A/N: Three week anniversary of Those Who Remember posting one chapter a day and each chapter is about 1,000 words! Now I really want to know how you feel about Dawn of the Clans: The Sun Trail. You were supposed to read that before this story so I don't spoil it for you (that is why this story is taking so long to really get started). So which character can you relate to the most? I'll tell you mine in a couple of chapters (it is TBD but not to far off, I'm not sure which, but if someone would guess and guess correct then I would post it in the next chapter after they guess). Here is the list:
Beetlepaw
Blazepaw
Smokepaw
Harepaw (the first four are kind of biased because they're trying to save the Clans)
Smokey
Hawk
Sparrow
Frost
Ice
Tree
Eagle
Stone
Spike/Jumper/Hoot
Smokey
Dove
Cloud
I know that some of them you don't really know, but the cats that have come to help the Clan are still one their way and that really cuts down a lot of the choices
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Chapter21: Blazepaw
"Come on! We're on the dawn patrol!" Featherpaw's excited mew awakened Blazepaw.
"Alright, alright, I'm coming. Keep your fur on." Blazepaw yawned as he left the den. It had been several sunrises since the rouge had attacked. Bramblestar was sure she must have some ThunderClan blood in her to make her jump so high. Sandstorm agreed that she might have Clan blood, but not ThunderClan.
"Glad to see you actually managed to drag yourself out of your nest." Ivypool let out a snort of amusement. She was leading the patrol, and Cherryfern was coming along with them as they checked the WindClan borders.
The patrol had mostly remarked the entire border, and was down by the lake. Suddenly, a WindClan patrol started racing for the border. The stopped just before crossing, they looked urgent.
"We have a message from RiverClan!" Emberfoot, who happened to be leading the patrol, shouted.
Harepaw, who was also on the patrol, beckoned Blazepaw off to the side as the two patrol camp closer to hear the message from RiverClan.
"Hawk says that the ones who have come to help us are close." Harepaw hissed. Blazepaw stared at Harepaw questioningly. "I know, I know. But why shouldn't he? After all, we had dreams of the rogues attacking." Blazepaw nodded in agreement and moved back to his patrol.
"… To the next gathering." Ivypool nodded and the two patrols departed back to their own camps.
"Um… what was that about?" Blazepaw whispered to Featherpaw.
Featherpaw purred. "What? Were you too busy gossiping with that WindClan apprentice? The just said that we needed to bring Sparrow to the next gathering for some reason. Hey, at least the WindClan apprentice wasn't a she-cat, then I might have been offended!"
Blazepaw started to purr with Featherpaw, then stopped. Wait… What did she just say?
When the patrol got back to camp, Ivypool immediately headed towards Bramblestar's den. Blazepaw went over to the edge of camp and watched the kits play, Sparrow with them. The kits had been the first to accept the young black tom, thinking he was just another cat to play with. Blazepaw watched at Berrynose and Poppyfrost's second litter taught Sparrow how to play moss ball. The ginger tom was surprised that he didn't already know, what did the kits do for fun in the rogues' group?
"… And then, you pounce on it. Like this!" Dustkit, a dust colored tom kit with green eyes, squeaked as he leaped on the moss ball. He had become great friends with the newcomer.
Dustkit's siblings, Lichenkit, a dark cream tabby she-kit with green eyes, and Darkkit, a dark tabby tom with amber eyes, had their own plan of getting the moss ball. Lichenkit leaped onto Dustkit and bowled him over, while Darkkit snuck around and stole it. The kits were about five moons old, so Sparrow wasn't much bigger than him.
"Sparrow! Get the moss ball!" Dustkit shouted as he tussled with his sister.
Sparrow charged after Darkkit, quickly out pacing him. He snagged the moss ball right out of him claws and brought it back over to Dustkit, who was now circling with Lichenkit.
"No fair! Lichenkit, help me get it back!" Darkkit snarled.
Lichenkit broke off from Dustkit and she and Darkkit jumped onto Sparrow. Of course, they were only playing, with claws sheathed, but apparently Sparrow didn't know that. The newcomer was surprised as he was knocked to the ground, and was quickly on top of his attackers, clawing their ears off with fangs bared. Dustkit ran over to his siblings.
"Sparrow, stop! No! They weren't really attacking you and –" Dustkit tried to calm his friend. Blazepaw, who had of course taken action, pulled Sparrow off of the two ThunderClan kits, which were now shaking in fear and covered in scratches. Alerted by the noise made by the kits, most of the Clan was rushing over to where Blazepaw had set Sparrow down and Lichenkit and Darkkit were mewling in fear.
"My kits! My poor kits! Jayfeather!" Poppyfrost screeched when she saw how bloodied they were. Blazepaw wasn't surprised that they would be hurt that much; he thought they would have been hurt more the way Sparrow fought in battle. Blazepaw guessed that Sparrow had just been startled and thought he was defending himself.
Lilypaw quickly rushed from the medicine den. "What happened?" She asked when she arrived.
"What happened? What happened?!" The frantic queen screeched. They had drawn the attention of Bramblestar, who was talking with Squirrelflight and Ivypool in his den. That's just great. Blazepaw thought. "What happened was that this monster," she snarled at Sparrow, who flattened his ears and crouched lower, "came and just attacked my poor kits!"
"That's not true –" Dustkit tried to defend Sparrow.
"That monster must have done something to Dustkit, too! To think one of my own would try to help him when he saw what happened!" Poppyfrost interrupted as she ushered her three kits into the medicine den.
Sparrow was covering in fright, as the ThunderClan warriors surrounded him, spitting insults at the small tom. Blazepaw placed his paws around the kits protectively. It was clear when Blazepaw was watching that Sparrow hadn't meant to harm the other kits.
"Monster!" Berrynose snarled and swiped at Sparrow, who only crouched closer to Blazepaw.
"Stop!" Bramblestar ordered as he pushed his way through the crowd. He glared at all the warriors who were surrounding Sparrow, clearly telling them to back off. His gaze softened slightly when he turned back to Sparrow and Blazepaw, even though anger could still clearly be seen in their depths. "Now," he started, "tell me what happened."
Sparrow tried to answer, but he was shaking to hard, and just curled up with his tail covering his nose, as if to hide from it all. "Well, Dustkit was teaching Sparrow to play moss ball," Blazepaw began, "and Lichenkit and Darkkit came to play and Lichenkit leaped on Dustkit while Darkkit stole the moss ball. Dustkit told Sparrow to get the moss ball, so he did. When Sparrow came back to Dustkit with the moss ball, Darkkit asked Lichenkit for help and they both jumped on Sparrow. After that, I'm not sure what happened. They must have startled Sparrow and make him think they were attacking, so he tried to defend himself." Berrynose let out a snort at the last part.
"Yea, defend himself by shredding them." He growled.
Bramblestar flashed a glare that quickly shut the arrogant warrior up. He turned back to Sparrow and sighed. "He probably didn't mean to hurt them, we still don't know anything about those rogues. But the fact remains that he did hurt them, so as of right now, no kit is allowed to come into contact with him." Before Blazepaw could object, the tabby leader was already leaping up to his den, trailed by Squirrelflight, Ivypool, Dovewing, Lionblaze, and strangely Jayfeather. Lilypaw was tending to the kits.
Once the warriors had dispersed enough, and Blazepaw saw that Sparrow was okay, Blazepaw snuck up to the Highledge to listen to what the six cats were going to say that involved the medicine cat. It was obviously about prophecies.
"… That rogue she-cat, Smokey, she called me Lion's Roar. Blazepaw sounded like he understood what she was saying." Blazepaw heard Lionblaze say.
"I might see what he is dreaming. I've heard Stonepaw, Smokepaw, and Featherpaw chattering about Blazepaw's dreams." Jayfeather's voice came next.
"Dovewing, have you heard anything about the rogues?" Bramblestar asked.
"No, it seems I cannot see their camp, it's as if it is covered in mist. But I can hear RiverClan buzzing about how Nightpaw was stolen b
"Dovewing, have you heard anything about the rogues?" Bramblestar asked.
"No, it seems I cannot see their camp, it's as if it is covered in mist. But I can hear RiverClan buzzing about how Nightpaw was stolen by them. That must be why RiverClan need Hawk and Sparrow to come to the next gathering." Blazepaw gasped. It all made sense now! They were the three. Lionblaze was Lion's Roar, Jayfeather was Jay's Wing, and Dovewing was Dove's Wing! They even have the same name. Blazepaw thought.
"Blazepaw, is there something you needed?" Blazepaw flinched slightly when he heard Bramblestar's deep, annoyed mew.
Blazepaw entered the den, and when Bramblestar motioned for him to sit, he sat.
Jayfeather sighed. "Alright, how much did you hear?" He asked.
Blazepaw shuffled his paws. "Enough." When Blazepaw realized that all this did was cause the six other cats to stare at him suspiciously, he decided to tell them the truth, from the beginning. "I know you are the three. Not just with your powers, but from The Tribe of Rushing Water, and before that, here at the lake. How you were Dove's Wing, Jay's Wing, and Lion's Roar. I know about the connection of the Clans and the Tribe. I know about the Dawn. The first Dawn, as we like to call it."
"We?" Ivypool asked.
"Yes, there are three other apprentices that remember."
"Remember? That's exactly what Smokey was talking about. Who are these cats?" Lionblaze questioned.
"Harepaw from WindClan, Smokepaw from ShadowClan, and Beetlepaw and Nightpaw from RiverClan; Beetlepaw told his brother, Nightpaw, about his dreams. We think that the rogues remember the Dawn, as well, and that is why they are angered. Not all of them feel the same way, though. A few seem as if they wish to help the Clans. There is another group of rogues coming who also remembers. This group comes to help us. Just as us three from the Clans knew that the rogues were coming, the rogues know that these other cats are coming. Harepaw told me that Hawk told him that those others cats are nearing."
"You knew that the rogues were coming?" Dovewing was shocked. Apparently, she didn't know about the rogue, as with the rest of the Clans. "And you didn't tell us?"
Blazepaw looked at his paws. "I-I didn't know if you'd believe me."
Lionblaze sighed. "It's okay, when we first learned about our powers, we didn't tell anyone, either. Now, what was the promise?"
"I'm not sure. I haven't sorted out my memories that far. You are a part of it, greatly. I'll let you know if I discover something, and I'll tell the others that we aren't alone in this." Blazepaw nodded before being dismissed to his den. It had been a long day, and he needed the rest, especially to sort out his memories.
