Read My Sight. Tigress choice. :: Chapter 6

A deep voice, accompanied by the sensation of claws digging into my side, woke me up. In front of me was the black mask of the white warrior, who had the misfortune to touch me as a mentor. "Whiteblaze?" "Wake up, it's time to your training," he meowed. I rubbed my eyes with the tail. My denmates were still sleeping peacefully. As we emerged from the den, instead of the first warm rays of sunlight illuminating the camp clearing through the crevices, shadows of black clouds obscured the atmosphere. "But the moon has barely moved!" I exclaimed after crossing the rock tunnel. “A warrior never sleeps. Come on, let's go." Whiteblaze started running."Maybe that's why he is so grumpy," I thought as I followed him, but my muscles must have been asleep at the distance that was beginning to form between me and my mentor. I took the first tree and climbed. Using my tail as a swing and support as I was jumping between the branches, with the night wind caressing my fur with a freshness that announced rain. A smell attracted my attention, we were near the sun meadow. I stopped on a branch at the entrance to the forest and looked under my paws, Whiteblaze was missing. I climbed down from the tree, waving my whiskers in both directions. "Whiteblaze? Where are you?." I meowed. "Have I accidentally left him behind?" I thought. After crossing the arch of branches, I reached the main clearing of the sun meadow. The tall leaves only let small breezes pass through the clearing, loaded with the smell of prey, were a deathly silence. The meadow looked calm that night, I raised my tail. “Something is wrong. The meadow is quiet ... too quiet. " Look around me. "Open areas used to always be typical ambush settings in stories." I thought. I closed my eyes and raised my ears, the smells had disappeared after the increasingly powerful smell of humidity and the deep silence that allowed me to hear the wind running around me. In an instant, a smell of mud appeared. “Stinks of mud! Will it be the shadows? Have they come to kidnap the kits again? " I opened my eyes and stretched out my legs with a yawn, clawing at the ground. "To be seen, if Whiteblaze intended to leave me alone, I could perfectly have continued sleeping." I meowed. I lay down on the cold grass and began to arrange my fur. Whoever was there recognized the territory like the it's paws, circling the place with hardly any noise. I yawned again and lay down, tail tucked behind my back, I closed my eyes. As expected, it didn't take me long to hear the rush of leaves on a nearby bush. From the bushes, a slender and muscular figure pounced on me, covered in mud and with a strong stench of mint covering his fur. I opened one eye, and raised my tail, flinging it at the intruder like a snake. I tied his hind legs, I got up and pushing with my whole body I threw him against the nearest tree. By untying my tail the intruder managed to stop the impact, I took distance with the bristling back and the unsheathed claws, I gave him a warning hiss. "You are in the EchoClan territories, identify yourself, intruder!" The intruder did not respond, instead proceeded to attack again, quickly pounced on me. To avoid the attack I jumped to the side and when it landed I hit him on his side with a headbutt, which threw him at a few tails away from me. I took distance again. The moonlight was hidden behind the treetops, casting a shadow too dark for even a cat. The meadow was silent, and the prey fled. The intruder and I were walking in circles, attacking or evading the attacks of the other, until the first rays of the sun crossed the clearing. "How strange. The intruder seems to be alone, he's not interested in prey, and his combat movements are not typical of a loner or rouge." I thought. My guts roared across the meadow. He had low energies, and that enemy only made me lose the few that kept me standing, I had to end that fight at once. The enemy pounced on me, however, It didn't jump high enough to allow me to evade below and evade above would only expose my belly. I felt the impact of my back against the cold grass, while the intruder began to scratch me. With my back legs, I pushed that brute off of me, and licked my wounds. At that moment, an idea occurred to me. I walked calmly towards him and crouched before him, acting like I was giving up. The intruder lifted his chest in a yowl of victory and prepared to deliver the last blow. To his bad luck, the moment he lifted his leg I slid my tail towards his hind legs and with my body, unbalanced the only front support leg of his to make him fall. Then I tied all four of his legs with my tail, climbed to the nearest low branch and used it as a pulley to leave my attacker hanging and tied like a pig.

I licked my paw and wiped the mud from my opponent's face, now as the prey. A ray of light illuminated his white face covered with a black mask.

"WhiteBlaze?" I exclaimed in surprise.
"Let go of me, now. Loner"
"For heaven's sake, what were you trying to do?" I protested.
"Didn't you hear me, apprentice? Let me go, now"
"I heard you perfectly. Let's see WhiteBlaze, I know you don't like me and all that, but ambush me, are you out of your mind? You are aware that I could have killed you, right?" WhiteBlaze raised an eyebrow. I sighed and released my mentor, who hit the ground with his back.
"I released you, are you going to speak now?" WhiteBlaze shook himself off and began to brush the mud off his fur.
"For a loner, you don't fight that bad."
"Thanks?." I replied. "But I'm not loner anymore, remember? I'm a ..."
"Knowing how to fight doesn't make you a clan cat." he interrupted. He got up and started walking. "Follow me"
"If you wanted to test my fighting skills, it would have been easier for you to tell me that we would do battle training!."
"I imagine, they haven't told you the story, that in battle the enemy never warns you of an imminent attack, right? Welp, at least for clan cats is common sense" WhiteBlaze waved his tail, splashing some mud on my face, "although I suppose the category" 'surprise attack' must be different for the loners."
"Well, to be a surprise attack. This loner didn't have any trouble leaving you hanging, tied up like a pig." I answered, giving a couple of whips with the tail. "But what can be expected of a warrior who allows himself to lower his guard in battle." I took the lead, leaving my mentor with an expression of fury. In the distance, I heard the sound of a stream.

The sun had already risen from behind the mountains, illuminating the path with the faint rays of light that filtered through the leaves. After that fight, my guts were already roaring with hunger, unfortunately helping the prey in the area. After a short walk, the terrain turned from comfortable grass to wet, brittle, pointy stone that got stuck in my paws. I looked out over the edge of the stream, the water was clean and clear. I brought my whiskers closer and drank a little, as I imagined the water was cool.

"I hadn't noticed there was a stream near the Sun meadow," I thought. I licked my whiskers and looked up to see a tall mountain of sharp stones rising across the stream.
"Imposing, right?" My mentor meowed, I nodded.
"What is beyond the cliff?" I asked for. WhiteBlaze shook his tail. "do you want to find out?" I waved my tail curiously. What mysteries would there be behind that cliff? I crouched down, ready to jump. But by the reflection of the water I saw my mentor outlining a sinister smile, "something is wrong here" I thought.

A slight breeze across the cliff drew a scent with it. Cats, and many of them.