another dark pelt, and the cats were small, really small, they were kits!

She decided to give them a little scare, they were trespassing after all, she jumped out of the bushes and the two of them jumped back in fright. Hollypaw immediately felt bad, she hadn't realised exactly how small they were.

"What are you doing here?" Hollypaw asked.

"I don't know." One of the kits said.

"We snuck out of camp and then got lost, where are we, it smells!" The other said.

"You are in Thunderclan territory, how old are you?" Hollypaw asked.

"2 moons." One of the kits said.

"I'll bring you back to camp, and then a patrol will take you back." Hollypaw said.

"What!" One of the kits squeaked.

"Can't you just take us back?" The other said.

"I should be back at camp by now," Hollypaw said, "Come on, follow me."

Hollypaw lead the kits back to camp, and explained to Bramblestar what had happened. He sent out Squirrelflight, Cinderheart and herself to take the kits back to Shadowclan.

The kits had stayed very quiet for the whole thing, keeping their heads down and not looking at anyone. As they got closer to the Shadowclan border they started to become a bit braver, obviously recognising the smells of their own clans.

Soon the three Thunderclan cats were standing at the border with the two kits, wondering whether to take them back when a Shadowclan cat came into view. Hollypaw recognised him straigth away, it was Darkclaw.

She didn't know why she recognised him, she just did. He saw them and raced over, "Nightkit, Cloudkit, what are you doing?" He asked.

"They were found by Hollypaw in the heart of our territory." Squirrelflight explained to her fellow deputy.

Hollypaw found herself unable to tear her eyes off Darkclaw throughout the whole of Squirrelflight's explanation, something about him was, intriguing, if that was the right word.

"Thanks, I'll take them back now, Olivenose is absolutely frantic." Darkclaw said as the two kits looked sheepishly at the ground. "You two are in major trouble, you know that?"

As the two groups of cats walked off in different directions Hollypaw looked back at Darkclaw, and he was looking at her.

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