A Loner's Tale | Warrior Cat Fan Fiction

|~ Chapter 7 ~|

Caellium felt numb, feeling slowly returned to her aching limbs as she opened her eyes to the face in front of her. She groaned, letting out a chocked exhale. she was back in the barn, back with Artemis, who was right in front of her. She yelped, falling off the pile of hay where she had decided to sleep. Landing with a thump and another groan she mumbled a curse. "Caellium!" Artemis called out, she stood up and shook her fur feeling a muddy texture all over it. "Ow." She complained in a cold tone. "That hurt!" She hissed, leaping up to the top of the stack again. Artemis tumbled back, "Sorry," he chuckled. She was about to give him a piece of her mind but decided on a hmph noise instead. Caellium chuckled slightly at his flinch. "Jeez, you might wanna get used to that," she said, before Artemis's reply "Yeah I know," Caellium leaped down from the hay on the other side. Landing on shake legs she yawned, Artemis looked at her as if she was crazy. "You alright..?" He asked hesitantly, "Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Caellium was genuinely confused and stared at Artemis with a tilted head. "You were... Screaming, terrified, calling out?" Artemis seemed concerned but she shrugged, feeling scared, did he know? No, he couldn't . . .  She laughed, "You have a vivid imagination," Cliche, she knew it, but chuckled anyway. He followed her around for the rest of the morning, "very sneaky." she commented aloud, hearing his loud paw steps skid across the barn floor. "Stop following me," Caellium warned carefully. Hearing him skid across the floor once more she groaned. "I told you I'm fine!" Caellium called out, running out of the barn with a fast pace. 

After only running for a few tail lengths outside the barn she leaped to the side. Soon after, only a few seconds Artemis came running out and she leaped back, pinning him. Artemis yelped and looked up at her with concerned eyes. "Jeez," Caellium scoffed, despite being pestered by Caellium for a good 20 or so minutes Artemis stayed silent. "You good at keeping secrets, not so good at stalking." She groaned. By StarClan why did he have to be so annoying? Caellium huffed, getting off the oddly large Tom. "I'm. Fine." She hissed, glaring at him, before turning around and walking away. She could hear him mumble some very . . .  Pathetic insults before leaping over the fence onto Wind Clan territory. 

Artemis didn't stop following her. Despite how many times she pinned him again, and again, and again. Every single time he yelped, cried, or screamed, it was quite entertaining though. She couldn't help but grin each time. "Such a cry baby," she chuckled from above him once again, this time he reacted earlier and flipped me over. So that he was on top of Caellium, she grunted, struggling from beneath his paws. his paws were positioned on her shoulders and Artemis's face was so close to hers. "Y'know... I have a kitttypet friend, their Two Legs mix something into their food, called 'cinnamon' apparently it's spicy and sweet." He grinned broadly, "Well then I guess your cinnamon," she smirked. He sighed, realising that this was a losing scenario. "I'm just worried," he mumbled. Caellium "I thought we were over that dream!" she hissed, his ears perked. "So it was a dream," he inquired with a matter-of-a-fact tone, Caellium cursed. "Maybe." She said coldly, before unsheathing her claws and swiping at his mussle. Leaving blood dripping from the small would, he barely flinched but did end up leaping back, long enough for her to escape into a bush.