Thank you to everyone for reviewing. That was faster than I expected, I barely had time to start more!
Hollyleaf: You mean you barely had time to think of new ways to torture me and Stalker.
Blackstar: Will you please stop calling me that?
Spottedleaf: Hello!
Whitestorm: Welcome to the story!
Blackstar: Hello you two.
Hollyleaf: (Comes up behind Blackstar with a sledgehammer) Die, Stalker! (Swings sledgehammer at him)
Blackstar: Gaaaaaaaaahhh!
Whitestorm and Spottedleaf: (Watch Hollyleaf chase Blackstar with the sledgehammer)
Sparrowflight: Err, well, just read and review!
Chapter 3
Hollyleaf stared at her clanmates who were staring back at her in shock.
"Hollyleaf? How is this possible? You're dead!"
"Obviously I'm not. What happened, you look like you were recently in a terrible battle."
"Shadowclan attacked. You'll likely hear about it back at camp. lets go."
Hollyleaf followed her brother back into the camp. It was her first time there in many moons. She felt many pairs of eyes on her as she nervously walked across the camp. She heard the cats whispering to each other. Many of them were covered in cobwebs and blood. Obviously, the battle with Shadowclan had been rather recent.
"Hollyleaf has returned! Obviously this is a bad sign, if she has returned from the dead."
"She's a traitor! Thanks to her, Thunderclan was almost torn apart!"
"How is she alive?" Firestar heard the commotion and walked slowly out of his den.
"Did I hear someone mention Hollyleaf?" he asked, staring around the camp.
Hollyleaf stared at him in shock. He looked so much... Older than when she had left. The battle with Shadowclan had had bad effects on him. He was clearly weaker, and seemed to limp. His once bright eyes seemed dull, and he was covered in cobwebs and blood. Sandstorm was beside him, in not much better condition.
"Yes Firestar. Spottedleaf visited me in a dream and told me your clan would soon need my help. I have returned to Thunderclan, and wish to stay for a bit. Maybe, if you all grow to accept me again, I will rejoin."
"You are very welcome, Hollyleaf. I have a feeling that soon we will need you."
"There is something I need to tell you all, though." Said Hollyleaf.
"What is it?" asked Lionblaze. Jayfeather stared at his sister with his unseeing eyes, watching her carefully and curiously.
"I killed Ashfur."
Hollyleaf felt the eyes of every cat on her, and heard the terrible silence that followed. it seemed the entire forest was holding its breath. There was nothing but dead silence. A raven cawed in the sky breaking the sikence. Then the murmurs began, growing louder and louder
"Traitor!'
"Murderer!'
"How can we trust her now, if she so willingly killed our clanmate?" Hollyleaf was aware of her brothers staring at her in shock. Even Jayfeather's sightless eyes were huge and full of shock. She could tell that he was staring directly at her, despite the fact that he couldn't see. She knew what they were thinking. What was she thinking, coming here just to tell them she had killed Ashfur, even thoug she had left for that very reason? She wasn't even sure herself. But now that she had started explaining, she knew she had to continue.
"I had to do it!" She yowled above the voices of her former clanmates. "I had to!" They stopped mewing to each other.
"Why, Hollyleaf? Why did you have to kill him?" asked Firestar, his voice calm, although clearly shocked and puzzled. "What quarrel did the two of you have that was so terrible you had to kill him?"
"He knew about Squirrelflight. He knew Lionblaze, Jayfeather and I were not hers and Brambleclaw's."
"He knew?" yowled Brambleclaw, rage and shock in his voice. "You told him and not me? Why?"
"Squirrelflight had to do it! Ashfur would have killed us if she hadn't told. On the night of the fire, Lionblaze, Jayfeather and I were with Squirrelflight while trying to escape. Ashfur pushed a log through the fire for us to cross, but after Squirrelflight had crossed, he blocked the way across. He was so angry after Squirrelflight chose you over him, he was willing to kill us to get back at her. But she never told him who our true parents were. Squirrelflight thought she had saved us, but then he said he would reveal it at the gathering. So I had to kill him." As she continued her story, all the way up to when she left, she could se her clanmates astonishment grow. Finally she stopped.
"And now I am back, and you know the truth." she said.
"Hollyleaf, I want to see you in my den. Now." said Firestar. And with that he turned and walked back into his den, followed by Hollyleaf, with her head held high and her tail fluffed out.
Well, what do you think?
Blackstar: I think you forgot about me.
Sparrowflight: You will be in the next chapter.
Spottedleaf: How about me and Whitestorm? I haven't been in the story in a while, and Whitestorm hasn't even made an appearance yet, other than this.
Sparrowflight: I have something special planned.
Whitestorm: Really?
Sparrowflight: Yeah, just wait. (Looks around) Hey, where's Hollyleaf?
Blackstar: (Innocently swinging the sledgehammer around that he had been concealing behind his back earlier) Uhh, err, nowhere.
Hollyleaf from off somewhere in the distance: BLACKSTAR I'M GONN'A FREAKING KILL YOU!
Whitestorm: ...
Spottedleaf: ...
Sparrowflight: ...
(Silence)
Blackstar: Ummm, just review.