Birchtail's Secret - Chapter 9

"That fate could have happened to Birchtail?" Rivera nodded. "Then we thank your human, and we should give her something. But we will not give her Birchtail, Birchtail belongs to the clans. He will stay here until he fades from our minds." "Rivera, listen to that." called Senara.  "What is it?" asked Meghan. "We hear those all the time, they are just human machines that rumble around on little hard paths." said Sunflower. "No, not the rumble the whoosh. The sounds of high winds." said Esther. "I remember something now, that sound is the sound of those windy shapes. The spirits send them to punish someone or something if it miss behaves and does something wrong." said Sonia. "Wait that must be the human, my human, her mistake was letting Birchtail escape. We have to go." snapped Rivera. "We will send a patrol with you to the end of the human world, said Sunflower. Rivera turned and with a flick of her tail the human cats raced away from the camp. Sunflower nodded to the patrol and they took off towards the human home. Rivera had stopped and signaled to her patrol to climb up a tree. She turned to Bella, "Bella can you see a blue block, vehicle?" she asked. Bella turned and shook her head. "Well if Bella can't see it, it isn't there." Mossfur's patrol skidded to a halt at the base of the human world. "We're up here," called Becca. Mossfur turned and looked up. "What are you doing up there," she called. "Looking for a blue machine, that isn't here." said Tess. Mossfur nodded, "since it isn't here what does that mean, is it bad?" asked Mossfur. "It means that my human has taken the vehicle and has left the house, to return when the storm dies down. Which means that I have no one to take care of me until she returns." "You can come with me," said Esther, "My human has allows liked you." Rivera turned to pad away when Mossfur called out. "Would you like to stay with the clans instead, you can keep an eye on Birchtail and then when the human coms back you can go back and live with her again." Rivera considered. "What about Thistlestar?" asked Rivera. "Thistlestar knows we are loyal to the clan and the warrior code, bedsides Thistlestar said we owe you. This is what we can do, we can give you shelter and we can help you survive."

Birchtail's Secret - Chapter 8

The clan cats tried to fight back but they couldn't keep it up and they were soon surrounded by the house cats. Mossfur signaled to Birchtail who got the message and sped towards the safety of the forest. Rivera turned and nodded to her patrol, they all raced after Birchtail leaving Mossfur's patrol unguarded. They raced after Birchtail and found all the house cats surrounded by clan cats. "What do you want from Birchtail?" Thistlestar was asking Rivera. "What do I, I want from Birchtail? I want him to be loyal," said Rivera. "He is loyal, that is why he came back to the clan." said Thistlestar slowly. "No, No, I want him to be loyal to his human. She has done him a huge favor she has saved him, from a great danger. He could have been left in the shelter for a long time until he was gone forever. Until he had entered the dark." snapped Rivera. "Entered the dark?" questioned Thistlestar. "At the shelter, there is one room that is almost never entered. No cat knows what is in there, because every cat that goes in never comes out. Well actually that is incorrect I was saved by my human when I was going to enter the room. If you are at the shelter for a very long time, or if you are keeping other cats from being adopted because you are scaring the humans the shelter humans take you into the other room. The dark room. In the dark room it is dim, and to clean and quiet. Then the cat or animal brought in starts to fade from everyones memory so no one sees the  at again. But we know something bad happened to them because they returned to watch over the shelter as their spirit. Would you like Birchtail to have come back to the clan as a ghost a memory of what he was?" questioned Rivera. "I guess not," said Thistlestar. "Then Birchtail should be thankful and grateful to my human. She could have left in the shelter's mercy. Cats become spirits and ghosts at that shelter."