(a/n: y'all know i love a good SkyClan. i would do this with the other clans, but a SkyClan timeline is the only one i'm interested in making (i'm not gonna figure out all events between things for a clan i don't like, yknow?) anyway, here's the fanfic containing all ~174 points between Mothflight's Vision and Cloudstar's Journey. i StanClan SkyClan.)
(a/n: note relating to the chapter, i don't consider Thunderstar's Echo or Shadowstar's Life (or any other post-DotC novellas) canon, and this chapter will reflect as much)
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"Sterling…" Dew Petal whispered, letting the black-striped kittypet curl his tail around her and lick behind her ear.
"Yes?"
The tom pulled away, his green eyes meeting Dew Petal's teal ones.
"Do you think I could spend the night here, with you? My father is planning to launch a war on ThunderClan tomorrow for trespassing on our territory. I don't think he's right and maybe if I don't come back, he won't do it."
Sterling shrugged and padded away from her, holding his tail upright and pointing the tip for Dew Petal to follow. He pawed a piece of strange white bark upward, slipping in under a hole. Dew Petal cautiously followed.
Sterling patted a nest of colorful furs with his tail and kneaded it a bit, before laying down and patting to invite Dew Petal. Dew Petal purred and curled up to her mate, his warm scent a wonderful lull.
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Birds chirped in the tree in Sterling's neighboring garden. Sterling's owner had founded them in the Twoleg building, she'd scooped up Sterling and sent Dew Petal running. Not that she minded, she'd spent the night with the cat she loved anyway.
She held a cardinal and a goldfinch's wings in her jaws, taking her time in the warm dawn light. The forest was so beautiful at sunrise.
Once she made it back to camp and placed the cardinal on the fresh-kill pile, a pale blue-gray tom rushed up to her.
"Dew Petal!" her father exclaimed, "Where have you been?"
"Out," Dew Petal replied, Star Flower and Flower Foot coming over as well, "What, is it a crime?"
Skystar lowered his ears and huffed, "No, I suppose not but…" he wrapped his tail around his mate, "Dew Petal, you had us worried sick!"
"Why did you leave without telling us?" asked Star Flower.
Dew Petal felt a pit in her stomach grow. She couldn't tell her father she didn't think he was right to launch war. Flower Foot flicked her tail and nodded to her sister, turning to their parents.
"Dew Petal might've been harmed, Skystar," she mewed, pointing to a red thing along Dew Petal's belly. Skystar and Star Flower's eyes went wide. "Let's make sure she's okay and we don't have any foxes on the territory," Flower Foot suggested, "We can call ThunderClan to a meeting and work this out piecefully."
Skystar rapidly nodded and rushed over to Acorn Fur's den while Star Flower found Sparrow Fur, still in the hunter's den and groggy from sleep. Flower Foot nodded and smiled, settling down next to Dew Petal and started to saw off a wing.
"You should'nt've said fox, you know," Dew Petal hissed softly, "You don't need to remind them of Tiny Branch."
Both Dew Petal and Flower Foot had been a bit too young to remember their brother. From what their clanmates told them, a fox had snuck into camp and placed one big bite into his body. He'd lost too much blood to be saved and the poor kitten had died.
"I know," Flower Foot said, a note of regret in her voice, "But there aren't many other things in the forest out for cat blood, you know."
"Badgers."
Acorn Fur was soon over and tapped at Dew Petal's stomach. The she-cat twisted around a bit so that the medicine cat would have a better view at the definite not-blood. The chestnut-brown cat picked the piece of soft red something from her pelt and all three of the she-cats stared confused for a few moments. Acorn Fur ran a paw over Dew Petal's stomach to check for an actual wound and jumped back.
"Dew Petal," she mewed quietly, "You're expecting kits."