I just want to say that this will possibly be the most chaotic chapter, EVER!
April Fools
Jaypaw woke to a seemingly normal morning. He stayed in bed until he had hit the snooze about six times, then he wallowed around in the blankets, before finally getting out. He placed his glasses on his face, and made his bed before opening his curtains to a perfect morning. Before leaving his room, he checked his calendar. It was the last day of March. April fools was tomorrow. He inwardly groaned, knowing how chaotic tomorrow would be.
But that just meant he needed to savour the moment. He walked out, and poured himself some cereal, took a bite, and spat it back out. He looked again at his breakfast, and realized leaves had been mixed in with the cereal.
"APRIL FOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLSSSSS!" Shouted Hollypaw, appearing from behind a corner.
"But it's tomorrow!" Jaypaw protested halfheartedly, already knowing her answer.
"I fooled you! I secretly changed your calendar!" Hollypaw gloated.
Jaypaw took a sip of his tea, which somehow had magically appeared in his paw. "Is that suppose to prove something?" Then after pausing, he added. "Is Lionpaw awake yet? I was sure he asked me to wake him for some important thing. And he said to do it gently."
Hollypaw couldn't hide her grin. "Rodger that, brother!" And she disappeared into Lionpaw's room.
Jaypaw sighed, and set down his tea. "I might as well get this over with." He muttered to himself.
He shut the door to his room, and began prepping his costume. By the time he came out, Hollypaw had left, and Lionpaw was putting on a dog costume. "Yo!" He greeted Jaypaw. Then paused. "What happened to you!?"
Jaypaw had a bandaged arm, a splinted leg, and loose bandage covering the left side of his face. "Hollypaw's idea of fooling." He replied smoothly.
"She tied me up while I slept, then dumped a bucket of freezing water on my head. But compared to you, I got the better deal." Lionpaw grumbled, not realizing the lie.
"Yep." Jaypaw took a sip of his tea. "I suppose I should tell you something."
"What?" Lionpaw asked.
"Fooled you." Jaypaw told him absently.
"DANG IT!" Lionpaw fell to his knees and drew a forepaw up to his forehead dramatic. "Why me?!"
"You're too easy to fool." Jaypaw explained, taking a final sip of his tea, draining the last drop. He looked down at the empty cup. "I think I should be going."
"Me too." Lionpaw put on his costume head and followed Jaypaw outside.
Even though Jaypaw had prepared himself, the shock of all the chaos took him a few seconds to get use to.
Squirrelflight was shouting random Japanese words until cats went insane from not understanding. Brambleclaw was replacing every cats' turkeys with crowfood. Leafpool was chasing everyone around with giant needles. Dustpelt was just sitting there. Hollyleaf was waking Mousepaw over the head with a pine tree while telling him it was a palm tree, then gloating that she fooled him when he finally gave in. Whitewing was playing on her ipod, while her twin, Whitewind, dyed the elder's fur green while they slept. Graystripe was dressed in a frog costume. And finally, Sorreltail was bombarding everyone with cookies.
With a wide grin, Lionpaw charged out of the den in his dog costume, and barked, scaring nearby cats half to death.
Jaypaw just blinked. "I don't believe this is fooling. It's more like do anything random." He muttered to himself.
"FIRESTAR!" The bellow made every cat stop.
Blackstar, Leopardstar, and Onestar were at the camp entrance.
"Greetings friends! Wanna pie?" Firestar asked, holding out a raspberry pie.
"Sure!" Leopardstar accepted it, only to have Firestar throw it at her face.
"FOOLED YOU!" He gloated.
"WAIT!" Screeched Hollypaw. She walked over to Leopardstar, and examined the remains of the pie. Then she pulled out a thick book. "According to the rules of April Fool's day, when slamming a pie into some cat's face, it must either be a blueberry pie, or a banana cream pie. No other kind is acceptable!"
Jaypaw blinked. "There's rules for April Fool's day?"
"Of course." Hollypaw made it sound completely obvious.
"Anyway," Continued Firestar. "Why have you come?"
Blackstar stepped forward. "We have decided the names of our clans are too boring. So we decided to rename them."
Firestar raised an eyebrow (do cats have eyebrows?). "How do I know this isn't a fooling?"
Blackstar raised one paw. "I swear this is not-"
Hollypaw cut him off. "It says right here in the big book o' rules! Rule # 7,892 says that you cannot change the name of a clan to fool some cat!"
Onestar cursed. "There goes my plan for next year."
Blackstar waved him off. "Anyway, I have decided ShadowClan will now be known as DarkNinjasOfEvilClan, or DNOEClan! But you can just call us EvilClan."
Leopardstar stepped forward. "RiverClan shall be known as RainbowClan!"
"We will be known as AwesomeClan!" Announced Onestar.
"No fair!" Protested Firestar. "I wanted to be AwesomeClan!"
Blackstar sighed. "I'm afraid it has already been taken.
Onestar smiled. "You're just jealous cause I thought of it first!"
That caused Blackstar to clobber Onestar over the head.
After careful thinking, Firstar finally decided a name. "ThunderClan is no more! From now on, we, are, CrazyLunaticsAndNerdsClan! Or CLANClan!"
"GOOOO, ClanClan!" Cats started randomly cheering.
"Why do we cheer so much?" Grumbled Jaypaw.
"I believe you asked that before." Stated Lionpaw.
"And I'm asking it again!" Snapped Jaypaw, before stomping off and crashing into one of Hollypaw's trees.
"I'VE COME BACK FROM THE DEAD!" Hissed Graystripe. "SO WHY IS EVERY CAT IGNORING ME?!"
"EEK!" Screamed Leopardstar. "A giant frog!"
"What? Oh." Graystripe took of the head of his giant frog costume. "It's just a costume, see?"
"EEK! THE GIANT FROG DECAPITATED ITSELF!" Leopardstar passed out on the ground.
"Firestar!" Cloudtail came running into camp. "Our scouts have sensed a disturbance in the force!"
"What?" Demanded Firestar.
"It's BloodClan!" Cloudtail reported. "They've finally come.
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"Why have you come?!" Challenged Firestar. "In fact, why are you still alive?"
Scourge laughed. "I am a leader. I have taken my nine lives, and now live on!" Behind him, hundreds of his cats cheered.
"It's good to know it's not just us that cheer." Jaypaw grumbled.
"What do you want?" Firestar demanded.
"Our territory sucks, and despite that fact that there's plenty of other territory to take over, we have decided to attack you again!"
Every cat gasped.
"Just kidding!" Scourge smiled. "April Fools!"
"OMG!" Hollypaw screamed. "That was the best fooling of all time!" And then she passed out beside Leopardstar who was dreaming of pickles.
"Well, bye for now until we attack another time!" And Scourge and his followers left.
"Why can we never just have a normal day?" Grumbled Jaypaw. "And why does weird things always happen on the holidays?"
"You asked too many questions." Lionpaw told him. "Just go with the flow. Or coconut if you prefer."
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back at camp...
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After fake farts, exploding trees, angry bunnies, and lots of paint, the sun was finally setting on the first day of April.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Hollypaw screamed. "IT CAN'T BE OVER ALREADY!"
Whitewind stumbled past, covered in bruises from her encounter with the angry elders. "I'm glad it is." And she collapsed right on the spot, beside Leopardstar, who somehow was still in camp and no cat seemed to notice.
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At the RiverClan camp...
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"Hey, Mistyfoot!" Called Mothwing. "Are we missing someone?"
The deputy looked up. "Not that I've noticed."
"I swear some cat important left and hasn't come back." Mothwing grumbled to herself.
"It's just your imagination." Mistyfoot told her.
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Back at ThunderClan...
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Every cat was so exhausted they couldn't make it to their dens. So Jaypaw drove a giant plow and pushed every cat into one big pile. "My spot." And he fell asleep in the middle of camp.
So, at long last, the sun set after a peaceful day of chaos. Every cat was tired, and Hollypaw was still freaking out. So for now, the randomness has ended. Replaced by complete calm." Lionpaw narrated.
"Hey Lionpaw!" Complained Jaypaw. "I'm trying to sleep!"
Lionpaw was barraged by pillows from every cat in the clan, until he seemed to no longer exist. But has the chaos really ended?
That's it for yet another chapter!
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The next chapter will be posted on Easter!