Hi everyone sorry that this is late, the one who check's my story's was away for like two weeks and I was writing a new story as well but here's chapter 9. Oh and please look at my note at the bottom of the chapter, it's very very inportant for to you read it, thank you and injoy.
Disclaimer: Erin Hunters owns the warrior books but I do own my OCs Sandfire, Goldenpelt, Thornrose, Darkrot, Jaggedclaw, Destiny and the plot, the kit's were given to me so they belong to the one's who give them.
Chapter 9
Day three in the countryside and Destiny's kits
The sun started to rise as Sandfire opened his eyes to see a butterfly flying around. As it landed on his nose, he looked over at his mate to see if she was still sleeping to find her still fast asleep, than looked back at the butterfly as he narrowed his eyes at it. While he watched it, Goldenpelt woke up and looked over at him to see them, with that she started to laugh at them has his nose twitched and sneezed making the butterfly fly off his nose to join a group of other butterflies and out of the camp with him and Goldenpelt chasing after them.
As they chased the butterflies, Sandfire skidded to a stop and went into a hunter's crouch as he watched something move down wind from him. It was a rabbit playing around by a tree so he creep towards it as he signed with his tail, telling Goldenpelt to creep towards it from a different direction so if it ran it would only be able to run into a rocky outlet with only one way in and one out. While they creeped towards it, Goldenpelt step's over the rabbit's hole, cutting it off from it's escape. They creep closer and closer untill they were in jumping distance, Sandfire then jumped out of the grass at the some time the rabbit's ear's went straight up and it started to run away, making him miss it by a hair. As it ran away from him, Goldenpelt jumped out in front of it, making it turn around and run back the way it came, jumping over Sandfire and into the rocky outlet with her right on it's tail. Sandfire then got back up and ran after her and the rabbit into the outlet but when it got to the end of the outlet, the rabbit tried to find a way out but it was too late as Sandfire jumped on it and give it a swift bite to the neck. Picking the rabbit up and taking it back out of the outlet, Sandfire puts it down on the ground, but as they were about to eat it, Goldenpelt stopped as her left ear twitched and she looked in the direction of the sound. 'Was that what I think it is' she thought as Sandfire looked at her, "Goldenpelt what's wrong". "I think I heard a kit's cry for help" she answered him. They then both heard it again but louder then before and they both ran as fast as they could in the direction of the cry but then they saw two kits and they were cornered by a young fox.
They both looked at each other and nodded their heads then they jumped in between the fox and the kits. While Goldenpelt curled her body around the kits, Sandfire jumped right at the fox but as he flew through the air towards it, he felt something stir through his veins once again, for the fox all it could see and hear was a very bright light and very loud boom like thunder as he sank his claws into the fox's shoulder and sliced all the way down to it's hip. The fox screamed and turned around to ran away as Sandfire landed on his paws. Catching his breath, Sandfire stood very still as Goldenpelt uncurled herself from the kits to have a better look at them to find a dark tortoiseshell she-kit with startling emerald eyes and a fluffy grey tom with the same eye colour as the she-kit. After having a good look at them to see if they were ok, she asked them. "My name is Goldenpelt and the ginger tom over there is Sandfire, what's your's?" "My name is Blossom and this is my brother Grass. Thank's for saving us" meowed the she-kit. "Your very welcome Blossom but how old are you and your brother?" she asked Blossom. "We are both five moons Goldenpelt" Blossom mewed back. Goldenpelt then looked around but couldn't find what she was looking for, so she asked "May I ask were your mother and father is?" As she watched them, the two kit's ear's went flat and Blossom curled her little tail around her little paws as her brother Grass answered for her, "The mother fox got our mother, father and sister's in their sleep when we were playing with a butterfly three days ago".
After hearing this Sandfire walked over to them, "You can come with us if you like" he mewed. "Thank's but we can't go with you till we have found Dusk" Grass answered. With that he give the kit a surprised look as he asked "Dusk?". "Yes, she's our sister, she went missing from the den and we went looking for her. That was when we found that butterfly and we couldn't help play but with it, but then it flew into the sky, so we went back to get mum and dad's help to find Dusk, but we found them all gone with the sight of a struggle on the floor and the strong scent of fox. Then we saw it, the fox was very big and when we heard it say what it had done to our family, we got scared and ran away. As we ran, we found Dusk's scent again and followed it here when we got stopped by that fox" Grass answered as he looked up at Sandfire, who sniffed the air till he caught a kit's scent. As he looked in the direction the scent was coming from, he meowed "Ok I will go and look for your sister. You two will go with Goldenpelt ok" then he looked at Goldenpelt, "Take the kit's back to the rabbit we caught. I will be back soon with Dusk" and he ran into the long grass following the lost kit's scent.
As he ran though the long grass, following the scent, he skidded to a stop when he ran out of the long grass and into a small clearing with a lot of butterflies flying around a rock. As he looked around, he soon spotted a dark grey kit, who was sitting on the rock watching the butterflies fly around her. As she watched the butterflies happliy, she felt someone watching her, so she looked down from the butterflies to see Sandfire looking up at her. She screeched out loud with excitement as she jumped off the rock and ran over to him while calling out "Daddy your finally here". With that she purred as she nuzzled her little head into his fur. He looked down at her in shock as he asked "What do you mean by finally here and calling me daddy?" Dusk then stopped nuzzling into his fur to looked up at him, "I can't tell you till we get back to Blossom, Grass and mommy Goldenpelt". He then nodded his head and picked her up and started to ran back to where he had sent Goldenpelt and the kits.
Running fast through the long grass with her, he soon came to a stop as he came out and walked over to his mate and the kit's and as he put Dusk back down on the ground, her sister and brother ran over to them with Goldenpelt slowly following behind them. "Dusk where have you been, we have been looking for you everywhere" meowed Blossom as she tackled her sister and started to nuzzle Dusk with happiness and relief. When she let her sister back up, Dusk mewed "I am sorry Blossom, Grass for worrying you but I had that dream and woke up outside with that butterfly again". As they all looked at her, Grass asked her, "Can you tell us about that dream now sis?"
"Yes, I understand it now so I will tell you. My dream starts with me all curled up in some pieces of grass and blossom petals, feeling safe and warm. Then a butterfly came and ask me to play with it, so I ran after it. As I ran after it the pieces of grass and the blossom petals were following behind me but then I found myself all alone. I looked around but then I had a feeling of being watched, so I looked behind me to see darkness. I could feel danger coming from it, so I ran away as fast as I could go. Then I see a light and ran towards it, as I got closer to the light, the butterfly returned and as it flew by my side it told me that the light would protect me, so I jumped into the light to find that the piece of grass and the blossom petals were back with me and the feelings of warmth and safety had returned as well but the feelings had the colours of a golden-brown and a ginger dancing together in it. Then I woke up outside again with that butterfly on my nose" Dusk mewed as she told them about her dream.
"So what happened after you woke up sis" asked Blossom as she lay down with her tail curled around her.
Dusk looked at her sister, "I stayed very still Blossom, till the butterfly flew off my nose that is when I ran after it but it disappeared so I went back to the den to find everyone gone. But I soon spotted you two but before I could run over, I saw a huge fox and you two running away from it. So I ran after you both but the butterfly flew right into my face and made me look to the right to see a ball of light".
"A ball of light?" asked Grass as he looked around, expecting it to come out of nowhere.
"Yes Brother a ball of light" she mewed as she shock her little head then she mewed "But then the light turned into a ginger tom. As I got ready to try and get past him, he said that he was there not to stop me but to help me. So I looked into his eyes and I had a feeling that he was there to do as he says, so I ran over to him and told him my name. Then as I sat down in front of him, he told me that he already knew my name and that his was Firestar and that he was sent to guide me to where I would meet a tom called Sandfire. As he got up and started walking away with me following behind him, he told me that Sandfire would take me back to you both, I will meet Sandfire's mate and we would be given a chance to have a new mother and father by becoming their kits".
As Dusk mentioned her and her siblings becoming their kits, Goldenpelt leaned against Sandfire purring happily as Dusk mewed "He even said if we did we would one day become Thunderclan warriors so I asked him what Thunderclan is and he told me that Thunderclan is one of four clan's that live by a lake, they are mainly a peaceful clan and respectful of the other clan's but in battle they are fierce, courageous and loyal. Then he told me to stay and wait for Sandfire because he would be there soon, then he told me that he would see us tonight and then he disappeard. I didn't have to wait long when Sandfire found me and here I am".
Looking at her brother and sister she mewed "I think that the pieces of grass was you Grass and the blossom petals was Blossom, the darkness was that big fox and the colours are Sandfire and Goldenpelt".
Grass then looked at Blossom, then to Dusk, "Ok Dusk that must have been one of those special dream's that mum told us about and it was good of Firestar to take you to a safe place, but I don't know if we should go with them".
As Grass mewed this Sandfire looked at his mate who nodded her head, so Sandfire walked up to the three kits, "It is ok, you three have all the time in the world to make your decision, but if you want to we would be happy to take all three of you as our own".
Grass then looked from his sister to Sandfire, "Thanks Sandfire, Goldenpelt we will think about it but where do we go from here". Sandfire then looked from Grass to the mountain, "We well eat then go towards that mountain".
The three kit's nodded their little heads and walked over with Sandfire to the rabbit to eat while Goldenpelt ran into the long grass. It didn't take long till she came back with a small plump hare that was weakly trying to get away from her. Sandfire looked up at the small hare to spot that one of its back legs was badly tattered and broken, "What do you think happen to it Goldenpelt" he ask as he looked at it with sadness in his eye's while thinking, 'Poor thing, if Thornrose was here she would let it die peacefully and then she would tell us again to only take a young life if we need to '.
After he mewed this, she put it down, "I think a fox got it but it got away before it could be killed" she sadly answered thinking the same thing as the two watch it on the ground. "We better put it out of it's misery" she mewed but before she could Dusk stopped eating and ran over to sit before the hare to whisper, "Little one who ran through the grass it's ok, you are safe so go and play in the endless meadow of light" and with that the hare's look of fright changed to peace and understanding, then it closed it's eye's and went into the light.
When the hare past away, Goldenpelt purred down at Dusk to ask "Was your mother a wandering medicine cat". Dusk looked up at her in shock, "Yes she was but how did you know". "Thornrose, mine and Sandfire's secound mother was a wandering medicine cat too. She once told me about the wandering medicine cat prayer but I always thought why didn't she didn't teach us her ways. Now that I think about it, she must of known that Sandfire would return to Thunderclan one day and teach us how to be warrior's instead" she mewed to the kit, then she looked over to Sandfire to mew "let's go and eat, we have a long walk ahead of us" and the two walked back to Sandfire, Grass and Blossom with the hare to eat.
After eating and burying the bone's, Sandfire and Goldenpelt walked back into the rocky outlet with the kit's and walked up to a part of the wall that was broken and rocky from a landfall. Sandfire looked up at the landfall, then walked up to the kit's, "Ok Blossom, Goldenpelt will carry you up behind me. I'll carry Dusk and Grass can you handle the climb if I help you, I'll make sure you don't fall".
Grass looked up at Sandfire with a look of determination in his eye's and then jumped up onto a rock, "I can handle it Sandfire, just don't drop my sister"
"It's look's like brother got over his shock and is back to being a proud and bossy kit again" purred Blossom cheerfully as Goldenpelt picked her up while thinking 'Oh dear, wait for it', then she started to giggle when she heared her brother shout "I HEARD THAT".
All the while Sandfire picked up Dusk and watched as Grass jumped to the next rock up. After Grass had landed on the rock, Sandfire jumped up onto the first rock and started following Grass closely as he climbed, with Goldenpelt slowly following behind.
Jumping from rock to rock, they finally got to the top and as soon as Sandfire and Goldenpelt put down the she-kit's, Sandfire looked up at the mountain, "We got some time before the sun goes down so let's go as far as we can" and then started to run slowly towards the mountain with Goldenpelt and the kit's following behind him. As they ran, Goldenplet thought as she watched him run, 'I hope we can stop running from Darkrot soon but that's all I can do, hope, but I know I will fight to the end if I must'.
As they ran, the kit's played a game to past the time. They played try and catch the tail, which started when Dusk jumped at Sandfire's tail but missed as his tail went to the right a little, then Blossom tried but she too missed it when his tail went a little to the left. Grass then tried to jump at Sandfire's tail and was just about to catch it when Sandfire jumped away from him, making him trip and go into a roll but Sandfire stopped running and used his back paw to stop Grass from rolling away, while looking up at the sky to see the sun starting to go down. "We should find a place to sleep to night" he mewed as he turned around and picked Grass up, to walk over to Goldenpelt. He put Grass down with his sister's and turned to his mate, "Goldenpelt, I'll go and looked for a place for the night, you look after the kit's", while she nodded her head, he turned around and walked fast around the long grass, looking for a save place to camp.
When he find one, he called "Goldenpelt over here" and started to look for some moss to make a bed. Goldenpelt then walked into the camp with the kit's as he put down some moss that he found nearby. When there was a enough moss, they all curled up together and went to sleep.
As they slept Dusk felt like someone was watching her, so she opened her eye's to see a pair of startling emerald eye's looking down at her. A second later everyone was awoken as Dusk screamed "MUM YOUR HERE, I THOUGHT YOU HAD GONE UP INTO THE SKY", then the kit's ran away from Goldenpelt to their mother as she mewed softly "Oh my darlings, I'm so very glad that you are all right". "So how did you find us, when are we going home. Please don't leave us again" meowed Grass but his ear's went flat when he heard her mew "I'm sorry little one's but I can't stay with you any more". Blossom then looked sadly at her mother "But why mum, why can't you stay with us".
The kit's mother looked down at her sad and confused kit's, "Because I'm in Starclan now with your father and sisters" and as the kit's started to cry into her fur, she mewed softly "Please my darlings except Sandfire's offer to be their kit's, for you will be safe and happy with them in Thunderclan". As the kit's looked up at their mother and nodded their little heads, Goldenpelt got up and walked over to them. "You will look after them, won't you?" their mother ask her and she answered as she looked right into the mother's eye's "Yes we will look after them as if they are our own". "And we will die to protect them" add Sandfire as he walked over to stand by her.
Then someone walked out of the bushes, "It's is good to see you both again Sandfire, Goldenpelt. How have you been?" The two looked over to who had spoken to see Thornrose purring at them, so they ran over to her. As they ran over to her Sandfire meowed "We're doing great Thornrose".
"Thornrose you should of seen him, Sandfire took on a fox all on his own and after just one slash of his claw's, the fox ran away" Goldenpelt added as she ran with him. When they got to her and sat down, she mewed "Yes I know, I have been watching you both from Starclan and I'm very proud with you both" and as the two looked happily at her, they both mewed "Thanks Thornrose".
"And I must thank you as well for using that butterfly to guide them to my kit's" someone mewed and they looked over to see the kit's mother and her kit's walking over to them, Thornrose then looked at her as she purred "Your welcome Destiny". "So what's your choice young ones" someone else mewed. As eveyone looked over to see who had spoken, Dusk meowed "Firestar" as she ran over to him. When she got to him with Grass and Blossom following behind her, Firestar purred down at Dusk as Grass and Blossom came to stand by their sister's side, Grass mewed "If you mean the choice of going with Sandfire and Goldenpelt, then yes we would be happy to".
Firestar looked happily at them, "Then from on you three will be known as Grasskit, Blossomkit and Duskkit. I hope you will live happily in Thunderclan with Sandfire and Goldenpelt" he mewed happily, then he called "Bluestar can you come here and teach the kit's the warrior code please".
"Yes Firestar, it would be a honour to teach them the code" mewed Bluestar as she came out of the bushes and walked up to the kit's, "Come now little ones, you must learn the code that most warriors learn as kit's". All three kit's then nodded their heads and followed her away as Sandfire asked "Firestar were's Whitestorm?"
Firestar looked at him, "Whitestorm will be here soon Sandfire" he answered.
"I am here, sorry to make you both wait Sandfire, Goldenplet" meowed Whitestorm as he ran out of the bushes and walked up to them, "I was planning tomorrow night's defence lesson for the kit's as well as your lesson of Thunderclan's battle skills" he mewed as he sat down in front of them. Hearing this Goldenpelt looked back at him, "Defence lesson? For the kit?"
"Yes, it's good for the kit's to know some defence moves when your on a journey with a enemy after you" he answered her.
"So you are going to teach us Thunderclan's hunting skills to night" asked Sandfire as he watched the older warrior. Whitestorm then looked from Goldenpelt to him, "Yes that's tonights lesson, so let's begin". Then the three stood up and started their lesson as Firestar, Thornrose and Destiny stood up too and said their farewells. Then they left them to their lesson.
(Two hours later)
After all the lesson's were over, Blossomkit looked up at Bluestar to mew "Thank you Bluestar for teaching us the code and telling us some stories of the time when Firestar was an apprentice". "Your welcome Blossomkit. You will see me, Firestar and Whitestorm tomorrow night and you will meet Yellowfang too" mewed Bluestar. Then Goldenpelt walked over to the kit's, "It's time to get some sleep, we have a long day ahead of us in the morning", then she and the kit's said goodnight to Bluestar and walked away to curl up together. Sandfire then walked over to Whitestorm and Bluestar, "Good night, Whitestorm, Bluestar. See you tomorrow night", then he walked over to his mate and curled up by her side and went to sleep.
That it for this chapter but I got some new's for you all. I have been thinking of rewriting The return of the Thunder for a while now and so I'm going to start after this chapter. I also been thinking of deleting all this and starting a new with the rewrite, so I was thinking of asking you all what you think, sould I just replace the chapter's or should I start a new. Thank you all and please review on what you think of this chapter.
Oh and check out my new story called The life of Thornrose the wandering medicine cat that's will be out in the next hour. It's about Thornrose's past from when she is born to the day of the earthquake that started The return of the Thunder.
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