Same as Always

[silverheart]

Blazecloud raced out unto the clearing, ready to begin her duties as a warrior. It was only her third day as a warrior, and she was anxious to serve her clan. "I wonder if there's any patrols I can go on," she said.

[Shadingsun]

Orangebriar arched his back in a high stretch and he padded out of the warriors den. Seeing a group of cats crowding around the deputy, Orangebriar instantly ran over, blinking sleep out of his eyes. "Heeellllooo. Whats the schedule for today?" said Orangebriar loudly. A few cats looked at the ground, and some frowned. "We dont know yet; nobody can seem to find the deputy." said Stoneheart, shifting his weight.Orangebriar frowned, and he looked at the ground too, flattening his ears. "So what, were just going to sit here, and do nothing?!" he said, looking back up at the group of cats. All the cats laughed nervousley, but Orangebriar just winced. "Well of course! If we order ourselves out, there wont be any job for the deputy to doooo..." "Well you guys are boring." said Orangebriar, rolling his eyes. There was a few smiles from a few cats who agreed with him, but others just laid down lazily.

[silverheart]

"Good morning, Orangebriar!" Blazecloud greeted him cheerfully. She yawned. "Did you have a good sleep? I didn't! For some reason, I couldn't sleep! It must've been something I ate." She laughed, her tail curling.

[Shadingsun]

Orangebriar grinned, then shook his head. "No, I didnt seem to have a good sleep Either; I think there were some mean mice in the fresh-kill pile yesterday!" mewed Orangebriar. He then glanced at the group of cats, who were having there own conversations. "I think these cats are getting lazy; they "say" that the deputys nowhere to be seen, and that they cant do anything until Blackflight is found." whispered Orangebriar, his eyes narrowed.

[silverheart]

"Hmmm..." said Blazecloud, looking around. "I wonder where he is!" And then she rolled her eyes at the other cats. "I can't believe they think they can't do anything until Blackflight is found!" she said. "You're right, I think they are getting lazy!" She let out a mrrrow of laughter.

[Shadingsun]

"Maybe we should go look for her; besides theres nothing to do here" said Orangebriar, cocking his head to the side with pricked ears. Orangebriar then arched his head up, so that he could see a few inchs over the crowd, and he found himself a path into the woods. Orangebriar shook his paws and spread his toes out to grip the ground better (yes, cats can do that xD). "Come on!" he said, waving his tail to beckon Blazecloud forwards, and he weaved around the crowd and slowly stepped into the forest.

[silverheart]

"Coming!" she said, running after him and stopping to walk beside him. "Can you smell any hint of scent from her?" she asked, gaping her jaws to see if she could smell her. "I can't..." She looked confused and looked around.

[Shadingsun]

Orangebriar opened his mouth too, and found out also that he couldnt smell any scent of the black she-cat. "Maybe she hid her scent or something." Orangebriar said. He then looked at the ground, and sweeping aside a few leaves with his paw, he bagen to look for paw-marks. "Maybe she left some paw-marks on the ground; help me see if we can find any."

[silverheart]

"Okay," she said, carefully brushing the leaves from the ground. "Hmmm," she said. Suddenly, her eyes grew wide. "Orangebriar!" she gasped. "I smell her scent, and there's the scent of blood mixed in with it!"

[Shadingsun]

Orangebriar rushed over and looked at where Blazecloud was pointing, and he found that she was right. "Maybe we can follow the scent, or the blood!" he exclaimed. Holding out a paw onfront of the mark, Orangebriar sweeped away more leaves, and he found that there was another mark. "Look; heres another one. I think we just found our trail." mewed Orangebriar, his mind working hard at why Blackflight would be heading in this direction.

[silverheart]

Blazecloud felt like she was going to faint. What could've happened to Blackflight? "Let's follow the trail!" she said. "We've got to find her!" She looked at Orangebriar, her bluish green eyes wide with fright and worry.

[Shadingsun]

Orangebriar nodded, then started to follow the trail. "The only thing that I can say is that I hope shes not dead; If she is then well..."Orangebriar cut off as they stepped into a clearing..but something seemed off to Orangebriar. Something....."Were being watched." hissed Orangebriar lowly, unsheathing his claws and looking around through narrowed eyes.

[silverheart]

Blazecloud froze, her fur standing up on end. Orangebriar was right. She could feel a pair of eyes upon them, and she unsheathed her claws. "Orangebriar," she whispered. "What do we do now?"

[Shadingsun]

Orangebriar shifted his weight. "Uhhhhh...I dont know." he said, then he stood up straighter and cleared his throat. "Who are you? Show yourself!" he growled, flattening his ears back. There was a flash of brown, the sound of unsheathing claws, and then the next thing he knew, Orangebriar had a deep scratch in his chest. "Mousedung..." he hissed silently. There was once again another brown flash, but this time, he was ready. Orangebriar heard the sound of claws slicing through the air, next to his ear, and Orangebriar twisted around until he had the brown cat pinned down on the ground. The cat was desperately small, and it had a long scar down both of its eyes. What shocked Orangebriar most was that this cats eyes were dull and glossy, and its eyes were a deep scarlet red. "I asked you a question!" snapped Orangebriar, silently struggling vainly to keep the small cat down on the ground.

[silverheart]

Blazecloud struggled to keep her balance. The small brown cat had given her a nasty scratch on her side, and she was losing blood very quickly. She helped Orangebriar pin the cat down by putting both her front legs on the cat's chest and pressing down firmly. "He asked you a question," she hissed, weakly but fiercely. "Awnser now, or have your pelt clawed off. There's two against one."