Chapter 19: Aftermath.
Toastfire ran as fast as he could, carrying his father on his back and his son in his jaws. Anger was what was motivating him to get through this. Toastfire wanted to personally kill his brother for this suffering, this was worse than the pain Brightlight made the warrior go through. Tears almost blinded him as they streamed down Toastfire's face.
When Toastfire reached camp, he couldn't believe his eyes. There, in front of him, lied a destroyed and bloody camp. Paleale's body was in pieces as Ricetooth tried desprately to bring his mate back, screaming in pain and agony. Shiningbeauty also lied in the camp, near the nursery, blood dying the ground. "N-no... Nononononono..!" Toastfire screamed, collasping to the floor.
Timberkit was covered in blood. His clanmates blood. Scenes from the attack played on loop in the kit's head. Lostclan, as they called themselves, breaking into the camp. Fighting. Screaming. Death. One rogue was trying to kill him and the other in the den, but Shiningbeauty had died to protect it. Her name really did fit how she died, with the beauty of loyalty and bravery. Then scenes with his mother. Normaltail had screamed like no one else. She was on the edge of shutting down for good. Instead, she killed the rogue that took the fighter's life. Timberkit had tried to wake Miss Thunderclan, but ended up getting himself bloody. Normaltail had made a messy kill as well, so the rogue's blood flew into the kit's face.
Paleale was a different story. They died fighting three cats all on their own, it was pretty inspiring to see. The transgender cat had done it to buy some time so Ricetooth and the apprentices could help Goodstar and Budlight before they were killed by five different rogues. Finally, Toastfire arrived. Timberkit's eyes filled with tears as he saw Stevehawk, the only cat that spent all of his spare time with him, and his brother Stormkit, or at least it looked like him. Timberkit started crying.
Moons had passed since then, three long, cold moons. Toastfire had slowly gotten the memories out of his head, but he was still haunted. But today should be a happy day. It was the apprenticeship day of his son. Times were getting better since that day. Goodstar and Normaltail were starting to get on with their lives. Ricetooth now preformed better than he ever did, and practiced fighting with the apprentices just in case. Salmoncreek and Heartburn of all cats announced that they were having kits, but rumors had it that they only did it to make sure the clan wouldn't die out from lack of warriors. Wafflepaw and Maplepaw were made apprentices. Moonshine and Budlight should have retired by now, but they both stayed warriors to help. Finally, Timberkit was being made an apprentice.
"May all cats able to hunt their own prey gather for a clan meeting!"
Goodstar's call brought everyone around him. Toastfire sat next to him, observing the other cats. Being deputy had helped the tom get the thoughts numbed out, but it felt empty without Stevehawk as deputy. Normaltail was grooming her son, despite his complains. Toastfire let out a smile of pride and tears ran down his face as Goodstar called out. "Okay, so as you all should know, our own little Timberkit has reached six moons of age, and is now being made an apprentice. Timberkit, won't you step up?"
The light brown and grey laughed and broke away from his mother's grooming, and locked eyes with the leader. "Good. Now from this day forwards, until you have earned your warrior name. You shall be known as Timberpaw. Toastfire, since you have not had an apprentice, you shall mentor Timberpaw." The deputy looked both shocked and horrifed. Oh Starclan, how was he going to do that?
"Dismissed."
The clan broke out, and Toastfire confronted Goodstar. "Sir, I hate to go against this, but you're making me mentor my own son. Isn't that against the rules or something of mentoring?" The brown and grey leader merely smiled and flicked his ears. "You need more quaility time with your son, and this is how I'm doing it. We both know that any of us can die any minute, so you better at least know who Timberpaw actually is. He deserves to know his father."
I'm moving this fic by fast because I want to get to more drama. Anyways, yeah. Lots of death, and lots more to come.
Anyways, I'm thankful for the reviews. I've added an actual prologue along with the original alliances, so no more bothering me about that. I'm also thinking about rewriting chapter one and making a small chapter about facts and original ideas for the fic.
