Warriors: Troubled Tides ~Series 2 Book 2~

Chapter 16

Flamefur's POV:

Flamefur winced as someone kicked her in her side, shooting her out of her dream. "Hey!" She snarled, blinking her eyes open to search the darkness of the den for the kicker. She spotted her. It was Honeyburr. The young she cat was writhing in her sleep, tiny whimpers escaping her lips.

"Honeyburr?" Greystep had woken up as well. The grey tom stared at Honeyburr in fear. "Wake up, it's just a dream."

Honeyburr whimpered louder and kicked and thrashed in her sleep. Whatever nightmare she was having, it was pretty bad. Flamefur leaned closer, now fully awake. The memories of Dark Forest training at the back of her mind as she nudged Honeyburr to try and wake the writhing she cat. "Honeyburr! Wake up!"

Eagleflight, Nightstrike and Redwish had woken up from the yelling. Redwish's glowing grey eyes were stretched wide in worry.

"What's going on?" Tigerstripe grumbled as he, too, woke up.

"Honeyburr is having a nightmare!" Greystep yowled loudly, finishing the job of waking up all of the warriors.

Nebulafang pushed her way through the crowding warriors with Dapplegrey close behind. The two senior warriors calmly settled down by Honeyburr and studied the writhing she cat. Mousenose joined her fellow senior warriors, nudging away the younger cats. "Give them space." The brown she cat ordered briskly. The last two senior warriors, Sunpatch and Yellowpelt, pushed their way to the front and moved the rest of the warriors further away.

"Go back to sleep." Sunpatch meowed. "There is nothing to worry about."

"We're handling it." Yellowpelt joined in.

((I was just wondering.... They don't know what hands are right? So how would they know the word 'Handling'? Lol))

Flamefur slipped past Sunpatch and Yellowpelt to get closer to Honeyburr. She had to see what was going on. Is she dreaming in the Dark Forest? Flamefur knew that she sometimes writhed in her dreams when she trained.
Dapplegrey looked up at Flamefur. "Help me wake her up."

Flamefur nodded and began shaking Honeyburr's shoulder but nothing seemed to happen. Nebulafang shook her head in worry. "Nothing seems to be waking her." Honeyburr was still lashing her paws in all directions. It was like she was fighting something.

Flamefur made up her mind quickly. She needed to find out what was going on. And she knew exactly the place she needed to go. The birth place of all nightmares.

The Dark Forest.

Flamefur crawled back over to her nest and curled up in the moss, willing herself to sleep. Luckily, it didn't take long. She awoke in the Dark Forest in no time at all. Metalclaw was waiting for her. "I know what you need." Was all he said before spinning around and stalking deeper into the dank forest. "Follow me."

Flamefur trotted after Metalclaw. "Where are we going?"

He didn't directly answer her question. "We're taking a huge risk by going here. I hope you understand that NoName doesn't like to be interrupted."

"Interrupted? What is she doing?" Flamefur asked, feeling a chill run down her spine. She pressed herself against Metalclaw's cold pelt to try and warm herself.

"Creating nightmares."

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Silvershy's POV:

Silvershy was dreaming. She found herself in a shadowed forest. The mist was so thick she could barely see anything in front of her muzzle. With cautious steps, Silvershy made her way through the forest in hopes of finding something.

Why am I here? Has this got something to do with the prophecy?

Suddenly, she heard voices. Silvershy crouched down and pricked her ears, trying to make them out. The voices were getting closer. It was a she cat and tom. Silvershy sniffed the air and smelled the familiar scent of Lightclan mixed with the smell of rot.

By now, Silvershy could hear the cats. "It's getting pretty foggy in here." The she cat meowed.

The tom replied, "We're getting closer. This fog is made to warn cats away from her when she is making nightmares."

Silvershy peeked her head up over a rock to see it was Flamefur talking with the tom. She let out a gasp and both heads turned to her.

"Silvershy? Is that you?" Flamefur called. "What are you doing?"

"N-nothing." Silvershy mewed in fear. "Nothing at all."

Flamefur growled loudly. "Don't be a mousebrain! What are you doing here?"

"I-I don't know!" Silvershy whimpered. "I just woke up here!" She didn't think to ask Flamefur what she was doing in this weird foresr.

Flamefur growled again and grabbed Silvershy by the scruff and roughly dragging her back onto her paws. "Fine then! You're coming with me."

"Where are you going?" Silvershy dared to ask. She was scared of Flamefur. She wasn't acting like her normal self.

"I'm gonna save Honeyburr from NoName." Was all Flamefur replied with, following the tom as he stalked through the dense fog.

"Who's NoName?" Silvershy narrowed her eyes. "Wait... I think I met her! She gave me this crazy nightmare! Is she doing the same to Honeyburr?"

"Yes." Flamefur hissed. "Now shut up before you get us all caught!"

Silvershy lowered her gaze with a small nod. "Okay..."

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