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."

Birchtail's Secret - Chapter 7

Birchtail and the other cats spun around to see the challenging cat. It was Rivera. "Where are going?" She repeated. "Home," snapped Birchtail, "And no one is going to stop me from getting there. Rivera snarled and bared her teeth, she leapt down from the fence and a few seconds later she was joined by her friends. "This is Senara, Meghan, Sophia, and Becca." She said pointing to them in turn. She looked disaprovingly at Sagepaw when she shook her head and laughed. "Funny, you think. Just because we live with humans doesn't mean that we can't fight. Just because we look nice and untrained doesn't mean we aren't fiece. I have more help coming if I need it." The apprentices laughed too, "You'll need it," snarled Mossfur who was leading the patrol. Rivera let out a yowl and 6 more cats leapt down from the fence.  "Tess, Melissa,  Esther,  Bella, Sonia, and Hannah. Are you sure you are so keen to fight now?" asked Rivera. Mossfur looked uncertain staring at the large group of cats.  Rivera looked at Mossfur. "Why do you insist on fighting?" Mossfur asked. "Why do you insist on intruding on territory that isn't yours?" "We don't." snapped Mossfur. "You are right now." Mossfur looked at her clan mates. "We have permission from Birchtail," said Mossfur slowly. "Who is he to give permission to other cats. he wasn't the owners first cat. Only the first cat in the household when then owner or human adopts the second cat can give the permission to have other cats in their home. Now if Birchtail comes back to the house with me we will let you go back to your clan in peace, but if you insist on taking him back, we will fight you. Birchtail was legally my human's she adopted him from the animal shelter, so until she abandons him, or she dies she is the rightful care taker and owner of Birchtail. Which means that until she gives her permission Birchtail is forbidden to leave her household. So what do you decide Mossfur?" Mossfur looked at her clan mates before staring up at Rivera and clearly saying, "Birchtail belongs in the clans, if you insist on fighting then we will fight you to bring Birchtail back to his rightful home." Rivera turned to her friends before lunging at the clan cats. 

Birchtail's Secret - Chapter 6

Birchtail pushed his nose against the glass, watching the day go by. When he heard the human owner come in. The human picked up Birchtail and brought him over to the kitchen. There was another cat already there. The cats couldn't really understand the humans but the two cats could under stand each other. "Hello, my name is Rivera. What is your name?" asked the cat. "Birchtail," he said. "Birchtail? I don't think that the humans would name you Birchtail, what is your real name." "Birchtail." repeated Birchtail firmly. "Well the humans renamed me Tigger I think, but I am sticking to Birchtail thank you," snapped Birchtail. The other cat looked at him for a minute before nodding. "Fine, Birchtail." said Rivera before turning away. The human made some noises, before turning away. Rivera had turned towards a flap in the door, she pushed on the bottom with her nose and let out a noise. The human turned at the noise and pushed in a spring which let the door spring open at the bottom. Rivera turned and padded outside. Birchtail turned towards the door, when the human turned and picked him up again. He was brought into another room. He saw a small silver head bob up. He turned towards it. It was Sagepaw, she pawed at the glass. She turned and signaled for Birchtail to back up and he did. When she realized that he was far enough away she turned and called for the other cats behind her. The two warriors turned and pulled back towards the clan, stretching they long vine. With the help of the other apprentices, the cats could roll a stone into place. When Sagepaw signaled the warrior ducked, and the rock was flung at the window. It shattered leaving a large hole. The human came running but before it could do anything Birchtail was wriggling through the gap in the window and out into the wild once more. Birchtail was thrilled. The clan cats turned and ran back towards the safety of the forest, leaving the human back in the house. "Where do you think you are going?" Said a voice. The clan cats froze.

Birchtail's Secret - Chapter 5

"Who are they?" Asked the cat that was the leader. The timid black cat shuffled forward, "well he lives in a clan or a group of cats. It said the fruit and the herb so those must be symbols for names of two of the cats in the group." Said the cat. "Yes, Yes but you said you knew exactly who it was. Which two cats it was." The black cat looked at her leader and nodded saying " I do know who it is. I have known all my life, even before this pink cat came." "Well then who is it?" Snapped the leader. "Well the symbols have to mean something having to do with what she said. So, the fruit has to be a cat with a name of a fruit, and the herb the symbol for a cat with the name of a herb." The leader considered before nodding. "That makes a lot of since, what are their true names? Do you know," he asked turning to Birchtail. "Probably Applepaw and Sagepaw." said Birchtail. Suddenly the door opened, "Act nice," hissed the cat. "You want to get adopted, otherwise you leave and don't come back ever." Birchtail nodded and played along with the others. Soon one of the humans pointed at Birchtail and spoke to the person wearing some kind of tag in a weird high voice. The manager/person nodded and picked up Birchtail. The STUPID, HORRIBLE, HUMAN BEING, picked Birchtail up and brought him into another room. The manger then put what Bichtail knew was a collar on, and Birchtail could recognize the letters, T-I-G-G-E-R. "Tigger?" wondered Birchtail bewildered. "The manager put Birchtail into another box, and he was whisked away from the room. When he was allowed out of the cage, he looked around. This was no where near what his home was. It was a square, box, den, room thing. He pushed a paw on the wall, it was solid. He turned and pushed his nose against the window trying to find out where he was in relation to home. He was just on the other side of the large river that separated the humans home from the camp.

Birchtail's Secret - Chapter 4

Birchtail looked around at all the cats in his new enclosure thing. He was looking around, when a cat came up  him. It was a black cat who was looked like she was about about to speak when Birchtail let out a hiss. She backed away looking wary, soon a large white cat came to see the new cat. Birchtail thought that this white cat looked like the leader. "What do you want?" asked Birchtail sharply. "You might want to know that I am the leader here, I fought for my position." "Fought?" Birchtail asked, this cat didn't look like it even had claws. The white cat nodded, "as leader, I fight every cat, if they win they become leader." "So you are going to fight me?" asked Birchtail. The white cat nodded and leapt at Birchtail. Birchtail let out a yowl and ducked. The white cat turned and hit Birchtail with a soft paw. "If you want to win you are going to have to fight harder than that," spat Birchtail. "How?" asked the cat curiously. "Use your claws." he snapped. "Claws? What are claws." said the cat. Birchtail stared, before speaking, "You don't have claws?" Birchtail asked the cat. The white cat shook his head before showing Birchtail a white paw. Birchtail just looked on. "Now back to the fight," said the white cat. The white cat ducked and bit Birchtail. Birchtail let out a yowl and whirled around and slashed the white cats ears. The white cat retreated before charging again. Birchtail leapt into the air and landed on the back of the white cat, he flipped the cat over and pulled out tufts of fur. Suddenly the white cat retreated looking wary, Birchtail looked behind him to see a star swirl down to reach Birchtail, it became a pink cat. "Don't loose your hope, you will be reunited with your clan before long. The fruit saw everything, it's sister the herb went for help. The fruit and the herb have both been helping all they can in search patrols, you will see the clan again." With that the cat vanished. "Fruit and Herb? Clan?" asked the white cat. "You live in a group of cats in the woods." said the white cat. "Who is Fruit and Herb?" asked the white cat. Birchtail didn't know. "I know," it was the black cat. 

Birchtail's Secret - Chapter 3

Sunflower watched with narrow eyes as she watched the opponents battle plan, then she realized that they didn't have a plan at all. As all of Peachfur's patrol charged towards the fern, it gave Birchpaw and Applepaw to slip past them to snag a few berries on their claws. Suddenly Peachfur let out a yowl, "don't forgot to watch the berry bush." All of her patrol let out a yowl and charged at Birchpaw and Applepaw. "Help them, and Mosspaw don't forgot the plan," Sunflower said. "Suddenly Birchpaw tripped and fell while climbing up a tree. When he woke up, it was moons later. "Are you okay?" asked Windfur the medicine cat. Birchpaw nodded. "You missed a lot when you were gone. Flowerpaw is Flowerfur, Greenpaw is Greenwhisker, Tigerpaw is Tigerstripe, Waterpaw is Waterfur, and Mousepaw is Mousepelt. Thistlefish is now Thistlestar, Sunflower is deputy and Whiteberry is Senior Warrior. Littlewind has 3 kits, Berrykit, Windkit and Whisperkit." she said. Stormpaw turned to his patient and added, "your warrior ceremony is tonight." Birchpaw nodded. "Birchpaw you are a useful asset to our clan, I name you Birchtail." Birchtail nodded. He turned towards his nest near the edge of the clearing. Later that day he was out hunting when he saw a bright orange or ginger cat. A few minutes later he was caught in some sort of mesh. He cried out, but all that came was a large human creature. It turned and looked at Birchtail. It swooped down and Birchtail was put into a hard sided box thing. He was then brought to a large building, he could hear the human creature speaking in a weird language to someone who was holding a cat. The human creature set the cat down with the others and turned to the german shepherd next to her. Birchtail didn't know why so many animals were in one area.