Silver moonlight. A cool breeze. Beautiful flowers. All this beauty was unnoticed by the irritated ThunderClan medicine cat, as she raced through the woods on an emergency mission to find some coltsfoot.
"Mouse dung! Why did the supply of coltsfoot run out at the last minute?" Rainleaf muttered. She lifted her nose into the air to find the distinct smell of coltsfoot plants. "Maybe I'll try to look for some further up north..." she whispered. As she was pounding through the dense undergrowth, she spotted some coltsfoot. Yanking at it with her teeth, Rainleaf took a bunch of coltsfoot and started walking back to camp.
Halfway through the short journey, something peculiar caught her eye. Rainleaf padded toward a small patch of leaves to her right. In the middle of the pile was a thorny rose, with many blades of grass tied around it, all rippling in the breeze. The weird thing was, the silver moonlight only lit the rose and the grass, even though there were a ton of leaves surrounding it.
"What in StarClan..?" Rainleaf wondered out loud.
As if answering her outburst, a crystal clear voice in her head said, "The thorned rose, rippling grass, and the silver moonlight will send the darkness away…"
What? What do you mean by 'send the darkness away'? Come back and tell me more! Rainleaf pleaded silently.
The voice in her head said "I cannot tell you more, young medicine cat. Too much knowledge can be too powerful." When the voice said the last word, it started fading away.
Wait, no! Come back! Rainleaf begged, instinctively rushing forward.
But she no longer heard the voice, though Rainleaf refused to accept that until she reached the medicine den. Whose voice is that anyway? wondered Rainleaf.
After she put the coltsfoot in the herb supply, she sat down and thought about what just happened.
Should I tell Icestar? No, I better keep this prophecy to myself. Telling her will just end up in a whole lot of confusion and a whole lot of questions I don't have answers to. Rainleaf thought.
She didn't sleep well that night.
Cliffhanger! What do you think will happen next?
Now, I just want to say a big thank you to Orythea, my first reviewer! :P