So here's chapter three! Yay! I got it done just today, I feel so productive. I do not own D.N Or Warriors :3
"It appears these four barn cats wish to join Thunderclan, so, Light will you please step up."
There were mumbles and mews of undecided questioning, but it soon settled down as Bluestar spoke again,
"I, Bluestar, leader of Thunderclan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down upon this new comer. He has shown us he can understand the ways of the forest, and I commend him to you as a warrior in his turn Light, do you promise to uphold the warrior code, and protect and defend this Clan, even at the cost of your life?"
"I do," the light brown tom replied, his voice confident, but confused,
"Then by the powers of StarClan, I give you your warrior name: Light, from this moment on you will be known as Lightfur. StarClan honours your courage and your skill and we welcome you as a full warrior of Thunderclan." She concluded,
L found it slightly odd she'd label him, because she had only just met him. After three more ceremonies, L was renamed Duskclaw, Ryuk Stormfoot, and Misa Goldnose. Duskclaw could tell Misa hated the name, but she was stuck with it, until he could get answers from Stormfoot.
Somehow, the tom already felt he know what the Clans did. Like, for some reason, he knew that all cats with paw as the second parts of their name slept in a different den, and were trained by mentors. He also now knew Tigerclaw was the deputy, and Bluestar was indeed the leader. From this information, he knew the cracked rock must be some sort of healing place, and the cat he saw earlier was almost like a doctor.
A cat named Fireheart showed him around the Clan, explaining ranks and how elders were honoured even though they could no longer fight. He even told Duskclaw he was once a Kittypet, and he settled in fine, so there wasn't anything to worry about, except Tigerclaw, of course, who apparently hated Kittypets and other half-blood cats.
"Hey, Duskclaw, one question, not to be rude or anything, but why was your name Ryuzaki? It's definitely not a barn cat name," Fireheart asked just as he ended the tour, he had seemed the most surprised when 'Ryuzaki' was called, however what the dark haired tom couldn't understand was why he wasn't questioning Misa or Ryuk's names.
Fireheart's flame coloured pelt shone in the dim sunlight, and Duskclaw tried to make up an excuse, there was no way he'd believe the truth anyway. As far as he could tell, Twolegs were evil to the Clans.
"Well, I'm not sure myself," the former detective stated, "I suppose the Twolegs who named us were from somewhere far away," he ended, hoping that would be enough to douse his curiosity, but Duskclaw knew the flame coloured was looking for deeper answers than that.
Fireheart's green eyes burned with suspicion, and he hastily walked off, clearly not happy with Duskclaw's answer. The dark toms head filled with questions, and he decided to consult Stormfoot for an explanation, he also wanted to know the relation between him and Lightfur. He could tell they weren't just old friends. He padded up to the Warriors den, and saw the two talking, Goldnose was there too.
"Whatever happens, L can't know." He heard Lightfur conclude, suspicion raged inside of Duskclaw's every being.
87% Light... He thought to himself, he was almost definitely Kira at this point, but he needed to know one vital thing before he could close the case, how did Kira, or Light, kill? Duskclaw walked in as if he hadn't heard anything. "So, Stormfoot," have any idea of how we can get back?" he asked, sitting on the pile of moss he was given to sleep on,
"No," he sighed; sleep beginning to appear in his eyes,
"Well, there's still the matter of the case isn't there Duskclaw?" Lightfur asked, almost teasingly,
"You know very well there's no way we can continue investigating here," the, now slightly annoyed, tom replied.
"You don't suppose cats eat apples?" Stormfoot asked, hunger visible in his face,
"No, idiot, cats are carnivores," Lightfur replied, annoyance tingling in his paws,
The dark haired tom sighed, he knew Lightfur was right, meaning there was no chance at all he would eat cake for a good while, but hunger was the last thing on his mind right now, something made him always think back to the 'doctor-like' she cat he saw earlier. From what he heard around the camp, her name was Yellowfang.
Duskclaw's paws seemed restless, so he got up to go speak to the medicine cat. He reached her den just as she was coming out. The tom expected her to be tough, and independent, however, she invited him inside with a hint of kindness to her voice; though her voice was raspy and low.
"You must've got a lot of suspicious glances today," she commented, also noticing Duskclaw's darkly ringed eyes.
"Yes, and also many comments on my original name" he replied, taking in scents of many herbs which lined the walls and piled up everywhere, the scents made him a bit dizzy, but he stayed focused.
"I see, I'm not surprised," she said, then seeing his interest in the herbs, "It's been a good Newleaf, we'll have plenty of herbs all through Greenleaf and some may even last 'til Leafbare,"
The slightly dazed tom guessed she was talking about seasons. "Might I ask you something?" he asked, suddenly curious
"Of course," she replied,
"You don't happen to know why my name's been questioned by only some cats?" earlier he noticed only cats like Fireheart, Sandpaw; one of the apprentices and few others seems genuinely concerned his name was so off.
"Fine, I'll tell you," she rasped, clearing her throat, "I trust you know Starclan, our ancestors that look over us?" he nodded, "Well, they sent me a prophecy saying those of a origin different will come to us tonight and they will bring upon a plaugue of death, but also a ray of light." She sighed, "And everyone thinks it's you, hence Lightfur's name,"
Duskclaw's heart raced, they more he discovered, the more sure he was that Lightfur was indeed Kira. A plaugue of death, he repeated in his mind, plaugue…
"Thank you Yellowfang," Duskclaw meowed gratefully, she had just aided him in solving this case. Now he just had to know what Lightfur was talking about when he said 'Whatever happens, L can't know'.
The toms eyes were heavily ringed with black, he looked at his face in puddle of water near the wall of the camp. He noticed how dull his eyes looked in comparison to Fireheart's which shone with courage. He honestly didn't care about looks, he was just curious; he didn't have anything to do.
The sun was setting quickly and the camp was covered in a dark shadow, until the moon moved out from behind a large cloud, and the camp was filled with an eerie grey glow.
(Light's 'POV')
Light awoke in the middle of the night; he looked around and saw that everyone was asleep. He recalled yesterday's hunting trip. He had gone with Stormfoot and Whitestorm, and for a minuet he went with his Shinigami friend, since he had something to show him. They went to a shadowed enclosed area, and Stormfoot made a Death Note appear, it was his.
They had buried it, and apparently it had new rules strict to this world of cats. Tonight he had to go get it and continue to use it, even here the world needed to be cleansed. Oddly the entire clan treated him nicely today. He shook this though out of his head and swiftly and quietly ran out of the camp and to the large tree where he buried the note book. He knew exactly who to test it on aswell.
He dug it up, and saw the rules were almost identical, except instead of writing, you had to drop a single drop of the cat's blood on the page. Thinking quickly, he used the trick Goldnose showed him. He was able to make the note invisible. So he clamped the now invisible note book in his jaws and went back to camp. Quiet as a mouse, he pricked Tigerclaw's skin, and took a drop of blood; he opened the note, dropped it on, and though of the huge tom's face.
He quickly made the not invisible again and ran out the camp, burying it again. He also made sure to think of accidental death, at sunhigh the next day, when dropping the blood on the page.
(L's 'POV')
Duskclaw watched curiously as Lightfur took a drop of the deputy's blood and put it on a note book. How did he even have a note book, he wondered. When the light brown tom returned he no longer had it. L lay awake, listing all the evidence he had to prove Light was Kira. He also thought about Yellowfang and how she was mean and nasty to other clan members, but not him.
But mostly, he wondered what the note book was, and decided if anything happened to Tigerclaw the next day, he would label Light as Kira for sure.
