CheetahClan's Heiress

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

The young apprentice walked along the ThunderClan border. Her pelt, dark tawny with black spots, glowing in the sunlight. This was her favorite time of day. The sun was starting to set, but hadn't really begun. Her long tail twitched in a calm, simple motion. She did that for balance when running. Her long legs walked stealthily through the plains. Her name was Cheetahpaw.

[Meerful]

Walking along the border, Whiskerpaw paused every once in a while to scent the air, or stretch in the hazy warm sunlight. Her gaze occasionally passed over the Windclan terra, to make sure all was well, then she'd go about chasing leaves, racing the win, chasing the sun. Whiskerpaw was feeling energized. She was Whiskerpaw, the energetic freak of Thunderclan.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw's ears pricked at the sound of another cat. Her dark amber eyes gleamed as she looked around. She saw a ThunderClan apprentice across the border. Curoisity was in Cheetahpaw's eyes. She was just made an apprentice, and hadn't seen a cat from another clan. She barely knew everyone in her own clan. Cheetahpaw watched, curious.

[Meerful]

Whiskerpaw yawned, showing a mouth full of broad sharp teeth, squinting her beautiful brown eyes. She swiped her tongue across her lips, and scanned the area again, but not thoroughly. Scenting the air agian, a squirrel caught her eye. Itwas nibbling a seed at the roots of an old tree, too engrossedto notice a hungry cat. Whiskerpaw felt guilty, but then she remembered she wasn't hunting, just patroling. Croucing, she darted after it. It noticed her a second too soon, and Whiskerpaw chased it until it got to the Windclan border. Whiskerpaw watched it go, crestfallen.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw's eyes caught sight of the squirrel. With quick speed and amazing reflexes the young apprentice chased after the squirrel. She was used to chasing rabbits, however, and was confused by the chattering squirrel. Just a little closer and... Cheetahpaw lunged forward. The squirrel darted away, and Cheetahpaw landed with a thud. She groaned and started to stand up, when a sharp pain went through her back left leg. Her bones were weaker then most cats, but they helped her run. She limped back to the border.

[Meerful]

Whiskerpaw crouched low to the ground. A windclan cat had just tried to take a Thunderclan squirrel! Anger surged through her, and she sauntered forward quietly to get a good look at her.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw licked her back leg once, and pain surged through it. She prayed to StarClan that it wasn't broken. Her tail lashed back and forth in a gentle, swaying motion. She looked around. Where did that ThunderClan cat go?

[Meerful]

Whiskerpaw stepped forward, placing one paw in Windlcan terra, their stench hitting the roof of her mouth, making her feel like choking, but she wallowed once, and kept going.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw's ears pricked. Someone was there... But Cheetahpaw was in no condition to fight. She stood up, fur bristling.
"Who's there?" She growled.

[Meerful]

Whiskerpaw crouched lower to the ground,wishing for the bracken her pelt hid in so completely, she flatened her ears, and curled her tial around her. Her eyes were aimed upwards, starng at the cat, a few foxlengths away. Whiskerpaw stretched a paw forawrd, and sprang, her paws outstretched in front of her, and she propelled herself towards the cat.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw was surprised and easily knocked down. Her eyes held surprise.

"Get off WindClan territory" Cheetahpaw hissed. She tried to squirm out of the cat's grip, but her hurt leg prvented it.

[Meerful]

Whiskerpaw looked at the cat, confused. Had this cat been attacked or something? Whiskerpaw hopped off her and began to nose at her leg, then she sprang away, only to return a second later with a bundle of leaves in her mouth.
"Chew, swallow. Put he leaves on your leg. Don't move more than necassary" Whiskerpaw demanded. She knew exactly what to do, she'd had enough hurt legs to last a lifetime.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw looked at the cat untrustingly. She nosed the leaves once. They did smell familliar... She did as the cat told. Her leg still hurt, but it started to feel a little better.

[Meerful]

Whiskerpaw sat up straight with a mater of fact look on her face. Her smug grin told it all. "Aren't you glad a thunderclan cat knew how to help you? You should be, there aren't a lot of us who would stoop down tohelp you, but I'm a good person, oh that I am." She yammered, not pasuing once to take a breath.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw shrugged.

"Thanks" She mewed "But I'm used to this happening. I usually just have to rest awhile before I can find the strength to get up." She looked at the cat curiously. Why would a ThunderClan cat want to help a WindClan cat?

[Meerful]

Whiskerpaw nodded. "Well, that's fine and all, but did you happen to catch that squirrel?" Whiskerpaw's stomach grolwed, the quake of it's hunger barely showing. Her hunger had pretty much dulled to a low aching pain. "Anyway, I should go, but be careful, your body doesn't seem the right prportion to be supported by those legs." Whiskerpaw added.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

"No, I didn't catch the squirrel" Cheetahpaw mewed "That's what kind of caused this." She stood up, staggered once, then stood tall again.
"I'm Cheetahpaw" Cheetahpaw mewed "What's your name?"

[Meerful]

"My names Whiskerpaw. Hey, be careful, I'd try to do more climbing to get up your leg strength and probably try stepping lgihter." Whiskerpaw advised, yawning again.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw nodded. There weren't many places to climb here though. She lashed her long tail back and forth out of habit. Cheetahpaw looked around. The scent of rabbit filled the air and she crouched low. Her leg felt better, as it usually did after awhile, and she stalked forward. Her long tail lashed back and forth for balance. The rabbit scented her and bolted away. That didn't stop Cheetahpaw though. She raced after it. This time she wouldn't fall. Just a bit closer. Cheetahpaw lunged forward and landed on the rabbit, killing it with a swift bite. She brought it back to the border and dropped it at Whiskerpaw's paws.
"You can have it" She mewed "I'll be able to find more"

[Meerful]

Whiskerpaw shook her head. "Thunderclan doesn't need charity, besides, what would I tell everyone when I bring back a fresh plump rabbit in the peak of it's youth when I couldn't run faster than a badger?" Whiskerpaw joked, turning around, exposing her incredibly sunken in stomach.

[She is starving! Wah!]

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw shrugged.

"Tell them you snuck up on it" She mewed "You already helped me, now I'm returning the favor"

[Meerful]

Whiskerpaw shook her head. "Nah, I'm good. I'll just og down by an old stream bed to find something. You can keep your rabbit, you'll need your strength more than I will" Whiskerpaw nodded to the cat, and hopped over the border, the refreshing thunderclan scents reutrning a bit of her strength.

[Cinder.and.Flightfall]

Cheetahpaw sighed, but nodded. She picked up the rabbit and headed for home.

[Meerful]

[Whee! I almost have 2,00 posts! Cough]

Whiskerpaw licked her pelt a few times, and headed back the way she had come, making sure she didn't carry the stench of Windlcna with her. Her paws padded along, wondering what she'd encounter next. [there, end of thread.]