Welcome all! This is Spirithunter, and I am proud to annouce that you are about to read the sequel of the successful 'A Single Drop of Rain'! And here, I give you the prologue! Enjoy, and please review!
Disclaimer: I do not own warriors. And the line thingy still doesn't work!
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Rainpaw happily trotted
around the camp. She had just finished dinner, and since she had
little left to do for her medicine cat training, she had been invited
on the evening patrol. She was acting more like a warrior for now,
and therefore got to see more of Flameshadow. She always liked that.
He was her best friend, anyways.
Rockfur's voice broke the peaceful silence. "The evening patrol is leaving now!" he yowled. Rainpaw hurried over. She liked hunting, and wondered what life would be like if she had taken the warrior's path. But she was more than happy with her life right now—it was a mix of both the fierce warrior's and the peaceful, mystic medicine cat's.
The cats had started to move out. Rainpaw couldn't find Flameshadow in the group, and frowned. Oh well. As she walked, she saw they were headed towards Riverclan's territory. She hadn't seen it since leaf-fall had begun, and it had rained a lot since then. She wondered how high the river would be. As she got closer, she could see the faint glittering of the water, reflecting the sunset. The patrol emerged from the trees to find that the river was almost to Sunningrocks. Rainpaw could see the falls off in the distance, and it was several mouse-lengths shorter. In awe, she padded towards the bank. Steppingstones had been swallowed, and it would be impossible for anyone but Riverclan to cross.
As Rainpaw gazed into the water's churning depths, she suddenly noticed that her reflection had disappeared and was being replaced by various images as she heard Froststar's familiar voice behind her: "A new arrival shall come with the new day. Splinters will shatter dawn, and night will forever fall."
"What?" Rainpaw
spun around as the voice faded, hoping to see Froststar there, but
there was no one. Not even the patrol, which had moved on without
her. She sat down and contemplated what she had heard. So…
someone will come along in the morning, and… no, Starclan's too
cryptic to make it that obvious. The new day… the new day…
dawn… Dawnstar? Is Dawnstar going to have kits? Rainpaw
laughed. No, that would be stupid. Why in the world would Starclan
make a prophecy about that? Eventually she decided to just move on to
the next part. Splinters will shatter the dawn. That makes no
sense whatsoever. Hmm… Night will forever fall. That doesn't
sound good. The apprentice sighed and gave up. Rolling her eyes,
she thought, Starclan's getting too good at this.
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And so begins the second second installment of the Rising Darkness
trilogy. Please review! And a question for reviewers: should I change
the title to Nightfall, or do you like Shatterdawn better? Or something
else? I was having trouble with the title...
