Warriors: New Moon chapter 3

                    Squirrelpaw stood by the fresh kill pile, she smelled a strong scent of ShadowClan, instead of ignoring the smell she hissed sniffing more. The sour smell brought decay and dead leaves, and the scent of a muddy river, Yuk! By that time Leafpaw padded out of the Medicine cat den to see her sister, concerned she padded over to join her. "Squirrelpaw, why are you growling?" she asked her sister, but soon the unpleasent smell flooded her nose.


                    Leafpaw drew her ears back, sank low to the ground and slowly approached the gorse tunnel, then she smelled a familiar scent of juniper berries. Cinderpelt appeared with a clump of the berries in her mouth, with Mousefur following behind. But no sight of Cloudtail, or Spottedfur as the other clan cats made thier way into camp. Leafpaw padded over to her mentor and gave a friendly meow, "thank you, Juniper berries are just what I needed. I must have ate a rotten vole, but these will cure my bellyache" the light brown she-cat mewed blinking politely, as she recieved the gift from her mentor.

                    Squirrelpaw took a different approach at the warrior's arrival, quickly stopping Mousefur to chat. "Mousefur, I smelled ShadowClan cats, is there some secrecy your keeping?" she hissed, digging her claws in the ground like an angry badger. Mousefur hated lying to her clanmates, but she had grown respect for Spottedfur, and let out a heavy sigh. "Your just an apprentice, you don't need to worry about these things. And don't you think that just because you're Firestar's daughter that you can control everycat!" she snarled, her eyes flaring up in anger. Squirrelpaw shrank back in embarresment.

                   Meanwhile.....
             Spottedfur sniffed the air, now with two ShadowClan cats following it was hard to sense a smell of ThunderClan. As the four cats slipped down a crack, in a rock they padded down an underground cave. "When I was a kit, my mother brought me down here. I haven't been here in many moons, but I still know it well." Spottedfur followed the sound of trickling water, until she felt a puddle underneath her paws. She sniffed the air again, scenting ThunderClan more strongly. A bright light shone through a hole in the ground just a few fox-legths away.

                     Cloudtail padded over to a slope pressed to the wall, his claws scraped against the ground. The slope drew itself upward, towards the opening in the ceiling. Cloudtail glanced back, and flicked his tail to the slope as he ran up and leaped out of the cave. The other cats followed closely behind, and soon all four cats made it out. Spottedfur took the lead, padding over to a bracken bush filled with brambles and thorns with a small space just big enough to dig out and climb under. Spottedfur dug her claws into the damp soil and pulled the dirt out to make a larger space for the cats to crawl under, stepping back she shook the dust off her pelt. Cloudtail stepped forward, "I'll go ahead, if there are ThunderClan cats on the other side they would surely pick a fight!" The pale tom mewed crouching low and crawling through the bracken.

                    Cloudtail reached the end of the thorns, and pulled through them. Luckily the cave he came out of was an old nursery, the only animals there were mice. He padded slowly to the cave's opening, he sniffed the air. He smelled ThunderClan, But it wasn't as fresh. Cloudtail came out and a beam of light shined passed him, as he walked farther into the camp he saw some cats, and he saw BrambleClaw. He meowed the tom's name loudly, and Brambleclaw turned and padded to Cloudtail.

                    "Brambleclaw do you mind coming with me for a few moments?" The white tom mewed flicking his tail towards the abandoned nursery. Brambleclaw nodded and followed Cloudtail inside, where the the fluffy white tom crouched in front of the brambles and meowed a signal to the rest of the cats. Spottedfur made her way under the bracken of thorns and pulled out on the other side, due to her size her fur clumped some. Tawnypelt appeared next, and finally the smallest Thornpaw, Brambleclaw who actually looked surprised to see the ShadowClan cats, greeted them calmly. He noticed the fear in his sister's eye's, and padded over pushing his muzzle against her side for comfort.

                   "The dust and smell of mice should hide your scent, at least I hope." Spottedfur meowed looking at her brother Thornpaw, who was batting at a moth trying to catch it. Tawnypelt looked at Brambleclaw, and swallowed hard. "I-I had a dream from StarClan..." She began.