The next morning, Lionpaw found himself near the WindClan boarder and to his surprise, he saw Heatherpaw again.
"Lionpaw." She
said, hinting no sign that she was going to start yelling at him
again.
"Heatherpaw, I'm sorry. I didn't know what I really
wanted and now I've figured out what I want. I want you. I know
how young we are, but I love you." Lionpaw said.
"Lionpaw, I love you too but we shouldn't meet again until we're warriors so it will be easier to be alone and meet each other. Maybe we can even move into one of our clans together." Lionpaw nodded.
"Well, I have to get
going." He said sniffing the air and smelling a whole patrol of
WindClan cats. "Good bye."
"Bye." She said and they went
their separate ways."
"So, what do you need help with?" A
voice came and he sniffed the air again but could only smell coldness
and death… it was either Tigerstar or Hawkfrost.
He turned around and saw it was his uncle.
"No, I'm fine." Lionpaw said, sitting down with his tail neatly on his paws. "everything is going great!"
"Lionpaw, no, it's
not. RiverClan is attacking ThunderClan and we are going to lose
unless you get there and help them."
"What should I do?"
"Go
and fight, Lionpaw… Fight as well as you can and you'll become a
warrior, I'll be there helping you every step of the way."
Lionpaw nodded and the two cats sprinted to the ThunderClan camp,
each step matching and going the same speed. When they reached the
ThunderClan camp he could only see Hollypelt, Berrytail, Sandstorm,
Brackenfur, Brambleclaw, Squirrelflight, and Firestar were fighting,
everyone else was injured. The ThunderClan cats were at a huge
disadvantage and Lionpaw could tell that they were going to lose if
he didn't do something because everyone that they had fighting was
injured in some way. He jumped into the mass of cats and fought as
hard as he could, soon RiverClan had to retreat and he chased them
out. Then he saw Firestar laying in the clearing, he had lost
another life.
"Lionpaw, you defeated RiverClan almost single handedly." His father said coming up. "I think that it's time for your warrior ceremony and I'm sure that Firestar will agree." Brambleclaw went up to Firestar with his son behind him and whispered in Firestar's ear his idea. Firestar nodded and said that Lionpaw's ceremony would be that night.
"Lionpaw, I need to talk to you first." Brambleclaw said to his son and they left camp and began to walk around the forest.
"What is it, Father?" Lionpaw asked.
"Lionpaw, I don't know what's going on but I think that it has something to do with Tigerstar and Hawkfrost." Brambleclaw said. "Tigerstar came to me in dreams to try and teach me how to become a better warrior but he's going to try to teach you to do awful things, Lionpaw. When he used to come to me and Hawkfrost, he wanted us to take over the forest… he went as far as trying to have me and Hawkfrost kill Firestar. But I couldn't do and to this day I'm proud that I didn't and that I killed Hawkfrost instead. I don't even know if they are coming to you but you know some moves that only they know and that they taught me… if they are coming to you, try to make them stop, please son, for the help of the clan?"
Lionpaw looked at his father and nodded.
"Father, they have been coming to me but now after you say that…. I'm on their side." Lionpaw turned around and walked back to camp. He was the grandson of Tigerstar and it was time to avenge him. Brambleclaw and Hawkfrost couldn't do anything but he could. He went into Firestar's den so he could talk to him about his warrior ceremony.
"Firestar, what are you thinking of naming me?" He asked him.
"Why, do you have any
suggestions?"
"I want to either be named Lionfrost or
Lionclaw." Lionpaw answered. Firestar nodded, some alarm in his
eyes but it left quickly.
"Very well, we'll have your ceremony very soon."
