Chapter 21
What Hawkstar will do
Gingerstar14: LightningClan is taking action. Another short chappie.
Tearpaw waited anxiously. Hawkstar had just called a LightningClan meeting to announce the two things she had confessed last night.
"First, well, to put it bluntly, Tearpaw spoke." Caterwauls of joy and surprise rose up from the cats.
Tearpaw leaped up on the tree Hawkstar was standing on. "It's true!" She exclaimed.
"Tearpaw! Tearpaw! Tearpaw!" The Clan chanted.
Tearpaw lashed her tail, grinning.
"And now..." Hawkstar's fear scent rose, silencing the cats. "Deathclaw...is back. Our apprentices scented him."
This time, there was absotute silence. "H-Hawkstar?" The medicne cat, Flowerdapple called.
"I have already decided what to do. We must sharpen our skills, then report it-or admit it- at the gathering in two days."
The cats began murmuring anxiously, and the fear-scent was sickening.
Tearpaw huddled against her mentor, and Tanfeather licked her head comfortingly.
Blackstrife and Morningdove wrapped their tails around their kits, Pandakit and Sagekit.
"Two days...will he attack before then?" Darksoul called.
"We have to trust he doesn't!" Thunderstorm called.
The sisters, Breezeblade and Wildfleck huddled together, shivering.
The apprentices got into a group for protection, and a few warriors stuck close to their friends.
Hawkstar look around at her Clan, hoping the other Clans could help.