Hello! This is a challenge for OakClan, PineClan, PlainClan, and StreamClan: Roleplay forum! This story is a bit... Dark, and it doesn't have a happy ending, so if you don't like things like that, you might not want to read. But anyways, enjoy!
The clans were once a peacefull place. The Warrior Code had been broken so many times, that the four leaders, Wolfstar of ThunderClan, Dawnstar of WindClan, Brookstar of Riverclan, and Blazestar of ShadowClan, all decided to just throw it out the window.
All the Clans formed into one Clan. Yes, it's unlikely, but it's still possible. They were called: HerbClan. Obviously, the medicine cats thought of it.
But, since the Warrior Code didn't exist, cats begain to currupt, since they weren't being correncted for their wrongs.
Soon enough, cats were dying left and right. This era was called "The Darkest Hour".
It was the last era for HerbClan. The cats of StarClan looked down at the mess that they had created. It was terrible.
Petalstar felt especially bad, because it was her idea. She watched as her granddaughter, Leafpaw, got her throught ripped out by Wolfstar's grandson, Smokepaw.
Eventually, the four former leaders decided to punish the cats below for their crimes.
They all went to each of the four medicine cats, Hollyshade, Skyfall, Rainflower, and Gorseclaw.
And that's where our story begins.
Hollyshade woke up in the middle of the forest. She looked around. Where was she?
"Hollyshade!" A voice yowled. Hollyshade's ears pirked. She recognized that voice!
"Hollyshade!" There was the voice again!
Hollyshade followed it. It led her to a calico she-cat, laying on the ground. She looked to be in pain.
Hollshade nelt down besides the scrawny calico. "What's wrong?" she asked. The calico turned around, so Hollyshade could see her face clearly.
Hollyshade jumped back. The calico, who was about apprentice age, had some sort of... eye infection. Her eyes were swollen, a goo was dripping from them.
"What's wrong with you?" Hollyshade asked, worried. The apprentice did not answer.
Suddenly, Hollyshade realised who this cat was. It was Pollenpaw, one of HerbClan's apprentices.
"Pollenpaw, tell me what happened!" Hollyshade demanded, avoiding eye contact with the sick she-cat.
"Eye-Droppings..." Pollenpaw murmered. Hollyshade looked confuesed.
"Eye-What?' she asked.
"My sickness..." Pollenpaw begain again. "It's called Eye-Droppings..."
Hollyshade shuddered at the terrible name. "I'm sorry, but I can't cure you! I don't know what herb heals this so called "Eye-Droppings. Sorry!" she apoligized.
Suddenly, a picture zoomed into Hollyshade's head. It was a plant of some kind, and it looked sticky.
"That's the herb you need." Pollenpaw mewed. "It's called," she paused, like she didn't know the name. "Fern Cream."
Hollyshade looked around the forest. "Where can you find Fern Cream?" she asked.
"There's one of them, in the middle of fourtrees." Pollenpaw explained. "You have to squeeze the Fern Cream out of the plant. It's a soft white liquid."
"I understand." Hollyshade nodded. "I'll find it for you, don't worry."
Suddenly, Pollenpaw disapeared.
Hollyshade realised it was a dream.
But what she didn't realise was that Pollenpaw was actually Petalstar in disguise.
All the leaders went into a medicine cat's dream, and disguised as different cats.
Wolfstar did it to Skyfall, Dawnstar did Rainflower, and Brookstar did Gorseclaw.
Hollyshade suddenly woke up.
"Haha, it was only a dream..." she murmed to herself. But in the back of her mind, she remembered the terrible goo coming out of Pollenpaw's eyes. And she asked herself: "Is StarClan trying to tell me something?"
She padded out of the den, and saw cats running around, screaming.
"Hollyshade, just in time!" Featherwhisker, a queen, exclaimed.
"What's wrong, Featherwhisker?" Hollyshade asked. "And why is everyone screaming?"
"All the kits are sick!" Featherwhisker yowled. "And so far, Honeycloud and Snowfur have gotten sick to!"
Hollyshade froze. "Oh no..." she muttered. She pushed past Featherwhisker and ran into the nursery.
Her guess of what happened was 100% correct.
Snowfur, Honeycloud, and their kits all had Eye-Droppings. There was only one thing to do.
Hollyshade ran to fourtrees and saw the Fern Cream plant. She ran over to it and was about to squeeze, when she ran into Skyfall, Rainflower, and Gorseclaw.
"What are you doing here?" Rainflower asked.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing!" Hollyshade replied bitterly. "I came here because my clan is sick with a new sickness, called Eye-Droppings."
"How did you know it was called that?" Gorseclaw asked.
"StarClan told me in a dream," Hollyshade replied dreamily.
"Our section of the Clan has Eye-Droppings to!" Skyfall exclaimed.
"Same," Rainflower agreed.
"Well, I don't beleive you, so just give me the plant." Hollyshade demanded.
The other three medicine cats shook their head.
"Then how would we know they were called Eye-Droppings?" Gorseclaw asked. "Didn't think of that did you?"
"Because I told you what it was called! You just want to make HerbClan smaller, don't you?" Hollyshade shot back.
Gorseclaw and Rainflower shook their heads, but Skyfall shrugged.
"It might be nice if HerbClan was smaller..." he muttered.
"Well, since we all want the Fern Cream, I say we fight for it!" Gorseclaw yowled.
The four medicine cats nodded, before Rainflower, Skyfall, and Hollyshade ran off.
Back in Hollyshade's section of HerbClan, things had gotten worse. Half of the cats had Eye-Droppings, and it was disgusting. Hollyshade dashed over to High Rock and leaped on top of it.
"All cat's who aren't infected, I know a cure for Eye-Droppings!" she yowled.
"Eye-Droppings?" a cat asked.
"Yeah, Eye-Droppings!" Hollyshade replied. "You know, since it's like their eyes have... droppings?"
The random cat shrugged. "Seems reasonable," he mewed.
"Well, anyways, everyone who is not infected, meet me at Fourtrees, so we can get that herb!" Hollyshade screeched, before running back out of camp and back to Fourtrees.
Hollyshade snuck over to the Fern Cream. She saw Gorseclaw, who was apperantally trying to steal the Fern Cream. Not gonna happen!
Hollyshade dove out from behind her rock and onto Gorseclaw. The two medicine cats tumbled into one of the four trees.
"Hey! What was that for?" Gorseclaw yelped.
"Duh! You were stealing the Fern Cream!" Hollyshade replied, rolling her eyes.
Gorseclaw sighed. "Okay, maybe you were right..."
Suddenly, there was a loud thumping. Hollyshade's ears pirked.
"What was-" she begain, before seeing it.
Rainflower marched into camp, followed by all the cats who weren't infected in her section of camp.
"Holy StarClan that's a lot of cats..." Hollyshade murmered.
Raiflower's group of cats stopped.
"Give us the Fern Cream plant!" Rainflower demanded.
Gorseclaw and Hollyshade both shook their heads.
"Well, in that case," Rainflower replied. "ATTACK!"
The flood of cats crashed against Fourtrees like a tsunami crashes into a beach.
Gorseclaw had his claws unsheathed and was blindly slashing at everycat who got near him. But Hollyshade had climbed one of the trees and was looking for her Clan.. She smiled when she saw them.
"HerbClan, attack the cats of... erm... HerbClan!" Hollyshade yowled.
The cats of (Hollyshade's) HerbClan attacked (Rainflower's) HerbClan.
There was a massive fight, and Hollyshade watched proudly as (Hollyshade's) HerbClan tore up the enemies. Well, she didn't know if that was true, since she couldn't really tell who was who... Whatever. She just had to turn around and grab the Fern Cream.
But it was gone? Hollyshade frantically looked around.
"Where'd the Fern Cream go?!" Hollyshade asked herself.
She looked at Gorseclaw. He was there, and he didn't have the Fern Cream.
She looked at Rainflower. She was there, and she didn't have the Fern Cream.
But where was Skyfall?
Hollyshade watched as a cat that appeared to be Skyfall dashed off, something in their mouth. Skyfall had the Fern Cream plant!
Hollyshade rushed after her, so did Gorseclaw and Rainflower.
The three medicine cats tackled the other medicine cat. When they made it so Skyfall couldn't move, Gorseclaw sat on her, just in case.
Gorseclaw grabbed Skyfall's paw and ripped the Fern Cream plant out of it. Then he ran back towards Fourtrees, which was a stupid thing to do in Hollyshade's opinion.
Hollyshade watched as Gorseclaw leaped onto one of the four stones.
"Cats of HerbClan!" he yowled at the top of his lungs.
There was silence. All the cats looked up at him.
Gorseclaw cleared his throught.
"Since we all want this one Fern Cream plant," he begain. "I declare WAR for it!"
The cats of HerbClan yowled in agreement.
All of them exept for Hollyshade, Skyfall, and Rainflower, who already had a lot of healing to do without a civil war.
"Let the war... BEGIN!" Gorseclaw screeched after throwing the Fern Cream plant onto the ground. The tsunami of cats crashed down onto the Fern Cream plant.
A second later, a second tsunami, this time of blood, came crashing onto Hollyshade, Rainflower, and Skyfall.
Gorseclaw chuckled to himself as he looked at the other three medicine cats covered in blood.
He couldn't feel bad for them. After all, this was war.
Hollyshade woke up. It was the 52nd day of the war, and everycat was extremely tired.
Exept for Skyfall's section of HerbClan for some reason.
And, during the war, HerbClan divided up into the four clans again.
Hollyshade in ShadowClan, Skyfall in WindClan, Rainflower in ThunderClan, and Gorseclaw in RiverClan.
"Time to launch our surprise attack on WindClan!" Hollyshade heard a cat yowling. "Let's go, go, go!"
Hollyshade stretched her legs and walked out of the medicine den. She saw a line of non-infected cats behind ShadowClan's leader Twigstar, and a line of infected cats behind ShadowClan's deputy, Redface.
The cats begain marching out of camp, Hut, 2, 3, 4.
The infected cats were to go into camp first, and then, when WindClan was stunned, the non-infected cats would jump into camp.
Why was ShadowClan attacking WindClan of all clans? Why not ThunderClan?
Well, that was because one of WindClan's warriors, Starlingflight, stole the Fern Cream plant and brought it to WindClan camp.
"Come on, Droppings! It's your turn!" Twigstar hissed. Redface nodded, and ran into WindClan camp, followed by the other infected cats.
For some reason, Twigstar liked to call all the infected cats Droppings, because their disease, Eye-Droppings, had Droppings in it's name. Hollyshade still thought it was pretty crule.
"Twigstar, how do we know when WindClan's stunned?" Hollyshade asked her leader.
"We don't! We just attack randomly!" Twigstar hissed in reply.
"And when would that be?" "Now!" Twigstar bolted into WindClan camp.
Hollyshade rolled her eyes and trudged after him.
But when Hollyshade went into camp, no one seemed to be there (other than ShadowClan cats).
Hollyshade was confused. Where was everyone? She heard a wailing from the medicine den. Hollyshade walked over to it and looked inside. She gasped.
In the middle of the floor was Skyfall, eyes dripping gross goo.
Skyfall had Eye-Droppings, and seemed to be dying from them. Sunpaw, Skyfall's apprentice, was looking over his mentor and crying.
Hollyshade couldn't help but feel a pang of simpathy for the poor apprentice. The stupid sickness caused his mentor for (probably) 15 moons to die. Well, Skyfall wasn't dead yet, but she would be soon. But Sunpaw didn't seem to see Hollyshade, which was a good thing.
Hollyshade's eyes gleamed happily as she saw the Fern Cream plant. She just had to sneak past Sunpaw and...
Sunpaw sat up.
Hollyshade jumped back, getting into a place where she could see him but he couldn't see her.
She watched as Sunpaw grabbed the Fern Cream plant and walked out of the medicine den. Hollyshade followed him, which was a little bit creepy.
"I don't care if everycat will probably die because of this..." Hollyshade heard Sunpaw mumbling. "I hate this thing, it caused a war! It didn't kill my mentor, that was the Eye-Droppings, but whatever. Stupid StarClan. If they want us to die, then we will. And they can be happy, and laugh at our pain. I won't care, though..." Hollyshade didn't like where Sunpaw was going with this. She watched as he jumped onto High Rock.
"Cats of... WindClan and invaders! I want to show you something!" he yowled.
No one was listening.
"In that case," Sunpaw mewed, smiling. He begain to tear the Fern Cream plant into tiny little bits. Hollyshade gasped.
So did ShadowClan. and WindClan. And that one random RiverClan cat.
When the Fern Cream plant was torn into a million little peices, he began to stomp on it.
"Why I outta...!" Hollyshade heard Twigstar yowl, before tackling the young medicine cat apprentice.
Hollyshade watched as her leader tore Sunpaw apart, just like he did to the Fern Cream plant.
But it didn't matter. It was over. It was all over. End of story. Hollyshade trudged out of camp. If she was going to die, she wanted to do it in her own camp, so ShadowClan could find her body.
But, then again, did she really want to be buried there? No, she didn't. She'd rather die in Mother Mouth, touching Moonstone. Out of starvation, not out of Eye-Droppings.
So that's what Hollyshade did.
That's how the clans died. There isn't really a moral, since the only two I can think of are: "Don't trust your friends or anyone", or "If you're very sick, you'r going to die", and those are really stupid morals. But there wasn't supposed to be one.
That's the end of our story.
Well, that's a wrap, folks! BYE