Dark Shadows by Chocolatemeerkat (epub e ink reader .TXT) 📕

stared at the three cats. Gentlepaw mummered to Fernwhisker "You convince Cherrypaw and Ivyfur, while I talk to Blankpelt." The apprentice then approached her badly wounded friend. "The camp is going to be flooded any moment. Everyone is abandoning camp, but we are trying to figure out ways of getting all of the clan out. Are you coming?" Blankpelt shook his head. "No. I will only slow the clan down, and none of the healthy cats deserve to die. You know I'm dying anyway, so there's no point."
"I'm not leaving you!" Gentlepaw protested. "Wherever you go, I go! Even if it is to StarClan, I will still go!"
"No." Blankpelt croaked. "Go with the clan. They need you. I need you to go." Gentlepaw curled up beside the warrior and gazed at him. "I need you. You are the only reason I'm bothering to live!"
"That's not true." Blankpelt meowed, but he seemed touched.
A huge bang interrupted the conversation, and anxious voices turned into screams and yowls. Water started to come in and the slow rain was now a full working storm, with lighting and thunder to accompany it. Gentlepaw nudged Blankpelt to his paws. "If you refuse to come, I'm going to drag you out." She said. "Now come on!"
With Blankpelt leaning on her for support, Gentlepaw started to come out of the medicine den. Fernwhisker had already left with Cherrypaw and Ivyfur, but some warriors were still in camp, helping the older and younger members of the clan escape.
"Come on!" Treeclimb yelled, encouraging the elders onward. Nighteye and Breezefang were doing their best, whilst Silverclaw only sat and watched the floodwater.
Gentlepaw nudged Blankpelt along, but the water was now just above her paws. She then heard a deseprate cry for help coming from the nursery.
"That's Flamekit!" Blankpelt meowed. "We have to help him, or Ember will not be best impressed!"
Oh great.                                                                                                                                  Gentlepaw waded over to the kit, who was standing on the nursery roof. He then jumped and was luckily caught in Gentlepaw's jaws. The apprentice fought the current, and continued to help Blankpelt across. She could see that he was struggling as the water continued to rise. It was cold, making her legs throb and shiver.
They were halfway towards the rest of the clan when Blankpelt showed signs of weakness. The cold was getting to him, and he barely had enough strength to continue on. "Leave me." He muttered to Gentlepaw. "Go on. I'm only slowing you down."
"No!" Gentlepaw growled confidently. "No cat will be left behind!" Blankpelt just shook his head. "Silverclaw sacrifised herself. And now I will join her. But don't worry, I'll always be with you, amongst the ranks of StarClan. One day we will meet again." He pressed himself against Gentlepaw gently. "Goodbye, little one. May StarClan continue to light your path."
He then gave up swimming, and let himself sink. The brave, injured young warrior was dead.
Flamekit let out a thin, wailing cry of sorrow, whilst Gentlepaw realised that she could join Blankpelt in StarClan. So she stopped trying to escape.
The last thing she heard was "Gentlepaw!"

"She's been out for a little while now. Is the kit alright?"
"Flamekit? He's alive and well, Ember's looking after him. She's told me that he'll be ok."
"What was she thinking?"
Gentlepaw could hear voices around her. Am I dead? Have I gone to StarClan with Blankpelt? So she decided to find out by opening her eyes, but she was disappointed to see living cats talking, not her ancestors.
"She's alive." Puffinpaw sighed in relief. "Can you run through the missing or dead cats again, Morninghawk?" The deputy looked down and sighed. "Silverclaw, Blankpelt, Clawedear, Luckypaw is missing but not dead, Bearpelt is injured and Ivyfur is dead." She then sighed again. "Too many good cats have gone."
"Wait, Ivyfur's dead?" Gentlepaw asked, slowly sitting up. "I know that Blankpelt and Silverclaw died, but I didn't know about the others."
"Clawedear sacrisfised himself to save Duckfoot, Luckypaw ran off when he got to land, Bearpelt got stuck between some logs and complained about her back leg hurting and Ivyfur died protecting Streamtail from a boulder that came in with the floodwater and squashed her." Morninghawk explained. "But luckily for you, Sootfire came and saved you and Flamekit from drowning."
Sootfire? But he hates everyone! Unless... no, no! Gentlepaw thought anxiously. She then turned to Puffinpaw. "Has Shadowstar granted you a medicine cat name yet?"
"He has." Puffinpaw said with a smile. "My name is now Puffinwing." Gentlepaw grinned. "Congratulations!"
"Where are we?" Pigeonpaw asked, padding over to the newly named Puffinwing.
There was then a loud rustling in the bushes. Shadowstar gathered the clan behind him, trying to show whatever it was that the clan were still strong. To everyone's suprise, it was a small patrol of cats, but they were a different clan of cats.
"Who are you?" Shadowstar asked, crouching down.
"I am Swiftpath." One tom meowed. "You have tresspassed on EarthClan territory." EarthClan

Gentlepaw was confused. She had never heard of these cats, but how many clans were there that hadn't been discovered?
"I am Shadowstar, leader of SnowClan." Shadowstar introuduced himself. "Our camp has been destroyed in a flood. We are lost, hungry and cold."
"I see." Another cat meowed, looking over them. "Perhaps you might come back to our clan for a bit? We may be able to offer you some shelter, but you'll have to explain to Mosstar why you are on our territory."
These cats seem hositable enough. Gentlepaw thought to herself. This is a chance for us to meet new allies possibly!                                                                                                                                       "Come along." Couragefur said to the apprentice. "We're leaving now." Gentlepaw nodded and pulled herself up, following the rest of her clanmates towards the new territory.
"Is your clan very large?" Gentlepaw overheard Rainflower ask one of the warriors.
"Quite." The EarthClan cat told her. "Your clan is huge!" Rainflower only nodded her head and turned away. Gentlepaw noticed that she seemed a bit lost amongst new cats, so she went up to Duststorm. "Your sister doesn't look very happy." She annonced to him unhelpfully.
"I'm aware of that." Duststorm replied. "Ivyfur's death has unsettled her badly. They were good friends."
"Then why doesn't Fernwhisker care, despite she's known Ivyfur longer?" Gentlepaw questioned. Duststorm just shrugged until the ginger she-cat came over. "I heard my name. What did you want?"
"Do you care about Ivyfur's death?" Gentlepaw repeated. Fernwhisker let out a loud sigh. "Please don't bring up her name. She lied to the clan, and you really don't want to know."
"Alright." Gentlepaw decided to drop the subject and walk alongside Streamtail, who was troubled by his brother's death. "I'm sorry about Blankpelt." The white she-cat murmmered gently.
"He did what was right." Streamtail told her. "Blankpelt always went on about what a good friend you were to him, even when he had his injuries from the fox. I just want to thank you for being such a nice friend to him."
"My pleasure." Gentlepaw meowed kindly. Streamtail smiled at her warmly. "He was hoping that he would mentor you, but he was made a warrior on the same day you became a apprentice."
"Wildheart's a nice cat to have as a mentor, but Blankpelt would have been more fun." Gentlepaw sighed. Streamtail was silent for a bit, but continued talking. "We were talking about you, when the tribe stole you and Smokepaw. He wished that you would come back safely, so he could hear your gentle voice and kind words. He really did like you."
So that's why he sacrifised himself. He loved me. Gentlepaw thought to herself. I loved him. That's what the prophecy meant. Everything is begining to become clearer now.

 

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Publication Date: 04-05-2012

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