Yep it has been a while since I updated I have noticed.

The polls are looking interesting so far

5th place: Ravenstorm and Ravenclaw

4th place: Ravenstrike, Ravenheart, Ravenwind and Ravenmist

3rd place: Ravenspirit

2nd place: Ravenflight

1st place: Ravenwing and Ravenfeather

The polls are still going I haven't yet gotten to Ravenpaw's naming ceremony so there is still time to vote for it.

Now without further ado

Chapter 19

Firestorm and Sunpaw were back in the camp. They noticed Icefeather and Leafpaw hadn't returned from their patrol. Firestorm and Sunpaw headed over to the apprentice den to look for Ravenpaw.

"Firestorm," a voice suddenly called out. Firestorm looked and saw that it was Dovefeather emerging from the warriors den. She came up to the fiery warrior and apprentice looking a little confused. "Where were you Firestorm?" she asked curiously giving Sunpaw a strange look. Firestorm blinked slowly as he listened to her.

"I took Sunpaw out to explore the territory." Firestorm explained curious about why Dovefeather wanted to know.

"But, why didn't you ask anyone to come with you?" she meowed sternly. Her tail lashing slightly. "Who knows where Brokenstar and the rest of his elite warriors have gone? You could have been ambushed." Firestorm looked at her incredulously

"Dovefeather, Brokenstar hasn't been seen for at least a moon, and for your information Icefeather and Leafpaw went with us." Firestorm growled slightly. "Sunpaw wasn't feeling well so we decided to come back early. Not that that is any of your business!" Dovefeather's tail stopped lashing back and forth and she flinched. Runningstream who had followed Dovefeather out of the warrior's den came over to put space between the two of them.

"That's enough, Dovefeather go get Longclaw we need to hunt." Runningstream meowed stiffly. Dovefeather silently obeyed her and headed into the warriors den. Runningstream sighed and turned to look at Firestorm.

"Please don't get too upset with her she was just concerned." Runningstream told him gently. "She was hoping to go hunting with you and she must have forgotten your responsibility to Sunpaw. Actually we were all wondering where you had gone." Firestorm blinked slowly as he looked at her.

"Still I'm not an apprentice anymore and I can look after myself now," Firestorm told her calmly. "I apologize for not telling you guys where I was going but it was kind of an unplanned thing. Icefeather asked me if I wanted to go hunting with her and Leafpaw and I saw no harm in going with her."

"I understand, we were just hoping with could have gone with you and helped you show Sunpaw the territory." Runningstream explained as she glanced over to see Longclaw and Dovefeather emerging from the warriors den. "I should get going, perhaps we can show Sunpaw some battle skills when she feels better?" Firestorm nodded

"Yes I'm sure she'd like that. I wish you well on your hunting." Firestorm called after her. Longclaw gave him a friendly wave with his tail, which he returned, but Dovefeather refused to meet his gaze. He watched them leave camp and padded off to look for Sunpaw.

Sunpaw was lying outside the apprentice den speaking softly to Ravenpaw, Firestorm couldn't make out what they were saying as he approached the two of them. Ravenpaw looked up with a friendly wave of his tail.

"Hi Firestorm, Sunpaw was telling me how you would like for me to show her some hunting techniques. I'd be more than willing to do it now if you're not too tired." Firestorm blinked slowly unsure of what to do. On one hand he really wanted to talk to Ravenpaw and he might not get another chance so soon, but he also wasn't prepared for how Ravenpaw or Sunpaw might take the conversation. He glanced at Sunpaw and saw that she still wore a look of determination on her face. He was certain she wasn't going to back down from this. Firestorm turned his attention back to Ravenpaw, who was eyeing him curiously.

"Yes that's fine, are you sure Hawkwing won't mind?" Firestorm questioned not wanting to get on the large tabby warrior's bad side. Ravenpaw nodded.

"Yeah he went hunting with Finchflight and Mapletail, and left me to take care of the elders." Ravenpaw explained. "I've finished looking after the elders and I still have some energy left that could be used for hunting." 'Try talking,' Firestorm thought to himself.

"Well alright, let's go then." Firestorm meowed as he headed for the camp entrance. Ravenpaw was right behind him with Sunpaw following close behind.

"Let's try near the Sun Rock," meowed Sunpaw suddenly, Firestorm nodded in agreement. 'Yeah that probably is the best place to talk as long as no one else is resting there.' He thought. Ravenpaw blinked slowly in confusion.

"Shouldn't we start in the Oak Clearing first? " Ravenpaw asked. Firestorm had nearly forgotten that they had asked him for help training Sunpaw. Sunpaw glanced at Firestorm with a slightly worried look.

"Its fine I think she'll do okay outside of the training area." Firestorm meowed trying to come up with an excuse for why they should start near the Sun Rock. "Besides Stonetooth is there practicing battle moves with Sharppaw and I don't want Sunpaw getting distracted."

"Okay I understand I suppose the Sun Rock would be a great place to practice." Ravenpaw finally agreed to the spot. Sunpaw looked relieved that they wouldn't have to tell him yet. They continued on their way to the Sun Rock.

As they walked Ravenpaw suddenly dived into a bush and returned shortly after with a mouse in his jaws. Firestorm blinked slowly than remembered that they were supposed to be hunting.

"Well done," he meowed, it really was a good catch, and if he hadn't been so distracted he would have caught it himself. Sunpaw also congratulated him on his catch. Ravenpaw looked a little embarrassed.

"It's probably not my best catch, and I know cats in SkyClan prefer birds to mice, voles and squirrels but prey is prey right?" Firestorm agreed to that statement.

"It really was a great catch, I don't mind mice all that much." Sunpaw meowed Ravenpaw blinked gratefully at her.

"Well go ahead and bury it will come back for it later." Ravenpaw agreed and buried the mouse quickly before they were on their way again. Firestorm stopped a moment when he caught the scent of a wren on the wind. He stopped and dropped into a crouch carefully inching forward listening and scenting. Suddenly he dived forward to catch the wren, but his timing had been off and the bird launched into the air. 'Mousedung' thought Firestorm crossly. He was surprised to see a blur of gold shoot up and paw at the bird. Sunpaw's swipe had caught one of the wings and forced the bird to land on it wrong. Unable to fly the wren made a loud noise as Sunpaw pounced on it. 'A messy kill but at least she got it.'

"You still need some work on your pounce and swipe, but for your first kill it wasn't bad." Firestorm praised her. Sunpaw purred softly at the praise and swiftly buried her catch. They continued on their way.

Before long they were at the Sun Rock. Sunpaw raced forward heading into the den that the rock formed.

"I don't think I scented any prey in there, did you? Ravenpaw asked suddenly. Firestorm sighed softly hoping Ravenpaw wouldn't run off or not listen. He looked upward into the trees looking for any sign of their Clanmates that might be hunting in the area. When he was certain they were alone he began to speak.

"Ravenpaw, there's something I need to ask you about." Firestorm meowed softly, Ravenpaw looked at him curiously.

"What about?" Ravenpaw tilted his head a little in confusion. Firestorm paused to gather his thoughts.

"It's about, your reason for joining SkyClan." Firestorm murmured. Ravenpaw's eyes narrowed a little.

"What do you mean? Is something wrong?" Firestorm could only stare at him.

"I think the reason for you leaving ThunderClan has to do with how Sunpaw's brother died." Ravenpaw looked at him like he grew two heads.

"Firestorm, a fox had nothing to do with me leaving ThunderClan,"

"It wasn't a fox that killed Flamekit." Ravenpaw blinked quickly in surprise.

"He wasn't? What happened to him?"

"That's what I want to talk to you about." Firestorm explained quietly. "Sunpaw just told me what really happened to Flamekit, she had been there when he died and saw the whole thing. I want to tell her your story because I think it has something to do with his death but I didn't want to tell her without asking you first." Ravenpaw sat down and seemed to be lost in thought.

"How much does she know?"

"Next to nothing, I only mentioned that there was a reason you left your Clan not the actual reason why you left." Ravenpaw nodded in acceptance of that. There was another pregnant pause between the two before Ravenpaw spoke again.

"I would like to hear her story first before I trust her with mine."

"That's probably for the best." Firestorm lead Ravenpaw under the Sun Rock where Sunpaw was patiently waiting for them.

"Sunpaw, can you tell Ravenpaw what you told me? He promises not to tell anyone else about it. But his own secret is just as, if not more, delicate than your own secret."

"Fine, I'll explain again." They two toms sat in silence as Sunpaw once more relived the horror of her brother's death. Ravenpaw was listening closely trembling a little as the story was getting close to Flamekit's eerie end. Firestorm watched as Ravenpaw's eyes widened in horror at the mention of the dark tabby ThunderClan warrior that had been talking to Stonetooth and he seemed to stifle a wail of horror when Sunpaw spoke of Flamekit's execution at the paws of his own Clanmate.

"No No No," Ravenpaw was muttering as he trembled. Firestorm placed his muzzle comfortingly against his shoulder. Sunpaw gave him a sad look as she too trembled from the horror of recounting her own memory. A few moments later found them both calmer but Ravenpaw still wore the look of horror.

"You think it was…"Ravenpaw trailed off as he looked at Firestorm. Firestorm nodded gravely.

"I do, from the moment she gave me the description. I wanted to wait until after she was brought to a gathering to be sure but…" Sunpaw looked at them both in confusion and slight anger at being left out.

"Who do you think it was?" she asked lashing her tail in frustration. Ravenpaw looked to Firestorm, who meowed that they should tell her.

"She has held on to her own secret for this long she won't expose your own." He murmured reassuringly to Ravenpaw.

"Okay, as long as she promises to keep it to herself."

"I promise I won't say a word to anyone. It took a lot of courage just to tell Firestorm my story." Sunpaw meowed softly. Ravenpaw looked around nervously before starting his tale.

"Do you remember what was spoken about the deaths of Redtail and Oakheart?" Sunpaw blinked slowly than nodded.

"Yes I do, Redtail was killed by Oakheart during a border fight right?" Ravenpaw shook his head.

"Wrong, Oakheart was killed in a rock slide. Redtail escaped it without injury. I was there I saw the whole thing happened." Ravenpaw told her. "Redtail was attacked by my former mentor, Tigerclaw, he was the one to kill Redtail. He was hoping to become the new deputy afterward but Lionheart was made deputy in his place. Tigerclaw figured out or suspected that I knew the truth and tried to kill me that's why I came here. " Sunpaw's eyes widened in shock and she shivered even more, but she still wore a look of confusion on her face.

"But it still doesn't explain how their connected."Sunpaw pointed out, "Other than their both murders there isn't a connection. We have no proof that Tigerclaw was the cat who Stonetooth was speaking to."

"I think I do." Both of them turned to look at Firestorm in surprise.

"What do you mean? What do you know?" Ravenpaw asked quietly. Sunpaw too looked on with worried curiosity.

"You mentioned at the gathering that after the rockslide happened a gray cat leaped down to see if Oakheart was alright then took off for the SkyClan border."

"Yes I also thought he was confused to."

"What if he wasn't checking to make sure Oakheart was alright?"

"What do you mean?"

"What if he was making sure that Oakheart was dead and not going to see if he was alive?"

"What do you know Firestorm," Sunpaw's voice quivered with dread.

"A while ago not long after I was apprenticed there was mention of a kittypet who had been chased through our territory into ThunderClan territory.

"Yes that was Scorchblaze I remember. It was the day Redtaill…" Ravenpaw trailed off with dawning horror on his face.

"Yes I knew him before I came to SkyClan when I heard that the kittypet matched his description I started searching along the ThunderClan border to find any trace of his scent to see if it really was him. " Firestorm paused to let them take in what he was saying before continuing. "When I got close to the RiverClan-ThunderClan part of the border I saw a car coming so I raced up and hid in one of the trees. When I looked I saw it was Stonetooth, but his fur was dreanched and his paws were covered in something. I thought it was mud, but now that I think about it…"

"You think he killed Oakheart?" Sunpaw squeaked.

"But why do any of it what does he gain from killing Oakheart?" Ravenpaw asked with a sad shake. "It makes no sense."

"No Stonetooth didn't benefit from it, but Tigerclaw did didn't he?" Firestorm spoke gravely. "It helped Tigerclaw look good as a potential deputy did it not?"

"But Tigerclaw didn't become deputy, Lionheart did." Sunpaw pointed out.

"It still helped his image and Tigerclaw didn't have to wait long before becoming deputy." Ravenpaw murmured bitterly. Firestorm nodded

"Exactly, I think what Flamekit stumbled upon was the two of them planning on a way to make Tigerclaw deputy of ThunderClan. Flamekit might not have heard anything but they couldn't risk him exposing them so Stonetooth killed him for his silence." Sunpaw's eyes were filled with shock and pain as she closed them and lowered her head, her whole body trembled as choked back her wails of sorrow. Firestorm pressed his pelt against hers and touched his muzzle to her shoulder. "He was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He did nothing to deserve his death."

"But what does Stonetooth gain by helping Tigerclaw?" Ravenpaw voiced up suddenly. "Why would he help a cat from a completely different Clan?"

"Maybe he owed him a favor?" Firestorm shrugged

"We still don't know if it is Tigerclaw." Sunpaw spoke softly.

"She's right, "Ravenpaw agreed reluctantly. "We don't know if it is Tigerclaw or not. There are other dark brown tabbies in the forest. It might not be Tigerclaw. I couldn't tell you who the gray tom was I didn't get a good look at him. "

"Your right we don't know, but…"Firestorm glanced at Sunpaw. "Sunpaw got a good look at the dark brown tabby." Ravenpaw's eyes widened in surprise.

"She did? You did?" Ravennpaw questioned rapidly.

"Yes I could tell you who it was but I don't know other warriors." Sunpaw explained.

"If Sunpaw goes to the gathering and Identifies Tigerclaw as the cat talking to Stonetooth then we know for certain their connected and that both of them are up to no good. Maybe we can warn Goldenstar."

"It's not enough proof." Ravenpaw told him, "It's still our word against theirs. You and I were outsiders they won't take us seriously and Sunpaw was a kit when this all happened they'll just think she was confused. We need more proof that they're up to something crooked."

"Yes, and we still don't have a plausible explanation for why Stonetooth is helping Tigerclaw." Firestorm hated to admit it to himself but they were both right. It wasn't enough to prove anything it was all speculation until Sunpaw could identify Tigerclaw and even then it wouldn't be enough until they could discover what Stonetooth's part was in the partnership. They sat in silence lost in their thoughts for a moment.

"We should head back soon." Ravenpaw meowed suddenly.

"Yes and we need to catch a few more pieces of prey." Firestorm agreed. "Perhaps this discussion should be left for another time?" Sunpaw meowed a soft okay. Ravenpaw said nothing and only nodded his head.

"Ravenpaw, could you gather Sunpaw's wren and your mouse and bring them back to camp?" Firestorm asked him calmly. "I'll take Sunpaw closer to the strange twoleg bird feeders we'll bring what we catch back to camp."

"Okay, but this conversation stays between us right?"

"Yes we won't say a word." Ravenpaw dipped his head than took off toward where they had buried their earlier prey. Firestorm watched him go before turning his attention to Sunpaw.

"Are you alright Sunpaw?" he asked softly. Sunpaw gazed into Firestar's emerald stare. He bright sky blue eyes had dimmed with grief for her brother.

"I don't know," she murmured softly. Firestorm didn't know what to do to help her. He just sat beside her and gently licked her ears.

Okay stopping it here for now.

So now we know that Stonetooth and Tigerclaw is up to no good. (As if we didn't already know.") but things are starting to become clear for them.