Rabbitspring's Fate

{* Chapter 15*}

Rabbitspring awoke in a foggy, grassy clearing. Trees swayed in the blood- scented wind. She looked around with tension prickling in her pelt. Where was she?

" Hello, Rabbitspring."

She looked up to see a matted grey tom glowering at her.

" Tatteredpaw?" She gasped.

She recognized the grey pelt of the EmberClan apprentice with a chill.

" I am Tatteredheart now. And Howlingstar has sent me to kill you."

Rabbitspring's pelt prickled with anger.

" Howlingstar? You mean the evil SunsetClan leader that died hundreds of years ago?!"

Tatteredheart didn't say anything, just kept glaring at her.

Before Rabbitspring could demand again, Tatteredheart leaped at her, throwing her to the ground so hard she could feel the blood dripping from her skull. Rabbitspring yowled and kicked at Tatteredheart. The grey tom didn't move, he sliced his claw over her shoulder, making a deep welt. Rabbitspring used all of her might to turn around and kicked the tom away a few paw steps.

"Why am I not in MapleClan camp?" She hissed.

Tatteredheart chuckled and sat down on the blood-stained earth.

" Because, NightClan needs you in our clan. You need to die for this clan to become great again." Rabbitspring hissed,

"I am great and I only killed Flurrysky because he deserved it, I'm not going to die, not yet." She growled, "Send a fox after me when my kits are a moon old, I don't care, but let my kits live."

Tatteredheart shrugged. " If that is what you want. But remember, you made a promise. You will never see your kits again after you die. Tigerwhisker will find someone else and have more kits, are you sure?"

Rabbitspring shook her head, "I don't want to die, I don't want Tigerwhisker to move on, I want to see my kits grow up to be great warriors. But one way or another ,NightClan will come after me. But I won't be in NightClan or AuroraClan, I believe I'm good and bad, if there is a Clan in between that's where I will be, and I'll meet you back in NightClan. But you won't let me see my kits grow up." Rabbitspring mewed.

" What do you mean a clan in between? There is no clan."

" Then I will make one, one for cats in trail who are good and bad at the sametime and don't know which one they belong to. If they are good, they will leave my Trail Clan and join AuroraClan. I will call it VortexClan."

"Whatever, to the point. Your right, NightClan won't let you live to see your kits grow up, but that is because of the grey flame, we could control the forest and AuroraClan"

"The grey flame...?" Rabbitspring echoed.

" Back twenty years ago, there was a prophecy called ' The Grey Flame' That one day those cats would save the cats from a looming danger ahead of the clans. We have to stop that. The cat who got the message was a medicine-cat by the name of Echomist, she is now in AuroraClan, but we have sent one of our cats to kill her, hoping that would stop the prophecy."

Rabbitspring looked down sadly. " Fine, I will help you, but once the prophecy is done, send me back to VortexClan."

" Fine, I will see you in one moon..."