Hi! I'd like to congratulate Stuffed Watermelon and Gingehfish on getting the last chapter's riddle correct! Though I might have made that chapter's riddle hint too easy. It was grief

You feel joy when you find me,

And all your weight leaves thee,

And with me you see across the land.

What am I?

And that is the riddle of the chapter!

Hint: Mentioned more than once, two times it's mentioned before a Clan.

Not a very good hint, is it? Oh well. The rest of my ideas for hints gave too much away.

I'd like to thank Indigostartherandomkitty for this chapter's idea.


Chapter Four:

Fly Away!


"WindClan, I have come to my conclusion." Onestar said from his perch. They'd been worried for days that ShadowClan would attack them because of they thought WindClan was weak.

"As you probably already know, we have suspicions and a little bit of evidence that ShadowClan is going to attack us."

His audience hissed, and one cat yowled, "How dare even think of attacking us in our own territory!"

Onestar waited for them to calm down. "Yes. That's why my conclusion is that we will attack them first; that way, we'd be surprising them as well as keeping their disgusting scent off our territory."

The cats below him yowled in agreement.

"We will attack tomorrow. In the mean time, Ashfoot, organize everyone into training groups to practice battle moves."

"Yes Onestar." Ashfoot started to sort them into groups.


The next was cold with heavy rainy. Lightning flashed in the distance.

Onestar growled in frustration. They were supposed to attack ShadowClan today, but there was so much rain… he didn't think they would be able to. Thunder roared, as if agreeing that it was shame.

Pawsteps sounded outside his den. "Onestar?"

"Come in, Ashfoot."

Ashfoot padded in. "Have you decided to cancel the attack on ShadowClan?"

Onestar sighed. "We will postpone it until tomorrow."

"Yes... well, at least ShadowClan won't attack in the rain."


The next day was even wetter than the day before, and they had to postpone the battle again. It was hard to find prey to build up energy for the battle, but they managed some how.

The day after that, however, was dry. Besides all the puddles. So, WindClan set out to the ThunderClan border at sunhigh. But they were in for a surprise when they got there.

The stream that separated ThunderClan and WindClan's territories had overflowed, so it looked more like a river.

"How are we ever going to get over that without getting our paws wet?" A warrior complained.

"I don't know," said Onestar. "We might have to call off the attack until it goes down."

"I've got an idea!" Feathertail stepped out of the crowd. "We could fly."

All the cats stared at her.

"That's impossible!"

"No, it isn't. It happened once when I was hunting. I was chasing a big rabbit toward the lake, and I was just getting up to full speed, when I lifted off the ground. Lets try it."

"Well, I don't think it will work, but we'll try."

"Great! I'll teach everyone."

Heathertail led them back to camp.

They stood at the top of the their hollow. "Alright everyone! Run as fast as you can, really, as fast as you possibly can, and if you start lifting off the ground, keep going until you're flying, then fly back over here. Ready? go!"

All the cats started racing down the hill. Onestar felt ridiculous, but he did it anyway. Soon he felt a strange sensation, like his paws were lifting off the ground. He looked down, and saw that they were. Joy spread through him at the sensation of flight, and he turned to fly back to Heathertail. He landed. "Did you see that? Did you? Did you? I was actually flying!"

Heathertail laughed. "And now you're acting like a kit."

At these words, Onestar straightened himself. "No, I am not." The rest of the warriors who were practicing flying landed. "We will practice flying until sunset, and attack tomorrow."

All the cats yowled in agreement, and immediately started running again.

They practiced until all they had to do was jump into the air.


Blackstar was dosing off outside of his den, and didn't expect a WindClan cat to drop on top of him.

He jumped up, fur bristling, and the cat was thrown off of him. He looked up and saw more WindClan cats dropping from the sky. Thinking he must be going insane, Blackstar passed out.


It was the gathering.

RiverClan proudly padded onto the island, glad they were the only Clan that could swim, or they'd have nothing to be proud of. Well, except for the fact that they were the only Clan who could fish.

The rest of the Clans weren't there yet, so RiverClan settled themselves down in the center of the clearing, and Mistystar climbed onto her tree branch. She waited while her cats talked, until one of them said, "Mistystar, look at the sky!"

Mistystar looked, and to her utter shock and amazement, she saw cats flying towards the island. One of them was Onestar, who landed on another branch.

"O-Onestar, h-how are you-"

"-flying? Well, thats a WindClan secret."

Just as the last WindClan cat landed, ThunderClan started to pad out of the undergrowth.

Bramblestar padded to the tree and climbed his way to a branch.

The Thunderclan and Windclan cats started talking (Riverclan still too shocked to speak, and ThunderClan not knowing WindClan could fly,) while they waited for ShadowClan to arrive.

After waiting quite awhile, they decided to start without the extremely late Clan. Mistystar went first.

"Fish are running well in the river, as usual," she said, finally over her shock. "I have nothing else to report."

Bramblestar went next.

"Prey is running well in our territory, and though we have lost great cats in the last battle, we are recovering well."

Next was Onestar.

"Rabbits are hopping everywhere, as you might know, and we have decided to change our name to FlightClan."

"What? Why would you do that?" Cries of surprise were heard from ThunderClan.

"Because we can fly."

"What? You'll have to prove that to us!"

"Well, since it is pretty much the end of the gathering anyway, WindClan will depart." And with that, WindClan/FlightClan took off into the sky, back to their camp, leaving all the ThunderClan cats in shock.

Bramblestar turned faintly to Mistystar. "H-h-h-how are you not shocked?"

"They flew in earlier when you weren't here. We already got over the shock."

And with that, Bramblestar fainted.


Hope you liked that.

Anyway, review! I'd also like to ask that nobody gives any suggestions until I next ask, because I've got plenty of my own now :)

~leefpool