The Return of the Greatest Heroes Chapter 19
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Emberblaze was pushed to the ground; the dark figure tussled with the gray she-cat. The intruder smelled of ShadowClan.
"What's your name?" Emberblaze hissed.
"Rule No. 1: no talking during a fight," the ShadowClan cat taunted.
That was when Blackbriar, Firepaw, and Ravenpaw joined the fight. Ravenpaw was scared, he'll admit that, but he's not going to let one of his Clanmates die over a fight that didn't even make sense.
Who is this tom? Blackbriar thought.
"Darkstpaw!" Firepaw gasped.
"Oh, Firepaw's the first to notice." Darkpaw sneered.
"Whatever," Blackbriar scoffed.
"You can shut up!" the dark apprentice continued to fight Emberblaze.
"Ravenpaw, call for re-enforcements. There may be more of them," Blackbriar ordered her apprentice.
The black tom scurried away in the direction away from camp; he didn't want anyone to know where the camp was. He'll turn back to the camp a little ways out.
"Who said I had re-enforcements?" Darkpaw asked. "Why would I? I'm not even supposed to be here."
"You got that right!" Blackbriar lunged.
"Oooo, touchy!" the apprentice said.
Firepaw shook himself out of his state of shock; he attacked for the second time. Forget the leaves, they had and apprentice to deal with.
"Firepaw! Lunge!" Emberblaze gasped as Darkpaw's paws dug into her belly.
Somewhere in Firepaw's eyes, a strange light kindled. One in each eye, a tiny flame burst into light. Fire danced within the green of the flame colored apprentice's eyes. He didn't like his mentor getting beaten up by someone who was killed a long time ago. Literally.
Firepaw pounced on Darkpaw, ripping him off of his mentor.
"Be careful," Darkpaw glared at him. "You wouldn't want to attack someone from your own clan."
Darkpaw's words shot through Firepaw like a leaf-bare breeze. Attack someone from his own clan...No...It can't be...
Firepaw's world went black.
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Littlekit dug his tiny claws into Mistfur's shoulder. The queen screeched in pain. Just what he wanted.
"You'll never beat me." the tiny black kit scoffed.
The RiverClan leader burst out of her den. "Enough!" the she-cat picked up the little tom by the scruff. "You can't go around attacking cats from your own clan."
Clan, that word seared through Littlekit like a swift swipe. I want to be leader!
"Hopestar!" Mistfur gasped.
"Don't be so surprised to see me. I don't spend that much time in my den," Hopestar let Littlekit go on the ground.
Littlekit growled at them, showing his tiny, thorn sharp teeth.
All of this commotion had paused the game Lionkit, Dovekit, and Ivykit were playing.
Lionkit streaked over to Littlekit and hissed in his ear. "Alright, give it up. Which Dark Forest warrior are you?"
"I'm not from the Dark Forest," Littlekit narrowed his eyes. "I'm from a place much better than that.
"Where?" Ivykit asked.
"A place different from the Dark Forest, but it basically is the same." Littlekit growled.
"Then, who were you before?" Dovekit asked.
"You don't need to know many details, but I can embarrass some of the StarClan reborns in ThunderClan right now." the black kit said haughtily.
"Reborns? In ThunderClan?" Ivykit's eyes went wide.
"Yes, sadly, at least thirteen," Littlekit didn't tell which ones.
"Which cat would you be able to embarrass and how?" Lionkit just wanted to see someone he knew humiliated.
"Firepaw."
"Firepaw?" Dovekit asked.
"How come Firestar's more advanced than us?" Lionkit made sure not to anger his brother as he got information out of him.
"He was reborn earlier, but he isn't the most advanced." the black tom might have started to see the light of RiverClan.
"Who's the most advanced?" Ivykit asked.
"Ashstar,"
"And that is?" Lionkit wasn't getting it.
"Ashfur,"
"Ashfur's leader of ThunderClan?" Dovekit's eyes went wide.
"Yes,"
"So, how could you humiliate Firest-paw?" Lionkit wanted to know how to embarrass the tom.
"By saying that I'm his half-brother," Littlekit stated. "Or, at least, I was,"
"You were Firestar's half brother?" Dovekit gasped.
"Same stupid kittypet father, yeah," the kit answered.
"And who are you exactly?" Lionkit asked.
"You don't need to know much about me, but I used to call myself Scourge."
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It was a dark, dark night. Everywhere Firepaw looked was black. Except for two things: an apprentice and hope. This certain apprentice was of ShadowClan origins; this cat was called Tigerpaw.
"Well, well, well," Tigerpaw sauntered forward. "The time has come."
Firepaw tried to use his voice, but it wouldn't work.
Just then, another thing came into his vision. A flame colored tom.
"Never." was the one word that tom uttered.
"We'll see about that." the great tabby tom approached.
"You'll never get me, Tigerclaw!" that one tom roared.
"Oh really?" Tigerclaw, now, looked around. "Watch out. You don't want to attack one of your clan mates."
"Shut up!" the flame colored tom threw himself at Tigerclaw. Firepaw tried to help, but he found that he could not move from his place.
Tigerclaw pinned the flame colored tom down easily. "Pitiful."
"Shut it,"
"Whatever," the tabby warrior leaned down and bit the other tom. On the neck.
Screeches of pain erupted from the clearing. The clearing of the medicine den of ThunderClan. In defense, Brackenfall launched out of his den and pushed Tigerclaw off.
"Move, silly medicine cat." Tigerclaw raised his claws at him.
"You can't hurt a medicine cat!" the flame colored tom was gasping for breath.
"I don't care," the warrior glared at the younger tom. "He needs to be taught a lesson."
Tigerclaw raked Brackenfall's side. Obviously, Brackenfall had a lot of control over things like pain. He kept silent. Rain started pouring down, showing StarClan's disapproval.
"You're angering StarClan!" the ginger medicine cat warned as Tigerclaw landed another blow on his belly.
"I don't care," the warrior growled.
Shakily, the flame colored tom stood up. Black spots dancing in his vision, he stumbled to the tussling toms. Claws unsheathed, he took on who he thought was Tigerclaw, he couldn't see, but he was wrong. Yowls erupted from the medicine cat as the apprentice's paws hit his throat unsheathed. Tigerclaw had skillfully made it that Brackenfall was the one on top of him, getting the blows from the apprentice.
Brackenfall fell over, his soul joining the ranks of StarClan. Tigerclaw and the younger tom had worked together to destroy Brackenfall. The rain came down even harder, soaking the two toms as they stared at the body. The flame colored tom in shock, Tigerpaw in victory. The pain became too much for the apprentice as he passed out. Rain soaked his fur, gathering in pools.
Firepaw stared in horror. That apprentice was HIM. He had helped Tigerclaw kill Brackenfall. Maybe he was no better than the tabby tom himself...
The Firepaw of the present passed out listening to this one phrase over and over again.
A bracken being burned by fire striped like a tiger only to be quenched by water. A bracken being burned by fire striped like a tiger only to be quenched by water. A bracken being burned by fire striped like a tiger only to be quenched by water...
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When Emberblaze and Blackbriar saw Firepaw pass out, they knew something was wrong. Staring at her apprentice in shock, anger took over Emberblaze as she dived right in front of Firepaw right as Darkpaw's paw went down, claws unsheathed.
A screech shook the forest that night. If YOU were there, you'd be having nightmares for days, moons, seasons...All the blood that pooled by the gray she-cats neck, as Darkpaw thought he had claimed a soul. Blackbriar chasing Darkpaw to the Thunderpath of the Dark Forest...Ravenpaw returning with Jayfeather, Redstripe, Sandpaw, Grassjaw, and Bluepaw. All the blood...
"What's going on here?" Jayfeather stared at his former leader and his current mother.
"An attack from a ShadowClan apprentice." Blackbriar returned from chasing the apprentice away. "That apprentice was WAY too well-trained to just be an apprentice."
Bluepaw, Ravenpaw, and Sandpaw shared an UH-OH look before speaking up. "Emberblaze is still alive! If we bring her back to camp, maybe Brackenfall could do something. Even giving her poppy seeds for the pain." Bluepaw yelled.
The warriors stared at her, but complied. Grassjaw and Jayfeather took on the weight of Emberblaze, and Redstripe picked Firepaw up by the scruff, which was a little funny to watch, because they were about the same size.
In camp...
"Brackenfall! Yellowpaw! Anybody!" Grassjaw called frantically.
"What?" Brackenfall and Yellowpaw slipped out of the nursery. "We were checking up on Clovercloud."
The two medicine cats' eyes widened when they saw the two cats in tow.
"My den, NOW!" Brackenfall hurried to go get the cobwebs.
The warriors put down their load in the medicine den.
"You there!" the medicine cat flicked his tail at Redstripe. "Get all of the apprentices except Yellowpaw and Firepaw to go search for cobwebs. Yellowpaw, go get marigold and horsetail."
Brackenfall himself started licking Emberblaze's wound. "Please don't die, please don't die,"
Grassjaw stared at the medicine cat, "You've never been like this over a cat's death before."
While licking, Brackenfall made eye contact with Jayfeather. "It doesn't matter."
Yellowpaw came back with marigold and horsetail in leaf-wraps. "Shall I go look for cobwebs?"
"That would be great," Brackenfall licked some more.
Yellowpaw left at the same time Bluepaw entered the camp with a ton of cobwebs.
Brackenfall took the cobwebs and pressed them on Emberblaze with marigold and horsetail on it.
"Will she live?" Jayfeather's eyes clouded with grief for his mom.
"Hard to say," Brackenfall sighed. "But we can only wait now."
"What about Firepaw?" Jayfeather asked.
"I've seen something like this before. It happened to Ashstar when he was still an apprentice. Afterwards, he told me he got a glimpse of the future," the ginger tom stated after inspecting the flame colored apprentice for a bit.
Once all of the apprentices returned to camp and put the cobwebs in the store, they gathered around Brackenfall for news.
"Ask me anything. I'm full of answers." Brackenfall grumbled.
"The only thing I have to ask is something no one would be able to help me with," Jayfeather sulked.
"Is it about your mom?" Yellowpaw guessed.
"No, it's about my dad,"
"Who's that?" Sandpaw asked.
"I don't know. I could be half-kittypet or half-clan for all I know." the gray warrior stated.
"Why do you even need to know?" Dustpaw questioned.
"WOULD YOU WANT TO LIVE YOUR WHOLE LIFE NOT KNOWING WHO YOUR FATHER EVEN IS?" Jayfeather yelled.
Brackenfall winced. "Jayfeather,"
"What?" somebody woke up on the wrong side of the nest today.
The medicine cats answer shocked them all. "I'm your father."
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