Speed of the Cheetah (warrior cats fan fic) Prologue

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Prologue

"The cat is a rogue!" Yelled Clawscar, a cat of the dark forest. "Those stupid starclan cats have chosen a rogue to save them. Those cats always thought they were so smart but they are only fools!" Yelled Clawscar , who was a pure black shorthair tom with a torn ear, with many scars on his body. He was yelling to the congregatian of evil cats below. "We will win this battle!" Yelled one of the evil cats below. All the congregated cats were yowling in glory and smiling viciously. Cl.awstar filled wit hdetermination as he looked at the congreation of cats below him. They were all scarred, abused, and defeated. It was rare to see one of these cats wwithout scars and impossible for them to look healthy and young. A few she cats remained some beauty but living in a forest of decay and rot does effect cats. Clawstar filled with rage as he thought about how everyone of these cats had tried to help the clans in their time and were only kiled or outcast. Clawstar felt his anger fade to happiness when he remembered what these cats had come together about: the destruction of the clan and best of all, Starclan. Starclan cats had recieved a safe haven where they could live when they died, but the cats of the Darkforest must live in eternal death and decay. Clawstar reverted his hatefilled thoughts back to how the Darkforest warriors were finally going to deafeat Starclan. Clawscar smiled deviously, "That rogue won't last a day in a clan. She is nothing but a loner and will never adapt to clan life." Clawstar and his followers whipped there heads around when they heard a deep, raspy voice only few had been honored to hear, "You act as if you have already won. But we are from winning my friends, let me help you claim victory on this war we have raged over the decades." Said the black tom, all the other cats bowed to him and Clawscar smiled. The black tom was large a fiercly muscular, he had a slick short coat, orange eyes, and unlike most not a single scar except the one hidden on the wrist of his front left paw. This tom had more desire than anyone to end Starclan, but he wanted to destroy the clans even worse. Clawscar smiled evily and said, "It would be my honor to fight fight with you Nightstar."

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Chapter One

Cheetah started to shiver while the snowflakes covered her with their bone numbing cold. Her paws were throbbing from trying to dig a hole in the frozen ground and ripped out a claw in the process. Cheetah cast a glance at the dead body of Her mother and litter mate. They looked so peaceful, tears strted to blur Cheetah's vision. "Stupid Snow-Fall." Cheetah hissed. Cheetah kept attempting to scrape earth from the hole. She sobbed as she wlked over to her littermate. She grabbed her poor brother Claw by the scruff and lowered his cold, stiff body in the hole. Then Cheetah lowered her mother in the hole as well. Cheetah ripped out a tuft of her Brown, spotted fur and dropped it in the hole. "I will miss you, don't forget me, please." Cheetah felt the tears rolling down her cheeks and making the cold even worse. Cheetah started scraping the pile of dirt back into the hole. The dirt and the hole were quickly being covered in snow. Cheetah quickly scraped all the dirt in the hole. Then she layed on the newly filled up hole. It was a ceremony fufilled by her family to sleep on their grave the first night of thier burial. "Why did you have to get sick?" she whipered to the earth underneath her. Cheetah curled herself into a ball in a effort to keep warm. She closed her eyes and fell asleep, partially becasue her body was so cold it could no longer had the energy to keep awake.

Cheetah woke up to something picking her up by the scruff of her neck. Her limbs were so numb she couldn't move them. She saw herself being hauled out of a pile of snow. She Couldn't even think straight she just mumbled, "So cold, so cold." The thing grabbing her scruff let go of her once they were on snow that was able to withstand them without them being swallowed up by the snow. She finally got to see the creature who had saved her. It was a muscular brown striped tom cat. He immediately started licking her fur in the wrong direction. Cheetah slowly felt the feeling return to her limbs and body. It was a cold aching feeling. Cheetah suddenly becoming more alert realized she was allowing a strange tom, who at any moment could kill her, to lick her fur. Cheetah stumbled to her paws and stepped away from the tom. She tried to make herself look as threatening as possible. "Why di dyou save her?" Cheeath heard the voice behind her and whipped around to see how many other cats there were. She saw a white she-cat with angry green eye, a pure black tom with blazing amber eyes, and a ginger colored tom with hostile green eyes. Cheetah crouched so low that her belly was brushing the ground and she layed her ears back, these cats were NOT friendly. "Come young one." The cats surrounded her and started walking. She started walking, she didn't want to bump into the cat behind her. She was shivering, and it wasn't from the cold. As a rogue she was taught and learned not to trust any strange cats. Her family had trusted a strange cat and that is what got her father killed. Cheetah stayed in the middle of the cats, not being to close to a single one. She tried to watch everyone of them, but she couldn't even see the cat behind her. The large brown striped tom who had saved her was the cat in front. The white she cat was on her left flank and the black tom was on her right flank. The ginger tom had to be behind her but she didn't dare look and see. The cats seemed to know by heart where they were going and then Cheetah noticed there were already some footprints in the snow. "They must be taking back where they came from." Thought Cheetah. Cheetah started to wonder why there were so many cats together, they obviously weren't kitty pets. They didn't seem related so they weren't a rogue family. Cheetah didn't notice she had slowed down while thinkin and accidently bumped into the cat behind her. Cheetah, as startled as she was, jumped a foot in the air. The other cats stared yowling in laughter and Cheetah felt her fur get hot with embarassment. "Come on, we got to get back to camp, Froststar will definately want to meet this cat." Said the Brown striped tom as he tried to stop chuckling. "Froststar? What a stupid name." Thought Cheetah. The group didn't seem to be so tense after Cheetah's....fright. Cheetah started to notice that they were surrounded by looming pines over her head. Finally they reached a strange place with caves and a fallen tree. Cheetah noticed cats were living in the caves and tree, which appeared to be partially hollowed out. Cheetah started growing very uneasy as the walked through the entrance in the barriar of brambles and plants. Cheetah felt her blood go cold as cats started hissing at her as she walked past. she was suddenly glad of the cats surrounding her. Cheetah's fur started to raise from her shoulders. a pure whit tom that was huge. his broad shoulders bore many scars as did his face. The party of cats surrounding her lowered themselves and the brown striped tabby said, "We found this young cat in the snow and i saved her. She is only about six moons old Froststar." Cheetah felt herself cowering and her eyes grow wide as the white tom jumped down from a high rock ledge and started approaching her. "Why didn't you leave her where she was Mudstorm?" Said the white tom cat named Froststar in a cold voice. "Because she....I.....Well......." The brown striped tom stammered. Cheetah seizing her opportunity leaped over the ginger tom behind her and with lightning raced out of the entrance to the camp. She heard cats racing behind her, but Cheeath was faster. She saw the trees blurring past her and the pawsteps of racing cats falling behind her. Cheetah laughed, knowing she was to fast for the cats chasing her to catch up. She noticed to late as her paws slid across a solid, cold, slippery surface. She was on a frozen river, Cheetah turned around and saw the cats chasing her getting near. Cheetah jumped to her paws and raced as fast a she could across the slippery ice. She reached the edge and saw the persuing cats at the oppisite edge panting hysterically. The ginger tom mumbled, "She is Forestclan's problem now." And the other cats started turning away and a white she cat yelled, "Stay off our teritorry flea pelt or we'll shred you." Cheetah growled. "You'll shred me?!? You can't even keep pace with a six moon old kit!" Cheetah yelled back. All the cats turned around with hostility and hissed. The white she cat started racing over the ice in fury. "I'll show you keeping pace!" yelled the she cat. Cheetah laughed and strted racing into the forest of trees ahead of her. She heard the she cat racing behind her and the other cats yelling, "Snowpelt stop!!!" Cheetah saw a, not low but not high, hanging branch of a birch tree. She launched herself up and used her claws to pull her up on the branch. The white she cat below was blinking in pure shock and awe. Then suddenly five cats burst out of the bushes and yelled "Tresspasser!" There was a young silver tom, a large tabby tom, a small gray she cat around Cheetah's age, and a lithe black she cat. The white she cat yowled and raced out of sight and the cats that appeared from the bushes decided not to chase her. The four new strange cats all turned around and cocked there heads up to look at Cheetah. "You can jump high young one." Said a tabby tom. "Won't you come with us to our camp to meet our leader GreenStar." Cheetah snorted in comptemp, "Do you think i am stupid? Those cats said i would meet thier leader Froststar and I nearly got killed!" The cats below chuckled, "Those were Nightclan cats, they are the cruelest cats. We are Forestclan, we except rogues into our clan-" "I don't care if you were Kittypetclan, i am not coming with you." Interrupted Cheetah with a growl. A young silver tom laughed and said in a playfull tone, "Just remember we gave you multiple chances." then he leaped up and knocked Cheetah off the branch. Cheetah felt the air rush through her fur and the silver tom's leg brush aginst her back. Suddenly Cheetah felt herself land in a powdery snowdrift on top of the silver tom. "Hey get off of me!" Said the silver tom in a playfull voice that was muffled by Cheetah's fur. He shoved Cheetah off him as idf she were nothing but a annoying feather. When Cheetah got to her paws and looked at the tom she was infuriated he was grinning at her. Cheetah cuffed him over the ear sharply. "How dare you, do you have bees in your brain?!? We could have gotten hurt." Cheetah said as she angrily shook the snow out of her pelt. She wasn't surrounded by the cats like the Nightclan cats had done so Cheetah felt some relief. The silver tom laughed and said, "You are worried about my safety?" Cheetah huffed in annoyance who did this cat think he was? "Not in the slightest bit." Said cheetah. Suddenly the gray she cat around her age shoved the silver tom out of the way and said, "Sorry about Ashpaw, since he becam a aprentice he thinks he is the leader of the clan. Well anyway if you come with us you could sleep in a warm nest tonight, have our medicine cat looked at your injuries, and get something to eat." Cheetah suddenly her belly rumbled and her legs were aching from cold and overexertion. Cheetah looked at the paw that had a torn out claw and saw the fur was matted with dried blood."Well I got nothing to lose," Thought Cheetah. She licked her chest real quick then said, "Fine, I will come with you cats."