Shadowblaze ran all the way to the border before pausing and waiting for Hawkclaw to catch up with her. A few moments later Hawkclaw burst through the undergrowth, panting and grumbling about how tired and sore his paws already were. Shadowblaze rolled her eyes and growled, "We'll you're gonna have to get used to that cause we've got a long way to go!" "Urggghhhh" moaned Hawkclaw. Shadowblaze purred in amusement and began to run toward the distant mountains with Hawkclaw reluctantly trailing behind grumbling about his aching paws and how annoying Shadowblaze was.
"So, when can we stop running so fast?" Hawkclaw wheezed as he finally managed to catch up with Shadowblaze. Shadowblaze snorted and meowed, "Now" Hawkclaw sighed in relief and slowed to a really slow walk. Shadowblaze looked over at him and groaned, "I didn't mean become a snail! Hurry up Hawkdung! Or should I start calling you snail?" "Haha Shadowblaze, really funny there. Can we take a break?" "I hope you're kidding, Hawkclaw."
That night Shadowblaze and Hawkclaw were still walking toward the mountains when Hawkclaw announced," Shadowblaze, we have to find shelter for the night." Shadowblaze glanced at him and nodded, " How bout we try over there?" She suggested pointing toward some small twoleg dens near the edge of the woods that they were walking through. Hawkclaw glanced at them and shrugged saying, "Sure, why not? What's the worst that could happen?"
They walked over to the closest den and Shadowblaze prodded at the entrance to the den and sniffed the inside, " I don't smell any twolegs in there so we should be fine" she reported. Hawkclaw hesitantly looked into the den and meowed, "it looks safe, but you should let me go fir- Shadowblaze!" Shadowblaze had gotten tired of listening to Hawkclaw talk and just went in Hawkclaw grumbled something inaudible and followed Shadowblaze into the den.
Meanwhile in the den Shadowblaze had already found a clump of soft twoleg pelts that she what'd decided should be her temporary nest for the night. As she was shaping some of the pelt into a nest Hawkclaw padded into the den and began to chide her for running off. Shadowblaze stared at him and meowed, "When did you become such a mother?" Hawkclaw blinked surprisedly and then burst out laughing. Shadowblaze mumbled something about how Hawkclaw was annoying before turning back to her task of making herself her nest.
After making her nest Shadowblaze called to Hawkclaw that she was going hunting. A moment later Hawkclaw tripped off the elevated platform where the pelts were and landed on his face while muttering, "I'll come with you, I'm hungry" Shadowblaze laughed and sped out of the den and into the nearby forest to hunt. Being the excellent hunter she was Shadowblaze caught a few mice and quickly went back to the den and waited for Hawkclaw to appear.
When he did show up Shadowblaze burst out laughing for the second time that day, mostly because Hawkclaw was soaking wet and covered in mud, sticks and pieces of twoleg junk. "Wha-what happened to you?" Shadowblaze managed to gasp out between laughs. Hawkclaw muttered something and Shadowblaze tipped her head and asked, "What." "I fell into a creek while trying to catch a fish" Hawkclaw admitted Shadowblaze looked at him and meowed bewilderedly, "Why in the name of Starclan would you try to catch a fish?" "I dunno" Hawkclaw meowed embarrassedly. "Well, since you didn't catch your fish I guess I'll share one of my mice with you" Shadowblaze meowed " Thanks Shadowblaze" Hawkclaw meowed.
Soon after eating Shadowblaze went into the den to get some rest claiming that they should get an early start in the morning. Hawkclaw just rolled his eyes and shrugged. Shadowblaze grumbled but still went in and soon fell asleep due to her exhaustion.
That night Shadowblaze dreamed that a dark brown she-cat with orange streaks was calling to some other cats then the same cat was leading a patrol of cats to a dark cave on the side of a mountain, then the dream showed the cat and some others attacking a giant bird that was about the size of a twoleg monster, the she-cat bared her teeth and hissed at the bird and the dream changed. Now an old speckled tom was sitting in front of her meowing, "You can save us" Then Shadowblaze jerked awake and looked around taking in the sort of familiar surroundings. She sighed and settled back down, the warmth next to her was making her sleep- wait, what?! Warmth next to her? What?! Shadowblaze turned over and found a heap of brown fur curled up next to her fast asleep.
Shadowblaze screeched and immediately shoved Hawkclaw out of the nest and accidentally off of the platform. A loud yelp from below signaled Hawkclaw's awakening and a voice yowled, "What the heck! Shadowblaze!" Shadowblaze peeked over the side and saw a very annoyed Hawkclaw staring up at her crossly, "what was that for? You could have just woken me up you know!" "Well it's kinda your fault Hawkclaw!" "What?! No way that was all you!" "Uh huh, sure. What were you in my nest!" Shadowblaze yowled glaring daggers at Hawkclaw, "Oh... Ummm... Well... Ummm" Hawkclaw tried to stammer out answers as Shadowblaze glared at him looking as if she wanted to kill him.
"I'm gonna kill him!" Shadowblaze thought as she glared down at Hawkclaw. "Well? Why were you in my nest?" Shadowblaze hissed. Hawkclaw seemed to retrieve his wits for a moment and managed to say, "Well you told me to go to sleep and I didn't feel like making my own nest so I looked around and thought, well Shadowblaze's nest still has some room, so I just curled up in your nest due to my laziness and because, well just because."
Shadowblaze thought for a moment and finally nodded accepting his explanation but she was still annoyed so she dragged Hawkclaw to the creek and told him to stand next to the creek. When he asked why he had to stand there Shadowblaze told him, "Wellll it's actually your choice," she meowed, "You can either stand there for a little while or you can get shoved into a fox den, by me of course!" Hawkclaw groaned but decided to just stand there for a few moments. Then as he was standing there Shadowblaze rammed against him and shoved him into the creek. She grinned and meowed, "Now that was good payback."
Hawkclaw glared daggers up at Shadowblaze but she didn't care. She grinned and meowed, "Think about it the next time you try to share my nest!" At this point Hawkclaw had managed to climb out of the creek and was trying to sneak up on Shadowblaze so that he could shake off right next to her and get her wet as payback for shoving him in the creek. It was a good plan and Hawkclaw planned to carry it out. He slowly slipped out of the creek and behind Shadowblaze, then as quickly as he could Hawkclaw shook out his pelt, spraying Shadowblaze with water and making her jump. Then he burst out laughing, Shadowblaze wasn't happy, at all. She glared at Hawkclaw and hissed," Keep your eyes open Fish, cause I'll kill you when you least expect it." Shadowblaze had the satisfaction of seeing Hawkclaw's eyes widen in then started to stalk away but stopped before she got out of the clearing. She turned around and shoved Hawkclaw back into the creek. Then she left the clearing.
Shadowblaze was stalking away from the creek to continue the quest when she heard Hawkclaw yowling for help, "What has that mousebrain gotten himself into now?" Shadowblaze wondered as she raced over to the creek to check on Hawkclaw. When she got there she found a small twoleg holding Hawkclaw in its paws and kind of purring, the sight was so stupid it made Shadowblaze laugh. Hawkclaw on the other paw wasn't amused, he yowled, "Get off of me you annoying twoleg!" he tried to claw the twoleg but somehow it was holding him perfectly where his paws were trapped by its paws, Shadowblaze was still laughing but the twoleg seemed to hear her laughter and it turned around and it's face lit up and it smiled and reached for Shadowblaze who took off running.
As she ran Shadowblaze tried to figure out a good plan to free Hawkclaw while not getting caught by the twoleg herself. Finally after a long time she got an idea. She slowed so the twoleg was right behind her and it could almost grab her. As it reached one paw for her she leapt onto the paw and ran onto the twoleg's head. The twoleg squawked in surprise and tried to grab her but Shadowblaze moved every time it tried to grab her until she scrambled onto it's back and clung on with her claws. As she did this her claws accidentally grazed the twoleg''s back and it screeched and dropped Hawkclaw to try to snatch Shadowblaze off of its back. As soon as Hawkclaw was far enough from the twolegs Shadowblaze dropped from it's back and took off Hawkclaw a shove on her way to get him moving. "Come on! Let's go!" She yowled and ran toward the mountains without looking back.