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THE TRAINING HOLLOW"Let all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath Overhang Rock for a Clan meeting!" yowled Tornadostar. Cats in camp stopped what they were doing whether it was sharing tongues or eating a piece of prey to gather beneath Overhang Rock. Tornadostar looked down at her Clan, silver eyes glinting in the sun as she opened her jaws to speak.
"I'm about to perform one of my favorite things to do as your leader and by naming a new warrior proves we will remain strong, for we are LightningClan!" Tornadostar caterwauled the last word as the Clan yowled in agreement. Tornadostar's jet black tail signaled silence and all was quiet.
"Today is Dazzlepaw's warrior ceremony. She has proved herself ready to become a warrior," meowed the LightningClan leader. Dazzlepaw gace an excited boucnce as she made her way up to her leader.
"Stargaze, are you satisfied that this apprentice is ready to become a warrior?" asked Tornadostar, looking at her faithful deputy.
"Yes, Dazzlepaw is ready," she meowed solemnly. Tornadostar nodded and turned to the pale ginger she-cat.
"I, Tornadostar, leader of LightningClan, call upon my warrior ancestors to look down on this apprentice. She has trained hard to understand the ways of your noble code, and I commend her to you as a warrior in her turn," said Tornadostar, looking up into the sky. "Dazzlepaw, do you promise to uphold the warrior code and to protect and defend your Clan, even at the cost of your life?"
"I do," murmured Dazzlepaw, excitement shining in her blue eyes.
"Then by the powers of StarClan, I give you your warrior name. Dazzlepaw, from this moment you will be known as Dazzleshine. StarClan honors your enthusiasm and courage," finished Tornadostar. The Clan began chanting the newly named she-cat's name.
"Dazzleshine! Dazzleshine!" The Clan cheered with all their might and congratulated the young warrior.
"This meeting is dismissed," yowled Tornadostar, jumping off of Overhang Rock and disappearing into her den. The new warrior showed that LightningClan would remain strong in the future.
The full moon hung in the sky, giving off a eerie white glow that bleached Silverstorm's gray fur silver. She melted into the silver-lite forest and slunk to the edge of Moss Rock. She missed Rapier so much! It been moons since she had seen him; they had decided to lay low and she had just figured she was going to have hjis kits when they had decided that they were going to meet here at Moss Rock. She clawed her way up the rock, anxious that Rapier wouldn't show up. She sat and starred at the moon. Oh StarClan....where is he? she thought to herself as she heard soft pawsteps on the forest ground. She spun around to see the handsome brown tom claw his way up the rock.
"Rapier," she breathed and purred, touching her cheek to his. He purred and ran his tail to her shoulder. "I missed you and I have something to tell you." He gazed at her with his smokey hazel eyes.
"Did they find out who's having your kits?" he asked gentley. She looked up, startled.
"H-how did y-you know, Rapier?" she stammered, looking away into the distance.
"I know when my mate is expecting kits," he meowed. She looked at him with all the love in the world. StarClan, how can this be against the warrior code when it feels so.......right? she thought in dispair. Rapier shifted, purring as he pressed closer to her. She didn't pull way as she wondered what her Clan would think of her now. And the deputy was her friend, Stargaze. What would she think?
"Silverstorm!" Rapier growled, bringing her attention nack to him, his muscles rippling under his dark brown spotted pelt.
"Rapier! I can't do this! What if LightningClan found out? You have to join the Clan! You have to!" she screeched suddenly. He looked so scared of her she let the fur on her shoulders lay flat.
"What if they find out? I can't keep you a secret forever, Rapier," she breathed, leaning against him while listening to the forest fall asleep.
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The pains woke her up. They felt like a badger's claws were ripping through her flank. She knew it was the kits coming, but they weren't due for another moon!
"Shinestream! The kits are coming!" Silverstorm yowled. She heard the other queens stir and huddle the kits to the second level of the nursery. Shinestream and Wavepaw came in, herbs wrapped in bundles. They exchanged a weary look that Silverstorm knew meant it was going to be a long night. A contraction shook her flank and they shook her until the sun's blood red rays touched the middle of camp. She felt a bundle finally slide into the nest. It was really small. It was pale silver and had blue eyes, like hers.
"Morningkit," she breathed, looking at the she-cat as Shinestream licked her fur the wrong way.
She yowled in pain as a sharp contraction shook her exhausted body and prayed to StarClan. Oh StarClan she's been born too early! Please let her live, oh StarClan please! I love her already! she thought desperatly. A breeze tickled her ear tufts as she looked around, another contraction shaking her. She knew the nursery was so snug no breeze could get in here, but a sweet scent touched her nose.
"You will have your kit, my dear........." whispered a she-cat in her ear, then it was gone. Silverstorm knew it had been her mother, having suffered an early birth as well.
She knew the kitting was over she would love her with all her heart, enough for her and Rapier. She could feel Rapier's sleek fur as she licked Morningkit's fur. Nuzzling her beautiful kit to her belly, she looked up to the brightening sky.
"Oh, StarClan, thank you," she meowed softly, looking at her kit again. She loved her so much....... Morningkit was born a moon early, but she would survive. Shinestream and Wavepaw purred at another's night hard work, but their expressions were fake, Silverstorm knew. They knew the kit may not survive the night; it was so small. Silverstorm knew her kit would survive till the end of LightningClan
The results of the poll are in............
Jayfeather's Power~9 votes *WINNER*
Lionblaze's Power~0 votes lol
Dovepaw's Power~7 votes
Fly~3 votes
Read minds~3 votes
Control Other Cats~1 vote
Other~1 vote
There you have it! the majority of people on this blog would want Jayfeather's power! I voted for Jayfeather's powers because I'm extremely curious and so are all of you. But don't forget curiosity killed the cat.........................
This is the nursery. Its entrace is the cave that is the closest to the ground. There is a series of ledges that allow queens and kits to climb to the second level of this two-leveled den. This makes it easier to defend against enemies and helps protect the queens and kits during an attack. Comment here if you are expecting kits or think your kits are ready to be apprenticed.The results of the poll is in...........
Jayfeather~20 votes *winner*
Hollyleaf~5 votes
Lionblaze~5 votes
There you have it! Jayfeather is the most lovable cat out of the cats destined to have the stars in their paws. With his always annoyed attitude, we always find him lovable and cuddley even if he's as prickely as a thorn bush sometimes. I personally voted for Jayfeather and so did Tornadostar. A new poll will be up shortly.
"Tornadostar, what should we do? asked Stargaze, looking intently at her leader. "These kits were just abandoned. A rouge probably abandoned them to the foxes. It's obvious that the mother doesn't care" The leader of LightningClan looked at her paws, thinking as lightning swirled in her silver eyes.
"I know, and they will be raised as LightningClan kits. Woodfur shall replace their mother. She has plenty of milk after Mousekit and Cloudkit died," meowed Tornadostar. Leopardshadow stepped forward, tipping her head to one side.
"What if the fox comes back? The kits left a trail of milk leading to the camp. What if it follows the scent?" the head warrior asked, giving her chest fur a few conscious licks.
"Not likely," growled Stargaze, narrowing her blue eyes at the mottled she-cat. "And if it does, we'll show that Clan kits aren't such easy prey." She dug her unsheathed claws into the ground.
"Well, we have decided who is to suckle the kits, but what will their names be?" demanded Tornadostar. Stargaze and Leopardshadow starred at her as if she had grown an extra head.
"N-names," stammered Stargaze. "Shouldn't Woodfur decide that?" Leopardshadow nodded in agreement,
"No, we will decide right now. Any suggestions?" the black she-cat growled. She looked expectantly at her deputy and head warrior. "Well?"
"The little tortoiseshell-black-and-white one should be Wildkit. The golden tabby----" began Stargaze, but Leopardshadow interrupted her.
"---the golden tabby Sunkit. Lastly, the brown tabby with lighter markings, Lilykit," finished Leopardshadow, glaring defiantly at Stargaze with blazing amber eyes.
"Fine names, you two. I address LightningClan from Overhang Rock and inform them," meowed Tornadostar, dismissing the two she-cats with an elegant sweep of her tail.
Tornadostar, Stargaze, her apprentice Dazzlepaw, and Leopardshadow were patrolling the borders. The musky scent of upturned leaf-litter hung in the air like mist on a cold morning on the moorland. Dazzlepaw tasted the air on Stargaze's command to practice her scenting skills when she looked at Tornadostar, bewildered.
"I smell milk," she meowed, confused. "How can that be?" The she-cat looked at the LightningClan leader.
"Impossible," growled Tornadostar, tasting the air herself. Her silver eyes widened in amaze. "Dazzlepaw's right. I do smell milk." Stargaze look taken aback. How could there be the scent of milk when there was queens in the nursery at the time?
The patrol of cats followed the scent around a path formed by countless moons of paws. The scent ended at the Great Oak and all the cats sniffed around the roots of the tree, trying to pick the scent up again. Stargaze smelled the lightest trace of a sweet scent with a horrid smell almost covering it up completely. "Fox!" she growled, beckoning the rest of the patrol over with her tail. "I found the scent, but it's covered with fox scent."
"What? Fox?" meowed Tornadostar, inhaling and drawing the scents of the forest into her opened mouth. Suddenly, a thin wailing sound sounded from further in the forest.
"It sounds like it came from Moss Rock," hissed Leopardshadow, taking off, the patrol hot on her tail. The LightningClan leader held her tail up to tell the cats to stop. Dazzlepaw saw the signal too late and crashed into Stargaze, her mentor.
"Mousebrain!" she hissed at the pale ginger apprentice. The apprentice shuffled her paws in the dirt, ashamed.
"The milk scent is freshest over here," stated Leopardshadow just as the wailing sounded again, causing them all to jump.
"It's kits!" meowed Stargaze, racing the last few fox-lengths to Moss Rock and looking for the old fox den an earlier patrol had reported to her about. The wails for help were coming from inside that den and she was going to save those kits!
Tornadostar and the rest of the patrol dashed over to the fox den, glaring at the LightningClan deputy. The deputy wedged herself down into the den, which was about a tail-length long. She saw three kits huddled against the dirt wall, terrified as she wiggled toward them.
"It's okay," she soothed. "Is there anymore of you?"
"No!" squeaked the boldest of the litter; a tortoiseshell-black-and-white with green eyes. "But a fox was here day ago. We hid inside a crack in the big mossy rock."
"Come on," meowed Stargaze, pushing the kits out the entrance of the fox den.
Tornadostar looked horrified that three kits would be in a fox den and they looked about 2 moons old. Leopardshadow took a light brown and white kit in her mouthed and started to camp. Tornadostar took the little tortoiseshell and Stargaze took a little golden tabby gingerly in her jaws. They slowly made their way to camp, where Shinestream was waiting, warned by Dazzlepaw. The ginger apprentice had run ahead of the patrol to tell the Clan about their findings. They dropped the kits off in the medicine cat den and went to talk in Tornadostar's den.
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