OK, just so you all know, I am NOT copying flareon200. It may be similar, but I am not looking at her story while I write or anything like that- I have never cheated in my life and I don't intend to start now.
Now, on a happy note, I have 60 reviews! At least I did when I checked today . . .
Disclaimer: This is chapter 14, of the 2nd book, and I don't own Warriors yet! Why do you keep asking me?
"Ow!" Blazepaw heard Wildpaw- no, Wildheart, screech as Whiteleaf pressed cobwebs to his injured shoulder. The golden apprentice felt sorry for Wildheart and Swiftpaw- Swiftstream, he reminded himself. They had been attacked on the night of their vigil, and they were the first to be hurt.
Blazepaw's front paw had been sprained in the battle. He was still fuming that ThunderClan had accused them of prey-stealing, much less attacked them. Why didn't Swiftstar tell them at the Gathering? His mind was racing. Did he think the rogue would come back?
"Blazepaw." Blazepaw looked up to see Bluewing looking at him wearily. "Comfrey," he mewed. "Your paw's fractured. Not badly, but it's fractured."
"How will I train?" Blazepaw cried. He knew that fractured meant broken, and that would definitely keep him from warrior training.
Bluewing glared at him in an uncharacteristic look of anger. "It'll heal with time," he snapped. "Hold out your paw."
Sighing, Blazepaw held out the awkwardly bent paw. He closed his eyes happily as the pain ebbed away to a slight tingling. "Thanks, Bluewing," he mumbled.
The blue-gray tom muttered something through a mouthful of herbs. Blazepaw sighed again. This would put off his training for a least a moon!
"Stop sighing," Swiftstream hissed at him. "I'm trying to sleep here!"
Blazepaw glared at her and opened his mouth to retort, but his former denmate looked so pitiful with her cut shoulder and unkempt fur that he decided to just let the remark go. Right now he needed to let everything go. '
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Moonkit stood in front of Blazepaw. "Now what?" Blazepaw complained. "This isn't a good time for mysterious StarClan dreams."
"Well, you're gonna have to make time," Moonkit mewed. "Because I have a message for you." Suddenly his eyes glowed a cold, unnatural blue and he rasped in an ancient voice, "A golden storm will strike, and four will make the journey of a lifetime."
Blazepaw's ears pricked. "What?"
Moonkit's eyes rolled back in his head and he began to topple over. Blazepaw rushewd to his side and steadied him. "Whoa," murmured Moonkit. "I didn't think telling my first prophecy would be so hard . . ."
Blazepaw rolled his eyes. "Are you OK?" he asked.
"Fine." Moonkit gave his chest fur a few self-conscious licks. "Now, I assume you know what you have to do, right?"
"Huh?" Blazepaw stared at the silver tabby kit.
Moonkit sighed and fixed Blazepaw with his icy blue stare. "Dewpaw needs to know of this too," he meowed.
"So . . . I tell him at the next Gathering?" Blazepaw asked, waving his tail unconsciously.
"No!" Moonkit's eyes flashed. Blazepaw stepped back as the black void was illuminated in a flash of lightning. He had never seen Moonkit angry. "That's not it!"
"Moonkit, calm yourself."
A new voice spoke. A she-cat's. Blazepaw watched as a path of stars stretched down from above, and a dark gray she-cat padded down. Blazepaw just gaped. She looked just like Stormsky!
"I am Nightwind, mother of Stormsky and Icestream," she mewed, her voice echoing lightly around the pitch-black space. "I was Whiteleaf's mentor."
"You had forbidden kits!" Blazepaw blurted.
Nightwind's eyes flashed, but she said nothing. Moonkit nudged the dark she-cat and murmured something in her ear. Nightwind nodded and focused her clear blue eyes on Blazepaw. "We all make mistakes," she meowed. "Mine was having kits. Stormsky and your mother made that same mistake. Cloudstar made a mistake when she attacked WindClan. So did Leafpool and Crowfeather, Jayfeather and Cinderheart- and many other cats." Nightwind paused, watching amusedly as Blazepaw's eyes grew wider at the mention of these legendary cats.
"You and Dewpaw will encounter many hardships- injuries, power, love- maybe even death."
Blazepaw tensed. "Death?"
Moonkit opened his mouth to say something, but Nightwind shushed him before he could speak. The starry medicine cat looked right at Blazepaw. "You must go to Dewpaw, tomorrow night, and leave for your journey."
"What journey?" Blazepaw asked. "Where are Dewpaw and I going?"
"To an ancient, sacred place," Nightwind meowed. "The answers are waiting." The she-cat vanished, becoming transparent, and Moonkit went with her.
Tada! It was shorter than most chapters, but I liked it . . . . . . . . . . . . wee for little dots! Anyway, next update tomorrow, or maybe even today . . . . after my dentist appointment . . X( I don't like the dentist. . . . later people! Vote on the poll and please leave a review!