The Secret of a Warrior

"Greetings ScarletStar."

"GreyStar." said the flame colored tabby; dipping his head in respect for the StarClan warrior.

"I have a warning for you."

"What?"

"A warrior with the pelt of night will seek for what's right; although the thunder doesn't have sight."

A black warrior padded silently through the forest, perking his ears and listening for even the slightest sound of prey. For a few moments the forest was unusually calm, until a sad rabbit yelped in pain. Following the sound, a distinctive scent filled his nostrils; Fox. He ran through the forest back to the ThunderClan camp and straight to the leader's den. When he arrived, ScarletStar was grooming his thick fur."CrowThorn?" he asked, surprised by the unannounced visitor.

Still out of breath and panting hard, "I saw a fox on ThunderClan territory." He proclaimed. ScarletStar's eyes flashed. "Where?"

"Down by snake rocks."

"I'll send a patrol, and CrowThorn? Go get cleaned up, you look like you have the entire forest in your pelt." The leader remarked as the warrior started to make his way out of the den.

CrowThorn glanced down at his fur, and realization dawned on him that his pursuit to camp didn't leaved him unscathed; his pelt was cloaked in dirt and twigs. Nodding, he walked out of the den.

While CrowThorn was cleaning his pelt, ScarletStar was picking cats to go on patrol; MothFall, BarkTail, and FoxStripe.

After the patrol left,CrowThorn went to the medicine cat den to see if there was anything GoldenFeather needed done.

When he entered through the mass of intertwined brambles, he was hit with the strong scent of many herbs. Then he turned to see GoldenFeather with a mouth full of marigold.

"Is there anything I can do?" CrowThorn asked.

The multi-colored she cat dropped the leaves at the back of the den. "Yes. Can you take some fresh kill to AppleMist?"

"Sure." He said, but thought; it's not like I have anything better to do.

CrowThorn looked over the pile of prey he saw a plump vole. He grabbed it and carried it to the nursery, when he entered he was a little shocked when he saw; AppleMist. Wow, the kits must be coming any day now.

"Hello CrowThorn." The queen said. "I know- I'm huge."

CrowThorn laughed. "Hello yourself."

"It truly is a miracle!"

"Huh, what is?" The confused tom cat asked.

"I said: 'it's a miracle that you finally laughed.'"

CrowThorn smiled slyly. "

"Is that vole?" the queen sniffed the air.

"Yeah, still your favorite right?"

"Yes." She said; hungrily eyeing the vole at CrowThorn's paws.

CrowThorn dropped it at her paws. "Here."

"Thanks, I'm starving."

"You're welcome."

"Great StarClan manners!"

"Am I that bad?"

"Well..."

"Sorry can't talk." AppleMist laughed, watching as the black tom stumbled out of the nursery.

Later that night CrowThorn awoke from his sleep and quietly padded out of the warrior den. As he was walking towards the camp entrance he heard two voices; MoonStorm and FoxStripe.

"FoxStripe, we need to talk"

"Okay..."

"I'm expecting kits!" FoxStripe was speechless

"Mine?!" He said excitedly

"Of course they're yours!"

"I'm am going to be a father" he exclaimed, swishing his tail happily.

While fox stripe was prancing around, MoonStorm looked around the camp and saw CrowThorn.

CrowThorn saw the worry in her eye and flicked his tail over his mouth to reassure her that he wouldn't tell her secret. The worry faded from her icy blue eyes.

After that he decided not to go on a night walk and just go back to the warriors den.

When he settled down, he fell into a deep sleep, he started dreaming. He dreamt of a beautiful she cat; with deep green eyes and long silky fur. He was in an unfamiliar clearing and a silver cat looking into a stream murmuring to itself. When CrowThorn walked up to the cat , before he was half way there the cat turned to him and said "You have a destiny" and then the silver cat disappeared, but not before picking up a rose and dropping it at the black toms paws and walked off.

He was in a deep slumber until he felt someone poking him, "Hey CrowThorn wake up we're going on border patrol."

"Wait- StormShine is that you?" The tom asked blinking his eyes adjusting to the light.

"No I'm a badger." remarked StormShine sarcastically.

That was definitely StormShine.

While on border patrol, CrowThorn tuned out everything and thought about his dream. He still couldn't get that she cat out of his mind. The questions that were buzzing in his mind were these:

What did the rose mean?

Who was the silver cat?

What did the silver cat mean?

A few minutes later StoneWing came up to CrowThorn. "You're quiet." He remarked.

Realizing that someone was talking to him he looked up. "Oh. Hi StoneWing."

"What's on your mind?"

"What? Oh, nothing."

"I see." The grey tom murmured, walking off.

CrowThorn woke up at the sound of a clan meeting being called. When he got under the high rock he noticed that CopperFang and NightFrost weren't there and he heard someone come up to him, BarkTail.

"Did you hear what happened?" Asked the brown tom.

CrowThorn shook his head.

"Then pay very close attention" He advised and waited until the whispers from many cats finally died down to speak. "As some of you already know, RiverClan was found hunting on sunning rocks, and two of our warriors who were on border patrol spotted them had to fight them and are now injured."

CrowThorn guessed the two warriors were CopperFang and NightFrost.

"I will speak about this at the gathering"

CrowThorn watched as ScarletStar picked the cats to go to the gathering. No one was surprised he picked ScarletStar, StoneWing, CrowThorn, WolfPaw, GoldenFeather.

When scarlet star finally rounded up the cats to go, almost every cat in the camp was asleep. As they made their way to four trees all was silent and no one spoke a word for they knew there might be a war between two clans in a matter of minutes.


Authors Note:

I know it's a pretty boring chapter, hopefully the second one will be better.