Secrets Revealed

Moonleaf slammed into a black, muscular cat. Glinting silver eyes were glazed with exhaustion as blue eyes met silver.

"Tornadostar," she gasped. "I found you!" The former LightningClan leader heaved her off.

"Moonleaf, you great lump! I'm so glad to see you!" she purred. Moonleaf overlooked her; she looked weak and thin.

"What happened to you, Tornadostar?" she whispered. Tornadostar looked into the forest beyond Moonleaf and sighed.

"I will tell you. Come." She beckoned with her tail underneath a low hanging rock and began to tell her tale.

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Gazestar padded into the apprentices den. Stars reflected in her eyes.

"Lilypaw! Sunpaw!" she hissed quietly, acknowledging that other soon-to-be warriors were also resting. Her beautiful kits raised their heads groggily.

"Who is it?" mumbled Lilypaw, squinting into the darkness, her green eyes flashing silver in the moonlight shining through the foliage.

"It's Gazestar. Come with me," the LightningClan leader said quietly. Lilypaw heaved herself to her paws, ears flicking in confusion. She prodded her littermate with a paw.

"Sunpaw! Get up!" she hissed, waking up Sunpaw.

"What gives!?" Sunpaw complained loudly.

"Shhhhh!" growled Gazestar. The two apprentices followed silently as she guided them into the forest. Leaves crunched silently underpaw as three cats almost identical made it through the moonlight, lithe, graceful shapes silver in the moonshine. When they were where no cat could hear them, Gazestar sat, curling her tails neatly over her blue-gray paws.

"There is something I have to tell you." She sighed, looking at her paws.

"WHY IN STARCLAN'S NAME HAVE YOU DRAGGED US OUT HERE!" screeched Sunpaw, cranky she wasn't curled up in her warm nest.

"I-I..." her voice faltered as a very familiar scent washed over her. "NO!" A low, malicious laugh filled the silent night. Yellow eyes flashed in the dark as the shadows melted into a muscular pitch-black tom. Gazestar leaped in front of her kits.

"Are you going to tell them you're their mother?" asked the tom.

"What about that you're their father!" spat Gazestar at the DarkClan leader.

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Darkshadow jumped as the yowl of his mate cut the quiet air of the camp.

"TORNADOSTAR!"

"Shhhhh! It's okay, Lopardshadow! I love you! Tornadostar is probably alive. Let's go back to sleep."Leopardshadow was violently shaking in fear. Her dreams were all nothingness......were her kits safe?

"The kits are okay?" she inquired. Her mate nodded in comfort and curled around her protectively.

"It's all okay!" he insisted sleepily. Leopardshadow settled down again, her shiny fur flat. Soon she was asleep, but her mate's promises of her kits safeness still didn't keep the nightmares away....

Charredfeather: Patrols, please:)

Leapordshadow: You are soon to become the next Head Warrior!