Dappled M[o]ss

[Embersong]

(I know it's crazy, I only have one other account though)

Emberpaw beamed. She had already picked out one nest, but now it seemed like she would have two. "I know you can make new friends," she said, poking her nose around. "But I don't like leaving friend behind."

[Dapplepaw]

Dapplepaw nodded, before looking outside. "I suppose it's fine." She mewed, "I'll meet more cats soon enough." The calico twitched her ears. "Sit anywhere near me, I guess..."

[Embersong]

Emberoaw found the perfect nest, a little ways away from where Dapplepaw was. She chomped down hard on the side of it and pulled it closer. "There," she mewed, smiling.

[Dapplepaw]

Dapplepaw closed her eyes, trying not to feel too relieved that one of her friends had decided to sleep near her that night. Smother it in sleep, Dapple! The calico was breathing steadily, ears falling on her head as she payed less and less attention to the outside and more and more on trying to sleep. She could still smell the scent of Emberpaw, who seemed actually slightly older than her still, despite their apprentice ceremony being at the same time. Odd.

[.... wow Dapple]

[Embersong]

Emberpaw curled up in her nest, wondering if her warrior ceremony would be tomorrow. She didn't want to leave all her friends, but at some time she should warn them that she was leaving. She wondered if she could stay maybe just a bit longer, but that wouldn't be right. Besides, Willow would be coming with her. She just wishes that the rest of her friends could come with her, too. Stop thinking and just sleep, she yelled at herself, smothering every thought in her head and relaxing her breathing to a slow pace. She slowly fell into a deep sleep, dreaming of running away from a fire.

Emberpaw ran, smelling the bitter scent of the forest burning down. She choked on the deathly fumes clogging her air. Coughing, she ran harder than she ever had before, trees crackling and falling right behind her paws. Suddenly, a huge flame roared in front of her, and she skidded to a stop, trapped by crackling. Panicking, she looked for a way out, seeing that the only one was to jump through the fire. Another tree fell beside her, scorching the end on her tail. She cried out in pain, and jumoed through the flames, her paws burning with heat. She landed safely on the other side and continued running, her breath running out. In front of her, she could see a clear way out. But as she ran, it felt like she was running backward and not forwards, the heat scorching her back. Then, the heat became too intense, and she was sucked up into the fire, everything going black.

Emberpaw's head shot up with a cry. She looked around quickly, before trying to calm her fast heart and intense breathing down. She was too scared to try to fall back asleep, so she got out of her nest and sat at the entrance to the apprentice den. What was that? She thought. She had heard of an old tale the elders told her once about the forest burning, and they had to move. Was that a dream from the past? She sat, looking out at the camp. The Stars were out and the camp was quiet, she hoped she hadn't woken anyone by her cry. She sighed and looked down at her paws.

[Dapplepaw]

Dapplepaw slept somewhat peacefully, only really dreaming of a fight between rockclan and treeclan. Cats hissing, blood welling on the floor, and Dapplepaw sitting in the fire, feeling horrified. Why were they fighting? Over just a mouse? A squirrel? A cat sat near her, barely breathing, and a name flashed into her mind before leaving just as quickly, leaving just a small wisp of their name. Sand... Dapplepaw jumped out of the way of a warrior strike, and realized that the other cat shared her same treeclan scent. They turned to her with blind amber eyes, and hissed at Dapplepaw to run.

So the calico ran... and woke up with a start when someone cried out next to her. The moon shone slightly in the sky, and they twinkled, as well. Dapplepaw didn't open her eyes, at a hope that she would be able to sleep more, but at the pawsteps leading out the den, she opened her eyes to a missing Emberpaw. Widening her eyes, Dapplepaw rolled to her four legs and got up, trying to control her heartbeat when she saw the cream apprentice sitting at the entrance of the den. Nervous, Dapplepaw padded slowly towards the other kit, sitting next to her and remaining silent. Irritation, however small it was, flickered in her eyes at the otherwise quiet camp. She didn't get a good night sleep; but that didn't really matter, as Emberpaw...

Emberpaw was the one who cried out. "Hey," She mewed, not wanting to get any closer, but yet feeling that pull to comfort her friend. "You okay?"

[and with this Dapple is probably bi? ... She's bi]

[Embersong]

Emberpaw felt the presence of another cat beside her, before she heard a soft meow. "I guess," she sighed, looking out at the camp. The moonlight twinkled off her eyes,making then shine. "I had a dream the forest burned down."

[Dapplepaw]

Dapplepaw walked closer, sitting once more and trying to breath calmly after Emberpaw revealed what she had dreamed about. "The forest? Burning?" She mewed quietly, making sure she didn't disturb any of the apprentices still sleeping in the den. "That's... rather freaky..." Dapplepaw mewed, looking down at her paws. "I think you might've disrupted my dream from becoming worse." The calico shook her head from the gaze of the blind she-cat who told her to run, and the other cat that lay bleeding on the ground, being burned into her head. Get them out!

[Embersong]

"Good thing I woke you up then," Ember smiled at her friend, then shuddered. "I still don't know what that was about, though. The forest burning? That could never happen again." She shook her head. It must've been a dream from the past, a memory of the horrors that happened long ago. Emberpaw had once heard the elders telling stories about having to move out of the forest and wait for it to regrow. That would be awful. "Where you having nightmares, too? It must be a bad night."

[Dapplepaw]

Dapplepaw nodded, looking up at the sky with green eyes and her pelt being bathed in a blue-ish light. "Nightmares. It was like a huge fight... cats clawing and scratching at each other, and I saw..." The calico shivered, "A dead warrior? She must've been a warrior, and I think I almost got bowled over by one of the new warriors, Dewmask." The calico shivered. "I... I don't know why they were fighting, or where they were fighting. I just saw... saw blood." Dapplepaw shook her head, going quiet again.

[Embersong]

Enberpaw thought about what the two had seen in their dreams. They were similar, in one or two ways. Death, that was a big similarity. The other one was, there were disastrous things that happened in the dreams. Were these dreams straight from CloucClan? Who knew? The medicine cats know, but it's late at night, and me and Dapple have already been over there once, for my shoulder. The medicine cats don't care how often you come, but this is a strange matter. Emberpaw sighed. "I noticed our dreams had similarities," she started, taking a slow approach as to not overwhelm her friend. "The first similarity; death. Both dreams were of death. The second; disastrous things. Something extreme happened in both of them." She sighed again, looking up at the bright stars.

[Dapplepaw]

Dapplepaw stared over at Emberpaw, before nodding slowly at the realization. "Dreams of death... worrisome." Dapplepaw looked back up at the sky, letting her tail swish behind her. "Yours was a more implied death, I think." The calico stared at her paws, and for a moment she thought she saw... blinking the tears out of her eyes, she tried to focus on the stars again. "I actually saw a dead cat in mine... but yeah, they were both disasterous."

"... It could be symbols of something, but we don't know." Dapplepaw sighed, and let her tail pat on Emberpaw's, "Well, we should get some sleep. Try to think about our apprenticeship! It's almost like you're taller than me already." Dapplepaw purred with her own amusement.

[Embersong]

Emberpaw shook her head, scattering the bad dreams from her mind. She stood up and smiled, purring, "You were always a tad smaller."