Darkstar's love ☆Complete☆

Chapter 23

Darkstorm padded out of the warrior's den the moon providing him some light as he walked over to the nursery. Entering the nursery ready to listen to Mousecoal's story.

Once he was fully in he spotted Mousecoal's dark gray fur turning into a light gray in the moonlight as she slept. As gently as he could he prodded her ribs to wake her up.

Mousecoal let out a mew of protest before opening her green eyes. "So you actually came." Darkstorm nodded as he sat in front of her waiting patiently. "Let me get up first."

Darkstorm watched as Mousecoal tried to get up but with little success. Realizing how tired she was Darkstorm padded towards her side and offered his shoulder for support.

Mousecoal nodded with thanks and used Darkstorm's support to sit up. Once she was up Darkstorm got in front of her again and awaited for her story.

"Let's begin with the cat I knew." Darkstorm nodded as he sat in silence excited to hear a story. "My father Crowshine was a respected warrior."

Darkstorm felt surprised since he only knew about Mousecoal's mother. "Besides that he didn't care much about injuries or any cat. So one mission his patrol was assigned to kill a rats nest that was settled nearby."

Mousecoal took a gulp of air as she looked at Darkstorm with sadness. "The patrol successfully destroyed the nest but Crowshine had a bite on his front paw that he kept secret."

Darkstorm listened as Mousecoal went on. "So when the old medicine cat found out he was already joining starclan. I was just a moon old."

Darkstorm looked at Mousecoal with sympathy. "I'm sorry you lost your father so soon." Mousecoal shrugged with regret lingering in her eyes.

"It's ok I didn't really know him that well. Besides there's one other cat." Darkstorm nodded as he waited for Mousecoal to tell him about the other cat.

"Lionblaze I belive was his name. He was so strong and powerful. But he was also known to not grieve for long. Whenever a cat died he kept fighting. Nothing could stop him."

"However that was also a curse. When he grew up he realized it wasn't a good idea. You see Darkstorm you must care for yourself to help your clan and grieve so you don't hurt yourself."

Darkstorm nodded in understanding. "I understand Mousecoal thanks for that I guess I should worry every once in a while so I don't worry about my health."

Mousecoal nodded and rested her head on her paws. Darkstorm eventually left the nursery and went to the warrior's den tired. Darkstorm soon felt the sun shine bright into the den as a few woke up.

Darkstorm stretched and left the warrior's den ready to start another day. Lemurpaw left the apprentice den followed closely by Wolfpaw. Thinking about Darkstorm decided to teach Lemurpaw a new battle move.

Padding over to the spot where Lemurpaw ate a frog with her sister Darkstorm cleared his throat to grab Lemurpaw's attention. He watched as Lemurpaw looked up from the frog eyes wide with curiosity.

"Oh hi Darkstorm are we gonna do anything?" Darkstorm nodded a bit happy since tonight was his apprentice first gathering. "Follow me let's learn a battle move."

Lemurpaw got up immediately and followed him outside the camp. "What move are we learning I remember Wolfpaw mentioning something about playing dead."

Darkstorm sighed and beckoned Lemurpaw with his tail. "Let's instead learn what we should do and not what to do in battle." Lemurpaw nodded and followed him into the forest.

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They both walked back to camp each with a lizard. "Now what did we learn?" Darkstorm looked at Lemurpaw waiting for an answer "Don't go after someone more experienced or bigger then me."

Darkstorm nodded proud his apprentice was learning. They soon arrived at camp and Lemurpaw ran over to Icepaw with excitement.

As Darkstorm padded over to the warrior's den to rest he overheard Morningstar announcing the cats going to the gathering.

"Icepaw, Wolfpaw, and Lemurpaw will be attending with their mentors and so will bonefur and Shrewleaf." Once the last name left her mouth Darkstorm continued to the warrior's den.

Before Darkstorm knew it he was fast asleep in his nest. He eventually felt a bump and woke up to see Firefoot. "Hey its time for the gathering."

Darkstorm sighed in exhaustion and got up begrudgingly and padded out the warrior's den and spotted Morningstar leaving with the cats called for the gathering.

Realizing he needed to catch up he woke up and ran after them. Quickly catching up to them he followed Lemurpaw as she spoke to Wolfpaw and Icepaw.

"This is exciting Firefoot promised to introduce to me to a cat called Leopardspirit and I'm ready to meet someone new." Darkstorm looked away and saw they were at the gathering spot.

Quickly escaping from his group he saw ThunderClan was the first ones there. He spotted the familiar dark brown fur of Deerfur.

Padding over to him he saw him talking to a pretty tan she cat. He sat besides Deerfur and touched his shoulder with his tail. Deerfur flinched and looked at Darkstorm in surprise.

"Oh hi Darkstorm. Flowertail this is one of the cats I talked about." Darkstorm watched as Flowertail gave him a hostile glance but turned friendly once she looked him up and down.

"Why hello Darkstorm I've heard so much about you Deerfur talks highly of you." Deerfur shrugged in embarrassment as he looked back at Darkstorm.

"Also I didn't know you knew Tigerlilly she asked me to tell you about an oak tree she saw." Darkstorm froze realizing it was a message from Tigerlilly telling to meet her by the oak tree.

"Yeah I know what's she's talking about." Deerfur sighed and before Darkstorm could speak Fishstar let out a call for the gathering to begin.

As the clans began to settle the leader's all nodded in Approval. "Let the gathering begin"