Meanwhile, back in the apprentice den, Dovewing's eyes popped open. After her tantrum, she was feeling much better. Instantly, the gray she-cat with the ever-changing eyes slipped her hand into a pocket and pulled out her iPhone 4. The case for the iPhone (which had changed somehow while she was sleeping) was so shockingly pink that all the apprentices near her were temporarily blinded. Dovewing's current boyfriend, Foxleap, poked his head into the den. "Dovewing," he said. "Liek, what have I told you about that cover. It's uncool. Use the cover I gave you."
Dovewing sighed and pulled off the blinding cover. Then she took out a different one. This one had a picture of Foxleap on it, wearing sunglasses and leaning on Berrynose's motorbike. She snapped on the cover.
"Liek, Foxyz!" she cried. "U sayd u wuz goin 2 get me, liek, a cover, with, liek, a pic of Tigerheart, liek, with his shirt off!1one1!1!"
"I haven't gott'n to it yet, Dovewing."
"Thts so uncool!1!11!1!"
"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME UNCOOL. I AM THE KING OF COOL. DO YOU HEAR ME." Even in his floofed out anger, Foxleap still remembered to end all of his sentences in a period.
"But, liek, Foxyz! I wan' him! Hes mah man!11one11!1!11! He's, liek, cool'r then u!11!"
Despite her improper grammar and lolspeak, Foxleap still deciphered the meaning behind the words. His fur floofed out further, choking Ivypool as it wrapped around Dovewing.
"Go clean the elders den."
"But I dont wan'ta!1!11! Ur, liek, so ttly not mah mentr!"
"Too bad. Put on that cover. Liek, now."
"Foxyz!1111!"
Foxleap lost his temper. "GO CLEAN THE ELDERS' DEN RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE SEARCHING FOR TICKS FOR THE NEXT MOON!"
"O." There was no overuse of exclamation points in Dovewing's voice now. "K-k, then. Foxyz. Will do."
Foxleap and Dovewing left in a huff, leaving behind a disoriented Ivypool. Ivypool looked down at Dovewing's iPhone on the floor. Dovewing's iPhone had ten pages of apps, all disorganized across the pages. On the current slide, Ivypool caught a glimpse of Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, Angry Birds (all editions), and the local Warriors blogging site, Huntr. Ivypool pulled out her own SmartPhone and placed it next to her sister's. Her own phone's apps were neatly organized into folders labeled Training, Games, and Free Time. Sighing, Ivypool opened up the folder "Free Time" and clicked on Full Moon, Mothwing's chat app.
Immediately a message popped up.
Hi, Ivypool! How's it going in the Clan?
Who was it from? Her eyes slid to the profile icon. The picture was a tiny icon of a river with a star in it. The username was riverleader. A smile crept across Ivypool's mouth, and she replied.
Okay. Lionblaze and Dovewing fought again. She wants an iPhone case with a picture of Tigerheart on it.
The cat replied. gag the message said.
I know. She wants it by tomorrow or she'll use her powers on him.
How will her powers affect him?
She'll listen to him and Cinderheart when they're alone together…
EWW!
Ivypool grinned at the chat. She hadn't had a normal conversation with a normal cat for so long…
It had all started last moon, when a truck (then known as a monster) had rolled over on the highway (then known as the Thunderpath). The Styrofoam wrapped packages had spilled into the lake and floated peacefully to each of the Clans. There had been about ten packages for ThunderClan, each containing three of what they learned to be laptops. Ivypool sighed as she sank into memories…
"Look!" Dovewing had shrieked, pointing with her ears towards the lakeshore. Ivypool glanced over, but seeing nothing, she turned away. Lionblaze, however, turned away from her and sat attentively, looking towards Dovewing. "What do you see, O Farseeing One?"
Dovewing's eyes clouded over. "I see… a great change for all the Clans… we will become… like Twolegs!"
Ivypool squeaked almost inaudibly and Lionblaze immediately lashed out at her, biting her on the shoulder and drawing blood. He clawed off a tuft of fur from her flank and hissed in her ear, "Next time, don't interrupt Dovewing when she's speaking!"
Ivypool began to wash her wounds and followed as the two cats went down to the lakeshore. Gathered on the rocks were several sodden pieces of what they would later learn was cardboard.
"Looks ruined to me," Ivypool muttered. Lionblaze gave her a warning growl but stopped when Dovewing started speaking.
"What they contain is more important than their wrappings. We can get it off."
The two cats then began to tear off the wrappings, carefully making sure that they didn't damage the contents. Ivypool hung back, watching.
Soon the contents of Lionblaze's package spilled out. Lionblaze caught them. There were three identical black squares. There was a slit running around three sides of the squares. Lionblaze ran his claw between the slit and it popped open, revealing a black screen. The object had a set of buttons on its side that had characters on them, all of them different. By pressing each of the buttons, shaking the screen, and jumping up and down and cursing at it, Lionblaze managed to make the black screen turn white. Several characters appeared in it. Immediately words popped into Ivypool's head. "Windows 7," she read. Lionblaze lashed out, ready to jump on her, but a blue starry cat materialized between them.
"Bluestar!" Dovewing cried.
"Lionblaze," said Bluestar. "You must not harm Ivypool anymore. She is the translator of Twolegs! She will teach you how to use these devices! And while all of you submerge yourselves in this new thing, she will remain sane! StarClan has given her the power of Twoleg reading! You must learn about this new thing we call "technology"! It is your… DESTINY!" Bluestar began fading from view, clutching her heart. The three cats stared at each other with their mouths open.
Bluestar reappeared. "Come on! Don't you know how to help make my exit dramatic? You can do better than that! Let's try again!" She began to fade again. "Your… DESTINY!"
Dovewing's mouth stretched to its full extent, touching the ground.
"Now, really!" Bluestar appeared again, looking cross. "Let's go through this step by step. I say DESTINY! You say OOOOOOOH! I fade dramatically while Ivypool and Lionblaze look at me and Dovewing keels over in a dead faint. Now, from the top!"
"Why do I have to faint?' complained Dovewing. "Isn't it enough that I carry the weight of StarClan on my shoulders, without having to faint first?"
Bluestar looked stern. "Because you're a wimp. Now, from the top!"
Bluestar rose majestically in the air. "It is your… DESTINY!"
"Ooh." Lionblaze muttered. Bluestar looked pleased as she began to fade, until only her grin showed. Then her grin slowly faded, too.
"Wait!" Dovewing cried, and Bluestar's grin froze. "Wrong book! Wrong book! I've read that book! It's Alice in Wonderland! We're not in that book!"
"Ahem!" called the authoress from the heavens. "You haven't learned how to read yet, Dovewing! You never read Alice in Wonderland! Jeez! Get with the program unless you don't want to get your pay raise!"
Bluestar's grin faded and Dovewing keeled over in a dead faint. And the changing of the Clans began.
A.N.- YAAAAAY!
