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Stars in the Sky

Cloudfur gazed at the star-filled sky. It was a beautiful scene. Crickets chirped. Mice ran through the hunting grounds of MistClan. But then her smile faded: Her leader was down to one life.

Who will be the leader then? thought Cloudfur sadly.

"Hey, Cloudfur!" piped up a friendly voice.

"Hi, Icepaw," mewed Cloudfur.

Icepaw rested on her belly right next to her mentor. "I was wondering why you were here? Are you waiting to get a message from StarClan?"

Cloudfur shrugged. "Not really. But I'd really like it if you'd left me alone." Icepaw drooped her head and tail as she slowly walked away.

The white she-cat started thinking about the leader, and how kind Talonstar was, with his unusual long claws, or rather, unusual long talons. That made Cloudfur chuckle a bit.

Suddenly, the stars popped. All of them disappeared until there a couple clouds floated by and covered the only star left. The stars all popped back as though nothing happened.

Hey, I know what that means! thought Cloudfur, bewildered. That meant that... that Cloudfur was going to become a leader! I must tell Talonstar!

Cloudfur leaped onto her paws and ran back to SilverClan camp. "Talonstar! Talonstar! Wake up!" yowled Cloudfur as Talonstar fluttered his eyes open.

"When you die," I recited the prophecy. "I'll become leader! Not Sunblaze, me!"

Cats started climbing out of their nests at Cloudfur's yowls. Talonstar faltered, but he didn't want to look weak.

"Very well then, that is how it'll be. Kill me now, and you'll be leader, Cloudstar," the old gray leader purred as he rubbed against me. Cloudfur purred back, too. Then Talonstar stood in front of me, and I raked at his neck, blood coloring my claws.

Talonstar calmly rested on to the soft dirt and purred "Thank you," and closed his eyes for the last time.

"Cloudstar! Cloudstar! Cloudstar!" chanted SilverClan cats.

Cloudstar half-purred, half-cried. She was no leader. She was a murder, a traitor. She sprinted away, leaving SilverClan vulnerable as ever without a leader, or at least a traitor.


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