Chapter 27: There are two Chapter 27s

The Memories

Starpaw wandered through the forest madly. She was angry. LaFlamepelt followed the apprentice worriedly. Starpaw sighed, wondering if talking to the she-cat would help her feel better.

"LaFlamepelt, help me," she meowed. "You're a good straight cat. How are you dealing with this? I'm being raised by cats who are not only plebeians, but also lesbians. And the toms I love are now gay. I can't handle it!"

The warrior shrugged. "I don't know. It's not that big of a deal to me. You're the only one that has a problem with cats not following the Eleven Commandments. Just follow your heart, I guess." She looked over at her mate, a cat named Nightrain. "Does it really matter, Starpaw? I mean I'm bi, so obviously I'm not following the Commandments either."

Starpaw and Nightrain were both shocked by LaFlamepelt's revelation. "No!" they both cried. "You can't be bi!" Poor Nightrain looked absolutely horrified. Apparently his mate hadn't told him this important bit of information.

"Who cares if I am?" LaFlamepelt hissed.

"I do," Nightstorm, a random cat who had just replaced Nightrain, meowed. "I think it's bad."

LaFlamepelt was done talking about the matter, not wanting to deal with Starpaw and Nightstorm's anger, and changed the subject. "By the way, did you hear there's now a SatinClan? There was a HellClan, but the author forgot about it, so now she's invented SatinClan. That's where bad cats who don't want to listen to StarClan or follow the Eleven Commandments can live. I'm going to go join it because I'm evil now."

"Question mark?" Starpaw said beautifully, apparently thinking that saying the name of a punctuation mark was necessary at that point.

"I don't know!" Rainsplash, a random cat who had just replaced Nightstorm, who had just replaced Nightrain, cried. He then ran off, being very confused and wondering if he was really a different cat than the other toms or if he just didn't know his own name.

Starpaw was so sad that tears started to fall down her face, even though cats can't cry real tears. Is everyone in my family gay now? she wondered, apparently remembering that Lakepool and LaFlamepelt were her sisters. She had so many memories of her old life that it was almost like she hadn't been reincarnated at all. At least Cinderheart couldn't remember being Cinderpelt when she was awake- only in her dreams. But this was Starpaw, and she was special and did everything her own way. She didn't conform to the ways of society, or even the ways things actually happened in the books. She didn't care about canon. She was Starpaw and she did whatever she wanted however she wanted to do it.

Starpaw continued walking through the forest. She walked to the clearing where she had once spent time with Hawkfrost, back when they both loved each other. This is where we met, she thought sadly, even though they had actually met in the Fark Forest, not ThunderClan's territory.

Then she looked at a nearby tree. It was the same tree Hawkfrost had hit his head against when he was looking for her. Apparently Starpaw had made her way to the island where Gatherings were held, considering that was where they had been when she had died and Hawkfrost had hit his head. Suddenly all of her memories came flooding back! She remembered everything, not that she had been acting like she hadn't remembered her previous life. In fact, the narrator's wondering what the heck there was to remember at this point. Starpaw seemed to remember everything, and the reader is supposed to believe that looking at a random tree would cause her to remember what little she didn't?

"11111111111!" Starpaw cried, suddenly feeling the need to shout the number '1' many times.