Warriors: Fear and Hope

Dashfang knows that Applefur has been seeing Copperpelt behind her back. She has been sneaking out without permission for a while. She walked to the river in Lakeclan, and she sees Copperpelt waiting for Applefur.

“Copperpelt!” she tried to yowl, but she could smell other Lakeclan cats.

Copperpelt looked at her, and smiled. “I’ll be over there in a minuet!” he yowled to the cats. She looked at Dashfang and smiled. “Yes, Dashfang, I have heard a lot about you from Apple . . .” he started, but Dashfang had cut him off.

“I need you and Applefur to stop seeing each other!” she yowled to him.

Copperpelt’s smile turned into a frown. “But, I can’t! We need each other!” he yowled to Dashfang.

“Well, I guess you have nothing to say about hunting in Breezeclan territory a while back, and, oh what was it? Oh yes, you were in our territory drowning, and Applefur risked her life to save you?” she growled, but she saw Copperpelt’s expression changed from sad to angry.

“We needed to hunt in their territory because we were starving, my father, Bluestar, ordered me to!” he yowled.

Dashfang was surprised by his tone. She then noticed that his slick body was not slick, it was skinny. He was so skinny that you could see his ribs. “I will be talking to Applefur,” she mewed quickly and swept off to the woods.

She flew home, and saw her den. She snuggled up, and fell asleep.

She quickly woke, and she looked outside. A blinding white light went straight into her eyes. It was snow. Dashfang had not seen snow lying so nicely on the ground before. She saw Setclaw barking orders, and she looked behind her to see Dashfang, struggling in the snow. “Dashfang!” she yowled, “I need you to go hunting for a while!”

Dashfang nodded and flew off. She decided she could go hunting after she saw her sister. She looked at the kitty-pets house, and called out, “Cloud!” No answer, she knew she was kitting!

A couple minuets later, Cloud came out with a small something hanging from her jaws. She jumped up, and dropped a small blue kit in front of Dashfang “Her name is Skykit,” she mewed happily “I want you to take her into your clan and keep her as your own.” She lifted the kit and gave it to Dashfang.

Dashfang nodded. “I’ll take care of her.” She mewed, and she flew off. She could feel the kit’s wings shiver as she flew in the cold sky. She went under the leaf cavern and into the clan. She ran into Sunstar’s den, and her leader was working. “What is it Dashfang?” she asked. She then coughed.

“I have a new kit for us.” She explained everything, and she even explained her sister.

Sunstar nodded. “I will talk about it with Morningdew. Stay here,” she mewed as she bounded off.

She soon came back, and nodded. “We will take her in.” she mewed sadly. She called all the cats to the clan, and told them everything.

Daringtail protested: “we already have one kitty-pet here, why have another?” She growled, and others joined her.

Sunstar shut them up with a large growl. “Enough! We will have this kit in our clan.” She yowled, but she soon fainted. Spitfire charges after her, and grabbed her. Setclaw was out on patrol. She did not see this tragedy.

Dashfang ran after Spitfire, but the leaves covering her den, shut quickly

She then shrugged, and went over to where Skykit lay. She ran her over to the kit den. “Pinkiefur, can you take care of my kit?” she asked. “It’s my sisters, and she gave her to me, so I have no food for her.” She mewed hopefully.

“Sorry, I can’t, but I’m sure that my friend will!” she mewed as she pointed to Morningdew, already caring for her kits.

Morningdew shook her head. “I won’t be able to, I don’t have enough food.” She mewed sadly.

“I will get you extra every day!” Morningdew hesitated for a moment, but then looked at Skykit. She was starving, and cold.

“Fine,” she mewed happily. “Even if it is a kitty-pet, I cannot let some kitty starve.” She mewed, and Dashfang nodded.

Applefur came back and stared at Dashfang. “Copperpelt told me what you said.” She mewed.

“Applefur, it was for the best.” She tried to explain, but Applefur did not listen.

“You shouldn't be interacting with my life Dashfang!” she yowled to her, and she ran off.

Dashfang tried to stop her, but failed. She watched her friend run off with sadness. She heard cats snickering. Her wings fell, and folded. She was so sad that she felt like she should just run off and hide forever. She went to check on Sunstar, but Spitfire stopped her. “You don’t want to go in there, she has green cough, but I could let you guard her for a while.” She was in a happy mood.

She watched, and watched, until Soarpaw ran over to them. “I need Sunstar! Setclaw could smell Shadeclan warriors in our territory a minuet ago!” he yowled to Dashfang

Apparently, Browniepaw overheard their conversation. He was soon gone. “I can go since Sunstar is sick.” She mewed, and she stood.

“She needs a true warrior, not some kitty-pet pretending to be one!” he yowled.

Dashfang was enraged when Daringtail snickered. “Look you little fur ball, I’m going, and that’s final!” she yowled.

Suddenly, Redpaw yowled, “Browniepaw’s gone!” Dashfang was scared to death. She must have heard their conversation!

Dashfang stood. “Daringtail!” she yowled to her enemy, who was startled by her bravery. “Guard this.” She mewed, and she ran off.

She ran after Browniepaw’s scent, and she heard a monster going over Lightningpath. She quickly bounded over there, and she saw a brown something lying next to it. That brown something was Browniepaw who had just been run over by a Lightningpath monster.