So I decided to do a new Fanfiction! I know I've been inactive on this for a EXTREMELY long time and I'm so sorry! I'm afraid I am not going to be very active here but I'll do my best! Happy late Christmas and New year!
Prologue: Four Old Friends With New Life
Characters (currently):
Rainfeather: Light grey tabby she-cat with blue eyes. Secretive and quiet (usually).
Mosslight: Brown pointed she-cat with green eyes. Has a good sense of humour but can become rather serious and often daydreams. Rather lazy.
Sparkflight: Dark grey she-cat with white on muzzle and chest with golden eyes. Bold and quick to fight but loyal to close friends.
Foxflame: Russet-coloured furred she-cat with a darker brown on legs and a white tipped tail with a right blue eye and left brown eye. Easily offended and desperate to prove herself the best she can be.
Spruce: Dark brown she-cat with a splash of black on her back with blue eyes. Bossy and boastful, likes things her way.
Moon: Dark grey tabby she-cat with white paws and amber eyes. Very strict and demanding.
Strike: White furred tom with a black hind leg with green eyes. Strict but good-natured.
Rain pounded down upon the two cats, glaring face to face with each other. Thunder rolled in the distance. The cats were in a muddy clearing, tall pine trees circling them.
A dark brown she-cat was bristling despite the rain the slicked her pelt down. "After all this time we've been together, you go and betray me like this? What happened to our friendship?"
The lighter brown she-cat was straining to hold back the tears in her eyes. "There never w-was a friendship! All you did was boss me around and say how great you were and bite and scratch me for no reason! You stole my prey I had caught, took credit for things I had done! THERE WAS NEVER ANY FRIENDSHIP!" She howled into the wind.
"That doesn't give you any excuse to abandon me and go off with those freaks, Moss!" The darker brown she-cat spat. "You have to come with m-"
"Have to? Have to?!" Mosslight growled. "You have no right to tell me what I have to do, what I can or cannot do Spruce! This is my own life! The life with you are just lies I've been tangled in! My other friends-"
Spruce laughed. "HA! Friends? What friends? You have no friends! You are alone, those freaks will think you're stupid and eventually leave you. When you come crawling to me, I'm not helping you. Go suffer! You deserve it!"
"When other cats ask why I of all cats hang out with someone like you, I have to defend you. Say you are the best, my best friend. I've told that lie too many times. I'm done Spruce. I've found my real friends. Rainfeather, Sparklight and Foxflame are much better friends than you!" Mosslight yowled.
There was a momentary silence between them while the sound of rain patterned against the the leaves. Lightning flashed. A tree not too far away exploded into flame. The pine sap had caused it to ignite fast. Spruce jumped and Mosslight shrieked.
Spruce turned on Mosslight, ignoring the fire. "Fine then! Go off with your stupid friends, Mosslight. You even changed your name just so you could become like their group! That's not a sign of love that's a sign of stupidity!"
Mosslight unsheathed her claws and buried them into the ground. Flames crackled, even the rain wasn't extinguishing it very fast. "They aren't stupid. I didn't just change my name to go with them. I changed my name so cats would know I've changed. I'm not with you. This is my life. I won't be told by you what's supposed to be right! Get. Out."
Cold blue eyes met bright green. Spruce suddenly whipped out her claws and slashed them across Mosslight's face. Mosslight gasped in pain and surprise. Blood dripped to the floor. Spruce spat pure hatred at her. "You changed all right. I don't need you. I hate you, you worthless piece of fox dung. Goodbye. I hope you burn." She whirled around and sprinted away.
Mosslight felt sudden heat wash over her. She turned and saw orange flames closing in. The rain soon extinguished that but another tree nearby exploded from the sap. Crying and bleeding, she ran away from the fire, trying to escape not the fire, but the words that still rang in her ears. I hate you. I hope you burn.
• • •
Rainfeather flattened her ears. Her mother, Moon, was hissing at her again. "That's it? A small skinny mouse won't feed the family, Rain! If that's all you can get that's all you will eat tonight! Your brothers," she added, flicking her ears to the older dark grey toms, "caught a rabbit and blackbird together along with a couple voles! That mouse is worthless!"
Rainfeather sighed as her mother rambled on about being good to the family and being compared to neighbours and her brothers. Turning away, she set the mouse on the prey pile and padded to the juniper bush where she slept. Here had been a big fire when she was hunting, scaring the prey and her brothers had more time anyway, she was stuck cleaning their nests while they were hunting. But she knew of she told her mother this she would ignore it completely.
Rain. She hated that name, it didn't sound like her name. She had made a new name, Rainfeather. A new name, a new life... Someday. Jealousy pulsed through her as she thought of her friend's easy lives. Their lives are much easier... She thought fuzzily as she drifted to sleep.
Darkness and shadows crowded her dreams. Flashes of strange images caught her eye. A laughing, handsome dark grey tabby tom... Crumpled grey feathers, despair, darkness... A burning rage at... Her friends? It was so blurred she couldn't tell. Her mother looking angry, an escape to a new life...
• • •
Sparkflight dozed in her nest. Life is so boring. Just hunting, cleaning nests, learning more ways to protect the family blah blah blah... No excitement here.
"Spark, can you go gather some daisy? We're running low." Sparkflight's brother called from far away.
"Ugh, okay!" Sparklight called grumpily. Stretching, she padded out of her nest. Spark. That wasn't her name. It's Sparklight now!
• • •
Foxflame wrestled a large branch. Ha! I'm a strong warrior, this dog can't beat me. She bit down hard into the bark and jumped up. "The brave warrior has beat the dog!" She yowled in triumph. That was fun. Oops hope no one heard me.
One day I will meet a brave warrior and he will be amazed at my strength and power... He will fall in love with me and yet I will still be the fiercest warrior in the world! Foxflame daydreamed, running her favourite scene over her head. I will be leader one day, making my clan brave and strong like me! FoxClan... Yes! I'll be Foxstar, leader of FoxClan...
"Fox! Have you caught even one piece of prey?" Strike, Foxflame's foster father, had just appeared from the bushes.
"Oh, uh... No but I'm going to! Right now!" Foxflame called hastily. She left the branch on the ground and quickly hurried away. My name is Foxflame now, not Fox! How am I supposed to achieve my goals if my life is like this?
• • •
(A day has passed)
This old life needs to be gone. I need a new life.
Foxflame faced Strike. "I'm sorry Strike. I need to go. I need to... To move out."
Strike stared at her. "No! You can't! You're too young..." Foxflame looked deep into his dark green eyes. "I'm old enough, I'm four seasons old. I'll always remember you."
"This... This is too sudden! You need to plan this more..."
"I've planned this for seasons and seasons. I'm ready. I love you." Foxflame nuzzled into his fur and ran, ran to fulfill her dreams. But first...
I need to find my friends!
Sparklight dropped the burdock roots where the herbs were kept. I need more than this boring life. I've made my decision.
She grabbed a jay feather, set it down in the middle of the den, and scratched a heart next to it. The jay feather was the symbol of leaving the first home, and the heart was the symbol for 'I love you'.
Turning around, she left one of the homes she knew. Her other home was wherever her friends where.
Rainfeather woke. Her dreams had troubled her, but at the same time, given her the best idea she had ever thought of, or at least she thought it was. She ran to where her mother was eating a vole.
Taking a deep breath, she said plainly, "I'm running away." Moon's head shot up, staring at her.
"What do you mean, running away?" She narrowed her eyes dangerously. "I'm leaving. Going, finding my new life. You can't control me!" Rainfeather spat.
Moon bristled. "Don't talk to your mother like that!"
"By the way you're treating me, I don't think you deserve to be a mother! I'm leaving! Now! And you can't stop me!"
Moon stood up. "I forbid you! You can't even hunt! You can't take care of yourself!" Rainfeather whipped around. "I have friends. They treat me better than you! We can care for each other. Goodbye! No one can hold me back!" She raced away into the undergrowth. I need my friends!
Mosslight had finished tending to her wounds. Ow, that stings. She sighed. She had left a jay feather and heart with her parents a couple days ago and she felt very lonely.
Pounding footsteps sounded behind her. The hairs on her back rose. She spun around in time to see Foxflame bursting thought the undergrowth. "Foxflame!" She called.
Foxflame skidded to a halt and saw her. "Mosslight! I left! I left like you! I need to find Sparkflight and Rainfeather!"
"Me too. Come, I know a shortcut-"
Sparkflight suddenly landed in front of them. "GAH!" Foxflame shrieked in surprise and Mosslight jumped away, bristling. They quickly relaxed as they realized who it was.
"Sparkflight! Where did you come from?" Mosslight meowed. Sparkflight flicked her ears. "Meh, I was leaving my home and thought climbing through the trees would be faster. Listen, I just heard Rainfeather and her mom yowling at each other again. Rainfeather has decided to leave! I told her to go to the Sprinkling Willow while I looked for you guys. Come on, hurry!" She whirled around and shouted over her shoulder, "Follow me!"
Foxflame dashed after her but Mosslight stayed a heartbeat longer when four leaves fell from separate trees but landed together in a pile in front of her paws. Four separate leaves into one pile? Weird... Shaking her head to clear it, she scampered after them.
• • •
The stream trickled on, the sun finally shining after days of storm and rain. An old willow tree grew beside it, and flower buds were were popping up. Coldleaf was finally over, and Newflower was approaching.
Rainfeather looked up as her friends came into view, Mosslight, Sparkligt and Foxflame, the whole group.
"So, are we all just going away together?" Foxflame panted. Rainfeather shook her head. "I know what we can do. Remember the story, 'The 4 clans'?" All three of them nodded. "Well," she continued, "I think it would be good if we made our own clan."
Silence met her words. A robin chirping from a nearby tree and the gurgling stream was all that could be heard.
"A clan? Really?" Mosslight asked, breaking the silence. "That's gonna be hard, and we need to find more cats too..." Foxflame beamed. "I think thats awesome!" Sparkflight nodded, agreeing.
"I know it will be work Mosslight but please come with us!" Rainfeather mewed. Foxflame and Sparkflight let out a chorus of "Pleeease Mosslight?"
Mosslight sighed. "Of course. I wouldn't leave you guys! Come on we can make our camp right around here!"
"Wait! Who will be leader?" Foxflame meowed. Sparkflight hesitated. "I... I think Rainfeather because she started this clan. We can name it... RainClan!" Mosslight nodded in approval. "Foxflame can be deputy."
Rainfeather's eyes widened. "O-Okay! Thanks guys!" Sparkflight bounced. "Mosslight and I are warriors then!"
"N-no, no." Mosslight stammered. "I'm no good at fighting and stuff... I'll... I'll be medicine cat!"
Foxflame stepped forward. "As deputy of RainClan, I say we all go scout out our territory!"
A cheer went up from the Sparkling Willow. "RainClan, RainClan!" A single thought burned in their minds.
Our new life has begun!
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P.S. What should my first priority be? Tigerstar's Hatred or this story? Or should I just try and even it out a little? Pwease lemme know! _