Jaded View: Chapter twenty-six

## Chapter twenty-six

“Come on! We’re almost there!” Junglekit ran in front of
Picklekit, his tiny tail fluffing up. Picklekit bounded behind him, her paws
delicately touching the ground, as they reached the river, Picklekit stared
down at it. The river had been half frozen over, patches of ice covered its
surface. Junglekit was the first to jump onto the ice, his paws landed on it,
then instantly jumped onto the opposite bank. Picklekit followed him, but
instead of leaping from a patch of ice to the bank, she decided to leap straight
to the opposite bank. She backed away, then ran off the bank, barely leaping
off it. Her paws barely landed on the opposite bank. She climbed her way up,
watching as Junglekit ran off in front of her, “wait up!” She called bounding
after him. As she reached Jaded View, the shape of Bloodkit slowly came into
form, the pale ginger tom was waiting for them, staring at Picklekit. “Hey
Bloodkit!” She mewed, bounding towards him, “hey Picklekit.” The other kit
nodded, “it took you guys so long, I thought you’d never get here.” The tom
meowed, “well, we’re hear now, and today I’m going to fight you Bloodkit.”
Junglekit’s voice was covered in jealousy as he lunged at Bloodkit, Picklekit
darted out of the way, barely dodging the tom’s sharp teeth. The golden tom shoved
Bloodkit to the ground, then the other tom kicked him off. Junglekit drew
closer, his claws unsheathed, Bloodkit crouched down, watching the other
training. Then Junglekit launched at the Oceanclan tom, as Bloodkit leaped at
the golden tom. The two toms clashed in the air, Junglekit reaching out one of
his paws and shoving the other tom, “stop! You’re going to hurt him!” Picklekit
cried, staring at the two cats. Junglekit seemed to ignore her as he stood over
Bloodkit, he quickly reached his head down, clamping down on the opposing tom’s
scarlet tuft, blood quickly seeping from the area. Bloodkit quickly rolled from
under the tom, jumping onto his back, biting onto the tom’s scruff. Junglekit
spat in pain as he thrusted the tom off him, then turned to the tom, anger
burning in his eyes. *I must do something!* Picklekit ran between the two,
standing in front of Bloodkit, who was staring at the golden tom, blood
spilling flowing onto the ground from his scarlet tuft. “Junglekit, please,
calm down, there’s no need to attack Bloodkit…” She stared into the tom’s eyes,
tears welling up, “you have to stop, murdering him in cold blood isn’t what
your meant to do, this place is for extra training, not killing each other.”
She mewed, tears rolling down her face, Junglekit shook his head, staring back
into Picklekit’s eyes, “I’m sorry…” He meowed, looking down at the ground,
Picklekit then turned to Bloodkit. She padded over to him, “you need to go to
camp, before anything bad happens.” She mewed, placing her tail on the tom’s
shoulder, the other training nodded. The two padded through the bushes around
them, a few trees spotted through a field of shrubs and saplings. The two
weaved past bramble and thistle bushes, sand plastered on top of the edge of
the grass. As they padded closer, Picklekit stared down the hill, sand covered
an open area, water splashing on the edge. A camp was close to them, coral and
pebbles covered the camp. “I can make it from here, but I have a request.”
Bloodkit looked at her, standing beside her, “what is it?” She looked back at
him, “can we meet each other tonight at Jaded View, just me and you?”
“Of course we can, it’s easy to get an excuse to leave camp.” She nodded,
“well, see you then.” Bloodkit nodded, then started to run down the hill,
towards the camp. She watched him, then turned away, padding back to Jaded
View.

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