Hey Wolf Master here, sorry about the last chapter being so short but this on will be a lot longer. Also please review, I can't improve with no feed back but no flames please. So R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own Warriors or the Warriors cats but I do own Sagemind, Emeraldkit Rubykit, and Saphirekit.
Chapter 3: Cinders Can Create a Flame, Part 1
Jayfeather woke; the familiar blindness came to him. He sensed his brother padding towards the fresh kill pile. He jumped up and headed toward him. Lionblaze looked from his usual look, staring at the floor.
"Hey Jayfeather," Lionblaze muttered. He grabbed a mouse.
"Hey Lionblaze, how are you feeling?" Jayfeather asked. If Half Moon came to me while he's in this condition, I have no doubt be really depressed. Jayfeather thought. Lionblaze looked at his brother, the persistent sadness in his face.
"Alright, I'm not sick or injured," Lionblaze meowed.
"No, I meant emotionally," Jayfeather meowed, worry in his voice. Lionblaze looked at Jayfeather with a puzzled look.
"Since when do you care about emotional issues? Where's the usual 'I don't care' attitude and look?" Lionblaze asked. Jayfeather hesitated for a heartbeat before replying.
"Since last night. You've really been down ever since you…." Jayfeather knew better than to mention the incident.
"Well, I'm feeling the usual, sad," Lionblaze muttered. He finished eating and left to the Warriors den. I have to get him and Cinderheart back together. Jayfeather thought. Around sun high, Jayfeather called Cinderheart to his den.
"Yes Jayfeather," Cinderheart meowed. "What do you need?'
"You wanted to know what is wrong with Lionblaze?" He asked.
"Yes what is it?" She asked quickly.
"Depression. And, in a way, you gave him it, Cinderheart."
"WHAT?" Cinderheart yowled. "How did I give him depression?"
"When you left him you took away his will to live, to be happy, to fight. You were his inspiration, but now hunger, thirst, and tiredness are the only things that keep him alive." Cinderheart stood there in shock.
"I can't be with him, I'm just a distraction." Cinderheart meowed sadly.
"No you're not," Jayfeather growled. "You're everything to him, he has no other reasons to live, I know, I asked."
"What do you mean?" Cinderheart asked.
"I told him to fight for Starclan, he said "why fight for a bunch of dead cats,' I told him to fight for the clans, he said 'why fight for a bunch of cats who will die anyways,' and last I told him to fight for you." Cinderheart was listening intently now, determined to find out his response. "He said, 'why fight for the cat I love more than anything if that feeling is so obviously not returned at all. Now I think it might have never been there to begin with.'" Cinderheart gasped and tears came to her eyes.
"Why would he think that?" Cinderheart sobbed out.
"I asked him the same thing, he said, 'because she acted like nothing ever happened, right after I told her, she acted as if we were never together, she acted excited that we were apart. I never saw any regret in her voice when we talked about it, as if she was happy about it.'"
"But that's not true!" Cinderheart yowled.
"Well Lionblaze doesn't think so, and soon I fear it will be to late to undo the damage," Jayfeather meowed.
"Then we have to find him, the clans will die without him!" She yowled. She spun to leave when Jayfeather cut her off.
"This is why he thinks this way, you don't care about him, all you care about is the prophecy, not Lionblaze." Jayfeather growled.
Cinderheart stuttered backward. She had realized what Jayfeather said was true.
"I'm sorry, but I can change that." She meowed. Then, Jayfeather and Cinderheart heard a voice.
"It's true, Jay's Wing, she will change." Cinderheart franticly search for the voice.
"What the, who are you, where are you?" A thick fog appeared. A figure appeared out of the fog.
"Half Moon," Jayfeather exclaimed, rushing to her side purring loudly. "What are you doing here, love." She turned and muzzled him.
"To help," Half Moon meowed. Half Moon padded up to Jayfeather and they touched noses and muzzled each other. Both of them were lost in their passion, forgetting Cinderheart for a second. Cinderheart's worried voice broke the trance they had over each other.
"Jayfeather, w-what are you doing, what's going on, who is she?" The three cats stared at each other before a reply came.
"I am Half Moon," Half Moon meowed. "I was the first Healer of the Tribe of Rushing Water." Half Moon paused for a moment to let Cinderheart process what she heard. "And," she continued. "I am Jay's Wing's mate."
At first, silence greeted Half Moon's introduction before.
"Ok, you're from the Tribe of Endless Hunting, you must have a reason and also, who's Jay's Wing?" Cinderheart meowed confused. Jayfeather turned his head to Half Moon, looking for what to do. She nodded.
Turning back to Cinderheart, he took a paw step forward and meowed, "That would be me, I'm Jay's Wing, Half Moon's mate."
Cinderheart was shocked she yowled, "But you're a medicine cat, she can't be your mate!"
"I meet Half Moon in the past, the ancient cats who live by the lake and move the mountains, back then I was Jay's Wing, a sharpclaw or warrior. It was legal for her to be my mate, even though I, we never mated or had kits and probably will not , I love her. Cinderheart sat in shock after what Jayfeather said when Half Moon brushed against him and purred seductively.
"Who ever said we would never have kits, you know what I want when you finish your work, and I think you want it to." Jayfeather stiffened at who she said that and how she sent sensations tingling up his spine. He lapped his tongue over her ears and whispered.
"I know Half Moon, I want that to, but getting alone won't be easy if she tells and everyone thinks I'm a traitor. Now act as if you're discourage I don't mean what I'm about to say." Jayfeather stopped and said aloud for Cinderheart to hear. "I can't do that Half Moon, its not how I am, I'm a medicine cat I can't happen." Half Moon put on a sad face and Cinderheart relaxed.
"Now," Cinderheart meowed, "why are you here?"
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