Hi everyone! I very much appreciate all of the wounderful reviews and I would like to thank the following:
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This chapter is FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS REVIEWED!XD It's to say, 'Thanks!', like the chapter title!
Anyway, Snowpaw and Flamepaw are now back at home and have just gathered a bunch of warriors, including Morningsong! Flamepaw is back to his bitter self, but we find something out today that will shock and suprise everyone; Flame's REAL crush, and that, yes, they are kinda together, and, FLAMEPAW'S SWEETER SIDE!XD Now, once I learn how to shut up, we can begin! WOO!
Chapter 12
Snowpaw's paws were tingling with excitment. Her first battle! Once she and Flamepaw had reached camp, they had gathered Morningsong, Lightfoot, Blazeheart, Jaywhisker, Hollowwing, Emberpaw and Whitepaw, Silverpaw, Creekwater, Applewing, Hollyfrost, Fallowpool, Cloverstep, Wildfern, Skyfeather, Stoneclaw, Darkheart and Heathertail. Morningsong led the cats over the hilly moors and past the border into Thunderclan territory. The sun was starting to set, and the ground was a pale orange in the Winter light. Snowpaw noticed Thunderclan's territory was a giant forest.
Just like Forestclan's home... She thought sadly.
As the cats crunched through the ice, snow, and dried fallen leaves, Snowpaw thought about home, and about Hawkpaw, and how Hawkpaw was probablly a warrior now...
Suddenly, the sounds of screeching cats inturupted her thoughts. Morningsong led the large group through a bramble wall that must've protected the camp at one point. Her fellow friends, warriors, old and new, went off in every direction. Snowpaw saw a large tom and immetietly went for him. He was clawing a black she-cat with dark, paler green eyes. Snowpaw slashed at one of the big tom's ears, and cut a large gash into it. He spun around and tried to pin Snowpaw, but she was WAY to fast for him. She darted out of the way and reared up on her hind legs. The tom reared up and slashed at her muzzle. Snowpaw yelped in pain, but quickly took advantage of the tom's exposed belly. She dived and easily tripped him, despite his large size, and nipped at his muzzle. Snowpaw slashed at his face, narrowly missing his eyes, when she was violently thrown off of him. Snowpaw gasped for breath, as the wind had been knocked out of her. The reddish tabby locked his amber eyes unto hers as he slowly approched.
"I went easy on you,"he growled,"I could've killed you as soon as I knew you were there! I just wanted the fun of at least attempting to kill Flamepaw's most likely mate, Brindleheart."the tom leaped towards Snowpaw, and landed on top of her. Snowpaw felt like her lungs would colapse and she would die by the sheer weight of the tom, but she suddenly felt the weight lifted off of her. She took in a gasp of who it was.
Flamepaw, the best looking tom in the universe, was giving this other tom, a good whuppin.
"How many times do I have to tell you, Deadheart, you CAN'T MESS WITH ME!"at that, Flamepaw slapped Deadheart's face so hard, his nose started bleeding. But Flamepaw wasn't done."I don't care if you kill your own clanmate's, or anyone else, BUT YOU NEVER HURT MY CLAN, AND DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TOUCHING MY BEST FRIEND!"Flamepaw raked his long claws down his belly. Snowpaw just lay on her side, watching in awe at Flamepaw's muscles being flexed. Suddenly, another cat rammed into Snowpaw. She was too weak to fight!
"Help! I can't-"the she-cat had leaped on top of her and was raking her belly with thorn-sharp claws. Out of nowhere, Emberpaw bowled into the she-cat, and went for her neck. Emberpaw was kicked off, pinned, and getting the fatal bite in the fastest amount of time Snowpaw had ever seen. Snowpaw heaved herself up, and started sprinting towards Emberpaw.
"NO!"she shouted."NOT MY SISTER!"Snowpaw ramed into the she-cat with as much force as she could muster. But her sister, Emberpaw, was almost dead. Snowpaw grabbed her sister's scruff and yelled at Jayfeather,"Please! She's my sister! You just gotta save her!"
The grey tom's eyes flashed with an emotion Snowpaw couldn't quite place."Fine."he took Emberpaw into his den, while Snowpaw raced off and continued fighting. Her brother, Whitepaw, was having a difficult time with a tom, and Snowpaw ran over to help him. But before she even got there, another cat ramed into her hind legs, tripping her up really good. The tom was biting her shoulder.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWW!"she yowled, and tried to bat him away with her paws, but was having no such luck. The tom nipped at her neck, and Snowpaw ran for her life. She was praying she could make it home quickly enough.
As Snowpaw ran through the dark forest,(as it was WELL into the night by now), the snow felt colder than ever as she raced along. A sharp, deathly cold breeze had been kicked up, sending the falling ice crystals into her eyes. Snowpaw was about to turn around to see if the tom was still following her, when she ran into a large pile of rocks. Suddenly, the pile started shifting inward, and Snowpaw fell with them. Once Snowpaw hit the ground, she was out.
Snowpaw lifted her head in confusion.
Where am I? she thought. A soft, gentle breeze smelling of Spring blew, and there was all kinds of animals around Snowpaw.
"Hello?"she asked softly.
A familier voice answered her,"Snowpaw, it is urgernt for you to know why you were chased from that battle today..."Foreststar meowed.
"Why? I need to know!"Snowpaw begged.
Her mother replyed,"It was a spirit cat. A Dark Forest one. All the spirit cats knew if you weren't chased away, then the battle would've been won forever. But since the spirit cat came, it didn't happen that way..."
Snowpaw stared blankly at her mother, who said,"The Snow Flake will not bring frost into the world, but sun."her mother qouted with urgency.
"What?"Snowpaw asked.
"Your prophacyes, are that, and 'What seems good now, isn't always later.'"then Snowpaw was once again plunged into darkness.
Snowpaw lifted her heavy head. She stared at darkness, but she still heard voices.
"Flamepaw, I love you, but I need to go home now."a she-cat meowed. Snowpaw heard retreating paw steps, and then she knew who it was, Brindleheart! she thought angerly.
Flamepaw mumbled something about Brindleheart, and that's when Snowpaw tried to move. A rock fell, and she couldn't breath! Snowpaw let out the loudest wail she'd ever managed to let out. Flamepaw had heard her.
"Snowpaw? Snowpaw I'm coming!"the firey golden tom thrusted a large rock out of the way, and Snowpaw came face to face with his lovely blue eyes.
But they were filled with worry and fear."Did you hear our entire conversation?"he growled, obviously irritated with Snowpaw.
The she-cat only whimpered,"Help."in response. She was too confused and cold and tired and weak to think at the moment. Luckily Flamepaw helped her out by picking up her scruff and plopping her down in the cave. Snowpaw hunched herself up against the cold.
Flamepaw repeated,"Did you hear our entire conversation?"he growled even more angerly.
"No!"Snowpaw wailed, tired of everything."I only heard a little bit. The very end, just before she left."
Flamepaw narrowed his eyes.
"What? I wanna-"Snowpaw tried to take a step but was too weak. She flopped down and looked at Flamepaw with a helpless stare. She couldn't get herself home.
"Let's make a deal. If I carry you home, you don't tell nobody. Got it?"
"Fine."Snowpaw relaxed, and thought of her family and her nest. But she suddenly had to know about the battle."How did the battle turn out?"
"We won, but it'd have been nice if you were actually fighting the WHOLE time!"Flamepaw spat.
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ME! I FELL IN THIS PILE OF GARBAGE AND NEARLY DIED BECAUSE A CRAZY SPIRIT CAT WAS CHASING ME! WHAT DID YOU WANT ME TO DO, TELL HIM TO STOP?!"Snowpaw yowled in anger. Flamepaw was taken a-back, and his eyes looked kind for once.
"Tell me what happened,"he meowed softly. Snowpaw quickly blurted out the whole fight, begginning to end, and the meeting with her mom, and Flamepaw was shocked.
"So you have a prophacy?"he asked.
Snowpaw nodded.
"Cool. Even I don't have one of those."Flamepaw mewed, though he looked sad for Snowpaw."Were you born with it?"
"Hours after, it was told, 'The Snow Flake shall not bring frost into the world, but sun'"Snowpaw replyed.
"Sorry I've been acting like a total piece of fox-doung. It's just that Brindleheart and I, well, we want us to be mates, but-"
"But you can't have a mate from another clan,"Snowpaw inturrupted."So what are you going to do?"
"I don't know,"Flamepaw's eyes were dark with saddness and worry."I can't move to Thunderclan, as Windclan took me and my sister in when we were young."
"What happened?"Snowpaw asked, interested in the story that lay behind in Flamepaw's past.
"Well, we never met our dad, and still haven't to this day, but our mom was sick; real sick. She couldn't hunt for us, and we were only three moons old when this happened, so we couldn't hunt. Then one particularly cold morning, ourmom died. She was named Fern, and so me and my sister tried to hunt, but came up with no such luck. We ran into a Windclan patrol, and they took us in. No one in any of the other clans knows that me and my sister aren't clan born."
"Ah,"Snowpaw said, thinking hard."Why can't Brindleheart move to Windclan?"
"Because she is the leader's daughter! She would never leave her home, but that's the problem. We want to be together, but neither of us want to leave home."Flameaw meowed, scrapping his claws on the rocky ground in thought.
"I have the solution; don't be together then!"Snowpaw cried."If neither of you is willing to leave home for the other, neither of you really love eachother. Actually, I have the same porblem back home. I'm in love with a Waterclan tom named Hawkpaw, and we both want to be together. He told me though,"Snowpaw recalled the words through her mind,"that if I love him, to move into Waterclan. But I can't! I want to be the deputy and leader one day! I'm not going to disobey the warrior code!"Snowpaw spat. Her voice softened with saddness."I haven't told him this, but I don't want to be mates with him, as much as I love him. We can't. I can't."Flamepaw looked at her with curiosity in his blue eyes.
"You won't break the warrior code? Not even for love?"
"Nope. Let me tell you the whole story,"and so Snowpaw began the entire story of when she was born, all the way up to when they left Forestclan.
Flamepaw was very suprised."Well, speaking of home, why don't we take you home?"
"Okay,"Snowpaw relaxed as Flamepaw grabbed her scruff and started carrying her home. Snowpaw never opened her eyes until they were home, getting a little bit of rest. Once Flamepaw had put her down in camp, she opened her eyes to dawn.
"There you are, Snowpaw! I was worried sick!"Ashstar meowed."Flamepaw, I assume you can tell us the story?"
"Yeah. I saw Snowpaw being chased by that tom, so I followed, and I heard a large crash, then I saw that a pile of rocks had been moved, and I heard her trying to escape, so I lifted a rock off of her, and I went in and decided to wait the snow storm out. I guess I fell asleep."Flamepaw said nervously. For now, Snowpaw decided she'd let that be the standing story, until later, when she confessed to what really happened.
"Mousefang!"Ashstar yowled. The small tom trotted over."Get Snowpaw's wounds treated as quickly as possible. I have a warrior to make, as well as a couple of apprentices."Ashstar leaped onto a large dune in the middle of camp while Snowpaw was dragged into the medicine den.
"Wait!"she cried."I wanna watch this!"
"Fine."Mousefang replied coldly. Briarpaw came out and sat next to Snowpaw.
Ashstar was yowling,"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath Large Dune for a clan meeting!"no cat had left camp yet, so everyone was gathered already."I, Ashstar, leader of Windclan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on this apprentice. He has trained hard to understand the ways of your noble code, and I command him to be a warrior in his turn. Flamepaw, do promise to protect and uphold the warrior code, even at the cost of your life?"
"I do!"Flamepaw's voice was confident. Don't think that magically I forgot about what you were really doing, Flamepaw, Snowpaw gave a warning in her head.
"Then from this moment on, you shall be named Flameheart! Windclan honors you for your strength and excellent fighting skills."
"Flameheart! Flameheart! Flameheart!"the clan cheered. Ashstar held up her grey tail to signal for them to stop.
"We are not finished. Today, several kits become apprentices. Heatherkit, Ravenkit, Quillkit and Winterkit, please come up here."
The four kits bounded up to the bottom of the sand dune that was covered in snow. Snowpaw thought proudly how Heatherkit and Ravenkit were from Forestclan.
"This is a proud day for Windclan, as by naming apprentices, we show that our clan will remain strong. From now on, until each of these kits recives their warrior name, they shall be called Heatherpaw, Ravenpaw, Quillpaw, and Winterpaw. Darkheart, you are ready for an apprentice, and will be Heatherpaw's mentor. I hope that you will pass on your loyalty and good nature to this young apprentice."
Heatherpaw and Darkheart touched noses. Flameheart padded up to Darkheart to congradulate his friend."Your first apprentice! Good luck!"Darkheart budded Flameheart playfully.
"At least now we're both warriors."
"Lightfoot, you shall be Ravenpaw's mentor, and I hope that you pass on your great battle and hunting skills to him."
Ravenpaw and Lightfoot touched noses, and Flameheart sat beside Lightfoot."Ha! Your first apprentice also."
"I wonder if you were made a warrior when all of us were if you would've gotten an-"Ashstar cut him off.
"Flameheart, I know you're a new warrior, but because of your bravery and strength in hard times to Quillpaw."
Flameheart and Quillpaw touched noses and kind of bumped, because Quillpaw was rubbing his nose afterwards.
"Laastly, Heathertail, you shall mentor Winterpaw. I know you will pass on your wiseness and commen sense to this young apprentice, and I hope you do well. Let us recal all new names!"
"Flameheart! Heatherpaw! Ravenpaw! Quillpaw! Winterpaw! Flameheart! Heatherpaw! Ravenpaw! Quillpaw! Winterpaw! Flameheart! Heatherpaw! Ravenpaw! Quillpaw! Winterpaw!"the clan cheered loudly.
Snowpaw was finally dragged back into the medicine cat den.
"So did anyone die?"she asked.
"Nope!"Briarpaw replyed cheerily.
"Goodnight."Snowpaw meowed before sinking into a much needed, VERY LONG rest.
Hey! Wasn't that awesome? Flamepaw became Flameheart, and yeah! WE SAW HIS SWEETER SIDE! So all this time, he ISN'T a complete jerk!XD
QOTD: Now knowing that Flameheart is sweeter, do y'all still hate him?
Thanks for reviewing, and let me update Windclan alleginces!
Windclan
Leader: Ashstar-grey she-cat with amber eyes
Apprentice: Snowpaw
Deputy: Morningsong-pretty grey tabby she-cat with white paws, underbelly, and chest. Blue eyes
Medicine cat: Mousefang-small pale brown tabby tom with amber eyes
Apprentice: Briarpaw
Warriors
Crowfeather-dark grey tom with yellow eyes
Apprentice: Bronzepaw
Stoneclaw-grey tom with blue eyes
Apprentice: Moonpaw
Sleetfur-white tom with green eyes
Skyfeather-silver and white she-cat with light blue eyes
Apprentice: Grasspaw
Wildfern-pretty tortishell she-cat with pale blue eyes
Lightheart-golden tom with yellow eyes
Apprentice: Ravenpaw
Brownfoot-dark brown tom with green eyes
Goldenwing-handsome golden tabby tom with pale blue eyes
Apprentice: Thunderpaw
Echomist-grey she-cat with blue eyes
Cloverstep-white she-cat with orange patches and blue eyes
Fallowpool-black tom with amber eyes
Owlclaw-brown tabby tom with pale blue eyes
Apprentice: Emberpaw
Sweetwind-beautiful black, silver, and white she-cat with amber eyes
Heathertail-grey she-cat with green eyes
Apprentice: Winterpaw
Darkheart-black tom with amber eyes
Apprentice: Heatherpaw
Creekwater-silver blusih tom with light pale blue eyes, three white paws and a white face
Appretnice: Silverpaw
Applewing-reddish tom with dark blue eyes
Hollyfrost-black she-cat with dark green eyes
Flameheart-VERY HANDSOME firey golden tabby tom with blue eyes. VERY MUSCULAR
Apprentice: Quillpaw
Blazeheart-dark tawny tom with darker tawny spots; black outlines around the tawny spots; has cream chest and underbelly; yellow eyes
Apprentice: Whitepaw
Stormheart-tortishell tom with pale blue eyes
Hollowwing-grey tabby she-cat with blue eyes
Jaywhisker-grey tom with white chest and paws; blue eyes
Apprentices
Whitepaw-pure white tom with unusual blue eyes
Snowpaw-cream she-cat with white chest, underbelly, and paws; green eyes
Thunderpaw-light brown tom with black stripe running from head to tail; blue eyes
Briarpaw-white she-cat with a light tawny dappled pelt; blue eyes
Brozepaw-bronze colored tom with amber eyes
Emberpaw-tortishell she-cat with light blue eyes
Silverpaw-silver tabby she-cat with blue eyes
Moonpaw-silver she-cat with green eyes
Grasspaw-black tom with amber eyes and one white paw, front right
Queens
Tigersong-orange she-cat with tiger stripes and green eyes, mother of Stoneclaw's kits who are 2 moons old:
Featherkit-grey she-cat with blue eyes
Streamkit-orange, black, and grey she-cat with green eyes
Rainkit-grey blue tom with blue eyes
Tawnykit-orange she-cat with blue eyes, black tabby-like stripes
Birdfeather-red she-cat with green eyes, excpecting Owlclaw's kits
Ferncloud-tawny she-cat with yellow eyes; has darker tawny spots and a peppered look inside the spots and around the spots; cream underbelly, excpecting Blazeheart's kits
Elders
Funnyheart-light grey tabby tom with blue eyes
Willowheart-white she-cat with unusual blue eyes, ISN'T DEAF