Crowstorm's head was the first to surface from the water as the river was dragging them with it. His first goal was to find somewhere in the fast flowing river to get ashore. But before he could begin, he needed to find Tawnyfoot first.
"Tawnyfoot?" Crowstorm shouted desperately but there was no reply. He yowled a second time but there was no response. Suddenly he felt something slap the back of him. Crowstorm turned to see a yellow tail drop into the water like a stone being thrown into water. Crowstorm dived to see that Rosepetal had Tawnyfoot by the soft part of her throat; her plan was to drown her. Crowstorm swam over and he sunk his teeth into the blind warrior's neck hard as she screeched as she let go of Tawnyfoot. Water was filling the blind cat as Crowstorm threw Rosepetal as he head smashed on a rock in the river; the water around her was becoming red as he wasn't paying attention. He turned to Tawnyfoot who was sinking into the river.
Crowstorm dived down as he rested his head under the warrior as he pushed her up to the surface. Their heads bobbed in the river as Tawnyfoot's green eyes opened. She was coughing out the water and gasping for air. Crowstorm was coughing too but he managed to rescue the cat he knew the most then Tawnyfoot spoke.
"Crowstorm." Tawnyfoot mewed. She coughed as she knew she was starting to head into rest. Crowstorm resisted the urge as he tried to keep her awake.
"Tawnyfoot stay with me, we'll get you to Shadowstep in no time." Crowstorm encouraged her. Tawnyfoot sunk her claws into Crowstorm as she was desperate to hold on. Soon a third cat surfaced, her head and scruff were bleeding into the river as she spoke.
"If you were to just follow the code of instead of heading out and being mates with that putrid shadowclan cat then none of this would be happening." Rosepetal mewed sinisterly. Tawnyfoot was angry about this.
"Yewberry was a horrible cat. He made me have kits when I was still an apprentice and you supported that fox hearted traitor!" Tawnyfoot shouted with all the breath that she had. "Robinflight was the best warrior Pebblestar has to offer and you say a small yippy cat like him would be nothing more than a cat who knows the truth? Yewberry supports Ashfur and Ashfur deserved to die in the pits of a fire!"
"Ashfur is the best cat that we have. You should kill the kits from another cat so why Yewberry didn't do so?" Rosepetal mewed as the three cats bobbed in the river; the current was becoming stronger and faster as there was a massive waterfall nearby. And at the bottom was Riverclan's camp.
"So you're saying that Ashfur deserved to stay in Starclan then? How much of a mouse brain are you?" Tawnyfoot spat back. She was kicking along with Crowstorm to find somewhere to get to shore but the river's fast pace and the fact that they were poor swimmers only made the situation worse. Soon it was inevitable that they would fall over the waterfall. "Save yourself Crowstorm." Tawnyfoot knew that she didn't want Crowstorm to go over with her.
"Are you insane?" Crowstorm yowled at her.
"I don't want you to fall over the waterfall with me!" Tawnyfoot cried to the warrior. She coughed as she felt the water splash upon them.
"What about you? I don't want you to fall over either. We can't save each other so get yourself to safety!" Tawnyfoot called to Crowstorm. Rosepetal was paddling closer and closer to them. She was mouse lengths away when Crowstorm had to make a tough decision. He gulped as Tawnyfoot let go of herself from Crowstorm. Crowstorm paddled away as he looked at her.
"What about you?" Crowstorm asked as he feared for her safety.
"I'll be fine; I'll see you very soon." Tawnyfoot called out. Crowstorm managed to get himself onto dry land as he watched that Rosepetal was mere mouse lengths away. Tawnyfoot spun as she sunk her teeth into Rosepetal's neck.
The two cats fought each other as their bodies tossed around into the water with Rosepetal trying to rake the warrior's side while Tawnyfoot was gnawing on the blind cat's neck. She swiped with her paw nearly cutting the blind cat's ear off as more of the water turned red. The cats continued to fight with Rosepetal's face getting cut into pieces soon it all happened. Both cats went over the waterfall. Tawnyfoot paused as everything soon slowed down she knew she had to do something quickly to avoid a gruesome death. At the bottom of the waterfall were several sharp pointy rocks that would impale a helpless animal if they fell over. Tawnyfoot soon broke free from Rosepetal as she kicked the critically wounded cat down. Tawnyfoot bounded trying to get as far away from the rocks at possible. Soon everything sped up back to normal as Rosepetal fell and hit the bottom. The rocks impaling her into her body and skull, Rosepetal twitched as he voice gurgled as blood flowed off of the rocks. She was killed on impact. Tawnyfoot soon fell into the river mere tail lengths away with a hard thud. Her body bobbed on the river as she drifted down river, soon a cat grabbed her.
Crowstorm bounded down to Riverclan camp from a gentle slope to as the thoughts of Tawnyfoot raced through his mind. He soon made it to the border of their camp as he crossed the stepping stones with ease. He soon saw Doeflight dragging a cat from the river, the cat he quickly realized that the cat being dragged was Tawnyfoot.
"Tawnyfoot? Are you all right?" Crowstorm asked, Tawnyfoot was silent. Doeflight spoke out about the cat.
"Fetch Berryshine, I got to make sure that she didn't die on impact, she fell into the river pretty hard." Doeflight mewed. Crowstorm ran off to fetch Berryshine. Tawnyfoot lay there completely blacked out. When she woke up she was back in Starclan.
"Where am I?" Tawnyfoot asked nervously. Rowanstar padded up to her with a smile across his muzzle.
"You did it Tawnyfoot, you've done the prophecy that no cat else could have the courage to muster." Rowanstar mewed.
"What prophecy? All I knew that I was supposed to repopulate the clan after something disastrous happened. I am completely confused and I also may have killed two cats by mistake." Tawnyfoot mewed as she admitted her wrong doings.
"Yeah the disaster was Rosepetal and Yewberry you or one of your kits was going to kill the both of them and now the trials are over." Rowanstar mewed.
"What trials, this prophecy made no sense to begin with what is going on?" Tawnyfoot called out. She was beginning to panic because of this. Rowanstar soon turned around and began to walk away. "Wait where are you going? I still have so many questions to ask you don't walk away on me!" Rowanstar soon turned back around to Tawnyfoot.
"So you're saying is that the prophecy made no sense so who was the cat who was made to bear the kits?" Tawnyfoot mewed. She was still asking about it.
"It does make no sense what do ever and all cats can have the kits?" Tawnyfoot asked, she was on the verge of going insane because her answers weren't clearly answered. Rowanstar still stood there thinking.
"Basically." Rowanstar answered he continued to walk away to a frustrated Tawnyfoot. But she had one more question.
"Am I going to starclan?" Tawnyfoot asked, she took a nasty fall off a waterfall and she was knocked out.
"This is just your dream; you will be waking up soon." Rowanstar mewed before he walked off fading from her memory.
"Come back Rowanstar!" Tawnyfoot called out, it was clear that she wasn't completely satisfied.
Tawnyfoot woke up as her green eyes flickered. It was clear that she was out for a while. All the cats closest to her had gathered around wondering if she was going to starclan or not. Her leg and flanks were wrapped in cobwebs but it was clear that she was going to live.
"How long was I out for?" Tawnyfoot asked. She looked around as the medicine cat was feeling all over for anymore breaks in her bones. She wasn't going to have any strength to move around for a couple more days so she was going to be stuck in the medicine cat's den. After a couple of grueling long days, Tawnyfoot stood up. She was sore from the fall and completely unable to move her legs freely. She stiffly moved her legs without bending them. Her body will ache if she did so she knew she had to keep them straight. Crowstorm picked her up and brought her back to camp while two Riverclan warriors brought up the rear. Soon they arrived in Thunderclan camp as Featherstar padded over to them.
"What happened, you were gone for some time." Featherstar mewed to the two warriors, there were exhausted from the events that previously happened.
"We were on a patrol when Rosepetal and a group of loners attacked us. They circled around us and the three of us fell into the gorge below. I managed to save myself but Tawnyfoot and Rosepetal both went over the waterfall." Crowstorm mewed. He was recalling the events that happened prior and the others were wondering if Tawnyfoot was okay.
"Did Tawnyfoot make it?" Featherstar asked worried. She was pacing back and forth wondering if she survived.
"She did, but barely. She's pretty sore even after staying in Riverclan for Three days." Crowstorm mewed. "She still too sore to move on her own."
"Will she have any more kits?" Featherstar asked worried that one of her warriors wouldn't have any more kits for the clan.
"Only time would tell." Shadowstep mewed. He padded out with Ivypaw to see a stiff legged cat laying in the middle of the camp. "I have some herbs that would help with stiffness of a cat. But it's going to be a while." Shadowstep dragged Tawnyfoot away as he went to go treat her. Tawnyfoot's kits watched wondering if their mother was going to recover. This remained uncertain to them.
A moon goes by without any wrong doing between the clans. Tawnyfoot emerges from the medicine cat's den like a new cat. Her legs were shaky due to her being in the den for so long as she stumbled around. Shadowstep was supporting her weakest side to make sure she didn't fall. Tawnyfoot was struggling to maintain her balance.
"Take one step at a time, there's no need to rush." Shadowstep mewed to Tawnyfoot who was having trouble balancing herself; Ivypaw was on the other side of her ready to catch her in case she fell. Crowstorm padded over wondering how Tawnyfoot was doing.
"How is she doing?" Crowstorm asked politely as the two medicine cats were balancing her.
"She's fine, we're teaching her how to walk again, as it turns out she will make a complete recovery though it has taken a while. We're just getting her used to her paws and to make sure she doesn't stumble around, those last few moons were rough as it was for her and I think the clans should be able to relax and be at ease for many moons to come." Shadowstep responded. Tawnyfoot nearly fell over but he was able to catch her in time. "We got her used to bending the points where she wasn't able to and it's still bothering her but not as much."
"I'm glad to hear that." Crowstorm responded but Tawnyfoot fell over onto Ivypaw's side.
"Looks like I will be able to live for moons to come, I might even be an elder, must have lots of kits before I become one." Tawnyfoot mewed. Crowstorm laughed with Tawnyfoot as she laughed as well.
"Take your life one day at a time and you will be there soon." Crowstorm responded. All the cats laughed as they knew that they had a bright future ahead.
Tawnyfoot made a full recovery from that day on, she would continue to serve her clan with the training of apprentices and she bore out many more kits for the clan. She will survive until the day that her legs would give out on her. No matter what the weather, she knew she had cats that would support her.
[A/N]: So this story is completed and I hoped you enjoyed it all. Review on what you think of the story and ways to improve on future stories ahead. Should I do more Warriors stories or move on to something else. I would like to thank you all for reading and reviewing the story. I would say it to the bottom of my heart that I would have made the longest story in the course of a few months, I wish you all good luck and keeping on reading these stories. I'll see you as soon as possible with the next story ahead and it is something I have been saving and thinking and rethinking over. So without further ado, keep your eyes open for it.