Poison Rain
(You'd think I'd run out of names by now. But a lot of these names are cats I roleplay, on one sight alone.)
Lightingstar walked past all the stalls in the horse place, they were dens now. "WAKE UP!" she shouted. That woke them up alright.
"Yes Lightingstar?" Wingshadow yawned.
"You are to lead a border patrol. Take Blazepelt, Zipfoot, and Rainfall." Wingshadow nodded and walked off.
"I'm leading a hunting patrol!" Lightingstar shouted. "Stripedfur, Sorrowpaw, and Silverheart, come with me."
The cats gathered at the entrance. Lightingstar started to follow when she heard the kits arguing. She would've let Feathertuft deal with it, if it weren't for the part she caught. "You can't just give up on being a warrior!" Lizardkit was shouting.
"But, I don't want to be a warrior." Came Slitherkit's much quieter voice.
Lightingstar walked over. "What's this about not wanting to be a warrior?" she asked.
Slitherkit crouched down. "I-I don't want to be one."
"He wants to be a medicine cat." Lizardkit whined.
Oh so that's what this is about. Lightingstar thought. She shook her head. "If Slitherkit wants to be a medicine cat I'm all for it. We'll need a second at some point anyway. And if Slitherkit isn't good at being a warrior it's a waste for him to do so."
"But he would make a good warrior." Lizardkit insisted.
"No I wouldn't." Slitherkit muttered, staring at the ground.
"That's enough you two." Feathertuft said. "Lightingstar has to go." She nudged the kits back towards the nursery.
Lightingstar gave her a grateful smile and walked off to join her hunting patrol. "Let's go."
Stormstar sat on the border sniffing halfheartedly. This was the part of the border no clans were on the other side of. He doubted he'd have to worry about cats here. This gave him time to think about the prophecy. He'd tried to figure out what the first part of it meant, but then he'd realized it didn't matter. If the 'night' was going to save them all he had to figure out was what the 'night' was. Say . . . maybe it's Nightwind.
Then he looked around. Emberpaw had been patrolling with him just a little while ago. Now where was she? "Emberpaw!" he called. She didn't come. He picked up her scent; it was going over the border. Emberpaw! You're not supposed to cross the border! He thought angrily. He ran after her, tracking her scent.
She soon came into sight. "Emberpaw! Emberpaw you're-" he stopped when he saw what she was staring at. They seemed to be in a deserted two leg place. But this one wasn't like the others. Both the trees and the two leg places looked dead. Beyond dead, they looked like skeletons.
"W-what happened here?" Emberpaw asked, crouching down in fear.
Stormstar looked around. He'd heard about this type of thing happening before. Once upon a time and very long ago. "I think there was poison rain." He replied.
"What's poison rain?"
Stormstar blinked. Of course not everyone would know about it. He'd only heard because his mom told stories of things long ago. "It's a type of rain that makes you sick if you drink it. And it kills trees."
Emberpaw, who was now getting less afraid, snorted. "And two leg places."
Stormstar decided not to mention two leg places were never alive in the first place.
"Stormstar!"
Stormstar turned around. He didn't recognize the voice who had just called him, and he couldn't see anyone. "Over here!" he called.
He was surprised to see Fallenstar's medicine cat, Sliverstripes, run over. She stopped and her eyes widened when she saw the skeleton place. "Whoa. What happened here?"
"It was poison rain." Stormstar replied.
"Uh . . . Stormstar?" Emberpaw asked.
Sliverstripes continued. "I've heard about that. I thought the poison rain was gone."
"Apparently not." Stormstar said.
"We should do something about this."
"Stormstar?" Emberpaw said, sounding more irritated this time.
Stormstar ignored her. "You can warn Fallenstar. And Lightingclan. Moonclan is close to us. We can warn them."
"HEY STORMSTAR!" Emberpaw shouted.
Both Stormstar and Sliverstripe's eyes went wide from the volume in her voice. "What is it Emberpaw?" Stormstar asked.
"Am I the only one wondering why Sliverstripes came here in the first place?"
Well, technically medicine cats can go wherever they want. Stormstar thought. But she had been calling specifically for him, so she must have had a reason. "Yeah, what are you doing here?" Stormstar asked.
"Fallenstar said you might know when the medicine cats meet and go to moonpool." Sliverstripes replied.
Stormstar realized he didn't know. He decided to improvise. "I don't think it really matters. So long as it's not on the night of the full moon, and so long as all the medicine cats come on the same day."
Sliverstripes nodded. "Thank you. I'll set a time with the other medicine cats." She started walking away. "And I'll warn Fallenstar about the poison rain!" she shouted over her shoulder. Then she disappeared from sight completely.
"Can we get out of here now? It's creepy." Emberpaw commented.
Stormstar nodded. "Let's get back." He and Emberpaw turned around and walked back towards clan. That's when Stormstar remembered what he was going to say before they saw the skeleton place. "And you shouldn't go over the border."
"Sorry."
Stormstar blinked. If Emberpaw was apologizing she really had been shaken up. Or maybe she's getting some maturity. He thought hopefully.