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Turtlepelt is for in honor of a friend I have, who doesn't have a FanFiction account... on another game she places she's known as Surfgirl4ever. The two lives Hope and Faith are for two friends I have... called Hope and Faith...XD. Pinewhisker is named after a cat a girl in my community owned that was stolen by another family of people, who moved right after.

Amberpaw's dream is in italics but Lilypond's isn't because it's too long and hard to do that. Plus I can never understand it when I read it in fanfictions.

Next chapter! :D

It's (still) Amberpaw's POV

Amberpaw trotted down the sleep slope. "Come on!" she called out.

"But what about Firesoul?" Lilypond asked, Canute right beside her. Amberpaw shook her ginger head. "No. We'll have to go on without him."

"Without me?" Firesoul yowled, following them. "Wait! Wait!"

Amberpaw whirled around. "Youcame!"

"Yep, it was easy. Snug ran as fast as her tiny legs could carry her...which was far..and fast..." Firesoul trailed off.

"Okay, it's time for the ceromonies." Amberpaw mewed, and touched her nose to the pool.

I'm ready for my full name.

Then she fell asleep.

Dream!

Amberpaw woke up in ThunderClan's camp. "Where am I-oh. ThunderClan. Camp."

then a voice spoke behind her. "Yes, Amberpaw. It's time for you to get your full name."

Amberpaw turned around slowly. "Who is it?" Then she saw. It was a she-cat, a dark, calico she-cat, standing on the High Rock.

"I am Turtlepelt, medicine cat that taught Grasslace the skills of healing," Turtlepelt replied. "Do you want your full name?"

Amberpaw nodded eagerly. "Yes! Yes please!"

"Good. Do you promise to uphold the medicine cat code, and promise to heal all cats in need of healing?" The StarClan cat asked.

"I do."

"Then by the powers of StarClan I give you your full name. Your are now Amberleaf, medicine cat of ThunderClan." Turtlepelt dipped her head as she said it,and several stars in the sky suddenly glowed- nine.

"It's time for Lilypond to get her nine lives. Come with me into her dream," Turtlepelt whispered.

Lilypond's POV

Lilypond melted into blackness, until a small light shone through. It shone harder and harder until Lilypond found herself standing in an open plain, the stars in the sky.

Then the stars swirled down until a whole crowd of cats stood behind nine. Lilypond recognized the first two.

Yellowstar and Grasslace! She thought as she gazed at the medicine cat and her mentor. Both old cats looked young and energized now.

"It's time four your nine lives," Yellowstar mewed- but it wasn't just Yellowstar's voice. It was Grasslace's, and Brighttail's, and so many others- cats she knew and loved and respected.

Lilypond nodded. "Okay."

Grasslace was first, she bounded across the plain with legs not cracking with old age and paws not folded with tiredness. Finally she was at Lilypond.

"With this life I give you compassion," she mewed, and touched her nose to Lilypond. The pain wasn't great, but it still hurt as the life coursed through her.

"Amberleaf is coming soon," the old medicine cat murmured in Lilypond's ear.

Lilypond nodded. Amberpaw got her full name!

Then Scorchstar came. "With this life, I give you strength." This time a fire of pain seemed to burn through her and she knew she was feeling Scorchstar's last life ebbing away.

Scorchstar stepped back as Amberleaf and another she-cat suddenly appeared next to him, Amberleaf blinking in pleasure. "How many lives so far?" Lilypond was asked, and she mouthed, "Two".

Then the she-cat trotted up to Lilypond and touched her nose to Lilypond's. "I am Turtlepelt. With this life I give you justice to serve those who need it."

Lilypond felt something else in Turtlepelt's mind and voice, like a memory, but she didn't press as the StarClan cat followed Scorchstar and Amberleaf padded off to the side when a cream tom was next.

"I'm Eggtail- Laurelclaw's mate. With this life I give you hope, that in the darkest moments, you have hope for what to do next." The feeling of hope divided into Lilypond's body, making her stronger as her fourth life came in.

"Remember, I am watching over my kits in StarClan... though one will be joining me tonight," Eggtail whispered to Lilypond.

Frowning, Lilypond nodded. Then it was another cat's turn, a cat she didn't recognize.

"My name is Pinewhisker. I was a kittypet until I ran away to become a warrior... like Firestar. But now I look back, and I regret the hurt I did to my friends- the Twolegs, the other cats in the den, and the wrongs I've made to my Clanmates. With this life I give you faith, so you know when you are doing wrong and you have the faith in your StarClan ancestors to fix it." The brown and gray tom mewed.

Is there more to that story? I don't know but I have a feeling there is, Lilypond thought as she waited for her next life.

Then a blazing ginger tom with green eyes was up. "With this life I give you leadership skills so you can lead your Clan well."

Lilypond looked into his eyes. "Are... are you Firestar? From the legends?" she asked, and the StarClan cat nodded, stepping back to allow a gray tabby to come forward. "Whoa." Lilypond breathed- and then the gray tabby started speaking.

"With this life I give you trust. Use it well." The gray tabby snorted, and his name flashed in Lilypond's mind- Jayfeather.

"Okay."

Then another cat took his place. "With this life I give you compassion- something I didn't learn for a long time," It was Vinestar. "I never knew it until the moment I died, Lilypond. And I learned that I chose the wrong path, and regreted my mistakes. I regret kidnapping you, killing warriors, and bringing a monster like Sunstar into the forest. Lilypond, I'm sorry."

She...she does? Lilypond wondered, then realized that she must, because she was in StarClan and not the Dark Forest.

"I forgive you, Vinestar." Lilypond replied, and whisked her tail. Wow... I never thought I'd say that.

Vinestar nodded. "Goodbye." Then Vinestar was gone, pushing back through the rank of cats.

Then she looked for the last cat to give her her last life- she knew who it was already, and could now see him coming up, gray fur relaxed and ears pricked and eyes shining at his former deputy.

"With this life I give you loyalty, for your last life. Use it for ThunderClan, and do not let your cats down." The tom told her.

"Thanks, Yellowstar," Lilypond told her leader.

"You are no longer Lilypond, but now Lilystar." Yellowstar mewed, and the StarClan cats behind her called out, "Lilystar! Lilystar! Lilystar!"

Lilystar smiled. "Thanks," she repeated. I'm Lilystar now! Lilystar! Leader of ThunderClan!

But then all of StarClan faded except for Yellowstar- and Amberleaf, who was suddenly standing next to Lilystar. "What's going on?!" her sister cried out.

Then Yellowstar spoke in Lilystar's ear. "My last words were for your ears only, Lilystar- don't let ThunderClan fall to ThistleClan. But now you must let them...let them."

The words echoed in her ears- let them! Let them, Lilystar!

"But I don't get it! ThistleClan can't win!" she yowled in fear. "ThunderClan has to survive!"

"That's the only way... kill Sunstar...let them beat you..." Yellowstar murmured in her ears.

Then Lilyastar's vision faded to blackness, and she could hear something like... a prophecy?

The thistles must control

the lasting thunder,

the moving shifting river

and the crumbling dark shadows

in order to fall in chaos and lose.

Then- Let them win, Lilystar... let them win...

And she woke up by the Moonpool.

End of chapter! Yay! That wasn't hard to write! :D

PLEASEEEEEE REVIEW! This chapter may have only taken me like 10 minutes to write(my kitty gives me insperation! :D) but it's hopefully still good. The newest prophecy isn't supposed to rhyme and the Let them win Lilystar isn't part of it.

So...

Read on,

Cinderstar377