heres chapter 3! borders and bonds!
Chapter 3: borders and bonds
“what’s a rouge like you doing around here? Don’t you know this is windclan territory? And by the looks of your scars, you are in no mood to fight” he gave a smirk sitting down with his tail curled neatly next to his paws. Echo bristled “are you calling me weak?” she hissed curling her lip revealing thorn sharp teeth, the tom chuckled “of course not…kitty” he circled her with a grin across his muzzle and his eyes gleaming “I just think you need rest because whoever you fought, they gave you a tough time.” The tom licked his paw drawing it over his ear and his eyes softened the threat faded from his eyes and his eyes were filled with friendliness, “my name is ice’paw, I am an apprentice of windclan a strong one at that! I will be a warrior soon I just need three more moons”- the tom grumbled -“of dumb apprentice duties.” “I’m on a border patrol right now and my clan has already had their share of prey so luckily I’m able to eat.” Ice’paw purred “wanna share a mouse or two? You look like you haven’t eaten in days” he meowed as he gave his chest fur a few licks “yes please, but won’t your clanmates punish you if they find you allowing a rouge like me onto your borders and eating your prey?” echo mewed questioning the tom tilting her head to the side, ice’paw chuckled “don’t worry tallstar is pretty understanding so no he won’t, but ya my clanmates might not agree with it” he meowed as he munched on a mouse he had caught and passed a rabbit to her. Echo munched on the rabbit, her ears pricked as she heard cats coming and by the sound of it there were three of them, she started to bristle, ice’paw gave a soft smirk with a glance at her. “Do not worry it is just my siblings if you are thinking they are gonna hurt you your wrong, they will not ok, your safe. Well snake’paw may attempt to pounce on you, but I won’t allow him to I promise you” echo nodded her fur laid flat and the 3 apprentices came closer “WHAT IN STARCLAN is a flea-bitten rouge doing on our territory ice’paw?!” a white and grey tom identified as snake’paw snarled and glared at echo “calm down snake’paw by the looks of it, she’s not a threat to us” a tortoiseshell she-cat purred echo smiled and sat down, another she-cat who was a white tabby with a scar along her eye down to her side shuffled her paws shyly “I’m echo, what are your names?” echo looked at the she-cats and the tom with a sweet smile. “I’m Moth’paw” the tortoiseshell she-cat purred “I’m hawkpaw” the tabby mewed shyly. “I’m snake’paw” the tom growled his fur still a bit bristling, Moth’paw cuffed her brother’s ear with a sheathed paw snake’paw gave a hiss and growled forcing his fur to lie flat and sheathed his claws, “and you already know me, my names ice’paw” the calico tom said with a bright smile. echo smiled at them all her heart filling with happiness, and the four all chatted until sunset, they shared prey and, then her heart sank, knowing that if these cats were gonna be her friends, she can’t hide the truth from them, and she flattened her ears in sadness the siblings all looked at echo in confusion.