Hello again! This chapter is special, for it is the oneshot I promised TauMeow!!!! EEP!!! I decided to fit it in here, for it works with the theme. Enjoy. Oh, wait. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I AM DOMINATING ONCE AGAIN!!! OHHH!! And please please please review me and Moonstream-Warrior's story, Brackenfur's Quest! We will not update until we have six reviews not from Moonstream! :D
All That I Have
"He led them to the Clans!"
"He killed Tawnystar!"
"He brought the wolf to us!"
These things drifted through a dark brown tabby's mind as he walked away from his Clan, ThunderClan. It was not as if he had meant to bring the giant creature to them. He had thought StarClan sent the thing to them. Now he had paid for that mistake by the loss of his leader and getting himself exiled.
Shadowfoot padded along the ground, tracking the scent Tawnystar had ordered him to follow. His bright pink nose twitched as the reek of the creature grew, and he knew he was getting close. The ferns in front of him quivered, and out stepped a furry dog-like animal. The brown tom stopped in his tracks and stared at it.
"Bon jour," it growled. Shadowfoot was surprised that he could hear words other than growls, but he did not understand its language.
"Ah, hmm then. You are a Clan cat, I suppose?" it snarled next. The ThunderClan warrior could do nothing but nod, frozen in the presence of the horrid thing. It smelled like dog, yet there was something... wild about it that he could not comprehend.
"Cat got your tongue?" it joked, laughing at itself. "Have you never seen a wolf so close to your home? Not one that knows of the Clan, I suppose." Shadowfoot stiffened.
"I am a noble ThunderClan cat," he hissed, unsheathing his claws. "Why are you on our territory, if you aren't here to kill me?" Shadowfoot glared suspiciously at the 'wolf', watching to make sure it would not attack him.
The wolf chuckled. "I am here to go to your Clan. Ah... StarClan has sent me on a mission," it huffed, a crooked smile parting its jaws. The ThunderClan tom was weary of the creature still.
"You know of StarClan?" he challenged.
"Oh, of course! The cats' warrior ancestors. They sent me to speak to your leader."
Shadowfoot pondered for a moment. If this wolf really was sent from StarClan, he had to take it to Tawnystar immediately. However, if it was lying to him...
"Let's go," the wolf suddenly snarled. It began padding toward the Clan's home, and Shadowfoot quickly made up his mind to follow.
That decision sent him on the path of death.
As he walked, Shadowfoot remembered how the wolf came to the Clan. It had behaved well enough until they got there, when it betrayed the tom. It had growled and lunged at the nearest cat, biting its neck and killing it. That had been Tawnystar. She had been the wisest leader in all of the Clans, and Shadowfoot had killed her by bringing the wolf to their territory.
"Exiled!"
He shuddered as he remembered Flamebranch, the deputy, spit those words at him.
All of the cats in the Clans hated him now.
All but one.
Remembering Lifesong, RiverClan leader Fiercestar's daughter, was the only good part of still living secretly near the Clans. He would have left long ago, but he met Lifesong first.
Her beautiful silver pelt shone bright as moonlight when Shadowfoot laid eyes on her. His tail stuck up and his eyes went wide as he drank in her beauty. She was gorgeous, and he knew he had to talk to her.
"Excuse me?" he whispered, sticking his nose out of the bush he had been hiding is to talk to her. She jumped, startled by the sudden whisper.
"Who is there? I, Lifesong, demand to know!" she hissed. Lifesong. That was her name. 'Perfect for her,' Shadowfoot purred inwardly.
"Please, don't run. You've probably heard of me, and I really didn't mean for what happened," he mewed; suddenly scared the she-cat would run off before he could fully introduce himself.
Lifesong's eyes went wide. "Shadowfoot? The one that brought the wolf?" she meowed, slowly backing up a bit. The tom slowly stepped out of the bush, and he began to tell his story.
Just the thought of the fond memory made him purr. By the end of the tale, they had fallen in love. He could not wait to see her again, for that was where he was heading now. To RiverClan's border.
When he stepped out from the bushes that guarded the border, he was in for a great surprise. Seven RiverClan cats instantly surrounded him and pounced, scratching and clawing him until he fell to the ground.
"Bring him back," one ordered, and the slowly began to drag the unconscious tom back to their camp.
Lifesong's POV
A small silver she-cat sat delicately washing her paws. They were sore after a long day of battling with WindClan for territory again. Her father, Fiercestar, had demanded the medicine cat see to her paws before she went out anywhere. Anxiety began to creep up her heart. Shadowfoot was waiting for her somewhere.
She looked up and saw an orange tabby she-cat padding over to her. "Greetings, Hazelmist," she purred at the sight of her friend. The other cat nodded to her and quickly sat down.
"Guess what, Lifesong!" she mewed. Before the silver she-cat could respond, Hazelmist whispered, "They just caught a rogue at the border! You know, the one that got Tawnystar killed?"
Fear gripped Lifesong's chest. Shadowfoot! They had taken him! "No!" she whispered. Hazelmist looked at her in confusion as the silver cat got to her paws. "Not him."
Eight cats suddenly entered the clearing, one being dragged by the scruff of his neck. Horror and rage choked her voice as she pelted toward them all. Sure enough, the brown tabby was her tom. Shadowfoot.
Fiercestar came out of his den with a look of triumph on his gray face. "We've caught the traitor," he hissed. Lifesong was shocked by the pleased expression on her father's face. "We will kill him."
Lifesong jumped forward to protect Shadowfoot. "No!" she yowled, facing her father. "He didn't do anything on purpose! I-I mean, he didn't do anything for us!"
A black warrior named Brokenfoot stepped forward. "You seem to care a lot for a traitorous rogue," he spat, eying her distrustfully.
"He's right, daughter. Why do you want to keep this tom alive so much?" Fiercestar hissed, unsheathing one claw and running it along Lifesong's cheek. She pulled away from him, her pelt bristling.
"No one cat deserves to die because of a mistake!" she meowed. The silver she-cat looked back to see Shadowfoot starting to wake up, and relief flooded her mind. Then she saw the look on her father's face.
"You... he... You two are mates, aren't you!" he spat furiously. Lifesong looked down at her paws. She could not deny that, for it was true.
"Then you will have an even bigger punishment!" he howled. With one flick of his tail, three warriors surrounded Lifesong. Three others surrounded Shadowfoot, pinning him to the earth. "You will watch him die!"
Before she could protest, they dug their claws into her mate. She watched in horror as the life was drawn from him before her very eyes. Lifesong thrashed her silver body around to try and escape, but the three warriors held her still.
With one claw clinging onto life, Shadowfoot turned to his love. "I'll miss you, Lifesong. We will meet in StarClan. They will accept me and understand my mistake," he whispered. Lifesong cringed as he closed his eyes for the last time.
"He was all that I had!" she cried, sinking onto the wet ground. It's true, she thought, beginning to wail. He is all that I have.
I lub tragedies! Well..... it is easy to write them. :D Last day of school is tomorrow!! That means more writing soon!! BLAHAHAHHAHAHA!! -cough-
