Leafpool finished gathering strength herbs for the trip to Moonpool. She took them and she heard one kit mewing to its mother, "Can I go with Leafpool?" "No, you have to stay here!" the mother replied. Leafpool chuckled to herself and fed on the herbs. She saw the sun setting and she set off to Moonstone.
Leafpool made it, and she saw Barkface and Littlecloud waiting for her. "Have you seen Mothwing?" they asked her. Leafpool shook her head. "No," she meowed, remembering Mothwing's doubt in StarClan. She covered it up by adding, "Maybe there's an issue," Littlecloud replied worriedly, "Maybe you should go see-". "No..." Leafpool mewed. "We must do this."
She wondered if she should tell them about her strange dream. She told herself, No, and closed her eyes.
It was all coming back to her… Tigerstar… the mouse… the swipe of his paw…
Leafpool burst awake. She was panting. The other cats were asleep still, and she closed her eyes once more. Tigerstar visited her again.
"What do you want?" she growled. "To… teach you," he replied simply. "I don't need your teachings! I'm a medicine cat, not a serial killer!" Leafpool barked. ((Sorry about the Twoleg term...)) "Yes you do, Leafpool. You should learn the weaknesses of those like me in the Darkclouds to defend yourself." Tigerstar meowed with a whisker's twitch.
Leafpool knew this was true, but she didn't say anything. She yowled, "Why are you trying to teach me?!" Tigerstar didn't reply, but thought, to lure you in, which Leafpool of course couldn't hear, and simply stalked off, and she heard hissing, and woke up suddenly.
"Why are you so… tense, Leafpool?" Barkface wondered wisely.
"N-n-nothing, Barkface," she meowed with a dip of her head. "Good," Barkface responded. "Now, what did you see, Littlecloud?"
'I saw… a storm; dark clouds surrounding me." Littlecloud answered. Leafpool's ears twitched when she heard the words 'dark clouds'. She returned and nodded. "What do you think it means?" she asked. "Maybe we should warn our Clans," Barkface suggested.
"Yes, maybe it's StarClan's warning." Littlecloud improvised. The two kept talking, but Leafpool didn't listen. All she could hear was Tigerstar's voice ringing in her ears.
"Well, it's almost sunrise," Barkface pointed out, which shook Leafpool out of her train of thought. She nodded and headed back.
In the darkness in the moorland on her way back, she swore she saw a familiar set of amber eyes...