TIGERCLAW'S TALE
This song (EverFallen in Love With Someone by the Stiff Dylans) applys to this chapter, with five pairs of cats, guesss who they are and you will be a new character in this story! Send your Warrior name and description.
"Ever fallen in love with someone, ever fallen in love in love with someone, ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with."
This chapter is from Rippletail's point of view, she's Tigerclaw's nice sister.
"Tigerclaw, Daisydawn, Rippletail!" Thunderclan chanted.
Rippletail held her chin up proudly, while Daisydawn looked for Whitestorm in the crowd of cats. Since his mother died, he had stopped being such a bossy furball, and Tigerclaw even befriended him. But Daisydawn loves him! Rippletail thought to herself.
Tigerclaw looked down at all the cats in his clan with happiness, and he looked at one of the apprentices with. . . AFFECTION?
"Congratulations!" Whitestorm purred, touching muzzles with Daisydawn. Rippletail left them, she had to do something before she sat her vigil. She padded over to a dark corner of the camp.
"I knew you'd be a warrior soon." Lionheart mewed softly as Rippletail padded over.
"It's you who really deserves the congratulations, after Pinestar left, I was mentorless, until you came along." She answered in the same soft mew.
"You must get to your vigil then," He said almost sad she had to leave.
"I'll see you in the morning, as long as your on dawn patrol." She turned away on these last words. Leaving him was harder than she had thought, but she had a duty to her clan.
The bushes around the camp were rustling but not with the breeze. It was early in the morning, and dawn wasn't far off. Rippletail sniffed the air. Riverclan! Rippletail yowled the alarm call as the first sleek warriors ran through the tunnel. Lionheart and Redtail bounded out one right behind the other, Bluefur and Whitestorm pushed there way through before Sparrowpelt and Willowtail could even manage to get through. Yellowpaw and Darkpaw bolted out of the apprentices den, and Longpaw ran straight to the entrance of the nursery to guard it. He was closely followed by Stripedpaw and Willowpaw.
"Riverclan!" Sunstar yowled running into the swarm of cats. "Why didn't I guess?"
"Attack!" Hailstar yowled.
Tigerclaw jumped a warrior with silvery gray fur. Lucky for her an oak colored warrior leaped in the way.
He pinned Tigerclaw to the ground and growled,"Graypool! Pay attention!"
"Sorry Oakheart!" She mewed, her eyes wide. She jumped away, to attack Whitestorm.
Daisydawn sprinted over to help the fluffy white warrior.
Rippletail watched as Longpaw and Willowpaw fought off A full-grown warrior away from the nursery, while Stripedpaw pushed the kits back inside. Bluefur and Redtail were fighting back to back with Sparrowpelt and Rosetail against a swarm of warriors.
"Rippletail!" Tigerclaw yowled, snapping her attention back to him.
He was under Oakheart's powerful paws, which were pumbling his belly.
Tigerclaw had one eye closed with blood flowing over it from his forehead. Oakheart favorede his left shoulder, which was bleeding.
Rippletail leaped at Oakheart, knocking him off her littermate.
"Ooff!" He grunted. "Guess your stronger than I thought.
The clearing was filled with shreiks and yowls, but one rang out more clearly than the others. Yellowpaw!
"Go help her, I'll take care of him." Rippletail hissed flicking her tail.
As soon as Tigerclaw left, Crookedjaw, the deputy, leaped over to Oakheart's side.
"I'm not losing you, not like Lilystem and Owlfur." He mewed softly.
"You didn't have a choice, they died of greencough, right after Kettlepaw." The oak tom snarled.
"A littermate, a mother, a father, but I'm not losing you,too." The deputy mewed. "One littermate's enough, don't let me lose you too."
He sounds exactly like Bluefur and Whitestorm did when Goosefeather died!
Rippletail leaped at Oakheart taking the advantage she saw.
She bowled him over.
"I'm sorry, I feel sorry for what's happened to you and your brother, but that can't change the duty I have to my clan!" She growled.
Crookedjaw bit into her shoulder and dragged her off.
"HELP!"She yowled.
"Don't worry, I wouldn't leave you." Lionheart purred jumping down and onto Crookedjaw's back.
Yellowpaw was limping away from Hailstar, who by the looks of it had torn her ear, pumbeled her belly, dislocated her right shoulder, and managed to knock a tooth loose.
Tigerclaw jumped on Hailstar from behind. He pumbelled his belly with his front paws, and then, somehow, Hailstar managed to jump out from underneath him.
He jumped on Yellowpaw biting her neck.
"Now kill me!" He challenged. "I'm that close to death anyway!"
"A warrior never kills unless nescarry." Tigerclaw growled. "But I must have my revenge. On your warrriors." Hailstar's eyes got wide.
"My warriors didn't do anything." Hailstar mewed, "They just followed orders."
"Riverclan, retreat!" Crookedjaw yowled.
Hailstar turned and ran towards the ravine.
"GET HIM!" Tigerclaw yowled. Rippletail ran over to him.
"What's wrong?"
"JUST HELP ME!"
He ran up the slope towards Hailstar.
The old frail leader was struggling on a rock.
He fell backwards, knocking Rippletail off the rock she was perched on.
Blood was pouring from her head. Hailstar had just died after falling.
"Hailstar!" Junebug, another warrior called.
She ran down the slope nearly slipping on the blood.
"You can't be dead!" She wailed.
"It was his last life, he wanted to die anyway." Tigerclaw soothed the wailing mud-colored she-cat.
I was trying to get hm away from my territory, not kill him, or anybody else. Tigerclaw thought. But that's what you did.
Tigerclaw remembered his sister and turned to her.
"Rippletail!"
"I'm. . . I'm fine, just help me to Featherwhiskers den and I'll be okay." She mewed.
Life was flowing from her fast and as Tigerclaw lifted her up, bloodflow poured out of her.
"Get Featherwhisker!" He called to Daisydawn who had just appeared.
She nodded and ran off. Tigerclaw pulled a cobweb off some nearby bushes and dabbed it to her forehead.
Then everything went black.
Rippletail scented herbs and fresh moss. Was this the Starclan hunting grounds?
"Tonight was not her time to die," Featherwhisker mewed. "Unfortunately I can't say the same for Yellowpaw."
Rippletail blinked open her eyes to see Lionheart looking over her.
"Your awake!" He mewed in a warm, reliefed tone.
"She is?" Another voice called. Tigerclaw!
"Sunstar, she's alright." Tigerclaw mewed bouncing around like a kit.
"Unfortunately, Yellowpaw will never recieve her warrior name." The broad shouldered tabby mewed.
"Wait," Sunstar mewed. "There is a way, she can recieve her name, on her way to Starclan."
"How?" Longpaw mewed. He had been sitting in the nest next to her, but she had been unaware of him.
His face had slash marks on his noze and muzzle, but they were not bleeding because of a thick layer of cobwebs,
"I can show you." The leader mewed calmly.
In the nest on her other side, there was Yellowpaw's form, her sides heaved up and down in a rapid motion.
Her neck was plastered with reddened cobwebs, she was missing a small tooth, her belly fur was bloody, her ear was torn and her nose slashed(just like Tigerclaw), and her leg was disfigured.
"Starclan, this apprentice may not recieve her warrior name, for she has worked so hard to earn it. In her turn, she will join Starclan as a full warrior. From this moment on, Yellowpaw you will be remebered as Yellowflower."
Yellowflower licked her leaders shoulder and stammmered.
"Th..thankyou." She tried to mew, but the thanks was almost inaudible.
"Shush, Featherwhisker will fix your wounds before you can journey to Starclan." Tigerclaw whispered softly.
"Would you fetch Spottedkit for me?" Featherwhisker asked Lionheart.
"Alright, I'll be back soon, don't move around too much." He purred in her ear.
"I would like to help burry Yellowflower." Tigerclaw mewed to Sunstar.
"What?" He asked. "A warripor does not burry their clanmates!"
"I know, but this is the last time I will see her."
"Alright, fine."
Tigerclaw was the only cat who knew Yellowflower was still alive. He had one way to keep her alive.
Sparrowpelt, Weedwhisker and Mumbleefoot were beinng carried to the burial grounds by Stonepelt and Larksong.
Tigerclaw carried Yellowflower to the burial grounds, but when the rest wheren't looking, he ran away with Yellowflowers body.
He managed to get to a Twoleg nest.
"Fuzzy!" He called. "Violet!"
The two kittpets ran outside to see what all the noise was.
"Tigerpaw?" Violet mewed, in a surprised tone.
"Tigerclaw, and this is not Yellowpaw, it's Yellowflower, so help her!"
"She's barely breathing!" Fuzzy gasped.
He yowled for his Twolegs.
"I'll come check on her soon," Tigerclaw mewed, running back to camp.
Wait! They've probably noticed I'm gone! He thought. But, then a mouse suddenly practically ran into his paws. Perfect!
Bluefur watched as Oakheart made his way over to her.
"Sorry I'm late, Junebug nearly killed herself again, all she wants to do is go to Hailstar's side in Starclan." He mewed.
"Oh, well, I need your help, Oakheart, you need to take my kits to Riverclan."
"What?"
Alright, as I said before if your reading Bluestars prophecy(i accidentally said eading) this is totally wrong, I've got two commments so far, and if you get three more people to review this you get a new chapter.
I also will give the new chapter out as soon as someone figures out the pairs, there all pretty easy.