Never Dream Alone

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Jayfeather settled down groggily in his nest. Leafpool had kept him busy all day, counting poppy seeds and making marigold poultices. Now he couldn't wait for sleep. Hollyleaf and Lionblaze had brought him a plump thrush earlier that had made him even more tired.

"Leafpool?" Cloudtail's voice danced outside of the Medicine den.

"Come in." Jayfeather mewed. As much as he wanted to sleep, a cat needed help and it was his job to bring it.

"Oh!" The white warrior limped through the screen of lichen that hung across the den's entrance. "Jayfeather! Just the cat I wanted to see! On the evening patrol, a thorn stuck in my paw. It hurts really bad. I think it might be infected."

Jayfeather sprang to his paws and padded over to Cloudtail. Sure enough, a thorn was lodged in the thick pink flesh of Cloudtail's pad; pus oozing out from around it.

"This might hurt a bit." he warned. A wave of pain pulsed from the white warrior as Jayfeather clinched the thorn between his teeth and tugged. Cloudtail let out a yowl of agony. Blood flowed freely out of the wound now, so Jayfeather wrapped a swab of cobwebs around the paw.

"Stop making a fuss! Firestar is going to think a fox attacked you!"

"No fox could sneak up on me!" Cloudtail grunted, then fell silent again.

The blood had stopped and Jayfeather pressed a few marigold leaves onto the injury, letting the bitter juices seep into it. He applied new cobwebs around the marigold and told Cloudtail to stay off of it for a little while.

Finally. Sleep. Again, Jayfeather stepped into his nest. As soon as he lay his head down, sleep came.

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"Jayfeather." Jayfeather spun around, startled by the voice of ThunderClan's past Medicine cat, Yellowfang.

"What?"

"Something terrible is about to happen, Jayfeather. Something horrible." Jayfeather rolled his eyes and stepped closer. A pale mist swept through the clearing and a deep, throaty mew spoke from the forest.

"Hello, Jayfeather. So nice to see my kin." Yellowfang froze. A dark tabby tom padded out of the forest, his amber eyes glittering in ambition.

"Tigerstar!" Jayfeather gasped in surprise. Cats doomed to walk the Place of No Stars couldn't pass into StarClan hunting grounds! Two other cats joined Tigerstar in the center of the clearing, one dark gray with black stripes and the other a long-furred dark tabby. Jayfeather recognized neither of them.

"Darkstripe?! Brokentail?!" Yellowfang cried like a mewling kit. Brokentail glared at her like she had fed his kit a deathberry. "What are you three doing here?!"

"Lunar eclipse." Tigerstar explained. "The moon does not shine in Silverpelt tonight. The prisoners in the Place of No Stars are free to roam the skys while there is no moon."

Jayfeather shrunk back into the undergrowth, wanting to wake up but not able to. He watched in horror as Yellowfang marched up to Brokentail and Darkstripe and howled, "Darkstripe! You were Tigerstar's closest follower. You do not belong in this forest! Be gone!" A wind as cold as Yellowfang's words came from nowhere and pushed Darkstripe into the forest, drowning out his helplessly feeble cries of pain and fear.

"Tigerstar!" she growled, clearly not ready to stop yet. "You murdered Redtail, Brindleface, almost Bluestar! You lead the dogs to our camp! You nearly destroyed ThunderClan! You are a ruthless evil murderer and StarClan will NOT tolerate your presence! Be gone!" The wind came back. It lifted the massive snarling tabby and flung him past the stars, back to where he belonged.

Now Yellowfang turned to face Brokentail. Jayfeather could sense his fear after witnessing the disappearance of Darkstripe and Tigerstar, though he lifted his chin and showed nothing but cold-hearted pride in his eyes.

"You." Yellowfang snarled. "My own son. I could never have been more disappointed and enraged at my own son. You killed your father, Raggedstar, the most caring tom in the world! He loved you! And so did I! But that was before you forced kits into apprenticeship at 3 moons, and made the whole of ShadowClan eat crow-food! You murdered innocent kits, then blamed and exiled me! You forced WindClan out of their territory! Then when Bluestar was kind enough to show you mercy, you betrayed us all and joined Tigerstar and the rogues!!"

Yellowfang was seething and an incredibly powerful wave of rage swept over Jayfeather, knocking him off of his paws. He landed in a bramble thicket two fox-lengths away and looked up just in time to hear a blood-curdling screech and watch Brokentail's broken and bleeding body being carried off by the wind, which was even stronger now, due to Yellowfang's anger.

The gray Medicine cat raced off into the trees but Jayfeather heard a faint murmur of her voice.

"Something terrible is about to happen Jayfeather. Something horrible."

"That wasn't just it?!" he hollered back after her, but a swirl of terrorizing winds had lifted into the sky. Jayfeather's words went unheard.

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