Sunrisewhisker

## Description

Sunrisewhisker is a brown she-cat with green eyes.

## Descripton

"Sunrisepaw! Sunrisepaw!" Lionwind and his patrol was after me, I turned back and started running straightforward, without knowing where I was going, *hopefully I don't fall off a cliff or something.* I tossed myself into some mushrooms and tried to mask my scent, I carefully slid out and ran to the roots of a beech tree, I wanted to escape EmberClan, the rules, the territory, the food, I wanted to escape it all. The yowls of my clanmates faded the further from Cardiff I went.

"Woah!" I squeaked as I fell down a steep hill. I started rolling down, "Ahhh!" I screamed, "Help!" jaws suddenly clamped me. And I was lifted up. "Ava? But I thought you died!" Ava grinned, then put me down. She was a scrawny Jerman Shepherd dog that was Lionwind's best friend. She barked and two familiar cats jumped to either side. *JAYWING AND FLOWERFEATHER!* I stared at the cats before I froze, too scared to move. "But didn't you all die?"

Flowerfeather laughed, "Why ever would you think that? Sunrisepaw, you were once my apprentice, and in a couple more moons, you'll be known as Sunrisewhisker." I tilted my head, "How do you know that? And why are you here in this...undergrowth?" Jaywing sighed, "Same reason as you, we wanted to escape EmberClan. Ava came with us however, we told her not to but she ended up staying anyways." Flowerfeather continued the talk after her brother continued speaking. "We know that because Emberstar told us all the apprentices' warrior names when they would get them, but I loved yours so much I couldn't wait to tell someone!"

Jaywing grinned, "Come with us!" he squeaked, "We'll help you find your way back!" *but I followed the other clans' territories across a lake so I could find my way back in case I changed my mind, but I don't know how to describe it so I won't tell them.* I passed a fake smile, "Sure! But I-" Ava barked so I couldn't finish. "Woah! Calm down there Ava!" said Flowerfeather, "It's Sunrisepaw, you know her." Ava's tongue stuck out at me, she then barked happily, wagging her tail. Jaywing turned around, "You did come on the right day because me and Flowerfeather here were planning on going back soon anyway, so now's the time to do so! What's the point of coming back here when you already went back to the city anyway?" I wordlessly agreed. "So which way are we going..." my words trailed off, *I have to tell them about the route I took, they might go an obscure way if I don't.* Before stopping myself, I said "So which way are we going to go? I found this place by following a lake to the clans territories then found the undergrowth, so if we follow the lake, we would probably be able to find an easier way back." I suggested and Flowerfeather nodded, "Seems like a good idea, what other information did you pick up along the way?" she asked. *There was a trail of mushrooms..* I thought. "I saw a long trail of mushrooms half way up the lake, they led to the outskirts of the city." I then stopped dead, "Hang on," I added, "How did you find this place?" Jaywing bit his lip, "I- I don't really remember, I think it was some kind of rocky area with barely enough prey to live. Then we fell down here and have had to hunt birds these days. That's why we've been gone for two moons. We only planned on coming back after a couple of days, but one more journey and we would be dead from hunger." I straightened up, "Tell me more!" I begged, intrigued by their story.

Flowerfeather giggled. "Apprentices always like a good story." she stayed quiet, then started talking, "We had to sleep in small holes in the caves for a while, it was nearly almost raining and prey wasn't teeming at all." she sounded like she was describing the place, "And I'm pretty sure there was another cave just a few miles from here that belonged to a badger. We were lucky to make it out alive, tells you where we got most of these scars here." Flowerfeather held out her front paw and I moved my chest back. Jaywind chuckled, "Give the little one some space, Flowerfeather, you know that after that badger fell of a cliff trying to chase us, we did indirectly kill it." Flowerfeather stepped back, "Jaywing, we've got to get back to EmberClan, there's probably about fifty patrols looking for either us, or Sunrisepaw." but I didn't have a care in the world who they were looking for. I followed the siblings out of the caves and I directed them across the mushrooms and lakes leading back to the city.

I only stopped to catch my breath when we reached a particularly narrowed outskirt of the city. There wasn't a single cat in sight, I put my head up and yowled as loud as my little throat would allow me. My mother, Ambertail, peaked her head around a corner, she almost froze at the sight of me with two extremely familiar cats, and before I knew she was there, she ran towards me and circled me with her tail. "Sunrisepaw!" she squeaked. *What am I doing with my life?* I thought to myself as my mothers' grip got tighter.