Ugh! Busy, busy, busy me. I have sooo much to do! But, ill squeeze this story in… enjoy and review!
Chapter 21
"Thistlestorm!" Lionblaze yowled. Sedgewhisker was fighting along the she cat.
"Lionblaze, what is it?" Sedgewhisker looked worriedly at the golden tom.
Her ear was torn and encrusted by blood and she had a torn claw. Thistlestorm wasn't in such a good shape either.
"The 12 need to go to Moonpool as soon as possible!" Lionblaze meowed over the screeching of battling cats.
As a gray mottled tom flung himself at Sedgewhisker, Lionblaze pulled him off and yowled, "Come on, StarClan needs our help, we must complete the prophecy!"
Thistlestorm and Sedgewhisker nodded and called over Swallowtail.
"Is it time?" she panted, blood gushing from a scratch on her muzzle.
Lionblaze nodded swiftly and they set out to find the ShadowClan, and RiverClan cats and Dovewing.
"Stay away, crowfood!" Dovewing yowled.
A large black and white tom was creeping up on Tigerheart slowly at the corner of her eye.
"Tigerheart, watch out!" she warned and the tom spun on her, hissing. The tom leaped and extended his claws.
"No!" Tigerheart yowled, but a large pale tom occupied him.
Suddenly, a large figure slammed into the black and white tom and the enemy disintegrated.
"Lionblaze!" Dovewing meowed in relief.
"You two, we need to get to Moonpool, now!" he meowed.
Tigerheart finished off the pale tom with a bite to the throat, and mewed, "why?"
Lionblaze hissed, "It's time to fulfill the prophecy!"
The two cats nodded and went to look for the RiverClan cats and Tigerheart's siblings.
"Dawnpelt! Where's Flametail?" Tigerheart called to the cream she cat sparring a dark brown tabby tom.
She managed to turn her head enough to tell her brother where Flametail went. "He retreated with the other medicine cats! At the end of the log bridge!" she howled.
"You come too!" Dovewing meowed over the noise.
"What? No way! These crowfood eaters-" Dawnpelt started.
"We need to go to Moonpool, now!" Tigerheart exploded.
Dawnpelt finished the tom she was fighting and nodded, understanding.
"Let's do this!" she meowed.
"We have to find the RiverClan cats!" Dovewing said desperately.
"Here!" Mossypatch and Hollowstone chirped.
Tigerheart rolled his eyes.
"Let's go!" Hollowstone panted.
"Wait, Rushwhisker!" Dovewing cut in.
"No time, we have to go!" Tigerheart nudged her.
Dovewing looked worriedly around her.
Where was Ivyshine? She wondered.
Then she saw her sister. Half her pelt was ripped off and what was left was matted with blood and dirt.
Ivyshine stared at her sadly.
Dovewing stared back.
Then Dovewing followed the others.
"Hollyleaf-" Lionblaze started.
"Hollystar". His long lost sister meowed indignantly.
Lionblaze stared at her, mouth gaping open. "You're leader? Of what, HollyClan?" he meowed.
Hollystar nodded. "Yes. And you found the three. The real three." She mewed in a strong voice. Her green eyes glinted with an emotion Lionblaze couldn't read.
"I'm sorry Hollystar. But we're actually 12. It's the prophecy…"
Hollystar nodded and looked into the distance. "Prophecies are funny things. Often, there is one that leads to a greater one." She looked directly at him with so much intensity like Jayfeather looked at cats with. "You are a great cat Lionblaze. So are Jayfeather and Dovewing. You deserve to bear this power. You alone can handle it." She looked away for a moment. "And it need to be with my Clan. They need me."
Lionblaze crumbled. He had hoped that when this was done, she would come back to ThunderClan with him.
Finally, he said, "I missed you Hollystar."
The she cat's green gaze softened. "So did I."
Lionblaze shifted his paws uncomfortably. "So… this is… goodbye?"
Hollystar looked at him gently. "When you rescue StarClan, they will set a path that will tell." Her whiskers twitched with crude amusement.
"Goodbye Lionblaze. Say farewell to Jayfeather for me." She looked over his shoulder at the gray tabby medicine cat herding the 12 to Moonpool.
Jayfeather turned and rested his sightless pale blue eyes in her direction, and nodded swiftly at her.
Hollystar gave a quick lick on Lionblaze's shoulder and leaped back into battle.
"Come on! Hurry!" Lionblaze growled.
"Where are Rushwhisker and Flametail?" Dovewing demanded.
"I'm here!" Flametail mewed. "Rushwhisker went ahead with Jayfeather."
The golden tom took one last glance at the fighting cats on the small island and padded with the other 12.
"We're almost there." Jayfeather announced.
He had walked this path many times before, ever since he was a kit. Now all that was going to change.
This would be the last time he would walk along the forest leading to the starry pool at the peak of the hill.
Actually, it would probably be the last time he would walk at all. Would the Dark Rose be able to walk?
Hollowstone interrupted his mourning. "I'm starving."
Dawnpelt grumbled, "I see why they call you Hollowstone."
"More like Hollowbelly, right?" Swallowtail giggled.
Thistlestorm gave a sharp glance at her sister. Swallowtail shut up immediately.
The dark brown spiky she cat padded up to Jayfeather.
"So we would have to die for the Dark Rose." She whispered.
Jayfeather, Lionblaze and Hollystar had a relationship with Thistlestorm, Swallowtail and Sedgewhisker. They had rescued the three siblings when they had been trapped in the tunnels.
Jayfeather looked straight ahead.
Thistlestorm meowed, "my sisters and I never really got to thank you and Lionblaze for saving us." she meowed quietly.
Jayfeather trembled. Hollystar helped too. He thought bitterly. Or Hollyleaf.
"Well, you're welcome." He meowed gruffly.
Finally they reached Moonpool.
All 12 cats were silent. They knew what was next. Jayfeather had told them on the journey.
"So… we just… wait?" Hollowstone asked, unsure.
"Maybe we should-"
"Raaowr!" a terrible blood- curtailing screech filled the hollow.
"Dovewing!"