Forest Of Guardians

Chapter 2

Raven slowly slinks in the shadows before pouncing on her prey. She lands on the back of a small, slim, grey tabby tom. He yips out like a fox before turning around. When he turns around, his pelt has transformed into the colour ginger, and his green eyes turn amber. He snarls threateningly, and he lifts up his lips. He nips at Raven, and tries to drag her away by the tail. Raven digs her teeth into his neck, causing blood to ooze out. But than his eyes start oozing blood too, and his nose starts as well. He is no longer a fox but the same small little cat he was before. There is fear and pain in his eyes, but Raven doesn't know what to do.

"Saveeeee meeeee....SAVEEEE MEEEEEEEEEE. HELLPP ME....! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE TO DIE! HELP ME!!" he cries out, with pain, uncertainty, and fear in his voice.

"I-I-I'm so-so-so-sorry....I-I can't.... It-it's my fault..... I'm so sorry...." Raven turns tail, and flees. But before she can get far, she gets swept up in a wave of water. But the water is thick, and red... it's blood! She tries to swim to the surface, but the blood won't stop pouring out of his neck, mouth and eyes.

"HELP!" Raven thinks, "i'm drowning! SAVE ME! HELP ME! PLEASE!" The gray tabby re-appears again in front of Raven. He stares right through her. He walks back into the red depths. As Raven sinks deeper, her chest tightens, and she can't breathe. She fills up with guilt and sadness and fear. She lets herself get dragged down into the ocean of blood. Everything stops when she hears her name.

"Raven.... Raven....RAVEN!" it calls. With a sharp blaze of light, she opens her eyes and wakes up. She jumps to her paws, with her fur standing on end. Her eyes are filled with bewilderment, as she shakes with fear. Ominous words repeat over and over chilling her to the bone.

"You will be filled with holes, and they will be made by the most friendly faces. The holes will run with blood."

Raven snaps out of it, and she falls to the ground. WillowDove sprints over. With fear in her eyes, Raven repeats what she was told. "You will be filled with holes, and they will be made by the most friendly faces. The holes will run with blood." Raven stares at WillowDove, watching as tears start running down her cheeks, dampening her fur. WillowDove cannot stop her tears, as they fall to the ground. Her eyes filled with fear, sadness, and loss.

"Wh-who t-t-told you th-that?" she stutters, her voice shaking uncontrollably. "I-I..... I need to know." WillowDove picks up Raven by the scruff, putting her in a nest. She sits across from Raven, and lays down folding her paws underneath her, tears still falling down her face. "So.." WillowDove starts, "I need to know which cat told you that."

Raven looks bad confused. "No one did."

WillowDove looks back at Raven, but with frustration and fear in her gaze. "Well, if no one told you, where did you hear it from."

Raven remembers her dream, and shudders at the memory of it. "I-I...." Raven slows her breathing, and tries to stop stuttering, "I was sleeping, and I had a nightmare.... I was playing in the caves under the grassy hollow, and Dusk was with me. We were playing fox and rabbit, and he was the rabbit and I was the fox. When I jumped on his back and got him, he turned into the fox. The trying to drag me away by the tail so I attacked him.. I clawed him at the neck, and blood started pouring out of everywhere, until I was drowning in it. I tried to ask him to help me, but he walked away." Raven shrunk into a ball, visualizing what happened.

WillowDove looks astonished. Her eyes are full of fear and loss. "What does Dusk want to become? A Guardian or......" WillowDove doesn't get a chance to finish her sentence.

"Yeah!" Raven interrupts, "He brags about being the best Guardian in the entire land! But.... He doesn't want to be a Shine."

WillowDove looks like she is stuck in thought. "Okay," she says, "if you see him doing something bad or naughty, come straight to me." After a few moments she adds more, "oh! And don't go to any shines, or to Fate Teller okay? Just come to me. Especially if he hurts anyone.....Physically I mean."