So, guys, I decided to take up Prin Pardus's 100 Warriors One-shot challenge! I'm not going to post all the prompts, because there are *cough*100*cough* Also, it's the same Clans(But not the same cats) as in 'To save a life' if anyone's read that.
So at the beginning of the (writing) part, I'm going to post the prompt, and then the main character. Like so:(Enjoy!)
Injured(Lightpaw, FrostClan)
A yowl spread over the camp, like wildfire. Lightpaw shivered, and cast her senses out, but there was only so far that she could scent. The yowl was terrifyingly close though, and it increased the panicked bustle inside camp.
"Oakspring, Silverpool, Blackheart, Heronwing, Waterleap, Willowshade, go!" roared Beechstar. The named cats sprang out of the clearing, starting with Oakspring's long brown tail and ending with Willowshade's stubby white one.
"Lightpaw!" Lightpaw blinked and retracted her head into the nursery. "Yes, Thymeflower?"
"The kits are going to stay here," her mentor shot over her shoulder as she packed herbs into crevices. Lightpaw blinked, troubled. "What? But they never stay in the medicine cat's den. It's too accessible!"
The FrostClan medicine cat shot her a look. "Yes, well, Raventalon's betrayal changed that. The sabotage… Well, anyway, this den is the best bet we've got. SunClan are fish-hearts, but not without honor. They won't attack kits, and they won't attack medicine cats."
"Right?" Lightpaw murmured. Thymeflower's eyes softened, and she rasped her tongue over the young she-cat's ear. "Right. Help me hide the catmint!"
Lightpaw gave a start and scrambled to help her mentor stuff the alluring herb into a crevice. Behind her, she heard Magpiefang herding her kits inside, but didn't turn around until Thymeflower shooed her away. "Help them!"
Lightpaw nodded. The kits trembled at the front of the den, and with a rush of sympathy, Lightpaw herded them to the back of the den. Gorsekit, Bluekit, and Sootkit looked up at her with wide eyes, and over her shoulder she hissed to their mother, "Don't just stand there! Come on!"
Wide-eyed, the former kittypet rushed over to her kits and wrapped her long calico tail around them. "What do we do if SunClan comes in here?"
"Defend them with your life, because they're your kits."
There were no more questions. Magpiefang nodded and her marsh-green eyes hardened. Even though she wasn't the prettiest cat around, her expression of resolve and bravery, fear for her kits made her almost as beautiful as Silverpool. Lightpaw could see why Oakspring loved her, why he had shied away from Ivyspots. But—never mind.
Cats were screeching in the distance. Beechstar had left a few moments ago to join the patrol in the battle. It didn't sound like too many cats, but the air was overpowered by the scent of SunClan and bloodlust.
"Mommy? I'm scared."
"Hush, Bluekit. We won't let anybody hurt you."
"Or Sootkit or Gorsekit?"
"No."
While his mother was talking with Bluekit, Sootkit wriggled out from her and padded over to Lightpaw. "Why are SunClan attacking?"
Lightpaw looked down feebly at the young cat, big amber eyes set into a dirty brown pelt. "It's complicated, Sootkit."
"Why? There has to be a reason," the young kit persisted.
Lightpaw sighed. "It's very long and… Well, Beechstar and Cloverstar had this… thing. And SunClan raided us three moons ago—around the time you were born—and now they're calling us the bad guys because we aren't giving them our catmint. And other stuff too."
Sootkit nodded knowingly. "Okay." After a moment, he shifted a bit, and padded closer. "Can I help?"
"No, we've just about finished putting away the herbs."
""Hush!" Thymeflower laid her tail over Lightpaw's mouth, and Lightpaw glanced nervously out at camp, where seven cats stood guard at the entrance. "Go comfort your littermates," Lightpaw whispered. He nodded and padded over to Gorsekit. The creamy-brown tom was shivering and staring, wide-eyed at the entrance to camp.
Lightpaw nodded to him, and he smiled back at her. A pang caught in her heart as she watched him make his littermates purr. If only he knew…
She caught Magpiefang staring at her, and looked away quickly. "Are they here?" she asked Thymeflower quietly. Her mentor had gone very quiet, and her eyes were distant.
"Yes."
The mew had barely left her mouth before it was caught up in a whirl of battle and swept away by screams. SunClan exploded into FrostClan camp.
Lightpaw shoved the kits farther into the corner, and watched with horror. Surely they wouldn't come… here… now… No. This wasn't a fish-hearted raid, it was a provoked(but not entirely reasonable) attack. They wouldn't hurt kits, nursing queens, or (LostClan forbid) medicine cats.
Lightpaw tried to pick out scents, but there were so many—Badgerstep, grappling with a large orange SunClan tom—Lionclaw? Ravenpaw was fighting a gray tom, both of whom were spattered with blood. And a sturdy, sharp-eyed white and brown she-cat and a black she-cat were ganging up on—
"Hollypaw!"
The black she-cat lashed a paw across Hollypaw's side, and Lightpaw's sister crumpled to the ground in a ginger and brown heap, wailing. No one was helping.
Lightpaw sprang out of the medicine den without thinking. She heard Thymeflower give a warning yowl behind her, but it was tinny, far away, unimportant.
She crashed down on the black she-cat, and instantly recognized her as she stared into her blue eyes. "Ripplepaw," she growled, low and deep in her throat. The cat was friendly, and only obeying orders, but the SunClan's apprentice tearing her claw across Hollypaw's side replayed itself over and over in Lightpaw's mind. She was ready to kill this cat. If Hollypaw… If Ripplepaw…
She was suddenly thrown off of Ripplepaw by an unknown force. The pretty brown and white she-cat stood there, her green eyes seething with rage. (A.N: Can eyes seethe? Whatever…) "What are you doing out here all on your own, medicine pet?" She taunted, swiping at Lightpaw's muzzle.
"Don't touch my sister!" Lightpaw screeched.
"Briarpaw, stop it," came Ripplepaw's voice, but Briarpaw only snarled for silence and smiled sweetly at Lightpaw as the white and yellow she-cat struggled under the stronger apprentice's grip. "Whatcha gonna do? Make me eat herbs until I die?"
"I'll feed you deathberries," Lightpaw growled, and was silenced as Briarpaw brought a claw down on her face. Lightpaw screeched, but no one heard.
"Shut your face, flea-bag," Briarpaw hissed, and was suddenly dragged off of Lightpaw, screaming and squealing. Lightpaw scrambled to her feet, breathing hard.
"Briarpaw!" someone yowled, but it wasn't Ripplepaw. It was Lightpaw's savior, who dropped Briarpaw in a heap on the ground and placed a paw on her chest.
Cloverstar. SunClan's leader. Briarpaw's mentor.
"What were you thinking?" the brown she-cat hissed, shoving her face into Briarpaw's. "Attacking a medicine cat? Attacking a medicine cat apprentice?"
Briarpaw said nothing.
"Go help Graypaw," Cloverstar hissed, and Briarpaw scurried away to the gray apprentice Ravenpaw had been fighting earlier. Cloverstar turned to Lightpaw, who backed away and tripped over her hind legs, which had ceased to work.
"Go hide in the medicine den," Cloverstar told her.
She ran.
Thymeflower scurried up to her. "What were you thinking?"
"I was saving Hollypaw!" Lightpaw hissed back, and remembered her sister. "Oh no!" She turned back to the entrance, but Breezewhisper was already there, bleeding heavily from his paw and Hollypaw, limp in his jaws. He dropped her at Thymeflower's feet, grunted, and sprinted back into the battle.
Thymeflower shot Lightpaw a look and dragged Hollypaw over to the back, where the kits and Magpiefang were.
"She'll live, right?" Lightpaw demanded, hurrying over next to them.
"Of course she'll live, you mouse-brain!" Thymeflower hissed, examining Hollypaw.
"Hollypaw? Can you hear me?"
Hollypaw did an odd little sigh/grunt, and rolled over a little.
"She's fine, just in shock. Poppy seeds!"
Lightpaw hurried over to where they'd stashed the least valuable herbs, and pulled out a couple on her claw.
"There." Thymeflower fed them carefully to Hollypaw, who sighed and assumed a more relaxed expression.
"She'll probably be horrified in the morning that she couldn't help with the battle," Lightpaw mewed weakly.
"Probably."
Behind them, a large shape blocked out the light, which meant that someone was standing in front of the entrance to the medicine den, which meant that Lightpaw didn't really want to turn around.
But of course she did anyway.
Raventalon, in all his glory, black and white and furious. Lightpaw recoiled on instinct and the kits squealed.
Thymeflower stepped forward, and Lightpaw amazed at her mentor's bravery. "Raventalon," Thymeflower began, "begone. You would not harm kits or medicine cats. Join the battle against your birthclan, traitor."
She spat the last word out like it was venom. Raventalon stepped forward calmly, and slammed her head into the rock wall with a paw.
She crumpled.
A shriek escaped from her throat, and Lightpaw leaped at her former Clanmate, and he fell back, mostly out of surprise. "What are you doing, little kitten?" he asked calmly, even with a chuckle, the way he used to, when he'd come to visit her and Hollykit when they were so much younger, when so much hadn't happened.
"You killed her!" Lightpaw shrieked, and furious, lunged towards his throat. "She's not dead." With lightning reflexes, Raventalon put a giant paw on her throat and pushed her back, pinning her against the wall with insane strength. Lightpaw's head hit the stone hard, and she blinked away stars. "No!" she shrieked.
"You were my kin!" she sobbed. Why was she so upset? "You betrayed us all!"
Raventalon's blue eyes grew cold. "No," he murmured. "I've betrayed you all since the beginning."
He swiped a claw across her ear. She thought he'd missed at first, but then the stinging hit, and blood trickled down into her eye. She blinked it away and bit back a yowl.
The next claw hit hard in the shoulder, the joint. Lightpaw screeched, and someone out of the corner did too, high-pitched and squeaky. Sootkit…
The next claw was coming for her stomach. Lightpaw's head was spinning, and all went black.
She woke with her eyes open, several mouse-whiskers in air, which was strange. "What?" Her voice was creaky. "What happened?"
Raventalon is evil, a voice suddenly announced. She couldn't tell where it was coming from, because it seemed to be coming from all around her. It circled five times before it settled down, died out.
"Who are you?"
He hurt you, the voice continued, ignoring her question. He is evil, and cruel. He's going to kill your mother… You siblings…
"She's not my mother!" Lightpaw shrieked, suddenly infuriated. "And they're not my… siblings…"
Yes, yes, angry! The voice grew quickly loud, and… hungry. You see what he did to you? Hurt him. Hurt him now, so he can never hurt any of your Clanmates again.
"What he… did to me?" Suddenly she gasped as her surroundings came into focus. She was still in the medicine cat den. Raventalon was smirking. Magpiefang and her kits were cowering against the back wall, Magpiefang's teeth bared and her eyes filled with ire. Hollypaw lay behind them, peaceful, unmoving, oblivious. And…
She herself lay in a white and yellow heap near the wall. The floor around her was pooled with blood.
"Am I dead?"
Hurt him, the voice snarled, suddenly angry. Hurt him!
"Why should I do what you say?" Lightpaw snarled stubbornly, but her heart wasn't in it, and it came out as something of a weak protest.
Because he was the one who told Briarpaw to attack Hollypaw, to make Ripplepaw help her. He's evil, Lightpaw! He doesn't love you! He never did! Just because he was your father's—
The voice broke off. "My father's what?" Lightpaw asked skeptically.
Hurt him. Hurt him!
"No," Lightpaw whispered. "I won't."
Do it now! the voice screamed.
"No."
Do it!
"No!"
With that final world, the voice dissolved. She couldn't see it, or hear it, but only sense it as it's presence left.
Another entered, a glowing one, surrounded by stars.
"LostClan?" she mewed quietly. "Am I dead?"
The cat appeared, a russet tom with warm blue eyes. "Lightpaw."
"Who are you? Who was that voice? Am I dead?"
"I am Redleaf. The voice… Was someone who wanted to influence you. Lead you down the wrong path." He stopped, and smiled at her so fondly Lightpaw looked away. "I'm so proud of you, Lightpaw."
"Am I dead?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Do you want to be dead?"
Lightpaw opened her mouth, then closed it again. "Well, no. But why not? I saw myself. I was… Well, I didn't exactly look healthy."
Redleaf only smiled again. This cat was seriously creepy. But then… Lightpaw looked closer, and saw her own blue eyes mirrored, reflected, duplicated in his.
"You made the right choices, Lightpaw. It is not your time to join LostClan."
"So I'm… going back? Is that what I'll tell my Clanmates? You guys let me?"
Redtail lay his muzzle on her head, and whispered. "You will tell them that it was a miracle. Because miracles happen." He lifted his head, and smiled one last time. "My time was short. But you did so well."
And the last thing, before he faded away and Lightpaw dropped to the ground: "I am proud to have you as my daughter."
THREE MOONS LATER
"I still don't get how you killed Raventalon."
Magpiefang scowled at her, but her eyes danced with laughter. "You have such faith in me," she meowed dryly.
"Well… He is strong."
"Well… I don't get how you survived."
Lightpaw smiled sheepishly. "Miracles happen, Madge."
Magpiefang winced as she was called by her loner name. "I abandoned that name long ago," she whispered. "And that life."
"Not all of it. Not Redleaf."
Magpiefang's eyes grew misty. "Red, I always called him. You have to understand, Light, I couldn't take care of you. I thought I was going to die. I knew the Clans wouldn't cast you out. You were barely a moon old, eyes weren't even open. I couldn't nurse. I wasn't going to give you to Twolegs."
Lightpaw winced at the name Light, but let it slide. "It's just hard." She paused, then added, "Why didn't you tell me my father was Clan-born?"
"I thought you wouldn't believe me. Raventalon really is… was your kin. Redleaf and I met on the border. I was starving. We… well, we fell in love."
Lightpaw made a little gagging sound that went unnoticed.
"He died a moon before you were born. How did you learn about him?"
"I met him in LostClan," Lightpaw whispered.
"He made the cut, then. I was always afraid…"
"How did you kill Raventalon?"
Silence.
Then,
"A mother's love for her kits is stronger than any cat."
"Even traitorous kin?" Lightpaw queried.
"Even traitorous kin."
What a way to end it. Geez. I dunno, I just… yeah.
Okay, so the next prompt is 'Sinking,' and I have NO ideas, but I'll come up with one, so no need to give me ideas ;)
And no, that wasn't sarcasm, just my weirdness. So yeah… Bla.
The rest of the one-shots will be the same cats, not always the same Clan, though. I've written allegiances, but I won't post them.
BTW, Raventalon betrayed them all to SunClan because the Dark Forest influenced him in his dreams and his brother, Redleaf, was always liked more than him. So… yeah. He in da Dark Forest now :P
The Clans are FrostClan, SunClan, LeafClan, and BreezeClan. The spirit clans are LostClan and still Dark Forest. Set after the third Great Journey, which I made up. If there is a specific time setting, I'll tell you before the chap.
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