Chapter 23
"Storms Of Revelations."
8/16/16 - 8/17/16
The new year has begun, to Stealthfire, and ThunderClan still hasn't gotten its territory back. LionClan has taken over, and Thornstar couldn't risk any more lives.
Seabreeze and Sweetflower have given birth to kits early into the year.
Seabreeze has two kits, a girl and a boy, named Ravenkit and Hallowkit, after Thornstar's superior, Hallowstar.
Sweetflower gave birth to a little she cat named Petalkit, who was a small copy of her mother. Ashcloud was allowed to join, and he worked hard to support his new Clan, although cats still don't trust him.
Stealthfire was beginning to get an idea for ThunderClan and RiverClan to join in an alliance, but it was difficult when Ivystar is possibly still unwilling to cooperate with them.
If only they had proof that they weren't stealing their prey…
Unfortunately, Stealthfire fell sick for the first three days, but she explained her plan to Rainstorm. The blue flecked tom took Flameclaw, Squirreltail and Foxflame to the banks of RiverClan territory the next morning.
"This is too close for my liking," Foxflame hissed to Rainstorm. "What exactly are we looking for?"
"The true culprit." He replied coolly. "If what Stealthfire said was true, then someone is continuing to steal fish from their streams."
Flameclaw shook his fur of dirt clumps.
"That's all good, but why in the name of StarClan did we have to roll in fox dung?!"
"It disguises our scent." Squirreltail told him. Flameclaw spat. "It's not worth it if I reek of fox stench!"
Rainstorm saw the grass move, and he hisses at the others.
"Someone's coming…!"
Rainstorm sees a lean shape crouch near the stream, his tail twitching from side to side. The cat wipes his paw and a trout flew out, and he caught it in his mouth.
"Go!"
Flameclaw charged out and quickly bites the cat's hind legs viciously and pins the intruder to the ground. Rainstorm, Squirreltail and Foxflame came out, but Foxflame looked completely outraged.
"Stormtail!"
The ShadowClan deputy snarled at Flameclaw. But the dark ginger tom was twice his size despite being half his age, and kept him there firmly as Rainstorm pads over to them.
"Figures. I'm already guessing that ShadowClan is making RiverClan think we're stealing from them."
Stormtail rolled his eyes,
"Gee, whatever gave you that impression?"
"Shut up!" Foxflame snarled, bushing his tail. "How did you even make yourself smell like ThunderClan, anyway?"
"I don't have to say anything to a bunch of mixed breeds!"
Flameclaw smacks his paw on Stormtail's head.
"My ancestor was a kittypet, moron!"
Rainstorm nods.
"Flameclaw, Squirreltail, you keep Stormtail guarded. We're taking him back to Thornstar."
Foxflame snarled supportively, and Rainstorm was relieved that he didn't protest.
Foxflame is too emotional to think straight. He probably would have left a few scars on Stormtail if I let him guard.
Back at the Twoleg nest, Palewhisker was finally feeling better. She was checking Stealthfire's stomach while the queens watched.
"As expected." She purred. "Congratulations, Stealthfire, you're expecting kits."
….. Wait, what?
"Are you sure?"
Palewhisker nods. "Yes I am. It felt like three or four kits, my condolences to Stoatfrost."
The queens purred with congratulations and the kits squeal with excitement for new kits to play with.
Stealthfire feels her limbs tremble. She was gonna be a mother, and Stoatfrost was a father.
But… What if I'm just like my mom? What if I lose my temper and hit them?
What if one of them is Autistic?
That was the question Stealthfire was concerned with. She didn't want that kit to be an outcast because of the way he or she thinks, or grow up without friends.
She feels Palewhisker touch her shoulder with her tail.
"You'll be fine. You know you have the queens to teach you about kits."
"I-I know. I just need to find Stoatfrost first."
Stealthfire quickly left the kitchen and saw Rainstorm return...with Stormtail.
ThunderClan cats were shocked to see the deputy being brought in the nest, and carefully guarded by Squirreltail and Flameclaw.
Thornstar, who was talking with Eaglecry, when he saw Stormtail being held hostage by his younger warriors.
Thornstar padded toward Rainstorm, who held his head high and gazed at him calmly. Rainstorm was too much like his parents, with Bluewing's intelligence and Rockfall's headstrong nature.
"What is the meaning of this?"
"LionClan was setting us up with RiverClan all along." Rainstorm told Thornstar.
"We caught him in RiverClan's stream fishing, and his entire scent smells of our own."
Thornstar turned his attention to the captured deputy, and smells his scent and narrowed his eyes.
"You have a lot of explaining to do."
Stormtail snorted. "I'm not telling you anything!"
"Oh, I think you should if you want to be fed." Thornstar retorted. Stormtail bristles with anger and bows his head.
"Stealthfire," he said. "You will take a patrol to RiverClan and tell Ivystar to meet me in the Twoleg nest."
Foxflame watches Stealthfire leave with Fallencloud and Blazefrost for RiverClan territory. By some unfortunate events, Foxflame was left to guard Stormtail.
As usual, StarClan is against me.
Stormtail was eating a squirrel, Foxflame fixed a glare of pure hatred on him. The dark blue tom slowly notices and scoffs.
"Are you going to cry some more? Look, I'm not too thrilled with being guarded by my traitor of a son."
Foxflame unsheathes his claws and bristles his neck fur. Stormtail, still ignorant of Foxflame's fury, kept pushing.
"What? Do you want me to cry about Hawkstorm? I stopped when she dumped me. I'm glad she died." Stormtail looks back at Foxflame.
"You are the most bizarre cat I've ever met. What do you want from me?"
"Admit it."
Stormtail raised an invisible eyebrow.
"What?"
"ADMIT YOUR WRONGS!" Foxflame snarled. "Your wrongs killed my mother and left me with no one to support me! I was looked down on, and spit on because of what you did! Everyone was forgetting about my heritage until you brought it back!"
"You never cared about me as your son! I was just a pawn!"
Stormtail stared at him with an unreadable expression, Foxflame realizes that he'll never get him to understand the pain he caused him.
"Fine, be this way. I'm done with some cat who's nothing more than a sperm donor!"
Stealthfire, Fallencloud and Blazefrost waited near RiverClan's border and saw their patrol: Ivystar, Cloudheart… And Daisypelt.
The light grey she cat was instantly became infuriated by the sight of Stealthfire, and bore her teeth.
What is this cat's problem?
Daisypelt has this stupid animosity towards Stealthfire that she doesn't understand.
Ivystar narrowed her eyes when she saw Stealthfire and patrol.
"What do you want now?"
Fallencloud spoke up.
"We know who is stealing your fish, and it's not ThunderClan."
Ivystar snorted. "Do you really expect me to believe that?"
"You tell her, mother." Daisypelt crowed.
Mother? Oh for the love of StarClan!
"Our Clanmates found the cat just as he was hunting in your stream." Fallencloud insisted.
"Oh?" Ivystar feigned interest. "And who is this so called suspect?"
Stealthfire couldn't take it. Ivystar was being annoyingly arrogant, and after seeing Stoatfrost almost die in a battle she started, she can't stay quiet.
"Stormtail," Stealthfire said. "ShadowClan's deputy."
Ivystar frowned at the mention of Stormtail. Stealthfire fought the urge to smile with triumph over the RiverClan leader.
"I'd like to hear that myself." Ivystar said. "Go home, Daisypelt. I'll go with the ThunderClan cats with Cloudheart. Tell Darkwater he's in charge."
"But I-!"
Ivystar glared at Daisypelt. The light grey she cat lowered her head and pads back to the camp. The RiverClan leader turned her attention to Stealthfire.
"Let's go, we're wasting daylight."
Stealthfire's patrol leads Ivystar and Cloudheart to the abandoned Twoleg nest.
The ThunderClan cats were furious at the sight of Ivystar, who was confused at the sight of cats living inside. Thornstar approached her with a limping Stormtail.
"Why are you here?" She asked.
"LionClan chased us out of our territory." Thornstar replied.
"That explains why you haven't shown up in the last Gathering." Cloudheart said.
Ivystar looks at Stormtail and narrows her eyes.
"So, I've been told that your Clan has been stealing from my territory." She growled.
"And don't you lie! I can smell fish from your muzzle."
Stormtail remains defiant. Stealthfire couldn't understand why Stormtail would stand by Crowstar and commit these crimes against the other Clans.
"Alright then," Thornstar made Stormtail sit down. "You can explain why LionClan is so intent on turning us against each other."
Stormtail flattened his ears.
"It's not me. It was Lionstar's idea to make it look like ThunderClan is stealing from RiverClan."
"What does he hope to gain?" Ivystar asks him.
"You'll have to ask his mate, Thrushwing. He tells her everything."
Stealthfire falls cold hearing Thrushwing's name. The meek, creamy brown queen was nothing but kind to them when she first arrived, despite trying her hardest to stay out of sight.
"Even so," Stormtail grunted. "Lionstar and Crowstar can't be stopped by a bunch of kittypets! We're trying to bring glory to the forest again, you soft hearts will never understand."
Nighttime came, and Stormtail was strong enough to leave them.
ThunderClan knew that he'll tell his Clan where they are, and they'd have to leave and devise a plan to stop them.
Ivystar agreed to stand by Thornstar's Clan with her own in order to defeat LionClan once and for all. Foxflame wasn't interested in sleeping. He went down to the dark pit of the nest and found Thrushwing, their eyes pierced through the darkness when they looked at each other.
"Thrushwing…"
"Don't." The former WindClan queen said. "I heard what Stormtail said."
"... Are you in league with Lionstar? Is that why you came to us?"
"No. It was the opposite." Thrushwing replied. "I couldn't stand by Lionstar and watch him ruin the Clan I once loved."
Foxflame lashed his tail impatiently.
"Thrushwing, don't lie! Cats are not happy with you anymore, and Thornstar can't control them if they feel betrayed enough to harm you, or Tigerkit and Goldkit."
Thrushwing's eyes flashed.
"They wouldn't attack helpless kits!"
Foxflame snorted.
"Of course they would. They tried attacking me when I was a kit, because of what Stormtail did!"
"What does Stormtail have to do with it?"
Foxflame admitted grudgingly.
"He's my father…"
Thrushwing stared at Foxflame in shock. Foxflame looks nothing like the ShadowClan deputy, his mother must be a ginger cat, she guessed.
The bright ginger tom turned to the stairs.
"And I don't care if you know or not, but Tigerkit is going to suffer from your mistakes and Lionstar's mistakes, especially when he's practically a copy of his father.
Trust me, Tigerkit is going to go through the Dark Forest when he gets older."
Foxflame climbs up to staircase and left Thrushwing with her thoughts.
He's right. Tigerkit and Goldkit will suffer for our mistakes… Why didn't I say no?
Lionfur was a strong, popular warrior, so of course Thrushwing was excited when he asked her to be his mate, despite her recently becoming a warrior…
Until he became leader.
He changed for the worst, especially towards her.
Lionstar would hit her when no one is looking, and she had to sit and pretend to be the happiest she cat in WindClan. Two days after he became leader, Mistyleaf told her that she was pregnant. Thrushwing told Lionstar.
"Good. I expect you to keep my legacy pure and untainted."
Legacy. Purebred. That was all he ever cared about, although she knew it from the start, it ripped her heart out like a searing hot claw.
Then, one morning while everyone was sleeping, Lionstar made her leave.
"You're going to tell Creeksplash what goes on in ThunderClan, every full moon. And if you ever think about telling anyone, you'll end up like Deerheart."
Thrushwing never felt so trapped. She never wanted this to happen, especially not to her own kits. The creamy brown she cat climbed up the steps and went to the den Stealthfire calls a kitchen, and found her kits sleeping soundly with the older ones.
Thrushwing curled up with them as she fought a sob escaping her throat.
"Thrushwing?" Tigerkit whispered. "Are you okay?"
Thrushwing quietly told him to sleep, and she finally sleeps too. Foxflame watched her.
Maybe I was a bit harsh…
He shook his head and curled up, and sleep slowly claims him.
So there! Stealthfire's expecting kits, Ivystar knows the truth and sides with ThunderClan, and a big battle is going to be expected in the next chapter.
(Kyubi's eyes widen with shock)
Maybe I said too much… Although I must warn you, I suck at battle scenes. Even my old Sonic the Hedgehog stories with battle scenes I made the years before Fanfiction don't look too good in my eyes.
It took me a while to write this down. I saw the first episode of this Korean tv show on Netflix called "Good Morning Call", which is apparently based off of a manga.
I love it! ^^
I'm gonna watch more after I publish this chapter. SO NO SPOILERS PLEASE!
I'm serious!
And a shout out to Snowcrystal of ThunderClan: YOWZA! I was getting worried as to why my email kept going off, you were reading every chapter!
Thank you so much. Reviews and constructive criticism is appreciated, but flames will be doused by my past and present Water type Pokemon's most powerful Water type attacks.
Have a good day ~. Kyubimaster9
