Chapter 6
Tinypaw curled up in her nest, excited to go to sleep as always. "Night Tallwhisker." Tinypaw meowed and closed her eyes, drifting into deep sleep.
Opening her eyes, Tinypaw found herself in the Dark Forest. Tinypaw tensed. Darkcloud wasn't here. He must be planning a secret attack! Tinypaw tought. She opened her jaws to taste the air. Precked her ears, and then leaped off, hearing a thud behind her. Turning around, she saw Darkcloud rising to his paws and giving his chest fur a couple of emberrased licks. Then looked up from his white fur to gaze at Tinypaw
"I tought you well." He said with a nod of approval.
Tinypaw brightened up straight away. It was rare when Darkcloud complimented anyone. "But i'm not here to praise you. Tonight we're going to meet some other cats who train here." Darkcloud awnsered Tinypaw's unasked question. "Follow me."
Tinypaw followed, wondering what other cats trained here, were they friendly, would they accept her? Tinypaw had many questions, but held her tounge. Darkcloud wouldn't awnser those questions anyway.
As they reached a big clearing, Tinypaw noticed many cats from other Clans. She recognized Twigspot, Sunpaw, and Pumpkinpaw from ShadowClan, Redeyes, Sunnyfrog, Owlvine and Palepaw from RiverClan, Fernstep, Cloudnose, Leafwing and Scarmuzzle from ThunderClan and Hillnose, Sharppaw and Orangeleaf from WindClan.
Tinypaw noticed each cat 'training' with unseathed claws with anycar nearby. Tinypaw felt sick. Even cats from the same Clan fought eachother. Tinypaw shivered and ran away. "Hey! Get back here! Hillnose, Palepaw, Scarmuzzle and Twigspot! Go get her!" Darkcloud yowled and the cats chosen ran after Tinypaw.
Tinypaw's lungs we're screaming and her muscles were dyeing, but she kept running. Soon she reached the StarClan border. Making a graceful leap, she landed on StarClan's hunting grounds, but none of the cats stopped, just ran harder. Tinypaw let out a yelp.
Suddenly the thumming pawsteps died away, replaced by hisses from more cats. Tinypaw looked up to see glimmering warriors hissing at the Dark Forest 'apprentices'. Scarmuzzle pompered something to the other cats that made them all leave. Only Hillnose shot a warning glance at Tinypaw, then followed his companions.
As the StarClan cats drew closer, Tinypaw recognized Heathertail, Onestar and Tallstar from her previous visits to StarClan.
"Get Finchpaw." Onestar murmured to Heathertail, and she ran off.
"Tinypaw what happened back there? Why were those cats chasing you as if you were the last rabbit on the moor!" Tallstar suddenly burst out.
Tinypaw took a deep breath and started explaining how she had met Darkcloud and how he had fooled her.
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In the morning, Tinypaw couldn't shake off the memory of the cats in the Dark Forest. She had to talk to Hillnose, Orangeleaf and Sharppaw. When Tinypaw went to look for them, she found the three cats at the edge of the clearing, heads close together. She sighed and padded over.
As Tinypaw drew closer, Sharppaw snapped his head around, then beconed Tinypaw with his tail to join the conversation. "Ah Tinypaw," Hillnose began "i never tought you would be the one the train in the Dark Forest." He meowed, wrapping his tail around her neck as he circeled her. Tinypaw stepped away, but Hillnose pulled her back into the middle of the circle of Dark Forest apprentices.
She gulped. "Uhh.." She murmured.
Orangeleaf sighed and said "Hillnose she won't change her blood-forsaken mind!" Hissing in agreement, Sharppaw nodded. Suddenly, yowls sounded from the camp enterance and cats burst from the camp enterance, breaking the gorse tunnel.
"ShadowClan attack!" Newtstar's yowl sounded and more cats came running trough the enterance. Newtstar ran straight for the leader's den. "Let's go. Tinypaw, you either fight with us or go be a coward in the medicine cat den." Sharppaw growled after Hillnose and Orangeleaf had joined tge chaos of battle.
Tinypaw tought for a moment, then nodded. "I will fight with you." She said and joined the battle, matching blow to blow. Claws slashed, blood flew. All Tinypaw could see was ShadowClan cats and WindClan cats.
For a moment, Tinypaw felt something heavy on her shoulders, but it dissapeared, and Tinypaw saw that Hillnose had pushed the ShadowClan cat off. "Thanks." She meowed and leaped into battle, looking for her brothers. She spotted them fighting together, matching blow for blow. Tinypaw went to join them. She felt a cat push her away from her brothers.
She turned to look at the cat, and saw Pumpkinpaw. She let out a growl and showed her fangs. She shot her head to Pumpkinpaw's eye socket, pulling his eye out. He let out a yowl of pain and let go.
Tinypaw skirted from below the tom and shot towards her brothers, but they were gone. A screech sounded from where the medicine cat den was and she started running towards there. Her eyes filled with horror as a ShadowClan cat raked his claws across no other cat's throat but Tallwhisker's
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