Jeez, another new story... Yeah, I really need to stop... Got less than 2 weeks before school starts up again... X(
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Silverpelt shone down on them through the tall oak's leaves & onto the crowd of cats standing in the moonlit clearing below. Their tails lashing as they howled in rage, flexing their claws in the soil & grass as their eyes, filled with fury, glinted in the moon's reflection.
"The outsiders have never beaten us before! Why should this defeat get to us? We are still here, aren't we?"
Boomed a ice-white pelted tom, his blue eyes scanning the rows of cats below him, waiting for one of the cats to challenge him in fear.
"Froststar is right!"
Yowled a sandy grey tom next to the frosty-white cat.
"Why should they drive us out? We are warriors!"
More than half the cats below them caterwauled in agreement & courage. Then, an old grey she-cat stiffly got to her paws & turned her night-sky gaze toward them.
"Warriors we may be, but our loyalties will shake to our roots, & break even the strongest of cats!" Her black eyes flashing as she lashed her tail in anger toward her leader.
A cream tabby stepped forward from where she stood on the grey rock beside the two toms.
"Night-Eyes is right, if we are to survive this ordeal, we should find out where each other's loyalties lie."
The cats began to glare at each other, hissing threats & bristling twice their size, confirming & screeching to one another where their true or fake loyalties lied. Night-Eyes only growled in frustration as she took her place under the Great Rock where the other medicine cats sat, holding their heads high with defiance or their eyes wide with fear. A young white tom with black tabby paws & tail was crouched, bristling in fear as he watched the clan cats uneasily glance at one another.
"Enough! Stop fighting! All your loyalties are unchallenged."
A pale ginger queen glared down at the cats from where she stood next to Froststar & the other leaders, the sandy grey tom turned to her, his voice suddenly gentle as the hissing cats below them settled.
"Wrenstar, I know more than half your litter has been taken by StarClan, & your deputy has already sacrificed himself so TwigClan could be here tonight." Wrenstar winced at his words. "Who have you chosen to take Eagletalon's place?"
The pale ginger cat stared down at her clan who looked up at her with hope & misery filled eyes, she turned to the other three cats beside her & declared her choice before StarClan & all the other clan cats loud & willingly, hopeful that her choice of next in line to lead TwigClan was the most loyal & accepted choice here tonight.
"My new deputy is Ravenclaw."
More than half the cats murmured in agreement, Ravenclaw was a strong, persistent & respected young warrior. But StarClan thought otherwise, for a sliver furred she-cat with a twisted leg gasped up at the sky as clouds as black as a raven's feather covered the giant white orb in the sky.
"StarClan disagrees!"
"Wrenstar chose wrong!"
"TwigClan is doomed!"
Wrenstar began to breathe sharply as the clearing dipped below her, cats covered in blood racing with their claws ready to attack the next movement they saw. The TwigClan leader looked frantically around for any of her clan-mates & ordered for them to stand down. Suddenly the fighting cats jumped apart to reveal a muscular black & white feline huddled over a bloody silver tabby.
"Ravenclaw?"
"Why!?" Wrenstar leapt back from her deputy as he wailed in grief, he threw his broad head back & yowled fiercely at the night sky.
"Wrenstar!"
The golden she-cat snapped out of her daze, she was back in the same clearing but the cats weren't bloody or fuelled by rage anymore. Their pelts glowed softly in the fading moonlight as the rain clouds drifted away, their eyes wide with wonder, Wrenstar felt a lump in her throat; they looked like her harmless kits.
"We must get you & Ravenclaw home, trouble is brewing."
The silver she-cat limped over to her leader, her twisted leg slowing her down for only a few seconds.
"Of course Lightfoot. TwigClan! Let's go home!"
With a flick of her cream tail, Wrenstar gathered her cats and headed up the slope that lead toward TwigClan territory.
"Love will destroy you..."
Whispered a voice, Ravenclaw turned around to stare into the night sky reflected in the medicine cat's eyes.
"Have no worry for TwigClan."
Ravenclaw called over his shoulder to the old she-cat, the muscular tom bounded away, doubt rooted to his belly. Did StarClan not think he was worthy of being loyal to his clan? Ravenclaw shook his head, he had an obedient, well-trained apprentice, he hadn't found a mate to distract him from his duties as a warrior providing for his clan & Wrenstar had entrusted him with being second in command.
What could StarClan ask more from him?
Then Night-Eyes' warning sounded in his head as he helped a black & ginger apprentice scramble over a fallen tree.
Love will destroy you...
-Star4