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Chapter 22
Stormpaw opened her eyes. Goldentail was standing over her.
"What?"
"Birchfur's awake and wants to see us," Goldentail explained as Stormpaw stretched.
"Cinderpelt and Leafpool will let us see him?" Stormpaw asked.
"It shocked me as much as you, but Leafpool said that Birchfur won't rest until he talked to us," Goldentail purred. "Lets go!"
Goldentail and Stormpaw bounded over to the medicine' cats den and walked inside. "Birchfur!" Stormpaw purred rubbing her muzzle against his. "Are you okay?"
"The pain could go away, but other than that I'm fine," Birchfur meowed.
"May I ask you something, Birchfur?" Stormpaw asked.
"Anything."
"Do we have a brother named Shrewpaw and two sisters, Hollykit and Larchkit?"
For a moment Birchfur looked like he was staring into nothing the he replied quietly, "Yes."
"How come no one talks about them?"
"I'm not sure of the details because I was only a few moons old, but I can tell you some. You know that before we lived here we lived across the mountains, well, before we moved cats started to die. An elder had died from a poisoned rabbit and later the Twolegs started to destroy the forest so the prey got scarce," Birchfur explained. "Larchkit had starved, then we had to leave the camp. At Sunningrocks Hollykit also died of hunger, but Shrewpaw didn't. He and Thornclaw had gone out hunting and a Twoleg monster killed him. Spiderleg would remember, he was older an apprentice when they died."
"So Shrewpaw was in Spiderleg's litter and Hollykit and Larchkit were in your litter," Goldentail meowed to Birchfur. "Stormpaw, what made you think of that?"
"Shrewpaw came to me in a dream and showed me the battle with the fox," Stormpaw explained looking Birchfur in the eyes.
"What fox?" Goldentail asked confused.
"The fox that might have killed Littlewhisker," Stormpaw mewed blankly.
"How?"
"The fox was about to kill me, but Littlewhisker blocked the attack from me. I'm not sure how much damage it did to her though," Birchfur meowed.
"We need to find out," Goldentail meowed with hope in her voice.
Stormpaw's head shot up. "I might know a way to find out! I'll be back as soon as I find out," Stormpaw meowed leaving Birchfur and Goldentail to stare at where she disappeared. The camp was turning bright from the sunset.
Stormpaw bounded out of the camp and to the ShadowClan border. I hope I know what I'm doing, she thought. Stormpaw was a few fox lengths from the border when a gray figure bounced on her. She was about to yowl, but a tail covered her mouth and she recognized him.
"I was hoping you would be coming soon," Cinderfoot whispered.
"How did you know that I would be coming?"
"I knew you want to know about Littlewhisker," Cinderfoot explained.
"Well, I'm here now so get off of me!" Stormpaw growled playfully. "So how's Littlewhisker?"
"She's not dead if you're wondering, but Blackstar wants her and Russetfur to go capture Birchfur. The only problem is Littlewhisker can barely walk out of Littlecloud's den," Cinderfoot explained glancing back and forth like a ShadowClan warrior was about to catch him on ThunderClan territory. "I'm not sure what she's going to do. With her so weak, if Russetfur tried to kill Littlewhisker, she could."
"Thanks so much for telling me," Stormpaw meowed rubbing up against Cinderfoot to comfort him. "When?"
"At dawn," Cinderfoot meowed. Stormpaw looked up at the sky. It was turning pink with the setting sun. "I better go. Good-bye."
Ok, what did you think of this chapter?
Here are the choices of a title for the sequel. I want to see which one you guys like the best:
a) Different Friends, New News
b) Our Life: Friends Forever
c) The End of a Great Heart
I don't think "c" is the best choice because I'm not sure if I'm going to do a sequel to the sequel. If I end up doing a sequel for the sequel then I will probably use "The End of a Great Heart." I know, these are really bad, but I just thought of them and thought that they went with the story. If you have any suggestions I will be glad to have them. Review and tell me!!!