Chapter 7

Jayfeather paced back and forth angrily. "Leopardfur was right." He spat angrily. "It was a foolish idea. What was I thinking? BloodClan is invincible."

"You don't really believe that, Jayfeather." A voice said behind him.

Jayfeather scented the air. "Tallstar?"

"Yes, that is my name." Tallstar replied.

Dovewing looked confused. "How did you get here?"

Tallstar flicked his tail in Heathertail's direction. "Why don't you ask her?"

Heathertail looked away sheepishly. "I figured that it was a good time to summon him…"

Tallstar nodded. "You were very right in summoning me." He assured her. "I think that Jayfeather and I need to have a word."

"You bet we do." Jayfeather growled.

Tallstar ignored his comment. "Could you two please leave us to chat?"

Dovewing and Heathertail did as he asked.

Tallstar turned to Jayfeather. "Now we can talk."

Jayfeather shook his head. "You lied to me."

"Really?" Was all that Tallstar said.

"You told me that all I had to do was trust in StarClan and we would be able to defeat BloodClan. I did that but BloodClan nearly wiped out RiverClan."

"Yes and the time for BloodClan's defeat has not come yet." Tallstar replied.

Jayfeather didn't respond.

Tallstar continued. "I never told you that it was going to be easy. I told you that if you trusted in StarClan everything would turn out all right and that still stands!" He paused and then started again with more passion. "Jayfeather you didn't choose to be put in this situation; I understand that, but that doesn't matter. You are stuck in this situation and only you can get yourself out of it. Of course I will help you, but you ultimately decide your fate. I can't promise that what lies ahead will be easy; Scourge will be trying to stop you all the way, but if you have faith in StarClan you will be the victor. Can you promise me that you will have faith in StarClan?"

Jayfeather considered what Tallstar had just said.

"If you turn me down, the other Clans will suffer the same fate as RiverClan."

Jayfeather nodded his head slowly. "I will have faith then."

Tallstar smiled. "That is a very wise decision. But I must warn you, Scourge will do everything in his power to break you. Everything."

An image of Lionblaze burned in Jayfeather's mind. "I will not break."

…

"What did Tallstar say to you?" Dovewing asked Jayfeather.

"He spoke to me about BloodClan." Jayfeather answered.

Heathertail's fur bristled. "What did he say?"

"He told me that we are going to defeat them."

Dovewing's eyes widened. "Really?"

Jayfeather nodded. "Yes, really."

"And how do you propose we do that?"

Jayfeather shrugged. "I have no idea."

Dovewing rolled her eyes. "That's reassuring."

"We need to confront Scourge in front of the Clans."

"How are we going to do that?" Dovewing asked.

"Once again, I have no idea."

"I have an idea." Heathertail piped in.

Both Dovewing and Jayfeather turned to face her. "What?" They demanded.

"Every full moon Scourge has all the Clans meet with him at the island so he can speak with them about any concerning issues he has." Heathertail explained.

Dovewing and Heathertail looked up at the sky and the full moon shined down on them brightly.

"Well?" Jayfeather demanded. "Is it almost the full moon?"

"It is the full moon." Dovewing answered.

"Good." Jayfeather purred. "Do you think we could reach the island before this meeting of Scourge's was over?"

"Yes." Heathertail said excitedly.

Jayfeather smiled. "What are we doing sitting around here then?"

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