Warrior Cats meets Transformers

chapter 5: squirrelflight acquired

" it's glad to finally be back" squirrelflight meowed gladfully as she laid down on her den in the nursery. she rolled over onto her back and stretched out her legs and tail, resting comfortably. daisy rested closely beside her, ferncloud was beside them preparing one of the nursery beddings for a newcomer.

" so, the twoleg kit just let you go?" daisy meowed curiously.

"Yep, which was great because i was too tired to come back to camp anyway. although..." squirrelflights memory shifted back to her encounter with the strange monsters.

" Although what?" daisy meowed

" You know the Thunderpath monsters?"

"yes"

" Well... uh.... their kinda like giant twolegs, one of them turned from a fourlegger to a twolegger right in front of me and let one of the twoleg kits inside them like it was their own kit or something"

"Really?" ferncloud looked back to squirrelflight, her interest peaked. 

" Yeah, it was weird."

"Well what else happened? did it try to eat you?" ivytail, another queen scooted over to hear more along with kinkfur, another queen.

"that's the thing, I went inside with the twoleg kit, and it didn't hurt us, just carried us over to the twoleg kits den."

"Well, what happened inside the twoleg kits den?" kinkfur asked.

" I spent the night with two kittypets, a kit and his caregiver, nothing too crazy. the food wasn't too good tho, but then again kittypet food never really tasted as good as a freshly caught mouse."

"Or frog" ivytail mewed, her mouthwatering a bit at the thought. squirrelflight didn't expect anything other from a ShadowClan cat.

"it's good to have you back, squirrelflight" firestar poked his head into the nursery, greeting his daughter and the other nursery queens.

"Hi dad" squirrelflight said as she shifted over into a loaf position, with her paws nested under her.

"Is everyone doing fine? everyone's getting enough food, and no one is feeling cramped or pressured?" firestar shifted his attention to everyone in the nursery now. 

"it's a bit cramped, we're expecting another queen" ferncloud meowed over, pointing at the other nest with her tail.

" Ok good, I'll talk to dustpelt and brakenfur about it. goodbye everyone." firestar said before leaving the den.

"Another queen? i wonder who..." squirrelflight meowed at daisy.

" Oh? you don't know yet? its brightheart, it's the reason she hasn't been on patrol duty in a while since cloudtail tells brambleclaw to put her off for a bit." daisy answered. squirrelflight looked out the den and at bright heart across from the nursery, it was true, the molly was noticeably plumper than usual.

"So how was my family while i was away?" squirrelflight continued to indulge in the clan gossip.

" ferncloud took care of your kits for the bit and the three were a bit upset at your disappearance"

"And let me guess, brambleclaw was pulling out his fur worrying over me?"

"yep" ferncloud chuckled, sitting down next to the queen, she wanted to be in on the gossip too.

"So how are your fosters ferncloud?" daisy asked.

" oh, their so young so they mostly just nurse and sleep all day."

" Did leafpool check up on them?" squirrelflight meowed over.

" yeah, she said they were small but healthy." ferncloud then got into a quiet whisper. " i overheard that brightheart is going to be having kits soon, in months' time now actually"

" how she's able to be that active and carrying kits is beyond me." daisy meowed.

" i could only dream of being that active while carrying" squirrelflight joked.

while the queens continue to gossip, jayfeather, hollyleaf and lionblaze chatted on the other side of camp, it was early afternoon and the three were resting comfortably under some shade.

"so... did starclan send you any dreams yet jayfeather?" hollyleaf asked, grooming her tail.

"no... as far as i have heard, nobody has received dreams from them yet" jayfeather responded, he was sat comfortably with his paws under him.

"Do you think it's a sign?" lionblaze whispered over. "From starclan?"

"Perhaps.... tonight's the full moon so we might get answers there." jayfeather spoke again, his ears twitched in the direction of little cloud who was approaching.

"Jay feather? could we speak for a moment?" little cloud nerisouly meowed.

"Yes." jayfeather responded as he got up and followed the short tom outside of camp. little cloud was nervous, jayfeather could only assume that littlecloud was trying to get the words out of his mouth.

" Have you received word from starclan?" littlecloud finally broke the tension

"I'm afraid not, neither has leafpool..."

silence, again...

"what, did you exactly bring me out here to talk about littlecloud?" jayfeather questioned.

"Well... as you know... kestrel flight, windclans medicine cat, is... no longer here with us. kestrel never had an apprentice so.. i was wondering..."

"i could ask cinderpelt to come along for the moon pool..." jayfeather suggested. " she's an elder but im sure she's got enough energy to make the trip."

"oh... oh thank you jayfeather..." littlecloud sounded relived, but jayfeather knew that wasn't what littlecloud wanted to talk about...

"little cloud... is there something bothering you?" jayfeather asked bluntly. jayfeather could tell that the brown tabby was bothered by something, but his mind was clouded with other thoughts so jayfeather couldn't see that clearly what was exactly bothering him.

littlecloud took a deep sigh.

" it's... it's just..."

"Did kestrelflights death bother you?" jayfeather meowed.

" well... yes... but..." littlecloud paused for a moment, the air around them grew light as littlecloud finally took another breath and spoke.

" as you know... the clans have been... attacked... by something..." littlecloud shuddered as he remembered fleeing his clan. jayfeather sat down by littlecloud and touched his tail to his shoulder, entering the tabby's mind.

"Everyone! Run!" a molly screeched as dust flew into the air. feline screams of terror could be heard among the ruckus.
"Flametail! go run! i need to save Blackstar!" littlecloud told flametail while running into the leader's den. blackstar was inside, shaken awake by the intense sounds and shaking ground. littlecloud pushed blackstar out, telling him to run, but blackstar stopped. a giant monster loomed over them. its body blocked out the sun as a little slash of red shone down on blackstar and littlecloud.
blackstar didn't hesitate to violently grab littlecloud by the scruff and throw him out of reach of these... these things...

"blacksta-" littlecloud yelled out before one of the monsters swiped its appendage at blackstar, throwing him back against a rock. littlecloud stood silent as he saw blackstar go limp. it was at this point when littlecloud noticed that there were more of these monsters. their black bodies and little red slits on their faces.
and it only occurred to him now that all these little red slits were facing, pointed, at him.

he ran, he ran like he never ran before.




when jayfeather finally came out of littleclouds head, he noticed the small medicine cat tear up a bit.
" You would think st..starclan would have sent a sign of some sorts to us... but... but... they didn't..." littleclouds words began to tremble into a mess. jayfeather comforted the fellow medicine cat.

" You don't think starclan would have sent those... those things to have wipes out the clans, do you?" littlecloud finally whimpered, trying to compose himself again.

"no... no starclan, our ancestors, wouldn't have destroyed the clans, the very clans with all their kin that they love so dear to destroy the very thing that holds us together." jayfeather spoke, his words stern, but comforting.

"This... this... is surely... something more... beyond starclans control..."



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it was tense in the medicine den, leafpool and jayfeather were handing out the traveling herbs to all the medicine cats.

"i put goldenrod in yours and cinderpelts herb bundles incase either of you get an ache on the journey" leafpool stated toward littlecloud.

littlecloud gave cinderpelt hers and then took one for himself. "Thank you" cinderpelt spoke. the cats began to leave the med den towards the entrance of the camp. just before cinderpelt left, firestar walked over to her.

" Has the clan leader come to escort me to my moon pool meeting?" cinderpelt joked. firestar let out a warm chuckle.

" No, I was going to check if you were going to be ok for the journey." cinderpelt raised an eyebrow and smiled.

" I'll be fine, besides my leg won't slow me down." cinderpelt gestured to her twisted leg. "Plus, i got leafpool and littlecloud looking after me".firestar nodded and walked away. cinderpelt sped up a little bit to catch up with her group.

the walk for the most part was rather plain, the moon illuminating their path. cinderpelt did lag behind the slightest amount, of course mostly because of her old bones. "How could littlecloud still have the energy?" she thought looking towards littlecloud who was walking beside flametail. she glanced up further of the group to mothwing and willowshine then over to leafpool and jayfeather. "i wonder why kestrelflight never had an apprentice". cinderpelt never really got to interact with the cat that much so she couldn't tell what he was like exactly. nevertheless, she didn't question the medicine cats lack of a trainee and kept forward, speeding up towards littlecloud.

"Nervous as always dear friend?" cinderpelt asked calmly towards her medicine cat friend.

" As true" littlecloud meowed back, flicking at his apprentice to go on without him.

"What do you think the stars will tell us?"

"i hope they shall clear the air and light our path" littlecloud paused. " I'm hoping for starclan on giving me a sign for the next shadowclan leader".

"we all wish for starclan to give answers" cinderpelt replied. he heads gazed back up towards her warrior ancestors in the silverpelt. each one shone like a pebble in the river. but then one warrior shot across the sky, as if maybe they were hunting in starclan.

but then another shot across the sky...

and another...

soon more stars began to shoot across the sky, all shooting into the same direction. at first cinderpelt couldn't believe it, she had never seen anything like this before.

unless...

"A sign!" she yowled. the cats whipped their heads around to look at her and then up at the sky. cinderpelt looked on in wonder as the warrior ancestors leaped across the sky... almost as if they were running away...

it occurred to cinderpelt that they were running away from the direction of the moonpool.

"The Moonpools in danger!" she screeched in horror. the medicine cats ran forward towards the moonpool, hoping to save what was left of their precious ancestors. mothwing was the one to make them all skid to a halt.

"Wait! everyone look out!"

big giant monsters came out of the entrance to the moonpool, holding many brightly colored stones in their claws.

"It's them! It's the things that destroyed Shadowclan! everyone run!" littlecloud screamed. the cats began to run away from the monsters. nobody dared look back at those things.

by the time everyone made it back to came, the monsters were nowhere in sight thankfully they seemed to have lost them.

cinderpelt could feel the scratched on her body, whether they were from branches, or the monsters claws she didn't know.

one thing everyone knew now, however was that the monsters had taken the moonpool.

and they made starclan run.