"Foxstar! We found a ShadowClan tom on our territory." Cedarleaf growled, shoving the ShadowClan deputy forward.
"Tigerstripe, what were you doing on ThunderClan territory?" Foxstar asked. By now most of the Clan had circled around him. Boltkit and Brightkit were prancing around his paws, fascinated.
"Are you a prisoner?" Brightkit asked.
"Flamestar is dying." Tigerstripe said, ignoring Brightkit's question.
"That isn't ThunderClan's problem." Hawkblaze growled. Foxstar gave the young warrior a stern look but he didn't even notice.
"If your leader is losing his last life, shouldn't you be with him?" Foxstar narrowed his eyes.
"He sent me to give you a message." Tigerstripe panted.
"What is this message?" Moonshine asked.
"He wishes to see his kits, one last time." Tigerstripe dipped his head.
"No." Stormcloud growled.
"Stormcloud, maybe we should." Sunnysky suggested.
"No! Then you would have to leave me!" Hollykit protested.
"It would only be for a little bit, I'm still coming back." Sunnysky reassured her daughter.
"Why should we go and see him?" Stormcloud growled.
"Because he is our father. Stormcloud, I wish I could have seen Whitepelt before she died, but I couldn't and I still regret leaving the camp that day. I'm not going to regret this too." Sunnysky insisted. Foxstar could see Cloudwind shifting his paws uncomfortably. That's right, if Sunnysky hadn't left the camp that day she would never have fallen into the river and never met Cloud. She wouldn't have brought Cloud and his sister Star back to ThunderClan and he wouldn't be a deputy, or a father.
"Sunnysky, I'll go. But not for him. I'm doing this for you." Stormcloud sighed.
"Thank you, Stormcloud." Sunnysky dipped her head.
"I'll escort you to our camp." Tigerstripe purred.
"Let's go." Stormcloud sighed, padding out of the camp with his sister and the ShadowClan deputy.
"Foxstar, do you want me to organise some patrols?" Cloudwind asked.
"Yes." Foxstar dipped his head before glancing around at his Clan mates.
"Where's Blazestrike?" Foxstar frowned.
"He never came back from the border." Icestorm mewed.
"I'll go check on him." Foxstar said, turning away from his Clan and padded to the gorse tunnel.
"Wait! I want to come with you!" Brightkit called, racing over to him. He could see her littermates not too far behind.
"You can't come with me." Foxstar told them.
"Why?" Boltkit asked.
"Because." Foxstar told them.
"Because why?" Brightkit frowned.
"Because you aren't old enough to leave the nursery." Brackenpelt scoffed, beside him was Blossomstem and Heatherstripe.
"Well, we'll be apprentices soon! Then we can leave the camp anytime we want!" Boltkit purred.
"Only with our mentors." Bumblekit mumbled but his brother and sister didn't hear him, they were prancing around their older siblings paws.
"What's it like to be a warrior?" Brightkit asked.
"Well, it's hard. You wouldn't like it." Brackenpelt snickered.
"I bet I would!" Boltkit frowned.
"No you won't, trust me." Brackenpelt winked at him.
"I will too! I'll be the most loyal ThunderClan warrior ever! I'm a pure ThunderClan cat! The son of the Clan leader! I'll be the greatest warrior this Clan has ever seen!" Boltkit boasted, pouncing onto a rock. Brightkit followed him, beaming. Bumblekit stay where he was, watching his littermates. I think it's best that h find out I'm a WindClan cat later on, when he's older.
"We'll see." Blossomstem purred.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in the nursery?" Foxstar narrowed his eyes at Heatherstripe.
"I'll be fine, besides. Icestorm is watching them. Cloudwind has assigned us as your escorts." Heatherstripe purred.
"Well then let's go." Foxstar purred, leading the way through the gorse tunnel.
"I remember when we were kits, sneaking out of the camp." Blossomstem sighed.
"And when we were apprentices, sneaking off to our first battle." Brackenpelt laughed.
"Well, all three of you have made horrible choices when you were young, but you know better now." Foxstar mewed.
"Oh please father, you say that as if you have never left the camp when you weren't supposed to." Heatherstripe purred, shoving her father playfully.
"Well, I haven't." Foxstar insisted.
"That's not true and you know it." Brackenpelt scoffed.
"What are you talking about?" Foxstar frowned.
"We've all heard stories from the elders when we were kits. They told us of the story with the fox." Blossomstem purred.
"Blabber-mouths." Foxstar muttered as the neared the WindClan border.
"-heard that you were the one who killed our last Clan leader." A squeaky voice mewed. As they approached, Foxstar could see Blazestrike was still speaking with his younger siblings. Long ago, Foxstar's sister Tigerlily had come to him with her two kits. WindClan was ruled by a horrible leader and her kits would have died in WindClan, so Foxstar had taken them to ThunderClan. He named them Sandkit and Blazekit. He raised them along with his two other kits, Thistlekit and Heatherkit. There was a fire in the forest that forced them to flee to the border. The WindClan leader had forced Foxstar's brother, Nightstripe and his sister Tigerlily to fight Blazepaw and Sandpaw. Foxstar had been forced to reveal his secret in order to save the two apprentices. They had both been angry and chosen to leave with WindClan. Not long after, there was a battle. Blazepaw had saved Foxstar and had been punished. Wolfstar banished him from WindClan territory. They had allowed Blazepaw to come back to ThunderClan, his true home. Wolfstar had killed Blazepaw's sister in front of him for revenge. Blazepaw became angry and plotted with another WindClan cat to kill the Clan leader. When he was on his last life, the two cats had a fight to the death. Blazestrike had won, walking back to the camp. Foxstar's brother, Nightstripe had become Clan leader. Tigerlily had three more kits, Sedgepaw, Swiftpaw and Streampaw.
"Yes. I was the one who killed Wolfstar. He killed our sister, Sandpaw." Blazestrike told them. Tigerlily stared at him, her eyes wild. They didn't know how he died, only that it was a ThunderClan cat.
"Well, Nightstar is Clan leader now. He is a great leader!" Sedgepaw purred.
"Blazestrike." Heatherstripe mewed. Blazestrike turned to see our patrol.
"Hello." He said, dipping his head.
"We've come to see where you were." Brackenpelt explained.
"I've been here." Blazestrike mewed.
"How are things in WindClan?" Foxstar asked his sister.
"Things are fine, thank you Foxstar." Tigerlily purred.
"Blazestrike, why don't you come back to camp now? You can always catch up with them at gatherings." Foxstar mewed.
"Yes Foxstar." Blazestrike purred, flicking his tail goodbye to the three apprentices.
"Goodbye Blazestrike! See you at the gathering!" Swiftpaw purred as they padded away. I'm glad they are getting along. I didn't get along with Tigerlily and Nightstar when I found I had littermates in another Clan.