Cinderstar here! Please R&R! No flames!
Snowstar: Oh, and We don't own warriors. Just the OCs we made up.
Cinderstar: And review for what you want Slowwing's kits to be named! If you send in an OC warrior, leader, med. Cat, or apprentice, we'll make that cat one of Slowwing's kits.
Snowstar: Now it's Jumppaw's POV.
Jumppaw's POV
"Yes, an I know I'll fit in. My name suits them!" Jumppaw heard Gorgepaw mew. Confused, Jumppaw left the apprentice's den and saw Gorgepaw and Laurelclaw talking to each other in front of Yellowstar, Grasslace, Amberpaw, Heatherfang, and... Riverclan?
"...Fine!" Laurelclaw growled and she ran to the apprentice's den, whipping past Jumppaw.
"I hope she gets over it," Gorgepaw meowed. "I'm sure she will," Amberpaw replied as she padded up to him.
"What's going on?" Jumppaw asked as he looked at Gorgepaw, Riverclan, and Amberpaw.
"Gorgepaw is going to help Riverclan and be their next medicine cat since they have none at the half-moon." Amberpaw explained.
"Yes," Bluestar, the great leader of Riverclan, told them. "His name will be in our legends, for the cat that helped our clan."
"Cool!" Gorgepaw said in awe.
Amberpaw and Jumppaw walked off by the elder's den. "I wonder why Riverclan has no medicine cat?" Amberpaw mewed. "I bet Shadowclan or some other clan killed him or her!" Jumppaw exclaimed. But then a shadow came over them.
"Shadowclan did not kill the medicine cat of Riverclan or the apprentice." Lightfur growled, her pelt ruffled.
"Tell us how!" Jumppaw demanded. "How did they both die?"
Lightfur looked around to make sure no one was in the area. "All clear," the elder muttered. She led them into the elder's den and told the two, "you can't repeat this to any cat. I'm only telling you two because you two are the smartest cats of your siblings. Now, Darkwing was not killed by Shadowclan. She wasn't even killed by accident.
"The truth is, no one knows but me of how she was killed. All they knew was that a scent was found by her body, a Thunderclan scent." Amberpaw gasped while Jumppaw hung his head. During the Great War even Thunderclan killed? Great Starclan, that time bust have been really scary! And my kin lived through it!
Lightfur continued, "The cat that killed Darkwing... was...no..." the elder trailed off.
"Who did it? Who?" asked Jumppaw. "I can't tell you!" Lightfur retorted. "If I did...you could never look at Thunderclan the same way again."
"You have to tell us- I mean, it has to be one of the warriors, and it can't be Grasslace or Gorgepaw. I doubt it was Brighttail since she was expecting us at the time, and Yellowstar and Heatherfang swore by Starclan that they never killed a cat...was it you?" Amberpaw breathed.
"No." Lightfur replied.
"No apprentices at the time killed anyone, and Slowwing told us she never killed a cat because she was too busy protecting Brighttail. Jaggedfur and Mudwing too." Jumppaw figured. "That just leaves... Laurelclaw and... Raventooth..."
Lightfur bowed her head. "Either one could destroy the clan for their own reasons. Even Raventooth," she added when she saw Jumppaw and Amberpaw's stricken faces.
"No! He isn't a murderer!" Amberpaw gasped.
"Then that would leave Laurelclaw. I should have never told you two." Lightfur snarled. "You can't tell anyone!"
"I know who it is. And it isn't Laurelclaw," a new voice spoke from the entrance. "I know it was Raventooth."
Firepaw.
Lilypaw's POV
Lilypaw touched her nose to Gorgepaw. "I hope you have fun in Riverclan," she told him.
"I will! And I'll see all of you guys at Gatherings, and sometimes in...battle..."
"How do they know that they can trust you?" Lilypaw asked.
"I'm a medicine cat, remember? I don't lie!" he meowed happily, though Lilypaw detected something else in his eyes.. "And most of Riverclan begged Bluestar to get a medicine cat. They'll accept me."
"Okay then," Lilypaw replied, bothered by Gorgepaw. What was he keeping from her?. She padded off to where Yellowstar was saying goodbye to the Riverclan patrol. "We will give you Gorgepaw at half-moon, after he gets his full name and shares with Starclan."
"Good." Bluestar said. "You don't know how much this means to us, Yellowstar. We needed a medicine cat very badly."
"I know," Yellowstar murmured. Raising his voice- "May Starclan light your path, Bluestar."
"Yours too!" the leader called out as she ran out of camp, through the thorn tunnel.
"What are we going to do today, Yellowstar?" Lilypaw asked her mentor/leader.
"We will hunt today, but don't try to tire out yourself. You haven't fully healed."
"Okay."
Lilypaw and Yellowstar went near the abandoned Twoleg nest where Lilypaw managed to catch two mice. Yellowstar assessed her hunting skills then went inside the nest, where he came out with a plump pigeon.
"That's huge!" Lilypaw breathed. Yellowstar nodded. "I know. This will feed Slowwing."
Lilypaw crept inside the Twoleg den too, when she saw a rat. Ew, she thought, and turned her attention to a crow balancing on a long thin piece of wood hanging down. I can catch that, my legs shouldn't bother me, Lilypaw thought. She took a couple of paw steps forward and then launched herself up.
The crow gave out an alarm call and tried to fly off but Lilypaw's claws snagged in it's wings. "Got you!" Lilypaw shouted, which made Yellowstar rush in. "Lilypaw! Let go!" he yelled, but Lilypaw didn't and she landed on the ground with a slight thud, the crow in her jaws.
"You-you caught that without straining your leg?" Yellowstar whispered.
"Yeah, look at this!" Lilypaw smiled as she set the prey down. But she looked up at Yellowstar's face and saw a weird expression there. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"Hm? Oh- nothing, nothing at all," her mentor lied, and Lilypaw knew it.
"Um...okay then." she picked up the crow and carried it along with her mice. Yellowstar on the way back also caught a vole, and they came back to camp layered with prey.
"Nice catch, Lilypaw!" Brighttail congratulated her. "Thanks!" Lilypaw answered, but Yellowstar's face still lingered in her mind. Was it fear? Hate? No, it couldn't be hate. Yellowstar seemed to respect her a little.
"Where's Raventooth? I haven't seen him all day," Lilypaw mewed.
"I don't know. Maybe he went out hunting." Brighttail frowned. "You should go put your prey on the fresh kill pile. I wont be surprised if you turn out to be on of the best hunters in the clan!"
"True," Lilypaw joked, but as she gazed around camp she saw Yellowstar creep into his den, Gorgepaw's eyes stared at her, and she didn't see Raventooth at all.
Toms are so weird, she thought. Hmph.
Firepaw's POV
"What?" Amberpaw cried out, as Lightfur growled, "What are you doing here?" and Jumppaw hung his head again. "Yes, because...um... well...the Gathering night, Raventooth was talking to Gorgepaw...and...he was talking about a deal with Windclan."
"What!" Lightfur exclaimed. "You should have told Yellowstar that!"
"Well, you should have told Yellowstar that our father is a murderer!" Firepaw shot back. "I mean, really?"
"A lot of honest, trustworthy cats killed during that time," the elder quietly defended herself. "Raventooth used to be one of them."
"I don't care." Amberpaw pouted.
"Um, one question, Lightfur?" Firepaw asked.
"Yes?" the she-cat replied.
"Why did you tell Amberpaw and Jumppaw that they were the smartest of all six of us?"
"I-I er, well, best at keep-keeping a secret, er, Firepaw!" Lightfur stammered.
Firepaw stared at her. "Then you should have told Lilypaw, Lightfur. I'm not dumb." He couldn't believe this weseal of an elder told Amberpaw and Jumppaw they were the smartest. Might as well inflate their heads a little more!
"I'm sorry, Firepaw, I should have told all six of you. But three knowing is enough. Now," Lightfur continued., "don't be mean or act odd around your father, okay? Any deals he made with Windclan is most likely to help Thunderclan. Raventooth has never shown any greed for power. And I don't think he ever will."
"Great Starclan," Firepaw muttered."Why can't there be peace?"
Gracepaw's POV
As Gracepaw helped Hoppaw clean out the warriors' nests, she asked, "do you think Windclan is growing stronger? I mean, they did take that stretch of land!"
"I don't know," her brother replied, and Gracepaw blinked in surprise. When it came to battle, Hoppaw was smartest with what to do. Firepaw was best at fighting. Together they were stronger than a whole clan!
"What do you mean, you don't know?" she demanded.
"Well, Windclan is very unpredictable." came the answer. Then Gracepaw thought of something. "Why don't you act like Windclan is your... rabbit-eating siblings? What would they do then?"
"Oh!" Hoppaw's eyes cleared. "Well, I think that they would try to take territory and surround, except on the Shadowclan side, so that we would be weak without the lake and only next to Shadowclan and Windclan."
Gracepaw's eyes grew wide. "We should tell Yellowstar!" she exclaimed as she finished Jaggedfur's nest. This could change Thunderclan!
"No, we can't, because he wouldn't believe us!" her brother retorted. "We have to! Do you want to save Thunderclan or not?"
Her brother finally relented, muttering, "fine. But only after we finish cleaning out the warrior's nests. And I think Fuzzypaw and Robinpaw will help us soon too."
At that moment, Fuzzypaw entered, his one eye trying to adjust to the slight darkness. "Hey," he greeted. "I'll take over since you two did most of the nests."
"Thanks!" yelled Hoppaw and Gracepaw at the same time and they raced out of the warrior's den and up the trail of rocks that led to the leader's den. "It's me, Gracepaw, and my brother Hoppaw," Gracepaw called out.
"Enter." replied Yellowstar, and they did, looking around the leader's den. It was a bit spacious, and could serve as a small warrior's den. At least, that's what it seemed to Gracepaw.
"What brings you here?" the leader asked as he licked his fur.
"Hoppaw had an idea of what Windclan could do to Thunderclan!" Gracepaw meowed. "Hoppaw, tell Yellowstar!"
"Okay." Hoppaw cleared his throat. "You see..."
XD When you do four cat's POV I'm guessing its time to make a new chapter...oops...
Cinderstar: Ya think?
