Warriors: The Ghosts of Us: The Chosen Ones: Chapter 8

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Key: * = Italicized ~~~ = Change in Time ⠀Bristlepaw crouched forward; careful to make sure that she didn’t make any noise. She smelt the mouse in front of her. She saw it move around as it chewed on a leaf. She glared at it, and jumped. ⠀Bristlepaw smiled as she carried the mouse in her mouth over towards Rosepetal. ⠀“Great catch,” her mentor said, “Bury it so we can carry on with our border patrol.” ⠀“Okay!” She dug her paws into the dirt. Pride ruffled through her pelt at Rosepetal’s praise. ⠀After she had buried the mouse, Bristlepaw ran up to join the rest of the patrol which consisted of her, Rosepetal, Berrynose, and Cloudtail. ⠀The patrol went through the territory until they reached the WindClan border. Berrynose lifted up his tail to tell them to stop. “I smell something,” he growled slightly. ⠀The rest of the cats on the patrol began to sniff the air. “WindClan,” Cloudtail growled. ⠀He didn’t have to say it. Everyone saw the WindClan patrol run down the hill towards the border. Even if they didn’t everyone could smell the fear scent flying off their pelts. ⠀The WindClan cats skidded to a stop at the river parting their territories. They were panting as if they were running for their lives. Maybe they were, but how would Bristlepaw know? ⠀The patrol had five cats in it Woodpaw, the hyper apprentice Bristlepaw had met at the gathering, Crowfeather, WindClan’s deputy, Smokehaze, Woodpaw’s mentor, Breezepelt, Crowfeather’s son, and a gray she-cat Bristlepaw didn’t recognize. ⠀“Don’t you even think about it,” Berrynose growled to the cats across the border. He didn’t say what “it” was, but he didn’t need to, everyone already knew what he meant. “It’s clear you aren’t on a border patrol.” ⠀“How do you know we aren’t on a border patrol?” Breezepelt growled, “Maybe we just ran over here to make sure you didn’t cross the border.” ⠀Berrynose rolled his eyes, “And maybe you didn’t.” ⠀“We aren’t here to cross your border or start trouble,” Crowefeather said glaring at his son, “We have a message to share with Bramblestar.” ⠀“What’s the message?” Cloudtail said. ⠀“I said Bramblestar not you!” ⠀“If you need to tell Bramblestar tell something you can tell me first.” ⠀“You’ll hear soon enough,” Crowfeather growled, “Now I need to speak with Bramblestar. It’s an urgent matter.” ⠀“Tell me then I’ll let you.” ⠀Crowfeather sighed, “Fine, you want to know what? You can’t go in the tunnels anymore, and we can’t either.” “I think you’re insane,” Berrynose growled, “If you think we’re going to listen to you. It’s obvious that you just want to have the tunnels all to yourselves.” “That’s an order from Harestar!” Breezepelt shouted. ⠀“We don’t take orders from WindClan’s leader!” Berrynose shouted back. ⠀“The tunnels are haunted.” It was the hyper apprentice that Bristlepaw met at the gathering. This was the only time she had saw Woodpaw not screaming her head off in excitement. “It broke my sister’s leg.” ⠀Rosepetal took a speak forward and began to speak, “Just because your sister broke her leg in the tunnels doesn’t mean that it’s cursed. It was probably just an accident.” ⠀“It’s not only that. Shadowpaw-” ⠀“What does Shadowpaw have to with any of this? He’s in ShadowClan. The tunnels don’t reach ShadowClan territory,” Cloudtail asked. “He had a vision about the tunnels,” Woodpaw mumbled. “Oh, well isn’t this great! We’re listening to an apprentice tell us about how the tunnels are cursed, and about how ShadowClan’s medicine cat apprentice had a vision about the dangerous tunnels!” Berrynose complained. Woodpaw tucked her head in with embarrassment. While Crowfeather just glared at Berrynose, “Fine, go to the tunnels! If something happens just know we warned you!” ⠀“Good!” Berrynose growled. “I’ll going to the tunnels just to show you that there’s nothing wrong with it!” ⠀Bristlepaw’s eyes widened. She didn’t know if there was something wrong with the tunnels. It did sound crazy but… ⠀“Good!” Breezepelt growled, “I hope something happens!” ⠀Both Clans walked in opposite directions from the border all angry with each other. ⠀Nobody said anything until Rosepetal decided to say something, “Don’t you think we should report this to Bramblestar? I mean like before we go and investigate.” ⠀Berrynose stopped walking for a second to look at Rosepetal, “No.” ⠀Bristlepaw could tell by Rosepetal’s face that she thought this was a bad idea. But there was nothing she could do about that, Berrynose was the patrol leader. ⠀They soon made it to the tunnels. “I bet that there’s a bunch of WindClan cats in there,” Berrynose meowed. ⠀But there wasn’t. There was no sound except the rushing water. And the humming. Bristlepaw didn’t remember hearing it the last time she was there. It was too loud to miss. There was no way she could have forgotten about it since the last time she was here. ⠀She heard Berrynose say something about how odd it was that there were no WindClan cats here. But that seemed too distance.