A New Warrior

(Sorry these chapters are coming out slower than the first story. I have a lot of homework, and am making a story I want to actually get published at the same time. So yeah, that's why.)

Fallenstar rolled around in his sleep, he was having nightmare. It was about meeting Death for the first time, and the dream had amazing accuracy to how it really went. He had fallen; apparently he had the name for a reason, off the top of a two leg place. And that's where Death had been. Fangmouth and Icepelt had been around, but all of them were too young to know much about fighting, unlike Death. Cats in that rouge group practically learned from birth.

Fallenstar was getting to that part he was being chased in his dream, when Sliverstripes returned. "Fallenstar."

Fallenstar, having been in a very light sleep, snapped his eyes open. "Oh, hello Sliverstripes. Did you find out when the medicine cats meet?"

Sliverstripes nodded. "Sort of. But that's not the important thing I found out." Fallenstar gave her a questioning look, meaning she should go on. "We found this two leg place, and everything there looked like a skeleton. Stormstar thinks it was the result of poison rain."

Fallenstar had to admit that was bad. From what he knew about poison rain. . .

Say wait a minute. "Stormstar thinks?" he asked. "What about you? What do you think?"

"Well, I can't think of another reason. . . "

Fallenstar nodded. "Of course. I'll go warn the clan." He walked out of his 'den' feeling irritated. Looks like Stormstar was right. Again!

He jumped up onto the roof of the two leg place. "Attention all cats!" the cats of his clan came closer. Icepelt limped out of the medicine den. "There is a thing called poison rain that is dangerous to drink. We have reason to believe it is back." There were panicked whispers at this. Fallenstar spoke over them. "There is no need to panic! We are safe from it until the next rain. Then we will just be more careful with what we drink."

"Yeah, like that's going to work." One of the warriors mumbled.

"Don't question Fallenstar!" Fangmouth snapped. "He knows what he's doing."

Fallenstar gave Fangmouth a grateful nod. He jumped down. "Now, let's get some patrols going."

Moonstar walked out of her den and looked around. After the dream with Jayfeather she'd had last night, there was something important she needed to do. "Blueblaze!" she called out to her deputy. "I need to talk to you a minute."

Blueblaze smiled. "Anything for my leader."

Moonstar jerked her head, indicating she wanted to talk outside camp, then walked out. Blueblaze followed. "Okay, what is it?" he asked.

"I'm making Smokekit an apprentice soon."

Blueblaze nodded. "That's good."

"I want you to be is mentor."

Blueblaze stopped in his tracks and turned to her. "Really?"

Moonstar nodded. "I just want to make sure you can train him. Because you know, he's blind." She looked down.

Blueblaze smiled. "I had a sister who couldn't hear. I can handle Smokekit."

He did? Moonstar wondered. That was new, but it meant she'd made the right choice by picking him. "Good. We can go back to camp." She was about to turn around when she saw a cat sitting on the border. "On second thought. Let's go see what she wants."

Blueblaze nodded. The two of them walked over. This wasn't a cat from any of the other cats, as far as Moonstar knew. The cat had a black pelt and orange eyes. Well that's not normal. Moonstar thought. "Excuse me, what are you doing here?" she asked.

The cat looked up. "I want to join your clan. I'm Dragon."

Moonstar thought. This was a first. Then again, we haven't had clans that long. She nodded. "Okay Dragon. You can come back with us. But we will have to give you a warrior name."

Dragon nodded. "That's fine with me."

They walked back into camp. Moonstar climbed into a tree, it had once been where the leaders sat for the full moon truce. "All cats old enough to catch your own prey come under the trees! We are having a meeting." The cats gathered, Smokekit poked his head out of the nursery. "First, I would like to welcome our new warrior." She waved her tail at Dragon. "From now on, her name is Dragonflame." There were cheers for Dragonflame. "Next, Smokekit, come forth." Smokekit walked forward. It was hard to tell, but he seemed surprised. "It is time for you to become an apprentice. From now on, you will be known as Smokepaw, and your mentor will be Blueblaze."

There were more cheers, though Moonstar was a little concerned when she realized these cheers weren't nearly as happy as for Dragonflame. Don't tell me they don't think Smokepaw can do it either.

Smokepaw didn't seem to care though. He beamed and touched noses with Blueblaze. "Thanks Moonstar." He said.

Moonstar smiled and nodded.