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Time: Day 3

Character: Brightkit of BloomClan

Ch. 10 Explanations

Petalstar thought I had a feisty look in my eyes, despite that fact that words were sticking my my throat. Determination crawled up my spine, a trait of my mother's. I pried my jaws apart and gave her a toothy grin.

"What in the name of StarClan is Bloomstar's Gift?" The words flew out of my mouth, suddenly no longer caught. I wouldn't be a wimp; I would prove the leader right.

A shocked expression grew in Petalstar's blue eyes. Turning to Cloudblossom, she whispered under her breath. "You didn't tell her. You know you were supposed to."

Blind eyes rolled themselves at the leader. "I thought you would remember this day even if you were just a little kit. It is went you life changed."

"It was a long time ago," retorted the leader. "I was never trained to explain the beginning. That is what Dapplemist taught you, and that is what you shall do." Her voice was hard, trying not to show any confusion.

"StarClan tells me the story," said Cloudblossom, her look becoming fiercer as she talked about the Clan above. "Dapplemist never taught me anything."

"Just tell me," hissed Petalstar, her whole posture changing. "You are making me look weak in front of my successor."

"Wait," I shouted, startling both of them. "I'm Petalstar's successor. Doesn't that mean I'm going to be the leader some day. That is so cool." The last word had a squeal at the end.

I couldn't help keep my joy contained. "I can boss around both toms and she-cats. They all have to do whatever I tell them." My brain was turning out ingenious schemes once I ruled BloomClan.

"Not for a long time," grinned Petalstar. Her mood changed drastically. I could imagine she was seeing a younger version of herself. "I'm still very young and have a lot of life left in me."

"I can wait a long time," I told her, seeing her as my equal. "I can wait forever if I need too. I can wait a long time for you to join StarClan."

Petalstar looked a little nervous at me when I mentioned her death. I gave no more signs of myself wanting her demise, so she left it be.

"And that is Bloomstar's Gift," concluded Cloudblossom, annoyed that we were straying from the task ahead. "It is an easy concept, really. A gift from StarClan for rising above and enslaving the toms."

"It is their way of saying thank you. They bless the next leader with dreams and voices. We understand the world better than any other cat. " Petalstar smiled fondly at the memory. She and Cloudblossom had a dream-like look on their features.

"The dreams have been nothing but a curse," I told the two she-cats. They seemed to snap out of their day dreams. "The stupid names have been running through me head." As if on cue, they shattered my brain.

Bloomflower, Oakfire, Bloomflower, Oakfire, Bloomstar, Oakstar.

Petalstar gave me a weak nudge, only making the voices echo louder. "They won't be a curse for much longer. They fade as we tell you the secrets. I haven't heard them for many, many moons until I saw you."

Bloomflower, Oakfire. Bloomflower, Oakfire!

Petalstar saw the pain flash briefly in my eyes. "It will be over soon," she told me. "It will all be just a bad dream. That is all it will be."

I prepared myself for a last onslaught, but it never came. Instead, the knowledge that the two she-cats held drew my interest. "I want to know whatever secrets you know. Come one, spill them. I have had to put up with Lynxpaw and Flamewhisper; I should get my prize."

"The secrets aren't a prize, Brightkit," said Cloudblossom solemnly. "You can never go back to the way things were before." Her voice reminded me of the elders, the way they spoke fondly of the past.

"You aren't the one with killer headaches," I snapped at her. "I would kill my own mother to get rid of them." It was a lie at the moment, but I'm sure they would return, more powerful then before.

Cloudblossom looked totally offended where Petalstar was trying not to burst out laughing. "Don't look like than Cloudy. I think I said the same thing to Vixenstar all those moons ago."

That is really when I started to look at the leader as she would have looked like as a kit. Like me, young and unsure. We had been through the same thing. "What is happening to me has happened to every leader in BloomClan's history?"

"Yes," grinned Petalstar. "Every leader but Bloomstar herself. It has been passed down from Riverstar to Vixenstar to myself. Now it has been passed down to you."

My jaw dropped even lower. "Every leader has received Bloomstar's Gift. It isn't a maybe, it is a sure thing. I'm really going to be Brightstar." My hopes soared, so there everyone else.

"That means you are going to have to work extra hard, you know," said Cloudblossom, ruining my fun. "You have to be the best at everything. No one can know what happens behind the scenes."

"You mean no one in the Clan knows about this. My mother just hasn't been keeping me oblivious." I winced at all the bad things I had secretly been thinking about her.

"No one knows," said Petalstar, all joy in her voice gone. "If you don't keep that secret, StarClan gave us certain rights to use as we please. We've never resorted to that." Her voice trailed off at the end.

"You won't have to resorted to you rights. I can keep secrets, just ask Cloudblossom." My tone wavered as I tried to keep it under control. "I didn't even tell Fernkit, and she is my best friend in the whole wide world."

"Okay," laughed Petalstar, in her good mood once again. "I'd tell you, but that is the job of the medicine cat. Cloudblossom can explain much better then I ever could." She flourished her tail grandly to point at the medicine cat.

"It was a long time ago," started Cloudblossom, "before BloomClan even existed. Two different Clans lived side by side, JadeClan and StormClan."

"Whoa," I shouted, "You mean there were two Clans. Are their two Clans now?" I tried to imagine another cat like me, but I completely failed. Two Clans, what a ridiculous idea.

"Of course not," laughed Petalstar, mirroring my thoughts. "They died off a long time ago, before they could even recover from their attack. Two Clans would be unthinkable. Just take a moment to imagine the chaos."

"Anyway," continued Cloudblossom, slightly annoyed at the uncalled for interruption. "Something happened that drove the two Clans apart. Rumor had it that the deputy's sister was killed by a StormClan warrior."

"The deputy was Bloomflower," said Petalstar. Her voice seemed to echo across the cave into another time. A time where JadeClan ruled the islands. "Her sister was a sweet she-cat named Rosepetal."

I opened my mouth to comment on that when Cloudblossom quickly started again, like she was trying to keep me quiet. "Rosepetal was never found, but they did find bloodstains decorating one of the smaller islands.

"The Clans were a a risky and unstable truce," added Petalstar. "It might have been fine because of the nature of StormClan's leader and deputy, but something terrible had befallen them. The kindhearted deputy had drowned."

"In that big river," I said, not feeling one bit sorry for the unfortunate cat. "He should have known not to try to swim across it." If he had attempted something so stupid, he deserved the fate StarClan had given him.

"There was a bridge formed from a fallen maple tree. It spanned across the length of the river." Her tone brought back my first dream of following the creaking noise. "He slipped off, but we now know he was pushed."

I gasped a loud shock, and Cloudblossom took that I understand. " A newer, power hungry cat took over. His name was Oakfire." Her voice seemed to echo loudly off the bare cave walls.

I covered my paws over my ears, but no pounding rush of names attacked. Instead, it was a gentle trickle that wasn't uncomfortable at all. It stopped as soon as it had begun.

Bloomflower, Oakfire.

"That is when it became really terrible," I said in a voice that wasn't my own. It seemed to bubble unwillingly inside of me. "They must have went to war."

"Yes," continued Cloudblossom, shaking her head at the tragedy of the past. "a terrible and bloody war that killed both leaders and destroyed the maple bridge."

"It wasn't until the she-cat rose above the toms that Bloomstar received a gift from StarClan," sighed Petalstar dreamily. She didn't care about those who suffered, jut what was gained. "She would know who the next leader of her Clan would be."

"Wow," I breathed out. So much seemed to he happening around me, I could think of anything to say. We just sat their looking at each other, trying to imagine the power of the ancient she-cats.

Time seemed to ignore the three of us until Leopardheart scattered the random leaves with her paw steps. "I found a wild she-cat at the border. She said Jay brought her from across the river."

Petalstar seemed to snap from her trance into leader mode. "Send a patrol to escort her back to camp. Make it you, Smokefrost, and Dawnlight. Did she tell you her name?"

"It was a weird Clan name," sneered the deputy. "Said she was called Blossomfrost."

Just needed to explain a lot of stuff, hope you guessed by the title. The next chapter will be Blossomfrost and then a peak from Blueflower. I would show Breezepaw (he is my favorite,) but he happens to be in a coma all of day 3.

Also, thanks to Phantomflower for pointing out the Dapplemist was Cloudblossom's mentor, not Yewberry. That name was just in my head for some odd reason.

Also, I will be making a prequeal to this. I can't decide on a title, so there is a poll on my profile. If you could all vote and review, I would be insanly happy.