BlueWhiskers; The Beginning Of A Journey |✔ [A Cat Story \ A Cat Book]

Chapter 22

Flower's claws slowly cut through my skin. I tried to look for an escape, but there was nothing. Pain shot through my neck, as Flower's claws went deeper. I put my hind paws on Flower's chest, and pushed her off me, with all my strength left in my injured left leg. I screamed as I pushed with it. Flower fell to the floor, but with her merciless eyes, she looked at me. I started to back away.
It's now, or never.
I spun around and ran for my life. Flower tackled me, and we tumbled down a steep hill. We landed, but only this time, I was on top. Flower growled and slashed me in the face, and my long brown fur, landed on the floor. I turned and ran, Flower still close behind. I jumped down another steep hill, and held in my meow, as I landed, my left leg burning in pain, I ran and jumped behind a tall tree. With my leg like this, I'd never be able to climb the tree. I held my breath, and didn't move. I couldn't hear Flower, but I wasn't about to check where she went. I shuffled my paws around, as I nervously waited. One of my paws, landed on a hard rock like thing, that crumbled underneath my weight.
I looked down to see what I had stepped on. And all the breath I was holding in, was let out. I had stepped on a bone. It looked like the hind leg of a big dog, maybe a Doberman, or great Dane. I swallowed as I thought of what could have cleaned the flesh off the bone, so well. But suddenly, something tackled me, and sent me flying. I smashed back first into a tree. Flower ran at me. I jumped up and ran the opposite direction.
But a river blocked my path. I almost slipped into it, when I dug my claws deep into the soil. I could always swim to the other end...?
I thought about it, but then I noticed the strong current. There was probably a waterfall at the end of the river. But as soon as I thought that, my claws slipped through the soft soil, and I fell straight into the cold water. I tried hard to keep my head above the water, but I was getting bobbed in and out. I gasped for air, before being dunked again. The current pulled me fast.
Flower stopped as she saw the river, and turned around. I stuck my claws out, and dug them into the soil, on the other end of the river. The current was threatening to snap my claws, but luckily I pulled myself up onto land before in happened. I didn't want to stick around for much longer, so I ran the direction I remembered Ra, Gentle, Snicker, Better, Backstab, Blackhawk and Alex being.
I stumbled over every twig in the forest, with my injured leg dragging behind. Blood dripped from my face, where Flower had slashed me earlier, and from my neck where she had stabbed with her claws.
I ran and ran for what felt like days, but I couldn't tell. I didn't want to stop to eat, sleep, drink, rest, or even take a deep breath. I kept running and running, until I heard a voice. I swallowed, as I stopped and looked behind me. There was a skeleton of a cat on the floor. Wise?
Then I looked up, and saw Uni, sitting against a tree. She was thin and weak looking. "Uni?" I asked.
"Bluewhiskers? What are you... Doing here? Where's...the others..?" She asked slowly. "Me, Gentle, Flower, Backstab, Snicker, and Better, where banished because Gorgeous didn't trust us. So Ra and Blackhawk are is finding us a new clan" I explained.
"Where are...they?" She asked.
"I don't know, I kind of got separated from them..." I sighed.
"But what are you doing here, is the question" I asked.
"I came to find Wise, but something kept chasing me, I eventually lost my way, and ended up here." Uni explained. "You look very weak, why don't you come with me?" I offered.
"You know...the way out?" She asked.
"Well...I think so?" I said unsure.
"Okay, I will come" Uni said.
She weakly stood up, and followed me. We walked for about ten hours. I pretended I knew the way.
"You! What are you doing here!" A voice hissed. I swallowing and turned around. "I-i..."
R.I.P to me...

Red, Skylight, and Chill stood before me and Uni. "What are you doing in Horizon clan territory!" Red hissed.
I lowered herself to the ground. "Well...I actually didn't know it was-" I got cut off by Skylight.
"Look! She, like, totally catnapped Uni!" Skylight growled.
"I didn't! Tell them Uni!" I growled back. Uni lay on the grass, breathing heavily. "Uni! You like, totally just killed her!" Skylight ran past me, bumping me, and I stumbled to the floor. She stopped next to Uni.
"Uni, are you like, alright? What did she do to you?" She asked.
Uni took a deep breath, and tried to deny it, but nothing came out.
"She, like, totally needs water!" Skylight yelled. Chill ran to get some water. Red growled.
"Gorgeous will know about this!" He hissed. "I didn't do anything!" I hissed back, as I stood up straight.
Chill ran back.
"Found some water guys" she said calmly, and Skylight let Uni lean on her, as she walked her to the small pond of water Chill found.
It wasn't very far at all. I could see Uni as she drank. I sighed in relief.
"What do you want?!" Red hissed.
"I just sighed!" I hissed back.
"Excuses! What are you even doing out here!? And where are the others!? You killed em didn't you!? Didn't!? Answer me!" Red roared.
"No! I didn't! I got lost. But what are you doing here? I don't see the rest of the clan" I growled.
"We were patrolling! What do you think us patrollers do!?" Red hissed.
"Well why aren't the rest of your team here?! Black and Pitch?!" I hissed in annoyance. "They are back at the clan coz there sick from the disease you probably caused!" Red hissed.
I didn't say anything to that.
I had forgotten about the disease.
Black and Pitch had gotten it too?
But how? Why? What's causing it? And it was cured once, so there is a cure, but what is it?
"How many are diseased?" I asked, in a low, sad voice. Red growled.
"Don't act like you even care about them!" Skylight came running.
"So, we're going to like, totally, like take you to the Horizon Clan, to like, be questioned by, like, Gorgeous, and then if you don't, like, come up with a good reason, your like gonna be out casted, and like, killed if you come anywhere near our, like, clan!" Skylight growled. She said 'like' a big too much this time...
Chill came, and Uni walked weakly behind her. She looked so sick, she looked double her age.
"You say 'like' a lot when your nervous" Chill pointed it out.
"Do, like, totally, not" Skylight shrugged. Chill then turned to me.
"Yeah, and your gonna come with us" Chill said calmly.
I backed away, and growled.
Uni meowed so loud everyone jumped. "Whats-" they were cut off as Uni used all her strength to tackled them, and send Skylight flying into Red and Chill. "I'm sorry" she said weakly. She pushed me, and I started running, she was close behind.
We ran and ran, until the triplets where out of sight.
We were both puffing loudly.
I wasn't sure how and why Uni did that. "Why- did you- do that?" I asked through breathes.
"I'd love to go- back to my clan...but I'd- never let a lost kitten- wander around alone..." Uni said through breathes too.
"But...I thought you guys didn't trust me...?" I asked, puffing a bit less, as we slowed down.
"Well, if you remember, I wasn't there when you guys -left, so I don't know, why they didn't trust you" Uni said, still puffing lightly.
"Well...Gorgeous said something about having a dream, or a vision that we were the Shadows, so she said the dream was a sign, and she had to get rid of us" I explained, remembering the moment.
"Well....you helped me out of there- the lease I could do- is help you find the others..." Uni said, starting to puff more now. She stopped and leaned against a tree. "I don't feel so well..." She mumbled. I didn't feel very well myself. I was hungry, thirsty, and exhausted. Last time I had slept was for about an hour, when I was going to check what was under the flower piles. And i barely slept. The whole hour was full of confusing nightmares and dreams. Last time i had ate was that rabbit i got on my birth-month. Last time i drank, i couldn't remember. Many animals would have died after not eating, sleeping or drinking for that long, but cats can survive without this stuff for long periods of time.
"Maybe we should stop then...?" I asked. I really didn't want to stop, until we got back to the others.
"Yeah...maybe..." She sighed weakly.
Suddenly a kitten tackled me, pining me to the ground. She was ginger, with some white lines on her fur. She was smaller than me, but not by a lot. Maine coons are much fluffier and bigger than normal cats. The cat looked around six-seven months old. She had brown eyes, and big pupils. "You!"

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BlueWhiskers;
The Beginning Of A Journey.
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