The Prophesied

Chapter 19 - Thistletail

Thistletail was playing with Dapplesong's kits, while Dapplesong went into the forest to get a break from her six chaotic kits. She loved them but even she needed a break. Fawnkit wasn't playing with the other kits, she was with Whitefang, they were playing hide and seek in the prison den with the kittypet Flower.

Sparrowkit leaped onto Thistletail's scruff, biting at it, her teeth felt like tiny harmless thorns in his scruff, Cedarkit yelped with glee as Thistletail lifted him off the ground playfully. "Pin him down! We must save Cedarkit!" Petalkit shouted, then five tiny paws attacked him, Thistletail pretended to be knocked over, "Oh no! You caught me!" Thistletail said dramatically, letting go of Cedarkit, the six tiny paws crawled over him squealing with joy. "Need help Thistletail?" he looked up and found surprising the blurry sharpe of Hollynose, her scent helped him figure out who she was.

Thistletail nodded and Hollynose nudged the kits off to allow Thistletail to get to his paws, "Awwww!" the kits whined, "Watch out kits! We are FawnClan cats attacking your camp!" Hollynose said playfully, crouching down, Thistletail pretended to look fierce, the kits squealed with excitement and charged at Hollynose and Thistletail.

Little paws batted at the two warriors and they played with the kits till quite some time later Dapplesong came back and thanked the two warriors for watching her kits while she had a break. Hollynose then offered to go hunting with Thistletail, to which he agreed.

In the forest they had dropped into crouches and were stalking a squirrel, it was nearby a tree. Thistletail didn't know how they would catch it without it getting away into the tree, he glanced at Hollynose but she looked confident they would catch it.

Hollynose then looked at Thistletail, she flicked her tail towards the undergrowth nearest to the squirrel. He nodded and Thistletail lifted his paw and it crunched down on a thin twig, it snapped loudly and the squirrel froze then it raced into the tree. Thistletail sighed but before he could speak Hollynose was scrambling up the tree and she grabbed the squirrel's tail with her teeth and climbed back down, she pinned the squirrel on the ground and killed it with a swift bite to its neck.

"Woah, you were so fast, Hollynose!" Thistletail yelped, she smiled at him, "Of course I am, did you think I'm as slow as snail?" Hollynose flicked her tail playfully, Thistletail felt embarrassment zap through him, making his fur get hot. "Uh- I- um," he stuttered, Hollynose flicked her tail again, "Well let's catch some more prey before we head back to camp," she then pushed the squirrel under a fern and they walked away to hunt some more.

They went towards the border with HurricaneClan and searched for prey there. "Thistletail!" Hollynose called, Thistletail turned towards her and saw her looking across the border, "What is it?" Thistletail asked, "I smell blood, a lot of it." Hollynose said, Thistletail smelled the air, he couldn't scent anything but the smell of trees and the smell of HurricaneClan's territory, "What do you mean? I can't smell anything?" Hollynose snorted, "Thistletail, even with you being partly blind your sense of smell hasn't improved?" Hollynose asked, "Even I can smell it! Well I am named Hollynose for a reason. Follow me," Hollynose then walked across the border with HurricaneClan and LarkClan.

"Hollynose!" he yelped, "We're not allowed over there!" "Oh come on, Thistletail! Don't you want to find out what happened over here too?" Hollynose asked, then she continued without waiting for an answer, he couldn't just let her go into another Clan's territories alone. What if a patrol found her, she would need help if she got into a fight.

"Hollynose! Wait for me!" Thistletail hissed in a whisper, quickly following after her fresh scent trail. Thistletail found Hollynose waiting in a crouch for him, when he crouched down next to her she put her paw over her mouth.