The rain stopped with the silence.
"W-What do you mean?" Stammered Flame, his eyes glimmering with confusion.
The she fox would snort, but her expression said more. "Our parents went looking for you, I came along..." She paused, Cherry's gaze softening as she stared at the rocky ground.
"Hind-standers killed them." She finished. Flames eyes widened heartache giving him a hard hit. He had heard of the Hind-standers before. The only fur they had was on their heads, and they went in Rounded-paws on the black trail. "I tried to stop them, but there was a big bang and they were gone." Cherry couldn't even glance at Flame, and he understood. "You put us in too much trouble." She snapped, growling. "Leave."
Flame gulped, turning away. Rage filled his sadness, and he tore off into the forest, leaving the den that he once lived in.
Leaves parted to leave a trail for the fox, flying off and blowing away with the wind. Out of breath, he stopped. Flame raised his head, taking in the scents. This territory seemed strange and weird, nothing like the river. Trees. Trees! He looked around, and saw a patch of sand. Fresh cat scent was plastered on the ground, making Flame flatten his ears in pure disgust.
Though, one cat didn't.
He slid away from the sand, and ventured onto the new territory. Fresher scents made him stop dead in hunger. He looked around. Flame hasn't ate in days. He found a mouse scurrying toward a seed near a tall tree. Flame raced toward the mouse, barking. The mouse squeaked alertly in reply and ran, but not fast enough. Flame swiped his fore paw at random, clutching the mouse with his sadly short claws. The mouse wriggled as Flame crushed the mouse with his paw, trying to escape into the bushes in front of Flame. Tired, the mouse fell limp, and Flame picked it up with his mouth and ended the mouses life. He happily barked. "It's not the smartest way to catch a mouse, but I did it!" He boasted to nobody but a tree next to him.
Suddenly, the bushes shuddered with a yowl.
CAT! Flame thought.
He bounced back with the prey in his jaws, watching a cat crash through the bushes. It was fairly small, too small to be a leader. Even so, it had a grim expression on its face as it met Flame. With not even a meow, the cat would leap up, slicing his back. Flame grimanced in reply. The cats ears twitched, a glimmer of amusement in its amber eyes. Flame growled, letting the prey slip off his jaws and let out a bark of fury. He charged at the cat, grabbing the tail of it firmly. "Fox-brain!" It would yowl in pain, waving the tail. Blood sprayed the ground as Flame pulled the tail back with his teeth. It was torn off.
The cat no longer had a amused smirk on its faced. "Happy now?" Flame would sneer with a meow. The brown cat would cringe away, its ears flattened with agony. Flame could see a bit of surprise in the cats expression too, as it slinked away. Flame dropped the tail, shuddering. He started to dig with his fore paws, brushing the tail of the cat into the small hole with his own tail. I hope nobody sees this...
"This is no home for me.. I'm better off at the river, even if there is no food.." He would murmur, grabbing the dead mouse.
The fox would bound off, his paws slowly turning into a blur as he started to sprint.
In the corner of his eyes, he could see the bushes bristle.
ANTPAWS POV
Antpaw knew she couldn't run forever, so she skidded to a halt, far too close to ThunderClan territory. Fox lengths backwards lay the Sunning Rocks.
She flopped to her side, the long, curly grass tickling her fur. Antpaw's ears twitched, then lay there. Something blurry brushed her belly, but Antpaw ignored it, thinking it was more grass pushing down at her from wind. But the wind is blowing the opposite way! She observed.
"Wake up!" Mewled a voice. She grunted in reply. "Go away, Bluepaw!" She warned with a flick of her tail. The cat didn't leave, all it said was, "What?"
Antpaw leaped up, reconizing the same, scratchy, meow. "Flame!" She yowled, surprised the fox has come back. The fox would back away, whimpering. "I know I'm not supposed to come back, but there's nowhere to go.." Flame explained with a another scratchy mew. Antpaw sniffed the fox gingerly, trying to stay her distance.
"You smell like ThunderClan!" She spat, wrinkling her nose as if she smelled dung. The fox would cock his head in reply. "What's a ThunderClan?" He asked. I forgot, he's a fox! Antpaw realized. "There's four clans in the forest. My group, or Clan is RiverClan, which you can probably tell." The black cat explained. "You might of went into another territory."
Flame nodded, but really he couldn't understand.
"Could I stay in your territory for a while? I promise I won't hurt you, or your group!" Flame pleaded after a couple heartbeats. Antpaw would narrow her eyes into slits. "Aw, fine.." She gave in with a sigh. Antpaw found herself curling her tail in amusement and purring.
"Good luck."