Chapter 10
Four paws pumped hard as they ran towards the gray tom, shrunk back helplessly.
This was Mintpetal. The quietest and most un-outspoken of the five - now three - siblings, she was never in the spotlight. Well, she'd never planned to be.
But- she couldn't, she couldn't! She couldn't possibly watch another one of her siblings die, in front of her, knowing that she, she, could have helped! Time away from the spotlight, that was up.
The pale she-cat clenched her jaw, and sucked in her stomach involuntarily. This was it.
She ran as fast as her paws could take her, her ears pressed flat against her ears. She was infuriated, sudden of all. Mintpetal ran faster and faster, her eyes only on the fox.
It was such a kit-like thing to scowl and have a temper at only a fox, but the she-cat wasn't like any other cat. She'd eye-witnessed one of her sisters dying, and had heard the horror of her other sibling's death. She couldn't let Smokeblaze go. Not another one. No. Never. Ever. Forever…
The last thing Mintpetal remembered was red on red, the sickening pure red color of blood - was it her own, or the fox's? - on the gingery-orange fur of the fox's shoulder. She heard shrieks around her, a familiar voice, a scream that sounded so… beautiful… it made her feel awed by the pure sound of the scream.
Then she realized how much it sounded like the scream she'd never let out.
Smokeblaze pressed against the bushes as the fox got menacingly closer by the heartbeat. The white, one-eared medicine cat had already been swiped up into the air and into the fox's tooth-filled jaws - who was next? Littleflower fought next to him, her pants getting louder and louder. Her chest heaved up and down as each swipe of her claws brought her down even more.
Then a pale-gray blur of fur sped past all the other fighting DuskClan cats and sank its claws in the shoulder of the fox. A gasp bled out from Smokeblaze as he realized it was his sister. The gray she-cat clawed at the fox, not even letting it go when it fell to the ground moaning. Red blood flowed, and the tom wasn't sure whether it came from his sister or the rust-furred creature. Either way- it was still blood.
Then a figure leaped at Smokeblaze, and all of a sudden everything went black.
A/N: Heyhi guys! Sorry for this very short chapter. I hope it sates your longing for a new chapter! ANYway, I'm on a FF. net semi-hiatus. Not sure how long it'll last, or how hiatus-ey it will be, but it's still a hiatus.
More to come (hopefully) mid-September or early-September!
~Kay xx