A.N.: Hey everybody! Here's a tribute to ThunderClan's resident Emo: Jayfeather! I got this idea from YouTube. The video is called Warrior Cats Theme Songs by Bigcheesenovapill.
This contains spoilers for Long Shadows. I own nothing. Let's get going!
Jayfeather let out a sigh as he stepped through the branches of the camp entrance. Nodding to Cloudtail who was on guard, Jayfeather walked out into the forest. It had been a slow day in the medicine den, which was good.
Jayfeather needed to clear his head. He had a lot of thoughts to sift through.
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone
Continuing through the ferns, Jayfeather arrived at the lake. He instinctively made his way over to where he kept Rock's recording branch. Running his paw over it, he reflected on the last seven uncrossed scratches on the branch.
Lionblaze had been meeting with Heathertail when they were apprentices. Down in a maze of secret tunnels, they could come in secret without ever being found out.
One day, some WindClan kits had gotten lost down in the tunnels and Heathertail, along with Jayfeather and his siblings, had gone to search for them. That fact that a storm had started and the tunnels were flooding did not help things.
It was arguable that Heathertail had shown great courage in going down into the tunnels to rescue the kits, but would they have found their way down there in the first place had it not been for her?
Seven lives were almost lost that night. Seven scratches go uncrossed on the recording branch. StarClan had no power to protect them down there. The river saved Jayfeather, his siblings, Heathertail, and the kits. That's all.
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Jayfeather left the lake and moved up into the woods. It wasn't long before he ran into the border patrol returning to camp.
Nodding to them as they passed, the last cat in the patrol; Hazeltail, held back. As soon as the patrol was lost from sight, Jayfeather quickly pressed against Hazeltail's side and wrapped his tail with hers.
"How are the kits?" he mewed.
"Fine, I'll have to move into the nursery in a few days. I'll see you later, Jayfeather."
The blind medicine cat sniffed at her retreating scent as Hazeltail followed the patrol. Hazeltail would be having Jayfeather's kits. No one else knew yet, and the forbidden lovers were overjoyed at the idea of their future family.
I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And where I walk alone
Read between the lines of what's
Fucked up and everything's all right
Check my vital signs to know I'm still aliveAnd I walk alone
Sitting down at the edge of a grove of trees, Jayfeather thought hard. He remembered during the forest fire that Squirrelflight had admitted he and his siblings weren't her kits.
Ashfur had been found later in the stream marking the WindClan border. His throat had been bitten and the tom had bled to death.
Who could have killed him? Who were his real parents? Jayfeather let out a sigh and turned to go back to camp.
Tomorrow was another day. Hopefully it would provide some answers.
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone...
A.N.: Not my best, but I'm glad I finished it. No flames allowed, but other reviews are welcome.