Sky Guardians

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Allegiances

Main Allegiances testing

Fallen Clouds ~ A grey tom with a white underbelly and paws and a white patch over his left eye. He has blue eyes.

Leaping Sky ~  A black and white patched she-cat with green eyes. 

Celeste Eyes ~ A white tabby with bright blue eyes, a she-cat.

Silent Rain ~ A light grey silver tabby she-cat with light blue eyes.

Hunter Storm ~ A broad-shouldered grey tabby tom, with dark Amber eyes.

Tribe of Watching Skies

Skyteller ~ Like Stoneteller, he reads prophecies, is the healer and leads the tribe for the most part, except they don't get their prophecies from the Cave of Pointed Stones, they get them from the Sky Cave.

Fancy Mist ~ A hoity-toity she-cat with bright amber eyes and a silver-grey well groomed pelt.

Livid Dew ~ Bluish grey small tom with blue eyes.

Hasty Night ~ Aggressive she-cat with amber eyes.

Brave Water ~ Sweet blue grey she-cat with blue eyes.

Young Willow ~ A silver grey she-cat with green eyes.

Hare Coat ~ A brown broad shouldered thick pelted tom with green eyes.

Old Leaf ~ A broad-shouldered old elder tom with bright green eyes and a brown pelt.

Prologue

Rapid Wave sat on the bank of the old river. It was lower than it was supposed to be because of the drought.  He could almost see the thick mud. He stared at it. He hoped the Maze Challenge would be nice enough to make the Tribe of Endless Hunting have to restore it.

The Maze Challenge was something most cats went through. No one remembered who invented it or started it. Just that the victor or victors was given a special gift. Every tribe competed. Most who won were from the Tribe of Hawk Diving. Every individual cat could only compete once. So each cat had to make a choice at the age of 12 moons. Maze Challenge or contentment. Contentment ment you didn't need the Maze Challenge and were happy already. No one knew what happens in the Maze Challenge. Every one forgets after they complete it. Only 5 victors are the most there can be. At least that's the most that ever left. 

Rapid Wave stretched his paws, little did he know the greatest Maze Challenge would soon happen. The reward might make it happen it bit longer too.

"Rapid Wave! Come on we need to see our Cloudteller!" A silver furred She-cat called from behind him. "You're spacing out!" 

"Alright! I am coming." The silver cat was his littermate. He looked down at his own silver fur.. He knew from looking in the river his eyes were blue. The Maze Challenge would start in 3 moons.

The sudden want to sleep entered his mind. Almost to powerful to overcome. Almost. But he did.

Chapter 1: Fallen Clouds

Fallen Clouds was always a strange cat and he knew that. He used different hunting strategies and different attacks from regular Tribe of Watching Skies techniques. This made it hard for him to practice with other to-bes. 

"Fallen Clouds! We need to get prepared these next 3 moons. The Maze Challenge is coming and we need to be prepared to those who will participate in it." It was his mentor Hare Coat.

"Yes Hare Coat!" Fallen Clouds meowed. 

"Good, are you planning to participate in it?" Hare Coat meowed.

"Yes!" Fallen Clouds knew he could do it. Not many succeeded, but it didn't mean that they were dead, right? Fallen Clouds thought. 

"I hope you may be persuaded," Hare Coat meowed, a hint of gloom in his voice. 

"I can do it!" Fallen Clouds' heart even agreed with him. It beated in impatience, he would be the first to return and prove the others were alive! It felt like it was the thing he needed to do. "

"Ambition is good just don't let it control you. Now let's practice some battle moves!" His eyes sparkled as he said battle moves. 

"Yes sir!" Fallen Clouds was going to be the name every kit shouted in their sleep in admiration! "I am so glad you're my mentor!"

"Thanks Fallen Clouds," Hare Coat beamed like a to-be who caught his first mouse.

The rocky terrain helped harden their paws. They lived on a mountain. It was spring now. The cave was nearby. Hare Coat lowered his tail and flattened his belly to the ground.

"Today we will learn a new move, now attack me." Hare Coat was smiling.

"Ok-ay."Fallen Clouds felt worried. He could easily could stop the position Hare Coat was in. Fallen Clouds lowered his head and shoulders as he began to run. He soon reached Hare Coat. He thrashed  his sheathed paw at Hare Coat's side. Hare Coat slid to the side and poked Fallen Clouds in the nose. Fallen Clouds felt annoyance and picked his front laws up to get onto Hare Coat's back. Hare Coat hit Fallen Clouds' back legs. Fallen Clouds felt his feet leave the ground for a second. He fell over onto his side. His shoulder ached.

"Ow!" Fallen Clouds meowed.

"Now what did that move teach you?" Hare Coat meowed in question.

"Don't pick a fight with you!" Fallen Clouds got up and sat down. 

"No, not that sadly." Hare Coat chuckled.. "It was supposed to teach you an most aggravated opponent start to think like a  mouse brain. Now do you want to learn that move?" Hare Coat meowed.

"Maybe when my shoulder doesn't hurt like a rat bite!" Fallen Clouds groaned. He was annoyed.

"Ok let's have Skyteller check it out." Hare Coat meowed a little bit disappointed. They walked back to the cave by the river. Silently. Silent as a shadow.

Chapter 2: Hunter Storm

( please note: This chapter is from Hunter Storm's POV, NOT FALLEN CLOUDS.)

"Hunter Storm, can you come here for a minute?"  The familiar voice of Skyteller called. I know he is going to ask about the Maze Challenge. I am not going to compete. At least I don't plan too. I could do much better helping my tribe than going off into some doomed death wisher's trip. 

"Hunter Storm, are you going to compete in the Maze Challenge?" He was very serious, more serious than Fallen Clouds. That's because Fallen Clouds never learned how his father died.

"No, I would be much more of use on some doomed mousebrained maze trip." Hunter Storm meowed calmly, although heat began to rise in my voice.

"You sure? I believe you are probably more capable of solving the puzzle than most of the others. If you paired up with them your chances would excel greatly. Plus it would do good for the first non-Diving Hawk Tribe cat to win." Skyteller meowed. "You use your wish for the Tribe." 

"Yeah, but I really don't understand the point of it. It is just impossible, it's made just so one tribe can win it seems and that tribe is the Tribe of Diving Hawk." Hunter Storm meowed back.

"Have faith in your fellow to-bes. I am sure if you all worked together you could complete it." Skyteller meowed back.

"That's not going to happen with Leaping Sky around." Hunter Storm meowed briskly. 

"Of course. " Skyteller chuckled. "You have three moons to decide." Hunter Storm walked away dismissed. Why would he want to do some death trap? Only fools rush to death.

Fallen Clouds was walking to Skyteller limping a bit. Hunter Storm rolled his eyes at this. That mousebrained Hare Coat. Hunter Storm padded towards them.

"It seems every training you come back with a new bruise of mark Fallen Clouds," Hunter Storm meowed sitting down and beginning to groom his paw.

"It will all pay off when you see me win the Maze Challenge!" Fallen Clouds meowed in defense.

"Like you could win it. If you could I am pretty sure everyone else could if it was that easy. It's rigged. You have a death wish don't you Fallen Clouds?" Hunter Storm.

"It is not! No one ever trained hard enough-" Fallen Clouds was interrupted by Hare Coat.

"You two mousebrains, shut up!" Hare Coat managed to quiet the two. "You want to hear a story?" 

"What do you think-" Hunter Storm attempted to talk.

"Yeah!" Fallen Clouds meowed in interruption. 

"Follow me, promise me you will keep this story a secret." Hare Coat meowed walking out of the cave. Fallen Clouds followed. Hunter Storm was suddenly interested.

What happened to make this have to stay a secret? Hunter Storm wondered. They walked up a hill, W\well out of earshot of the cave.

Chapter 3: Hare Coat

Pain already ached my heart. The toms might should appreciate whatever kind of lack of friendship they have. Better yet try to improve it. I sat down. Prepared to tell them the old old story. So many moons ago.. Yet I could never forget a single detail of it. I feel like an elder now. I sighed. They needed to get along. If they only knew what I knew. I wouldn't tell them everything. Just about Bold Wind. Just about Bold Wind.

"Well are you going to tell us or not?" Hunter Storm meowed in question. Hunter Storm didn't know I was his father. In fact most fathers went off into the Maze before ever meeting their kits. He reminds me so much if Bold Wind.

"Patience! Good timing makes the best story!!" Fallen Clouds meowed. He was happy. He was quoting Old Leaf. I remembered every line of those words he told me that day. Every word. I sighed again. Hunter Storm shuffled in his seat. He was agitated. He wanted me to get on with it. I breathed in deeply. I won't shed tears that have been shed enough before.

"As you know I am 34 moons old." I breathed in deeply again. Fallen Clouds gave a sincere look as I breathed. He may be young but he understood hardship. His poor mother died in front of his eyes. "Well, 24 moons ago, my best friend Bold Wind was given the question. You see him and I were so close you'd think we were littermates. Bold Wind was a black tom with brilliant blue eyes. He had strong haunches and long sharp claws. He seemed annoying at first but he wasn't that rude wasn't you got to know him. He answered yes. Then he went straight to Night Feather, Skyteller's former name and bragged about it. I was used to it so I joked around. A few more cats I didn't care about answered and then it was my turn-" 

"There's nothing special about this story. So your friend answered yes-" Hunter Storm was interrupted before finishing.

"Quiet!" It was Fallen Clouds.

"Now we aren't to the interesting part yet. Skyteller or Night Feather's original answer was yes. " I began again.

"What?!" Shock filled Hunter Night's face.

"Some say he was reckless and was trying to get back at Bold Wind's annoying behaviour. But what really happened was a different story. Every night before entering the Maze Challenge, every cat is given one last night to sleep outside. In case someone dies. It is to help make sure the Tribe of Endless Hunting remembers to send them there when they die. They are also given a feast. Skyteller made the mistake of eating too much, despite his now small frame. So Skyteller, Bold Wind and I went to look for yarrow. We were on a mountain so there were cliffs around. Skyteller accidentally ended off hanging off from one from being pushed by Bold Wind. I hated Skyteller at the time. He was just a mousebrained higher nosed than me, snakeheart. Well, that was my thought. But I couldn't believe Bold Wind was trying to kill Skyteller. So I ran out of the bushes I was hiding in to get yarrow right as Bold Wind bit Skyteller's paws to make him lose grip and fall off. I knocked Bold Wind over, into the cliff and grabbed Skyteller as his second paw slipped. I never ment to hit Bold Wind into the cliff. He screamed at me as he fell. I felt terrible inside. Skyteller ended up and still is my best friend for all these moons." 

Fallen Clouds was definitely giving a sincere look now.

"That's a load of dirt." Hunter Storm meowed walking away. Fallen Clouds hit his shoulder with his paw. 

"Don't you tell anyone like Hare Coat said, he was nice enough to tell us this personal tale!" Fallen Clouds meowed quietly and briskly. 

I took a deep breath. That was only half the story. Let's hope neither of them ever realise that.

Chapter 4: Leaping Sky

Alright I admit it, I might sound a bit crazy in the head sometimes. But claw me some slack, I did lose an older littermate. My mother also was a bit old too. Actually I only ever saw my older littermate in the Tribe of Endless Hunting. That's how I knew him. I felt sorry for his rocky ending too.

"Leaping Sky, Skyteller is attempting to impress a certain she-cat again! And failing!" It was Fancy Mist. She looked after me after my mother was too old too. 

"Really?"I laughed. My laugh sounded kind of evil. The cave was a bit dark as the sun was setting. I saw three toms return. Hare Coat, who was holding a rabbit was one if them. I​ronic!  Hunter Storm who didn't have anything. Not so much of a hunter now?!  That tom always made fun of my skills. And last but not least holding a squirrel and a bird was Fallen Clouds. The adorable one! 

"How was the hunting trip?" I meowed in question. 

"Good, except Hunter Storm couldn't catch anything." Hare Coat answered smiling. The other two including Fallen Clouds seemed gloomy. Well to be fair Hunter Storm seemed grumpy. Probably an argument with Fallen Clouds.

"Hey Stormy, how come you couldn't catch anything?"  I taunted.

"If you're going to talk to me, use my proper name, Leaping Sky." Hunter Storm meowed. 

"Never! Stormy!" I walked by, poking Hunter Storm in the nose with my tail.  Fallen Clouds smiled. I wanted to tease him but I already had walked away. I walked outside the cave. I was sick of the natural darkness. Pink, purple and blue flowers with green leaves and stems greeted me as I exited. The rocky ground had some dirt for plants and things. I continued and found a scrap of fur. I sniffed it. It was Hare Coat's. No intruders. There were several bushes. They hid something. The bushes looked thorny so no one ever attempted to search them, except me. The thorns weren't in the whole bush, just the first two steps. 

I decided to go in again. The slipped through the thorns only getting a few in my coat. Then I relaxed when I got to the non-thorny segment of the bush.