Hello people! This book, Midnight Moments, is about Brighteyes, and Shinningheart. In my only book, A Shinning Heart and Bright Eyes, you read about Dream or Dreampaw as she is called in her clan. This story is about what happened to her mother and father, how they came to break the warrior code and leave the clans. I've been working on it for a while, so there will be a few chapters going up. COVER ON MY PROFILE!
Here is their story;
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Spiritsong, the ginger she-cat thought grimly, the great Frostclan medicine cat. And my friend shall have to take his place. She shook her head in disgust. He's not going to die! She tried to convince herself, but she knew in her bones that her friend's, Blazeheart, mentor death was coming all too soon.
"Shinningpaw!" a cat's voice called to her. The young ginger she-cat flicked her ears in order to hear the call.
"Yes Fadedstar?"
She had never liked her leader, soft as Fadedstar's fur was on the outside, her heart was surely made of stone on the inside.
"Spiritsong wishes to see you now."
Shinningpaw dipped her head to her leader, and crawled into the medicine cat den.
Silentpaw padded slowly over to her medicine cat, the small she-cat who once looked as if she could take on three badgers cats without getting so much as a scratch. But the once great medicine cat lay crippled on the moss bedding, her ribs popping out of her fur and her breathing short and rasping. Her eyes swivelled to meet Shinningpaw's gaze, and she was devastated to see how sick and shrunken they looked.
"Shinningpaw…" She coughed her voice hoarse.
"Spiritsong," She mewed quietly. "How are you feeling now?"
"I have something to tell you now." She said. Shinningpaw came closer, her eyes glistening.
"Yes Spiritsong," she whispered. "I am listening."
Spiritsong closed her eyes, taking in a long, shuddering breath. Then she spoke.
"I was visited by Starclan last night," Murmured the old medicine cat. "They leave for you, a prophecy."
Shinningpaw bit her lip. Oh no, not good.
"Bright eyes and a shinning heart shall bring kits and blood to a warrior's path"
Oh dear, that doesn't sound good. Shinningpaw thought grimly.
"Remember… it…" Rasped the old cat.
Suddenly, only one set of lungs were breathing in the room.
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Two moons later…
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Shinningheart was chosen to go to the gathering along with her friend Blazeheart. Blackfeather, their deputy, was talking silently with Fadedstar as they walked.
"Are you excited about being announced as a Warrior?" Blazeheart asked her friend.
"No." She mewed sarcastically. She was actually bursting with excitement at her new rank.
Blazeheart purred.
Fadedstar flicked her tail and the assembled cats stopped at the top of the hill that overlooked the gathering. Many cats were already there. Shinningheart felt excitement bubbling up inside her.
Fadedstar's tail flicked once again, and the Frostclan cats bounded down into the clearing. Shinningheart padded proudly into the clearing, with her loyal friend Blazeheart at her side.
She spied Nightpaw, a friend from her last gathering, and padded over to her.
"Hey Shinningpaw!" she mewed.
"Hello Nightpaw," Shinningheart answered. "I'm a warrior now." She added proudly.
"So am I! I'm Nightfeather now." She turned as some cat called her name. "Bye."
She touched her nose to Shinningheart's shoulder, and then padded away.
Shinningheart turned to see her friend gazing across the clearing to some friend she made last gathering. "Go and talk to them." she encouraged. "I'll find something else to do."
Blazeheart smiled at her and padded away.
Shinningheart looked around. All the friends she had made at the last gathering were talking with other cats and she didn't want to interfere.
She turned to see a white tom looking at her. He sat alone, too. She got up and padded over to him. When she was just a fox-length away, he seemed to realize that she was coming.
"H-hi." the tom mewed. "I'm Brighteyes, newest warrior of Rainclan."
"Same for me, but in Frostclan instead." She purred. She looking closely and realised the tom had different colored eyes.
"Oh, well… hi." Brighteyes. "Well, I should go." he padded away, looking around for something.
The leaders yowled to start the gathering, and Shinningheart found Blazeheart.
The two she-cats sat down to listen to the gathering. Shinningheart kept glancing in Brighteyes' direction. She didn't mean to do this; there was just something about him... A couple times the two cats made eye contact, and Brighteyes would look away quickly.
"…The gathering is other!" Fadedstar called.
Shinningheart jumped, realising she hadn't been listening to a thing that was said.
"Follow me, Frostclan!" Called Fadedstar.
Blazeheart and Shinningheart leapt up and raced over to their leader.
With out Shinningheart knowing it, two different colored eyes followed her across the clearing.
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There we go! VERY long chapter... Not really... YAY! Next one coming soon…
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~Skywing~