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You people who give me nice reviews are so sweet! Thank you so much! This is another old chapter that I wrote a long time ago but could not put up on the internet cause of the ecnomoy problem. This is where things start to get EXCITING! Nya! ^_^
The night was so dark and so cold except for a little bit of the sun that was coming up over the the horizon. Everyone in EmeraldClan had already gone to sleep. Moonshimmer was also sleeping inside her special deputy den. It seemed to be kind of calm and peaceful! But it was not really because some thing was lurking in the shadows, looking to do somheitng really evil!
No one knew that this evil was there in the shadows. They had no way of knowing beause they were off in their peaceful dreams! No one was even having nightmares that they could wake up from startling and wirtness the horrible events that were about to take place here in the EmeraldClan camp!
Sparklestar was fast asleep in her den. She was peacefully dreaming of chasing mice through fields of open grasses.
Someone snuck into her den!
It was a shadowy figure with darkly glowing eyes and ivory claws that glinted under the pail moonlight. The light of the purest evil was there. This was a cat far more evil than even the terrible and mean Lilyblossom was! That was hardly even possible!
"It's time for the sparkling stars to say hello to the sun." The voice growled. "And goodbye to everything else."
The figure slashed open Sparklestar's throat while she was sleeping! Her lives were lost over and over again because this cat has used a warrior technique that SCOURGE used back when he was in BloodClan! She was choking and bleeding and squirming around as her blood poured and spurted out of the huge open wound on her throat. She could not even call out for help because there was so much blood in her mouth!
An evil laugh echoed and echoed throughout the camp and maybe even the entire forest. It gave every cat nightmares who heard it and they all woke up just as soon as the sun was rising up in the sky!
Moonshimmer opened her eyes and yawned really cutely. "What a pretty morning." She meowed. "I shall go organize a patrol like a good deputy would."
She stepped out of the den to find all the EmeraldClan cats huddled in a pile in the middle of the camp. She shook her head. They were hardly warriors so much as kits that always needed to be tended to!
"What is wrong everybody?" She asked to them.
"We are scared!" They announced. "We all had nightmares at the same time and we think that the world is ending now. You had better save us all!"
Moonshimmer's good and kind mind must have blocked out any nightmares because she didn't recall having any at night. The world wasn't ending! The cats of EmeraldClan were just being hippocondriacts.
"Calm down everyone!" She exclaimed getting up on top of the big jewel that the leader of the clan usually used for announcement. "There is nothing wrong! You just all had bad dreams! This is nothing to be extremely worried about! I can tell you right now that the world is definitely not ending and nothing bad is going to happen today!"
"SPARKLESTAR IS DEAAAAAAAAAD!" Came a loud yowl.
The clan cats started to panic and ran around in circles screaming and yowling about the world ending again. Moonshimmer hardly knew what to do to keep them calm! And what about her mother? Was she really dead? She had to go check this out to see if someone was playing a prank or not! If it was a prank it was probably really mean and the person who played the prank was probably really mean!
"Who yowled that?" she demanded to them.
Sunsetshine was standing over Sparklestar's dead body crying sweet tears over her. "I yowled it!" He exclaimed. "It is just so terrible! I loved her so much!"
"What do you mean?" Moonshimmer exclaimed. "My poor mother is really dead?"
Sparklestar was surely dead. There was so much blood there was no way she could not be dead! She did not seem to be regenerating too. She was just laying there all still and starting to smell like a zombie!
"She was my mate you know!" Sunsetshine said through his flowing and flowing tears.
"Your mate?" Moonshimmer said. She had begun to cry to over the body of her dead mother.
"I am your father Moonshimmer! You and Tranquildream and even stupid Lilyblossom are all my kits!" He said. "I am so sorry that I never told you before right now!"
Moonshimmer could not believe this nose! She had lost her mother but she had gained a father all in one day!
She suddenly knew what all of this must meant!
"I am the new leader of EmeraldClan!" She gasped!
"Oh my gosh that is right you are the new leader!" Said Sunsetshine. "I am going to go tell everybody they will be so happy!"
He ran off telling every cat in the Clan that the new leader of the Clan was Moonshimmer. She knew that she had to make a trip to the Starrypool where leaders went to go get their lives from StarClan. She also had to pick a deputy!
She knew exactly who she wanted to be her deputy! It was her long time bestest friend in the entire world Gaysparkle! She didn't know that he was evil now that he was with Lilyblossom she didn't even know that he was with Lilyblossom at all.
"Gaysparkle! Gaysparkle!" She called. "Quickly come here I need you!"
She could see Gaysparkle in the distance. He was slowly inching out of his the medicine cat ten and he kind of looked al ittle scared or something.
"Quickly hurry up and get over here!" She called again.
Gaysparkle still continued to be a slow poke.
"GAYSPARKLE!" Moonshimmer said. She was not raising her voice or yelling at him or anything she was just trying to get his attention. She was wondering why he was being so slow to get to her.
"I am coming!" He meowed. He looked like he was shivering. "Hold on! I'm coming!"
She waited around. Her tail swished the ground. He finally made it to her and he looked like he was wincing or something.
"What's wrong Gaysparkle!" She asked him.
"Um… what did you want from me?" He asked her. He touched his tail to her shoulder.
"I wanted to make you the deputy of the Clan because my mother Sparklestar is dead and now I'm about to go to the Starrypool to get my nine lives. Come on we can't be late!" Moonshimmer said. "It is a very long walk!"
Gaysparkle looked really relieved for some strange reason.
"It is sad that Sparklestar died." He said. "She was pretty cool. She let me into the Clan after all."
"I'll bet it was Lilyblossom who killed her!" Moonshimmer said sadly. "Its something horrible like this that he would do. He just does not know when to stop because so mean. He keeps killing leaders and it's just not right."
"Yeah. That isn't good." Gaysparkle meowed quietly.
Moonshimmer continued to walk outside of the camp and they headed in the direction of the Starrypool.
"I mean I can not believe that you used to like him!" She continued what she was saying before. "I do not think that Lilyblossom even has a heart to love with. He's just that mean! He's so mean that his heart is completely gone."
"Yeah. No heart." Gaysparkle meowed.
"I have tried to change him time and time again but he just will not listen to me. It can't be that hard for him to change his ways. He's only mean after all! Poor misguided Lilyblossom. I wish there was something I could do to save him from a life of horridness!" She meowed with sadness in her pretty violet eyes. She really did care for her brother but she was starting to lose hope that she could ever change him.
"Yeah. Horridness." Gaysparkle meowed.
"Are you sure you're alright Gaysparkle? You haven't been acting like you're okay. Are you still having problems with undigestion?" She asked kindly. She did not want her friend to be in any sort of pains. He was a medicine cat though so he could heal him. OR she could heal him because she had magical powers that StarClan gave her. Either way he just had to say that he was in pain and he could be fixed.
Gaysparkle suddenly looked really cheery! "No its alright I'm fine. I was just thinking about things. Like how Sparklestar is dead and all and how you want me to be the deputy. That's really nice of you by the way, making me deputy. I never would have expected something like that."
"It's the least I can do for you." She said. "You are the nicest most kindest boy cat that I know! And you are my sister's mate and even though you only have experience as a medicine cat I think you had the skills to also make a very good deputy!" She nodded her head and gave him a lick on the cheek.
Gaysparkle smiled happily. "Oh you're too kind to me, Moonshimmer. I think you're going to make a great leader. I mean – wow – Moonstar! That's such a pretty name for such a pretty angel cat like you."
Moonshimmer wondered for a moment if Gaysparkle was in love with her because he was complimenting her but she realized that he was probably just being nice. Besides he was mates with Tranquildream and he would never ever think of loving anyone else. She still did not know that he was cheating on Tranquildream with evil Lilyblossom!
It was not her fault that she did not know though. StarClan just had not chosen to tell her anything about the situation and as wonderfully powerful and magical as she was she just could not read the minds of other cats. Or maybe she could but she did not want to try because she did not want to invade the privates of any cat. That would be terribly rude! Moonshimmer did not ever want to be rude! She was too nice for that.
Sometimes she did wonder what was going through Gaysparkle's cute and fluffy little head though.
"Are we there yet?" Gaysparkle asked. He looked like he was a little bit bored with all the walking they were doing. The Starrypool was a long ways a way.
"I think that we are almost there. I have never been to the Starrypool so I do not even know where it is!" She sighed in exasperated. "Oh wait there it is."
The Starrypool was right in front of them and they had not noticed it until that very moment. It was very starry too! It was glowing and there was water falling down rocks and into the pool! There was a peaceful sound of water. It was all so nice and calm. She just had to fall asleep now.
She fell asleep.
In her dreams she went to StarClan! She wasn't dead or anything but this is what deputies had to do when they were going to become leader. She hoped that getting her lives did not hurt or anything.
Sparklestar was standing there in front of her. "Moonshimmer my dearest kit! I see you have arrived at the Starrypool and are ready to get your lives!"
"Yes." Meowed Moonshimme happily. "I am finally ready to become leader. I'm sad that you died though mother. I already had thought you were dead for so long and then you came back and died again. It just kind of makes me a little upset."
"I'm sorry my dearest little special daughter!" Sparklestar meowed. "My death was an aciddent or something."
They began the life giving ceremony which was really long. But as the lives were going into Moonshimer suddenly Lilyblossom popped out of no where and began to eat them one by one!
Sparklestar gasped. "Lilyblossom what are you doing?"
"I am stealing Moonshimmer's lives so that I can become the leader of EmeraldClan!" Lilyblossom said loudly and he laughed evil. He continued to eat the lives that should have been going into Moonshimmer!
"No!" Shoued Moonshimmer. "Stop it right now!" She could not attack her brother because this was a dream though. She had only got two of her lives and the rest of them were being eaten by Lilyblossom so that he was getting them now.
Now Lilyblossom would be the rightful leader of EmeraldClan because he had more lives than her! The dream was fading away and swirling and swirling around and around until Moonshimmer woke up startled.
Lilyblossom was there already laughing crazily and evily. "This is my victory, Moonshimmer! I am now Deathstar, the leader of EmeraldClan… and soon I will be the leader of the entire forest!"
Moonshimmer looked at Gaysparkle who was just sitting there looking kind of weird. She looked back at Lilyblossom and cried out. "No! You cannot do this my dear brother. I am the rightful leader of EmeraldClan, not you!"
"Too bad!" Lilyblossom hissed and spat. "I got to it before you did so now I am the leader of the Clan! Call me Deathstar from now on, all of you!"
Deathstar ran into the woods to go back to EmeraldClan and tell them that he was now the new leader of the Clan! Gaysparkle and Moonshimmer were left there, and Moonshimmer began to cry.
"This wasn't supposed to happen!" she sobbed. "I was supposed to become Moonstar so that I could lead EmeraldClan in peace and kindness. Now Deathstar will destroy everything that there is. He will try to take over the forest and then what will I do? I have to stop him somehow!"
Gaysparkle nodded. "He's really super powerful though so it might be kind of hard to stop him. Just saying."
"Quickly we have to beat him back to the camp!" Moonshimmer gasped. She rushed through the forest and towards the camp as fast as she could go. Gaysparkle was struggling to keep up with her because she was suck a fast cat.
They burst into the camp but Deathstar was already there sitting on top of the big jewel that the leaders stood on top of.
"I am your new leader, EmeraldClan! Moonshimmer has failed you, and I have taken her lives. I am Deathstar, and there is nothing you can do about it!" He said with a booming laugh that echoed throughout everything.
There were sad murmurs from the Clan because they though that there beloved Moonshimmer had died.
But she had not died!
She was sitting right there with her eyes wide open as her brother pronounced himself the leader of EmeraldClan! And there was nothing she could do to stop him!