Chapter 2 of Winter Warriors! P.S. Firestar's character might be off, since I haven't read the series in a while.

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"Firestar?" Cupcake repeated, her head tilted to the side. "That's a weird name. "

"He'll be renamed soon enough." Twix remarked from across the room. Firestar's eyes narrowed as he hissed at the confused dog.

"It's fine. Twix won't hurt you." Cupcake meowed, smiling.

"He can…talk?" Firestar asked skeptically.

"Can and will." Twix replied with a nod before lying down on the floor.

"Anyway, what does he mean, 'I'll be renamed'?" Firestar inquired curiously.

"Oh, that! See, the housefolk give us new names after a week or so." Cupcake explained.

"Do I have a choice?"
"No, not really." Cupcake shrugged. "Where do you get a name like Firestar anyway?"

"Well, I used to be called Fireheart, but when I became leader, I became Firestar."

"Leader of…"

"Thunderclan." Firestar finished.

"You expect everyone to believe that?" Twix asked, stifling a laugh.

"I'm telling the truth!" Firestar insisted.

"Well, it DOES seem a little farfetched…" Cupcake trailed off. "Well, I guess it doesn't matter. It's almost time for breakfast!" She ran into the kitchen. Seeing that Firestar wasn't following, she rolled her eyes.
"Come on, don't you want to eat?"
"I'm not eating those pellet look-alikes you call food." he remarked indignantly. He remembered when he was a kittypet. Such a soft life, so easy and carefree. But he wasn't going back to that life. Ever. The forest was where he belonged, and he wasn't going to break the warrior code, even if he was hungry.

Really, really, hungry.

"Whatever." Sprinting toward her dish, he scanned the outside area. It was covered in a blanket of snow. No patrols were in sight. What if the clans were damaged in the fight? What if the Dark Forest cats got to them? He shuddered at the thought. He looked at the Christmas tree with interest, trying not to think of the Dark Forest. The lights were so dazzling, so stunning…

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Firestar ran across the forest, looking for his clanmates. The island. Maybe they were on the island. He tried to run across the log to get to it when it collapsed. Firestar plunged into the murky waters as they tried to pull him deeper. Looking up, he saw a set of amber eyes shining evilly. TIGERSTAR's amber eyes. Firestar's lungs gave out, and darkness came over him.

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"Firestar? Firestar, wake up!" He awoke to see Cupcake's worried blue eyes. "You looked like you were having a nightmare."

"Thanks." Firestar sighed, relieved that it was indeed, just a dream. After calming down, his eyes rested once again on the vibrant tree.

"Hey, umm, I have a question."

"Yeah?"

"What's that tree for?" he asked, his tail motioning toward the tree.

"Oh…" Cupcake said nervously. Although she considered herself an expert on housefolk, she never really DID figure out what that tree was for. A smile crept onto Firestar's face.

"You don't know, do you?"

"It's not that, it's just that…well…"
"She doesn't know!" Twix called from the other room. Cupcake hoped no one could see the blushing under her fur.

"I guess it doesn't matter. Twolegs do a lot of strange things." Twix walked into the room, interested in this new term.

"What are Twolegs?" Cupcake and Twix said in almost complete unison.

"They're housefolk. "Twolegs" is the term that clan cats use. Cupcake still didn't believe that he was from any "clan". It sounded completely unrealistic! But she was interested in these cats. It would make for a nice story.

"Could you tell me more about these 'clans'?" Cupcake asked so quickly and quietly that it took a while before the question registered in his mind.

"Why not?" Firestar began to explain clanlife when he suddenly felt a pang of hunger. He knew he shouldn't break the warrior code, but what else was he supposed to do? Starve to death?

"Are you hungry?" she asked, as if reading his thoughts.

"Yeah, I guess." He followed Cupcake into the kitchen silently. She showed him to a full food bowl and he reluctantly ate the dry pellets. After eating, he got a good look around. It looked pretty decent, you know, for a twoleg nest.

"Thanks." Firestar said to Cupcake before resting on the window still. He stared out the window, waiting for a patrol, and wondering if they're coming at all.

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