Chapter 10 Feathershadow's P.O.V
Feathershadow walked out of her leaders den to organize patrols. She was down two warriors but up six apprentices.
She walked over to the middle of the clearing and sat down. Cats started to crowd around her as she began to talk. She felt a presence next to her and she thought it was her father watching her organize her first patrols as deputy. She smiled at that.
"Thunderwave take a patrol to the SandClan border. Take Rainflower and Icepaw. Mudclaw take Poppypaw, Whitepelt and Rabbittail out hunting. Snowtail take Moonswallow, Cloudcover and Lionpaw with you, to the DarkClan border, but be on high alert." The cat began to obey orders as she walked over to the fresh kill pile and picked up a vole. She went to sit outside the Hollow Tree and started eating. When she was down too went to the warriors den to lie down. She was tired and needed some sleep. She curled up in her nest and drifted off to sleep.
When Feathershadow woke up, the sun was rising. Did I really sleep that long? She wondered, surprised. She saw her kits playing around outside the apprentices den and she smiled. Lionpaw had leaped onto Foxpaw. Lionpaw had his brother pinned down and yowled, "I got you now!" as his brother squirmed beneath him. "Fine! Fine! I give up, just get off of me!" Foxpaw yelled at his brother. Lionpaw jumped off. Feathershadow walked up to Icepaw who was watching them. She sat down next to her daughter with an amusement in her eyes. Icepaw and Dawnpaw were always more calm they the two toms. "You're not going to join in?" She asked.
"No, I was just watching as Foxpaw got beat by Lionpaw whose smaller than him." Icepaw said the last part a little loudly. She squeaked as Foxpaw jumped on her. "Get off you big lump of fur!" She yowled.
"Foxpaw, get off your sister! She's smaller then you." Feathershadow mewed before she went to break up the fight. Icepaw backed off and started to fix her pelt, while Foxpaw went back to play fighting with his brother. Thunderwave came up behind Feathershadow with amusement in his eyes. Feathershadow turned to look at him. "They are just like you when you were an apprentice." She told him.
"Hey at least I didn't attack my sister. I had enough sense not to." He purred in amusement.
"Yeah well that's also because you had a strict father." She replied.
"Hey Thrushclaw wasn't that strict!" He mewed.
"When you did something wrong he was!"
"Well yeah bu…" He was cut off but a warning yowl from Moonswallow who was on guard duty. Then five SandClan warriors burst into camp. They looked wide eyed and out of breath.
Windstar ran out of her den to confront the warriors. "What are you doing in the StormClan camp?" She asked calmly.
"DarkClan has attacked our camp!" A brown tom mewed.
"Please we need your help! We are no match for DarkClan!"
"Fine. Feathershadow I want you to lead Thunderwave, Moonswallow, Whitepelt, Mudclaw and Molefur to help SandClan. I don't want any apprentices to go up against them." Windstar meowed to her Deputy.
Feathershadow nodded and gathered up the warriors and headed out with the SandClan cats. As they were walking she figured out who the cats were. It was Sparrowfur, Hollypaw, Silverberry, Pebblefoot and Dustpaw. As they neared the camp they heard cats screeching and saw a DarkClan she-cat running towards their territory.
They entered the camp and were instantly hurled into the fight. Feathershadow was knocked into Shadowwhisker. She clawed at the white she-cat's muzzle. Shadowwhisker jumped onto her back and clawed her spine. Feathershadow yowled in pain, then she felt the wait lift off her back and she got up to see Thunderwave send the she-cat running through the reeds. Feathershadow nodded to her mate and turned back to the fight.
She saw Weaselfur and jump onto his back. Though he was bigger than her and pinned her down. An insane look in his eyes as he leaned down to do a killing bite. Before he could she started to scratch his soft under belly and he yowled in pain and jumped of her. But he wasn't going to give up yet.
Please StarClan let me live! Feathershadow pleaded before she was being cornered as Shadowstar joined her deputy. Feathershadow had a look of terror in her eyes as they closed in. She screeched as loud as she could before both cats leapt onto her. Weaselfur dug his claws into her skin as Shadowstar pinned her down. They are going to kill me! Please StarClan! Help me! Feathershadow thought as Shadowstar leaned towards her to whisper in her ear.
"We're going to kill you then we will pick off your family one by one. We did it to Lightningstar now we will do it to you."
Feathershadow shrank back, "You killed my father! I blamed it on SandClan but it was you!"
Shadowstar didn't say anything; instead she lunged to do the killing that Weaselfur failed to do. Feathershadow didn't see what happened next because everything went black.
She woke up in a starry clearing.
Am I dead? She thought horrified at the thought. I can't be!
"No you are not dead. Moonswallow and Thunderwave heard you're screech and found you right before they killed you though Weaselfur knocked you out with a heavy blow from his paw." She turned to see Lightningstar behind her.
"Then what am I doing here?" She asked.
"There is no reason but you are waking up now so go home. The battle is over." He started to fade as she woke up.
She looked up and saw Thunderwave standing over her with a worried look on his face that turned to relief as he saw his mate wake up.
"Can we go home?" Feathershadow asked.
"Yeah let's go." Thunderwave mewed. Feathershadow could stand but had to lean on Thunderwave the whole way back to camp.
When they got there everyone was in the clearing. The apprentice saw their parents walk in and ran up to them.
"Feathershadow are you ok?" Icepaw asked, worried.
"Yeah, I'm going to be fine"