These Chapters just keep taking longer and longer, I don't know why, but they do, but at least I got this one done now, I hope you all like it
Disclaimer-if I did own Warriors, Feathertail would still be walking among the living
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Firestar and the rest of his clan mates moved like shadows past the forest, their pads making mostly no sound on the soft green floor,
Thunderclan's ginger colored leader slid to a stop, his paws trying to get a hold on the soft earth.
Flicking his tail for the rest of his clan mate's to do the same.
Opening his mouth to taste the air, he got the scents of Shadowclan and Riverclan,
"Windclan's not here yet" he told his clan,
"Where do you think they are?" Fernpaw asked, fear clear in her voice, as if she thought that Windclan was attacking her clan this moment,
"I'm sure they're on their way" Bramblepaw soothed, running his dark tabby tail along her speckled gray flank.
"I sure hope you're right",
Firestar brushed his tail on the tip of Cloudtail's nose, "alright" he breathed when Cloudtail nodded, his blue eyes shining.
Firestar leaped gracefully in to the clearing with his clan mates close behind.
He padded alongside Graystripe to the great rock,
He took a breath and let out a small sigh,
Soft ferns turned to cold rock under paw as the ginger tomcat took his place beside Leopardstar and Blackstar.
He laid down next the other leaders and curled his flame colored tail over his paws.
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Sandstorm lay in the nest the Mudclaw had dropped her in to.
Blood dripping down her neck, pooling at her paws, turning her pale ginger fur a mudded red and brown.
Her eyes looking at nothing, but still with a green flame, she was waiting for the right moment to make a break for it, and she had plenty of energy to do it with.
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Spottedleaf dashed inside the Thunderclan border markers.
She lay down in the grass and groomed her spotted pelt clean of scent, and then she rubbed herself in a clump of ferns, to place Thunderclan scent back on her fur.
She sighed, but froze when she got something sickly sticky in her scent glands.
She looked along the ferns, and gasped when her amber eyes saw scarlet blot the leaves, 'blood, oh no! not now',
She pushed her pink nose close to the drops and sniffed, she got faint scents of Windclan, and, "Sandstorm!" the dappled warrior cried out in worry and fear.
She knew that at least some of the blood had come from the ginger warrior.
She stopped herself, she had to tell Firestar!
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Firestar held his head high as his grass green eyes swooped over the clans, the wait for Windclan was drawing longer and longer, what in Starclan's name was keeping Windclan?
The ginger tom-cat sighed, if they did not make it here soon, Blackstar would demand they start without them, and he hated doing that.
Leopardstar sighed as well, and strode to the end of the great rock.
Her golden pelt shinning silver in the moonlight.
Just as she opened her mouth to give a yowl, a dappled cat burst in to the grove.
Firestar's green eyes flashed, could it be?
He gasped when he saw the cat's eyes, they were deep amber
"Spottedleaf!" he called, bonding off of the great rock.
He nuzzled the she-cat.
She pressed him lightly away, her amber eyes laced with fear and worry.
"What's wrong" Firestar asked the warrior, knowing he did not want to know the answer.
The dappled warrior took in a long breath, and spoke in almost a whisper,
"Windclan," she paused, "they have taking Sandstorm"
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Sandstorm pressed herself deeper in to the bed of ferns and twigs the Windclan cats had made her.
She hated this, she hated it more then she detested Longtail, she hated it more then she hated Darkstripe, she even hated it more then she hated Tigerstar.
She squeezed her pale green eyes shut, and ran her tail along her flank, which was raw and bloody from Mudclaw's teeth.
She flinched as when she lowered her tail to her face, it was caked with mud and was dripping scarlet blood, which pooled at her pale ginger paws.
She shifted in the nest, and ran her tongue along her pads, which were raw from rubbing them in a nest of twigs.
She flicked her tail, sending red droplets around the room, and pulled her tail close to herself, for it was the only thing with warmth in this space besides her body.
She flicked her eyes around the room, her green eyes flashing in the low light.
She pulled herself to her paws, and started to prod around with her paw, looking for any way out, for there had to be another way out, there just had to be, it was a cave for Starclan's sake, unless this was the will of Starclan?
But she had done nothing for Starclan to be angry with her, had she?
Nothing she that she did should make Starclan angry with her, unless, 'Ravenpaw!, me meeting Ravenpaw, but….but, no harm could come from that, besides this' she told herself, but a thought stuck it's self in to her head, 'would Firestar be hurt if he found out?'
Her ears flopped down on her head, for she clearly knew the answer.
she padded back to the nest and flopped down on it, her pale green pools opened wide when a though struck her, maybe he would not be mad, maybe he would just go back to Spottedleaf.
Sandstorm lay her head on her paws, with that in her mind, she was miserable
"But…but I still love you" she whispered out in to the darkness, "I always will"
She sighed "oh please Starclan, don't be so cruel as to take him away from me, please" she begged.
She sighed aging, what was the point, it's not like Starclan could help her right now anyway
"Oh Firestar" she whispered, "please hurry"
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"Sandstorm!" Firestar yowled in sudden fear.
"How dare they" Cloudtail growled, "how dare they!"
Graystripe cut the white warrior off when he laid his tail across his mouth.
"Now, I'm sure there has to be some reason for this" Silverstream said in a silk like tone as she padded to the middle of the grove.
She calmly laid her silver tail across Firestar's flame colored shoulders.
"Silverstream's right" Graystripe purred, his yellow eyes never leavening the silver furred she-cat.
"But what if she's wrong!" Fernpaw piped up in a fearful tone,
"Don't worry" Bramblepaw said gently from his spot beside Fernpaw, "I'll tear them to shreds if they even think of getting near you!"
the dark tabby slid his claws out and tore them at the ground, as if he wanted a enemy to try to get near Fernpaw just so he could smash his claws on some cat, but he hastily slid his claws back in to his paw when Silverstream's green eyes locked on to him, giving him a icy glare.
Cinderpelt limped her way over to her ginger leader
"so Firestar" Cinderpelt spoke with no mood in her voice, her blue eyes piercing in to her leaders green eyes, both pairs of eyes, green and blue, pale and blank, "what should we do?",
"Fight Windclan for you wonderful mate if you must, no one's stopping you" Blackstar scoffed, but snapped his mouth shut when Cinderpelt fixed him with a icy glance,
"I…I" Firestar began, his voice wavering and cracking.
He staggered over to Spottedleaf and lied at her paws, and his voice was broken with fear when he spoke
"Show me proof"
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"Anyone here?"
Sandstorm perked her ears at the new voice.
Her green eyes narrowed and moved over the caves walls.
She hissed when she spotted a flicker of movement walking towards her
"Please, be clam, I mean you no harm" said the cat,
"Who are you!" Sandstorm hissed, "please, don't be so loud, some cat might find me in here, I'm here to get you out of here",
"why?, after all, your deputy put me in here" Sandstorm spoke in no more than a whisper this time, no matter how much she wanted to know, she still wanted to get back to Thunderclan much more.
"Tallstar would never let any cat do this to any cat, that's why, I be leave Tallstar has no idea what's going on" the cat said, and placed its tail tip on to Sandstorm's shoulder
"Fallow me closely, and we'll be out of here soon"
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Spottedleaf laid her dappled tail along many scarlet drops, still bright red from the cold wind that had stopped them from drying.
"Here it is" she said, her voice small on the breath of the wind, "and, how do you know that it's Sandstorm's?" Firestar asked
"Firestar! Use your nose!, her scent is everywhere, even mixed in with the blood, how could it belong to any other cat?" Spottedleaf snapped.
At this, Firestar sprang up and ran to the spotted she-cat's side,
"Are you okay?" he asked,
"yes" the dappled she-cat breathed, "I'm just sorry I snapped at you like that, it was wrong of me, but I know Windclan has Sandstorm, can't you see that?"
Firestar licked Spottedleaf between her ears.
"I can" he said softly, "but I could never be leave Tallstar would take Sandstorm prisoner, even if she was on Windclan territory, I just can't"
Spottedleaf's ears dripped, "but-but, who besides Tallstar would have Sandstorm?",
"I don't know, but I have a good idea"
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Silverstream brushed her tail tip on to each of her children's head's.
"Featherpaw" she said, Turing to the lighter of her two kits.
"Yes?",
"I want you to go home, now",
"But-but",
"No buts', go"
Featherpaw hung her head, "okay",
"Stormpaw" Silverstream spoke aging as she turned her head to the darker of her kits.
"I want you to go with your sister, and protected her with tooth and claw"
Stormpaw dipped his head to his mother.
"I will"
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Bramblepaw ran his claws along the soft grass.
How could Windclan have taking Sandstorm?, how dare they!,
And…, and, and could they have taking any of his clan mates just like that as well?,
'Even Fernpaw!', he looked over in his mind many times, but found nothing that could stop that from happening.
'But I swear, if they lay one pad on her, I'll claw there flee ridden fur off!', he growled to himself, and Fernpaw whipped her gray furred head around to face him.
She moved her mouth ever so slightly, as if she was telling the dark tabby something.
He picked up a small whisper, but he could not make it out.
He dropped his head to one side.
"Yes?" he asked her, and when she spoke aging, it was barely a whisper on the wind, but she spoke as loud as she needed to for Bramblepaw to hear it,
"Bramblepaw, I'm scared"