Warriors: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 (Book 3)

𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐜𝐞 (𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟕)

It's morning time, but the sun didn't appear. The sky still looked like nighttime, the moon was halfway covering the sun, it still left a hollow forest of snow and ice. Talons begged Emerald'gaze a bunch of times, without him the territory would be in shreds. Soon after he finally accepted it. It would be painful, and a journey through a harsh leaf bare. The gang run off to the forest after the sun rises from its sleep. Talons fled through the forest, looking for incoming predators, and leading the cats to the located Soul shard. Hail'cloud was keeping Emerald'gaze company, they may have met a few days ago, but their bond grows closer each day. 

Talons fled to a tree branch, Emerald'gaze stopped at the cliff. He looks down at the endless drop. He seen a light somewhere near the tallest mountain. Talons turned back as a cat; he looks at the light. "𝘐𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘐 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘨 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥." 

"I'll stay with the apprentices." Hail'cloud said. "I'll go with Emerald'gaze." Ferret'hop replied. "𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘴, 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘴. 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘷𝘦, 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?" Talons explained, Hail'cloud nodded. But Oleander'paw was a bit suspicious but went with it.  "𝘞𝘦'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘸." Talons said as he turned back into a hawk. Emerald'gaze looked at the apprentices. "We'll be back till evening." He said, he and Ferret'hop then ran off to follow the hawk. Hail'cloud already started to look for a cave. "C'mon now!" She spoke.

𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚

Emerald'gaze and Ferret'hop walked through the frozen forest, Ferret'hop wanted to talk, but she thought Emerald'gaze is still mad at her for earlier. Emerald'gaze darted his eyes at her, he sighed. "You want to talk or something?" He asked, Ferret'hop took a deep breath. "I hope you're still not mad at me." She said, Emerald'gaze grinned a little. "At least you helped us, and I'll have to say thank you for that."  He said, Ferret'hop's face start to get a little bit red. "Oh...so you're not mad anymore?" She asked. "No, not really, I couldn't be mad at a friend who've been with me for moons."

 "Well, the only cat that comforted me was Mint'breath, she was like a mother to me. Since she's gone, I have no one, but you helped me getting over her death and I really appreciate that." Emerald'gaze thought of 'Bronze'star, he did want to ask about him, but he just stayed quiet. Both of them would notice Talons flying over, they would run after to follow him. It felt like the happiest they both had ever been, well for Ferret'hop. They would doze off racing through the forest, until Ferret'hop would scream out. "CLIFF!"

Emerald'gaze stopped as he looks at the large cliff, it was a huge body of water, frozen by the blizzard. A huge hole beneath it was under the ice, he looked down at it. Ferret'hop heard something behind her, she turned around seeing two eyes glowing in the dark. Emerald'gaze was amazed how huge the lake was, Ferret'hop looked at the shadows of the eyes. A bear then pounced at her, she then grabbed Emerald'gaze and fall into the ice, and into the cold water. "AGH-" Emerald'gaze yowled, Ferret'hop grabbed him into a big portion of ice.

"WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?" He yelled at Ferret'hop, Ferret'hop tried to explain, but she starts to panic seeing the bear pouncing from under the water. Emerald'gaze ducked quickly, the bear's claws plunged into the ice, making it little cracks. Emerald'gaze and Ferret'hop took off quickly, the ice start to crack, the big hole slowly appeared in the middle. A soul shard rose up from the hole, Emerald'gaze then made a green ice bridge for Ferret'hop to run past at to the land. Emerald'gaze then start jumping ice to ice, he seen Ferret'hop being chased by the bear.

He then jumps up and summoned an Ice shard, breaking the soul shard in half, the rest of the icicles plunged at the bear's fur, Emerald'gaze then jumped and landed on Ferret'hop. They both ran to the snow before the ice break, as they made it, they heard the bear's roaring at the distance. Ferret'hop's paws slipped, Emerald'gaze bit her tail and dragged her back to land. They both fell in the ground exhausted. Talons appeared in front of them, he also had Hail'cloud and the heirs with him as well.

"Yep, I knew splitting up was a bad idea." Milk'paw said, Talons sighed. "𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘥..." he muttered, Hail'cloud sat beside the two to see if they were alright. Ferret'hop yelled at Talons. "WHY DID YOU LEAVE US-" She growled. "𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘪𝘭'𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦'𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳'𝘴 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘪'𝘴." He said, they both blinked. "A what now?" Emerald'gaze asked, he rolled over to the side. "Those white looking cat spirits came and found us." Dusk'paw explained, the rest of the apprentices including Hail'cloud nodded. "They were looking for you too." Hail'cloud said. 

(Btw Kori means Ice, used Google translate lol)

"Well, WE just got attacked by a BEAR, and destroyed ANOTHER SOUL SHARD while THE ICE WAS BREAKING, IT EVEN HAD A HUGE HOLE BENEATH IT!" Emerald'gaze face planted into the cold snow. He then heard a voice behind him, he turned around quickly.

"𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙔 𝘼𝙍𝙀!"

Talons look up at the sky, it was the Kori's again, the white spiritual cats with icy blue eyes and a moon mark on their head, it was indeed, former member of IceClan. Talons turn into a hawk again and surrounded the group before the Koris could attack, they all disappeared.

(12 Soul shards remain)