Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27804437-20160216194037/@comment-27804437-20160225233819

Chapter 3

Harestar gazed at the lake across the moor, around her everything was silent. She sat quietly, her tail rapped around her paws, thinking about her resent leadership. Suddenly she heard paws thumping on the ground behind her. She spun around hissing.

"Harestar it's just us!" A slender light gray she-cat meowed quickly, she was leading a patrol with two other cats.

"Sorry Skyrise, you just startled me," Harestar apologized, looking down at her paws in shame, behind Skyrise stood Juniperpaw, her apprentice, and Blacknose.

"Don't worry Harestar, I know you had a rough day yesterday," Skyrise meowed, a look of grief flashed in her eyes.

The leader before Harestar, Poppystar, had died the night before and was Skyrise mother. Lakebreeze had insisted on going to the Moonpool that night so she could get granted her nine lives, even though it was so late. He later had told her that she had had a sign from Starclan and just wanted to make sure that everything went well, though she didn't tell her what it was.

"So where are you off to?" Harestar asked, trying to act like a leader.

"Brakenleaf asksed us to check out border by the Horseplace. He didn't think that there would be a problem, but we haven't been there in awhile," Skyrise answered.

"Do mind if I come with?" Harestar asked, excited at the thought of meeting the cats that lived there, she had never seen them before.

"Of course not, it would be an honor!"

Harestar almost missed Skyrise signal for her to take the lead.

She kept forgetting she was leader and not just a warrior. This would be hard to get used to.

Harestar headed towards the lake and veered to the left, she had passed the Horseplace many times on the way to Gatherings. It was almost sun high by the time they got there.

"Keep alert," Harestar reminded them, as she started to sniff the edge of Windclan territory, she couldn't smell any cat scent but that was probably the scent of horse was overwhelming.

"Hi!" A cheery meow sounded from above her.

Harestar looked up hissing. It was a gray kittypet, a tom by the looks of it.

"Don't worry I'm not going to hurt you. I've seen you Clan cats fight before and I don't think I could even compete with that," the kittypet meowed, he jumped down from the fence and peered curiously at the rest of the patrol as they came bounding up from farther down the border.

"We heard you hissing and came to find out if you needed any help," Blacknose meowed, his gaze darkened when he saw the kittypet.

"I'm okay, this kittypet just startled me, that's all. What's your name kitty?" Harestar asked, surprised at how calm he looked.

"My name is Colonel," he meowed, dipping his head to Harestar.

"Who are you?"

"We don't have to answer your questions! Don't you know your in our territory?" Hissed Blacknose, the fur along his back was rising.

"Actually I'm pretty sure I haven't crossed onto your land," Colonial meowed, still calm but Harestar could tell he was beginning to get annoyed by them.

She could see the young tom's strong muscles underneath his short gray pelt and even though he said he wouldn't be able to fight them, she didn't want to risk it.

"Blacknose, he hasn't crossed the border. Were sorry to bother you, eh, Colonial, we should be getting back to camp now," Harestar told him, nodding to her partol for them leave.

"I don't see why I couldn't have shredded him," Blacknose mumbled after they had turned around.

"What if he crosses the border?" Juniperpaw puffed, after they had slowed down and padded into camp.

"I'll have Brackenleaf send a patrol later," Harestar assured her.

Or am I trying to assure myself?

I just hope I'm as good as a leader as Poppystar was.