Um… nobody voted! So I'm choosing which song to do. Just please review for this chapter!
How Can I
I'm still waiting here,
Looking through the window
You left behind
When time was standing still,
And I'm wondering,
How can life change so fast?
That everything's shattered
In just one moment.
"Fire alone will save the Clan," Bluestar whispered. "You never understood, did you? Not even when I gave you your apprentice name, Firepaw. I doubted it myself, when fire raged through the camp. But I see the truth now. Fireheart, you are the fire that will save ThunderClan."
What? Fireheart felt like his paws were frozen to the ground. "Bluestar…"
Bluestar stared up at him. "Yes, you will be a great leader. One of the greatest the forest has ever known. You will have the warmth of fire to protect your Clan and the fierceness of fire to defend it. You will be Firestar, the light of ThunderClan."
"No!" wailed Fireheart, doubts racing through his mind. "No, I can't do it, Bluestar! Not without you!"
But already the blue-gray queen had sighed softly, and the light left her eyes.
"No! Bluestar!"
Now it's all dark
Without you there
I'm stuck
And I'm trying to see
Fireheart carried Bluestar's limp form through the forest to the camp. His paws llet numb, and his mind whirled.
Bluestar is dead.
He couldn't lead ThunderClan without her. She had always been there to help him, and now she was gone. He would be useless without her.
Bluestar is dead.
The tom paused and nearly caterwauled with grief and hopelessness.
How can I breathe?
How can I do anything,
When you are not there
To steady and guide me?
Without you standing there beside me,
I'm lost.
How can I breathe?
Fireheart stared at the gathered cats as a blue-gray she-cat padded towards him. Bluestar was not old and defeated as she had been, but proud and strong, her pelt shimmering with starlight. Bluestar… I wish you were still in ThunderClan to help me. I don't know if I can do it all myself.
"Welcome, Fireheart, my apprentice, my warrior, and my deputy. I always knew you would make a great leader some day." The noble queen touched her nose to his forehead. "With this life I give you nobility and certainty and faith. Use it well to lead your Clan in the ways of StarClan and the warrior code."
How can I hope?
How can I strive for a brighter day?
I know that something was taken away,
Inside of me.
And now I can't breathe at all.
Firestar swept his gaze over the cats, taking them each in one by one. Sandstorm, Graystripe, Brackenfur, Whitestorm, Thornclaw, Longtail, Frostfur, Mousefur, Dustpelt, Ashpaw, Bramblepaw, Cloudtail and Brightheart, all of them stood tensely behind him.
"You know what lies ahead of us," he meowed. "I only want to say one thing. Ever since StarClan placed the four Clans in the forest, no leader ever had a bunch of warriors like you. Whatever happens, I want you to remember that."
"There was never a leader like you, Firestar," mewed Graystripe.
Firestar blinked. It was just like Graystripe to compare him to the great leaders. Like Bluestar. Oh, Bluestar, I wish you were here, the ginger-furred tabby thought.
I don't know if I can move
Don't know if I can live
Have to keep trying
But there's nothing I can give.
I have to be strong
But I'm so alone
Please come back
(Oh, come back)
To lead me again.
"Send me back to the battle! If we're losing, BloodClan will rule the forest!"
"Patience, Firestar," meowed Bluestar. "You're body need a moment to recover. You will go back soon enough."
"But it might not be in time! Bluestar, why are you letting this happen? Will StarClan do nothing to help us?"
The blue-gray she-cat paused. "No cat could have done more than you for ThunderClan. Even though you are not forest-born, you have the heart of a true Clan cat… more than Tigerstar or Darkstripe did, for though the taunted you for being a kittypet, they ended up betraying the Clan of their birth for the sake of their own ambition."
Firestar clawed the grass impatiently. "Bluestar-"
The former ThunderClan elader waved her tail to cut him off. "Maybe your quarrel with Tigerstar gave you the strength you need," she mused. "All along, you did what you thought was right, even when your Clanmates disagreed with you. You suffered loneliness and uncertainty, and that has made you what you are now… a gifted, intelligent leader with the courage to lead you Clan in its darkest hour."
How can I breathe?
How can I do anything,
When you are not there
To steady and guide me?
Without you standing there beside me,
I'm lost.
How can I breathe?
Firestar stood, panting, as the sun broke over the trees. We won. We really won. He nearly yowled in triumph. The forest belongs to the Clans again – all five of them. He stared into the sky. Thank you, Bluestar. Breathing in deeply, he turned away to return to ThunderClan.
How can I hope?
How can I strive for a brighter day?
I know that something was taken away,
Cause now,
I can't breathe at all.
Yeah, I can't breathe at all.
So... was it good? Please, people, review! The songs you can vote for are Nothing Left - Tawnypaw and Horizon - Feathertail.
