Chapter 14
Rainstorm looked at the two cats and watched Honeywing give Lionpaw a stare that told him, I told you he wasn't to be feared of. "I know about the prophecy," he repeated. Lionpaw looked shocked.
"How?" the golden tom challenged. Rainstorm flattened his ears at his rudeness. Lionpaw unsheathed his claws. Honeywing stood between them and said, "Lionpaw, can I talk to you?" Lionpaw nodded, but was still looking at Rainstorm with a fierce glare in his amber eyes. She turned and padded a few fox-lengths away. He followed her.
"What is your problem?" Honeywing hissed.
"What do you mean? It's him that has the problem," Lionpaw hissed, flicking his tail towards Rainstorm. "I don't trust him," he said, his ears flattening against his head again. He hissed when Honeywing cuffed his ear with a sheathed paw. "What was that for?" he snapped.
"Stop being stupid. He knows about the prophecy. He's the only one that knows what we're going through. Lionpaw, please. Just listen to what he has to tell us," she asked him, her voice coming out as though she were pleading.
Lionpaw shook his head. He was looking at Rainstorm suspiciously. Honeywing stepped in front of him, blocking his view and looked up at him. She tilted her head to one side her eyes pleading. "Honeywing, I can't. I don't trust him," he said to her.
"Lionpaw do it for me," she meowed. He just stared at her. "Fine, if you won't do it for your clan mates, do it for Heathertail. If we don't figure this thing out, Heathertail might die," she hissed at him. He suddenly felt a wave of guilt crash down on him.
"Alright, I'll listen," he said. "Good, at least you care about someone," she muttered. "Honeywing, I didn't mean that I wouldn't do it for you, I just…" he managed to say, before she silenced him with a flick of her tail. She padded up to Rainstorm.
"What do you know about the prophecy?" Honeywing asked.
Rainstorm looked at Lionpaw to Honeywing and then said, "I had the same dream that you had, Honeywing. Except, I saw you, Lionpaw and I walking after the stars. They led us to grass lands with a river in the shadows with thunder. We were all content as though everything was sheltering us instead of hurting us. But we were waiting. We were away from here… away from the Clans. The stars then went away and we were drowning in darkness with unseen cats clawing at our pelts. Then we were in the lake, but we could breath. The lake suddenly dried up as though is was a desert and we were okay. However, it was really hot, but that's it," Rainstorm meowed.
"Well, StarClan obviously showed you more than they showed us," Honeywing meowed. "Why do you think that is?" she asked.
Rainstorm shrugged his shoulders. "You're asking the wrong cat," he admitted.
"Why are you here?" asked Lionpaw in a rude tone.
Rainstorm narrowed his eyes. "Not for long. I've been here for about two moons or so. I've often seen Honeywing around," the large gray tom meowed.
"Well, what do you think we should do to discover more about the prophecy?" Honeywing asked, the question directed to both toms.
"We could go to the Moonpool," Lionpaw suggested after thinking for a minuet.
"Great idea!" Honeywing purred. "When should we go?" she asked.
"How about tonight?" Lionpaw asked.
Rainstorm shook his head. "We should wait for at least two days to see if anything else happens. And we need to get some rest anyways," the gray tom meowed.
"He's right," Honeywing mewed. She saw Lionpaw flatten his ears and she rolled her eyes. "Good idea, Rainstorm. We'll leave at sunset in two days. Where should we meet?" she asked.
"Right here is good," Rainstorm meowed. "We can take off to the Moonpool after that and… wait, what is the Moonpool?" Rainstorm asked them.
There was suddenly a rustle in the bushes and all three cats froze. "I'll tell you tomorrow," Honeywing mewed and she and Lionpaw bounded into the forest and Rainstorm flicked his tail in farewell and then bounded back across the border and into the land that no Clan lived in…
They would wait… until that day to go to the Moonpool.