Happy Holidays everybody. Hope you had a merry Christmas or a happy Hanukkah or whatever. Let's get started.
Goldenpaw walked back to Shade at moonhigh on night. His mouth was full of healing herbs.
"There you are." Shade said. "I don't mean to trouble you, but the cash on my side started bleeding again. Not much, but..."
"Thats okay. I didn't think that little cobweb would hold that long. But I brought more this time." Goldenpaw replied.
"You look pretty worried, Goldenpaw. What's on your mind?"
"Nothing... I had this disturbing dream last night. A dark brown tabby tom with Amber eyes looked at me, and he said something that sounded like a prophecy... but you wouldn't get it."
"Why not?" Shade looked hurt. "Why don't you think I could understand?"
"You're a rouge. Not a Clan cat. You don't understand things like StarClan and medicine cats."
"I could if you told me!" Shade said, trying hard not to yell. "How do you expect someone to understand if you don't teach them? You may be Clanborn, but you still had to learn stuff! That's why you're an apprentice!"
"But... fine. So there are four Clans, okay? We have RiverClan, ShadowClan, WindClan, and my Clan- ThunderClan. Each one has a leader, a deputy, and a medicine cat. They also have warriors, queens, apprentices, kits, and elders. The leader, like Sunstar, has nine lives. Their deputy, like Foxface, is the second-in-command. He organizes the patrols and things. But we all believe in the spirits of our ancestors, who live in that thick band of stars in the sky. They're called StarClan."
"Like the sparkly dead cats that my sister sees?"
Goldenpaw froze.
"What?!"
"Erm... my sister... she's always telling the rest of us about starry cats that are in her dreams. She says she seen cats that have died recently."
"Tell me everything!"
"Uh, well, she's the weakest cat in our group, so she stays in the burrows that we live in and tends to the kits. But every time she wakes up in the morning, she tells everyone about friendly, glowing, dead cats in her dreams. We all just thought she was crazy. Star Shadow has always been a little loony."
Goldenpaw froze when he heard the name. He thought back to the prophecy he was just given.
"Did you say... Star Shadow?"
"Yeah. That's my sister's name. Star Shadow. Why?"
"The prophecy... said something about what lies in the Star's Shadow..."
"And you actually think it's my sister? Sure. Yes, this totally important prophecy is about my sister, the one who is afraid of the sun and stared at bugs. Besides, we live really far away. It couldn't be referring to her."
"No, it can!" Goldenpaw was starting to get excited. "The tom told me that we had to go on a quest! So we would have to go far away! Oh, great StarClan, I have to go tell Sunstar about this!"
Goldenpaw rushed off, heading strait towards the leader's den.
Shade watched him go, worried that if her new friend went to the rouges' den, he would get himself killed.
OMG, guys, I'm so sorry I didn't update sooner, but I had Christmas, and then we went out of town, and then I had no Wi-Fi in my house for an entire week! I'm going to try and update more often, and I'm already working on, like, two more chapters! Plus I have to finish the last two chapters of "Still Friends", that writing challenge I'm doing. I've got a good suggestion for the Three's full new, but I'd like a bit more ideas, so please review or PM me with your me ideas! I'll try to get the next chapter out soon! Bye! :D
