Post by Littlewind on Dec 13, 2015 15:06:51 GMT -5
"Take them, I have a clan to take care of." Sorrow filled the she-cat's voice. Her grey pelt gleamed in the small amount of moonlight that entered the den. Her blue eyes were filled with tears and her white mask looked like the moon in the dim light. A pool of tears were accumulating on the stone floor of the den.
"I will make sure they are taken care of. I will bring Mistykit with me to LifeClan, and give Littlekit to Shadowtail for DewClan." The white and silver tom was standing near the entrance, his turquoise eyes dull with sorrow. The two kits rolled around and played between the two cats. He took the kits and slipped out of the den unnoticed by the cats outside, and he disappeared into the darkness.
"Hey, wait up!" Called a smokey grey and white tom, his amber eyes glowing with excitement. A pale tabby she-cat was running beside him, her paws, belly, and muzzle were white and her pale blue eyes looked like the new-leaf sky. It was a cold, leaf-bare day, and the snow crunched under their paws. "Come on guys, Skypaw, Cherrypaw, we don't have all day!" called the white apprentice. She was unordinarily small and her long pelt blended in with the snow, and only her ocean blue eyes stuck out. "Littlepaw, how are you so fast?" the pale tabby she-cat called. "She doesn't know Cherrypaw, she doesn't even know her parents." replied the white and grey tom. "Skypaw's right, how am I supposed to know?" commented Littlepaw. How am I so fast? She wondered, then she snapped back into reality when she almost ran into a cat.
Cherrypaw and Skypaw stopped abruptly when they heard a yowl of alarm from Littlepaw, who had run ahead. "Rogue!" Cherrypaw and Skypaw sped ahead to join their friend, and saw a jet black tom with amber eyes. "Cherry, you joined DewClan? Why?" he mewed questioningly. "My name is Cherrypaw now, Slash, and this is where I belong." Cherrypaw mewed in response. "Oh, okay. Well, see you around I guess." the tom seemed disappointed as he padded away, toward twoleg place, where the group of rogues stayed.
"Who was that?" asked Skypaw, his head tilted in confusion. "Oh, that was just Slash, if he was a warrior he would be an apprentice with us." Cherrypaw responded quietly, half to herself. "Come on guys! We're going to miss it!" Littlepaw exclaimed, and the trio padded off. Littlepaw naturally ran ahead leaving the other two behind.
Littlepaw padded slowly towards the edge of the lake with the others close behind. The moon was rising, and Silverpelt glittered above them, their light reflecting in the pool. "Why do we sneak here every half moon?" asked Skypaw, staring into the water. "Because it's so beautiful." responded Cherrypaw. And because we feel closer to StarClan Littlepaw thought. She imagined their starry warrior ancestors rising out of the lake to greet them, and remembered that Yellowpaw, the medicine cat apprentice, was going to the moonstone to speak with StarClan, where she would see them.
At sunhigh, Littlepaw went on the dawn patrol with her mentor, Darkriver, who was exhausted from being up all night. Littlepaw started to approach sixstones, where all of the clans met on the full moon for the gathering, when she looked behind her and noticed Darkriver had fallen asleep back by the river, several fox-lengths behind. She decided to go ahead and finish the patrol when she saw Moonstar, the BayClan leader, and Paleshadow, a LifeClan warrior, with his daughter Mistypaw. She silently ran and hid in the bushes, making sure she was upwind so they couldn't scent her. She listened for a while, then realized she felt fur next to her. She looked beside her and saw Skypaw. "What are you doing here?" She mewed in a low tone. "Shadowtail told me to go on patrol with you and Darkriver, so I followed you out of the camp. I saw Darkriver on the ground by the river, and checked to make sure he was okay, but he was just asleep and had no wounds, so I hid in case there was something ahead, and I found you."
"Hello Mistypaw. It's nice to see you again." Moonstar meowed, her grey pelt shining in the sunlight. Paleshadow's white and silver pelt blended in with the snow, and Mistypaw's silver and white pelt shone with them, her turquoise eyes glowing in wonder. "Why are we here?" she mewed questioningly. Moonstar and Paleshadow looked at her with amusement. "I'm your mother." meowed Moonstar. What? Moonstar of all cats, her mother? Littlepaw thought. I wish I knew who my parents are. She looked beside her to see Skypaw didn't seemed surprised. He looked back at her with a glint in his eyes. "You have a sister too, but she's not here." Moonstar meowed disappointed. Mistypaw tilted her head in confusion. "She lives in DewClan." She lives in DewClan? Who could it be? Littlepaw was about to pad away when she heard Paleshadow meow "She's Littlepaw"
Littlepaw stood frozen, then padded out of the bush towards them, thinking it was a joke. "I am not your sister, this is all just a trick." She meowed uneasily. There was silence. "You're serious?" Moonstar and Paleshadow nodded. "This will be great conversation back at camp, and we thought we couldn't trust Cherrypaw, she used to be a rogue! But now, we have a half-clan cat, that wasn't even born in our clan!" Littlepaw turned her head violently to see a red and white apprentice with yellow eyes standing behind them. "Redpaw!" Littlepaw hissed, and as she said that Skypaw jumped out of the bush and pinned him down. "You must never speak of this!" He hissed at his clanmate. "Ugh, fine. But I hate secrets, what will Silverstar think? She'll probably exile us!" exclaimed Redpaw. "That's why she must never know." mewed Littlepaw sternly. "It is time we leave." Littlepaw mewed in a serious tone, and the cats began padding towards their own territory. Redpaw stayed behind, then shrugged and joined his clanmates.
"Silverstar!" shouted Yellowpaw, her grey pelt shining in the moonlight, her yellow tail sticking out and her yellow eyes filled with worry as she ran into the leader's den. Silverstar was curled up as if she was about to fall asleep, her silky silver pelt shining in the moonlight entering the den. "What is it Yellowpaw?"she meowed curiously. "StarClan has sent me a prophecy." Her voice wavered. "I dreamed of the forest flooding, and I heard a voice saying 'Follow the wind as your guide'."
