This is the thing I was talking about XD
Needleclaw
I was a bit conflicted when we all met at the daylight gathering back when we were apprentices. It's... hard to think how much has happened. Being cast out, returning, fighting for our right to be a clan. Sometimes I feel like I should wake up from a dream. Like this is a gigantic nightmare, making me lose my clan and me and my littermates' parents.
But then there are times when I look at Snowflight and our three kits, and think about how lucky I became. I loved Snowflight the second she, Darkpelt, and Mudsplash showed up at the daylight gathering. Something about how she smiled at me as she said hello made me want to run away with her forever.
Of course, I never acted on that feeling. At least, never had to decide to.
When we were all cast out, everything became jumbled in my head. We had no home. No ground to go back to. There would be no way to ensure our safety, at least for a little while.
But the night we were cast out, when the other apprentices and I fell asleep on the hill, Snowflight (then Snowpaw) padded over and laid down next to me. We looked at each other, and I found the same fear I had echoed on her face. But, the longer I looked at her, I felt better. I knew that the two of us would be there for each other even when we barely knew each other. She was my ground. She felt like my home.
As we grew, my feelings for her grew too. I kept silent, though. I guess somehow I always knew that, eventually, we would return to the clans, and that meant that we would be split up.
I found myself starting to ignore her, as much as I hated it. It broke my heart to have to stop being around her as much. I focused more on my training and watching out for our little group. Slowly, I saw her give up hope on me, which hurt more than any wound or sickness.
We became warriors, and the two of us were placed together to look out from the trees. I couldn't bring myself to look at her, knowing that as soon as I did, everything that I'd done to separate us would be pointless. It would have been for nothing.
And I was right. Her tail landed on my back, and I turn to see her looking at me a little confused and very sadly. I knew she as asking why I hadn't been with her as much, and I had to close my eyes and turn away. Her tail left my back, and that was that.
However, when the vigil was almost over, she sat next to me on my branch and looked forward at the sunrise I had been watching. I felt warmth spread over me, and it wasn't from the early morning sun, but from the knowledge that though I spent the past moons separating us, she wouldn't give up. Just like that, I wouldn't give up either.
I stopped putting a space between us, and before I knew it, we were in love.
When Darkpelt got sick, I stood by her. She would leave her spot beside him and I would be the first there, licking her head and telling her that it would all be okay. It was a promise that, as hard as I tried, there was a possibility that it would be broken. But, though she knew that, she also knew that whatever happened, whether Darkpelt died or not or if we returned to the lake and had to split up, I would always be there for her.
Things slowly started getting better. Darkpelt got the catmint he needed, no one else got sick, and slowly, newleaf began. The snow melted, letting flowers grow and grass to start sprouting up again. Everything was perfect.
Especially when Snowflight told me the news.
It was the best feeling ever, when she told me she was expecting our kits. Not only had my apprenticeship love became my mate, but now we were gonna be a family. We would have kits together that we would raise and love like I wish Snowflight was.
But then Jayfeather decided that we had to return to the lake to help the clans. The same clans, I might add, that decided we weren't worthy and cast us out. If we returned, I knew how they would look at Snowflight and I. We were from different clans, and she was expecting our kits. We would be a disgrace to Shadowclan and Windclan, at least.
When we met the Windclan patrol at their border and were taken to their camp, I prepared for the worst. Cloudstar splitting us up, being cast out again without each other, warriors attacking us. It made my fur bristle.
That's why I felt so relieved when Darkpelt demanded that Snowflight and I stay together and Rippledstar took us in. We were safe and together, at least for now, and when Snowflight had the kits she and the three kits were in safe paws.
And oh... the kits... the best things that have happened to me along with Snowflight being a huge part of my life. The moment they were all clean and fluffed up, drinking milk from Snowflight, I felt a pull in my chest, kinda like the one when I first met Snowflight, and I knew that they were my home. I would protect them with my life to the end of the world.
Along with that feeling came anger. Anger that this was only temporary, for now at least. We wouldn't be safe forever, something I knew when I found out Snowflight was expecting. That same anger coursed through me when Cloudstar went to attack Petalkit the night we were made a clan. I would have killed him to protect my family if Rippledstar hadn't brought me back to my senses. He was lucky she had, or he would've died at my claws and not from a large fall.
The moment that Skystar (Skyfur) told me that Snowflight needed to be with Redwing, I wanted to just run. Take my mate and kits and run away from the island and the battle and just live life the way we wanted. But I knew from the look on his face that it was urgent, almost like what I felt when Cloudstar attacked Petalkit, and I knew that she had to help. So I called her down and touched noses with her, hoping that she knew I would do anything for her.
Another strong burst of happiness went over me when the battle ended and my family was safe. We had won, and were in our own clan. I could stay with them forever.
And so, as the newly named Lightclan makes their way to the barn where our new camp would be with me, my mate, and our kits following in the back, I stop and look out over the lake. Thinking that... maybe this wasn't a nightmare at all.
Maybe this is my dream come true.
I love this one so much XD
If you hadn't realized, this story is going to be based around different characters pov's other than the main four, or things that happened between the main plot points. You can ask for the points of view of different characters (even ones that stayed back at the lake), so do that if you want to.
I'll probably put up the next finished one I have in about a week, so... be sure to look out for it.
Thank you for reading the first part of this series, and I hope you enjoy the ones to come!
Bye!
Ttyl
-TheRealDigiGal