Chapter Thirty Seven: A normal Day.
New arc. It's important. And the next is just as important. Enjoy
Hollyleaf POV
"So you have superpowers, Bramblestar, a HIGHLY respected student, has a rock that could end life as we know it, and this Brokenstar guy wants it to control the world, because he works with a organization that's been alive before history could tell, and this old man is your mentor and has been alive for 4,000 years?!"
"Yep that covers it," Lionblaze yawned.
"And these terrorists want you to activate the rock, so they win, and that you guys are reincarnations of ancient gods from Scandanavia, Greece, Polynesia, and Rome?!"
"Yes ma'am," Jayfeather rubbed his eyes.
"And that-"
"Whatever you've been told, is true," Dovewing chuckled.
She had been going over the facts for hours. Rock had looked over all of the teenagers, making sure to heal even the smallest wound. He had told them for the time being, he would stay and make sure they woildnt come back. Foxleap was buried in the Foxcave doing whatever he does, and Jack and Icecloud arrived moments after Rock had finished his job.
Jack looked bad, but Icecloud looked alright.
Rock held his hand out "If it means anything, I wanted to keep this information from you."
"Keep me in the dark? Gee thanks!" She rasped in sarcasm.
Rock pulled his hand back "I apologize, but you are...in better terms...a snitch."
"Snitch?! Wait till Bluestar hears about this!" Hollyleaf roared.
Jayfeather smirked "Can't let you do that sis."
"She's our LEADER! And we are just going to keep the fact that there is a secret society in her country from her?!" Hollyleaf protested.
"I cannot risk her being mixed up in this," Rock sighed "What if she works for Brokenstar?"
"Cant you just read her mind or snap them all out of existence?! Or is your magic to weak to do it?!" Hollyleaf retorted.
"You-"
"Quiet Jay's Wing."
"His name is Jayfeather!" Hollyleaf glared.
"I may have power, but I am not all knowing. I cannot read minds, and cannot just erase a man from existence. I do not have tracking skills or the direct knowledge of the future. I can heal a man from his greatest aliment, yes. I can lift mountains, yes. I can process things faster then the eye can see, yes. I can wield the power of the sky, yes. I can shift molecules around to my benefit, yes. Slay armies with a word, I cannot. Survive a gunshot, I cannot, unless I have made a telekinetic sheild, which requires thought, and awareness. I cannot use my magic lightly. Doing so has dire consequences."
"What?! You're literally a GOD!" Hollyleaf protested.
Lionblaze nodded "Yeah I'm with her. How did you find us when you sought the three out? How did you make me come with you when we first met?!"
"I never lost you," Rock answered "I've been watching you all for quite some time. And I can command minds, but only when I've established a psychic link, which I've only ever done to the three."
Hollyleaf snarled "You gave Jayfeather his sight, you commanded a storm and made a sonic boom!"
Rock nodded "Things I can control. But I cannot control human nature. All I can do is give powers I cannot use, and take powers I shouldn't have gave."
Jayfeather nodded "That's why he didn't show up the second they attacked, we needed someone to alert him."
Rock nodded "Jack and Icecloud found me at the nick of time, I was busy, but could manage to save you in time."
"You expect me to keep this secret?" Hollyleaf snarled "Well I'm not! Someone has to know? Captain Redtail!"
"The police don't have the means to house men like them," Lionblaze argued.
Hollyleaf curled her lip "They can try! We cant just ignore this!"
"Listen well, dear child," Rock said, the room dropping several degrees "I have kept this secret for four thousand years, and don't think for a second, you are walking out of here telling all our secrets to the public."
Jayfeather stood up, facing his sister in the eye "We won't let you."
"WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS IS WRONG?!" Hollyleaf roared "You three are risking your lives over a rock! Why can't you just through the Moonstone into space, that way no one can get it!"
"We may not be able to get it then, but in the future, humanity could progress so far, that space travel would be nothing. It can only be destroyed by it's creator, which is sadly, not me. It's the heart of a star, frozen over. Brokenstar is the only man alive who's ever unlocked it's potential."
Hollyleaf sighed, turning to Jayfeather and Lionblaze "Look. I love you. I might be very shitty at showing it-"
"Very," Jayfeather smirked.
"But I do. You are my brothers. You two might die!" Hollyleaf screamed.
Dovewing grumbled "Sure, forget me. Not like I'm also risking my life."
Hollyleaf sighed "I can't just let you walk off and gamble your life like this!"
"It is not your life to gamble with," Jayfeather scowled "This is my life. My choices. Like loving Half Moon."
Hollyleaf widened her eyes. Dovewing coughed "Uh...Jayfeather?"
"No. Hollyleaf knows her duty," Jayfeather smirked pulling out his phone and giving it to her "Go on. Report me. Tell Bluestar what I did. Go. On."
Hollyleaf held the phone in her pocket, looking at it like it was the bible. Her hands shook "I-Jayf-"
"Go. On. Hollyleaf. Do your job," Jayfeather stared her down, not giving in.
Hollyleaf chartered her teeth, and threw the phone at the ground and stomping on it, breaking it.
Hollyleaf sighed "I'm...not gonna report you. Truth be told I suspected it. Are you happy now?"
Jayfeather mumbled "That was my phone...you didn't need to crush my phone to prove a point."
Scourge POV
"Do you solidly swear to uphold the principles of our order, and all that for which we stand?"
"Sure."
"To spare the bloods of the innocent?" Thistleclaw demanded.
"Nope."
"To never share our secrets, nor divulge the true nature of our work?" Mapleshade scowled.
"As long as I'm paid, then yeah," Scourge grinned.
"Until death, whatever the cost may be?" Tigerstar grinned.
Scourge nodded and shrugged "Why not?"
"Then we welcome you to our fold, brother," Brokenstar nodded "As of now, you are one of the nine."
Scourge chuckled, looking around. After Slash's death reached Brokenstar's ears, he had conducted Scourge to join, much to everyone's dismay.
"How Foolish they are," Scoure smirked "Is that it?"
"What, expecting a branding or tattoo?" Mapleshade snarled.
Scourge nodded "Well...yes."
"We're not savages, unlike you," Darktail curled his lip.
Scourge grinned "Don't forget that."
Ivypool POV
When she was told they were going to relax tonight, playing a luxurious game of Truth Or Dare was not what she had in mind.
It had been Hazeltail's idea. She said "We got to ease up somehow!"
Breezepelt chuckled "Why? I'm already eased, we got a guardian angel by our side."
Rock chuckled, watching from afar. He had set up a protective stave around the woods, nothing entsers without his knowing. For the time being, he decided to ease up and join the festivities.
Half Moon tilted her head "How do we play?"
"You don't know how to play Truth or Dare?" Foxleap cackled, bursting into a fit of giggles.
Half Moon curled her lip "Of course I do, idiot! Just..."
Ivypool nodded "I understand. We all go in a circle. Breezepelt is first."
Breezepelt grinned and looked around for his new victim, finding her in a heartbeat "Dovewing! Truth or Dare?"
"Truth," she responded.
"Out of all of us, who would survive the longest in the apocalypse?"
Dovewing chuckled "Easy, Poppyfrost. That or Foxleap, who'd probably hole himself in the Foxcave."
This earned some chuckles, namely from Ivypool.
It was Fallen Leaves turn "Hollyleaf, truth or dare?"
"Dare," Hollyleaf answered.
Fallen Leaves grinned "I dare you...to punch Rock as hard as you possibly can."
Hollyleaf's face drained of color, as Rock proceeded to laugh like a maniac "Give me something else!"
"No can do!" Fallen Leaves chuckled.
Jayfeather grinned "Avoid the face. Go for neck."
Rock smirked "I'd go for the...you know what never mind."
Hollyleaf stood up, waking towards Rock carefully. She drew her hand back, and punched Rock in the neck. The feeling was like punching a brick wall, and Hollyleaf grabbed her bruised hand as the other laughed.
Rock gently smiled, grabbing her hand "Lækna."
Her hand began to heal itself as Hollyleaf looked on in shock "T-thanks."
"Any time," Rock smiled.
Jayfeather's turn. "BREEZEPELT! Truth or Dare?"
"Dare!" Breezepelt smirked.
"Call Heathertail right now and ask her out on a date," Jayfeather grinned.
Ivypool widened her eyes "How. Way to hold back..."
"You have a crush on Heathertail?" Lionblaze smirked, as everybody began to laugh.
Breezepelt's cocky exterior went to horrified "No! No please...don't do that!"
Jayfeather nodded cheekily "Better start dialing, else you forfeit."
"What happens if I forfeit?" Breezepelt asked.
"I'll make something up."
Now Breezepelt knew he'd better call, because if a girl rejecting her wasn't scary enough, the imagination of Jayfeather was horrifying.
He picked up his phone "If she says no, I'm going to murder you."
Rock gave a glare at Breezepelt who started the call.
"Hey Heathertail...yeah long time...you're right we do need to talk..."
Jayfeather snickered as Breezepelt continued "Look I'm going to the movies during spring break, and would..." Breezepelt muttered "Ah to hell with it."
"LISTEN! I like you, I like you a lot. Want to go go the movies with me, yes or no?!"
Everybody was silent.
"There goes your chance," Lionblaze smirked "She hates it when people yell at her-"
"WHAT?!" Breezepelt widened his eyes in joy and happiness "YES! Yeah...Friday works! Thank you!"
"Now tell her it was a dare!" Jayfeather demanded.
Breezepelt smirked, ending the call "I guess I forfeit."
Lionblaze laughed like there was no tomorrow, whole Cinderheart went next "I already know everything about all of you...so Rock!"
"Dare," Rock smirked.
"I dare you tell me the truth," Cinderhear smiled sweetly.
Rock began to protest "She can't do that!"
"I stopped telling her what she could and can't when she started dating Lionblaze," Jayfeather grinned, walking to the kitchen to gather the crew some refreshments.
"Out of all the three you've trained, who was your best student?" Dovewing asked.
Rock chuckled which turned to a harty laugh "You really want to know?"
The group nodded as Jayfeather came back with some bottles of whiskey.
"They're was this boy in Greece, a talented thief operating in Sparta. His father was mighty soldier in the Spartan League, his mother was caring but she had a number of hobbies that often had her not home, namely fishing, hunting, etc. I was training Brasidas the Spartan when this little waist high boy steals his coin sack. Brasidas got mad, but I told him to brush it off."
Jayfeather opened his bottle and began to drink, Half Moon taking a bottle as she passed them around to everybody.
"After the battle of Amphipolis, Brasidas was taken back home and buried. His funeral was maginificant. And so there I find the little boy! And he's standing over the grave! So I look at him and say 'Hey! You're that thief!' and he says 'I stole his money! Now what is his wife gonna get?'! I nearly died in laughter!"
Lionblaze grinned, while Ivypool raised an eyebrow "So you trained him?"
"Yes-well, I wasn't very as discreet as I should have been, and he followed me. Eventully, my patience wore thin, and I thought what harm could it be to teach him a simple speeding spell? Unfortunately that only gave him more energy to annoy me. But...he became a son to me."
"Nice story," Dovewing softly chuckled "What happened to him?"
Rock's expression changed from sweet old man to sad old man.
"What happens to everybody?" Rock shrugged "He...moved on...I...I still haven't."
Jayfeather handed Rock a bottle of whiskey, who gladly plucked the bottle out of his hands and drank it "Jesus...the last time I had a bottle was when Orion died."
"Orion? Son of Posideon?" Half Moon asked, taking another gulp of whiskey.
Rock nodded "Artemis felt like shit. I comforted her and...Triton...Triton took it terribly. He and Artemis turned to each other and...uh...you know what forget it. Who's turn is it?"
Half Moon raised her hand "Me! Uh...eenie meenie miny...Lionblaze! Truth or-"
"Ask your damn question," Lionblaze said, drinking heavily.
Half Moon grinned "Are you mad because Breezepelt got Heathertail on a date?"
Breezepelt began to cackle while Lionblaze turned to Cinderheart for advice. Cinderheart shrugged "Nu uh Goldenboy, you answer truthfully!"
Lionblaze nodded "Yeah a little bit. I can not tell you how many arguments we've has because I raised my voice. Being with her was like a flipping library!"
Berrynose scoffed "Rock?"
"Truth."
"What's something you've never done?" Berrynose asked.
"Oh, stay on Mt Everest," Rock shrugged.
Honeyfern smiled, half drunk "Rock? Truth or Dare?"
"Keeping it even, Dare."
"I dare you to stay on the top of My Everest for a minute."
Rock chuckled "That's how we're gonna play it huh?"
In a flash of light that blinded them (although one wasn't as fazed as the rest) Rock left to complete his task.
Poppyfrost smirked "Jayfeather!"
"Dare!" Jayfeather smirked.
"Kiss Half Moon. I'm feeling nice," Poppyfrost shrugged.
Jayfeather smirked "Don't mind if I do!"
He grabbed Half Moon and pulled her in close, kissing her passionately.
"Okay, just cause I'm not reporting you, doesn't mean you have to rub it in my face," Hollyleaf scowled.
This only made the kiss deeper.
Jack looked to Icecloud "Truth or Dare?"
"Oh no...I forfeit," Icecloud shook her head "I don't want to play and none of my questions need answering."
Flash of light.
Rock was back, and he was covered in snow.
"Honeyfern! Truth or Dare!"
Before Honeyfern could reply, Rock smirked "I dare you to spend a minute in Mariana Trench!"
He snapped his fingers, and Honeyfern disappeared.
Berrynose stood up, staggering "What? She can't swim!"
"She doesn't need to, she's underwater," Rock smirked.
"Will she drown?" Cinderheart asked alarmed.
Foxleap chimed in "The human body can go for eleven minutes and fifty-four seconds not breathing. But the pressure would kill her."
"It'd help your case if you weren't drunk, Foxleap," Cinderheart snapped.
"Do we wait or..." Jack looked around.
Rock snapped his fingers again.
Honeyfern was back, soaked in water. She stood there, her outfit drenched in what also looked like black liquid.
"I don't know if that was a squid, or a kraken, but I'M SORRY!"
Rock smirked "I accept your half assed apology."
The night went on, everybody laughing or doing ridiculous tasks. Lionblaze bench pressed Jayfeather and Breezepelt at the same time, Poppyfrost revealed her favorite prize was a VIP pass to some concert that she nicked from some rich prick, Berrynose revealed that he once had a crush on Poppyfrost, Foxleap invented a bomb with a potato, and Hollyleaf put her hair in curls.
All in all, it was a normal day.
And they were grateful for it.
A nice normal day for the group. Enjoy it.
Also as warning, I will not be able to do any work for spring break. I'm going on a cruise to Mexico and other places. It's gonna be fun, but I won't be able to do any fanfic. I'll try to squeeze in one more chapter, but until then...
Au Revoir.