Hollyleaf's End
She deserved it. They all deserved it!
Heated anger radiated beneath Hollyleaf's pelt, leaving her furiously kicking stray stones towards the walls of the tunnels as she darted through them, her hurried pawsteps echoing in rings of sound. The unnatural walls threw the unwelcome echoes back at her, targeting her, following her. Dejected rage exploded in red sparks inside her, dancing across her vision as she fled, away from the lies, away from the crimes, away from the code itself.
They broke the warrior code!
It wasn't as if it was the first time someone she knew had broken the warrior code. She herself had broken it when she, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather had crossed into ShadowClan territory when Sol was there. Lionblaze and Heathertail broke the code when they met up in these very tunnels every night during their apprenticeship. And of course, who could forget Firestar and his adventures as a young warrior? But all those tales and memories seemed to pale in comparison to this.
I was a mistake. I am a mistake, and I'll always be one!
A distant rumble reached her wind-swept ears, but she merely dismissed it as another add-in of the roars of emotions overturning her inner being. How could it be? She was still kin of Firestar's kin, a daughter of his other daughter Leafpool. How could a cat of the prophecy be a mistake? How could a cat of the prophecy declared by StarClan be against the warrior code?
It can't be true! We're not the three; we can't be. It must be Cloudtail or-
And that's when the tunnel collapsed, crushing her, suffocating her with dirt, extricating her from the world for eternity. The initial shock overcame her, seeming to suffocate her faster as her emotions were untangled from their knots, before the panic and terror felt directly before death conquered.
Then came the reserved serenity, the acceptance of death. The voicing of "the time has come".
She had just a split second to make a wish, or in this case, question, before her eyelids fluttered closed forever.
Despite all I've done, will I go to StarClan?
A/N: Part of me believes Hollyleaf is still alive, not having perished in those foreign tunnels. The other part thinks that she did die there, because if she didn't, it would go against all rules of logic.
...I'm such a contradictory person. But obviously, in this piece, my logical side one (as usual) and she dies.
Well, here you go, I guess. The last parting thoughts of the one and only Hollyleaf.
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~Dove's Wing~