Page Seven
Yes, there will be real action in this page. I know that's what you've been waiting for, and I'm sorry for making you wait.
Ariya quotes someone in this chapter. Kudos, and maybe a little gold if you know where it's from.
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GreenGangster: Glad you liked it. It's from Pirates of the Carribean.
Scaide wasn't sure if she had charged right after Merra called for her warriors to to fight, or right before. If Nekan lived to do his duty to the clowder, the dark young warrior lived for speed, fighting, and friendship.
She came face to face with a dark grey she-cat. The enemy warrior sprang, and the two wrestled for a few moments until Scaide managed to rake her back claws down her oponent's belly, which discracted the other she-cat long enough for her to roll, and come out on top. One more bite to the her shoulder sent the grey sprinting into the tall grass.
Scaide crouched to leap back into the battle, when she felt a sudden pressure on her back. She yowled as she went down under the weight of a large dark tabby tom-cat. His claws ripped her shoulders, and though she struggled, his size and weight held her down.
Suddenly, the weight was gone. She turned to see Koryo wrestling with her attacker. "Be more careful, next time!" He snarled through a mouthful of fur.
Scaide nodded, and looked around. Shira was tussling with another young warrior, Sokrin was going through enemy cats like a mad badger, Merra and Azenek were locked in combat with and Tilynka and Tenaku were fighting side by side.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a scrawny white warrior dashing out of the bush that the queens and kits were hiding in, chased by Ariya. So she can fight after all.
Then she realized Nekan was backed against the boulder by a pair of identical ginger toms, even bigger than the one that had attacked her.
Not many sane cats would've tried to help, but Scaide had a noticable disregard for her personal safety, so...
One of the large warriors grabbed her scruff as she attacked, pitching her beside Nekan. He gave her a look of cold disapproval, then turned back to the enemy warriors.
Scaide had to notice that while her fur was puffed, and her ears were back, Nekan's were perfectly normal. Only his eyes shone with cool defiance.
She turned her head, met his eyes, and nodded. The two were currently the fastest cats in the clowder, and that had its perks.
Scaide ran straight at one of the gingers, veered slightly, turned and leapt, landing sloppily on his back. Nekan had done a better job. Of course he did. he's always, training, sharpening his claws, or hunting.
Ripping and biting for a moment or two did the trick. The moment the silver tom and the brown she-cat were shaken off, their opponents fled.
Nekan sprinted back into the melee, and Scaide went to help Shira, who'd somehow beaten her previous opponent, only to have him replaced by a much bigger one. The large calico she-cat was advancing on the young warrior.
Scaide sprang, and if the other warrior had been smaller, she would've been knocked over, but as she was big, she wasn't. It was obvious the calico was a seasoned fighter, and a little out of Scaide's league, but when Shira joined the fight, the sisters were victorious.
Then Yurik's voice rang above all others. "Retreat!" the black and white cat yowled, as he dashed away from the battlefield with Azenek in pursuit.
His warriors followed, and once they were gone, many of Scaide's clowdermates simply flopped down where they stood. Scaide sat down, and it wasn't until she noticed Ariya padding among the warriors, treating injuries did Scaide remember that she was wounded, and felt the pain.
Ariya treated the gashes on her shoulders and neck, then saw to Shira.
It wasn't until everycat had been seen to when Scaide noticed the silver tabby sprawled and bleeding near the boulder. For a second she thought it was Nekan, but then she saw him talking to Koryo.
This tabby was from the other clowder, she realized. Must've forgotten him when they retreated
Then she saw Ariya padding over to him.
"Aw, leave it Ariya," growled Tenaku, as Tilynka licked a cut near her sister's ear. "He ain't worth it."
Ariya looked up from applying herbs. "All life is precious." She replied, and went back to work.
Once she'd finished pressing cobwebs to the tabby's wound, the clowder started moving again, and Scaide noted with dismay that it was slower than before.
