Sunpaw blinked "uhh I..I don't know" she meowed absently. She then
looked around the shore and saw some dead leaves and very dried
blood. The apprentice then sat down and looked at the current in
the river.
"If there's something wrong, you gotta tell us." Speckledpaw mewed
softly. "That could have been bad."
"You might have died. None of the apprentices have swum in the lake
yet, let alone almost drowned in it." Bumbleheart spoke. He felt
awkward, he should've been the one who helped her. He was her
mentor, after all. He shrugged that feeling off before putting his
tail on her shoulder. "Is there anything wrong? Another apprentice
attack you or something without anyone knowing?"
She blinked, she decided not to tell them about the weird vision
she had "n..no I thought I heard a fox" she meowed, she then heard
the growl of a fox in the forest. Did I hear that earlier...why
am I seeing these visions...are they memories or am I going mad
she thought to herself. The sound of the fox got a bit louder.
Bumbleheart sniffed deeply. "There is a scent. It's... old."
Speckledpaw also sniffed. "Not it's not." he looked around. "A day
or so old."
"How could you possibly know that, Speckledpaw?" Bumbleheart meowed
- he couldn't tell, surely?
"I don't know. A hunch, maybe? But it's close. Maybe there is one
lurking around."
Froststrike separated his jaws to scent the fox smell. "There is a
stale one from moons ago, apparently it had a fight with another
cat" he meowed and looked at the dry blood. "Though Specklepaw is
right the scent is still fresh" he meowed, "there is some fresh
scent on top of the stale one" he concluded he then looked up as he
heard a fox growl. "Maybe we should head to camp and get some
warriors who can get this fox out of the territory" he meowed
cautiously. He didn't want to put Sunpaw and Specklepaw through a
fox attack,
"I agree. We don't want apprentices to... get hurt." he spoke
lightly.
Speckledpaw rolled his eyes. "Right." he turned in the general
direction of the camp. He started to walk away to hear a loud meow
of warning from his father. Then, the fox attacked.
Speckledpaw hissed loudly, swatting at the fox, trying to gouge at
it's eyes. It countered by doing the same, connecting soundly.
Speckledpaw was thrown away, the fox unrelenting and continuing to
attack him.
Bumbleheart leaped on the fox, trying to drag it off of his son,
who had deep wounds to his body and face.
Sunpaw blinked and froze as she saw Speckledpaw on the ground. She
then ran past Froststrike who was running at the fox. The
apprentice then tackled the fox on the back she began to attack the
fox the way Blackfeather had taught her.
Sunpaw dodged a few of the blows from the fox. She then got hit
across her right eye, as she struggled to see with her left she
fell off the fox and onto the ground. The cat then struggled to her
feet, she saw one of the fox's paws and bit it. "Sunpaw, get back"
Froststrike said in worry he then went to help Bumbleheart trip the
fox.
Bumbleheart lunged, grabbing one of the fox's paws with his claws,
biting and scratching simultaneously, hoping for it to give up
before it could do more damage.
Froststrike scratched the fox across the muzzle while Sunpaw but
the fox in the tail as hard as she could. "Leave this territory"
she hissed to the fox angrily.
Sunpaw jumped back as the fox ran off. She then looked at
Specklepaw in fear, "we need to go get Blackfeather, she meowed
hastily. Froststrike nodded and ran off to the camp, Sunpaw then
sat next to her friend and muttered "please don't" under her breath
a hint of fear was in her tone.
Sunpaw nodded slowly, she then looked around the lake and saw some
moss. "Maybe I can stop the bleeding before Blackfeather gets here"
she meowed to her mentor. She then glanced to Specklepaw once more
with a worried expression,
Froststrike managed to make it back to camp, once he entered he
looked around. "Blackfeather!" He meowed hastily.
Sunpaw padded off and grabbed some moss, she then soaked it in the
lake and ran back over to Specklepaw. "Don't move" she meowed
softly and went over his wounds with the soaked moss.
Blackfeather stumbled from the den, he looked at Froststrike
"what's wrong" he asked in worry. "A fox attacked us, Specklepaw
needs help" he reported the medicine cat nodded and went back to
the den. He then grabbed a small pouch of herbs and ran toward the
forest.