An illness has wiped out most of RainClan, killing both the deputy and leader. No kits or elders survived and those that managed to overcome the sickness are drained of energy with every passing day, charged with the impossible task of feeding the clan.
Mysteriously, senior warrior Icefire has escaped the deadly clutches of the incurable sickness and stands as the only cat left strong enough to lead RainClan...
So... This is the prequel to Ice in the Stars. And I have decided to keep updating and working on it due to public demand. However, this is now the main fanfic I'm working on, so don't expect regular updates on Ice in the Stars.
Alright... so, last night was new years eve... I spent the night at a friend's house and we watched Parnormal Activity, Paranormal Activity 2, and Zombieland. So here I am, forcing myself to type Chapter 5. I have a killer headache and my laptop is being a douche, so please enjoy my made up dialogue with my laptop and chapter 5.
Laptop: Haha! I'm not charging!
Me: But... but... but... but your charger is connected...
Laptop: I know- I call this payback for letting me die 2 days ago
Me: Let it go! Would you rather be spit on by my sister?
Laptop: Yes.
Me: *Holds up middle finger*
Laptop: *Gasp!* That's not nice!
Me: I'm not nice! *Removes charger*
Laptop: Haha! Now I'm charging!
Me: Dipsh*t
Laptop: a**hole
Me: I'm not afraid to throw you at a wall.
Laptop: But you need to save your documents.
Me: You wouldn't dare!
Laptop: Wanna bet?
Me: Bring it. *Lunges forward and presses ctrl-S*
Laptop: (Monotone voice) Virus. Detected.
Me: Haha! I win the bet! So put that in your juice box and suck it! What now! You have a virus and my documents are saaaved!
Laptop: Lmfao. U actually thought I had I virus. But you forgot to save it on fanfiction. net!
Me: Nooooooooooooo!
The End
And that concludes my 100% pointless argument with my laptop, but for the record, it was also 100% satisfying.
What's with the Allegiances? That's right! Gathering chapter- sort of.
Alright. I wasted enough time on that, so- chapter 5-
RainClan: Icestar
Deputy: Goldenshade
DarkClan: Whitestar
Deputy: Streamshine
PineClan: Runningstar
Deputy: Tangleclaw
CloudClan: Hawkstar
Deputy: Kestrelwing
MarshClan: Riverstar
Deputy: Ivyheart
NightClan: Darkstar
Deputy: Ravenclaw
RedClan: Snowstar
Deputy: Foxfrost
SunClan: Stonestar
Deputy: Eggfrost
Chapter 5:
The darkness was closing in. Choking him, leaving him breathless. Stormkit raced through the pressing blackness and turned immediately as he spotted the tall cliffs looming in front of him.
Stormkit sprinted back the way he had come, passing in front of a shiny, reflective sheet, providing little light but just enough to see that racing along beside him in the reflective sheet was himself, but as a fully grown warrior. Stormkit swerved to the left and passed by a few oddly shaped stones lying on the ground half covered in mud.
Distracted by the odd rocks, Stormkit tripped over a branch stuck in the ground and found himself wet and cold, looking up a waterfall belly deep in water.
Stormkit shook his fur and padded over to shore.
Before him stood a mud-brown tom with wide green eyes.
Storm and Water will clash over loyalty and be frozen in Ice until thaw. Stormkit stared in awe at the mud colored cat. He heard the voice in his head but the cat's jaws did not move.
"Stormkit!" The cat began to pad towards Stormkit slowly, never missing a pawstep.
"Stormkit!" The cat meowed again.
"Stormkit!" The cat was screaming now.
Stormkit screamed and jolted awake in his nest as the brown tom leaped for his throat.
"Are you okay?" Stormkit looked up. Bumbletail was staring down at him.
Stormkit nodded, panting. "Nightmare."
Bumbletail murmered sympathetically and curled her tail around Stormkit. He pushed her away, spitting out gray and brown fur. "I'm fine! Can I go outside again with Sunkit?" The dream was forgotten as Stormkit leaped out of the nest and scuttled out of the nursery with Sunkit on his heels.
Bumbletail shook her head and followed them out of the nursery.
Stormkit stopped just outside the entrance, causing Sunkit to run into his flank. "Where's Icestar?" Stormkit demanded, scanning the clearing for the ginger she-cat with ice blue eyes.
"Never mind that," Bumbletail mumbled. Stormkit's mother had ducked out of the nursery after Sunkit and had narrowly avoided tripping over the two kits. "where did all of those scratches come from?"
"What scratches?" Sunkit chirped.
"Look at the warriors' fur." As Stormkit searched the clearing, he began to notice small scrapes and patches of missing fur covering the warriors' pelts.
"Lionwing!" Bumbletail called. A golden tom with green eyes turned and bounded over to the small group of cats.
Eyes wide, Bumbletail ran her tail along Lionwing's side, over a barely noticeable scratch. "What happened?"
"Icestar led a messenger attack on RedClan's moonhigh patrol." He meowed, eyes blazing with excitement.
Bumbletail's fur bristled along her spine. "What? And she didn't tell anyone else about this?" Lionwing shook his head.
"She thought it would be best if we snuck out, beat up the RedClan patrol, left the message, and then slipped back to camp without alerting the clan because then everything would have become a lot more complicated."
"Where's Icestar?" Stormkit asked again.
Lionwing glanced down at him before returning his gaze to Bumbletail. "She's over there." He replied. Lionwing flicked his tail to where a large ginger she-cat was speaking to the Breezecloud cat from the day before.
Stormkit felt his eyes widen. Icestar stood with her back to the nursery, the light orange fur packed closely around her shoulders and back stood straight up so that it looked like her fur was always bristling. Her tail was darker and the fur was longer than the rest of her lightly colored pelt. She stood in a slightly defensive position, her paws planted solidly on the dusty ground, long claws slowly unsheathing themselves. The sharp lines of her muscles ripped underneath her spiky fur and her tail tip twitched back and forth in irritation. Icestar's ears were held back against her head, but Stormkit could still make out the faint outline of her ripped up ear.
A snarl from behind Stormkit snapped him away from Icestar's brilliant pelt. Bumbletail stalked past him to Icestar who turned immediately, responding quickly to his mother's furious approach.
All Stormkit could hear was yowling. Chills shot up Stormkit's spine as Icestar's face came into view. Bumbletail truly did not exaggerate the details of Icestar. A long scar split the right side of her face into two sides. From the long bare obvious claw mark running through her eye, the fur was slicked down, each side running a different direction across her skin. Her black nose gleamed in the sunlight streaming through the canopy of trees.
Her eyes. Chills ran up Stormkit's spine as he gazed into the depths. When Bumbletail raced up to the leader, her eyes had suggested curiosity and a hint of disgust, but had quickly gone dark, like Icestar had turned off the sun, replacing it with a forever burning ball of rage-filled blue fire.
Stormkit watched Bumbletail shrink down in front of Icestar. He could almost watch Icestar's eyes sap all of his mother's confidence with a single glare.
When Icestar was done intimidating Bumbletail, she slipped quietly into the shadows around the edge of the camp and streaked over to the stream that ran through the middle of camp.
"What's Icestar doing now, Lionwing?" Sunkit asked, bouncing in circles around his father.
"Fishing." Lionwing replied, amusement written in his green gaze. Stormkit barely heard. How Icestar managed to move that quickly and silently being larger than even Lionwing amazed Stormkit.
"Fish!" Sunkit squeaked. "Ew!" He spat.
"Fish is what's keeping you alive." Lionwing meowed. Stormkit watched as Icestar scooped a gleaming fish out of the water and caught it in her jaws effortlessly.
Stormkit dashed over to Icestar, ignoring the warning calls of Lionwing and Bumbletail to leave Icestar alone. Bright flashes in the clear water proved that the fish had come out of the little underwater caves to bask in the sun-warmed stream.
He watched as Icestar scooped another fish out of the water and laid it carefully on her fast-growing pile of prey.
When Stormkit dared to take a step closer to the water to see how Icestar managed to catch such quick creatures, his shadow, as small as it was, caused all of the fish to dark back into their underwater caves.
The RainClan leader was in front of him instantly, towering above the kit's head and glaring down at him disapprovingly. "Stormkit!" She roared.
Stormkit was instantly paralyzed by Icestar's scorching glare. His pelt burned and then turned to ice over and over again. He felt like Icestar could hear his heart beat quickly against his chest, sense his fear, read all his secerets.
Suddenly Stormkit could feel himself being picked up and the burning and freezing sensation stopped.
"I'm so sorry, Icestar." Lionwing meowed quickly through Stormkit's scruff. "It won't happen again."
Icestar nodded coldly, "See that it doesn't."
"Come on, Stormkit." Lionwing muttered. "How have you managed to make Icestar furious twice? Back to the nursery for you." He growled.
Icestar growled furiously to herself as she quietly lurked in the shadows by the RainClan nursery. Stupid kit. How dare he ruin my hunt. Icestar grinned as she remembered the terror in the kit's eyes as Icestar had glared down at him.
Time to leave for the gathering. Icestar yowled to call the clan together and the whole group disappeared into the night, melting into the shadows.
RainClan was the second to last clan to arrive, just before SunClan.
Icestar could feel the glares of the RedClan cats scorching her pelt. Perfect. They got my message. Icestar nodded to Ivyheart before springing onto the Tall Rock. CloudClan arrived moments later and Darkstar yowled to begin the gathering.
"I am pained to announce that my loyal deputy, Echotail has been claimed by StarClan. However, my new deputy, Ravenclaw, is eager to serve her clan." Icestar half-heartedly began to call the new deputy's name, not paying attention, but laying out the perfect plan in her head.
"Icestar!" Snowstar snapped. "What is your reason for ambushing my moonhigh patrol?"
The timing was perfect. Icestar could tell that Snowstar was expecting me to react aggressively to her accusation. She growled to herself as she sat calmly and prepared the speech she had rehearsed.
"Snowstar," Icestar purred. Icestar raised her head with a flash of satisfaction that Snowstar was shocked by her reaction. "you stand here and accuse me of rightfully attacking cats that were trespassing on my territory."
"Your message that you left for me…" Snowstar turned to the edge of the stone and looked out across the eight clans gathered there. "Cats of all clans!" She began.
Icestar growled to herself, struggling with the little voice inside her head that screamed at her to leap to her paws and rip Snowstar's throat out.
"Icestar's message… 'Tell Snowstar that if she chooses to keep stealing prey, she'll have war. I have given my warriors permission to kill if your clan is ever found on my territory again.'"
Icestar rolled her eyes. "Your point being?" She prompted.
Now. "You are a murderer, Icestar. You should not have been accepted by StarClan." Snowstar snarled.
Icestar nodded to herself.
She shot to her paws, ignoring the gasps coming from all of the forward until she was glaring down at Snowstar, Icestar let out an eerie laugh.
"That's easier said than done, Snowstar. Before accusing me of murder in front of the entire gathering, you might want to get some evidence. Who have I killed, Snowstar? Do you even have one small bit of proof that shows that I have killed any cats?" Snowstar had gone from straight up furious to embarrassed.
"I, on the other had, do have proof for my accusation." Icestar flicked her tail and Hailfoot and Tawnywing padded into the clearing each carrying several pieces of prey. "Everyone, get a good sniff. What exactly do you smell? RedClan? Over the past moon, my patrols have found many more pieces of prey that has been killed and eaten in my territory."
"Where's your explanation for that?" Icestar meowed, satisfied with the panic on Snowstar's face.
Wooh- Longest Chapter! Please, Please, Please Review!
Flames welcome, people telling me what I did wrong can help me get it right in later chapters.
~Icestar0921