Warriors: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 (Book 3)

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 (𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏)

It was still a blizzard from where Ferret'hop and Emerald'gaze is from. The cabin was nice and warm for the cats, it  was a peaceful night for the first time in days, but not for long. The cabin's light dimmed down for the night, Ferret'hop stayed in Emerald'gaze's side. But Emerald'gaze seemed to move around every minute, like some sort of dream he's having. His vision was a hole in the wall, it led into a tunnel. He seen the light, similar into what he saw before dealing with the bear. He slowly opened his eyes, he put the blanket over Ferret'hop. He looked around to see if anybody heard him.

He looked into the room that the wall he saw in his dream, and then went. It was a bedroom, for a two'leg to sleep in. "I wonder where did their owner go." He thought to himself, he look around at the bedroom. He seen shotgun leaning on the desk, he shivered having those flashbacks again. He heard walking behind him, he jumped up, it was Frostbite. "Oh? Hey again-" Emerald'gaze said, Frostbite glared at him. He had a bit of surprised glare, until he noticed that light in the wall, turning into anger.

"𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘐 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶." He said.

"I- um...was just exploring, I'll leave if you want to." Emerald'gaze said, he start to look at Frostbite's expression in his eyes. He start to yell for some reason.

"𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙒𝙀𝙍𝙀 𝙂𝙊𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙏𝙊 𝙂𝙊 𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙀 𝘿𝙄𝘿𝙉'𝙏 𝙔𝙊𝙐!?"

"SHHHHH WHY ARE YOU SO LOUD!" He whispered at him, Frostbite stepped towards him unsheathing his claws.

"𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘞𝘈𝘕𝘛 𝘔𝘠 𝘍𝘈𝘔𝘐𝘓𝘠 𝘛𝘖 𝘉𝘌 𝘋𝘌𝘈𝘋 𝘐𝘕 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘋𝘚 𝘖𝘍 𝘌𝘊𝘓𝘐𝘗𝘚𝘌!?" He snarled at Frostbite, his cold eyes stared at Emerald'gaze. Emerald'gaze stayed back from the young tom. "WHAT DID I EVEN DO!?" He cried, Frostbite's expression turned into tears. "𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘞𝘈𝘕𝘛 𝘛𝘖 𝘙𝘜𝘐𝘕 𝘔𝘠 𝘓𝘐𝘍𝘌!? 𝘉𝘠 𝘋𝘌𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘖𝘠𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘛𝘏𝘈𝘛 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘞𝘖𝘜𝘓𝘋 𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘔𝘠 𝘍𝘈𝘔𝘐𝘓𝘠 𝘒𝘐𝘓𝘓𝘌𝘋. 𝘋𝘖 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘞𝘈𝘕𝘛 𝘛𝘏𝘈𝘛!?"

"WHAT THING!?" Emerald'gaze eyes start to turn into anger. "WHAT THING ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?" His eyes blinked red, the ice slowly appeared on the ground, growing. Frostbite stepped even closer, he was on the verge of pouncing onto the cat. Frostbite's eyes  blinked into white as he close the door behind him, locking it. Emerald'gaze stepped back, Frostbite made the vase collapsed onto him, Emerald'gaze ducked, only to leave with a few scratches.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!? WHAT DID I EVEN DO TO YOU!?" He screamed. Frostbite widened his eyes, he heard White'Star whispering into his ear. "𝘋𝘰 𝘪𝘵." They demanded.

"𝘠-𝘠𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦'𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳!" Frostbite then pounced at Emerald'gaze, Emerald'gaze screeched, struggling to move. Frostbite raise a paw, attempting to claw Emerald'gaze. Emerald'gaze clawed his face, Frostbite tackled him, they both fall into the tunnel. They both separated mid fall, Emerald'gaze landed onto the cold stone floor. He looked up seeing 3 tunnels in front of him. He looked around, no sight of Frostbite. He start to worry if Ferret'hop noticed he was gone. He walked around trying to find something to escape.

But he seen a light in the central cave behind him, but he did thought about giving up and just die. Since everything is after him, he sat down thinking. He then see a ghost in front of him, it looked like Dust'star. He start to follow it, it disappeared at the end of the cave. He start to sense some dread, it felt like SOMETHING was going to happen. But the soul shard is in somewhere in the underground, he continued his way through the cave. He start seeing crystals glowing in the walls, cave drawings as well.

He start seeing a huge drawn cat head with a star in the middle, and the smaller one with a crescent mark. He start to think to himself.  "These cave drawings must be related to White'Star somehow..." He start to see the crystals bigger and bigger, as he enter. There was a huge hole with water running down to the mist. It was a huge crystal in the middle, and alot of colorful small shards around it. It was beautifully massive, it looked like a tribe of cats belonged here. Emerald'gaze looked at the light inside the crystal. "Huh....weird...now I know why he wouldn't let me in."

He tried thinking how he could break it, he look at the icicles growing on the top. He then heard something screaming in the distance. He felt the cold blizzard raging through, he seen the shadows of Frostbite racing towards him. Emerald'gaze quickly jumped up, using his ice powers to walk from the ground. He seen Frostbite attempting to tackle him, he dodged it quickly. He stood up looking down, Frostbite then tried to get him, but Emerald'gaze dodged it again, leading him making the rock crashing down. He tackle Emerald'gaze, Emerald'gaze look at the rocks falling on the crystal.

"𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙐𝙇𝘿 𝙉𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍 𝙂𝙊 𝙏𝙃𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙂𝙃 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙒𝘼𝙇𝙇. 𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙇𝙊𝙊𝙆 𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘿𝙄𝘿."

Frostbite said, Emerald'gaze heard a screeching noise. He seen the rocks crashing down revealing the cabin. Ferret'hop and Talons looked over at the two. Ferret'hop had the kits beside her since Edith died, she died from Ferret'hop after attacking her by White'Star's order, luckily the kits aren't familiar with what their parents were working for. Talons fled downward and attacked Frostbite, pushing him over. Emerald'gaze quickly got up on the ice he made to walk and grown some more.

"𝘼𝙍𝙂𝙃𝙃𝙃𝙃! 𝙉𝙊𝙊𝙊!" Frostbite tried to fly all the way targetting Emerald'gaze, Emerald'gaze look at the crystal breaking revealing the Soul shard. He fled up and released his ice shards, doing the same thing like he did last time. Talons quickly grab Emerald'gaze before the Soul shard exploded. The dark forest then came, fortunately Talons was quick enough to teleport them, all they could hear is Frostbite screaming. They fell in the snow, the kits were very close with Ferret'hop. Emerald'gaze felt limp, he just stayed there in the snow.

Talons turned back and asked. "𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺?"

Ferret'hop quickly ran over to Emerald'gaze, she was worried sick, she start to panic a little realizing Emerald'gaze isn't responding. "I-I don't think he's dead isn't he....?" She said, Emerald'gaze rolled over just looking, he just...looked. 

They all heard walking in the distance.

(10 soul shards remain.)