(Warrior Cats)SmokeTrail's fire

Chapter 2- Who you be?

Smokepaw laid in the now barren and abandoned den where only she was stuck. There wasn't much. Just a nest and the remains of some prey she had been given, but that had been some time ago.

She was hungry, and sick. The den was dusty and the moss in her nest was starting to smell bad. "Someone let me out..."she cried.

For the first time since she had been trapped in here. Someone answered "hello?"the voice called quietly. Normally, no one let her out until it was dark.

The voice wasn't very recognizable to smokepaw. She didn't answer, assuming that the new cat would just come in. Her apprentice ceremony had been very delayed because of the reluctance of Dawntail but she had had it a few days prior, though she couldn't recall her age.

The unfamiliar cat walked in on his own.

"Are you, smokepaw?"he asked. Smokepaw felt like her heart had just went boom. He was so...she couldn't describe it but it was wonderful.

He had pure, short white fur and light blue eyes that locked onto hers. She felt herself heat up and...blush.

The small tom noticed and copied "uhm...I brought you this..."he meowed quietly, dropping two small mice at smokepaw's paws and laid down in front of her.

He watched in awe as smokepaw tore into the small animal and ate it within just a few heartbeats. "Woah!"he mewed "that was quick!"

Smokepaw gave him a bloody grin as he took large but slow bites of his mouse.

"Why are you in here?"he asked.

"Here's a better question."smokepaw replied "who are you?"she asked. "I'm icepaw."he replied.

Smokepaw heard yelling from outside and put her head down on her paws"what's going on out there?"she asked.

Icepaw Got up and peeked through the thick barrier that had trapped smokepaw for so Long now "I think it's about your mother. Your dad is coming in h-"icepaw was cut off by the loud yelling of smokepaw's name

"Huh?"

"Its about mommy."roughkit meowed. He was clearly very scared, he was practically shaking. his paws thretaning to stop supporting his weight at any given time.

"what about her?"smokepaw asked.

"we just found out that something happened to her near the thunderpath. Come on."ruffledpaw explained urgently.

"Can icepaw come?"smokepaw asked, giving the Slightly older tom a sideways glance that made him blush.

She smiled at him.

He smiled back.

"Sure whatever, just come on!"ruffledpaw replied, already starting to hurry out of the den. icepaw was right on his tail, but smokepaw trailed behind a biryslower than them "hey ruffledpaw?" she asked.

"Yeah, li'l sis?"

"How old am I?"

"11 moons."the tom replied.

"oh OK...." her ceremony delayed for longer than she had thought. Why did her mother hate her so much?

"You should be 12 soon though" ruffledpaw added.

All of them engaged in meaningless conversation for a while until icepaw asked "do you have a mate?" To twitchpaw and ruffledpaw.

Twitchpaw flinched. Ruffledpaw nodded.

"Since we are only apprentices, we can't actually become mates, or have kits yet but technically yes." Ruffledpaw answered.

Smokepaw and icepaw nodded. Smokepaw noticed twitchpaw flinch "what's wrong?"she asked.