A warrior cats story: A Stone in the River of Life

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Stonepaw slowly made his way over to Jayfeather's den. "H-hi, I like your fur color," a young she-kit came up to him. "Err- thanks," Stonepaw mewed awkwardly. The kit stomped off. "Now it's your turn for a dare!" she growled.  Stonepaw rolled his eyes and smiled slightly.  Kits, he thought. "Ah, Stonepaw. Come in," the blind medicine cat greeted him at the entrance. "Why do you need to check me over?" Stonepaw wondered out loud. "I don't, I just want you to tell me everything about your journey," Jayfeather sat down. As if he is going to be here for awhile hearing everything from me, Stonepaw thought, thinking that he would just leave out some minor details. "Everything?" he asked his cousin. Maybe there was a way out of this instead of lying about everything. But the glint in Jayfeather's eyes told Stonepaw that even if he didn't tell everything, he would know.  "Well first off, I had a...dream that I should go to the mountains," Stonepaw started.  "Did StarClan speak to you?"  "Kind of."  He continued, "So I decided to go to the mountains.  I met this...cat along the way and she decided to journey with me.  So we journeyed to the mountains and I stayed and got used to it there.  I was planning to stay there forever, I had two good friends that loved it there.  But then, the cat that I met changed her path to swerve around mine and I got upset and ran off.  I went to the mountains to become bigger and stronger to impress everybody," Stonepaw confessed.  Jayfeather nodded slowly and searched Stonepaw's pelt for ticks.  He cracked two between his teeth and said that he was clean to go.  Stonepaw was glad to be out of his cousin's watchful eye.

Time pass

"Over the past moon, Stonepaw has shown his loyalty and courage time and time again and I think that it is only fair that he should become a warrior.  Stonepaw, do you promise to protect and defend this Clan even at the cost of your life?"  Stonepaw hesitated, thinking of Tiger but managed to shout "I do!" a little too loudly.  Bramblestar nodded with a bit of concern, "Then by the power of StarClan I give you your warrior name.  Stonepaw, from this day fourth you shall be known as Stonerise to honor that you have risen to your full potential and have become one of our best warriors," Stonerise let Bramblestar lick his shoulder.  What if my name was Stonefoot, he thought.  Sadness tugged at him, but he pushed it away. He was the best warrior in the Clan.  Bramblestar had said so!  "Come with me," Stonerise heard somecat meow.  He turned around to see Squirrelflight facing him.  Stonerise nodded and followed his mother to the empty Nursery.  "Go in," Squirrelflight ordered.  He looked at her weirdly but obeyed anyways.  "I am very proud of you, son.  You have grown so strong and powerful and trustworthy that I must share something with you," Stonerise leaned forwards, thinking that a secret from his mother could be worth something big.  Maybe it was that he was her favorite son or Bramblestar had decided to give him an apprentice.  Squirrelflight took a breath.  "Bramblestar is not your father," she meowed.  Stonerise could not believe his ears.  If Bramblestar was not his father, then who was?