Finally updating! Yay! Sorry, but when I tried to earlier, the Document Manager thing had deleted it. Again, sorry for the wait.
Jayfeather was struggling with Breezepelt when he heard a voice close to his ear hiss, "Need some help, Jayfeather?"
"Honeyfern!" he gasped.
Leafpool, dragging herself to her paws, meowed, "What about Honeyfern?"
Jayfeather didn't answer his mother. As far as he was concerned, he had no mother. Besides, Honeyfern had leaped for the ghost warrior who was now battling with Crowfeather-again. Hadn't he learned his lesson?
His thoughts were scattered as Leafpool leaped on his half-brother again, dragging him off Jayfeather and clawing out tufts of his fur.
"Geroff me!" the black WindClan tom yowled.
"Get out of here, then!" Leafpool hissed.
"Leafpool, you get out of here!" Poppyfrost intervened. "Think of your kits!"
"How'd you know?" Leafpool tightened her grip on Breezepelt as he tried to slither out of her grasp.
"Oh, let me think . . . it's getting obvious," Poppyfrost snapped. Jayfeather heard her tail whistle through the air as she lashed it angrily.
Leafpool's concentration broken, Breezepelt slithered out of her loosened hold and reared onto his hind legs, forepaws swiping at Leafpool's head. Jayfeather yowled and swiped a forepaw at his half-brother's hind legs so he could unbalance him. Suddenly, he scented more StarClan cats.
"Breezepelt, get out of here!" he heard Yellowfang hiss. She leaped over to Honeyfern, adding to the dark ghost warrior, "and as for you-get your tail out of here! You don't belong here!"
Breezepelt retreated, growling, "It's not over yet."
"Just shut up and get your tail out of here!" Jayfeather and Crowfeather snapped at the same time. Jayfeather added, "You heard Yellowfang. Now, beat it."
The blind gray medicine cat heard Breezepelt's snarling grow quieter as he retreated. Tasting the air, he found that the ghost tom had vanished, too.
Yellowfang turned to him. "I know who helped Breezepelt," she meowed abruptly.
"Who was it?"
"That's not for you to know right now. The Dark Forest is rising. This might be what the Three are needed for."
"The Three?" Leafpool asked. "Jayfeather, what is she meowing about?"
Jayfeather had forgotten that Leafpool could see and their warrior ancestors too. Even though she was a warrior, she still had a powerful connection with StarClan. He sighed and asked Yellowfang, "Should I tell them?"
"You might as well."
"Okay." He turned to Leafpool and Crowfeather. "Long ago, Firestar received a prophecy from an ancient cat from another Clan.-"
"SkyClan," Leafpool interjected.
"How did you know? Well, I never really knew what Clan he was from . . ."
"Sandstorm told Squirrelflight and I when we were kits in the nursery," Leafpool told him. "Now, would you please continue?"
"Great StarClan!" Jayfeather muttered under his breath, then continued, "The old cat told Firestar, 'There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.' Lionblaze, Dovepaw, and I are the Three."
"Oh, this is just great," Crowfeather meowed sarcastically. "ThunderClan has the most powerful cats in the history of the Clans and Firestar never told any other cat?"
"Uh, no."
"Okay, then. See ya!" the former WindClan warrior meowed brightly. He turned to go, but Leafpool put her tail in his path.
"Come on, Crowfeather. It's not like we can just stroll into a Gathering and announce it to all the Clans! How do you think they would take it?"
"Badly."
"Now do you see why we never told any other cat?" Jayfeather mewed pointedly.
"Yeah. Can we go now? We have to get back to our own territory."
"Fine," Jayfeather sighed.
Back in their own territory, Crowfeather and Leafpool decided to take a walk and collect some healing herbs so Leafpool could treat their scratches and hunt. Leafpool was about to bite off some marigold leaves and stems when she picked up an unusual scent. It was a cat, but not one she recognized.
"Crowfeather!" she hissed.
Her mate bounded over from where he was stalking a mouse. "What is it?"
"Do you smell that?"
He tasted the air. "Yeah. I can't place it, but it seems familiar . . ."
Crowfeather was suddenly knocked to the ground as he was blindsided by a huge black shape.
The black cat dug its claws into the dark gray tom's fur and hissed, "Give me a reason to do it, and I swear by StarClan I will."
Crowfeather looked into the green eyes of his attacker and chocked out, "Hollyleaf?"
Dun, dun, duunnn . . . I love cliffhangers! Please review! You know you want to!
