Cinderstar377 here! :D
I wont be able to write much when school starts, of course, but I'll still write! :) Sorry for the long AN and update, this chapter was hard to write.
And I'm not updating Sun's Reign until I get another two reivews! So review on it or else...*pulls out 'discontinued' stamp.
Cinderstar: Don't make me! *Grins and takes out her own stamp Snowstar: *Rolls eyes * Jeez, Cinderstar give them a break!
Cinderstar: HEY! *She and Snowstar start fighting
Snowstar: Ha! I win!
Also, who wants to do my poll? Should I keep Cinderstar or should I change it between Cinderstar377 and Snowstar377? More people(out of fanfiction) know me as Snow, but...do the poll please! Your opinion really does matter to me.
Dream time! With er...Jayfeather...and the memory Echosong has is just like after a Gathering in Skyclan's Destiny, but it's a little different.
Sorry...he's a mouse-brain but HE'S STILL MINE! He is your's truly...XD
So... Jayfeather's POV
"No..." his brother whispered hoarsly to him. "S-she can't die."
Jayfeather's shoulders sagged as he listened to his golden brother, who's pelt was probably now a dull orange.
"I'm sorry, but she has a deep neck wound we can't heal."Jayfeahter mewed to Lionblaze. "Got it?"
"Jayfeather, I love her and I don't want her to die!...Why couldn't it be me?" Lionblaze growled.
You're one of the Three, you can't die... Jayfeather wanted to tell his brother, but Lionblaze had already left his den.
Echosong nudged him. "It's okay, there are always deaths in a clan. I saw one of my closest friends die in the fire..."
"Who?" Jayfeather asked, he wanted anything, to think of anything to get the thought of death of Cinderheart out of his head.
"Sharpclaw." Echosong replied, there was a small tone of sadness in her voice. "Deputy of Skyclan."
Jayfeather frowned, it sounded like Echosong had known him but...
Probing her memories, he quickly found a memory of Echosong and Sharpclaw together.
"She deserves to be a medicine cat of Skyclan!" Echosong was retorting.
Echosong looked much younger than now, a few moons older than Jayfeather was, and Sharpclaw looked around the same age as Berrynose had been. These cats are young to have so much power.
Sharclaw's fur was fluffed up and his eyes blazing. "Frecklepaw is a day-light warrior- she can't have an important role in the Clan like that!"
Jayfeather's eyes were clear and bright so it was easy to see- and scent- the approach of Leafstar.
Like Echosong, the Skyclan leader looked as old as Whitewing had when she had Dovewing and Ivypool- very young.
"Sharpclaw, do not speak like Echosong like that. She is our medicine cat. Echosong... have you had a sign from Starclan about Frecklepaw?"
Echosong had shaken her head. "I've searched and searched but haven't found an omen yet..."
"And there wont be!" Sharpawclaw rolled his eyes. She was friends with this cat? Jayfeather thought in disbelief. He's deputy of Skyclan?!
Leafstar hesitated. "Echosong, look for more signs... you better run to camp before it rains." As the leader spoke the clouds closed in and it started to drizzle slightly.
Echosong nodded curtly before racing away and jumping over a small gorge, disappearing in the rain.
"Don't ruffle Echosong's fur," Leafstar commanded.
"Then make sure she stays out of mine!" Sharpclaw retorted.
Jayfeather pulled himself out of the memory, leaving Echosong's mind.
"So... he is...dead?" Jayfeather chose his words carefully.
Echosong replied angrily, "Of course!"
Jayfeather backed away. "Okay, okay, Echosong... I'll leave."
And with that he padded out of his own den.
(Time Skip)
That night Jayfeather returned to his den, though right before he did he glanced up at the sky. Moon-high. Even though he couldn't see the stars, he still used his other senses to tell time.
Jayfeather then walked into his den, glancing at Cinderheart. I'm going to give her poppy seeds in the morning, so she can have an easy walk to Starclan, he thought as he curled up. I wish Lionblaze wouldn't be so sad...
Then, a few minutes later, Jayfeather found his breathing becoming shallower, his eyes growing drowsy, and he soon fell asleep.
Dream time! :D
Jayfeather looked around to see that he was at the edge of the lake, on Thunderclan's side. He noticed he could see...obviously, since he was dreaming... and the pebbles reflected the lake, showing the starry sky. It was night time, just like the real time...
Then a golden tom padded out of the trees and over to the pretty lake. Jayfeather recognized Lionblaze... his brother.
"I'm in Lionblaze's dream!"He realized out loud as his brother came over to meet him. Luckily, the golden StormClan warrior didn't seem to hear.
"This...this is where Cinderheart and me...would meet,"Lionblaze whispered. "At night like now...just the two of us.."
Jayfeather's tail rested gently on his brother's shoulder. "I don't know what to do," Lionblaze continued, as if he didn't notice Jayfeather- or didn't care. "I don't know what I'd do without Cinderheart."
Jayfeather remembered Half-Moon, the love of his life. "Move on from her... but honor her memory." he told his brother simply. That was what he had done with Half-Moon...and he wasn't insane, was he?
Was he?
Lionblaze pushed Jayfeather away. "I want her alive, not dead!" he hissed at his brother, making Jayfeather retort, "That stuff just can't happen!"
Lionblaze's shoulders seemed to sag when Jayfeather said that. "I wish it could."
Jayfeather watched Lionblaze race away, and making Jayfeather feel even more lost than before.
He started to pad around the lake on Thunderclan's side, sighing. "Why can't Cinderheart live...?"
Then a voice whispered in his ear.
"Jayfeather... but she can."
His eyes grew wide as he recognized the voice. "Hollyleaf!"
The black she-cat came into view next to him. "Jayfeather..." His sister mewed. "I know how to let Cinderheart live."
Jayfeather brushed against her. "How?" he asked sharply.
"Come with me, into Cinderheart's dreams."
Cinderheart's POV(This isn't really a dream for Cinderheart... more for Jayfeather. But it isn't Jayfeather's POV, now is it?)
So much pain.
So much coldness.
So much black.
Cinderheart couldn't feel anything emotion but pain, couldn't see anything but black, couldn't hear anything but a strange buzzing.
I'm going to die... Cinderheart thought.
Then, an image of a certain small, skinny gray tabby tom with blind blue eyes appeared in the dark.
Jayfeather? Is he coming to take me to Starclan?
No...Wait, he's alive!...so what is he doing here? "Cinderheart..."he called out softly to her. Cinderheart saw him coming closer- no, she was coming closer.
Suddenly she was in a full form of herself- gray fluffy fur with blue eyes, not just some black void filled with pain and coldness- and was following Jayfeather as the blackness turned into a bright meadow. Cinderheart wanted to stop and just lay in the meadow – like a kit...Cinderheart, you mouse-brain! - but the medicine cat of Stormclan had other ideas.
He padded on.
Cinderheart still followed.
But the meadow was so warm...and felt safe.
Then the meadow turned into trees, like the ones in her territory. That's when the two burst into a small clearing.
Cinderheart looked around, confused. Where am I? Then she stopped dead when she saw a cat in front of her and Jayfeather, who looked like he could see... for some odd reason...
It was... no, it can't be!
Hollyleaf.
"Y-your dead." Cinderheart suddenly found that she could talk. "Am I dead?" Jayfeather had been taking her to her death... Walking to my death. She may be my old best friend, but I don't want to be with her and my family in Starclan!
The black she-cat shook her head, green eyes glittering. "No, not yet anyway... that is why your here."
Cinderheart let out a relieved sigh, then cringed at the end of Hollyleaf's statement. "I'm here to die?"
Jayfeather, who was in the shadows, padded forward. "Yes, I can see," he nodded curtly to Cinderheart, "And no, you aren't. Hollyleaf learned when she joined Starclan that Starclan cats have the power to heal broken cats like you..."
Cinderheart's eyes widened. "Really! Then..." Suddenly a thought came to her. "Then why didn't you heal Brairlight?"
"Cinderheart, like you. She has a cripple pair of back legs that...well, even Starclan can't heal..."
Cinderheart lifted her head at Hollyleaf. "How will... how will you heal me?"
Hollyleaf's eyes flashed, and eight other cats padded forward from the shadows, just like Jayfeather had a few moments before to speak with Hollyleaf and Cinderheart- but now he was right next to Cinderheart.
"This is how."
So...um...read and review please! :D
What happens if it fails? Cinderheart was one of my favorite characters in the books, but even so... I mean, I DID kill off Whitewing, and she's awesome! :O
I just realized that.
AND I let Crowfeather live- that nasty mouse-brained awkward piece of fox-dung Leafpool loved for some odd reason! Really Leafpool?! You chose HIM?!
Um, sorry about that.
Read on,
Cinderstar377