They're getting dreams....! The plot of my story is unfolding! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYZ!!!! ^^;
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Can U Hear Me
"Dawnpaw…. can you hear me?" whispered the voice.
"Loud and clear," Dawnpaw muttered, rolling over.
"You're not Dawnpaw…."
Stripepaw woke up, bewildered. She had been dreaming. Okay, that made absolutely no sense, she thought bewilderedly.
"Who's Dawnpaw?"
Stripepaw jumped when she heard a voice, then she sighed. "Oh…. Leopardpaw, it's only you." She let out a sigh of relief, and explained. "I had a weird dream…. In it, somebody whispered, 'Dawnpaw…. can you hear me?' so I muttered, 'Loud and clear.' And then the cat said, 'You're not Dawnpaw….' So I got confused because it was really weird!" she finished.
"Hmm…. are you sure that this Dawnpaw isn't real?!" Leopardpaw suddenly gasped.
Stripepaw sighed and shook her head. "I…. I don't know. This 'Dawnpaw' could be…. real, I mean…. But who is it? And why did I get a dream?"
Leopardpaw suddenly yawned. "I don't know…. Why don't you go back to sleep?" she suggested brightly. "StarClan might show you more. Besides, it's not dawn yet…. I want to go to sleep."
"Okay, sure." Stripepaw nodded, and curled up again….
Dawnpaw felt a sharp pain in her belly, and she let out a scream.
"Ah, yes, good stuff; my slave has been trained quite well…." A cat stood above her, muttering. She sighed.
Oh…. it's only Claw.
The kits were out, currently being trained.
The kits had names now—the little gray she-cat was Dusk, the small black tom was Night, and the larger brown tom was Fang—and they were all being trained to be part of the group.
If Claw wasn't her father, Dusk would have had to spend her life in a cage as a mating she-cat—as it was, she had been assigned to be a queen, and she lived in a tom's den—yet she did get special privileges, one of them being torturing cats!
The cat she had to live with was one of the younger toms, just a bit older than her—Red Tooth. He was fierce, but one of the higher toms in the Clan, and, unfortunately, sometimes he did lose control—many times, Dusk had come out of mating covered with scars and squealing with pain. Dawnpaw envied her; her own kit had a much better life than her mother!
The toms were torturers, and they got to each have their own slave and torture it, and the newer cats.
As it was, Dawnpaw reflected, her she-kit, Dusk, was lucky; if her father wasn't such a high rank, she would have been picked to be a slave, also! Currently, cats that they captured and the kits of low-rank parents and possibly kits of high-rank parents that were weak all turned out to be slaves—Claw hadn't, however, been too happy when he had heard that if Red Tooth died, his own daughter would probably become a slave, also!
Claw loved torturing her—currently, he was planning a mating session for the next morning, so that he could have more kits—Dawnpaw didn't enjoy it, but what could she do?!
Stripepaw jerked awake and shook Leopardpaw. It was just before dawn now, but nobody else was awake yet. "Leopardpaw! Leopardpaw!" she hissed quietly.
"What?" Leopardpaw wearily rose her head up from her nest and looked up at Stripepaw. "What do you want to tell me? It's just before dawn, you know!"
"Well, I dreamed of Dawnpaw again," Stripepaw began excitedly, "And she is a slave! I don't know where, I don't know how; I just know that we have to save her somehow!"
"Wow, poetic much?" Leopardpaw murmured. Then she shook herself, and looked Stripepaw seriously in the eyes. "So…. you've been getting these dreams, right? Could it be something prophetic; like, StarClan wants you to save this cat?!"
"But I don't know anything about her!" Stripepaw exclaimed, shocked.
"Exactly!" Leopardpaw hissed, and looked pleased with herself. "Maybe you have to find her, and save her!"
"But how?!" Stripepaw wondered aloud, just as Leopardpaw's mentor stuck his head into the apprentices' den and called out, "Leopardpaw! I need you for the dawn patrol!"
"Oops, gotta go." Leopardpaw laughed. "Well…. let me know if you think of, or hear of, anything else about this mysterious Dawnpaw! Currently, Berrycloud wants me for the dawn patrol—and I'm off!" She let out a purr and flounced from the den, leaving Stripepaw alone.
Suddenly, a thought struck her.
What if…. What if this cat and StarClan know that I was a slave once, so they want me to save this cat, also, because of it?! Hmm…. Stripepaw thought hard.
StarClan…. Dawnpaw…. It was a long shot, but it just might work…. Can you hear me?
