Will Jayfeather be saved? Will Spottedmiracle remember? Will Leafpool be caught? What was her reason? What did ShadowClan get out of helping Leafpool in my other story? All will be answered in this super-sized chapter of Warriors: The next generation! Oh and Bramblestar might be a little over protective of the clan, but oh well!
"Oak… your crazy!" Spottedmiracle meowed, why was he saying this?
"Trust me! Touch my paw and go to sleep, you will see what I mean." Oak ordered. Spottedmiracle started at him with his paw for a moment before swiping it with her tail. "Now sleep! You will remember everything Miracle!"
Spottedmiracle was very confused, very depressed, very tired, very hungry, very thirsty, very well everything. She laid down in her nest and closed her eyes and soon darkness took over her.
She awoke in a dream. She was in a rock den. She stared at the rock wall, starches were carved into it. They looked like tiny starches and then bigger and bigger. She spotted two other cats in the den; a younger version of Oak and a dappled brown she-cat. The she-cat was sleeping, but Oak wasn't.
"Morning Miracle!" he meowed and got up fast. "Let's go hunt to surprise Mother!"
Miracle? That's not my name! I'm Spottedmiracle! Spottedmiracle! Spottedmiracle! She shouted in her head. She had enough of this stuff!
Suddenly something awoke inside her. Something that felt oddly familiar. Memories filled her brain and a movie played in her eyes. Everything that Oak said was there and much, much more. Then she saw it her death. She died! She felt the pain, but then breath filled up her lungs as they screamed for air. She was reborn!
She awoke from her dream and stared at Oak. It was only a few minutes later. She stared at him. "I need to save him. I know how." She meowed.
"You remember!" Oak said, "Your back!"
"I was never gone. I was always alive, just not in the form you expected." Spottedmiracle meowed. She felt like two cats; one wiser than her apprentice-like self. She felt…whole.
Oak and her heard Bramblestar yowl a meeting outside. It was sunrise and the patrol had found nothing. They padded outside and sat down.
"Leafpool has not been found!" he said. "Only warriors must enter the forest! Three warriors at a time. I will not allow more of this clan to be killed. Do what you must, but do not kill her. She will face punishment. She will." Bramblestar said and cats yowled approval. "Two cats will be sent to each Clan to warn them. They may blame it on us if Leafpool kills one of their own. Sorreltail and Brightheart will go to ShadowClan, Cinderheart and Lionblaze to WindClan, and Berrynose and Foxleap to RiverClan."
The six cats nodded and darted out of camp to the other Clans.
"Brichfall, Hazeltail, Poppyfrost, and Ivypool will guard the entrance to camp. Do not leave unless you must. Kits must stay in the nursery. That is all."
Spottedmiracle stared up at Bramblestar as he left HighLedge. She turned around and headed back to the medicine cat den. She wished she could save him now. She could not. It had to be night, on a full moon and at moonhigh.
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By Sunset Sorreltail and Brightheart had not returned from ShadowClan. Bramblestar didn't want to postpone the vigil; Jayfeather's body would be crow-food if they waited too long. He postponed it only until next night. He sent Lionblaze, Hollyleaf, Molepelt, and Icestripes to ShadowClan to retrieve them. No cat had seen or heard of Leafpool.
Spottedmiracle pulled out all of the herbs and looked behind them, she found what she was looking for, a tuff of Hollyleaf's fur. She didn't know why it was here. She just knew that it was and it had been for a long time. She touched it with her paw and then placed everything back. She curled up in her nest and slept.
(from now on I will do dreams in I's))
Spottedmiracle awoke. She was in ThunderClan camp, only a little bit ago. She followed the patrol to ShadowClan out of camp. She knew she was safe, no one would see her, no one would ever know she was here. The patrol and her soon reached the border. Lionblaze suggested that they don't trespass and wait for a patrol. One would come by soon. A while passed by and no one came. They waited and waited. It became past Moonhigh and no one came. Lionblaze told the rest of the patrol to stay and he plunged into ShadowClan territory. Spottedmiracle followed him. He darted around trying to find the camp. He soon found it. But, it was abandoned. Spottedmiracle could smell that the scents were fresh. Lionblaze found a tuff of Brightheart's patched fur. He curled quietly under his breath. Then the breeze changed they both picked up a new scent. Then, two cats came over the hill.
They were two ShadowClan warriors, Darkmask and Dirtclaw.
"Well, well a ThunderClan cat trespassing? Oh this is something to tell Blackstar!" Darkmask snired.
"Not any ThunderClan cat, the deputy!" Dirtclaw snickered. Lionblaze hissed and lashed his tail.
"Tell me what you have done with two of my warriors?" he demanded.
"Why would we take ThunderClan warriors?" Dirtclaw hissed back.
"ThunderClan is full of kittypets!" Darkmask sneered.
Lionblaze unsheathed his claws and dug them into the dirt. "Tell me or you'll regret it!" the warriors just laughed and both lunged themselves at Lionblaze. He slid out of the way and they collided into each other. They scrambled up and ran at Lionblaze again, this time latching on. Darkmask and flung onto his pack and Dirtclaw was attempting to scratch at his face and chest. Lionblaze grabbed Darkmask's muzzle in his mouth as he attempted to bite his neck and swung his around knocking Dirtclaw off of his back and both warriors landed in a heap next to a tree. They both got up quickly and ran off into the distance.
Spottedmiracle was amazed; Lionblaze was truly a fighting cat. She was even more surprised to see that he had no wounds on him, but she found that also a little weird. She followed Lionblaze back to the patrol and the five (including Spottedmiracle) plunged once again into ShadowClan territory following the scents of the warriors.
It was around Moonhigh now and Spottedmiracle wasn't worried. She wouldn't wake up until sunrise or if Hollyleaf died.
They continued to follow the scent of the two warriors until they found them washing off Darkmask's blood-stained muzzle in a stream.
"There was a battle?" Icestripes whispered.
"Not exactly a battle…" Lionblaze said.
"You must have been lucky not to get hurt." Molepelt said. Lionblaze nodded and Hollyleaf rolled her eyes.
Maybe he was just lucky. Spottedmiracle thought, but that still didn't seem right.
"Go on ahead to the bear cave; I'll be there before sunrise." Darkmask ordered and Dirtclaw nodded and ran off. The patrol quietly followed Dirtclaw had found what they had been looking for, ShadowClan.
"Dirtclaw!" Blackstar meowed as he entered the clearing. The clearing was rather large with one den in the back, the bear den.
"We saw no one," the warrior lied, "Darkmask will be back in a minute, be scraped his muzzle on some thorns, he's just washing it off in the stream."
Blackstar nodded. "Bring out the prisoners!" he shouted and a few other warriors brought out two cats. Their pelts were stained with blood and almost didn't even resemble cats anymore. Through the scent of blood Spottedmiracle picked up the scents of Brightheart and Sorreltail. She glared at Blackstar."You two have one last chance to tell me who the fourth is!"
The fourth? How does he know that? Spottedmiracle thought. She saw Lionblaze and Hollyleaf look at eachother.
"W…we d-don't k-k-know!" Sorreltail gasped.
"Liar!" Blackstar hissed. He then turned his head towards the bushes where the patrol was hiding. "But maybe these four know!"
No! Spottedmiracle thought as cats passed through her invisible body tackled the four cats down. She squeezed her eyes shut and awoke in the medicine cat den. It was still dark, almost dawn.
She padded out of the den silently. She padded into the warriors den silently and awoke Oak. He looked up at her and they padded into the medicine cat den. Spottedmiracle recapped everything that had happened. It was now dawn.
"Are you sure?" he meowed.
"Have I never not been sure?" she retaliated feeling her old, Miracle-self, come back.
"But how did ShadowClan know of you, the fourth?" Oak asked. Spottedmiracle thought and then came up with an answer.
"Leafpool…" she gasped. "She must have known! Somehow someway, she knew."
"Leafpool?" Oak asked, "Hollyleaf's mother?"
"She was more than that; she had Jayfeather kidnapped so that she could be medicine cat. She must have told ShadowClan about the fourth to them kidnap Jayfeather."
"But how did she know?"
"I don't know, bottom line is that we have to save them!"
"What are you going to tell Bramblestar? Hm?" Oak said.
"I, uh…" Spottedmiracle began but then Lionblaze burst into camp, all bloodied up. No blood his own.
"Lionblaze!" Bramblestar gasped. He was panting Halevy, from exashtion.
"Sorreltail, Brightheart, their dead, everyone else is a prisoner." He said between breathes.
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Spottedmiracle was on a big patrol. Pantherpaw and Silverpaw followed her carrying herbs in their mouths. Bramblestar was leading, many cats followed. This was a battle patrol. ShadowClan would not get away with this. The patrol consisted of: Cloudtail, Oak, Brichfall, Brakenfur, Berrynose, Hazeltail, Poppyfrost, Foxleap, Ivypool, Blackoak, Pantherpaw, Silverpaw and herself. Everyone else had stayed at camp to protect it (Lionblaze, Whitewing, Cinderheart, Rosepetal, and Blossumfall).
Lionblaze had told Bramblestar where they camped and they were going there now. No cat was ordered to kill unless their life depended on it. Mortally wounding was effective though.
They approached the camp and Spottedmiracle's paws tingled. She was scared for her clanmates.
"Blackstar!" Bramblestar hissed as they entered the clearing. "What gives you the right to kill and impression my warriors!"
Blackstar exited from his den now and stared at Bramblestar. "Because of the four." Was all he said before with a flick of his tail his warriors and ThunderClan warriors collided.
Spottedmiracle stayed hidden behind a tree at the entrance. The two apprentices stood by her ready to retrieve the wounded. She was too terrified for her clanmates to look. What is she looked and she saw her kin being killed? Suddenly, Silverpaw darted into the battlefield and camp back supporting Berrynose. He had a large wound on his shoulder.
The medicine cat quickly applied some cobwebs and marigold. He tried to leave but Spottedmiracle grabbed his stubbed tail. "Oh no you don't your staying right here!" she ordered. He mumbled something under his breath and sat down.
She then did something that she shouldn't have done. She peaked through the bushes and saw a ShadowClan warrior grab Oak's neck in his jaws and tossed him far away. Oak hit a tree close to Spottedmiracle and she ran out to him. "Oak!" she cried. She nudged him. He did not move. She felt her blood boil. Her gaze turned ice cold as she stared at the cat that killed him. She recognized him as Toadfoot from the gatherings.
She charged out of the trees and tackled the tom down. She pinned him. "You killed my father!" she spat in his face. She was then knocked off by Hollyleaf.
"Get out of here, I'll handle this, Spottedmiracle." She meowed and went to battle Toadfoot.
She knows. Spottedmiracle thought as she ran back to her spot. She knows about me. Who else knows? Lionblaze? Jayfeather?
One of the apprentices had dragged Oak's body next to Berrynose. Spottedmiracle stared at her father/brother. Something about him seemed off, she couldn't point it out.
She turned away from his body and stared at her herbs. They were plentiful; she did not want to look out to the battle again.
Then, as quickly as it had begun the battle was over. She looked and saw Bramblestar sanding out Blackstar who appeared to be dead but Spottedmiracle knew that he was only losing a life.
"ShadowClan! I have taken one of your leader's lives just as you did to two of my warriors. "He yowled. "My warriors meant no harm, only to warn you about a rouge warrior. Next time anything happens we will take serious actions." He was done speaking and padded away. The clan padded away after him and that was that.
OMG LONG CHAPTER! SUPER-Sized! Anyway I didn't mention anything about Jayfeather really sorry you won't know the answer for a while hehehehe… don't expect the next chapter out until Friday or Saturday!