Once again, sorry it took so long... I actually got more like four reviews and I am really sorry for not updating.... I am going to put up a poll on my profile debating whether or not I should do a Twilight fanfic, so please vote on that! Anyways, for those of you who the original chapter 6, I changed Stormheart's name to Stormflight! And poor, poor Stoneheart... Tehe
DISCLAIMER: *Stoneheart walks up to crowd* Hi, I'm Stoneheart, and If she owned warriors, I would actually be a real character!!
A tired Stoneheart awoke in her nest. She had been out on dawn patrol, border patrol, and hunting patrol the day before, and she was still tired. Flaretail walked into the den, and laughed when he saw her unhappy expression.
"Still tired, I see." Stoneheart glared up at the older warrior and stretched. Then, she stalked out of the den with Flaretail close behind. From the sunlight that was filtered into the cave, Stoneheart guessed that it was sunhigh. Ripplestar looked up from where he was talking with Darkfang, and padded over.
"Stoneheart, it is time for you to receive your first apprentice. How would you like to mentor Rushkit?"
"What?! You want me to mentor Rushkit?! Of course I will! Can I go tell him?" Stoneheart was ecstatic with this new achievement. One step closer to her goal of bringing MoonClan to greatness. Ripplestar nodded, and Stoneheart raced off to the nursery.
Rushkit, Featherkit, and Flowerkit were playing outside the small cave that was the nursery. When Stoneheart came over, all three kits stopped what they were doing and attacked the gray warrior. She laughed and writhed under a mass of kits.
"Hi, Stoneheart! Will you teach us some fighting moves?" Rushkit asked.
"Actually, that was what I wanted to talk to you about! Rushkit, I'm going to be your mentor!" Stoneheart stood up as all three kits jumped off of her.
"Awww! But I wanted you as my mentor!" Flowerkit mewed, sitting on her haunches and pouting.
"Really?! This is great! I'm going to be the best warrior MoonClan ever saw! I want to be called Rushpelt! This is great!" Rushkit was practically bouncing around in joy, while Featherkit and Flowerkit were pouting.
"We want mentors too!" Featherkit whined.
"And you will have them," Ripplestar mewed as he padded over. Both kits rushed over to the leader and pelted him with questions on who their mentors would be, and who they wanted.
"Flowerkit, your mentor is going to be Flaretail, and Featherkit, your mentor will be Thornclaw," Ripplestar looked happily down on the kits. Stoneheart began grooming herself for the next ceremony. Just then, Flaretail padded over to Stoneheart, uncertainty in his eyes.
"Do you want to come hunting with me?" Stoneheart looked at the reddish cat, and nodded. Flaretail sighed in relief, and padded out of the camp. Stoneheart followed.
"Bet I can beat you to the tall trees!" she yowled as she raced past Flaretail. He growled in defiance and began running. Eventually, the cats reached the clearing, and Stoneheart won by a very close pawstep.
Breathing heavily, she sat down. "Guess we'd better hunt!" Stoneheart began scenting for prey, but Flaretail covered her nose with his bushy tail.
"I didn't really want to hunt... There is something I want to tell you." Stoneheart looked at him quizzically. "For many, many moons, I have admired you. You have such a beautiful pelt, wonderful personality, well... Stoneheart, I love you,"
It took Stoneheart a while to react to that, and when she finished gaping at Flaretail, she mewed, "Wow. That was unexpected. Uh... I am confused."
"I have never really gotten to know you, but I would like to spend more time with you. Stoneheart, would you take me on as a mate?" Flaretail's tail twitched nervously, and his whiskers were moving involuntarily.
"Um... Flaretail, I am still so confused, and I really like you, don't get me wrong, but can I think this over?" Stoneheart didn't want to offend the brightly colored tom, and she pleaded with her blue eyes.
"Of course, I will give you time," Flaretail mewed, pressing against Stoneheart. Then, he pulled away. "I guess we should hunt now, huh?" Stoneheart laughed and nodded.
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The two cats padded back into camp with prey in their jaws. Yowls from cats reached their ears, and both dropped their prey. MoonClan was under attack!
Inside the camp was chaos. DuskClan warriors and apprentices were attacking fiercely, and MoonClan was desperately trying to defend itself. It seemed that all of DuskClan was there. Yowling, Stoneheart and Flaretail jumped into battle.
Stoneheart leaped for Fallenstar, and dug her claws into his back. The DuskClan leader spun around and bared his teeth at Stoneheart. She slashed at his face, causing blood to drip into his eyes. Growling, Fallenstar lunged for Stoneheart, and slammed his body into hers, causing the gray warrior to fall to the ground. The DuskClan leader pinned her down, and she struggled aimlessly under his claws.
Using a long old battle technique, Stoneheart became limp. Fallenstar's grip failed to loosen. Suddenly, her captor was gone. Leaping up, Stoneheart saw Ripplestar tackling Fallenstar.
"Your quarrel is with me! Attack my warriors and you will die!" Ripplestar hissed. Fallenstar yowled in defiance and bit Ripplestar's throat. The MoonClan leader gave a caterwaul of pain and released the DuskClan leader. Fallenstar raked his back claws over Ripplestar's flank.
Stoneheart's gaze was torn from the battle scene when a black female warrior jumped on her. Growling, Stoneheart spun around, and the DuskClan warrior fell off of her back. Stoneheart leaped for the warrior and raked her claws over the cat's exposed underbelly. Yowling loudly, the warrior raced off into the forest. Even more cats streamed into the camp. SunClan had come! Stoneheart was about to cry out in joy when she realized that SunClan was attacking MoonClan.
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Stoneheart looked around the MoonClan camp. Devastation was everywhere. She looked at the bodies lying on the ground. Birdwing was dead. Boundinghawk was limping towards the medicine cat den, and collapsed. Stoneheart raced over, but she was too late. Her father died. Her mother's body was in front of the nursery. Stoneheart raced over, and Moonface looked up.
"I'll be alright, help the others," Breathing a sigh of relief, Stonheart looked around again. Snowfeather's body was bloodied, Swampfoot's was nearby. They were both dead. Flaretail was on the ground near the warrior's den, his chest rising and falling faintly.
Stoneheart padded over, and licked his wounds.
"Stop, my love. I am going to SkyClan. There is nothing you can do. I love you. Please remember me. Please--" Flaretail gasped for a final breath and failed. Stoneheart looked over his body.
"I'm sorry Flaretail. You were a great friend, but I just... don't... love you," she whispered. Goldpelt padded forward and pressed her fur against Stoneheart's in comfort. Stoneheart looked around, and seeing no more dead bodies, she went to help the wounded.
A caterwaul of pain breached the deathly silence of the cave. Rainsight raced out of the medicine cat den, panic in her eyes.
"Thistleclaw is dead," she announced. The remaining cats gasped, and Stoneheart raced over to Rainsight to comfort her.
"How-Ho-How will I manage without him?" Rainsight gasped with the pain of losing her mentor.
"Rainsight, you will do fine! He wouldn't have given you your name if he didn't believe that you could go on without him!" Rainsight pressed her muzzle into her friend's fur, then looked up.
"I need to tend to the wounded," the light gray she-cat mewed, then padded off. Stoneheart sat down, and Ripplestar padded up.
"Are you alright?" Stoneheart nodded, fatigued. The leader began licking a wound on her back, and Stoneheart purred faintly. Then, she stopped. Her friends and father were dead. Stoneheart hung her head in defeat, her blue eyes glazed and staring nowhere. She felt alone.
Thornclaw padded up, and looked sadly at Ripplestar. "How will we go on? We've lost so many warriors." Ripplestar's head shot up, and he glared at Thornclaw.
"No matter what, MoonClan will always, always, survive! We will continue on, and train our apprentices. MoonClan will be great again!" Ripplestar yowled. The surviving cats around the clearing yowled in agreement, and the MoonClan leader leaped up to the cave ledge.
"Tonight, we have lost many cats! Tonight, we defeated SunClan and DuskClan! Tonight, we will grieve for our losses. Birdwing, Boundinghawk, Snowfeather, Swampfoot, Flaretail, and Thistleclaw were great cats, but we will move on! Rainsight is now our medicine cat, and we will grieve for these warriors. But now, to show our strength, we are going to name three more apprentices!" Ripplestar mewed. "Rushkit, Featherkit, and Flowerkit, step forward!" The three kits padded forward where they were huddled by their mother's body.
"You three have suffered greatly tonight from the loss of your mother, but you are ready to become apprentices! Rushkit, from this day forward, you will be known as Rushpaw! Stoneheart, you are ready for your first apprentice, you will mentor Rushpaw!" Stoneheart padded over to the frightened kit and touched her nose gently to his.
"Flowerkit, from this day forward you will be known as Flowerpaw! Your mentor was going to be Flaretail, but will now be Fleetfoot!" Fleetfoot looked surprised at this, but touched noses with Flowerpaw anyways.
"Featherkit, from this day forward you will be known as Featherpaw! Thornclaw will be your mentor!" The red-brown tom padded up to the black and white she-cat and touched his nose gently to hers.
"Now, we all must remember the cats who have died, we will grieve!" Ripplestar jumped down from the cave ledge, and murmured some words at each cat's body. Stoneheart padded over to Birdwing and began grooming her.
Throughout the night, each cat paid their respects, and the elders took out the bodies in the morning.
"Goodbye," Stoneheart whispered as Flaretail's body passed. "I do not love you as a mate, but as a friend, I do. Goodbye,"
Oh dear... what is going to happen to MoonClan?! I killed off a lot of cats! If you have any ideas, please let me know!!! This time, I am not going to slide with two reviews... I am asking for four or five, please! and please vote on my poll as well... Thanks!
