AN: Sorry everyone! I'm on vacation in Florida and completely lost track of the days! So sorry! :( I will upload more often, I promise! Sorries! :)
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"Breeze, try again. This time try slashing your tail to exert more force. Blaze, put out that fire before it burns the whole forest down! Mist, help your brother, will you, and then try again, but try to get more range. Vale, try not to impale yourself, and try a larger attack this time, cover more area." A beautiful shimmering light brown she-cat ordered, her leafy green eyes firm.
Breeze nodded, smiling at the she-cat, and the she-cat winked back. She took a deep breath and slashed her tail through her tail, imagining she was ordering an army to attack, closing her eyes in the anticipation. She opened them to see a big jagged hole in the tree in front of her and everyone blown away behind her. Breeze smiled again, really genuinely happy this time. She had always been the weakest one, the runt of her siblings. Breeze had always brought back the less kills even though she could hunt prey down quicker than them. She never really had been that amazing at fighting. Her powers she had only discovered a moon ago, and even that had been an accident. She had been eating her prey and her older brother had snatched it and took it away, laughing with his lady-friend, Seed, a mind-warper or mind-reader, a mean tan she-cat with blood-red eyes. After a moment though he threw it back, charred and black. Breeze stared daggers at the both of them and her brother flew back towards the cave wall, and Seed developed a slash in her fur that resembled a 'B' before flying back as well. Breeze ran towards her brother, having a bad feeling she might have done a moment, she ran to get the healer, Mint.
A few days later, Breeze had been met by her great-grandmother, Leaf, in a dream. "W-who are you?" Breeze stuttered at the beauty of the she-cat before her.
"Oh, how you have grown, my mighty one. Ah, Breeze, I am Leaf, your great-grandmother as well as the goddess of nature, as you might know me from your teachings."
At this, Breeze grew quite bitter. "Why would you be here for me then?" She spat. "I'm not like them, I don't have any powers. I'm the runt, the hiccup of the family. I'm just a regular cat in the Ancient Council, and normal cats don't belong. If it's what you're here for, don't worry, I'm leaving tomorrow at dawn. I just need to say goodbye first."
Leaf stared at Breeze in shock. "Breeze... My dear. What has happened to you? You have grown into a bitter shell of who you once were. Who has done this to you?"
"What do you care?" Breeze spat, absently trailing a claw in the dirt. "You would have known already, had you cared about me at all!"
There was silence for many long moments between the two she-cats. "Blaze and Seed." Breeze finally said, her words as soft as the gentle breeze in a hot summer day.
"Oh no... Breeze, you are not like them,"
"I know this already." Breeze meowed with a sigh.
"Let me finish. Breeze, you are not like them at all. You are stronger than them combined in a whisker. Breeze, you do have powers, did you not see them when you threw back Seed and Blaze the other day? That was you, as much as you may want to argue. Breeze, you were named as you were for a reason. You have the power of wind, the power of air. Never give up hope. It is always there, in the little corner of your heart..."
Breeze stared in wonder as Leaf and her surroundings began to fade. Finally, she had something to live for!
The light brown she-cat smiled at her now. "Oh, Breeze! You are coming further along faster than any of us would have thought!" Breeze smiled at her mentor, her great-grandmother, Leaf.
"Good job little sister." Vale, her older brother grinned, setting his tail on her shoulders.
"Look at you, sis! Doing great, you are! You'll be up to our level in no time!" Mist congratulated, but instead of placing her paw on Breeze's shoulder, she splashed Breeze instead with a neat splash of water.
"Mist!" Breeze laughed, shaking, trying to get the water out of her fur.
"What?" Mist asked innocently, looking at her, licking a paw.
"Oh, sis." Breeze laughed again, ever amused by her sister's antics.
Blaze growled in the far corner of the clearing, flames shooting out of his nostrils and adding to the amount of flames he was trying to put out already. There was a short silence, as they waited for Blaze to say something. Breeze's spirit dampened, as much as she would try to protest that it doesn't matter.
Leaf shook her head, giving Blaze a disapproving frown. 'If this happened to be anyone else, they'd be in the medicine cat den already.' Leaf thought angrily, wondering why Blaze couldn't be nice for once to his little sister.
They all went their separate ways again, and began to do what they had been doing before, but everyone's spirits were a bit lower. Leaf suppressed a smile as she saw as Mist helped put out the flames, she purposely splashed Blaze and got him soaked. She smiled at the normality as Mist then looked all innocent as Blaze accused her. "I missed." Leaf heard, as Mist's excuse. She watched, whiskers twitching in barely contained amusement as she watched Mist splash Blaze again, this time in full view, and then run away, laughing.
Vale padded over to Breeze. She seemed to be trying to put a flower in the tree with her power. He watched as she only managed to move it a tiny bit each time she tried. "Want some help? Looks like you're having some trouble there."
Breeze nodded. "I feel sorry for putting a hole in the tree, and I'm trying to give it a flower to say sorry." She meowed.
Vale suppressed a chuckle. "Alright. I think I might be able to help you with that." Breeze watched in wonder as the ground was pushed up before her, the flower standing tall in between two spikes. She stepped forward, gripping the stem in her jaws, and pulled. It came out with ease this time, and she again watched in awe as the ground closed up before her, as smooth as it ever was. Vale grinned at his little sister, his bright grass-green eyes twinkling. She grinned in return, Vale considering this a win for she never really opened up that much, except maybe to Leaf. Breeze set down the flower gently, and sent a gentle breeze that carried it into the tree. She bowed her head in respect, her eyes closed, and tail drooping. Vale followed as he saw her peeking at him through a nearly shut eye. They raised after a moment, and Breeze saw in shock that beautiful flowers had sprouted up and grown all around it. Vale opened his eyes to similar amazement.
Leaf watched, smiling in the background, raising her tail higher and higher, an ivy appearing on the tree, curling up and up it, seeming as it had always been there. Vale lowered the ground in a curving line just so much as it wasn't that deep, just a shallow dip in the ground. Mist finally slowed down to see them there, and waved her tail back and forth, bright clear water splashing into the small dip. Blaze watched with interest, his tail flicking, fire shooting out into the air. He watched, scowling as Leaf shook her head. He extinguished the flames, smoke trailing around his tail instead. Breeze changed the air from hot and humid to a nice gentle breeze, sending it through the clearing. Vale shot a nice, perfectly curved white stone up through the ground right beneath the tree, in between the roots, where there was no flower to take up the space.
Later that night, when the moon had rose high enough to meet the sky, Breeze woke from a dream, shivering with fear. As much as she tried to though, she could not remember it. Breeze stretched, standing and padding outside of her den, knowing that if she tried to go back to sleep, she would just be laying there for ages before she actually went to sleep.
"Nice night out tonight, isn't it?" A voice startled her, making her freeze.
As she recovered from the shock, she turned to face the speaker. A midnight black she-cat sat there, licking a snowy white paw, her gray eyes twinkling in the moonlight. "Yeah..." Breeze said slowly, wary of this she-cat and her intentions.
"Sometimes the beauty of it just overwhelms me, makes me forget the rest of the world, even if it's just for an instant." The she-cat meowed, her gray eyes staring up at the moon.
"At least it shuts you up." A harsh male voice snapped, and the she-cat winced, as much as she may argue.
"Are you okay?" Breeze asked as she saw the she-cat wince.
"Fine enough, really." Then under her breath, the she-cat muttered, "As much as I can be, anyways." Breeze heard the comment, and felt a burst of anger at the tom who had said that.
"Don't let him hurt you..." She trailed off as she realized she didn't know the she-cat's name.
"I try not to. It's hard though, when your own brother is so mean." The she-cat sighed softly, looking up at the moon again.
"I know." Breeze replied in an equally as quiet voice, turning her head to look up at the moon as well. They sat in silence, two she-cats, both with hurt hearts from their brothers, staring up at the full white moon.
"It's so majestic, isn't it?" Breeze nodded, forgetting the she-cat couldn't see her as they looked up at the moon.
"Beautiful." They both sat there for a long while, in comfortable silence, before Breeze remembered to ask the she-cat her name. "What is your name?"
"Celestial." The she-cat replied casually.
Breeze looked at the she-cat in shock. "C-Celestial?" She stuttered. "M-my name is Breeze."
"I know."
"You do?" Breeze looked away from the moon to meet Celestial's gaze.
"Yes, why wouldn't I?"
"Y-you're a goddess. An Ancient. I'm just a she-cat, a new advisor at that!"
"Oh, I see. You don't know yet, do you?"
"Know what?"
"I'm surprised that Leaf hasn't told you already. Breeze, you are not just an advisor, an she-cat. I'm not sure how to tell you this, but to the Ancients, you are one of the most important cats in the world right now."
"W-what? I am?"
"Yes. There is an prophecy from the stars themselves. We believe it pertains to you and seven others. The starry ones hold the hope, as long as the breeze carries the falcon, the gray shell holds strong, the lady walks in shadow, the myra is as stubborn as the steel; that the bloody spike will not keep his reign, and the land they walk upon will stay."
"A prophecy? Me?"
"Yes, and seven others. If you wish to let this prophecy hold as strong as it is foretold, meet me here tomorrow at moonhigh."
"But tomorrow at moonhigh is when I have my vigil!"
"Come or let the world fall. Your choice, Breeze. I believe in you..." The she-cat faded away as the moon started to dip in the sky, and Breeze stared at the place where Celestial had stood in shock. 'Your choice...' The words echoed in her ears. She knew there was no chance of her getting back to sleep now and she padded towards the training arena, deep in thought.
When the others came to the training arena that morning, they saw it in near destruction, and a Breeze sound asleep on the white rock Vale had put there the day before. Leaf smiled softly, knowing of what had happened. "Come on, let's go elsewhere to train today."
Breeze woke up, the sun shining in her eyes, blinding her as she opened them. She sighed, figuring all of it had been a dream, that she was just as normal and weak as she ever was. "What are you sighing for? You're one of the most important cats in the world now!" A small voice chirped in her ear.
Breeze stretched and opened her eyes to meet the speaker. It was a small orange kit, one of the kits in the nursery no doubt. "What are you doing in here, little kit? You should go back to your mother. I bet she's worried sick about you!"
"She isn't. She won't be." The little kit replied.
"Why not?"
"She's dead."
"Oh." Breeze felt bad for being so insensitive. "Sorry."
"It's not your fault that the fire took her and the rest of them."
"You poor kit. I'm Breeze. I can take you to the nursery if you want, to get cared for."
"I'm Aurora, and I can shine! Want to see?"
Breeze, lost for what else to do with the kit, agreed. The kit smiled, and as Breeze stared at the kit, it slowly grew brighter and brighter until Breeze had to look away. She realized she wasn't in her den at all! She was still in the training area, which meant... "It wasn't all a dream, was it Aurora?"
The kit slowly stopped glowing. "It was real, Breeze! You are one of the most important cats in the world!" Breeze grinned, her heart glowing nearly as brightly as the kit a moment ago.
"Thank you, Aurora! Thank you!" Breeze couldn't believe it.
Aurora just smiled. After a few moments of happen silence, Aurora chirped again. "So, Breeze, what are you going to do?"
Breeze hadn't been sure before, whether it was the right thing to do it, be an outcast from the Council for skipping or disappearing during her vigil and being spotted, gone that is. But she couldn't just let everyone down, let everyone die, including this kit who had given her so much, whether Aurora knew it or not. "I'm going to do it."
Aurora bounced up and down. "Celestial will be proud of you, Breeze." Breeze wondered if this kit's parents being taken away from her had done this, made her so mature. Aurora would be a great Advisor, that was for sure.