Gosh, I hate these when they take so long, I'm sorry for how long they take, and there not even that good, well, at least I'm almost part way done with this now
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Spottedwind19-I'm glad you like this story, yes, Sandstorm was meeting Ravenpaw, because Firestar was spending his time with Spottedleaf and not her, and I'm glad you like BramblexFern, it is my favorite Brambleclaw couple in fact
Disclaimer-Jellybean Cinderpelt, think about it;)
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Ravenpaw felt his belly fur brush the ground as he placed one paw slowly in front of the other,
Tigerstar had pushed the black loner until he could hunt anything in his sleep.
He skipped slightly over a twig, and pressed his chest fur to the floor.
He sprang up in to the air and landed next to his prey,
The blackbird he had been hunting leaped in to the air and took off.
Ravenpaw hissed,
That was the third time today that the black loner had missed fresh-kill.
He sighed in attempt to calm himself.
He closed his emerald green eyes and took in a breath of sweet smelling air, but he burst open his eyes when an image of the pale ginger enchantress of his life popped in to his mind.
He could not help it, he knew he had fallen in love with Sandstorm,
He knew it was very wrong, he was a loner now, and she was still a loyal Thunderclan cat, plus, she was Firestar's mate, and he could never do anything to hurt Firestar, ever, for the ginger tom-cat was still the black loner's best friend, and he never wanted to hurt him.
He sighed once more, what in Starclan's name was wrong with him?, falling in love with another tom's mate?,
He really was wrong in the head. He shook his head.
"I can't help it" he told himself, "I just have to tell her how I fell, and if she pick's Firestar" he sighed, "well, I'll just have to live with that"
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Spottedleaf brushed her dappled fur on to Firestar's ginger fur.
"Who?" Spottedleaf breathed in to Firestar's ear, the ginger tom-cat gave a weak sigh after a moment's pause,
"do you really want to know?, you could go back to the gathering anytime you want" the flame colored tom gave a sigh once more, then turned his grass green gaze to the dappled she-cat, her pelt shinning silver in the cold moonlight,
"Why Spottedleaf?" he whispered "why do you stay?"
The spotted she-cat lifted her head to the tom-cats gaze, but let her amber eyes fall to the ground "I-I don't know, I really don't"
Firestar's gaze left Spottedleaf as she spoke "then" he began, so softly that Spottedleaf could barely caught his words
"I can't love you,…I love Sandstorm" when he finished, he dashed off, over the Windclan border, leavening the tortoiseshell she-cat to fall limp in a heartbroken heap.
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Bramblepaw pushed his amber eyes form one cat to the other. After Firestar and Spottedleaf left, every cat broke up in to small groups,
Brightheart, her belly slightly lager from the kits she was going to have in a few moons, was whispering intently to her mate, Cloudtail, while the white warrior just nodded to every word his mate spoke, and casting swift glacises at every cat that was not from Thunderclan, as is he thought every cat would burst in to a fighting fury at any moment, and he was the only one to protect his mate and unborn kits.
Graystripe was speaking in a low voice to Silverstream, and the silver queen tipped her head to her kits, which were skipping off back to Riverclan, like their mother told them to.
Even Blackstar and Leopardstar were huddled together, talking intently in low voices.
Bramblepaw sighed, and laid his bramble striped tail agents Fernpaw's spotted flank, who pawed his tail slightly and pulled him closer to herself
"Every cat, open your ears and listen" Russetfur, the Shadowclan deputy called from her spot at the bottom of the great rock, she let her ginger head fall to one side, and led her eyes to the very slight sound that just brushed her ear tips,
It was the sound of pads pounding on the ground, as if many cats were coming.
"I-I think it's Windclan" Fernpaw piped, and just as she spoke, her comment was proved true as Tallstar, the Windclan leader, burst forth from the brush along with many other Windclan cats,
"Sorry we're late" the black-and-white leader called up to Leopardstar and Blackstar.
"Where have you been!" Blackstar demanded as soon as the black-and-white tom-cat was finished speaking,
"well," Tallstar began, and braced his hind legs for the jump to the top of the great rock, "Windclan has found scent of cat's on are land, mostly Thunderclan, and one other cat, it seems that Thunderclan have been meeting a rouge on our territory, but it's odd, we have only found the scents of two Thunderclan cats, one of which seems to be a medicine cat, so Mudclaw made me let him take one last look around our borders right before we left", Tallstar panted from his speech and looked around.
"Were is Firestar?" the tom-cat asked, moving his head to look peer behind Blackstar, then Leopardstar,
"He was here, but Spottedleaf told him that Windclan took Sandstorm!" Cloudtail yelped from his spot next to his mate.
"What have you done with her!" Brightheart called, while Graystripe gave a low growl "what in Starclan's name are you cats talking about?" Tallstar called back, "we do not have Sandstorm"
"I dare you to tell that to my face" Graystripe growled back from his spot, his eyes an icy yellow as they were pinned on the Windclan leader.
"All of you! No more of this!" Silverstream suddenly yelped, racing between both tom-cats, she placed her pink pads on to the great rock "Tallstar," she spoke softly "Sandstorm is nowhere to be found, now, I know that Spottedleaf is Thunderclan, but I would trust her words with my life, and all the lives Starclan has to give, and she truly thinks you have Sandstorm, so I believe that Thunderclan has a right to think that you have their leaders mate, so have what proof do you have to tell us that you do not have her"
Tallstar paused after Silverstream finished, he sighed, and licked one of his pads and drew it over his black-and-white ear.
"Well, I don't know-" Tallstar began,
"why don't you tell her it's none of her business what Windclan has" Mudclaw growled from his place at the smooth stones at the bottom of the great rock, "I could, " Tallstar said, his voice was cold and his eyes were narrowed in a icy glare, clearly he did not like being interrupted by his deputy, "or, I could tell them, that we have no proof, but I swear on my nine lives, that I don't know where Sandstorm is"
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"Just follow me" the un-named cat whispered in to Sandstorm's ear. the cave was much longer then Sandstorm had once thought, she and the un-named cat from Windclan had been walking for what felt like moons, and no light reached Sandstorm's pale eyes.
The pale ginger she-cat gave a sigh,
"Almost there" the un-known cat called back to her, "it's just a bit longer"
"o-okay" Sandstorm shivered in the small, cold, dark space. She pushed her paws to go faster and pressed closer to the one spot of warmth in the cave, the un-named cat. She flinched as the un-named cat drew its tail around her, and smoothed the fur on the ginger cat's shoulders
"Nothing to worry about" it called, "there is nothing in here but you and me" "I'm not scared" Sandstorm stated in a flat tone, "I'm just cold, that's all"
As if called upon, an ice cold drop of water dripped down from the top of the cave, and slipped down to Sandstorm's hind leg.
The un-known cat gave a humor filled chuckle as Sandstorm leaped in the air and gave a small squeak. Sandstorm gave an icy glare and a low growl "not funny"
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Ravenpaw leaped on to a bolder and shank his claws in to keep himself steady.
he let out a long breath and pulled himself free of the bolder and hoped from it to the lush grass on the floor below, he rolled on to the grass when he landed, then pushed himself to his feet.
He groaned as he tried to pull bright green strands of grass from his black pelt
He gave a sharp sigh and shook himself, hoping that that would get rid of the stringy green bits.
He pulled himself to his feet, and broke out in to a run.
The black cats mind had been overloaded with thought and doubt about the ginger she-cat wonder of his life.
'what if she says no?, would she hate me for asking?, would Firestar hate me for asking?, would he ban me from ever coming back to Thunderclan?, would he send out a patrol to hunt me down?, but-but, what if she says yes?, will Firestar kick her out of the clan for liking a rouge?, but what if he does not?, it's not like she can come a see me, darn it!, I'm putting way to much thought in to this' he told himself, and shook his head to clear it of such thoughts.
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Firestar pushed himself in to the bushes and opened his mouth to taste the air,
He froze when he picked up the scent of a cat heading his way.
Careful to not make a sound, he backed in to a patch of brambles.
He knew he shouldn't, but he poked his ginger furred head out to look around, he gave a low sigh when his grass green eyes saw nothing but brush and grass.
Maybe he had been mistaking?, no, he was sure that there was cat coming closer.
he froze up with the next thought that came in to his head, 'what if the other cat has my scent already?, what if it's hiding around the next bush, waiting for me to give it a place to leap at me', he shook his head slightly to clear the thought from his head, he doubted that the other cat had got his scent before he had it, but he still pushed himself closer to the ground, and, ignoring the brambles in his coat, and the new ones that were rubbing themselves in to his flame-colored pelt, pushed his forepaws and hind paws to press himself back farther in to the bramble bush.
He doubt that even a kit would give chase to a cat that had stuck himself tail first in to a bramble bush.
After a long moment with no movement that Firestar could see,
He gave a sharp tug to his pelt and the un-pleasant sound of ripping fur greeted his ginger ears, he winced as the sharp pain of the brambles leftover in his pelt kicked in.
He stopped and began to tug them out with his pin sharp teeth,
Once every single bramble was out, he gave each of his new wounds a long stroke with his tongue.
He froze as he scented something, he leaped to his feet, but he was pushed back to the ground moments later by the un-known cat he had scented.
He growled low in his throat and tested his hind legs for a jump.
He let out a snarl as he tossed himself at his attacker, and tossed and turned with the cat, he winced as they fell back in the bramble bush and new brambles began to stick to their coats. He tossed his thorn-sharp claws at the cat, and gave a small smile as he felt his claws pierce warm flesh and felt warm blood drip down from the cats shoulder.
He pressed all his weight on to the cat under him to stop its thrashing, once he had it down, he locked his green eyes on to it.
All at once time froze for the Thunderclan leader, the cat under him had emerald green eyes, a pure black coat of fur, and a white tail tip and chest,
The ginger tom-cat gave a gasp of surprise
"Ravenpaw!"
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Spottedleaf gave a small sob as she laid her tail around her dappled paws to ward off the cold night, she gave one more sob and closed her amber pools to try and sleep.
She hated herself for not giving Firestar the answer he wanted, she truly loved the flame-colored tom-cat, and did not want him to be angry with her.
She flung herself to her feet in shock, she could have sworn that she had heard the voice of a cat on the wind, she paused, and turned her ears up to listen
'What are you doing?, don't you know how much time you have left',
Spottedleaf flung herself back as she heard that whisper, she swung her head left and right to see who had called to her. She froze as she saw what looked like starlight in the form of a cat.
'Spottedleaf'
The star cat greeted the former Starclan member with a nod, Spottedleaf's eyes became wide as she gaze at the star cat, and when she spoke, it was only a whisper
"B-Bluestar"
'yes, and I have come to warn you, if you don't stop this, or the whole forest will fall in the chaos, and you must this soon, you only have one more day of your first moon, as soon as the next moon falls, you will only have one moon on this ground'
The old Thunderclan leader stated plainly, but in a star like voice. Spottedleaf gasped, she almost only had one more moon? "Yes Bluestar," the dappled warrior told the Starclan cat "I will do as you ask" Spottedleaf said as she dashed away.
'And I would not worry about Firestar'
The gray-blue star cat called to the tortoiseshell she-cat
'He loves you more than you think'