At Ebonycloud's signal, Silverstep bounded ahead, following the noise. It took them near the border with RiverClan, and stopped at a clearing in the undergrowth. Instinctively, she crouched down, peering through the bushes. There were cats, at least half a dozen, fighting!
Lilypaw purred and sat down near the entrance. She could faintly hear a sound, but even if she strained her ears, she couldn't figure what it was. "Just a bug..." she murmured to herself.
Ebonycloud crouched beside Silverstep. His eyes narrowed at the many cats in the clearing. He stood and padded in to the clearing, "Stop this now!" he yowled at the group of cats. His eyes narrowed at them.
Falcondance sat in the middle of camp looking at the sky. It was so peaceful here. How could the rogues attack them?
Silverstep leaped up beside Ebonycloud, fur on end and tail swishing back and forth. The rouges paused to turn at them, eyes narrowed. She even saw a loner that was familiar to her, and lived permanently near this area.
Ebonycloud hissed and spat at the other cats. His fur stood on end as some of them stalked toward he and his medicine cat. "Fithly flea bags!" he spat as he lept forward. His ice blue eyes burning as he dodged an out stretched paw.
Silverstep yowled and leaped at the nearest rouge. She batted his underbelly with her hind legs, not forgetting her warrior training. The gray rouge yowled in pain, wriggled out from under her, and fled. Yes! she thought. One dow- A tabby knocked her over from behind, pinning her down. "There are too many!" She yowled aloud to Ebonycloud, who was fighting two cats at once. Even the loner they were trying to help had collapsed. Heaving upward, Silverstep rolled out of the tabby's grip, and got a nasty scratch in the shoulder in return. She whirled around to find herself cornered by two more rouges.
Ebonycloud batted one of the rogues away. He had to aim for the vital points. He used his medicine cat knowlegde and aim for some of the vitail points on the rogues back. It dodged away but Ebonycloud was faster. He scored across a pressure point on the back and the cat collasped. Ebonycloud pulled away and felt the weight of another on his back. "Where are all of these rogues coming from?!"
Falcondance's ears twitched a bit. He heard a tiny yowl and he turned to Lilypaw on the other end of cam, "Did you hear that?" he called to her.
Lilypaw turned her ears towards the sound. It was getting louder and more pronounced now, and it sounded like trouble. She nodded to Falcondance walked quickly over to him. "Something's wrong! What if...what if they were ambushed on the way to Moonstone?" she meowed fearfully.
Falcondance growled softly, "Not while we are on watch! Come on Lilypaw, Leafhope! Lets go!" He charged across the camp and toward through the entrance. He wasnt about ready to let anything happen to dirupt clan life.
Tabbystripe overheard Falcondance and Lilypaw talking about the cats being ambushed. She wasn't chosen on patrol, but this could be her chance to reprove to any cats still in doubt that she was a help to her Clan! And she could help her Clan for the first time in moons, when she left. She raced off after them, taking a different route so they wouldn't see her and send her back. She was once a medicine cat, she knew the route that medicine cats took to Moonpool. Silverstep probably led Ebonycloud that way. She ran as fast as she could. As she came up the moorland hill, she caught a glimpse of strange fighting cats. She recognized them immediately, and her stomach tightened. It was the rogues, they were attacking! She ran down the hill as fast as she could and looked around for Silverstep and Ebonycloud. Before she could see them, though, she felt claws grip her and push her over, and her and the other fighting rogue tumbled through the other cats, hissing and snarling. Tabbystripe was glad that while she was away from her Clan, she knew it was still alwasy important to sharpen her claws. Her twolegs gave her scratching posts and had trees that really helped curve her claws and not let them dull. It came in handy as she hooked one around the tom's scruff, and pushed his down beneath her as she scrambled over him to run through the cats, desperately searching for Silverstep and Ebonycloud.