Amberclan Life

Chapter 3

Sugarstar stretched and slinked across the camp.

Dashfoot was sharing tongues with Ferntuft, as a thin sheet of snow glimmered in the dawn light.

It was Shadowpaw's first ever patrol, and it was a border patrol. He went with his mentor, Dewfrost, and Snowheart.

Tallpaw went out to gather herbs and looked around the forest. A blurr of fur flashed across her face. She gasped and turned around she seen two young cats fighting a fox.

"Stay away, flea-pelt!" A dark brown tom spat, giving the fox a bad gash on its snout.

As the fox finally turned and dashed away into the forest, wailing, the two cats panted and turned towards Tallpaw.

"H..hi.." The dark brown tom huffed.

"Hi.. Who are you?" She stared at them, wide eyed.

"Im Muddy, and this is Icicles," The brown tom dipped his head, flicking his tail towards the younger she-cat, who was giving herself a quick wash.

"Hi." Icicles sighed.

"Im from Amberclan," Tallpaw said. "Are you guys kittypets?" She added, taking a step back.

"No!" Muddy snorted in amusement. "We don't live with twolegs, we just live in the forest." Muddy hestaited.

Tallpaw looked around. "I got to go. I need to collect something for my clan! I'll talk to you guys later." Tallpaw flicked her tail and trotted off into the forest.

After awhile, she returned with some marigold, horsetail, and a leaf with poppyseeds in it.

As Tallpaw padded up to the medicine cats den, Tesswing turned around.

"Tallpaw, where were you? You were gone for a while," Tesswing nuzzled Tallpaw.

"Your not my mother," Tallpaw snorted, taking a step back.

Tesswing smiled and purred in amusement.

"I know. Your my wonderful apprentice." She yawned, stretching.

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Slushsky watched as a border patrol and hunting patrol came back.

She watched as her foster daughter, Creekpaw, brang back 2 plump rabbits.

She purred with delight as Creekpaw came bounding over with one.

"Here's a rabbit! I caught it by myself," she mewed proudly.

"Well done! It looks very tastey," Slushsky blinked and smiled at Creekpaw gratefully.

Creekpaw nuzzled her and bounded across the clearing.

         
         ( A Few Hours Later.. )

The night crept in and everyone was asleep.

Tallpaw, still awake, heard a strange sound. Paw steps!  She gasped silently and crept out into the cold night. She spotted two shapes getting closer. Muddy and Icicles? She shook her head, but they were still there.

"What are you guys doing here?" She whispered to them.

Muddy just let out a snarl and leaped at her, Icicles laughing.

"Get off of me!" Tallpaw spat, batting at Muddy's belly.

She gasped and suddenly woke up.

Tesswing was blinking at her sleepily.

"Huh? What's wrong? You were flinching around like crazy in your sleep! Did you have a dream?" Tesswing sat up, no longer sleepy.

"No, I didn't have a dream," Tallpaw hesitated, lying.

Tesswing stared her in the eye. "Tell me the truth," She insisted, her eyes blazing furiously.

Tallpaw stared at her paws and looked back up at Tesswing and met her gaze.
"Fine. I did have a dream. So, today I met two cats while going to find some herbs and their names were Muddy and Icicles.
Their fought off a fox. And then I had a dream about them where they were sneaking into camp at night and Muddy leaped on me," Tallpaw panted.

Tesswing closed her eyes and nodded.

"It may be a sign. I'll tell Sugarstar to do extra border patrols and fighting training." Tesswing sighed.

"Wait, but they defended me from a fox! Why would they attack? Unless their trying to attack the medicine supply?" Tallpaw mewed silently.

Tesswing rolled her eyes and padded out of the den to visit Sugarstar.

Tallpaw frowned and ran over to Creekpaw.

"Creekpaw! Please help me out," Tallpaw pleaded.

"About what? You know you can ask me anything," Creekpaw whispered.

"Please, go in the forest with me? I need to tell you something." She mewed quickly.

Creekpaw nodded and they raced out of camp, No cat saw them.

Tallpaw explained to Creekpaw what happened that evening and her dream.

"It's almost nightfall, but I'll do it for my pal," Creekpaw smiled and followed Tallpaw into the depths of the forest.

They rolled a little in mud, so their scent and colour is disguised. They crept around and Tallpaw picked up Muddy's scent, following it and found Muddy and Icicles.

"Hi?" Muddy mewed. "I'm Muddy, this is Icicles," he added.

"Yeah, yeah," Icicles paced back and forth.

"Oh, hello! I'm Creek, and this is berry!" Creekpaw mewed.

"Hi!" Tallpaw mewed.

"Oh.." Muddy smiled.

"Can you tell us about Amberclan?" Tallpaw mewed.

"Yeah, Berry and I are rouges like you. Can you tell us stuff about them?"

"Sure..," Muddy sighed. "So, me and Icicles are planning to attack them, if you'd like to join us. Because there's this cat called Tallpaw and we are planning to attack them. We made a little group and this is Ginger," Muddy mewed, pointing to a ginger she-cat.

Ginger just flicked her tail in response.

"Oh, ok, thanks!" Creekpaw mewed.

Muddy nodded. "Of course! Would you like to join us?" Muddy mewed hopefully.

"No thanks," Tallpaw mewed sadly and her amd Creekpaw trotted away.