The next chapters explain what happens to every cat after Vipertail's exile.

Sparrowflight burried her nose into Rushtail's flank. He purred and licked her tenderly between the ears.

"I can't wait," he told her again. She could feel the kits stir in her again. It was the stranges feeling in the world.

It was now twelve moons since Vipertail was exiled. Sparrowflight had felt her heart lighten imidiatly that day when she and her brothers revealed him for the fox dung that he was. For six moons, his last words to them had rung in her ears: "Vinepaw, your confidence will kill you, Reedpaw your weariness will destroy you, Sparrowpaw...I don't care what happens to you. You killed your mother...I hope you live a long haunting life, where every whisper in your dreams will be me."

Sparrowflight had always been told by him that she was the last born, and therfore, the one who killed his mate. She had been visited by Featherwing in her dreams before, and her mother had told her again and again, she was not at fault. She had been relived of her biggest pain.

Then, the moon before last, a patrol -Blackfrost, Hazestripe and Vineclaw- had reported Vipertail's body on the thunderpath, after so many moons of inactivity of monsters, one managed to strike down her nightmare.

Sparrowflight now was sharing the nursery with Jayfeather-mates with Badgerclaw- and Dawnbreeze- mates with Icewind- and their kits. Sparrowflight loved to tease Reedwind about his closeness with the apprentice Hailpaw. Blackfrost and Hazestrip hade been getting closer over the moons.

It was hard to say, but Appleleaf, Rosepetal and Nightbreeze all joined StarClan. Appleleaf caught greencough last leaf-bare, while the two elders joined StarClan of natural age. Maplespots is still the oldest cat in any Clan and some of the kits belive she will never leave them...however, Sparrowflight was afraid the kind she-cat would be leaving them in a few moons.

Young Firekit bounded up to Sparrowflight and Rushtail. She wiggled her short tail.

"Hi, Sparrowflight!" she mewoed, "how are you kits? I'm getting bored with just olaying with Snowkit and Bramblekit. We can't think of any games.

"They're not here yet," Sparrowflight meowed, noseing the kit. "Go back to your mother now, tell her I'll be in, in a moment."

The ginger kit nodded and bounded back to Dawnbreeze.

Again Rushtail licked Sparrowflight tenderly. "That will be some other she-cat telling our kit to go back to her mother soon."

"Yes," Sparrowflight agreed, blinking in the warmth of green-leaf.

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Vineclaw sliped back into camp. He saw his sister and Rushtail laying togeather; Sparrowpaw was getting plump and begining to look like a kitty-pet.

He was heading to the fresh-kill pile, when Falconpaw bounded up to him. The black tom bounced exitedly. "Duskpelt wanted to know if you;d battle train me today; he's in the medicine cat den with my sister." Falconpaw and Ravenpaw were never told of their true heritage; they both-and Hailpaw and Leafpaw- thought they were all blood siblings, never questioning their parents.

"Sure, let me get a mouse to eat and then we can go to the training area." He followed the rouge born Clan cat with his eyes as he ran away, and felt anger bubbiling inside him. How could Vipertail have hated these cats enough to kill them? They were loyal to the Clan and would give their lives for eachother. Lillyeye, Stonereed and Snowflick, and any other cat he'd murdered were all wonderfull examples of that.

Then a stab of pain hit him, as he relised, had he not revealed his father, Falconpaw and Ravenpaw would probably be dead by now. That was hard to imagian.

He padded to the fresh-kill pile and took a mouse. He finished it in about three bites. "Falconpaw!" The black apprentice looked up from his conversation with Leafpaw and nodded. He touched noses with his sister and bounded forward.

"I'm ready!"

"Good," Vineclaw purred, "come on then!"

They race through the forest and soon reached the small river. Falconpaw and Vineclaw ran through it and landed on the mossy earth beoynd.

"Alright," Vineclaw meowed. "You're on defence, I'll attack. Remember, you'll want to look for where I'm looking, because that's where I'm most likly to attack-" he stopped, relizing Falconpaw's face was screwed up in concentration, trying to pin point the best spot to attack. Vineclaw purred, remembering how he did that to Badgerclaw. "Falconpaw!"

Falconpaw jumped, "Oh, sorry!"

Vineclaw laughed. "Come on then: attack me!"

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Reedwind padded over to Hailpaw, one of the oldest apprentices. "Hello there," he meowed.

"Hi!" Hailpaw jumped to her paws. She and her brothers and sister would become warriors in three moons. "Guess what Fleckfur is teaching me today?"

"What?"

"How to catch a rabbit- and then tommorrow, Hawkstar is taking me, Falconpaw and Ravenpaw to the MoonFlower!"

Reedwind purred. "I remember when I went with Sparrowflight and Vineclaw. I'll never forget that day."

The MoonFlower was a pretty flower at the edge of MossClan territory, that had a silver-blue look to the petals. It never seemed to run out of velvety leaves, that leaders and Medicine cats eat to speak with StarClan.

"You'll have an amazing time." he encouraged.

Hailpaw touched his nose with hers. "I know. But I wish you were with me."

"Nah, you'll have fun anyway." He turned to pad to Hawkstar's den. He let out a quiet meow to let them know he was there.

Badgerclaw apeared, "Yes Reedwind?"

"I want to take out a hunting patrol; who do you want me to take?"

Badgerclaw scanned the clearing. "Er... take Icewind and Lillypaw. And if she hunts well, report to me. I need to evaluate her soon."

Reedwind nodded and turned around. Icewind was just emerging from the warriors den, and Lillypaw was laying on her back against the stump, playfully batting at Ravenpaw's nose, who was crouching on the stump. He decided to give them a minute.

So instead, he padded to Sparrowflight, who was standing up and padding away from Rushtail, who looked like he was going to the medicine cats den.

"Sparrowflight!" he called. The ginger and white she-cat looked up. "Reedwind, how are you?"

"Oh I'm fine...how...uh...are you?" he asked staring at her swollen belly. It was still hard to belive that his little sister was having kits. But he knew they were no longer kits or apprentices, but young warriors. It seemed that Vipertail had bonded the siblings though his sadistic plots, but all three had come through their battle, stronger now.

"I'm doing great," she purred, then looked seriously at him. "You're thinking about Vipertail aren't you?"

Reedwind tickled her nose with his tail. "Must you read my mind?"

Sparrowflight purred. "Yes," she meowed simply. "It's odd, isn't it? To be free from him? I never thought...well, I always knew we would reveal him...Well, not always...but I never seemed to think what would happen after that. I never knew we could reveal the..." she trailed off in her memories.

Reedwind knew how she felt. But there were no words to that emotion. Greif, pain, exitment, freedom, terror, he could go on an on. So, he mearly pushed his nose into his sister's side and meowed, "truth."

What do y'all think?? I'm considering writing a shorter story about Falconpaw and Ravenpaw, discovering where they really come from. Should I?

Thanks for all the reviwes guys! I really appreciate them!

Birchwing