When All The Clans Got Laptops

Chapter Sixteen: Detective Lionblaze

PoX's Note: Hey there! Sorry for the extremely late update. I was . . . busy? LOL. Not really. I was just lazy, like I usually am XD. Well, this is the latest chapter! I hope you all like it ^_^ Umm, I can't actually post the winners for the previous chapter YET, but I will in the next chapter [which will be posted some time LOL]. Anyway, ENJOY THIS CHAPTER!

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Brightheart began to ignore Cloudtail.

The news spread around the whole of ThunderClan like wildfire. Lionblaze couldn't believe it. What happened this time? Before Cloudtail was flirting with Daisy but now . . . what was this? Did something happen? Only one way to find out, and that was to . . . interrogate other Clan cats.

Lionblaze padded up to Daisy, his first suspect. "What happened between those two?" he questioned, flicking his tail towards Brightheart – who was at the fresh-kill pile – and Cloudtail – who was near her, but too scared to go up to her and talk. "I heard they aren't talking to each other anymore, but does anyone know why?"

Daisy shrugged. "All I've heard is that they started arguing about something and then Brightheart left and they are like this."

"Who told you?"

"Hmm, I think it was Brackenfur and Sorreltail. Or maybe Ivypaw. I have no idea, but I recall talking to those three cats about them." Daisy strained to think, then sighed in defeat. "I'm sorry, but I think I'm growing old so quickly now. Time passes by fast, huh?"

Awkwardly Lionblaze nodded. "Yeah, real quickly. Well, I'll go and ask them about it. It's pretty weird, with Brightheart and Cloudtail. You'd think that with everyone supporting the laptops there'd be no arguments, but they just proved that mental theory wrong."

"Yeah. Well, I think Brackenfur's on patrol, but I just saw Sorreltail enter the medicine den. Ivypaw . . . don't know."

Lionblaze knew that Ivypaw was out hunting with Cinderheart, so he needn't worry about her. He'd go and question Sorreltail about it. "See you, then." He walked off and headed towards the medicine den. He could hear Jayfeather as he spoke to someone, most likely Sorreltail.

"The marigold should work fine," he was saying. "You're big enough to endure the pain, I'm sure."

"Yeah," was what Sorreltail meowed back as a reply. "Thanks, Jayfeather. You've been a great help."

Now seeing them after he entered the den, Lionblaze mewed, "Hey, you two" as a greeting. Sorreltail waved with her tail in a friendly manner while Jayfeather just nodded. "You guys know about the argument between Brightheart and Cloudtail?"

Sorreltail nodded. "Yeah, it's all around the place now. I'm surprised you don't know about it. I actually witnessed a bit of what happened. Apparently Cloudtail was calling Brightheart stupid because she didn't know much about the human world and their technology and machines or something like that."

"I thought we were forgetting about everything and going back to the normal customs?"

"It's a bit too late for that," Sorreltail replied, tilting her head. "Don't you think? We'd probably still call hu- Twolegs humans and nests homes and monsters cars. But those are minor details. What we definitely want to change is our addiction to laptops, yeah?"

Lionblaze understood, so he nodded. "I get it. But why would they be arguing about who's smarter? I don't think it really matters if we don't understand much about the humans."

Shrugging, Sorreltail answered, "If you want to ask someone about this, I'm pretty sure Dovepaw knows a lot about it. She was talking to everyone about what she saw. It's a wonder, though, because I didn't see her while the incident was happening."

That's because she's part of the Three. Lionblaze kept that answer silent in his mind. "Thanks. I'll go find out." Before he left Sorreltail interrupted him.

"Why are you so interested in it?"

Turning around, Lionblaze simply answered, "This one argument could cause more arguments throughout the Clan, and I intend to stop it."

Wow, hero much?

Lionblaze left the den and immediately noticed Dovepaw padding around, bored. He went straight up to her and demanded, "What happened?"

Dovepaw seemed to understand, quite to Lionblaze's surprise. "Well, there was something written on the floor in human language – English, to be correct – and it had all these random words written on it. I couldn't really understand it, but Cloudtail did. Brightheart didn't know and so Cloudtail laughed at her, and then they argued about who was smarter in whatever and then Brightheart stormed off."

"Immature, huh?" Lionblaze snorted at his own words. "Really immature of them. And to think I was younger than them!"

Dovepaw purred with amusement. "Anyone can be immature when they want to be," she told him.

"But seriously, I don't understand why they would argue about such a minor detail," Lionblaze sighed. "I mean, we all know that it doesn't matter who knows what about humans . . . or Twolegs, whatever you want to call them. After all, our main goal is to forget about them, yeah?"

Nodding, Dovepaw meowed in reply. "If you ask me, I think someone should go and talk to them before this situation gets worse."

Lionblaze glanced up at the sky. It was nearly the time for the laptops to be gone forever. "I'll go and talk to them," he said. "Hopefully I'll get things sorted out before you-know-what starts. I don't want to miss it because Brightheart and Cloudtail are bickering about stupid things."

"Suddenly trying to act all mature, huh?" When Lionblaze didn't reply Dovepaw sighed. "Seriously, you're younger than them. By heaps. They're ancient. But anyway, if you want to go talk to Cloudtail, he's at the side of the lake. Brightheart's just making her way back here."

Brightheart it was, then. Lionblaze was just about to move when Dovepaw startled him. "Wait a second . . . is that a laptop she's got with her?"

It was funny how that one statement was heard by practically the whole Clan. Everyone stopped chattering and turned to look at the tunnel entrance. Dovepaw ducked her head with embarrassment.

Then Brightheart entered the camp, furiously shoving a laptop in front of her.

A shocked gasp spread throughout the whole Clan. Even Lionblaze joined in. Dovepaw, however, was frowning suspiciously at her, as though something was going on. Cinderheart stepped forward. "Brightheart," she said kindly, "we know how eager you are to get rid of the laptops so quickly, but we did decide on a certain time to destroy them."

"I'm not destroying this thing," Brightheart snapped at her. Cinderheart looked a bit taken aback. "I'm opening it up."

"What?" Graystripe sprang to his paws. "This is outrageous! Are you telling me you're supporting laptops now?"

Brightheart flashed him a glare. "Since when did I say that? All I'm saying is that I'm powering up this laptop and just scrolling through a few things before I close it. Then you can destroy the god-damn thing."

A shocked silence spread throughout the Clan as they watched in horror as Brightheart turned the laptop on.

"Err . . ." Lionblaze didn't know what to say.

"Umm . . ." Cinderheart looked frightened.

". . ." Graystripe remained silent.

Finally Dovepaw made her way towards Brightheart. The she-cat was grumbling to herself. ". . . stupid tom and his stupid mouth . . ." she was saying.

Dovepaw lifted her chin up high. "You're telling us that the only reason you're using this laptop right now is to prove to Cloudtail that you're smarter than him?" Brightheart turned her attention towards the apprentice. "That must be the stupidest thing I've ever heard in history."

The whole Clan was frozen still, their eyes flickering from Dovepaw to Brightheart each time one of them spoke.

"Got a problem with that?" Brightheart asked coldly. "Cloudtail always thinks of himself as a smarter cat than me. I'm just going to change that."

Lionblaze face-pawed. Stupidly, stupidly, stupidly immature! What in the name of StarClan was happening? Was the laptops just making them act like, what, kits? "You've got to be kidding me," he muttered.

Some of the ThunderClan cats were regaining themselves and were starting to help support Dovepaw. "That's a bit dumb, don't you think?" Thornclaw questioned. "You're acting as though you have the brain of a young kitten." Exactly Lionblaze's point. "If you want to be smarter than Cloudtail, you may as well talk to the elders. They know so much more than we do." A few of the Clan cats nodded their heads in agreement, hoping that Brightheart would have common sense knocked into her head.

However, it didn't seem to work. "Elders know nothing except how to ask others to get the ticks off their fur," she hissed. All the elders glared at her and snarled in response. She ignored them. "Now back off. I would like my privacy, thank you very much."

"No thank you," one of the elders snapped back.

Millie sighed and made her statement. "Look, what Cloudtail said . . . he didn't mean it. He knows that you're the smarter one, but he just doesn't want to admit it. Just don't believe everything he says."

At this, Brightheart glanced up. Lionblaze felt hope stir in his chest. Would Millie's words reassure her and solve the problem? "You sure?" Brightheart asked, suddenly sounding really childish.

Millie nodded. "Take it from me. Graystripe boasts about so many things and I know they're all not true because I know I'm much better at him at so many things, like how you're way smarter than Cloudtail."

"Hey!" Graystripe protested. "That's not funny! I am good at many things!" The whole Clan was then laughing. Graystripe, after a while, joined in.

Brightheart frowned for a moment. "Hmm . . . I guess that makes sense."

"So you're not going to stay angry at him anymore?" Brackenfur asked.

Brightheart shook her head, and the whole Clan celebrated about it. Lionblaze happily announced, "Cased closed!"

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While the Clan was chatting and celebrating, two very familiar cats were growling to themselves.

"The plan didn't work!" Dustpelt exclaimed.

"Why thank you, Captain Obvious," Sandstorm grumbled. "Now what are we going to do?"

"Try Plan B," Dustpelt replied.

"What Plan B?"

"I'll tell you, then?"

"Sure?" Sandstorm leaned forward, and Dustpelt began to tell her of the plan that may save the lives of the laptops before they were destroyed that evening . . .

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PoX's Note: Boring chapter, huh? I'll try to update sooner than last time! PLEASE NOTE I'M NOT LEAVING FANFICTION OR ANYTHING. I'M JUST LAZY. AHAHAH. ANYWAY, see, I'm so lazy I'm not bothered to write my usual long author's notes. Not that there's anything against it. Anyway, bye!

OH! Before I forget:

Chapter Question: Who was the fifth she-cat mentioned in this chapter?