Chapter 16: Warnings

My sisters? Nightkit and Mistkit?

Tigerclaw stared at the two StarClan kits. "I.. I'm in StarClan? am I dead?"

Nightkit laughed. "No, silly! You're just dreaming!" Tigerclaw sat down. I thought sleeping on the Moonstone would give me a good dream, about having total control and power, over ThunderClan! Or all the clans! But instead I just got thrown into this totally random Starclan territory place, with two dead kits!?

"Dear brother..." Mistkit murmured. Tigerclaw glanced at the grey kit. "A tiger's power is strong... A tiger has the strength to control many things... But a tiger must have warmth..."

Nightkit and Mistkit began speaking as one. Tigerclaw suddenly realized they were fading... The world was swirling around and around... But he could still hear his sister's words. "A heart.. Broken, forever... A maple, waiting for vengeance...a tiger, too strong to be good... A hawk, to skilled to defeat... A bramble, for good or for bad... A fire, an uncertain fate... Three...three stars,to shine... A lion, a jay, a third, unknown, unsure...A future, in fog, not clear..."

"Beware, beware, beware..."

Tigerclaw found himself waking up in the now slightly duller Moonstone. His fur was spiked and his heartbeat was racing. I'd better get out of here now...

Looking behind him, he saw the tunnel that was supposed to lead him outside. But only if he knew where to turn, which tunnel to pass, which tunnel that would lead to fresh air and sunlight...

Tigerclaw looked up. The closest light was coming from a hole in the top of the cave. I can just climb on top of the Moonstone, go through the hole, and see if I can get down from there, he decided.

Tigerclaw pounced upwards, claws fighting for a grip on the cold stone. Pushing off with his hind legs, he continued to scramble towards the hole in the roof of the cave.

Phew! Made it!

Tigerclaw glanced down. He saw dozens of claw marks on the Moonstone. Huh. I made a lot of scratches. More whispers seemed to drift around...

How dare he...

Claws on our sacred place...

A dreadful sight...

A warning...

Go away... Go away go away...goawaygoaway...

Tigerclaw poked his head out of the hole. Thisteclaw! His formers mentor was sleeping on a patch of ferns... About a hundred mouse-lengths away.

Groaning inwardly, he began to climb down. A paw-hold there, jump over here, over there too far, over there too near. Navigating his way slowly down, Tigerclaw finally landed on the soft grass. Tigerclaw had begun his climb at sunrise, and now it was already sunhigh.

"Thisteclaw!" Tigerclaw hissed. The grey and white tom shifted in his so-called nest. Opening one eye, Thisteclaw seemed to fully wake up, jumping to his paws. "Well that took you long enough!" He snapped.

Tigerclaw ignored the sharp comment. "Why in did you just run away like that? Were you SCARED?!"

"Don't be ridiculous!" Thisteclaw was now glaring at his clanmate. "I just wanted to test if you would... If you would follow me out! I was testing if you were scared!" Thisteclaw turned around and started stalking to the direction of his clan's territory.

Tigerclaw narrowed his eyes, not sure whether Thisteclaw was telling the truth or not. Did Thisteclaw sense the overwhelming... Power of StarClan? Like me?

Shaking his head, Tigerclaw padded after his mentor. I guess some questions are made to be unanswered.

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Back at the camp, and all his duties done, Tigerclaw had time to sit and groom his fur. Though he was supposed to be thinking about which patrol he should offer to be in tomorrow, his mind was busy thinking about what his sister's had said. A heart.. Broken, forever... A maple, waiting for vengeance...a tiger, too strong to be good... A hawk, to skilled to defeat... A bramble, for good or for bad... A fire, an uncertain fate... Three...three stars,to shine... A lion, a jay, a third, unknown, unsure...A future, in fog, not clear...

Tigerclaw growled. But it makes no sense! Like... Like how can a maple wait for vengeance? A maple is a tree! And a tiger-

Tigerclaw froze. A tiger. Is that... Me?

The last three words Nightkit and Mistkit mewed echoed in his ears.

Beware, beware, beware...

So sorry! I'm SOO lazy... Please don't hate me. T.T