Chapter 18 - The Battle
“MINTPAW” Blossompaw yelled, startling Mintpaw. She was looking at Fallenwings, who was by… a dying Silversong????
“MINTPAW GET OVER HERE” Blossompaw yelled a second time . It took Mintpaw a while to process everything around her. It was hard to choose where to go. To Fallenwings, to Blossompaw?
“MINTPAW!!!” Blossompaw screeched. Mintpaw looked toward her best friend, and saw she had her hands way too full with two identical brown she-cats with lighter brown spots. She looked at Blossompaw, who she saw had a scratch on her side. No. Nobody hurts her She thought. *plink* *ploink ploink plink* it had started raining on the battle, hard. Mintpaw didn’t notice, for she was launching herself at one of the rogues who were on Blossompaw like wolves to their new prey. She slammed into one tipping the rouge off balance, sending her toppling into the mud. Blossompaw jumped up, free from the hold. Then, the other rouge pounced on Mintpaw, but the rouge was slowed by all the mud and rain, so Mintpaw avoided her easily. The rouge ended up toppling right on top of her attack partner. Blossompaw unstuck herself from the mud, and then promptly jumped on the pile and started scratching at every bit of brown fur in sight. Mintpaw joined her clanmate, letting herself scratch and jump on any part of the two rogues as she wanted. The two cats, who were a bit older than Mintpaw and Blossompaw came up and glared at the two apprentices.
“It’ll take more than that to keep us down.” Said one with a sneer.
“Yeah Root, Root-Beer forever!” Said the other, apparently named Beer.
“Grow up Beer” Root sneered at Beer. “We are supposed to be attacking & menacing right now!”
“Charge!!!” Mintpaw yelled.
Blossompaw toppled Beer into a dich, knocking her out.
Mintpaw and Blossompaw launched themselves forward at Root, and Blossompaw stopped squarely in front of her. She looked up and started bouncing up and down. Root swatted her away easily, for Blossompaw was only bouncing. Mintpaw, while this was all going on darted behind Root, thinking just like we did with Fallenwings. Mintpaw crouched and sprang onto Roots shoulders, digging her claws in hard. Root started shaking, trying to get Mintpaw off her. Blossompaw, seeing as Root was occupied with Mintpaw on her back, darted under Root. Blossompaw pushed her hind legs into Root’s underbelly, toppling her. Mintpaw quickly jumped off her back and joined Blossompaw in clawing at Root. Mintpaw gave Root a hard claw at the snout, before Blossompaw jumped onto Root and started kicking and clawing at her ears. Root ran away with a screech, and Blossompaw jumped off her back. Now, Beer was waking up.
“Hungry for some more these rouges are eh?” Blossompaw said, smirking,
looking down at Beer. Beer tried to struggle out of the hole, but kept slipping. Blossompaw herself lost her footing for a second, but recovered. Mintpaw smacked Beer down, knocking Beer out again.
“I’ll keep watch on this one” Blossompaw said, ready to claw at Beer at any moment.
“Alright. I think I’ll go check on Fallenwings.” Mintpaw said already on her way.
What was going to happen, Mintpaw had no idea.