Hi! So came up with this idea while in the middle of writing a chapter for one of my other stories. I love Ravenpaw, and now I'm giving him the chance he never had at being a clan cat! Hope you like it! Its kinda short by I'm sure I'll write longer chapters later on! Oh and the alliance is at the end of the chapter (This takes place long after all the kitties in the books have died but you will see some of their kin!), cuz no one wants to read that first. Unless you do... then by all means go right ahead.
I woke with a terrible pain in my head and a freezing cold, drenched coat of fur. My head was resting on the flank of another, just as drenched, cat. It flank barely rose or fell, but when it did I could feel it do so weakly. I rose my head, it was night, there was barely a sliver of moon in the sky, I had no idea where I was, but I could feel sand benething me and hear the wush of nearby water.
I looked at the cat beside me, he was a completely black tom cat, I had no idea who he was but he wasn't doing too well. His pelt was just as soaked as my own and he scarcely took in breath, from what I could tell we'd both seem to have had a brush with drowning.
I got to my paws and thought, I remembered one time I'd seen Spottedleaf make an almost drowned kit cough up water. I placed my paws on his chest and pushed down, once, twice, three times. The black tom exploded to life, coughing up so much water I couldn't even believe it all fit in him. Once through with his coughing fit he looked up at me, "Frostpaw…"
I shook my head, "My names Ravenpaw…" he looked at me confused, but the confusion quickly turned to pain and he glanced back at one of his legs. It was twisted horrifically awkwardly, the sight made me dizzy, or maybe it was the exhaustion that did it, either way I laid back down and found I'd lost consciousness shortly after.
"I have to set that now! Silverstorm check his breathing, Ferntangle, come help me with this!" Frostpaw's head spun foggily and he tried to recognize the voices, and recall his name.
'' What is my name? Who are those voices?' He thought. "My name? What is it?" he drug through his mind vigorously. Ravenpaw… 'Ravenpaw, my names Ravenpaw… no… that's not right… is it?' he felt a paw prod him.
"Frostpaw, can you hear me?" A familiar voice that he couldn't name spoke to him.
'That's my name! Frostpaw!' and with that his memory came flooding back to him. He remembered the down pour, the flood, Blacktide appearing out of nowhere to haul him out of the water. Where was Blacktide now?
"Blacktide!" he called, as his head shot up suddenly. Frostpaw's mentor, Silverstorm, stood before him.
"Shh hes alright." Silverstorm soothed. Frostpaw looked passed him and saw him lying motionless as Drizzlewhisker rushed around him. Frostpaw hauled himself to his paws, despite his bodies screaming protest.
"Frostpaw, how are you? Drizzlewhisker asked, as he adjusted the position of one of Blacktide's legs. Frostpaw opened his mouth to answer but another voice cut off his own.
"Over here! They're over here!" He looked up the slope from the sandy lake shore he stood on, to where his clan mate Rowenpaw stood for a moment then bounded down to him.
"Frostpaw! I thought you were dead! I nearly jumped in after you but Blacktide beat me too it and Silverstorm held me back!" his friend mewed frantically, butting his head into Frostpaw's jaw affectionately. Frostpaw gave him a weak look that still managed to express that he was happy to see him, before turning to the two other cat that poured down to them, Tornriver and Featherstar himself.
"How is Blacktide?" Featherstar asked Drizzlewhisker. The grey cat merely glanced at Featherstar, and said nothing for a moment.
"His back right leg is broken. We need to get him back to my den and warm him up, too. Same with Frostpaw, who may never come clean again." He glanced up at Frostpaw, who's white pelt was a dirty brown color.
Featherstar nodded and with Ferntangle and Drizzlewhisker's help, pulled Blacktide onto his back and began hauling the black tom, who was probably a bit bigger than him, back to camp. Not that Featherstar wouldn't do this for any of his warriors, but Blacktide was his deputy and from what the seniors warriors like Silverstorm say, they'd always been close friends.
Featherstar's warriors followed him, Drizzlewhisker at his side. Frostpaw padded shakily between Rowanpaw and Silverstorm. The distance between the lake and camp had never seemed so insufferably long before in his life. His body cried in protest and he didn't even make it into camp without finally collapsing just before the entrance.
"Come on, Frostpaw, you just have to make it inside now, and too Drizzlewhisker's den." Silverstorm said, and nosed at his heaving flank. Frostpaw waited a few heartbeats more, before hauling himself to his paws and stumbling between his friend and his mentor into Drizzlewhisker's den, where he was finally allowed to collapse.
Featherstar came over to him a while later, "Frostpaw?" he mewed quietly, so that he'd hear him if he was awake, but wouldn't wake him if he was asleep. The white cat rose his head to his leader's voice.
The tabby sat and wrapped his tail around his paws, "How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Tired… hows Blacktide?" Forstpaw responded.
"Hes... he is breathing alright. He has a broken leg though, and he hasn't regained consciousness. Hes a tough cat though, he'll make it through." Featherstar replied.
Frostpaw looked at him with an unsure look in his blue eyes, "You think this is the first time hes almost drown? Your uncle had to have been the clumsiest cat ever when we were apprentices. We called him Trippingpaw." Featherstar told him, his amber eyes glowing with amusement.
"So, he'll be alright?" Frostpaw asked. Featherstar nodded and looked up as someone entered the den.
"Your friends have brought you something to eat. So eat and then rest, alright?" Frostpaw nodded and looked up to Rowanpaw and Mosspaw. They put a mouse before him and began to try and clean his muddy pelt back to white. After he ate what he could, he let their soothing licks lull him to sleep.
ThunderClan
Leader: Featherstar: Dark tabby tom with amber eyes (Greynight)
Deputy: Blacktide: Sleek black tom with blue eyes
Apprentice, Stormpaw
Medicine Cat: Drizzlewhisker: Grey and white tabby tom
Warriors
Tornriver: Black tom with white and grey streaks and amber eyes (Ferntangle)
Apprentice, Thornpaw
Silverstorm: Long haired silver tabby tom
Apprentice, Frostpaw
Ferntangle: Grey and white tabby she cat with blue eyes (Kits: Rowenpaw, Mosspaw)
Apprentice, Ivypaw
Shadowbrook: Black tom with blue eyes (Minnowtail)
Apprentice, Rowanpaw
Hawkfeather: Dark tabby tom with amber eyes (Dapplewing)
Apprentice, Mosspaw
Darkblaze: Dark orange tabby tom with green eyes
Apprentices
Stormpaw: Pale brown and white tabby tom with blue eyes
Thornpaw: Dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes
Frostpaw: White tom with blue eyes
Rowenpaw: Black grey and white tabby tom with blue eyes
Mosspaw: Black grey and white tabby she cat with blue eyes
Ivypaw: Tortoiseshell she cat with amber eyes
Queens
Minnowtail: Long haired silver tabby she cat
Dapplewing: Pale tortoiseshell she cat with amber eyes (Kits Ivypaw, Stormpaw)
Greynight: Grey black she cat with green eyes (Kits: Webkit, Reedkit)
Kits
Webkit: Grey black tom with amber eyes
Reedkit: Brown tabby she cat with green eyes
Elders
Dewwhisker: Pale grey she cat with blue eyes
Sparrowclaw: Tabby tom
So I hope you guys liked it! If you did, then totally review! Oh and if you have time, defiantly check out my other Warriors stories!
-Ancell