echopaw's decision

by sparkflight

when a young rouge named echo and her mate, hawkstorm, die of greencough, then are both reincarnated into brother and sister, but as it turns out, her brother, is from thunderclan, while echopaw has been raised in shadowclan. oakfur, there father, hates thunderclan and all of it's cats. but when her father becomes ill, though, echopaw must choose between her brother and her father.

6. Chapter 7

chapter 7: the dream

echopaw! a voice called. the small gray she-cat could tell she was dreaming; but she ran toward the meow anyway. she bolted into a clearing, and in the middle sat a large, muscular cat with his back turned to her. hello? the medicine cat mewed, and the tom turned his head in greeting. ah, echopaw, he murmured. finally. why am I here? she snapped. I don't have time for a lecture! but the cat just shook his head and beckoned her forward. nice she had sat down next to him, she meowed, well, if your going to talk to me, I should at least know your name. my name is brambleheart, he explained. and I am not here to scold you, but to tell you a prophecy. brambleheart closed his eyes, but when he opened them they where glowing bright amber, and when he spoke, thunder roared. echopaw shrank back as the words left his mouth.

a time is coming, a time of great darkness, he spoke. in the middle of war, the echo of a life before must face a decision that will determine the fate of both shadow and thunder.

when brambleheart went back to normal, echopaw woke up, and found herself shivering, huddled next to her father in the medicine den. she immediately checked to see if he was breathing, and he was fine. that calmed her down a little bit, though she still felt a growing sense of dread. what could that mean? she thought. thunder and shadow? the echo of a life before? why did they send this to me, instead of a full medicine cat? this makes no sense!