Chapter 3
It had been two moons since Dakota and Ivy joined the their kits where doing well, Willowwhisker also had given birth to three kits, two she-cats, Patchkit and Lunakit and a tom named Hazelkit. The squeak of a kit got Blue Sky's attention, Ivy and Willowwhisker's kits where playing just outside a den that had been turned into a nursery for the clans queens and kits. "Take that Bone," meowed Lunakit, "You won't take our park, we won't let you." Then she and the other six younger kits charged at Smokekit and Oreo.
"Blue Sky." Blue Sky looked to see Bumblewing return with the rest of the border patrol, "Hi Bumblewing."
"Blue Sky we need to talk in privet." He meowed to her, "Ok, let's talk in my den." Blue Sky lead the way into her den and she sat down in her nest, "Ok Bumblewing, what is it?" she asked. "We have conformation." He meowed. "He is alive, I don't know how but Bone is alive and he's increasing the size of Bloodclan." Bumblewing meowed.
Blue Sky was staring at him in shock, after a few moments she started to shake, "No, I thought that it was over when Firestar killed Scourge." She meowed in a whisper.
Bumblewing walked up to her and lade his tail on her shoulders for support, "Don't worry Blue Sky, we have more cats to help us fight them, we won't let them destroy all we have worked for." He meowed to her. Blue Sky then looked up at him, "But a lot of our cats are only kits, we can't ask them to fight." She meowed to him, "What about Thunderclan?" Blue Sky and Bumblewing looked up at Poppy, he looked down at his paws, "Or maybe not…" "No Poppy that's a great idea." Blue Sky meowed, she then pushed pass her son and Bumblewing, and jumped onto the tree stump that was used for making announcements from, "Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather around the tree stump for a clan meeting!"
Hearing the call every cat in the camp gathered around the stump to hear what Blue Sky had to say, when all the cats in the camp where around the stump, Blue Sky noticed that Hawk Claw, Dakota and Gingerpaw were not back from hunting yet, "As you know there have been rumors that Bone survived the battle between the forest clans and Bloodclan, today Bumblewing and his patrol has confirmed that Bone did survive and he is rebuilding Bloodclan." There were gasps of shock from the cats surrounding the stump. Blue Sky signaled for the cats to quiet down, "Our clan is not strong enough to face Bloodclan alone, but my son Poppy has given me an idea, I will lead a small patrol into Thunderclan territory to ask them for help." She meowed. She looked out at the cats around her and as she talked about getting help from Thunderclan there was approvers from many of them, "I will take Ruby, Bumblewing and Amber Eyes with me to talk to Firestar, we will leave at ones, they will need this information in case Bone tries to seek revenge for the death of Scourge." She meowed and then jumped down from the tree stump and gathered the cats she named with a sweep of her tail then she turned to Charlie, "Tell Hawk Claw what has happed and that he is in charge until I get back." She then led her patrol out of the park and headed for the part of forest where Thunderclan lived.
When they entered the forest Blue Sky smelled something on the breeze and realized that it was the smell of Shadowclan, "It looks like we enter Thunderclan territory on the border with Shadowclan." She meowed.
"What's this smell?" Amber Eyes meowed; Blue Sky and Bumblewing walked over to where Amber Eyes was and after a moment Blue Sky recognized the smell as badger, "This is bad." Blue Sky meowed, "The smell is that of a badger, and that's bad news for a cat." Blue Sky then ran in the direction of the Thunderclan camp, the rest of the patrol hard no her paws.
They didn't get fare when Blue Sky heard paw steps ahead; she slowed to a stop and signaled for the others to do the same. Though the trees Blue Sky could see a Thunderclan patrol being led by Firestar himself inspecting a hill of stones, the scent of badger was strong here. Looking around she soon spotted the badger, it was sneaking up on a young cat that Blue Sky had learn was Rainpaw, one of Thunderclan's newest apprentices. She realized that the badger was hunting the young apprentice and she acted quickly, without even realizing it, she charged at the badger, casing the Thunderclan cats to look up and just as the badger reared up to attack Rainpaw, Blue Sky jumped onto the badger casing it to lost its balance and fall missing Rainpaw, Blue Sky and the badger rolled, quickly Blue Sky regained her balance and turned to the badger and swiped at it with her claws out racking them across the badgers muzzle.
Moments later Bumblewing and Ruby were on the badger, Bumblewing bit down on its flank and Ruby jumped onto it back and sank her teeth and claws in. The badger reared up trying to shake the cats off, Blue Sky toke this chance and swiped at the badgers through. After a few moments the badger shook the cats off and ran deeper into the forest, with the badger now gone Blue Sky turned to Firestar, "Are you guys ok?" she asked them.
"We're fine, thank you Blue Sky." Firestar meowed, then a pale grey she-cat walked over to Rainpaw and started to franticly check him over, Blue Sky guest that she was Rainpaw's mother. "If you don't mind me asking, why are you here?" Firestar asked. Blue Sky explained to Firestar about Bone surviving the battle that took place five moons earlier. Firestar lead his cats and Blue Sky and her cats to the Thunderclan camp, there he told the Thunderclan cats about Bone's survival and about him increasing the size of Bloodclan. "I've debited to send three warriors to help train the cats in Blue Sky's clan." He meowed, "The warriors how will be going are Dustpelt, Willowpelt and Brackenfur. I know that this is something that we don't do often but with Bloodclan on the rise we need to help those who will stand with use against Bloodclan." He meowed to the clan and there were yells of approval from the surrounding cats.
Firestar jumped down from the rock where he had made the announcement from. He walked up to Blue Sky, "I hope three warriors will be enough to help fight Bloodclan." He told her.
"We'll have to wait and see." She replied to him, she then walked over to where Tiger Lilly was with Cinderpelt, "Mom!" Tiger Lilly meowed and ran over to Blue Sky and nuzzled into her mother, "I've missed you guys."
"We've missed you too Tiger Lilly." Blue Sky replied they were like that for a moment before Tiger Lilly's sister Amber Eyes came over and the two sisters started to cache up on what has happed the last two moons. After the two sisters had a chance to catch up Blue Sky gathered her parlor and the three Thunderclan cats that Firestar named and led them back to the park. The next day Dustpelt, Willowpelt and Brackenfur started helping with training and patrolling the borders of Blue Sky's clan.
It had been a quarter moon since the visit to Thunderclan and the three Thunderclan cats were settling in well, Dustpelt told Blue Sky that he and his clanmates felt more at home in the park because it reminded them of their home in the forest but that when they were out in twoleg place they were nerves and felt that they didn't belong. The clearing that Blue Sky and the others chose for their camp was different then what the other clans had for their camps, it was surrounded by several young trees and vines growing up the trees hiding the camp, the entrance to the camp was an area in the wall of vines where it was not as thick and cats could walk through, but it was still thick enough to hide the camp.
Blue Sky woke up in her den to see Hawk Claw lying next to her, she ran her tail along his spine and a few moments later Hawk Claw woke up, "Good morning." Blue Sky meowed when he was fully awake.
"Good morning Blue Sky," he meowed back. He sat up and began to wash himself, Blue Sky stretched and then did the same, when they were done the two cats left the den and walked over to the pray pile, Blue Sky noticed that there was a chicken leg on top of the pile, "Willowwhisker would love that chicken leg." She meowed.
"Then why don't you take it to her?" he meowed, Blue Sky toke the leg and headed to the nursery, which was an old rabbit worn. She slipped through the entertain and walked over to Willowwhisker, Willowwhisker was dosing but woke up when Blue Sky walked up to her. Blue Sky then placed the chicken leg in front of Willowwhisker, "I thought you might like this Willowwhisker." Blue Sky meowed. "Thank you Blue Sky." Willowwhisker replied.
Blue Sky dipped her head and went back out, she walked back over to the pray pile and toke a mouse for herself, then she went and sat down beside Hawk Claw, "So, did you talk to the Thunderclan cats about Oreo and Smokekit?" he asked.
"Yes, and despite it being a half moon early, they believe that Oreo and Smokekit are big enough to become apprentices. And speaking of that I would like you to train Smokekit." She meowed.
Hawk Claw nodded, "And what about Oreo?" he asked "I asked Butterscotch to train him." She meowed. She then she got up and jumped onto her tree stump, "Let all cats old enough to catch their own pray gather around the tree stump for a clan meeting." The clan gathered around the tree stump and when every cat was seated Blue Sky started, "I've talked to the three Thunderclan cats and we decided that Moss and Charlie's kit are ready to begin their training, Oreo, Smokekit come forward." The two brothers walked up to the stump, Oreo until you earn your place as a warrior your mentor will be Butterscotch," Butterscotch walked up to Oreo and the two cats touched noses and then sat down with the rest of the clan. Blue Sky then turned to Smokekit, "Smokekit from this moment on until you earn your warrior name you shell be known as Smokepaw and Hawk Claw shall be your mentor." Hawk Claw walked up to Smokepaw and touched his nose to Smokepaws then they sat down with the others, and the clan including the Thunderclan cats started cheering the names of the new apprentices, "Oreo, Smokepaw, Oreo, Smokepaw."
"That's it for now." Blue Sky meowed then she jumped down from the tree stump. The cats in the clearing returned to their duties, Butterscotch and Hawk Claw toke their new apprentices out to see the territory. Blue Sky then turned to see Bumblewing walk over to her.
"Hi Bumblewing, what can I do for you?" she asked, "I think we should send out a hunting party, there's only two birds and a shrew lift." He meowed. Blue Sky looked over at the prey pile to see that Bumblewing was right, Blue Sky nodded "Your right Bumblewing I'll have Dakota lead the patrol along with his apprentice and Moss and Dustpelt." Blue Sky meowed. "I'll let them know." Bumblewing meowed then walked over to the cats she named. Blue Sky watched him go before returning to the mouse she left before.