The Sacrifice
"The results are in!!" Skyfall announced. "And the last vote is...... WHAT?!? ME?!?!"
"HURRY!" Darkheart shouted. "THROW HER OFF THE CLIFF!"
The cats grabbed hold of Skyfall's pelt and heaved her to the mouth of the cave. "NOOO!" she screeched.
"BYE BYE, IMPOSTER!" they sneered. With a final heave, they threw her down the deep, long cliff.
"NOOOOoooooo......" her voice faded into silence.
"Well, is she the imposter?" Wolfheart asked.
"SKYFALL WAS......" silver words appeared on the wall. "A SURVIVOR."
"WHAT?!?!?" all the cats shrieked. "HOW COME THAT SHE WAS A SURVIVOR?!?
"But first, we must bury our beloved leader." Lighteyes turned to their leaders, her eyes dark with sorrow.
The cats found a pile of rocks and piled it over their dead leader.
"Now let's do more tasks." Darkheart turned away from the rock, tail drooping, then stalked to another tunnel.
The cats shrugged, then went away.
"Let's split up." Lighteyes urged. "We can do more tasks. Since you're the hunter, you can be alone, and I and Brightpelt go off."
"Sure." Wolfheart shrugged. He bounded to another cave. He went to the nearest pit and started to place rocks from the biggest to the smallest. Another 10 minutes passed. "The last one!" he puffed, then with a weary paw pushed the smallest rock beside the others. The pit glowed with a green light that blinded him. He quickly scrambled out of the pit.
"No!!" Lighteyes' screech sounded throughout the cavern. "Don't leave me, Brightpelt!!!"
"Oh no! Brightpelt must have been targeted! Oh god!" he shouted, skidding beside Lighteyes. She was trembling, and there was a bloody mess in front of her. In her paws, there was Brightpelt's head, eyes closed, blood coming out from her mouth. At her throat, there were several claw marks. A bite mark closed around her neck.
"REPORT!!" Wolfheart yowled, grabbing Lighteyes' scruff. He tried to drag her to the rock.
A dark shadow appeared behind a rock. It darted forwards, right towards Wolfheart. He knew that he was going to be killed. "No!" he tried to grab his rifle, but he was in a hurry, so he hit the rifle and it clanked to the floor. The shadow lunged for his throat.
"NO!" Lighteyes shouted. She flung herself in front of him. With a tremendous roar, the shadow bit her neck. Wolfheart gaped at the body as it slumped to the ground. The shadow disappeared inside a vent beside them, the vent gate clanging shut with a clang.
"No!! Lighteyes....... You sacrificed your life for me......." Wolfheart felt tears trickling down his cheek. He sat there, his tears dripping on his friend's matted fur. Why did he become so clumsy? Why did he cause her death? Now she was gone...... He slowly licked her bloody neck. Suddenly, from far away, something shimmered in the air above the body. When he turned his head, he saw the spirit of Brightpelt step up from her body that she no longer needed.
"You don't need to worry, Wolfheart. She will be safe in The Tribe of the Stars. But first, her spirit will leave her body." her voice filled with grief.
In front of him, the spirit of Lighteyes stood up and bounded towards Brightpelt. "Brightpelt!!!" she shrieked. She rammed into Brightpelt and sent both of them rolling to the end of the cavern.
"The last thing I wonder is that the imposter is black." Brightpelt mused after standing up and shaking her ruffled fur. "But the thing is that there are a lot of black cats in the Tribe. Rotten Squirrel dung!"
"We will accompany you, but not for long. If you win, you will survive, or if you get killed, you will join us in the Tribe of the Stars." Lighteyes added on.
"O-okay." Wolfheart's shoulders drooped. He wanted them to be alive again. but he knew that they couldn't. "So, Owlwhisker is black, so is Darkheart, um, and Shadowbreeze, uhh, and...... Nightpelt."
"So is Blackgaze." Brightpelt chimed in.
"I have a cold feeling about Darkheart. He seems, so wrong when he said that we might be the imposter. He had that cold glint in his eyes." Lighteyes murmured darkly.
"Let's quickly report you two's bodies, and then we can try to vote one of them off!"
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