Chapter 33

Shadowstar had woke to the sound of caterwauling and snarling cats, the tom shot up and raced outside and into the camp. The clan cats screeched and jumped away from Shadowstar as he separated the cats from one another. Wolfeye and Hazestorm where quarreling over something between them.

"That doesn't mean to kill it!" Hazestorm snarled.

"She killed Airwhisker though!" Wolfeye screeched

"We don't know the—"

"Quiet!" Roared Shadowstar, all he needed to hear was the retort about Airwhisker to know something was up. Hazestorm and Wolfeye faced Shadowstar with proud, but fearful eyes. Shadowstar saw the white fur of Airwhisker's pelt hiding behind the two toms and the tear-stained cheeks of Rainstorm as she looked down at her dead sister.

"Airwhisker…she's dead." Hazestorm murmured to Shadowstar.

'"I heard…" Shadowstar murmured. He wasn't sure how to act knowing he was the one who had killed Airwhisker to begin with. He forced himself to keep a calm demeanor as all eyes of the clan where on him.

"We didn't leave without revenge though…" Wolfeye meowed proudly, his yellow eyes cold.

"What do you mean revenge?" meowed Shadowstar, he was the one who killed her…who did they think…

Hazestorm and Wolfeye stepped back to reveal the dead body of not only Airwhisker…but someone else. Shadowstar gapped his mouth in surprise and terror as he looked at the second dead body. His heart crumbled like sand and he clenched his teeth as tears tried to make their way to his eyes.

"She killed Airwhisker…We avenged her death." Hazestorm murdered, seeming to feel guilty for the murder of the innocent cat. They didn't have the slightest clue that it was Shadowstar.

"You…you killed her!" Screeched Shadowstar, the leader slashed his claws across Hazestorm's cheek. The older tom stumbled backwards and looked surprised at Shadowstar's sudden anger. "What is wrong with you? Do you think it's funny to constantly ruin my life…all of you?"

The cats looked confused as they looked at the two dead cats. Hazestorm swallowed in fear and looked up at his leader with wide blue eyes. "B-But…she killed—"

"She did no such a thing!" Shadowstar hissed. The voice in his head whispered something to him…telling him to just let out the truth…everything that had been kept a secret since he was a kit. Shadowstar braced himself and stood before Airwhisker's body. "Do you want to know the truth behind all this madness?"

Rainstorm sobbed and looked up at Shadowstar with sad and confused eyes.

"I killed Airwhisker!" Shadowstar roared, his heart shattering even more when he saw Rainstorm open her mouth in astonishment and saw a fresh wave of tears stream down her face. "I was possessed by the evil spirit of my father…through my body, he killed Airwhisker. It was completely against my control!"

The cats gasped and hissed in anger at Shadowstar's words, but the leader kept going.

"Scar did the same the day I attacked Wolfeye!" Shadowstar snarled. "Those many moons ago when I was attacked as a kit….that was Scar! My own father threatened to kill me if I told, that is why it has remained a secret for so long!"

"Impossible!" Screeched a couple of cats

"You murderer!"

"I knew it!"

"I never killed Scar the night we ambushed the badgers, yet you all accused me!" Shadowstar hissed, his temper rising as he saw the two bloody cats. "So rest assured, the accusations have all came true…but it was my father that truly killed Airwhisker!"

Rainstorm hissed in anger and sliced her claws across her leader's face. The silver tabby bared her teeth at the tom as a wave of tears streamed down her face. Shadowstar never dared to touch Rainstorm but was stunned at her force of impact.

"You rotten piece of fox-dung," She wailed. "You killed my sister! You lied to me when I asked you where she was…you stupid, stupid animal!" Shadowstar watched as his deputy ran away from the scene of the crime.

"So…if you killed Airwhisker…" Hazestorm quivered as Shadowstar's intense eyes met him. "Then who is this?"

"That…" Shadowstar snarled. "Is my mate…June."