This chapter is long. Like, really long, about 5 minutes. Anyways, the ending plot is xMysticWolfx approved. Like my beds, in which, are accepted and agreed by cats. *mlg dank meme music* THAT'S RIGHT! Everything belongs to cats. Anyways, my cold is gone, weekends are here, freezing storm here in USA so my power could shut off, goal is reached and yeah. 3,167 characters. Enjoy! Please review if you have anything to say like: Improving, just a fun review, etc. Too shy? PM me! I read all my PMs whenever I can so please don't spam. If you do spam, I will shut off PMs. Again, as always, enjoy!
"I can't wait for Sagekit, Cherrykit and Cloverkit to grow up!" Rainpaw boasted. "I can't wait!" Mistypaw meowed. "Pfft." Berrypaw said. "Rude." Honeypaw whispered. "Don't say that!" Dawnpaw growled. "Wasn't me!" Duskpaw hissed. "Anyways, What will their warrior names be?" Mistpaw asked. "No ideas." Dustpaw said. "Maybe Clovertail, Cherrywhisker and Sageheart!" Greypaw mewed.
Blossompaw came over to the group, Emberpaw leaning his good flank on her side. (His bad flank is on your right, he is leaning his left flank on Blossompaw's side) "Emberpaw?" Rainpaw questioned.
"Yeah, mouse-brain here..." Emberpaw said. "Don't say that, Emberpaw!" Blossompaw said. "Try sitting down!" She exclaimed in joy. "No!" Emberpaw refused back. The tom parted away from Blossompaw and toppled over on the snow. "Your back right leg will be useless if you don't train it to move again." She warned. Emberpaw got up, still wobbling. Emberpaw just toppled over and got up, he padded away, still a bit wobbly. "He's still rusty." Blossompaw exclaimed and padded after the white-golden-and-pale tom.
It was the next day, Rainpaw was on the night patrol. She heard bushes rattle and saw a long tail enter it. She tilted her head. "Hey-" She got cut off. "Just a snake maybe." Her mentor said.
A howl rang out from the trees. Rainpaw dashed with her mentor and saw four kits laying there. Foxfur picked up one. Rainpaw repeated, guessing it was okay. She padded along side her mentor. The dropped the kits at camp and left to get the other two. They dropped the kits in camp. Dewstar woke up and examined the kits "Two toms and two she-cats. They are ThornClan kits." She said. "Why would ThornClan abounded kits?" Foxfur asked.
"I don't know but tomorrow is the Gathering we can ask Thornstar there." (They think Thornstar is alive but he is dead, as stated in the last chapter by Nightheart) One kit had hazel eyes and was pure black. One kit was dark ginger with green eyes. One was black with dark ginger stripes and blue eyes. One was dark ginger with black flecks and amber eyes.
"I'm Applekit!" The one with green eyes meowed. "I'm Shadekit." The one with hazel eyes mewed. "I'm Leafkit!" The one with blue eyes said. "I'm Sparkkit!" The one with amber eyes purred. "Oh." Foxfur said at the name 'Sparkkit'. Rainpaw just went to her den. She honestly hated the names Brightlight and Lionclaw chose for their kits. She hated the names 'Sparkkit' and 'Applekit'.
Rainpaw stretched. Fear pulsed in her blood. Tonight was the gathering. She had slept until sun-high. She heard whispers. "Why would ThornClan abound kits?" One cat said. "Never know, maybe tonight we will find out, if we don't we will ask the kits." One answered. "Ask the kits," One said in a puzzled tone. "Don't you think their parents lied to them?" One said. The other sighed. "Possibly not." He hissed. "Don't growl at me!" The other said. A silence broke them from their talk for a lot of heart-beats. "Right." The other admitted in a mumble. "We will ask ThornClan, if they do not tell them, we will ask the kits, go patrol, Foxfur." The cat said, whiskers twitching. The second cat must be Dewstar, she must have been the one to come up with the idea, Foxfur must have been the one to disagree. The almost-ready-to-be-a-warrior apprentice thought.
"Rainpaw!" A tom purred from behind her, making her pelt bristle like thistles. "Yes?" She asked after taking a deep breath in and then out. He fur flattened when she turned around to see Dustpaw there. "Last night I heard Foxfur talking about you and Mistpaw taking your assessments together!" He partly screeched and partly whispered. "Why are you excited about it?" The older apprentice asked. The tom twitched his ears and lashed his tail. "I'm proud of you." He said, calm for once. "Thanks." Rainpaw said, trying tom keep him relaxed. But Dustpaw's settled feeling was washed away no matter how much and how hard Rainpaw tried to keep it stable. "Eeek!" He said, bouncing away.
"Great StarClan." She sighed. "Rainpaw stop gossiping and come on! We have border patrols, training, hunting and assessments with Mistpaw today!" Foxfur called from the brambly exit to camp. "Fine." She grumbled. Lionclaw, Birchfrost, Oakstream and Mistpaw were there.
Rainpaw made a large leap across a log. "I did it!" She purred. "Nicely done now walk." Foxfur seemed stern lately, maybe he was nervous about the kits. A fresh waft of ThornClan's scent brushed her nose. She wrinkled her nose in disgust. "ThornClan!" She said, seeing a dusty brown cat, ginger cat and pale cat stalking them. "Your name should be Raineyes for how good you see!" Mistpaw joked. "No how about Hawkeyes!" Lionclaw teased. Rainpaw giggled a bit. "I like the name Rainpaw better, thank you." She mewed. "Oh Mistpaw." Birchfrost meowed, curling her tail around her apprentice. Oakstream narrowed his eyes on them. "I'm watching them, shut up." He whispered.
"That's called stalking." Mistpaw pointed out. "What are you doing so close to the border?" The three rival Clan cats walked up. "We can be here as much as we want, we are still on our territory." Lionclaw stated. "At least move farther from the border." The ginger one hissed. "No time for growling at these bird-eaters." The pale one said. At this point, Rainpaw wanted to leap out at them as much as Mistpaw did, in which, Mistpaw was a claw-length away from the border. "Mistpaw step away. They can easily claw you." Birchfrost warned. Oakstream was growling. Lionclaw looked at them. "You do know your our ally, right?" He asked. "That was in leaf-fall." The dusty one pointed out. "No matter how many seasons ago we became allies, we will always be allies!" Rainpaw hissed.
"Let us mark out border so no more trouble will be caused." Lionclaw stated. "You started it!" Mistpaw protested. "No Mistpaw, quiet, let Lionclaw handle it." Birchfrost said. "Rainpaw, a apprentice of ours is right. The sooner the better." He explained. The ThornClan patrol nodded. "We will be out of your way shortly, we have to mark ours first." They three ThornClan cats said, splitting up and rubbing against trees, rocks and ferns. Rainpaw remembered how she laughed and chuckled a bit earlier.
The ThornClan cats left. Something odd with ThornClan was going on, abounding kits, littler patrols, tiny pieces of prey everywhere and smaller bellies of the cats, was ThronClan starving?
Afterwards, they traveled to small, well sheltered forest clearing. It was small enough to fit the patrol in it. "Alright Rainpaw." Foxfur began. "You are going to train with Mistpaw today." He mewed. "That's right." Birchfrost meowed. "Follow my lead!" Foxfur said, making Rainpaw and Mistpaw jolt. Foxfur toppled over Birchfrost and pinned her down, he grabbed her shoulders with his paws and flung her into a bush. "Now you try Rainpaw, do it on Mistpaw, no claws and no fangs." Foxfur told. Paws, no teeth. Rainpaw thought.
Mistpaw nodded to tell Rainpaw everything would be fine. "Okay." Rainpaw said before launching herself on Mistpaw and pinned her down, grabbing her shoulders, Rainpaw flew Mistpaw into a bush. "Awesome!" Mistpaw said. "Mistpaw, try it on Rainpaw." Birchfrost said. Mistpaw launched herself on Rainpaw, toppling her over and pinning her down. Rainpaw felt Mistpaw grab her shoulders. She was ready to be flown into a bush. Mistpaw lifted her kin up and threw her into the bush. "Thorns!" Rainpaw screeched, coming out of the bush with thorns.
"There we go." Foxfur was clearly pleased with how successful the training went. "That is called the distraction move, if you make them go into a rock, tree or brambles, they will possibly get distracted." Lionclaw said. "I learned it." He said. "Wow!" Mistpaw exclaimed. "Woah." Rainpaw mumbled. Foxfur came over and pulled out one thorn, spitting them back into the bush. He did this with all thorns until she was clean of any. "Let's hunt now and then go back to camp for a bit before doing our assessments.
Rainpaw pounced the mouse. "That's the last of it. Let's go drop off our prey, relax then do your assessments." Lionclaw said. The cats padded back to camp. Mistpaw caught two voles while Foxfur caught three birds. Lionclaw was watching with Birchfrost so they didn't catch anything. Rainpaw only caught a mouse. It was a pity sight for her mentor but Rainpaw was thankful she even caught something.
The patrol was silent. The forest was quiet. No birdsong came. Sad.
Ivy and moss climbed up the trees, leaves blew in the soft, slow breeze. Rainpaw's paws were freezing. It wasn't even near New-leaf. She sighed. Wind brushed her pelt. Her sister was nearly blown away by a strong waft of air sliding by her fur.
Rainpaw followed the ground as it sloped down a bit then up, brambles brushed her back as the cats entered camp. It was buzzing with cats. Pinebreeze and Oakstream were sharing a sparrow. Leopardpelt was eating a crow. Mistypaw and Berrypaw were taking a raven to the elders. Duskpaw, Dawnpaw and Honeypaw were was being checked on by Blossompaw. Finchsong was sorting herbs while Rosemoon was checking Birdflight's paw. Birdflight had a vole with him. Rainpaw dropped her mouse on the pile. Mistpaw dropped her voles. Foxfur dropped his birds. Greypaw and Dustpaw were sharing a mouse.
"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather around for a Clan meeting." Dewstar called. The cats hurried to their leader, finishing what they were doing quickly. Rainpaw padded by Honeypaw, Duskpaw and Dawnpaw. "Did you pass your assessment?" Honeypaw asked. "We haven't done it yet." Rainpaw said. "Oh." Dawnpaw said.
"Don't worry, Rainpaw!" Duskpaw purred. "I won't." Rainpaw meowed. "Listen!" Lionclaw called. "Sorry." The apprentices mewed. "As we all now, we are going to the Gathering tonight, all apprentices and warriors will be going. Elders, queens, and kits will stay behind. Rosemoon will stay here to watch them. Finchsong and Blossompaw are coming as well. Let's go." Dewstar said, leaping down from Owlstone. "Clan meeting dismissed." She finished.
Rainpaw trekked over the snow, Berrypaw was boasting to Mistypaw about this giant mouse he caught and gave to Greypaw and Dustpaw. The frost froze her paws like ice, she was at camp for a heart-beat. Stress and pressure covered her like a flood. She flexed her claws. The ground sloped upwards until they saw silhouettes of cats.
She gulped as the climbed the hill. Scents of CinderClan and ThornClan entered her nose. She saw silhouettes of cats trekked up from the back of the hill. CinderClan usually trekked up the right side of the hill and ThornClan on the left while OwlClan went straight and was there at the Gathering. A dark gray face shown, the cat flicked his tail and many cats went in all directions but not backwards. Emberpaw crouched behind Rainpaw at the sight of this cat. The dark cat's eyes blazed like fire, his eyes were amber as flames and ember.
The cat padded to a stump by Nettlestar. A ginger tom with gray flecks sat on the second stump. Dewstar following. The leaders chatted.
Rainpaw rolled her eyes. "Emberpaw go and chat or something, Berrypaw and Honeypaw are over there." She meowed, flicking her tail to the left. Emberpaw crawled his way over to them and shivered. What's up with him? Well it is his first Gathering after all. She thought. She found Greypaw, Mistypaw and Dustpaw talking to Duskpaw and Dawnpaw. She padded over to them. "That apprentice was so rude." Greypaw said. Duskpaw, Dustpaw and Dawnpaw nodded. "Honestly, that apprentice needs to learn to be more nice to the most pretty cat here." Mistypaw said, flicking her whiskers. Rainpaw twitched her ears. "What was his or her name?" Rainpaw wondered.
"I don't know." Mistpaw had walked up to the crowd. "It was Darkpaw." Blossompaw mewed. Rainpaw was scared a bit but didn't care.
"Attention!" Dewstar called in a screech. The cats looked up. "Today is the day I report, warrior ceremonies and a birth. Littlepaw, Shellpaw and Rowanpaw have become warriors named Rowanbird, Littleheart and Shellwater. Brightlight has given birth to three kits, Cloverkit, Cherrykit and Sagekit. She has raised Shellwater, Rowanbird, Emberpaw and Littleheart well and now she is taking on her second litter." Dewstar yowled. "ThornClan would like to announce a few deaths and a birth." The leader of ThornClan went on.
"A Clan of cats named EmberClan have invaded our camp. They killed two elders and Thornstar, may you rest in peace. Our elder's names were Longfur and Mousepelt." he went on. "I am Redstar, the new leader of ThornClan. Thornstar was a nice leader. Our elders were very wise." Redstar told. "Moving on, Blazepelt became mates with Darkfire and went to be a elder. She later had three kits, Reedkit, Goosekit ad Shadowkit." He said.
"CinderClan has appointed a warrior named Grassclaw as deputy. We have also had our medicine cat apprentice become a full medicine cat of CinderClan. We also had three apprentices become warriors, that is all." Nettlestar said.
"I am Emberstar, the leader of EmberClan, I have to warn you of something, ThornClan," Emberstar purred lowly. Redstar was leaning at the edge of his stump, ears perked. Dewstar and Nettlestar supported him. "I might launch another attack so be ready, be thankful i'm warning you." The gray leader growled. "I am grateful, very, i may need to ask you something next Gathering." Redstar hissed lowly at the end of his sentence. "Gathering dismissed!" The leaders said.
Rainpaw entered camp to busyness. Really? She thought, she was freezing and grumpy. She saw Blossompaw take Cloverkit out of the nursery and put into a moss bed. Brightlight was in the moss bed with her other kits. What in StarClan is going on? She thought, padding to the apprentices den. She got a glimpse of Mistypaw trying to enter the medicine den but Rosemoon shooed her away.
When Mistypaw entered the apprentices den, Mistpaw asked what happened. "Cloverkit has greencough and so does Cherrykit. Sagekit is particularly starving so she needs to nurse. Things are crazy all because we left for the Gathering." Mistypaw reported, dismay in her voice. "It's not our fault." Rainpaw admitted. "I think StarClan hates us." Mistypaw admitted doubtfully. "No way!" Mistpaw burst. "Hush up, apprentices." A silhouette of a warrior passed by.
Foxfur is always wanting all of the Clan to shut up and the most serious situations. She thought. A life was in danger, she had to risk hers to give that kit a chance at life.
She curled up, Duskpaw, Berrypaw, Honeypaw, Dawnpaw, Greypaw and Dustpaw were asleep already. Mistypaw was just falling asleep and Mistpaw stayed awake. Mistpaw was probably haunted that two kits were covered by greencough like a flood. Grief loomed over Rainpaw, she hated seeing her kin in pain. She would cry in sorrow, sadness, anger and depression to StarClan if they let her kin die, just like Nightpaw. Knowing that becoming a warrior tomorrow makes it worse, it's not fair. She thought. He will be a StarClan warrior though. She thought, trying to fight the tears. Rainpaw was overshadowed in shade of fear. She was worried and scared. This was a dreadful feeling and emotion.
She sobbed silently and quietly. She shut her eyes and sniffled.
A starry forest was under her paws, she shifted backwards and looked up. A ginger tom with black stripes stood in front of her. "Please don't harm me! I'm innocent." She reasoned. her pleading and begging seemed to make a purr rumble from the tom's throat. A smile spread across his face. "No, Rainpaw, I sensed your fear for me, I am Tigerstripe, a warrior who died in the war with CinderClan. My mate is Lightshine, a few of our kits remain alive, Badgerstripe, your mentor, Foxfur, Finchsong and Poppywing. I am here with my two dead kits, Mosspelt and Willowheart. We are here to tell you something." He introduced. "I heard about you from Ashmist!" Rainpaw exclaimed, elder stories running through her mind like a hare dashing away from a cat.
"Yes." Mosspelt mewed. "The sunlight will fade and water will clash with cats, taking lives." Willowheart said. "Tell Dewstar this message and help make OwlClan safe from the waves and splashing of lives." Tigerstripe said. "Wait!" She called. "Yes?" Willowheart asked. "How do you know who I am?" Rainpaw wondered. "We watched you grow." Mosspelt said. "Oh." Rainpaw meowed. "Why should I deliver this message to Dewstar?" Rainpaw wondered. "Because it is very important." Willowheart said. "if you don't your Clan will die. this is serious, lives from OwlClan will be torn and ripped apart and away from cats we love and-" Mosspelt explained in tears. Nightpaw probably. Rainpaw thought.
She shifted forward. "Tell Oakstream I love him." A whisper sounded in her ears, she was unable to figure out who's voice it was. "Enough!" Tigerstripe yowled as Rainpaw faded.
There will be four who will dry the flood...
Ooooooooooooh! What will happen next? (best cliffhanger 2016) Q&A TIME IS HERE! At the end of every chapter i will have a fun question for you to answer with your own opinion and guesses. This is to get a connection with my readers more so yeah. My and my pal, xMysticWolfx do this all the time. Now at the beginning of chapters I will put some opinions by you people with my reply instead of PMing 100 people every day. XD Here you go! the reason why Rainpaw and Mistpaw didn't take their assesments was because time was being rushed and I just skipped it for fun.
Q: Will Cloverkit die with Cherrykit, or just Cloverkit or just Cherrykit or none, explain something! Be creative and go crazy on this! It was made for it!
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