Secrets
The next day, five SunClan warriors led a RainClan apprentice as unhappy and bedraggled looking as Twopaw felt into the clearing. She was pushed next to Twopaw and Redpaw was again left as a guard.
"Hello," Said Twopaw, "my name is Twopaw, what's yours?"
"Sharppaw," Said the apprentice. Twopaw couldn't help staring at her. Sharppaw was black as midnight- blacker. Her pelt was silky smooth, and Twopaw could only imagine the ease with which Sharppaw must be able to hunt at night, unseen, except by the occasional ray of moonlight. "Do you know why we're here?" She asked, "They wouldn't tell me. They snatched me right out of camp. I was behind the apprentice's den, making dirt, and they just grabbed me and took me right here."
"They took you right out of your camp? Wow, they must have wanted you pretty badly."
"Yeah, I guess so," said Sharppaw.
"Well," continued Twopaw, "the only thing I've found out is what I overheard last night. Tornclaw and Redpaw were talking, and they said something about a prophecy, and SunClan ruling the forest." Sharppaw gasped. "And they said that they only needed you before they could."
"Well well." Said a voice behind them, "Very clever, Twopaw." It was Tornclaw. "Always nice to see a cat interested in her surroundings, weather or not she is one."
'What's that supposed to mean?' thought Twopaw, and was that a glimmer of fear she thought she saw in the deputy's eyes?
"Tornstar!" a voice called from across the camp. Twopaw ignored the rest of whatever the voice said. When had Tornclaw become Tornstar? And what had happened to SunClan's old leader, Leafstar? Exchanging a startled glance with Sharppaw, Twopaw knew she was not the only one to be surprised. Then Tornstar was talking to them again.
"Come." He said gruffly. Twopaw and Sharppaw got unsteadily to their feet, and followed Tornstar to what must be the leader's den. Tornstar instructed them to sit down, and a few minutes later, Redpaw joined them with Whitetail close behind him.
"You are probably wondering," he said to Twopaw and Sharppaw, "Why we have stolen you away from your clans and brought you here." Neither apprentice said anything.
"You are about to find out. I am going to tell you an amazing story, a story you might not believe, but which I assure you is true."
"One night in newleaf, three medicine cats were heading home from moonstones when they heard the crying of kits, and went to investigate. They found three kits, twoleg kits. They were arguing over what to do with them-"
"I was all for leaving them there." Whitetail gruffly interjected.
"Yes yes." Said Tornstar impatiently, "Anyway, they were arguing when they noticed that the twoleg kits had vanished- in their place there were three kits of their own race. They took them back to their clans, where they have been brought up with the Warrior code.
Twopaw had a horrible feeling she knew where this was going, and, glancing sideways at Sharppaw, she knew that she was thinking the same thing. Looking at Redpaw, however, she could see only the greedy hunger she had only once before on a fox hunting a vole.
"Those kits reached the time when they were about to become warriors, strong, quick, and agile as any other cats in their clans. None of those medicine cats ever told of where they had found the kits, or how. Except one. Whitetail told me. He also told me of a prophecy made a few months later.
The sun shall rise,
When three unite,
One dark as shadow,
One red as blood,
One brown as dirt.
The rain shall dry up,
Fire extinguished.
"This is your destiny, to assure the rise of SunClan, because those kits on the ground were you."
Numbly, Sharppaw and Twopaw were led back to their prison. Redpaw again stood guard, and Whitetail headed back to his den, his mind in turmoil. The truth was that he had not told his leader the rest of the prophecy.
But sun is torn,
So it shall set,
And rain shall fall,
And flames shall leap,
If only the three
Ascend to Star.
That's my third chapter! Also, the first three people to figure out what the prophecies mean get to choose Redpaw, Twopaw, and Sharppaw's twoleg names.