Gingerheart's Prophecy

Chapter 12

Oakstripe limped low to the ground, padding over to Hailfall. He smiled sinisterly. Hailfall opened her eyes and jumped up, scared of the sight from her mate. "Oakstripe? Are you ok?" Oakstripe laughed maniacally. "Oh, it will be perfect when I kill you, then Oakstripe will feel grief." Suddenly Gingerheart bursts out of nowhere, tackling Oakstripe to the ground. Oakstripe slashed Gingerheart's leg, sending her slamming into the ground from the pain. "Oakstripe, she's your mate, fight Darkscar." Oakstripe snarled at Gingerheart. "I'll kill you next!" He whirled around and raised a paw at Hailfall. His paw twitched, then his head twitched. His whole body was twitching now. "No! This is impossible! How are you fighting me?!" Suddenly Oakstripe fell to the ground, having a seizure. Gingerheart looked across Oakstripes body, and saw a ghostly cat. He had dark brown eyes, and was snarling. "You will never defeat me! I am more powerful than you, you are already hurt!" Gingerheart stood up and limped over to Darkscar. She hissed at him. "Then catch me if you can!" She swiftly ran outside into the dense forest. She heard Darkscar was after her from his paws pounding behind her. She forced herself to run faster, she dodged trees and ferns and bushes, gaining speed and agility faster than Darkscar. She leaped onto a tree and quickly climbed up and sat there. Darkscar padded into view and Gingerheart saw the long scar running down his back. If she could claw it open, he would instantly be dead. She saw him covering the scar with he's skinny tail. She looked at her tail, fluffy. She scratched off a price of bark and threw it in another tree, hearing the clunk echo. Darkscar whipped around and looked up a random tree. "Your scar looks pretty big Darkscar." Her voice echoed throughout the forest, making it useless to track her down. Darkscar looked at every tree, and finally he came to her tree. She crouched low on her branch, and stalked to the end of it. She looked down at Darkscar. Her pelt camoflauged her perfectly, her Ginger pelt like the trees, and her forest green eyes like the leaves.

Darkscar looked around for the she-cat, he was fearful in the forest, he was better in open spaces. Suddenly he was rammed into the ground by a force. He felt searing pain as he turned his head to see blood pouring down from his scar. His gasped but coughed as he lost air and blood. His eyes rolled to the back of his head, and he slowly faded away. Gingerheart looked down at her bloody paws, and she winced. She padded over to the river and washed her paws. She didn't feel the pain in her leg until then. She waded into the river more and washed the blood coming from her leg. She limped back to camp and was greeted by the whole clan. They cheered for her when she walked to the medicine den. She looked confused at Silverleaf. "They heard you saved Oakstripe. You saved StarClan as well." She cleaned up her leg and Blacktail padded in. He licked his mates ears and purred. The clan looked at Gingerheart expectantly. Gingerheart backed into a corner and looked frightened. Blacktail and Silverleaf looked to the clan. "Give her some space! Don't you have duties to do?! Your deputy is fine now!" Oakstripe appeared in the midst of the commotion and started saying patrols for every cat.