Water Beauty

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It was a crisp and beautiful spring morning in the lands of the Riverclan. The sun shined brightly through the thin wispy clouds. Amongst the shadows of the cottonwood trees a she-wolf can be seen. With grace and cunning she weaved effortlessly through the trees until Rainlily arrived at a churning bubbling river.

Rainlily trotted up to to the edge of the river, digging her paws into the softened soil. She smiled at the familiar feel. Her light sable pelt glistened beautifully in the sun. She flicked her turquoise ringlet tail anxiously as she glanced around. This was her new home.

It was time to rest her tired legs. Rainlily laid parallel to the river, resting her majestic head on her medium sized paws. Her raccoon ringlet tail dipped into the water and swirled in a circular motion. As if by magic a small orange fish began to swim in circles around her tail. The sounds of the river were so comforting she soon fell into a light sleep.

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Shamus walked out of the woods behind Rainlilly and said "Hello.Hope you don't mind me going for a swim"Shamus said and walked by her to the waters edge and put his front paws into the water then the rest of himself and swam out to the middle of the water and waited till he say a fish then he quickly grabed it up and went back to where he entered and pulled himself out then walked alittle bit away from her and shoke himself off.Then walked over to her and asked"Mind if I lay down" his white fur looked like snow now cleaned.

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Rainlily had awoke to the smell of a strange lofting nearer and nearer to her. She raised her majestic head, shaking her seaweed necklace as she did so. She smiled politely at the male as he stated his swim but did not reply. Crossing her paws she watched amused as he swam and grabbed the fish she had magically conjured. With another swish of her tail the orange fish returned and circled around her turquoise ringlet tail.

When Shamus asked to lay down she replied with a smile, "I don't mind at all. My you clean up nice. I am Rainlily."

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"Thank you.I'm Shamus deputy of Riverclan" Shamus said laying down wathciong his newly cleaned fur it looked like snow during the rising sun som what sparkaling.Then he heard the whispering.He knew it was a ghost but didn't say anything.

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Rainlily listened intently to the large white male, both of her ears swiveled towards him. She retracted her tail from the water and the fish vanished. Smiling she replied, "Ahh I see." Respectively she lowered her head, "Nice to meet you sir. I hope to become a valued member of this pack."

Her blue orbs noticed the change of emotion in his face, "Is something wrong Shamus?"

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"You do not have to call me sir"Shamus chuckled."Oh an dnothing is worung I just can hear something you can't"Shamus said smiling.

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Rainlily smiled, though half-heartedly. As a pup she had always known she was different than the others. Growing up she had mostly kept to herself. Her old pack did not believe in the old magic. She hid her talent of summoning water creatures. Even her turquoise ringlet tail was frowned upon. Eventually her oddities caused her to be cast out onto her own...

She had never met a wolf that possessed the old magic. Could this male?

"Excuse me being blunt Shamus," her dazziling eyes peered deeply into his own, "But you are different. Aren't you?." She giggled slightly embarrased, "I mean that with no disrespect of course. But you possess," she glanced around to make sure no one else was listening before whispering, "magic."

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"Some would call it wired like my old pack but thats a way off puting it.I can hear ghosts they talk to us but i'm one of the few in my family that can hear them."Shamus said smiling still.He was shunded but at a very young age and didn't like to talk about that.It was old wounds not needing to be opened.

But Shamus knew she was nervous and said "I can tell your nervous" Shamus said."And you don't need to be".

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Rainlily was intrigued by Shamus. She shook her light sable head gracefully before replying, "Ghosts. That must be a heavy burden to carry." She could sense it was not a completely open subject so she decided to change it.

Standing up she smiled, moving into the water with grace and agile. "I can summon anything that lives in the water. Anything smaller than myself that is," With a swish of her ringlet tail a school of thousands of multi-color fish appeared, circling around her. They gave way to a large tortoise who slowly swam through the water.

With another tail swish they were gone.

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"You think that funny well see what ghosts can do"Shamus said and nodded then the water farther away from her came up out of the water and made a big orbe then quickly fell back to its place and Shamus smiled."But you should know I can make a bigger splash then that"Shamus said raiseing an eyebrow.

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Rainlily's aqua blue eyes stared transfixed at the orb of water. It was memorizing and beautiful. When it crashed she flipped her head around but still received a slight splash. She shook herself lightly and laughed at his statement.

"Is that a threat?" She raised an eyebrow as well before going towards the deeper water.

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"Yeah it is!" Shamus yelled and did a huge cannon ball going under and grabed Rainlillys leg and pulled her quickly under then brought them both up.

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Shamus' speed caught Rainlily off guard as she was drug into the depths of the River. Once released she gasped for air and laughed whole heartedly. She had not laughed like that in quite a while. She swished her tail, spraying Shamus with water and unintentionally flicking a large bullfrog that fell right upon Shamus' nose. Its eyes grew wide and it hopped off into the water. She often accidentally conjured creatures.

Watching the scene Rainlily burst into even harder laughter.

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Shamus Laughed as well then splashed her back "I got you as well"

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"That you did!" She replied sweetly before pulling herself out of the water. She shook her soggy fur and dug her paws into the moist soil beneath her. She loved the river and everything that came with it.

"So Shamus, if you are the deputy here, then who is the leader of these lands?"