A/N And now, you will finally discover the truth about the fox cub. By the wasy, Frenzied Warrior, Stonepaw's in MoorClan, and Waterpaw's in ForestClan. Why? You will find out as the story progresses. This is part Nightpaw and the foxcub, part Blazekit, and part Strongheart.
" Nightpaw, why are we here?" said the fox cub.
Nightpaw sighed. " Those warriors are TownClan. You remember what Strongheart told you about TownClan? They took over the clan. We had to get you out."
"Where's Blazekit?"
Nightpaw felt a wave of grief crashing over her. Why, of all the cats, had they abducted her brother? To sit in the town, eating TownClan garbage, imprisoned in a merciless world where there was no escape? He was the cat in the camp without a power, that's why she thought bitterly.
" The TownClan warriors...got him. They carried him away."
The fox cub looked at her for a moment, then tilted his head back and howled his grief to StarClan over the loss of his best friend.
Thinking quickly, Nightpaw barreled into him and wrapped her tail around his muzzle.
"Shhh! They'll hear us! They can't hear us, or we'll die!" She spoke with urgency.
He seemed to understand her. He spoke in a low tone.
"Why was I brought out of the camp? Why not Blazekit?"
" We tried to get Blazekit, but it was too late."
One day she would have to tell him the truth. He still thought he was a cat, because he was so young.
" I'm going to give you a name. It's Daykit."
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Blazekit was unhappy. That's the best word for it. The TownClan prey was flavorless. The TownClan territory was strange. They only ray of light was Darktail, who was one of the kindest she-cats he had ever met.
"Here, this is the way to hold your paw when swatting. If you hold it this way, you'll end up with a sore paw." said Darktail, while she was demonstrating battle manuevers. Since Blazekit was approaching his sixth moon, Darktail had decided to train him.
He attempted the manuever, and pulled it off easily
" You're coming along fine. Better than most apprentices I've seen."
She was TownClan, but he still filled with pride at her remark.
" You'd better get to back to the dumpster."
He leapt up onto the top of the dumpster, then down to the bottom. Darktail dropped beside him.
He looked up at the sky. It was the second day of the waxing crescent. Tommorow he would be four moons.
Darktail saw him looking up. " What is it?"
" I'll be four moons tommorow."
Darktail seemed sad.
" What's wrong with that?"
She sighed. " You don't know what's going to happen to you."
" What will happen to me?"
" Wolfstar will keep you here for at least 12 moons. Then you are too old, and the natural protection a Clan feels for its kits will disappear. She will send you back, still Blazekit, and then grab another kit. You'll train with the apprentices, but at a warrior's age."
" Really?" He said in that cute kit way.
" You know what? I'll train you at 6 moons. We'll call you Blazepaw, but secretly. Then whe you return, you only need to learn a bit and can be a warrior soon."
"That sounds great!" Blazekit couldn't help but jump and shout.
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Strongheart returned from the gathering with a heavy heart.
In the TownClan news, Wolfstar had simply mentioned that the prey was running well.
In the MoorClan news the same.
In the SeaClan news, Moonfrost's kits had been announced, Sunkit, Mosskit and Rainkit.
But the ForestClan news was the worst. Lionstar had told them that Blazekit had died of poisoning, from barging into the medicine den and eating too much bad chervil. Of course, he was alive and well, but in TownClan territory, where no one must know he was. Blackfire's death was covered up with the fox attack.
Blackfire's death was honorable, with no shame in it. But Blazekit barging into the medicine cat den and eating himself to death with bad herbs? Strongheart had been forced to put her fur to absolute minimum length so that the other clans wouldn't see it come up. Blazekit was a kit, but he wasn't stupid!(Strongheart's power is to control her fur.)
Strongheart returned her fur to it's normal length and lay down, back in the warrior's den.
In her dream, she was in a clearing, the same one she had been as an apprentice. But it was Blackfire, not Cloudmouth that greeted her now.
" Blackfire!"
" Hello Strongheart. I'm sorry for what happened to Blazekit, and ForestClan."
" It couldn't be helped. You did your best, and no cat could expect anymore."
Blackfire looked at her. Strongheart had always found Blackfire's blood red eyes to be extremely scary, like the eyes of those in the Dark Forest as Threefoot said. But seeing Blackfire's eyes as moons, she felt almost as though she preferred to have her friend's eyes back.
" I came to ask you something."
" Ask away, Blackfire."
" When your son reaches his sixth moon, I highly doubt that TownClan will allow him to go to the Moontree."
" I've thought of that a lot. It's just so..." She couldn't think of a good word. Cruel? Unfair? "evil." she finished.
" Cloudmouth is confined to the Moontree. He can't reach out and award Blazekit his power."
" Is there any other way?"
Blackfire sighed. " Yes. "
" How?"
" You will have to come with me to his dreams."
" What are the risks?"
" That you will be trapped. Only cats with dream-travelling powers can do this safely. The risk is small, but it is not very..."
" So I must leave my kit in enemy territory helpless?"
" Then you will come?"
" Yes. When the time comes, I will come."
Random plushies today
Serpent's Ballet, a Crowkit plushie.
Wolfstar-Coyoteblaze, a Blazekit plushie
Frenzied warrior, a Rainkit plushie
Cinderpaw11, a Skykit plushie
Luna Holly shaffer, a Sunkit plushie
And finally, I need a power a piece for Daykit, Skykit, Frostkit, Crowkit, Blazekit, Sunkit, Mosskit, and Rainkit. So every review you submit, put in a power and who you want it for. I can only continue the story with those powers.
