Fireclan by Bravefoot LODO (free e books to read .txt) 📕

Bravekit ran towards his best friend "Sparrowstrike!" he youled brushing his pelt to the newly warrior's "I'm so happy for you!", Sparrowstrike smiled and licked kindly the kit's ears and puffed his chest proudly "that's right!" and looked jokingly to Lilypaw and Mousepaw "I'm a warrior now!And you shall give me respect", both apprentices rolled their eyes, and Bravekit started to laugh. His father approach them to congratulate Sparrowstrike, Lionclaw touched noses with the brown tom "congratulations, Sparrowstrike. I'm sure you will be a very good warrior", Sparrowpaw dipped his head to the ginger senior warrior, he was a warrior now too, but still he had to respect older ones! Sparrowstrike then padded near Stormblaze, the deputy smiled at him as his former apprentice sat to talk with him. Bravekit sat down to groom his pelt, Lionclaw still taking an eye on him. Tigerstripe walked in the nursery after purring to her mate, Lionclaw then gazed Bravekit "I'm going to a hunting patrol, I will bring you a juicy mouse!" Bravekit jumped excited "yay!" he squeaked, his father chuckled and headed for the camp exit, Bravekit saw as Birchflame and Silvercliff followed.

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Bravekit heard cats entering the camp, and he looked back as his father and the other two warriors returned from hunting, Lionclaw was carring three mices by their tails, Bircflame was carryng a squirrel and Silvercliff two voles. Bravekit ran to greet his father, Lionclaw purred and dropped two of his preys to the fresh kill pile "take this one, is the best one, I caught it specially for you and your mother!" Lionclaw spoke as he dropped a gigantic fat mouse near Bravekit, Bravekit thanked the warrior and started to drag it slowly to the nursery "it is so heavy!" he grunted. Sparrowstrike saw his friend in difficulty "may I help?" Bravekit saw as Sparrowstrike carried the mouse to the nursery near Tigerstripe, the kit thanked him and sat down to eat, sharing it with her mother. After they finished Bravekit heard Ashstar's loud youl, he popped out of the nursery as warriors padded near them and, leaded by Ashstar and Stormblaze, padded out of camp "where are they going?" he asked to his mother,"to the Gathering at the Roundstone, is a place at the center of all the three clans boundaries. At the Gathering time, is a night of truce, where the three leaders share their news, but they must not argue or fight, Starclan will always watch on them, especially at this times" Bravekit nodded "it seems interesting! Why can't I go?", Tigerstripe sighed "you can go from when you become an apprentice" Bravekit layed down "oh" he sighed, his mother licked his back "you have just to be patient, just wait three more moons and you can become one", Bravekit sighed "but is a long time!" he retorted and closed his eyes to sleep.

Lionclaw widened his eyes, the full moon was glittering on his clanmates pelts, one by one, they entered the clearing around Roundstone, the ancient silver rock from where the three leaders speak was the symbol of their truce. Lionclaw twitched his ears, as they entered, every cat of Leopardclan gazed at them and some started to whisper something,how much he wanted to just rip their fur out of them! Lionclaw saw as calmly Ashstar greeted Silverstar and Spottedstar before sitting near them on the Roundstone; Lionclaw definately saw Spottedstar looking at his leader tornly, but Ashstar didn't see it, or maybe he didn't even care about it. He felt Briarheart sitting near him "I bet Spottedstar will say how brave her two warriors were on our fight!" she hissed, Lionclaw nodded "do you think she will take that stripe of our territory as Leopardclan's?", Briarheart sighed "maybe, I just hope Ashstar won't let that happen very easily, I don't want the other clan to think we are weak!" Lionclaw understood her very clearly and took a deep breath. He lashed his tail to say bye to Briarheart and sat near a group of Rainclan warriors, he could identify Foxtail, Thistlepelt and Dustfur talking to a bunch of Leopardclan apprentices, "we still didn't find Ivykit, but one of our patrol found a trail of the kit's scent directing for Leopardclan territory, does any of you know something about it?" the ginger warrior asked to the apprentices, all three of the young cats shook their heads, fear in their eyes, are they saying the truth? Lionclaw asked to himself and wondered if Leopardclan was so desperate of warriors to steal even a kit, or maybe for something else... A youl from the Roundstone roared to the clearing, all the cats stopped immediately to speak and sat down near the Roundstone, Lionclaw sat between Whitefur and Silvercliff. The first to speak, as for the oldest , was Ashstar "welcome, cats of all clans, to this Gathering! Silverstar, would you like to start?", the silver pelted leader nodded "prey in Rainclan is running well, we also have plenty of water, this greenleaf is doing good for us" the she cat stopped and sighed "as you all may know, Ivykit has disappeared now from more than one moon, one of our patrol early this quarter of a moon founded a scent trail of the kit towards Leopardclan territory" Silverstar looked to Spottedstar "Spottedstar, in name of Starclan, do you know something?", Lionclaw saw desperation in the Rainclan's leader eyes and he felt pity for her, otherwise, Spottedstar's gaze was cold and firm as she shook her head "Leopardclan is sorry for what happened, but we know nothing Silverstar", Silverstar nodded and dipped slightly her head. Ashstar broke those moments of silence "Fireclan has plenty of preys and water as well. Also, today, a new warrior was made, Sparrowpaw will be known as Sparrowstrike from now on" all cats youled his name "Sparrowstrike!Sparrowstrike!" and Lionclaw saw as the new warrior smiled to himself, he looked back at his leader, but to his surprise Ashstar had back off to let Spottedstar share her clan's news how couldn't he talked about the fight?! Lionclaw hissed to himself. Spottedstar lashed her tail "the same is as in Leopardclan: we have plenty of prey and nothing to worry about the water" Lionclaw saw an evil look on her face, she was for talking about the fight! "More or less one moon ago, my patrol had to fight one from Fireclan" Lionclaw felt his fur bristle you foxdung!, Spottedstar smiled contemply "for sure, Leopardclan won and now that stripe of Fireclan territory is ours!", many shocked and surprised mews came from Fireclan and Rainclan, in the other hand every cat of Leopardclan was smiling of victory, especially Cougarheart and Jaggedtooth. Lionclaw steadly stanted Jaggedtooth looking on him, the foe warrior had a blind eye now, and Lionclaw felt a spark of happiness in his heart you won't easily forget that battle in a hurry! he said to himself, like Jaggedtooth read his thoughts he looked at him full of pure hate and desire of revenge, Lionclaw looked back at the leaders "Ashstar?" Silverstar spoke to the old tom, their leader has closed his eyes to think "that stripe is rightfully our territory Spottedstar! We will never let it to you, you just won a battle, not the whole war" many cheers came from Fireclan, Spottedstar curled her lip in a snarl and jumped off the Roundstone followed by her clan, Ashstar nodded "this gathering is at end! May Starclan always lighten your paths!" Lionclaw felt proudness for his leader and happiness at the same time, he looked as Silverstar purred and whispered to Ashstar something, curious he tried to go more near them but as he approached his leader padded out of the clearing and he had to follow him what was happening between Silverstar and Ashstar? he was thinking about this all the way back to the camp.

Lionclaw entered the camp after Ashstar and Stormblaze, the deputy was still limping from that fight. He saw Tigerstripe trot near them and Lionclaw brushed his pelt with hers, "what happened?" she asked sitting down, Lionclaw sighed "for sure, Spottedstar argued claiming that stripe of the territory as theirs", Tigerstripe opened her mouth in surprise "she didn't!" she squaked "what did Ashstar say?", Lionclaw looked at her "well, he didn't let that pass of course! He said this exact words "Spottedstar! You won a fight, not the whole war!" Lionclaw imitated the grumpy voice of Ashstar, his mate bursted into laugh "keep your vouce down!" she said "or Ashstar really hears you!", Lionclaw smiled. Tigerstripe took a deep sigh to recover from her silly mood "anyway, did Rainclan say something about Ivykiy?", Lionclaw nodded "Silverstar said a patrol had found a scent of the kit towards Leopardclan territory" at that saying Tigerstripe immidiately stopped licking her paw to concentrate on what Lionclaw was saying, "she begged for Spottedstar to tell her if her clan knew something about it, but..." "...but Spottedstar firmly replied she didn't know nothing" Tigerstripe quickly finished the sentence, Lionclaw looked at her puzzled, "what? Everyone knows how that cold hearted of Spottedstar acts", Lionclaw rolled his eyes and started to kindly lick her back.

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Lionclaw raised his head to watch at the full moon, the white and sparkling light was dancing in the sky, making it quite magical. Lionclaw nuzzled his mate whom fell asleep on his legs at the center of the camp, "Tigerstripe..." he whispered "wake up and go to the nursery to sleep, it is late now", Tigerstripe lazily got up and yawned nodding, showing her sharp fangs, she smiled at him "good night Lionclaw", Lionclaw purred "good night to you, and Bravekit as well", Tigerstripe smiled back, lashed her tail and walked back to the nursery. Minutes later, Stormblaze sat near, so silently, Lionclaw didn't heard him and nearly jumped "your awake?" he asked to Stormblaze, the deputy