Wow, this took forever!
Quickstar scrambled down from his rock, and Quietnose; the LightningClan deputy, guarding him, whispering into his ear, frantically glancing around.
"What do you think he's doing?" Eaglepaw growled, Fernpaw shrugged. She looked around, spotting a group of apprentices, then padded towards them with Eaglepaw following behind.
"Where are we going?" she asked, Fernpaw swished her tail in response and grunted. They were about a tail length away then the first apprentice looked up, spotting them. She looked a little too old to be an actual apprentice, she must have been just made a warrior, Fernpaw slightly recalled hearing that Lightningclan had a new warrior. They padded over (or in Fernpaw's case, limped over) to the apprentices.
"Hello." Eaglepaw meowed, looking at the apprentices and the new warrior. The warrior was a white, gray, black and silver she-cat with blue eyes.
"Greetings. You must be those ForestClan apprentices that stood up to Quickstar," the older cat said warm-heartedly.
"That was mostly Eaglepaw though." Fernpaw purred. The warrior nodded, recognition flashing in her blue gaze.
"I thought you two looked familiar from the battle at ForestClan," the warrior exclaimed.
Eaglepaw ducked her head, embarrassed.
"Oh yeah...I saw you,"Eaglepaw stumbled. Then she looked up, confusion in her eyes."I think."
Fernpaw looked at her sister, worried and said," She was just joking."
"I know." the ForestClan apprentice stated.
"Hey, whats your name anyways?"Fernpaw asked the LightningClan warrior.
"Oh, its Frozendawn!" she exclaimed with pride," Just earned it today!"
"Congratulations," the sisters said.
"Thank you," Frozendawn meowed," Hey, sorry about the attack on your camp. I heard one of your warriors died."
"Yeah. She was our mother," Fernpaw mumbled
"Oh, StarClan!" Frozendawn gasped, "I'm so sorry!"
Fernpaw and Eaglepaw nodded.
"Did you see who… you know…" Frozendawn motioned with her paw towards her neck, implying death.
"We don't know the name, but it was a brown and white tom with three black feet and brown eyes." Eaglepaw growled.
"And he said 'Serves you right Silverflight, now die.'" Fernpaw added,
"Wait, what did you say?" Frozendawn stammered,
"A brown and white tom wi-"
"Oh my… oh no… oh, no, no, no, no, no, no," the warrior whispered, shaking her head with dread and fear in her eyes.
"Why? Frozendawn? What's wrong? Do you know him?" Fernpaw asked,
"Yeah, he sounded like he knew Silverflight," Eaglepaw added,
"Oh yeah. I know him. And he more than just knows Silverflight." Frozendawn growled menacingly. Her eyes were dark and foreboding.
"What do you mean 'more than just knows her'?" Fernpaw meowed, her voice wavering.
"Well, how do I say this," Frozendawn started, her muscles tensing," The cat that killed your Silverflight is Harrenclaw."she paused," And he is my father."
Fernpaw and Eaglepaw shrieked and their eyes started brimming.
"Harrenclaw is y-," Fernpaw started,
"Wait, I'm not done yet," the silver she-cat said," He is also… your father."
The two sisters jumped back their fur bristling and eyes wide with astonishment and fear.
"Our… our.." Fernpaw whispered,
"Father!" Eaglepaw finished,
"Yes." Frozendawn meowed," He was -and is- mates with Thunderash, my mother. And then he met Silverflight at a gathering and they fell in love."
The two ForestClan apprentices looked horrified.
"They agreed to meet once every moon not including the gathering. Eventually Silverflight had you two. Harrenclaw wanted to go away with her, but Silverflight said she belonged in the Clans. He could never forgive her, and now hates her."
"Apparently he hated her enough to murder her," Frozendawn whispered,
"So we are… Silverflight… Harrenclaw… HalfClan… murder…"Fernpaw whimpered.
"We're HalfClan, Silverflight is Harrenclaw's mate, Harrenclaw is our father, Harrenclaw murdered his mate; our mother!" Eaglepaw screeched.
"Shh keep it down Eaglepaw," Frozendawn said
"The gathering is over!" Burningstar yowled with a flick of her ears and a swish of her tail. The Clans started filing out of the island trailing behind their leaders.
The two sisters looked at each other, both thinking the same thing, oh my StarClan, we are HalfClan, what just happened?! Frozendawn gave the two sisters a look of sympathy
"Hey! You two! Get over here now!" a menacing voice sounded behind them. Fernpaw and Eaglepaw turned around, only to see, who else but Harrenclaw.
"Harrenclaw," Eaglepaw growled,
"Some father you are," Fernpaw hissed,
"Get away from us murderer!" Eaglepaw hissed,
"Now, now, my dear daughters." Harrenclaw said in a sickly sweet voice glancing at Frozendawn, "Would I ever hurt you?"
"Yes!" Fernpaw and Eaglepaw exclaimed,
You killed our mother! Your mate!" Fernpaw hissed, Harrenclaw smirked.
"Why should I care about her? She never loved me anyway!" He yowled, the last cats were leaving the clearing, giving them strange looks.
Frozendawn jumped in," She always loved you Harrenclaw! You are just too arrogant to realize that!" her eyes were full of hatred and anger.
"Why would you care Frozendawn! She's not your mother! Thunderash is!" Harrenclaw hissed.
"You're right, she is my mother, but you'll never be my father!" Frozendawn screeched. Harrenclaw looked thoroughly speechless, surprised that his daughter actually said that. Harrenclaw growled, pulling his lips back over his teeth.
"'Looks like I'm going to have to kill all three of you then," he snarled, "I wasn't actually going to kill you Frozendawn, but now?" Harrenclaw flexed his claws, sinking them into the dirt. He slowly stalked towards them, growling under his breath. Frozendawn blocked him from getting to Fernpaw and Eaglepaw.
What's going on?! Fernpaw thought to herself. Her and Eaglepaw exchanged glances. But then Harrenclaw's paw flashed out, catching Frozendawn on the nose. She flinched back away from him. Fernpaw's ears flattened, and her fur spiked up, a deep growl sounded from her sister's throat. Harrenclaw looked at Fernpaw and Eaglepaw, then he caught sight of Fernpaw's leg.
"First my former daughter betrayed me, and now I find out one of my other daughters is just a dead weight for her clan!" he snarled. Fernpaw screeched and raced forward. She lifted her paw back, prepared to strike, but then Harrenclaw swung his claws upwards, catching her on the chin, and throwing her backwards.
"Fernpaw!" Eaglepaw yowled, racing over to her sister. Fernpaw staggered up,
"Don't worry." she grunted. Fernpaw looked at Eaglepaw as she heard a growl starting to sound in her sister's throat.
"How dare you!" Eaglepaw screeched, whipping around to face Harrenclaw. "What did we ever do to you?" He smirked,
"You were born!" he growled. Frozendawn stalked up to her father,
"It's not their fault! If you want to blame someone, blame yourself!" She screeched. "After all, it was you who broke the warrior code by being with a ForestClan cat!" Harrenclaw glared at her and backed away. Frozendawn followed him into the bushes telling him what horrible choices he made and how they affected many cats in a negative way.
"I'll see the both of you soon. Very soon." She called back to them. Fernpaw looked at Eaglepaw and they shared the same thought. What have we gotten ourselves into?