Chapter 11: Dreams Crushed
Oddkit awoke to a ruff yet gentle tongue stroking her fur soothingly. She instantly knew it was Flutter, so figuring she must be grooming her, she was about to let herself drift back into a peaceful sleep when a loud flash of images seem to explode in her mind. Falling into the dark, agonising screams of cats and shimmers of sharp red lights.
Oddkit woke up with a squeak of fright causing Flutter to jump back. Oddkit stared at her miss-matched paws. Her breathing rasping and legs shaking. 'What was that?' She thought to herself.
"Oddkit!" Flutter's panicked voice brought her back to reality. As the golden she-cat wrapped her paws around the small kit. "It's alright now," Flutter whispered into Oddkit's brown ear, "I'm here."
Despite the fright Oddkit just had, she felt comforted with Flutter. So she closed her eyes, tuck deep breaths and let herself relax in her foster mothers embrace.
She didn't know how long she stayed like that until a voice broke the silence. "She had quite a fright," the voice stated. Oddkit opened her one leaf green eye to see the pure white pelt of Featherbreeze, "she should calm down soon, yet I suggest that she stays here for tonight."
"Alright, then I'll stay to," Flutter's soft answered, not loosening her comforting embrace on her frightened step daughter. "I also think its best that you stay with the other queens and kits. Their suffering from a bit of shock also. Oddkit will be fine here with me," Featherbreeze objected.
"No I insist I stay with my kit," Flutter answered firmly. Oddkit had always been a little surprised on how easily Flutter can talk back to cats that are of a higher rank than her. "Think about it Flutter," Featherbreeze argued, "We need someone to keep an eye on what Shimmerheart will say. She was one of the cats who voted to tell kits and apprentices the story of the BloodStone. Saying it was an important part of Ancient MoonClan history. She may tell the other kits what Greytail told Oddkit, and I don't think Laurelstep will make any move to stop her."
Oddkit flinched every time Featherbreeze mentioned the BloodStone. She's never been there, yet she felt such fear that gripped her heart at the very thought or even mention of it. Why would anyone want to tell a young cat such a horrifying story?
Why would older cats want to hear such a horrifying story?
Yet there was one thought that suck her to the core, a thought that caused dread to fill up her belly and made her legs shake. What if she was ever sentenced to execution at the BloodStone?
What if Greytail was right?
But she didn't want to die. She just couldn't. She wouldn't. She has to get away. Far away from this Clan and far away from the BloodStone. But how could a little kit like her survive on her own? Yet she didn't care about that. She'd rather starve to death or freeze than get forced to jump down that terrible black pit.
"I think she's asleep," she heard Featherbreeze comment. Oddkit then realised that she had closed her eyes hard was lying near motionless in Flutter's embrace. "Good," Flutter spoke, "she's had quite a fright, wait until I get my paws on that good for nothing Greytail. Elder or not I'm not letting him get away with this!"
"Ravenstar is seeing to him but there's not much you can do to punish an elder," Featherbreeze stated. Flutter scoffed aggressively, "I can think of a few things from my rouge days," she growled. The medicine den was silent for a while.
"Has Oddkit spoken to you about what she wants to do with her future?" Featherbreeze asked, breaking the silence. Oddkit could feel both she-cats eyes on her and Flutter shake her head, "no, but iv heard Sweetkit tell Laurelstep that she wants to be a Warrior so I suppose Oddkit will want to follow her friend, its only natural. But I haven't missed the wide eyed glances she sends to you and the medicine den."
Oddkit nearly flinched, did Flutter really not miss anything?
"She told me one moon ago that she was thinking of becoming my apprentice," Featherbreeze replied.
Oddkit remembered that day, when she had a thorn in her paw and had Featherbreeze pull it out. She had enough time to think about it and was sure it was what she wanted. So she told Featherbreeze that she was thinking of becoming a Medicine Cat.
Featherbreeze apparently knew of her interest. Maybe, like Flutter, she had seen Oddkit looking at the Medicine Cat den in wonder too. Yet the Medicine Cat had told her to sleep on it until her last moon of being a kit and then make her decision.
Flutter was silent for a while before answering. "A Medicine Cat huh?" Flutter asked with an admirable emotion in her voice. "I have to talk it over with her to see if it's what she really wants. And if it is then I'm happy for my little kit," Flutter purred rubbing her head into Oddkit's lovingly.
"It's strange really," Flutter stated, "I've always imagined Oddkit to grow into a fine warrior. I imagined she'd be a very talented at Graceful Moon Dances like my son Dewcloud, bring honour to her Clan and prove them all wrong, have a mate and kits which I would help to raise. I knew she had interest in the Medicine field yet I never imagined that it was what she wanted. But if it's really what she wants then il be with her every step of the way. She can still prove herself to her Clan. In fact even more now. And I can tell the other Queens in the Clan's that my daughter is the Medicine Cat of MoonClan." Flutter swished her tail proudly. It gave Oddkit confidence.
"I shall talk to her about it when she wakes up," Featherbreeze answered just as a rustling and a panicked panting entered the den. "Laurelstep!" Flutter exclaimed, rushing away from Oddkit's side, "what's the matter?"
"It's Shimmerheart!" Laurelstep panted with panic. Oddkit nearly jumped up on to her paws and demand to know what her real mother had done. "She's telling the kits the rest of the MoonClan history and I can't stop her!" The young Queen squealed.
Oddkit opened one eye slightly to see Laurelstep's tortoiseshell pelt, the young queens breathing was fast and panicked and her face was a picture of confusion and panic. Oddkit realised then how young the she-cat really looked. She was like a frightened apprentice who had lost their mentor on a fetching patrol.
Flutter hissed in range and bolted out of the nursery, Laurelstep followed a moment later. "Is that a blue eye I see open Oddkit?" Featherbreeze's voice asked from behind the now alert yellow kit.
"Um," stuttered Oddkit, "no." Featherbreeze giggled as Oddkit climbed to her paws and looked up at the White she-cat. "Did you hear all that?" Featherbreeze asked, Oddkit nodded.
"Well good," Featherbreeze answered, "because I still need to speak with you about what you plan to do about your apprenticeship." Oddkit jumped on to her miss-matched paws in eagerness, being sure to look the white Medicine Cat right in the eye, "I want to be a Medicine Cat apprentice!" She exclaimed desperately. They wouldn't dare sentence a Medicine Cat to death right?
"Are you sure?" Featherbreeze asked, "You've just been through quite a shock." Oddkit nodded eagerly, hoping Featherbreeze couldn't read the fear that she was trying so desperately to hide.
She continued to hide this fear while Featherbreeze was talking her through the benefits and draw backs of being a Medicine Cat. Oddkit agreed to all of them, while all the time her fear rose. Couldn't Featherbreeze see that she had to become her apprentice as soon as possible? Only then would she be safe from the BloodStone. She knew that she would never have a mate or kits. But that was worth her life. Plus who would ever what kits with her? She was ugly and hideous. Yet she wouldn't go down the same way as Sky and many other cats like her have, no matter what she looked like. And that was a promise.
Oddkit felt many eyes on her as she followed Featherbreeze to Ravenstar's den. She tried her best to ignore them as the two she-cats neared Ravenstar's tower. Oddkit bounded up the steps of the tower after Featherbreeze trying her best to take the steps two at a time like the white Medicine Cat was yet she soon learnt that her legs were still to short and stumpy.
"Now I'll do most of the talking but if Ravenstar asks you any questions you answer them as honestly as you can okay?" Featherbreeze asked when they were half way up the steps. Oddkit nodded nervously, Featherbreeze must have sensed her worries because the she-cat turned back to her with a warm smile. "But don't worry, Ravenstar may look intimidating but she's really a very wise and thoughtful cat," Featherbreeze smiled.
Oddkit wondered if she was right. She had to admit Ravenstat seemed alright. Whenever she visited the nursery she would watch all the kits and talk to the Queens with interest. Yet that was only every moon or so. And to Oddkit their dark leader seemed rather antisocial. She was on every Fetching Patrol from dusk till dawn, hardly ever talked to any other cats in the Clan other than Blazewing, Featherbreeze, the Representatives, Queens and her Senior Warriors. Oddkit had never seen her perform a Moon Dance like every other cat in the Clan and according to Dawnpaw and Ripplepaw, if she couldn't be found wondering the territory like she was searching for danger, talking to the Senior Warriors or Featherbreeze, in the Nursery, on a Fetching patrol or watching the Apprentices train she was in her tall stone den.
Featherbreeze stopped when she got to the entrance, a curtain of ivy lay in the way of the door, blocking the inside from view. "Ravenstar," Featherbreeze called into the ivy and after a few seconds of questionable silence a voice answered, "come in Featherbreeze," Ravenstar's low voice sounded from beyond the ivy curtain.
Featherbreeze gave Oddkit a reassuring look before passing through the ivy, her sleek white tail holding the ivy out of Oddkit's way so she can get through. Oddkit gulped a little before following Featherbreeze into the stone tower.
Oddkit was first blown away at how spacious the tower was. The tall stone stretched into the sky. A large hole at the top of the tower let sun light stream in and give the tower more light than Oddkit had been expecting.
Large stone ledges spiralled up the tower edges, until they got to a point below the very top, a hole in the wall let sunlight sliver in. 'That must lead to the High Ledge,' Oddkit thought. She had always wondered how Ravenstar got to the near top of the tower when addressing the Clan.
When Oddkit had climbed to the High Ledge on the Ancient Tower to announce to the Clan that the dirt place was closed, a dare given to her by Sweetkit, she had climbed up the steps swirling up the sides of the tower. Yet when Ravenstar addressed the Clan, she just seemed to appear from the stone. At least now she knew how she did it.
The ground was covered with a fin layer of soft sand. There was a large arch like ledge that stood firmly at the far end of the tower, it was the first thing that anyone would see when they entered the tower seen as it was facing the entrance. It was held up by two large stone carved figures. Oddkit stepped back at the sight of them. They looked like monsters. Standing one two legs, with huge heads, giant hands holding large sticks. Their mouths were wide open with small waterfalls trickling from their large jaws and disappearing beneath the ground.
The walls of the tower were covered in small carvings and pictures depicting more monster like creatures. Oddkit was overwhelmed by nearly everything she saw. She was pretty sure her head was spinning around in a rapid pace.
"Yes Featherbreeze what do you need?" Asked Ravenstar's voice. Oddkit snapped her head up to the large ledge like arch being held up by the monsters. Ravenstar was sitting calmly on top of the arch, a mossy nest surrounding her. Larger carvings of even more terrifying monsters and strange symbols were carved behind the dark leader.
Ravenstar's dark pelt fitted into the background so well that she looked like one of the carvings had come to life and was staring down at the two she-cats who entered her domain with an unreadable golden gaze.
Featherbreeze bowed her head in a formal greeting, "good day Ravenstar, I have news," she spoke. Oddkit felt Ravenstar's narrowed gaze on her. "I'm actually glad you're here Oddkit," Ravenstar added, "I wish to have a word with you later."
Oddkit visibly flinched and had to stop herself from gasping. Ravenstar hadn't already decided to send her to the BloodStone has she? Did Oddkit make her decision to late?
"As you wish Ravenstar," Featherbreeze answered. Oddkit shuffled back ready to run if she needed too. Yet her paws were trembling. She wanted Flutter and Sweetkit. She wanted to run away with them far far away from MoonClan, were the BloodStone can't get her.
"Ravenstar, as you know am still rather young," Featherbreeze stated, "yet you also know that I will not be around forever. So I believe it is time I had an apprentice." Oddkit looked at Ravenstar for any signs of disapproval. Yet as usual, the leader's steady gaze was hard to interpret.
"I have found just the right kit to become MoonClan's future Medicine Cat," Featherbreeze continued, "Oddkit is an eager and talented young she-cat that I know will become a great Medicine Cat. She already knows that Medicine Cat Code of by heart, and I believe that in two moons she'll be ready to begin her apprenticeship."
Ravenstar studied the two she-cats below her for a short while. Until she hopped down from the ledge. Oddkit gasped as her leader jumped from such a height. Yet the pure black cat landed perfectly on her four paws. "Yes, I know this Featherbreeze," Ravenstar stated, "yet before we make any decisions I must speak to Oddkit alone."
Oddkit winced in fright. She didn't want to be left alone with a cat that could have her executed in command. She was pretty sure she was frozen in fear until Featherbreeze's ice white tail stroked her back.
Oddkit looked into the Medicine Cats blue eyes desperately. Yet Featherbreeze only smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry," she spoke, "just listen and be truthful, I'll be right outside." Oddkit tuck a last glance at the Medicine Cat before she turned and left the Ancient Tower. Leaving Oddkit alone with the only cat that could order her death.
Oddkit tried to look anywhere else other than the dark leader's eyes. Yet she heard as Ravenstar made her way up the spiral steps and back up to her ledge. Once she was there, Oddkit felt her gaze turn back to her. She was forced to look up at her leader with unsettled miss-matched eyes. Yet Ravenstar held her steady bright gold gaze.
"Follow me," Ravenstar said a little too calmly, Oddkit wanted to run right there and then. Yet under her leaders cold stare she felt so helpless. To helpless to even run.
"It's alright," Ravenstar continued, "no harm shall come to you." Oddkit wasn't sure whether to believe her but she really saw no choice. She stud on her shaky legs and warily followed the dark leader as they spiralled up.
Ravenstar had waited for her. So Oddkit walked just behind her dark sleek tail. She didn't dare look down she didn't want to know how far up she was when she got to the hole in the stone. Oddkit followed Ravenstar through the hole and into the silver light.
The first thing that she saw was a beautiful silver moon shining down on the MoonClan camp, as it was famous for doing. The Ancient Tower loomed over every other stone den in the camp so the view was one to behold. The camp below her shone like the very moon itself. The moon was at its highest point in the sky, the cats of MoonClan had already gone done their basking in the moonlight and were now taking themselves back to their nests.
Oddkit was amazed that she could see the forest outside the camp, a place were no matter how much trouble her and Sweetkit got into, they never went to.
She saw Featherbreeze waiting in the entrance to the Medicine Cat den as promised. Ravenstar nodded to the moonlit she-cat and with a smile at Oddkit and a nod to Ravenstar the she-cat retired to her nest. Her silver glowing white pelt disappearing into the dark of the stone den.
"You have been up here before haven't you?" Ravenstar asked, Oddkit's eyes widened, she had hoped that her leader wouldn't bring that up. "Y-yes I have Ravenstar," she answered with her miss-matched ears flat against her head in an ashamed way.
"Don't sound so ashamed kits do strange things, at least you and Sweetkit don't get into too much danger," Ravenstar reassured. Oddkit wasn't sure how to answer her but thankfully she didn't need to. "The half-moon shines very brightly tonight doesn't it?" Ravenstar asked looking up at the silver moon.
Oddkit followed her gaze, "yeah it does," she answered feeling a little more confident around the dark pelted MoonClan leader. "Like the moon, MoonClan are special," Ravenstar added, "like the moon there can be only one MoonClan. Some cats say are ancestor Moon, was created by moonlight itself. But it depends on what you believe."
Oddkit felt a blow to her confidence when Ravenstar mentioned Moon, she hasn't talked about the mad founder of MoonClan since the frightening talk with Greytail.
"And the story you heard today Oddkit do you think it's real or do you think Greytail was lying?" Ravenstar asked the kit, taking her eyes off the moon. Oddkit panicked, how was she supposed to answer?
She didn't know!
She didn't know anything anymore!
"Well it is true every word," Ravenstar spoke. Oddkit really wasn't surprised, she hasn't even considered if it wasn't true. "Greytail spoke no lies," Ravenstar sighed "that story is the cold hard truth and history of MoonClan. That story is how are Warrior Code came to be. How CaveClan and CloudClan came to be MoonClan and SunClan protectors. And how the tradition of executions began."
Oddkit wanted to beg Ravenstar to stop mentioning the story, Moon and the executions. She hated that word. She looked down at her two front brown and cream paws and hoped she would just stop mentioning them.
"Yet those times are over," said Ravenstar, Oddkit's eyes snapped up to her, "yes it may not have been too long ago that the executions were put a stop to. Yet when I became leader and SunClan's current leader Hawkstar became leader, we decided that there will never be another execution. No cat has been back to the BloodStone in many moons. I have never sentenced a cat to death, and you're certainly not going to be my first Oddkit, no cat shall be executed in MoonClan or SunClan. Not again. Do you understand?" Ravenstar asked.
"So I'm not going to be killed?" Asked Oddkit, smiling as wide as the silver half-moon itself and a flash of hope in her eyes. "No," answered Ravenstar sternly, "and never think that again Oddkit."
Oddkit was too relieved and exited to be upset by Ravenstar's harsh tone. She wasn't going to be executed!
The BloodStow can't ever harm her now!
She can live her life free and happy!
Who cares if some cats in the Clan don't like her?
She wasn't going to be executed!
And as long as she had Sweetkit, Flutter and Featherbreeze, she will always have friends and family!
"Times have been changing allot recently," Ravenstar's voice brought her out of her wonderful thoughts, "but one thing that will never change is the threat of rouges. The most resent being a band of trouble causing and fierce rouges that call themselves the Divergence."
"I've heard of them," Oddkit added, "All the Warriors and Apprentices talk about them when they come back from Gatherings."
Ravenstar nodded in agreement, "as they should," she said, "the Divergence are a constant threat to our way of life."
Oddkit was rather confused, why was Ravenstar so worried about them?
"But we have CloudClan and CaveClan protecting us," she added, "they've never let any harm come to us before." Ravenstar's eyes suddenly turned dark. "Yes," she hissed, "but how long can they keep that up?" She asked. Oddkit was glad that question was rhetorical. She had no clue what her leader was talking about.
"Divergence seem to be attacking CloudClan and CaveClan for no particular reason," Ravenstar explained, "and every time they attack they seem to get stronger. Many cats from both Clans have been killed already. Yet as of late they have not attacked MoonClan or SunClan. Yes are boarders are well protected by CloudClan and CaveClan yet if they wanted to they could easily find a break in the boarder and attack are Clan. Why they don't is a mystery. It's either they don't know we exist or possibly the most frightening outcome. That they are trying to take down MoonClan and SunClan protectors before they launch an attack on us."
Oddkit wasn't sure if she should be frightened or intrigued. Right now she was a bit of both. Yet she continued to listen to her leader.
"Yet I fear that soon there will be no barriers between Divergence and MoonClan," Ravenstar admitted with a sincere voice, "What do you mean Ravenstar?" Asked Oddkit. Ravenstar looked away from the moon to look Oddkit directly into her eyes. Which was unusual seen as some cats in the Clan didn't like looking straight into her eyes. They must think that they just look to strange.
"You must promise me that everything I have said and about to say to you is to be kept a secret between you and me. No one else can know. Not even Flutter and Sweetkit. You understand?" Ravenstar asked with great seriousness in her low voice.
Oddkit nodded instantly and seriously. She would not disobey her leader but she wondered why Ravenstar would tell her secrets. "I-I understand Ravenstar," Oddkit stuttered, "I won't tell anyone I promise."
Ravenstar sighed and turned back to the moon. "Good," she spoke, "like I was saying, I soon fear that are allies and protectors shall soon be gone. The leader of CaveClan, Redstar, have you heard of him?" Ravenstar asked. Oddkit nodded fiercely, she knew the CaveClan leader from the Queens and Apprentices gossiping.
"Redstar's mate, Icewhisker, was killed in a battle with the Divergence close to are boarder. So he assumes that they were trying to attack MoonClan. The brave Icewhisker died keeping them out. Yet he doesn't blame her death on the Divergence that killed her. He blames MoonClan, because his mate was defending are boarders."
"He now thinks that too many of his warriors have been killed defending MoonClan and SunClan. I fear that he may soon declare that his Clan will not defend MoonClan or SunClan any longer."
"He can't do that!" Oddkit couldn't stop herself from speaking up, "it's against the warrior code, isn't it?" She asked sounding baffled. "Yes it is," answered Ravenstar, "I know that his Clan have mixed feelings about this. Some agree with him, were as others fear of what StarClan would do to them if they didn't follow their old traditions. But if Redstar goes through with his rebellion, some will follow him and others will not know if they should go with their leader or age old traditions. And with all the damage they have been taking in resent seasons I fear that they may choose the easy way out."
"There is also a threat from CloudClan. The leader of CloudClan, Oakstar, is under pressure from Redstar and even cats from his own Clan to join Redstar's threat of rebellion. He seems reluctant to go against the warrior code. Yet CloudClan has taken just as much damage from Divergence that CaveClan has, and I soon fear that he will be driven to breaking point and join Redstar. Plus CloudClan's deputy, Hookclaw, from what I hear is a fierce supporter of Redstar and may influence Oakstar's decision. If that happens MoonClan and SunClan will be completely exposed to attack from Divergence."
Oddkit listened in fear. Why was Ravenstar telling her all this?
She was just a kit!
What could she do?
Maybe it was because she was going to be a medicine cat apprentice. Maybe this was a part of her job. To listen to her Leaders's worries. That made sense. A medicine cat heals physical wounds. Maybe they are supposed to heal mental wounds too.
Oddkit listened in closely as her leader continued. "Divergence has been threatening the Clans for for over eight seasons. Redstar was starting to doubt the code then, Yet since Icewhisker was killed, four seasons ago, he has been getting worse every gathering. If he continues this way, and if Oakstar is driven to agreeing with him, then soon we will have no one to protect us, and the Clan will be destroyed." Oddkit felt a sense of dread. Surly Ravenstar was overreacting? CloudClan and CaveClan won't let them die would they?
"I have spoken to Hawkstar, the leader of SunClan, about these threats," Ravenstar continued, "yet the fool is so full of himself. If it hasn't happened yet then it will never happen. That's what he thinks. No cat whether they be a leader, warrior, apprentice or medicine cat, has ever questioned the warrior code. So he thinks it will never happen. And if it does he thinks that StarClan will punish them for abandoning us, and protect us if the other Clans won't."
"But StarClan will protect us won't they?" Oddkit asked hopefully. Ravenstar looked down sympathetically at the young kit, "yes, Oddkit they will protect us," she said reassuringly, "yet you must know that there is only so much StarClan can do. They can guide us in the right direction but they can't come back from the dead and fight battles or cure sicknesses. They have done that many times in the past for their Clans when they were alive. It is are turn now, are turn does seem harder than theirs. Yet other than guide us there won't be much else they can do. The rest is up to us."
Oddkit stares up at the leader that she feared for a while. But know she saw her in a completely different light. She was wise, considerate about her Clan and above all and observant and fair leader.
Ravenstar continued her speech, "if worst comes to worst, we will be left alone, a Clan who has no fighting or hunting abilities. Alone to face the dangers of the forest and the Divergence alone. If that day comes, if the Protector Clans abandon the warrior code, then the only way we can survive is to fight fire with fire, we must abandon the code abandon the title as a Worshiped Clan, and face the danger head on. When and if that time comes, we can no longer rely on StarClan and Protector Clans."
Oddkit felt great adventure grip her gut, like she was listening to an existing tale of the past. That was until she realised that the ending of the tale hasn't happened. Neither has the beginning. This was real life, an insight of MoonClan's possible and unsure future.
"That was my original plan," Ravenstar continued, "but how many MoonClan warrior do you think would just abandon the code? Even if the Protector Clans did? It's has taken Redstar many seasons to gain as many supporters as he has. MoonClan won't give up their worshiped and treasured lives so easily. MoonClan has always been protected. They know nothing else other than peace and serenity were as the Protector Clans fight the wars for us. They know nothing else, and the prospect of such a huge lifestyle change. From being in such peace and security, then frown into danger and war. I fear that the cats in this Clan would just hide and beg for a help that would never come. If, that day is up on us."
Ravenstar turned away from the moon with s fierce scowl, her claws digging into the rock. "They wouldn't fight!" She growled, her entire body tensing up, "not even if their lives depended on it. This soft life has poisoned them all. My fears have caused me to propose that self-defence lessons should be taught to all the cats in are Clan. Yet they are furious every time I bring it up. They call me disloyal!" Ravenstar's voice was quickly getting louder. Oddkit feared that she would wake up the entire Clan before soon.
"I care for MoonClan, I really do," Ravenstar spoke a bit quieter, yet the rage in her eyes showed how much she wanted to shout. Oddkit was begging to feel very uncomfortable seeing her usually cool spirited leader so enraged. "Dear friends, family and memories of mine exist in this Clan. I would give every one of my nine lives and more for it, yet what good is that if the cats inside my own Clan don't obey me."
"But your their leader," Oddkit chirped, "it's against the warrior code to not to obey you isn't it? 'The word of the Clan leader is the word of the warrior code.'"
Ravenstar turned to Oddkit. "You have a clear and thoughtful mind Oddkit," she spoke, "yet you have yet to learn that there are three types of warrior codes. One for Worshiped Clans, one for Protector Clans and one for Medicine Cats. And there is no such rule in the Worshiped Clans code. Are rules are far less strict and are more of a bunch of traditions than rules. 'A Leader and Deputy in MoonClan and SunClan must be respected and their opinions listened to. Yet MoonClan and SunClan cats do not have to obey them if they don't wish to.' The cats in MoonClan can choice who they listen to and I can name a few cats right now who would not listen to my simplest commands."
Oddkit wondered if one of those cats were her real mother, Shimmerheart and her real father Nightfur, who follows Shimmerheart's command without question. And is always on her side. Despite the fact that Ravenstar is Nightfur's mother. She wondered if Ravenstar was bothered by this. Yet felt it was better not to ask.
"If we are abandoned and war is the only way to survive then we will face it," Ravenstar spoke, despite what she just said about MoonClan following her to war would be impossible. "Yet I will not be leading MoonClan into war," Ravenstar added through narrowed golden eyes.
"What?" Asked Oddkit, "then who will fight for MoonClan if they won't fight for themselves?" She asked very confused. "Another group of warriors," Ravenstar replied, "a group of warriors, taught in the art of warrior and rouge combat, a group of warriors that will be fiercely loyal and fiercely strong. Specially trained to take down Divergence and become MoonClan's new protectors."
Ravenstar sighed shakily, as if she could believe her own words. "They will be MoonClan's ultimate weapon, are last line of defence, are last hope," Ravenstar stared back up at the moon with unreadable eyes. Oddkit stared up at her with wonder in her miss-matched eyes.
"That is why Oddkit," Ravenstar spoke emotionless voice, "you can't be a Medicine Cat."
Boom done bitches!
Ravenstar's worries and a shock for Oddkit :O
How will Oddkit react?
What are Ravenstar's plans?
Will there be more feels?
I dunno its bin a while since I read the next chapter! Well done Cindy well done X|
Sorry for all of my dumbass mistakes I'm getting better I promise.