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She wanted to scream, but knew she couldn't if she wanted to live. OH COME ON! REALLY?! I ONLY ESCAPED A BADGER YESTERDAY AND NOW I'M DROWNING?! The anger was soon overwhelmed by her fear of water, and the worry of drowning.
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What Snowpaw didn't realise was that Nightfur was perfectly safe and warm in a cave with her friend. She woke up the next morning, the sun rising and peeking in through the cave entrance. She looked over to Kioni, and remembered the previous day, and immediately checked if Kioni had wings. Upon seeing he didn't she went over and poked him awake with her paw. "Hey Kioni, wake up!"
After a minute or two of standing there like an idiot. Kioni finally moved. He moved quite far from Nightfur too. "What the hell just happened to me" He mumbled to himself. He had never gotten that nervous of flustered before.
Nightfur lightly jumped off of Kioni, landing on ground again. She almost fell over from the sudden change, but soon regained her balance. She turned around and smiled at Kioni, her eyes flashing with joy. "Thanks Kioni, I had a lot of fun these past two days." She grinned at him and he grinned back. "Um... About back there... I sh-should have moved out of the way, I'm sorry." Nightfur's muzzle went red, and she looked down at the ground, avoiding awkward eye contact. She did eventually look up though, and smiled. "Anyways, goodbye Kioni." She paused for a moment and walked slowly back to her camp. She looked back over her shoulder, and smiled softly, before going through the bracken tunnel that was the entrance to her home.
As soon as she entered, Snowpaw was right in her face, scowling. "Do you know how worried I was?" He frowned, his ears flat against his head. Nightfur scowled back. "Well maybe I did, or maybe I didn't!" She hissed and put her tail straight, her hair bushing up. "I was perfectly safe anyway! And why are you so bothered?! Is it because you're the one that picked me up and brought me back?! WHY EVEN BOTHER?!"She yowled and hissed at him "I was apparently almost certainly dead, but you brought me back?! Why bother?!" Nightfur scowled and Snowpaw finally snapped. "BECAUSE I'M YOUR DAD!"
Nightfur took a step back in shock, and her mouthed gaped open. She shook her head in disbelief. "That's not true.. It's not possible." Snopaw nodded, scowling slightly. "I'm your dad. Your mother used to belong to this clan after escaping her cruel owner, and we were mates. She was pregnant with a litter, and we were going to be parents. But one day me and your mother were walking in the forest when a human came and snatched her. I tried to rescue her but it broke my leg. When others came I said a badger had done it all. I went into the human town when my leg had healed a bit and found your mother and her litter. I saw you, and that's how I knew you were my kit." Snowpaw sighed, a tear rolling down his nose. Nightfur shook her head furiously. No...It can't be... "Ever wondered why I always cared for you most out of the kits? Why I always listened? Why I always healed you first? It's because I cared for my kit the most." "Does anyone else know?" Snowpaw nodded. "The clan leader and elders do. Nightfur was once again overfilled with every emotion possible, and tears burst from her eyes. She sobbed and sprinted out the camp again, and went to the tree Kioni had prepared for her, and cried.
Zuri
Zruni was waiting for Kioni to return home, hoping she could convince him to reconsider his decision about being with her. She nudged him and licked his face. She got upset when Kioni turned away from her. She purred loudly her tail brushing along kionis face. "C'mon Kioni, if you're with me no one will bother you, you'll have anything you could ever want." He replied with a snotty remark about Zuri not being something he wanted. He then told her to leave, she rolled her eyes and added something about how he would eventually run to her and they'd be happy together, Then left quietly. Soon after she left Kioni did too and wandered off into the woods. Zuri followed him quietly as he paced around the borders. Eventually running into a kit who he seemed friendly with, she layed in silence in a bush and watched them.
Zuri
Zuri watched through the bushes and the little cat cried and kioni comforted her. "He's never comforted me before! who is that cat!?" She said quietly to herself and continued to watch. Suddenly the small black cat kissed kioni. "What the hell! That bitch! I was supposed to steal Kionis first kiss! NOT her!" She growled angrily. Luckily Kioni and Nightfur couldn't hear her. ' I can't rush in now...i'll spook them..i must lay low a while longer.' She thought to herself. And so she waited angrily, wanting to strike and eliminate her competition.
Zuri
Zuri was enraged by the new love between Kioni and the Black kitten. She ran home and told the elders. They pondered for quite a while. The came to the decision that if Kioni and the young black female became mates that it would unite the two clans in glorious harmony and supported it. Zuri was furious. She ran out, and devised a horrible plan to get rid of the black cat. A horrible, Possibly deadly and evil plan. "I will have kioni...He WILL be mine!" Her plan would play out the next day.
When they got there, they heard lots of voices coming from the meeting area where the two clans would often meet and discuss things. "But the next meet isn't for another moon!" They looked at each other, worriedly, and rushed to the meeting spot. They came through the bushes and the two clans fell into silence. Puzzled, the two of them realized everyone was looking at them. Nightfur whispered to KIoni."Are we really that late?" Kioni opened his mouth when the Woodland clan leader boomed out with his deep voice. "Nightfur, Kioni! come up here!" Now nervous, the two teens walked up to the old massive tree stump the leaders and elders were sitting on. Nightfur saw a white cat sitting with the river clan alphas. She was staring daggers at Nightfur, and it seemed as though she wanted to kill her. "It has come to our attention, that these two cats-" The alphas gestured to Kioni and Nightfur."Are now mates!" The audience broke into whispers of shock and confusion. Nightfur and Kioni stood in shock. Nightur saw Kioni scowling at the white cat.Who is she? "The leaders and elders have come to a decision about what to do with them." There was total silence except for a small kit asking what was happening.
Nightfur and Kioni were terrified, and locked tails for support. "We have decided, that their mateship will be the perfect thing to stop us from fighting! Their story will live on in our clan legends for being the cats that showed us, that while we may be different clans, we can live in harmony with each other and the forest! So let us all rejoice, for we have found a symbol of peace and hope!" Everyone in both clans cheered for joy, yowling happily and thumping their paws and tails. Kioni and Nightfur let out a deep breath, and saw the elders, leaders, and Snowpaw smile and nod their approval. They both laughed in joy and thumped their tails. Nobody noticed the white cat sneak off into the trees with a furious scowl.
Nightfur woke up, the dawn light meeting her eyes. She yawned and stretched. She stood up, and saw that Kioni had already gone hunting. She smiled, and looked out the cave entrance. Now they had made it possible to get down to the path-like ledge so they could exit that way without revealing their secret passage. That was their secret. She smiled and basked for a while before getting up, and walking down to the path. It had been a year since that meeting, and it was great. There were rumors of groups trying to start a war, but they were stomped out. Apart from that, everything was bliss. She got to the end of the path and saw that Kioni was fishing down at the river. She smiled at the sight of him, remembering he was now an adult, and she would be too soon. she had learnt all there was to learn about being a healer. Her dad was a great teacher. She opened her mind to the trees and searched for Birkita. Good morning Birkita!Good morning my little one. I have new for you.Oh?I am a sapling now! What? Where?Just behind you silly little kit.
Nightfur purred, knowing she would never stop being a kit to Birkita. She liked it. She turned around, and saw a little sapling growing. She laughed at the tiny thing, not believing a tree as old as the clan's soul was in there. She smiled softly and stroked the little tree. It grew slightly, it's leaves broadening and it's trunk widening. A little extra help Birkita. She felt Birkita's thanks, her knowledge of how hard it was to do that and how it drained her energy. Nightfur smiled again and leaped through the trees to Kioni. "Hey silly, look up!" She saw him almost drop his fish in shock and look up. His eyes softened and he smiled. Nightfur leaped down and he put his fish on the rock. They purred and wrapped tails. They picked up their fish and walked back up to their cave den to enjoy breakfast. "So anything special happen while I was asleep?" Nightfur questioned, gulping down her trout, not seeing the white cat observing them from a tree by the river.
Zuri
Zuri had watched the couple for a year now, no matter how many times she tried to eliminate Kioni's mate she somehow slipped out of Zuris traps. She had a perfect plan this time though, one that was fool proof. She had been watching how Nightfur had been taking care of trees and that she could heal them with a simple touch, she seemed to be extra connected with the new sapling by their cave. While Nightfurs back was turned Zuri went up and ripped the young sapling out of the ground, and burning it up with her fire powers. "That'll teach you to steal whats rightfully mine you black piece of crud..." She said out loud.
Nightfur yowled louder and raced down the path on the worn down side that gave her more speed. She practically flew down the path.I am sick of that bitch trying to ruin my life! She snarled and leaped right at the end of the path where there was a sudden steep incline, giving her the perfect spot to jump from. She leaped and pulled a branch closer to her, landing on it heavily, it bending and snapping back upwards, giving her a boost towards Zuri who was trying to escape the scene. "YOU BITCH!" Zuri whipped around just in time to see a black silhouette and a large tree branch pin her down, preventing her from moving. Nightfur grit her teeth and used the branch to roll Zuri into the water, and pinned her down again. "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!"
Nightfur went into the cave, in a frenzy to make it more private as she hung tree branches up in the main entrance and put up many fake cat silhouettes to confuse Zuri. I'll change their positions every day... She sighed as she finished hiding the passageway even more and rearranging the cave so Zuri would have less of an angle on them. Finally, she moved a bush so it was in front of the passageway and harder to see. She then gave a message to the trees to give to Snowpaw. COME QUICK-NIGHTFUR!
Snowpaw
Snowpaw sighed, after a busy day of healing he was exhausted and lay back, smiling in relief he now had a little bit of rest and privacy. As cats walked by they bowed their heads in respect. Now he was almost an elder, and he was also the father of the new Cave Clan's soon to be mother, Nightfur, so he was given much respect and honour. He smiled and closed his eyes until a pinecone fell on his head. He frowned and looked down in front of him at the pinecone that had become the point on an exclamation mark at the end of a message.Oh shit...
Snowpaw rushed up the stairs of the secret passage to see Nightfur and saw her wounds he rushed over and immediately started healing her as she cried and told him what had happened. He supported her and carried her over to her bed, her wounds were going to keep her there for a day at least, and he quickly dashed back to Woodclan to tell them what happened. IT soon spread around the two clans alphas and elders, and they arranged for warriors from both clans to protect the cave from any who might try to ruin the clans future. Snowpaw lay with his daughter, healing her as needed, and they both waited for Kioni to come back.
After a minute of silence kioni snapped out of his rage and turned all his attention to his injured mate. He walked over to her and nuzzled her. "I'm sorry this happened...I never should have left you here alone...I should have known she would try to hurt you.." He said, a grim look covering his face.