A droplet of water splashed down on Sugarpaw's nose. She blinked open her eyes and shook her head. the morning dew dripped though the roof of the apprentice's den as the newleaf sun shone brought in the Thunderclan camp. She stretched and looked around, her brothers were still sleeping, her sister was long gone and the two other apprentices Applepaw and Flashpaw had already headed out at dawn for their warrior assessments. She tuned and lept on the brother closest to her, Wolfpaw.
"Sugarpaw!" He mumbled, swatting at her with a grey paw. He opened one of his forest green eyes and laughed, "You're all wet!"
"I know!" she scowled, "the den leaks just above my nest."
"Just move it," the big apprentice meowed pointedly.
"Wow, thanks for the advice" she growled, rolling her eyes.
The big calico tom shoved her off him and padded out of the den, "let's go, don't wake Scalepaw he was on the moonhigh patrol" Sugarpaw nodded and padded after Wolfpaw.
"Sugarpaw!" a voice called her name and she whipped around,
"Shimmerspots!" she touched noses briefly with Wolfpaw and raced over to her mentor. "Sorry I slept so late!"
"No problem" Shimmerspots nodded flicking her ears, "today I thought we could invite your sister to go on a hunt with us, let Blackbush spend time with his family, Sedgekit, Seedkit and Sorrelkit become apprentices tomorrow."
"yes!" Sugarpaw exclaimed leaping into the air, "Thank you Shimmerspots! I'll go get her" she turned and raced over to Cherrypaw. The ginger apprentice looked up from washing her already sparkling clean pelt. "
"Sugarpaw!" She exclaimed "Your pelt is a mess, come over here and sit down"
"Alright" Sugarpaw sighed, she didn't bother most moorings, her pelt just got messed up anyway, but her sister was just like her mentor, they stopped and cleaned their pelts every chance they got. "Shimmerspots asked if you would like to come on a hunt with us today"
"That sounds wonderful!" She meowed in between licks.
"Shimmerspots thought that Blackbush could use a day with his family, and we haven't spent a lot of time together recently"
"It sounds slice a great idea, we should go as soon as you are clean" Cherrypaw nodded
"Are you done yet!" Sugarpaw complained.
"Alright birdbrain I'm finished" Cherrypaw teased
"Thank Starclan" Sugarpaw sighed and shook out her grey and white pelt.
"Sugarpaw!" the ginger apprentice gasped! "I just finished making your pelt look perfect and you've ruined it already!" the grey apprentice just laughed and her green eyes full of mischief.
"Come on sour paws we've got a hunting trip to go on!" Sugarpaw exclaimed, Cherrypaw looked are her locking amber eyes with green and they tore across the camp to meet up with shimmer spots at the entrance.
"are you two readies?" Shimmerspots asked, her dark grey patches gleamed in the sunlight
"We sure are!" Cherrypaw exclaimed flicking her tail back and forth, Sugarpaw nodded and the three of them padded off into the forest.
After walking for a while, the three cats had not picked up a single prey scent.
"Umm, Shimmerspots?" Cherrypaw's voice shook
"yes Cherrypaw?"
"can you smell that? If. It smells like cats, but not an of the other clans." Cherrypaw sniffed again, her green eyes filled with worry.
"There's more than one scent here, that's at least three cats this deep into our territory, we need t-" Shimmerspots was abruptly cut off
"We should follow the scent and find them!" Sugarpaw's green eyes widened, "I am a pretty good tacker, c'mon!"
"No Sugarpaw, we need to go back to camp and report this to Hollystar" Shimmerspots shook her head, "Now come on, I will ask Hollystar if you can go on the search patrol."
"Um, Shimmerspots, I think I should stay here to mark the place where the scent is."
"Of course, Cherrypaw, that's a smart idea, Sugarpaw and I will go back and get a search party" Shimmerspots nodded to the tiny ginger cat, "Be careful" She warned before turning and padding away into the brush.
The trees swayed as the wind picked up, the scent of cat hit Cherrypaw's nose, she lept up and unsheathed her claws, "Whose there?" She snarled.
"Calm down Cherrypaw, it's me, Scalepaw" A grey and white tom slunk out of the bushes
"Oh, my stars Scalepaw," she relaxed, "You almost gave me a heart attack, I thought you were a rogue!" she cuffed her brother over the ear with a black paw.
"apologies Cherrypaw" he nodded. He curled his dark grey tail around hers and leaned onto her. She smiled and asked him,
"Are you okay?"
"Yes, I am now." Scalepaw smiled, he rarely smiled, Cherrypaw was the only cat who could really make him smile.
"no little brother, what's wrong?" Cherrypaw pulled away. His yellow eyes widened, and he yowled,
"RUN!" her brother disappeared beneath a pile of dark color rogue cats, Cherrypaw stood frozen, she couldn't believe her eyes, what seemed like an eternity later Hollystar burst through the bushes followed by Sagepetal, Bearstream, Wolfpaw, Sugarpaw, Loudheart and Cobrastripe. The rogues saw the clan cats, grabbed a limp Scalepaw and raced away from the clan cats, who raced after them until the rogues disappeared into Shadowclan territory.
"Scalepaw!" Cobrastripe yowled, grief in his voice, he sunk into the ground and Cherrypaw immediately bent down next to him to comfort him,
"Cobrastripe? We will find Scalepaw" She reassured, tears welling in her eyes
"YOU!" He gasped between sobs, "You could have helped him fight! You just stood there! YOU COULD HAVE SAVED MY SON! GET AWAY FROM ME FOXHEART!" he snarled lunging at Cherrypaw, the ginger apprentice raced away, tears streaming from her eyes.
"FATHER!" Sugarpaw's meow shook as she approached her father, "look what you've done we've lost my brother and sister!" She growled, "Pick yourself up. We have to go tell Breezenose!" She bared her teeth and turned away, bounding up to Wolfpaw's side. His expression showed no emotion and he hung his big calico head. Sugarpaw pressed her silvery pelt into his, "I'm so sorry Wolfpaw," a tear escaped from her eye, "We will get them back" Th big calico barely nodded, his expression remained unchanged, he mumbled something along the lines of 'sure', padded into the apprentice's den and laid down in his moss-bed. Sugarpaw hung her head, she felt like it was her fault that her siblings were gone, she turned and padded towards tow she-cats one was pale ginger and the other, cream and white splotched. "Breezenose?" Sugarpaw asked, hanging her head, "I need to tell you something." the cheerful expression faded from the pale ginger cat's face.
"What, what's wrong?" she asked, looking up at the grey apprentice. The cream and white she-cat stood up and walked away slowly, nodding at Sugarpaw.
"A...a pack of rogues kidnapped Scalepaw, and Cobrastripe attacked Cherrypaw, she was there, and he blamed her, he lashed out and she ran away. I suggested that we should go after the rogues, but they got captured, it's all my fault!" She cried out, "I'm so sorry"
"It's alright Sugarpaw, it's not your fault" She whispered, Sugarpaw looked up to see a darker ginger tom padding up and she moved away so he could comfort Breezenose.
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Sweet Starclan
FanfictionSugarmask grows up a normal thunderclan cat until a threat comes from a group outside the clans known as the howlers. Starclan tells Hollystar that only The cat who was not born in thunder can stop the storm. Will she stop them or will thunderclan f...
