Finally I have updated it! WHOO!! Don't blame me if you don't like it; this chapter is slightly boring. Lol. But i don't want it to be one of those storys where evrything happens to fast. AAANNDD I have to keep up the mystery so as not to spoil anything!! Cuz trust me, I have alot up my sleeves evil grin mwuahha!! i just hope u guys dont expect them 0o then itll be RUINED!!! WAAH!!! ok on to the story -.-' I know, Writer-senpai is being dumb

Chapter Five:

Rainingstar regretted going to the elder's den the moment she saw Goldtail glaring, even if it was not at her. Goldtail and Jaggedstripe, another elder, were arguing, as luck would have it, over her position as leader. And Goldtail didn't fear speaking her mind.

"Maybe she was chosen to be our leader! I mean, she survived the volcano eruption, did she not?" Jaggedstripe rasped.

"She's from PhoenixClan! They're as hardheaded as the land they live on! And what will happen if we must battle her old Clan?"

"Then she would fight fiercely to show us she is our true leader!"

"I doubt it!" Goldtail snarled.

As the two argued ferociously, Rainingstar awkwardly said to Whitebelly, "So how is everything?"

"Fine," Whitebelly said, wincing as Goldtail raised her voice even more. She was the oldest now and she never liked loud, sharp noises. "Everything's been peaceful this green-leaf, which is strange. Has Redclaw seen any signs of a storm?"

"He hasn't spoken to me about it." Briefly, the confrontation that had happened earlier that day filled her mind, Redclaw's hurtful comment to Rainingstar's shout of rage. She shook her head, as if to clear her mind of the scene.

"Is something wrong, Rainingstar?" Whitebelly's wise golden eyes stared into her own azure eyes.

"No, Whitebelly, just the stress of being a leader. But I can handle it," she added, hoping Whitebelly didn'y agree with Goldtail.

Instead, her eyes were filled with warmth. "I know you can, Rainingstar. You have the same look in your eyes, the same as the other two leaders whom I have outlived. But something is clouding your eyes, a sort of sadness and frustration."

Rainingstar blinked. What Whitebelly said was true; she did feel sad and frustrated. But when she opened her mouth to tell Whitebelly of her problems, the old she-cat placed her tail on Rainingstar's mouth to silence her.

"Even if you tell me your problems, I could not help you, young'un. I could not know what you are going through, because when you had allowed StarClan to grant you your nine lives and let them be apart of your life as a leader, you had also entered a part of life where no cat can follow."

"I know," Rainingstar sighed. "I just wish it wasn't so lonely..."

"But it isn't, Rainingstar. You are the Clan; the Clan is you. Whatever you do effects the Clan and vice versa. You have a huge responsibility to the Clan, as we have for you. You have your whole Clan but yet, you feel like the loneliest. When you had become leader, you gace up so much and yet received so much. That is the beauty and curse of being in such a high position."

Rainingstar blinked with a new respect for the wise she-cat. Whitebelly knew so much that Rainingstar wondered how she hadn't become leader. "Whitebelly, how did you and Jaggedstripe fall in love?" She glanced over at the tom, who was still aruging with Goldtail.

Whitebelly chuckled. "I'm not too sure. We were so different; I was soft-spoken and more reserved, he was fierce and proud. But maybe that's why I liked him. Because of his confidence. And he was sweet to me." She shrugged. "Love just happens. There's no 'how' really."

The blue-grey leader sighed a bit. "I wish I could know how it feels."

"It feels wonderful," Whitebelly said.

Rainingstar noticed that the den had gotten quiet. She glanced over at Goldtail and Jaggedstripe. Jaggedstripe was asleep. Goldtail was grooming herself at a slow pace.

The two awake she-cats exchanged amused glances. "And I'm the oldest one," Whitebelly joked. "You should go Rainingstar. You don't want to see Jaggedstripe when he's awaken."

Rainingstar purred softly and dipped her head, slipping silently out of the den. She was greeted by the sight of Fawnspots and Tigerpaw coming back from the training hollow.

"You took him out?" she meowed in surprise.

"Oh course I did!" Fawnspots said indignantly.

Rainingstar nodded slowly. "Where's Cloudsky?"

"I don't know. Why?"

Rainingstar couldn't believe her ears. "Er...well, good job on the training."

Fawnspots looked a bit confused as she dipped her head and led Tigerpaw to the fresh-kill pile.

As she started walking, she looked up to see Redclaw. She wasn't sure if he was walking towards her but she veered sharply away. Just in case.

Luckily, when she turned around, he wasn't following her. In fact, he was headed for the elder's den.

'You're too paranoid,' she thought to herself.

"Rainingstar!" She turned around and saw Oakstripe standing in front of the nursery. She wondered what he had been doing there when it suddenly dawned on her that his sister Henfeather was a queen. Though she didn't have any kits currently, she stayed in the nursery and helped the other queens, since her dmagaged left hind leg prevented her from doing her warrior chores very well. She still patrolled and hunted now and then but it was a bit difficult.

"It's Henfeather!" he panted as he ran to her.

"What's wrong?" she said sharply.

"Nothing's wrong!" Oakstripe paused to catch his breath before going on. "Henfeather's pregnant!"

"She is? That's great!" Rainingstar exclaimed.

Oakstrip nodded. "I wish that Lotusleaf could've survived to see his second litter though."

Rainingstar blinked sympathetically. Lotusleaf had been Henfeather's mate and Oakstripe's best friend. "Yeah, I do too."

"Hi Oakstripe!" Larchpaw, who was his nephew, pounced on the bigger tom. Oakstripe pretended to fall over in surprise.

"Good gracious, Rainingstar, are all the apprentices this heavy and fierce?" he joked.

"Well, Larchpaw sure is!" she purred.

The brown and white tom's eyes shone. "Do you really mean that?"

"Of course I do Larchpaw," Rainingstar laughed. She batted him with her paw playfully and added, "Shouldn't you be training with Desertscale? Or is she ignoring you too?"

"I am not!" The indignant voice of Desertsca;e suddenly sounded as she jumped into the pile of cats as well. "You're the lazy leader!" she hissed teasingly as she nipped her friend's ear.

"Is that really how a leader behaves?" Rainingstar looked up and saw Fawnspots, her pretty face wrinkled into a look of contempt.

"Oh come on!" Desertscale said. "You're acting like she always has fun being a leader. She deserves some stress-free time too!"

"A leader should be capable of ruling her Clan just fine!" she snapped back.

Rainingstar scrambled to her paws and hissed, "I do not RULE the Clan; I guide them. It is alot of work leading the Clan, Fawnspots. It isn't just a high position in the Clan."

"I wouldn't want to lead the Clan anyways," Fawnspots replied. "I'm happy as a warrior. After all, I wouldn't want to have to face the humiliation of being a bad leader, like how some cats have to." She put alot of stress on some and it was obvious what she meant.

"Pick your fights wisely Fawnspots," she said in a low, menacing voice.

"I always do," the brown she-cat shot back.

They glared at each other for a while before Fawnspots stalked away.

Rainingdtar would've liked to think that her whole Clan supported her. But she knew that that was a huge lie.

WAAH!! SUCKY ENDING!!! Ah well I didn't know what to do for this chapter really...Please Review!! Ok so if you want to hate me, go ahead and give me hate reviews. the criticism may help make my story beter! but plz...try not to hurt me, im sensitiv TT.TT