It has been two months since they were trapped in this forest, and in that time, the four DayClan cats met two exiled LightClan cats and a young CrystalClan apprentice. "So... who are you three?" Nightfang mewed. "I'm Starlingpool, and this is my best friend, Moonfeather." The sable she-cat mewed in a friendly tone. "And I'm Rubypaw." The small dark red apprentice chirped happily from her place beside Starlingpool.
Eclipsewing awoke the next morning to the sun shining in her eyes. She groaned and buried her face in her paws as she tried and failed to get back to sleep. "Come on Eclipse. Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" Briardawn shouted in an attempt to wake up the black-and-white she-cat. "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" She shouted, batting at Eclipsewing's face with a paw.
"Ok Ok I'm up!"
"Good, now C'mon. Training is starting." Briardawn told her. "Yeah! Why you gotta be soooo bossy!" She meowed in an exasperated tone of voice. "Ugh! I hate mornings!" Eclipsewing grumbled under her breath as she followed after Briardawn. "Stay awake! And I mean it miss lazy-claws!" Nightcloud mewed exasperatedly. Eclipsewing just hissed and flexed her claws.
"Mornin sleepyhead" Whisperheart said in a joking tone of voice. "Shut up Whisp!" Eclipsewing snapped at the silver-and-white she-cat. "Who ruffled your fur this morning?" Whisperheart mumbles under her breath. "I. Said. SHUT UP!" Eclipsewing caterwauled. "Stop screeching like a dying animal! Your gonna make us all deff!"
A few hours later, the sound of screeching cats and fighting tour through the air. The six cats, startled, poked there heads out of there cave entrance. They saw a black and white she-cat attacking a dark gray tomcat. The moon shown down on a shadowy clearing, and dark figures were slithering out from the shadows almost like a group of snakes or a pack of ravenous wolves looking for pray to eat. Two of the figures, a sable-furred apprentice and a black and white dappled she-cat patted out of the bushes, witch were cloaked in shadow, the light of the moon making the leaves of the bushes a bright silvery color that glowed in the night.
The black and white she-cat launched herself at her attackers, latching onto a brown tomcat's back and digging in her thorn-sharp claws. He yowled in pain, but she did not relent. She planned to banish these dishonorable cats from her territory with a fight they would not forget. She sank her teeth into his ear, pulling backward until she felt it tear. The tomcat screeched, jerking his head out of her grasp and escaping back to his territory.
She whirled around, searching for a new opponent, and threw herself into the heat of battle with a cry strong enough to instill fear in even the most experienced warriors. Her claws tore through enemy fur with the vicious rage of StarClan. The ground near the border stream began to pool with blood from both groups of cats. The she-cat remained unharmed.
As she was swiping her unsheathed claws at the nose of a ginger tabby, she heard a sharp cry emit from one of her clanmates. Hissing at her opponent, she slashed his face one last time before streaking off to the source of the cry.
"Nightwing, watch out! Behind you!" One of her clanmates yowled, and the black and white she-cat whipped around and sank her thorn-sharp claws into the back of a dark gray tomcat's shoulder. He let out a yowl of pain, and Nightwing bit down hard on his neck, and the cat fell to the ground, blood pooling out from the open wound like a river, and the ground beneath her was stained with the blood of several of both her enemies and of some of her fallen clanmates.
"Nightwing! Help Ashscar, quickly! She's running out of time!"
"Where is she, Moonfire?" Nightwing mewed, and the dark ginger she-cat pointed with her tail to where another black and white she-cat was trapped under a heavy looking tomcat, her back legs were weekly kicking at the tomcat's flank, but it was no use, and her attempts were futile.
"What's going on out there? Should we help them? Look! One of them is injured!"
"No, Rubes. They're wild cats, I don't think they're very friendly." The small russet-furred she-cat sighed but did as she was told. "Ok Starlingpool, I'll head back in the cave." She mewed to her adopted mom. Starlingpool nodded and licked Rubypaw behind the ears. "Yeah, let's go back inside. We don't want them to see us." The sable-furred medicine cat mewed while gently nosing her apprentice back into the den.
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Surviving is the Only Way
ספרות חובביםWhisperheart, along with her three best friends, Briardawn, Eclipsewing, and Nightcloud, are on their way to look for herbs to heal one of their clanmates who is sick with whitecough. But soon they end up lost and find themselves stranded in a fores...
