This is if instead of the Three, there were cats with Graces, and all five clans were at the lake instead of the four. The battle is coming, but the different clans are uneasy with each other. They send their graced cats to spy, to do the dirtiest tasks, and to do the hardest hunting. This takes place after The Forgotten Warrior.
This is my first fanfic, please review!
(I do not own Graceling or Warrior characters; they belong to Kristen Cashore/Erin Hunter. I do however own Petalpaw)
Chapter 1: The Mission
"Petalpaw, can you come here for a moment?" Leafstar asked.
"Sure" I meowed, growling to myself. Chances are it would be some activity that would involve either spying, or "ensuring" that they wouldn't attempt to attack Skyclan. Which really sucked for me, since all I wanted to do was become a medicine cat apprentice.
I am a Graceling, which means I have an extreme skill that my other clan mates don't have. Some of the Graces are helpful, like fighting, or super hearing graces, some are useless, like being able to completely twist their heads around. Some though, are creepy, yet very helpful. Those are like the mind reading Graces and the walking into other cats' dreams or even the weather reading Graces. Mine is the most unusual one out of all of the clans. I can fly.
I walked over to where my leader, Leafstar was waiting. Sharpclaw, the deputy, was already waiting for me. I prepared myself for the worst, while hoping for the best.
"Petalpaw, I want you to go spy on Windclan camp. If they already attempted to attack Thunderclan, we could easily be next. Be back before the Gathering unlessthere is a good reason to stay at the camp."
"Ok Leafstar" I meowed with little energy. I knew I would have to do this depressing task. If a cat was a helpful Grace, like me, they had to the leaders or deputies wishes when asked. It made any Graceling feel like a slave, and it distanced Gracelings from the rest of the clan even more. Our mismatched eyes that identified us as a Graceling didn't help. It just made it easier to target us for things like bullying.
I was barely a moon old when my eyes set (if you don't understand, read Graceling). My mother Cherrytail was both horrified and amazed. I was the first Graceling in our clan since the clans had left for the Great Journey. On the other paw, this would mean that I would be noticed as a Graceling even quicker, since no other cat had one eye bright green, and one sea blue, or even different colored eyes.
"I ran out of the clan and jumped, half hoping I would fall and that I didn't have a Grace. Of course, that didn't happen. I began to fly, feeling like myself again. As I caught birds' midair and ate them, I began to head towards Windclan territory.
Soon, too soon, I made it to the Windclan camp. I landed in a scruffy bush and listened closely, really hoping I wouldn't overhear anything.
"The next cat to listen to Sol again will be forced to leave immediately!" Onestar meowed to his clan "I don't what some of you were thinking, attempting to attack Thunderclan without my or Ashfoot's approval. Not only did you lose, you got yourselves injured and worse, we are now distrusted my all of the clans. I'm surprised that there hasn't been a clan that hasn't attempted to fight us yet."
I felt stunned. We had all thought that Onestar had secretly united with Sol to destroy the rest of the clans. I never had guessed that Onestar didn't know until the attack. We had always assumed that he had been the co-leader of the attack. I guess not. I had to ask Jayfeather about the attack.
"However, we must be on our guard" Onestar continued. "There is a very good chance that Thunderclan will attempt to attack our camp. I want a guard on the entrance of the camp on a twenty four hour basis. If anyone sees Sol or any cat conversing with Sol, I want you to tell me right away. If it's not a Windclan, I want you to take them hostage. We cannot have this happen again without starting a war on our land, and with leafbare coming, that's the last thing we need. Everyone, continue with your patrols except for Ashfoot and Emberfoot, I need to speak with you."
The second he said that, I silently gasped. Emberfoot was a Graceling with amazing climbing skills. He could easily slip inside of one of the camps and attack without any cat being the wiser. Well, I guess he couldn't do that for Riverclan, since it was surrounded by water. Any other clan would be in danger though. Especially Thunderclan and Skyclan since Thunderclan was surrounded by cliffs and Skyclan were in caves going vertically upward. I turned to get a running start out of here before anything else happened when I felt something pushing me back down.
"What do you think you are doing?"