Chapter Eight
"Graywing! Graywing, wake up!" A paw prodded her in the side. Graywing blinked the sleep out of her eyes and looked up into the wide eyes of Flowerfrost.
"What is it?" Graywing asked, still half asleep.
"You just missed the clan meeting! Bramblestar said no!"
"What?!" Graywing leaped to her paws, no longer sleepy at all.
Flowerfrost glanced at her friend. "Bramblestar called a meeting and once everyone was there he simply said no. Then he stalked out of the camp."
Graywing sat down in her nest. "Why would he say no?" she whispered.
"Well, did you tell him who you had to go help?"
"Yes, I did," Graywing mewed slowly.
"Where exactly are we supposed to go anyways?" Flowerfrost asked curiously.
Graywing couldn't tell her best friend that Starclan had lied to everyone, because Flowerfrost strongly believed that Starclan was perfect and the truth would destroy her.
"Oh, um, well, uh-"
"You can't tell me, I understand." Graywing noticed Flowerfrost's tail drooped slightly, despite her cheerful mood.
"Sorry..." Graywing mewed.
"No really, it's fine."
Graywing didn't believe her, but said nothing.
"Listen, can I ask you a question?" Flowerfrost asked. She shuffled her paws nervously.
"Yeah, what is it?"
"Do you... do you know if Rockpelt has a mate?" Flowerfrost blurted out, then slapped her tail across her mouth.
Did Flowerfrost... like him? "Um, I don't really know."
"Oh, okay..." Flowerfrost's cheerful mood vanished.
"Why don't you ask him?" Graywing licked a paw.
"Ask him?" Flowerfrost squeaked. "No... no, it's not really that important." Flowerfrost looked away.
Graywing snorted. "You are a terrible liar."
"I'm not lying!" Flowerfrost protested.
Graywing was about to respond when Silverkit tumbled into the den, followed by her larger sister Streamkit.
"Hi Graywing, hi Flowerfrost!" Silverkit squeaked, racing over to them.
"Hello Silverkit and Streamkit, how are you?" Graywing asked.
"Great!" Silverkit squealed.
"Fine," Streamkit muttered, looking at the ground.
"What's wrong?" Flowerfrost asked.
"Nothing," Streamkit muttered.
"You shouldn't lie Streamkit, cats won't trust you if you lie all of the time," Flowerfrost mewed.
Streamkit looked away. "I don't want to say... it's embarrassing."
"I'm going to go outside and play, this is boring!" Silverkit complained and raced away.
Flowerfrost gestured for Streamkit to sit in a nest. "Will you please tell us? We promise not to tell anybody."
"Not even Amberfoot?"
"Not even Amberfoot," Flowerfrost promised.
"Okay." Streamkit climbed into a nest. She glanced at Graywing and Flowerfrost, took a deep breath, closed her eyes and spoke.
"It happened yesterday afternoon. Silverkit was having a nap and Molefur was on patrol. I was bored, and then I saw Amberfoot leaving camp. I snuck out after her-"
"And no one saw?" Graywing interrupted.
Streamkit shook her head. "If they saw me leave, they didn't say anything. Anyways, I followed her for a long time. The forest was really pretty and it smelled nice. I lost sight of Amerfoot for a while, but then I caught a glimpse of her slipping into a hole into the ground. It was covered with leaves, and I didn't know it was a hole until Amberfoot went in. I followed her in and soon we were in tunnel under the ground. After a while it opened up into a large hole, and I saw Amberfoot with a gray cat that smelled funny."
Stonepelt!
"The gray cat was asking her how the kits were doing. This is what he said: "How are our kits doing? What are their names?" And then Amberfoot said that we were fine, and she said our names were Silverkit and Streamkit. And that we were named after the gray tom's mother, Silverfeather, and the gray tom's dead sister Streampaw. She said that we looked exactly like them." Streamkit looked up at Graywing and Flowerfrost, tears brimming in her bright blue eyes. "Is Molefur really our father? Or is it that stinky gray tom?"
Graywing looked at Flowerfrost, unsure what to do. Should they tell Streamkit the truth and break her heart?
"Uh, well-"
"Streamkit?" Amberfoot bounded into the medicine den.
Streamkit's eyes widened and she looked away.
"Streamkit, are you okay? Are you not feeling well? Do you need me to get Jayfeather?" Amberfoot fretted.
"I-I'm fine," Streamkit mewed cheerfully. "I was just asking Flowerfrost and Graywing when I could become an apprentice."
Amberfoot purred. "Not for a while, little one." She walked over to her daughter and gently picked her up. "Come on, you need a nap."
"But I'm not tired!" Streamkit wailed, and unsuccessfully tried to hide a yawn.
Amberfoot purred, then turned around and left the den.
There was an awkward silence.
"So..." Flowerfrost drawled out. "Do you think you'll ever have kits?"
Graywing choked on a piece of prey that magically appeared. "Kits? You think I'm going to have kits?"
Flowerfrost shrugged. "Why not?"
"Because they are annoying little brats, that's why!" It came out harsher than Graywing wanted.
Flowerfrost flinched slightly. "Sorry," she mumbled.
"Sorry for yelling," Graywing apologized. "I'm just... disappointed, that's all." She let out a long sigh. "I actually really wanted to go to Skyclan..."
"Skyclan?" Flowerfrost stared at her. "What's Skyclan?"
"It's um... it's another clan. That was driven out a long time ago, and Firestar and Sandstorm went and rebuilt it." There was no use in lying. To Graywing's complete surprise, Flowerfrost's eyes lit up.
"Cool!" She exclaimed. "I want to go there!"
"You do?" Graywing asked in shock.
"Yeah. It's a shame that Bramblestar said no, though..."
Graywing met eye contact with Flowerfrost. "Well, we could always go anyways..." Graywing suggested.
"No one would have to know," Flowerfrost agreed slyly.
The two cats formed a plan.
Flowerfrost would go talk to all of the Thunderclan cats, and Graywing would talk to Redshade, since she knew him the best.
"Meet back here at sunset?" Flowerfrost asked.
"Okay," Graywing mewed. She was secretly hoping that Smallstep wouldn't come. She didn't like the annoying she-cat one bit.
With that thought in her mind, she left to go find Redshade.
Yeah, I was going to make it longer, but then I decided to cut it off so that you guys wouldn't think I was dead. I promise I'll update soon! And sorry if the chapter is bad, I kinda rushed to finish it...
