AN: At first, I had no idea what to write for this one. I thought either hunger for revenge, or starving hunger, but I couldn't decide. Then finally, after rereading one of the 100 One Shot I made, I got this idea and was seriously happy. :D
Review answers:
Leopard Malika and Marilee: My loyal reviewer! (Yes, two can play at that game XD) Yush, I had such fun writing that one shot for some reason. o3o Thankies!
IAmTheDaydreamer:
Stranger of the Night: Thank you! Because I'm now in 7th grade, I'm trying to get more descriptive words in my stories :3
Characters: Nightshadow, Wolfheart, and Cloverflower(Cloverflower isn't a character I own; I came up with her in No Light. I decided to use her again)
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Cloverflower turned over in her sleep, excited to go back to the Dark Forest and train more with Nightshadow. The black and white she-cat smirked and appeared in the Dark Forest, looking for Nightshadow. Spotting the jet black she-cat, Cloverflower raced towards her with hunger in her veins for battle.
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"Nightshadow!" Cloverflower cried. "I got my warrior name and became Cloverflower!" Nightshadow nodded. "I was there watching the whole time." Nightshadow promised. Cloverflower gasped. "You were?" Nightshadow nodded again. "I promise I was there the whole time." Cloverflower squealed.
Nightshadow put her tail on Cloverflower's shoulder. "Come on, we need to talk farther from here." She murmured. Cloverflower tilted her head. "Why? I thought we were training again! I've been known as one of the best warriors in WindClan! Even better than that fat old warrior Crowfeather that lived moons ago." Nightshadow winced at what Crowfeather thought about that.
"Well we still have to go somewhere far away from here." Nightshadow continued. Cloverflower sighed and followed Nightshadow out of the misty clearing. They finally stopped at a secret place, so far that not even Mapleshade knew about it and she was almost the ruler of the Dark Forest.
Nightshadow took a deep breath. "Moons ago, I told you that this was StarClan. Well I lied." Cloverflower gasped. "But you told me-" "I lied." Nightshadow cut her off. "This is the Dark Forest, where evil cats go when they die, like me. I killed when I was alive, and I almost saw you kill the leader of ThunderClan when you pinned him down." Cloverflower was just staring at Nightshadow. "All those times here I was learning to kill." She whispered. "And you never told me?"
The black she-cat sighed. "I'm sorry Cloverflower." She whispered. "When you asked about the no light, I wanted to say something. But I couldn't. I'm sorry for what I did all those moons ago. Please forgive me." Nightshadow just sat there with her ears and tail down. Cloverflower sighed. "At least you told me about this. Thank you. And I forgive you Nightshadow."
Nightshadow couldn't bear to look up. The she-cat that she had trained to kill and brought her here had forgiven her? Was this actually happening? She finally dared to look up. Cloverflower was looking at her with pity and sympathy in her eyes. "I do forgive you Nightshadow. I swear I do."
Nightshadow stared at her. "Go." She whispered. "Go, and never come back. Do not return. Dream of StarClan, and please never come back. We will kill you if you do return. So Cloverflower, dream of StarClan, and do me one favor please." Cloverflower stared at her. "What can I do?" Nightshadow's eyes were sad. "Find my sister Wolfheart, please. And tell her I'm sorry." Nightshadow turned away and disappeared in the shadowy trees.
Cloverflower stared at the disappearing figure of Nightshadow. "I promise." She whispered. "I swear to StarClan that I will find her and tell her you're sorry. And thank you." Those words were the last thing Nightshadow heard before Cloverflower closed her eyes and disappeared.
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Gasping, the she-cat jolted awake, scared by the events at what had just happened. She lied to me? That was the evil place for cats that were evil! I wonder what Nightshadow did to get stuck in that horrible place. With a glint of sadness in her gaze, Cloverflower remembered Nightshadow's last words: Find my sister Wolfheart, please. And tell her I'm sorry.
Shutting her eyes, Cloverflower struggled to sleep and wake in StarClan, her old hunger for revenge and battle fading away. Now she wanted to become good, be the warrior that WindClan wanted her to be. And she had to tell this she-cat named Wolfheart that she was sorry.
Finally, Cloverflower managed to sleep. Her mind was murky, and she was scared that she ended back in the Dark Forest. Opening her eyes slowly, she gasped as she saw stars in the sky and cats with starry pelts. StarClan! I did it, I really did it!
Racing towards a brown she-cat, she asked, "Do you know where Wolfheart is?" The she-cat stared at her. "My foster mother? Of course, she's at the Starpool with her mate and friends. I'm just here with my friends." Cloverflower blinked. "She's your foster mother?" The she-cat shrugged, her amber eyes filled with stars. "Well she took me away from my evil home, and I will always be grateful to her for that. By the way, my name's Leafheart. What's yours?"
Cloverflower wrapped her tail over her paws. "Cloverflower. I really need to talk to Wolfheart for something very, very, important. Can you take me to her?" Leafheart blinked. "Um, I don't know-" The brown she-cat cut herself off looking at a majestic gray she-cat pad into the clearing with a white she-cat and a silver tom behind her.
Leafheart bounded forwards. "Wolfheart!" She greeted her foster mother with happiness and Wolfheart smiled. "Hello Leafheart." She pressed her muzzle to Leafheart's forehead and she purred. Cloverflower watched the greeting with surprise. Leafheart stepped back and flicked her tail at Cloverflower. "This she-cat wanted to talk to you. I don't know how she heard of you, but she claims it's very important."
Wolfheart's green eyes glowed with surprise then she nodded. "Very well. Let's go to the RiverClan clearing." Cloverflower padded next to Wolfheart. The gray she-cat glanced at Cloverflower. "I can smell a scent on you that I haven't smelled in moons." She murmured. Wolfheart's eyes widened and she bowled Cloverflower over, sniffing her pelt.
"Nightshadow." She breathed. Scrambling to her paws, Cloverflower leaped up. "No! Please Wolfheart, hear me out!" Wolfheart only had wrapped her tail around her paws. "Why do you have . . . Of course. Your training in the Dark Forest, young warrior." Cloverflower's gaze was pleading as she looked at Wolfheart.
Narrowing her eyes at Cloverflower, Wolfheart flicked her tail. "Tell me your story, if you don't mind." The black and white she-cat shook her head. "I came to deliver a message from Nightshadow." Wolfheart's eyes went wide and she gasped. "First off Wolfheart, Nightshadow told me the truth about the Dark Forest and I escaped thanks to her." Cloverflower remembered Nightshadow's look of sadness as she asked her to tell the message to her sister.
Wolfheart just opened her mouth, but no sound came out. "Second, the message was this: Nightshadow wanted to tell you that . . . she's sorry." Cloverflower whispered. A tear leaked out of Wolfheart's eye and she nearly collapsed. "My dear sister." She whispered. "She forgave herself." Flicking her tail at Cloverflower, she murmured, "Thank you Cloverflower. That is the best news I have heard in moons." The she-cat blinked. "What caused Nightshadow to end up in the Dark Forest?" Cloverflower asked.
The gray she-cat looked at her with pain, grief, and happiness in her warm green gaze. "She killed our mother and slaughtered more than half of RiverClan. In the end, I had to kill her." Wolfheart's voice faded to a whisper and she collapsed, vision blurry as she remembered Nightshadow and her laughter when they pulled pranks when they were kits and before her life was ruined.
Cloverflower gaped. This gentle she-cat killed her sister? But Nightshadow killed her mother, so . . . Cloverflower shrugged it off. Both of them were dead, and they had forgiven each other. Wolfheart flicked her ears. "You may return back to WindClan, young warrior. May StarClan light your path until you become part of the stars." Cloverflower dipped her head and faded back to WindClan, her job done.
Wolfheart rose to her paws and padded to the Starpool, thoughts in a whirlwind. Raising her paw, she dipped it in the Starpool and wrote a message to Nightshadow. Brushing a tear away with her tail, Wolfheart sent it and waited for Nightshadow to respond.
Meanwhile, Nightshadow was at the Darkpool, gazing into its depths. Suddenly a message floated to the top of it, and she gasped, then smiled. Wolfheart's message appeared and Nightshadow shut her eyes, the words burning into her mind.
Thank you.
Nightshadow waved her paw over the words and they vanished. Writing another one, she smiled faintly and sent it. Back in StarClan, Wolfheart begin to cry as the message appeared. Remembering that message for the rest of her life, she bounded off in joy to her Clanmates, her heart filled with forgiveness and joy and seared by those eleven words.
You will always be my little sister, and I forgive you.
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AN: I had always wanted to know if Wolfheart had gotten her message from Cloverflower, and here it is. The hunger went with Cloverflower's feelings for revenge and battle, then her new hunger to be a great warrior and kindness, if that makes any sense. Another chapter done! 30 more to go! XD
