Downpour

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    Halfheart stepped out into the clearing with a quail hanging limp in his jaws. He set it on the ground and glared at Blazingpaw, "Unless you've become leader all of a sudden and decided that Thunderclan doesn't need to hunt on this side of the territory anymore, keep your jaws shut!" Halfheart growled quieter, "This hunting patrol isn't finished after one good catch."

    Nightfur rolled her eyes at Halfheart's rebuke to Blazingpaw. She hid her catch to pick up later and padded over to Blazingpaw to give him a comforting flick with her tail. "You did great, catching two in one go," she mewed. "Let's see if we can do it again."

    Blazingpaw shrugged," Like killing two birds with one stone," he remarked, giving thanks to StarClan quietly in his head. Blazingpaw nodded," Maybe we can still follow their scent. If not, the awful racket they're making."

    Nightfur shook her head. "They'll have alerted everything in the area. Let's move to the edges of Tallpines and try there," she suggested.

    Blazingpaw nodded and began walking there, setting a brisk pace. He didn't want to stay out that long in the freezing rain.

    Nightfur loped alongside the apprentice until they reached the outskirts of Tallpines. She scented the air and got a whiff of a rabbit, but found it hidden in a gorse bush. She wasn't about to go fishing it out of the thorny plant. She would find something else.

    Halfheart scented vole in the bush ahead. He dropped into his hunting crouch, slowly crept forward, but then another scent hit his nose. It was not Thunderclan. "Nightfur," He turned toward her, "Do you smell that?"

    Nightfur nodded with dread. Shadowclan. She could distinguish three male scent tags; it was not a good match. "Blazingpaw, get over here right now!" she hissed, eyes wildly trying to find where the Shadowclanners were approaching from.

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    Blazingpaw caught the scent, his eyes wide with a mixture of fear and excitement. He quickly padded back to Nightfur and watched out for the intruders.
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    Halfheart padded beside Nightfur and faced the Shadowclan scent. "Ok, it's either Blazingpaw runs back to get reinforcements and we hold them off, or we all try to handle this." He looked back at Blazingpaw, yet he could not tell whether the apprentice was quivering of fear or excitement.

    "I think we can take 'em," Nightfur growled. Blazingpaw could certainly hold his own in battle, as could she and the rest of the patrol. She wasn't going to run away and let Shadowclan hunt freely; she would drive them out as if she were a tiger.

    "Alright, that's the plan," Halfheart braced himself to leap into the bushes ahead. "I'll take the biggest. Blazingpaw, don't try to take on a cat you can't handle," he warned the apprentice. Secretly, Halfheart knew both cats could fight well enough for the biggest Shadowclan cat, but he couldn't bear see his clanmates hurt. Especially, when he could have done something.

    Nightfur hissed as a Shadowclan tom stepped out from the bushes ahead of them and immediately pounced. She scratched and snarled and bit, turning her and the enemy into a whirlwind of fur and tails.

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    Blazingpaw nodded and tackled a ShadowClan apprentice to the ground, hissing angrily," Can't you feed yourselves, snake-hearts?" He cuffed the apprentice hard in the ears.
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    Halfheart arched his back and hissed at a large black tom who had just stepped through the bushes. The warriors circled each other, hissing thier hostility. "Why are you here Sootpelt?" Halfheart spat angrily.

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    Blazingpaw kicked the apprentice away before looking at Sootpelt.
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    Nightfur was dislodged from her enemy, rolling to a stop next to her Clanmates. She had a scratch across her nose that made her eyes water. She hissed at the Shadowclan cats while Halfheart confronted them verbally.