Chapter 9

Whitestar looked around the Thunderclan camp. It was huge, and cats were everywhere. Always busy doing something. "Firestar's den is this way." Graystripe motioned with his tail. Whitestar nodded and followed him to the entrance of "Firestar. Someone's here to see you." Graystripe called. "Send him in." A voice commanded from inside the den. Graystripe turned to Whitestar. "You can go now." Whitestar cautiously walked into the den. Laying in a bed of moss was a cat with a flame colored pelt. "Firestar?" The cat raised it's head. "Who are you?" "I am Whitestar of Snowclan." Whitestar meowed. "And I have come here to discuss something very serious with you." A bewildered look had crossed Firestar's face. "Snowclan? I'm afraid I haven't heard of you, care to explain." Whitestar nodded. "Snowclan is a clan of rouges and loners that were dying as soon as those wretched twolegs. We all banned together, we had seen your clans before and we had seen your ways before. So we all made our camp in an area Windclan used to live in. We all fell asleep that night and a cat came to a cat we considered our leader. He told our leader who should lead the clan, who should be our medicine cat. After that our medicine cat learned all about clan life in his dreams and he taught us, and that's how we came to be." Firestar listened in silence.

Finally he spoke up. "Then why are you here?" He asked. "We believed that the Twolegs had left, but they attacked our camp. They took cat after cat and we barely had any cats left." Whitestar paused. "But we haven't spotted them in a while." Firestar stood up. "Why are you here?" He repeated. Whitestar sighed. "I'm here to ask you for cats who can come back with me to the forest." Firestar looked like he was considering it. "I must think about this, I will tell you later." Whitestar dipped his head and exited the den.

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Rabbitfoot looked at the pile of herbs in the medicine cat den. "So orderly." He muttered to himself. Jayfeather looked up at Rabbitfoot. "This is where I work and live. If you have any questions feel free to ask." Rabbitfoot looked in wonder at the blind cat. How he managed to do anything at all was incredible. Jayfeather's fur bristled. "Yes I'm blind and I'm medicine cat. Do you have a problem with that?" Rabbitfoot was taken aback. "No, of course not." He replied. Jayfeather turned around and muttered something to himself. Rabbitfoot rolled his eyes. Young cats. Rabbitfoot turned his attention once again to the herb stock. "What's this?" He asked and pointed to a gross smelling herb. "Yarrow." Jayfeather meowed. "We use it in case a cat eats something he shouldn't" Rabbitfoot stared at it. "Could I bring some home with me?" He asked. "Sure." Jayfeather meowed. "We have plenty." Rabbitfoot nodded. "Thank you." "Yeah whatever." Jayfeather muttered. "I have to go now." He meowed in a louder voice. "May I ask where you are going?" Rabbitfoot asked. "I'm going to the Moonpool." Jayfeather replied. "Tonight is the half moon." Rabbitfoot nodded. The Moonpool, I've heard of that. That's where they go to share dreams with their warrior ancestors! "I feel out of place to ask this question, but may I join you? Along with my apprentice that is." Jayfeather shrugged. "Sure."

Dawnpaw looked down at the pool that reflected the stars of Silverpelt up above. "Incredible." She breathed. "Yes, it is." Rabbitfoot agreed. Jayfeather led the way down to the shining pool and laid down next to it. "Wait Jayfeather." Rabbitfoot meowed. "There's something I must do first. Dawnpaw, step forward."

Jayfeather felt the excitement coming from Dawnpaw, and there was something else he felt too... While Rabbitfoot spoke the words of the ancient ceremony Jayfeather tried to figure out what that other he had felt was. He could tell it was something that excited Dawnpaw. But made her feel guilty too. "She's hiding something." Jayfeather whispered to himself. He searched through her feelings once again. "From now on, you will be known as Dawnstreak. Excitement came off of Dawnstreak in waves.

Then it came to Jayfeather. Dawnstreak is pregnant!