Chapter 6. The Farm.
Flamestar panted as he raced through the woods. His family followed him from behind, Flamestar suddenly tripped over a rock and fell flat onto his stomach.
"Fox-dung" He muttered slowly standing up "Dad are you ok!" Wolfheart meowed catching up with his dad. "Yes I am fine. Now How are we going to get to this mountain".
"The mountain is that way Father" Sunblaze pointed toward the hills that loomed over the tree tops. Flamestar's ears fell back as he looked at the peaks that loomed over the tree tops.
"Great Starclan" He shook his head "You kits are killing me". They spent the rest of the day walking and walking, and as the sun went down below the tree tops they made camp under the roots of a old oak tree.
It was a rough and restless night but they managed to cope with. And the higher they went the more colder it was getting. Flamestar came to a stop looking at the cliff in-front of them. "How in Starclan's name are we going to get up there?" he meowed. "We can fly up there" Wolfheart suggested, "No" Sunblaze meowed.
"We can't lift mom and dad up that cliff that would take up to much strength", Flamestar looked around thinking to himself. Then he got an idea as he looked at a pine tree that stood beside the cliff. "We can climb this tree" he meowed.
"Great idea Dad but the thing is can those branches up there hold us?" Greenspark meowed. "Lets just see" Flamestar meowed griping onto the tree and pulling him self up the long trunk.
He grunted and sweated as his claws dug into the soft wood in the tree. He gripped onto one branch and pulled himself up. Leaping from one branch to the other.
"come on guys" Flamestar meowed. They jumped up the tree jumping from branch to branch one at a time. Just as Swiftblaze got onto the last branch about 40 feet in the air she slipped.
"Flamestar!" She Screamed holding onto the branch, Flamestar jumped back down on to the branch and grabbed onto Swiftblaze's paw "Hold on" He meowed gripping onto her paw tightly.
The saying of the branches was making him feel sick as he held onto his mate as tightly as he could. "Help me You guys i can't hold on much longer!" He cried his paws starting to slip.
Wolfheart leaped off the cliff with Sunblaze and Greenspark by his side. They floated down toward there mother like leafs off a tree. Grabbing On to Swiftblaze they pushed her up onto the Branch and Swiftblaze raced up the tree and onto the top of the cliff.
She fell to her stomach crying and shaking as she had a panic attack. Flamestar jumped up the branches and onto solid ground leaning down beside her and nuzzling her whispering words of comfort into her ears.
"Thank you" He hissed looked up at his kits. "Your welcome" Sunblaze purred, "Hay Look over there" Greenspark meowed pointing over to a huge red Barn that loomed in the distance.
"Maybe we can use that place as a shelter for the night" He meowed. "Flamestar nodded "Sure. I'm just going to get her calmed down then we can head for the barn" Flamestar replied.
Greenspark nodded and Greenspark, Wolfheart and Sunblaze Bounded off in the direction of the barn. A thin layer of Fog was starting to appear above the field soon turning into a milky thick cloud of mist.
Flamestar and Swiftblaze followed the sound of there kin running trough the fog. The barn soon game in to view Along with Sunblaze and her brothers waiting there for them.
Suddenly a hiss came from up in the rafters of the barn. Flamestar looked up to see a pair of green eyes glaring back at them along with a pair of orange ones. "Who's goes there" A tom's voice Growled from the darkness.
"My name is Flamestar" Flamestar meowed. "Me and my family are just staying here for the night, You wouldn't if we did that would you?". "I say we attack them" The orange pair of eyes whispered to the green ones.
As soon as Flamestar heard the words attack he readied himself for a fight.
"No, It's alright Strangers stay here. The wolves are bad around this time of year" the grey tom leaped down from the rafters along with the blue and white she-cat.
Flamestar felt his fur flatten on his shoulders. 'Thank Starclan they aren't a threat' he thought 'I don't think I would have made it'.
"There are stacks of hay over there if you want to rest and lots of mice to catch. They love hiding in the hay and eating the pig feed" the grey tom meowed.
"O, and I almost forgot" He added "My names Trevor And this is my mate Lilac" he pointed to his mate who dipped her head respectively.
"Well I'm Flamestar, and this is my Family Swiftblaze, Greenspark, Wolfheart and Sunblaze" Flamestar meowed.
"Well I'm glad to meet you all" Lilac purred padding up to Swiftblaze. "Hay wait a moment, you aren't strays are yea?, I smell nothing but forest on you. Are you one of them Forest Cats?" Lilac purred.
"Yes actually" Swiftblaze meowed nodding her head. "Wow, how do you survive out in those woods. We here tails of Nasty beasts living in them woods" Trevor meowed.
"Well it's not all that bad really, it feels a thousand times better then being cooped up in a two-leg nest that's for sure" Swiftblaze mewed.
"Well then will go catch you all some prey, Then you folks head off to bed. If your from the woods then you should get rest of your going back" Trevor meowed.
"No, we aren't heading back Trevor. Not until we meet that stranger up in the mountains" Swiftblaze purred. Trevor suddenly gasped with horror across every part of his face.
His green eyes widened as he turned back and looked Swiftblaze right in the eyes. "You've had the dreams to?" He muttered softly, "Not just her, we also sur. Me and my brothers have been sent to go meet the stranger.
We have powers of Starclan in our body's" Sunblaze meowed. Trevor suddenly bowed low to the ground "The Prophets" He meowed laying on the ground before them.
"Respects To you brave ones And may Starclan bless you on your journey" Trevor meowed with his eyes closed.
Trevor stood up and turned to Lilac "Lilac My dear we must go with them on there journey. For the stranger has a message for me also" He meowed.
Lilac Shook her head "I'm Sorry love, I just can't go"; "But Why?" Trevor responded. "Because I can never leave my home" Lilac meowed.
"We will give you both some thinking time" Flamestar meowed leaping up onto the hay. His children following after him, "I think I will stay here with them" Swiftblaze meowed.
Flamestar nodded and went back behind the hay to rest.
