What is Weirder? (A 1D/Warrior Cats FanFic)

Chapter 23: Friendly Fox (feat. Kuroyama's characters)

Rainbowtail's POV

Curlypelt, Cheetahpaw, and I followed the prey hunters into the blinding snowy forest. It would be sunny in the forest, but here, it always seemed to be clouded and snowing. But this time, the snow got a bit more fierce. Having to push through the snow, we trudged along. Finally, in some tree cover, one of the prey hunters stood up straight, then flicked his tail a few times in different directions. The other prey hunters saw him, and nodded. What were they doing? Then I saw a big shadow, and looked up. A giant bird was soaring in circles above them, and my first instinct was to dash for the nearest bush and hide.

I looked over at one of the prey hunters, and they shook their head, then jerked their head towards them to beckon us to them. I padded over silently, and looked at the hawk. "We are going to corner the hawk, then have one of us catch it." He whispered as quietly as he could. I nodded, then glanced back at the hawk. Then, stepping a little to the left, I found an empty spot where I could wait for a signal, not even knowing what it was, but a signal. I saw everybody creeping slowly towards the hawk. As we were about to attack it, the brambles behind me cracked and waved. Now startled, the hawk flew away.

I spun around in anger. Now facing me was a fox, with a kit in it's jaws. I instinctively pounced on it, clawing it's flank so I could grab the kit and save it from the fox. It shook me off, gently put the kit down in a spot where the snow couldn't get it, and turned around to face me. "What do you think you're doing?! Trying to hurt Jaykit?! He's already been through enough!" He yowled at me. "Wha- you can talk?" I asked, bewildered. "Yes, I can." He growled at me. "Twitch, what's going on? Is everything okay?" I heard a she cat's voice from behind the fox. Then I saw her, emerging from the snowy bushes, shaking the snow off.

I quickly gave my chest fur a few embarrassed licks, then turned back to the two, seeing the fox, Twitch, picking up Jaykit. "I'm sorry for attacking you, erm, Twitch. I didn't know you were protecting Jaykit.." I trailed off. The she cat came foreword. "It's okay, I'm sure you were aiming for good, not bad." I might as well tell them my name. "I'm Rainbowtail of Thunderclan." I meowed. "Thunderclan? That's not one of the clans." She meowed. "Well, I'm Mintleap of Fireclan." She introduced herself. "We must come from different places. Where I'm from, Fireclan isn't one of the four clans." I meowed to Mintleap. Just then, a forlorn looking tom came through the bushes. He looked almost exactly like Lionmane.

I stood there, mouth gaping. I closed it and shakily asked, "Lionmane?" "What? That isn't my name." He meowed, looking me in the eyes. "Oh, I'm sorry, you just look like someone from my clan called Lionmane." I apologized again. "It's fine, I'm Lionheart." He meowed, quickly accepting my apology. "I want Goldenfire." Jaykit spoke for the first time. "Goldenfire?" I asked, and Lionheart winced, as if he had taken a scratch. "Goldenfire was Lionheart's mate. We were attacked by dogs, and... They got her." Mintleap sorrowfully meowed. "Oh, I- I'm sorry for your loss." I stuttered, not wanting to upset them. Just then a gust of wind knocked me flat, and I heard calls of "Rainbowtail?" And "where are you?" I stood up and meowed, "I have to go. Maybe I'll see you around." "Bye." They all meowed, or in Twitch's case, barked?

I bounded back through the dying brambles right into Curlypelt. "Oi! Where have you been?" He meowed. "I was just talking to some cats, nothing that important." I meowed. "Okay, well we have to go back before the clan thinks we've been turned to snow." He meowed, leading me to the group of cats waiting to go. Gladly, they had caught some skinny white rabbits and an owl. Picking up their prey, they started to leave, with us following. I was still thinking about the strangely kind fox as I padded into the cave, where I was immediately greeted by Stonestripe and Eclipsepaw.

"You're alive!" Eclipsepaw meowed happily. Apparently he hadn't seen us walk in the first time. "We actually got here about an hour ago." I explained in a 'duh' tone. "That's very nice and all, but where's Flarepaw? I haven't seen him with you." Stonestripe meowed in worry. "He's... back at the forest." I meowed with realization. They would wonder what's become of us! "Aye." I mumbled. I was part Irish, so it was like me to say that when I forgot something or something went wrong. "Well, we have to go back! Just us, we can go back to the human world, now that we are all here and Flarepaw's at the forest." Eclipsepaw reasoned.

"Good idea, and not a good idea." I meowed. "We need to help these cats. I understand they can help themselves all they can, but right now we're some of the only cats with no injuries." I meowed. "Yeah." Was all I heard from Cheetahpaw. Right then I realized something else. "You guys fled with the clan, so why don't you have any scratches?" I asked the two standing in front of us. They looked at each other. "Half of the clan escaped the humans, and fewer escaped the dogs, we were some of those fewer." Stonestripe meowed, and sounded pretty reasonable.

"Well, that's not the point now, so how do we help these cats?" I saw Cheetahpaw's eyes flare with determination. "Well, first, we have to help cure the clan as fast as possible. Then, we can help them prepare for the travel home. We go to the forest, pick up Flarepaw, go through the moonpool, and BAM! Mission complete." I meowed almost in one breath. I sat up, pretty pleased with myself. [easier said than done...] (these, [ ], Mark thoughts on the person's POV.)

"So, are we ready to help and get the heck out of here?!" I meowed, trying to encourage them even though I'm 3 years younger than Curlypelt. (Not cat years. lol. human years.) "Yeah!" Cheetahpaw sprang up. Stonestripe nodded and Curlypelt smiled. For the first time, Eclipsepaw actually might have thought there was more than surviving in this world.

"When we get back, I'm gonna eat all of your carrots!" Cheetahpaw meowed to me. [LOL] (first time Louis/Cheetahpaw says carrot lol) I started laughing but it didn't last long. "Okay, let's go ask what we can do to help!" I meowed, immediately rushing to a random bunch of cats. Not looking where I was going, I bumped into ALL OF THEM, sending my respect to the underworld.