Hey everyone who is reading! Blizzard here, back on the writing spree once again! I've finally found some time to write more of these stories, since some of those stories I'm reading aren't updating very much. (No offense and no pressure to the authors of those books and are reading this now, you're giving me a little bit of time to fulfill my main purpose here!)

Anyways on to the next chapter!

   Kai and Jay painstakingly picked their way out of the junkyard and along the stinky trail smelling of rotten bones. Wherever it led there were always flattened pathways and destruction nearby, the telltale scent lingering over the evidence like an ominous storm cloud.

   Kai could never shake the feeling of dread over what could've happened to Nya in the time he'd lost searching in the junkyard. Those bone cats could've torn her fur out, dragged her through sharp rock paths, scarred her face... Kai unconsciously touched the scar on his face, which ran over his left eye, with one flame-orange paw. I don't want her to become scarred like me.

   "Ow!" Jay winced as he set a hind paw down. "I give up!" He sat back on his haunches, his eyes glazed in pain and defeat.

   Kai narrowed his eyes at him. "You're going to give up on finding Nya?" He questioned, adding a tone of menace in his voice. Whether he liked it or not he was going to keep Jay alive... for Nya's sake.

   "No, no, no, not that!" Jay explained rapidly, shaking his head. Droplets of blood sprayed all over the place. "My entire body is burning from the blows those bone cats dealt on me. I give up on walking." He made a pouty face.

   Kai groaned, closing his eyes and shaking his head. "Don't tell me... we are not doing this. Fend for yourself." The flame-colored tom flicked his tail dismissively and walked away along the path.

   The next moment Kai found himself grumbling as he carried Jay on his back, the gray tom's claws digging into Kai's pelt to keep himself on the back. In order to move around Kai had to "bumble walk," moving two paws on one side at a time, left-right-left-right. Kai always felt that Jay enjoyed this, but Kai absolutely hated it. Jay just gets to relax ad dig his sharp claws into Kai's fur  while Kai carries a burden on his back and had to move at a slower pace. GRRRRRR.

   "Don't you know," Kai growled, gritting his teeth tightly, "how excruciatingly annoying  this is?!"

   "Wow, it is? Hmm, I wonder, how are you faring down there?" Jay replied sarcastically. "I'm just hanging!"

   Kai could've sworn Jay was grinning from ear to bloody ear.

   The two carried on following the bone trail, only stopping if they got hungry, got thirsty, nature called, or Kai tired out from bumble walking and had to stop for a while. He managed to keep it up until sunset, when they had to stop and make camp and call it a day.

   Kai returned to their makeshift sleeping spot, under a small rock overhang teeming with moss and lichen, and dropped a catch of two mice and a crow at Jay's paws. Together the two toms devoured the prey clean, properly disposed of the bones and used some of the crow feathers in their nests, let nature call, and promptly curled up in their nests. Within minutes Kai fell asleep.

   A loud THUMP woke him up. Kai flared his eyes open, trying to locate the origin of the sound. He looked around, snorting in disbelief at Jay's tail thumping against the floor, next to where Kai's head lay.

   "Fur and feathers," Kai grumbled, curling up again in his nest, this time with his head away from Jay and his tail.

   THUMP.

   Kai jumped out of his nest, his pelt bristling. He whipped his head around towards Jay, who was still sound asleep. He wasn't moving a single limb this time;  the only thing moving that was his was an injured chest, rising and falling in rhythm as he inhaled and exhaled softly.

   "Jay, I know that's you," Kai scoffed, lashing his bushed tail. "If you -"

   THUMP.

   Kai froze. That wasn't Jay. In fact, said cat woke up at that moment, murmuring, "Wossat? Wossatnoise?"

   Uh-oh. A chill ran down Kai's spine, only to melt with a fiery surge of anger. He unsheathed his claws.

   "Alright, who's there?" He yowled confidently, sticking his head out from under the meager shelter of the overhang. He let his pupils expand to soak in all the light available. Around him only the shadows of trees and giant boulders disrupted the smooth flow of moonlight from sky to earth. A faint breeze blew through the treetops.

   And then Kai scented it.

   The putrid smell of rotten bones.

Whooo what danger they're in now! That's another draft taken care of and out of the way. I still have... *decides to be Zane for two minutes and counts all the pages of drafts* precisely 40 more pages of drafts to get through and type on Wattpad for this story.

And no, I'm not counting the pages of drafts for the Old Draft that will (probably) never be used again.

Until two more pages are cleared, cya and peace out!