Warriors: The Return Of The Greatest Heroes

22. The Dream Tracker

Brackenfall darted out of his den. Noticing Firepaw, he started panicking. "Yellowpaw, start examining Firepaw! I'll go see what else is wrong."

Yellowpaw wasn't really awake, but the word examining and the word Firepaw got her running.

In the warriors' den, Brackenfall stared at his son's body. Jayfeather. Broken and bleeding. He picked the gray warrior up from his scruff and slowly dragged him closer to Firepaw, Yellowpaw, and Emberblaze. Emberblaze the medicine cat thought. Is everyone I care about going to die?

In the distance, lightning struck, and a cloud covered the moon. StarClan is angry, Brackenfall thought to himself. Well, it's not my fault Firepaw's so reckless in his dreams, he thought, trying to cheer himself up.

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Maplepaw watched from a distance, but it seemed that she was pondering. Why should I follow Tigerpaw's schedule? if she saw a cat important to one of the newborns, she'd strike no matter what. That was the power of her dreams. The reborns from the Dark Forest could send there minds out to other cats and do the following: attack, spy, learn. She could bet her tail that the StarClan reborns could too, but they may not know they could. Why would she tell them anyway? That would be like telling an enemy how to kill her; that will not happen.

Who should I go for? Maplepaw thought.

Jaggedtail and Beetlebreeze were guarding tonight. Both important to the StarClan reborns: Jaggedtail's Sandpaw's, Whitepaw's, and Dustpaw's father. Beetlebreeze is Ravenpaw's and Hollypaw's father. She also could strike one from in the dens; she wasn't sure if Emberblaze would live yet. But the Dark Forest reborns have recently discovered that Brackenfall, the ThunderClan medicine cat, was Jayfeather's father, so cats still made big mistakes this far in the future. That part lifted her heart a bit, but she remembered what Tigerpaw said: Don't attack the medicine cat. We'll wait to kill the most powerful space occupiers for when we're warriors. For kind of a reward. She didn't really get that, since it would send the whole clan into chaos, letting them strike, but she decided to listen to Tigerpaw on that one. Beetlebreeze? No, maybe later. How about Jaggedtail? They're the two guards. They'd be able to alert the camp, ruining my chance. Maplepaw noticed Brackenfall and Yellowpaw scurrying around the bodies of Emberblaze, Firepaw, and Jayfeather. I guess someone struck. I don't remember being told to attack the reborns, though. Maybe it was someone still up there like Shredtail or Snowtuft.

The she-cat fixed her eyes on the warriors' den. Blazefur? No, her jumpiness would wake up the whole camp. Hmmm.

Gotcha, a voice made an appearance in her head.

What, you're supposed to be unconscious! Maplepaw objected.

I can still go into cat's dreams. You happen to be dreaming, the voice that belonged to the one and only Jayfeather stated.

The Dark Forest reborn groaned in frustration.

You're not going to attack anyone tonight. That's when Maplepaw was immersed in many happy thoughts. Not her style from any other cat other than herself or some other Dark Forest reborn. Definitely not.

Behind the nursery! Behind the nursery! Jayfeather as a newly reborn kit squeaked.

I think you know how this'll go.

Stop! Maplepaw shrieked in her dream, shaking until, until...

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Tallkit bounced around the WindClan camp. After a while of adjusting to the life of a kit again, he, Crowkit, and Leafkit decided to run around for a while.