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I am Sparrowstar! Welcome to Rainclan. This clan is a little different. In this clan we post like a round robin or something like that. Please, please join! Oh, and when you do, please do a description either in your writing or separate (like putting Gender: ___ Pelt: ___, etc.).
As the tan tabby she-cat climbed out of her den, drops of rain began to fall. Her golden eyes surveyed her empty camp.
"Please! If anyone can hear me! Please help! Make my clan, my once great clan, my Rainclan, great again! Help me!" Her eyes filled with sorrow, she shook the rain off and walked back to her den, trying not to remember. Remember the horrible attack, the attack that had killed her whole clan when she was only 10 moons, just barely a warrior. In the space of ten days she had become leader, being the last available cat to become deputy after nearly all were killed. After Blackstar had been killed, she was the only one left alive. She shook the thoughts from her head. That was 10 moons ago and she still didn't have a clan! "I'm was going to have to fix that." She thought. "Please, Starclan! Help me!"
submitted by Sparrowstar
(December 13, 2009 - 7:28 pm)
(December 13, 2009 - 7:28 pm)
Rainpelt answered to Eaglepaw, "Sure! Lets go." He padded out of camp with Eaglepaw following.
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Silvermoon finished licking her kits clean."Now you two behave," she said. Sweetkit bounced out of the den. Her brother didn't, so she went on without him. When she got to the medicine cat's den, she stoped. Maybe the medicine cat could tell her about her weird dream. It was scary. She shivered. Sweetkit padded inside and looked around for the medicine cat.
(February 10, 2010 - 2:02 pm)
Windflash was lightly dozing in her nest. She smelt a kit, so she turned towards her.
"Hello, Sweetkit! What brought you to the medicine cat den this lovely morning?" The she-cat was unusually cheery towards kits. "Summerpaw! Soon, we must go and gather some parsley and water moss. Come quickly!"
(February 10, 2010 - 11:59 pm)
Sweetkit shivered. "Well, I-I had this dream last night and a StarClan cat came to me and said, there will be a battle and many will be lost forever. I saw cats fighting and dead ones, t-too." Sweetkit shuddered in fear. "What does it mean, Windflash?"
(February 11, 2010 - 8:35 pm)
Sweetkit remembered somthing about the dream, then. She spoke. "Oh, and I remember they were fighting badgers, and I jumped at one, but I went right through it." She shivered again.
(February 11, 2010 - 8:37 pm)
She bounded forward with herbs sticking to her pelt. "Ok, Windflash! Why don't we go at sunhigh? Oh, hi there!" she mewed when she saw Sweetkit.
(February 11, 2010 - 8:45 pm)
"Ok, Summerpaw. Sweetpaw, I think what was in that herb you ate as a tiny kit made that dream. When you are apprenticed, you might become Summerpaw's apprentice. Or you will become leader when you're older."
(February 11, 2010 - 9:10 pm)
Sweetkit gasped. "WHAT? But what does the dream mean? And what does eating one ordinary herb have to do with dreams and being a leader or medicine cat?"
(February 12, 2010 - 10:42 pm)
Sparrowstar padded slowly out of her den, Hawkstripe at her side, as always. Her stomach was huge with kits. She could tell they would come within a few days.
"Rainpelt," she called for her deputy, motioning for him with a flick of her tail. "You are now temporary leader. My kits are coming within the next few days. Please take care or Rainclan." she smiled and walked off to talk to Windflash.
"Great Starclan, I'm tired!" She sighed as she carefully layed down inside Windflash's den. "Windflash, would it be easiest for me to have kits in the nursery or my den?" With a slight gasp, she pressed her paw to her belly. "These kits sure are eager to move around." She grimaced "Anyway, which one would be better? My den would be more private, but would-" she yawned, "you prefer-" another yawn, "the nursery?" She purred with pleasure. "It's so cool and quiet in here . . ." Her words trailed off as her head sank to her paws and she fell asleep.
(February 13, 2010 - 11:43 am)
Windflash sat down. This was going to be a long discussion. "I think that your dream meant that badgers will attack this camp, of a Clan called BadgerClan, or a cat name Badger. Later tonight, after Summerpaw and I have collected our herbs, then I will travel to moon pool to find out more. Actually, you should ask Sparrowstar. She knows a lot more than I do about this herb." With that, windflash called to Summerpaw and the two left to camp looking for herbs.
(February 13, 2010 - 12:04 pm)
Sparrowstar ran through a dark forest, carrying something in her mouth. She couldn't tell what it was, but she knew it was incredibly important. Thorns and sticks stabbed at her stomach from all sides. She knew that if she dropped the bundle in her mouth, they would stop, but she couldn't leave whatever she was carrying behind. The pain was horrible. Thorns ripped into her sides. She wanted to stop, but she could tell that if she stopped, the thorns would consume her. She whimpered. She couldn't go one! Then a voice called her.
"Sparrowstar! Sparrowstar!" Sparrowstar blinked in the bright afternoon sunlight. It had been a dream! But, she thought, if I'm awake now, why is the pain still here!! Hawkstripe and Windflash stood over her, looking concerned.
"Sparrowstar?! Are you all right?" Windflash asked.
"M- My kits!" she moaned. A sharp pain shot though her stomach. She gasped and pressed her paw to her stomach again. "Windflash! They're coming!" Her stomach quivered as pain again shot through her. She yowled. I would gladly take the thorns! The pain continued well into the evening without a single kits coming. No amount of herbs Windflash could give her helped at all. Shrieks rang eerily throughout camp. Deep into the night, Sparrowstar yowled. She tried to keep quiet, but yowls burst from her lungs. Hawkstripe looked on helplessly.
"Windflash? What do we do?!"
(February 13, 2010 - 12:17 pm)
Windflash answered with a question, "Have you thrown up any of the herbs?"
"N-no" She wailed. Windflash then turned and spoke quietly and hurriedly to Summerpaw.
"Summerpaw, you need to go to moonpool. Run as fast as you can, and don't stop to hunt. If you see StarClan, ask them what is happening to Sparrowstar. Go now, and run!" Windflash ordered her apprentice. The young cat ran out into the territory, going straight to Moonpool, which was thankfully close. (Hopefully kinda playing you is alright, Summerpaw!) Summerpaw ran and ran. After what seemed like to her lungs a millennium, she stopped. She had reached Moonpool. The small cat ran down to the pool, her lungs protesting, and lapped up a mouthful of the clean water. Almost right away, she was immersed by water. A silver StarClan cat showed her the way to a small cave. Summerpaw was loosing air now, so she followed the shining cat. Soon, they came to the cave. As soon as she surfaced, she saw shining algae. The bright cat, almost gone, nodded, and a picture of Sparrowstars weak state flashed in her mind. Of course! The algae would heal Sparrowstar! As she exited the cave, she remembered that she had no idea where she was. Another StarClan cat, this one brown, lead her out. when she left the clear water, she saw right away where she was. It was the stream tunnel, where they had been gathering herbs that day. Summerpaw woke up, and dashed off, back to camp, and was back with in five minutes.
"Well?" Windflash inquired.
"I will be right back. No time for talk." Summerpaw left almost as soon as she entered, staying long enough only to mutter those simple words. She ran to the tunnel stream, and entered. Summerpaw found herself in the same place she dreamt of. She swam, and found the algae cave. The young cat grabbed a mouthful, sticking it under her chin, and grabbed another for her mouth. Summerpaw swam back to the entrance, and ran back to camp. The algae was still wet when she got back. The small cat handed the herb to her mentor, and her mentor nodded and fed the algae to their leader. Almost right away, Sparrowstar started getting better. Her first kit started coming, and it all went smoothly from there.
WHEW! That took a LONG while. I would have said more about the kitting, but it's long enough as it is.
(February 13, 2010 - 10:50 pm)
"Sunnypelt, where are we?" wailed a rather young apprentice. "Almost there, Greypaw, almost there...." Sunnypelt answered under her breath. "Where are we going? Where's my mother?!" complained Greypaw frantically. "Greypaw, let's get out of this rain and I will explain everything." The pair found a hollow tree and cuddled together to keep warm, as Sunnypelt explained about the devastating badger attack while they were collecting herbs. About how Greypaws mother followed to watch how her son was doing as a medicine cat apprentice when she gave up her life to protect her son's. Both grieved for her and sent prayers to StarClan until Sunnypelt told Greypaw that they had to leave. She just had a message from StarClan that a she-cat was having kits and needed their help close by.They jumped out of the hollow tree and raced together toward the source. They got to a clan and explained why they were there to the clan leader, Sparrowstar.
(February 14, 2010 - 10:52 pm)
"Sparrowstar!" Sweetkit yowled as she raced over to her. "Are you okay? Are your kits coming?" Sweetkit stared at the kitting she-cat, her leader.
Rainpelt sat with her. Sweetkit, don't worry, she'll survive," he meowed, his voice shaking nervously. Silvermoon sat next to him and nodded. "Y-yes, she'll be okay." she wasn't so sure, though. Sweetkit's brother was staring at Sparrowstar, too. "I hope she'll be okay," he mewed. Sweetkit shook. What if her dream would come true right now? Thant would be horrible! Sparrowstar surely wouldn't have a chance if that happened! All of a sudden, she heard some faint noises in the distance. She crouched in fear as she thought what it could be. The sound slowly got louder. Sweetkit could hear it better. It sounded like...like dozens of monsters were coming. Rainpelt heard it, too. "Do you hear that?" He growled. "What?" Silvermoon meowed. Then, she heard it, too. "Great StarClan," she meowed. "What is that sound?" Sweetkit wanted to know. Except, she could almost hardly move. She shook herself. Then, she darted away from the small group around Sparrowstar. She padded out of camp and saw some kind of large, lumbering animals. A whole group of them. A HUGE group of them. She froze in fear as the mean looking, large animals turned toward her. They fixed their tiny, gleaming eyes on her. Her instinct was to RUN and to run NOW. But she couldn't. She just couldn't. She was WAY to afraid. She let out a small gasp as they started to lumber toward her. Now she absolutly HAD to run. She shook her head and started running. She ran into camp and screetched, "WE'RE BEING UNDER ATTAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!" Her parents and brother froze completely. "What?" Silvermoon whispered in fear. "Are-are we really?" Rainpelt dashed outside of the camp and saw the badgers as soon as he got out. He raced back in and also screetched, "IT'S TRUE! WE'RE BEING UNDER ATTACK!" He ran over to Sparrowstar and started to drag her toward the nursery. He dragged the queen inside and went out yowling, "SOMEONE GUARD THE NURSERY! NOW!" The huge group of badgers lumbered in camp quickly and strarted to attack Silvermoon and the others. Rainpelt raced over to his shivering kits and picked them up. He raced over to the nursery and threw them inside. "Now stay there, and I mean it," he growled. Sweetkit didn't know what to think. Her dream HAD come true, and she had to help. She thought she knew what she had to do. It wasn't going out to fight, it was going to the moonpool and asking StarClan to make it stop. Of course, she didn't know that StarClan couldn't stop the badgers from destroying from camp, but she snuck out of camp anyway. Her brother had tried to tell her not to, but she refused to listen. Since she did not know where the Moonpool was, she scented her way there. Whaen she got there, after what seemed like forever, she saw it. She gasped at the beautiful spakling pool in front of her. Sweetkit raced forward. She bent her head and licked up a mouthful of water. Then she lay down, relaxed, and fell asleep. Sweetkit awoke in the middle of a lush forest. This must be were StarClan lives, she thought.Then, a she-cat with starry fur walked over to her. "What is the problem, young one?"she asked. "M-my clan..." Sweetkit whispered. She stopped. She was to scared. "I know why you are here," the she-cat said. "Your clan is under the attack of badgers." "Y-yes," Sweetkit mewed shakily. "We need help, or everyone will die. "Sweetkit," the she-cat meowed. "I am afraid there is nothing we can do to help your clan. All I can do is tell you to be brave and belive in yourself." "Sweetkit tried to protest, but the cat faded away. "NO!" She yowled. "DON'T GO! PLEASE!" Sweetkit awoke with a jolt. She was back beside the Moonpool, gasping with fear. She ran back to her clan camp. Sweetkit ran back into the nursery, trying not to be noticed. She sat and thought for a moment. There were many scretches of pain. What was she going to do?
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This took FOREVER!!!
(February 15, 2010 - 9:32 pm)
Summerpaw dipped her head to her mentor, but suddenly her blood froze as she saw the badgers. "I'll guard the nursery, or I can stay here and help heal the injured," she prompted.
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Eaglepaw plunged into the battle, raking the ears of one of the badgers so hard that it screetched in pain and retreated. Another one knocked her down with a massive paw, but Eaglepaw bit it's leg hard enough to make it rear up with pain. She managed to escape just at that moment and race away, the badger roaring in rage behind her. She then almost became dizzy with all the badgers in the camp, then suddenly saw Sweetkit. "Go into the nursery, now!" she ordered. She sighed in relief as Summerpaw carried her there, before planted herself in front, slashing any badger that came close. Summerpaw then found Rainpelt and yowled to him as another badger hissed. "We need help from another Clan! The badgers are too powerful! Maybe LakeClan will help!"
(February 16, 2010 - 11:18 am)
Rainpelt growled at a badger and ran at it. He scratched it on the leg. It yowled in pain and tried to scratch him, but he doged away.
Silvermoon gasped as a huge badger knoked her off her feet. She yowled. "HELP ME!" The badger lunger his claws at her neck, but she rolled away. She tried to get up, but he pinned her down. "HELP!"
Sweetkit sat, thinking. This was horrible! What would happen now?
(February 16, 2010 - 9:44 pm)