Quietspirit X Rusty

Chapter One: Boss
How did I ever get roped into this?
Rusty dumped a freshly killed hawk on the pine needles littering the forest floor and spat out feathers. He was 200% done.
After their camp had been taken over by hostile dogs, the 
Silencedclan members had run for it and been running ever since. There 
hadn’t been any sign of the dogs since, but still, they didn’t dare stay
 in one place for too long. They had been searching for a new camp but 
the going was slow, and prey was hard to find in the unfamiliar 
surroundings. They were getting weaker and slower; not good in such 
uncertain times. Everyone was on edge and exhausted, but Rusty even more
 so. Genjistar and Mothstar were so busy with the scouting groups 
searching for a new permanent camp, they didn’t have time for anything 
else, and somehow it had been left up to Rusty to look out for the 
others. He didn’t know if it was because he was the biggest or just the 
meanest, but the cats seemed to look up to him and he was not enjoying the responsibility.
I think I preferred it when they were all scared of me, he thought wryly. Well, everyone except for-
“Nice hunt, boss.” A slow, drawling voice snapped Rusty out of 
his inner ranting, and he looked up to see a large tortoiseshell 
grinning at him. Speaking of exceptions...
He narrowed his eyes. “Since when am I the boss?” he growled. 
Quietspirit shrugged and somehow, against all odds, managed to smile 
even wider. Does this cat ever stop smiling? Rusty thought aggravatedly. “Dunno,” the tom meowed flippantly. “Just suits you I guess.” Suits me? What's that supposed to mean?? "Go take a nap, Lazyspirit," Rusty snapped. Quiet burst out laughing and wandered off, presumably to follow Rusty's orders.
Rusty stared after him for a moment, then shook his head and 
turned back to the fresh-kill. “Don’t trust ‘im. Smiles too much,” he 
grumbled to himself as he dragged the hawk over to the temporary 
fresh-kill pile. “Lazy slacker...” And if his tail wagged ever so 
slightly as he complained, well, nobody needed to know.
Written by: Hundred1000 will be edited and ex when he comes to do it.
Category:Cats
Category:Stories