Warriors: Freckedleaf's Past

Chapter 9

Freckledpaw sat in her den crying, and traumatised. Steelpaw walked in, as he had seen her upset leaving the clan leaders den and was worried about her. Not knowing the situation, he sat next to her and asked, "Hey, are you okay?" He mewed to the crying Freckledpaw, gently nudging her shoulder with his nose.

"I- I just witnessed my own brother... Murdering my mentor..." She mewed tears continuing to roll down her now wet fur. The two remained in the medicine den; Steelpaw trying to comfort the visibly upset Freckledpaw until Jaguarstar called a meeting, upon which they exited the den to attend it.
Jaguarstar mewed loudly through the dens, as he walked to Tall rock,

"Let all cats old enough to catch prey gather beneath Tallrock for a Clan meeting."
As all the cats gathered around including Freckledpaw and Steelpaw, who sat as far from Cloudcream as possible, the leader meowed,

"I have called you here today to make a sad announcement - Maplestripe, the medicine cat...is dead," the clan gasped and some bowed there head for the fallen clanmate.

"There was a witness to her death." He said looking at Freckledpaw,

"Come on up," he whispered to her.
Freckledpaw stood up and went onto the rock,

"I am... a witness to Maplestripe's death. It is worse than that, however, as I also knew it was going to happen a few days prior... as I received a prophecy from starclan..."

Freckledpaw continued on, ignoring the glares and whispers of her clan mates who were now whispering

"If she knew, why didn't she say anything?"

"The prophecy said 'A cat of your kin, Betrays the code, Murders the one you call mentor, Exile them fast before they kill more...'" she said reciting the verse.
The whispers changed again to one of understanding,

"Well I would not have understood that either!"

"I only understood what it meant when I saw Maplestripe missing and I went to find her as I was worried because of what the prophecy had said. So, I ran to find-" she choked on her last few words...

"Cloudcream, murdering her..."
She got off the rock and headed towards Steelpaw, where she proceeded to cry into Steelpaws shoulder.

"I think this gives us enough reason to, Exile Cloudcream," Jaguarstar whispered to his deputy,

"By the words of Starclan prophesy, we herby Exile you from windclan, for murder. If we ever see you on our territory again, we will kill you!" Freckledwish decreed, not wanting to kill him outright as he had been a valuable warrior until now. Cloudcream accepted his fate and allowed a few warriors to chase him off the territory.

"Because our medicine cat has died, Freckledpaw as you were Maplestripes apprentice and there are no others, you will be promoted to be the new Medicine cat of Windclan. As of now, your new name shall be Freckledwish. I give you this name as you experienced your mentors death by your own brothers paws, you would certainly would of wished to unsee that, thus the name, Freckledwish!"
The clan cheered then on Freckledwish's name. Freckledwish gave a watery smile and nodded her head before burying it again in Steelpaws shoulder.