Silvermoon followed the young she-cat as she bounded excitedly through the cave mouth, stirring some sleeping bats.
"We are called BatClan because of all the bats that are in our territory and live in our camp." giggled Silverpaw as the warrior stepped through, still taking it all in the journey still in her mind.
"Why have you brought this impostor back with you!? She cannot be trusted!" a white tom growled seeing the new comer as she stepped into the cave.
"Wolffang silence! Lonestar told her to come here" hissed the Grey tom sitting beside him, Silvermoon simply looked over at them, remaining silent but it was Silverpaw who broke that silence.
"Impostor!?" she yowled glaring at the white tom. "I hope you realize that this 'Impostor" saved my Father's life, which as I recall is your leader!" Wolffang looked down unable to hold the she-cat's icy glare.
"Enough Silverpaw!" Lonestar meowed as he finally arrived. "Thornear, Swiftravan as my two senior warriors I will ask your opinion on what we should do with Silvermoon." the two senior warriors meowed their response and walked toward their Leader's den to wait for him. "Bearfoot take Wolffang and Ravanpaw and gather more fresh-kill." the Grey tom nodded and walked to the mouth of the cave with the black she-cat and white tom following close behind. "Silverpaw take Silvermoon to Goldendot and get her wounds looked at."
"Is she the silver warrior Greeneye spoke of?" Thornear asked as they walked into the Leaders den.
Silverpaw twitched her tail and turned to Silvermoon who was studying her shoulder, the scratches where small hardly worth looking at considering the size of her scars they were tiny.
"Come on Goldendot is just over here!" she purred and bounded away. "I hope daddy lets you stay" Silverpaw called over her shoulder. "It would be good to have a warrior like you in our Clan. Nightshade didn't know what happened when you ripped him off daddy!" she said with an amused flick of her tail, Silvermoon couldn't help but let out an amused purr as they neared a den built from ferns that grew in the cave.
"Here we are, just go on through and Goldendot will look at your wounds. I'll try and see Thornear and Swiftravan suggest." Silverpaw once again bounded away leaving Silvermoon alone.
"Only StarClan knows." Lonestar sighed. "She fights like those of the great Clans like Greeneye said, and she has no memory of who she was."
She walked through the curtain of lichen. There she saw a black tabby she-cat speckled with golden dots sitting over a pile of herbs. The smell of herbs was overpowering it made her sneeze and she shook her head to clear it.
"It's okay, it takes time to get used to." purred the she-cat not looking up from her work.
"Welcome Silvermoon we have been waiting for you, StarClan foresaw your arrival." the meow came from behind her, she turned to finding herself nose to nose with a white tabby she-cat, she couldn't help but notice the pale green eyes.
"What will we do with her? The other Clans might not agree with us if we let her join, but if she is the warrior from Greeneye's vision then we have no other choice, she might be the only chance we have to prevent the disaster of StarClan's vision that was sent to the Medicine cats of all Clans." Swiftravan flicked her ear looking at both her mate and Leader.
"Very well, we will deal with the Clans when it comes to the next gathering, meanwhile we will have Silvermoon become a warrior of BatClan."
"And we might just have a suitable mentor for your daughter Lonestar." merrowed Swiftravan. "Shall I get her?"
Lonestar nodded and the she-cat parted.
"Greeneye why don't you introduce us." the speckled she-cat meowed.
"Yes that would be an idea wouldn't it?" there was laughter in the white she-cat's eyes. "This is Goldendot, she is our Medicine cat." she flicked her tail toward the she-cat still over her herbs. "And I am Greeneye, Goldendot's apprentice, sister of Silverpaw and daughter of Lonestar and Whitestripe."
"Silvermoon! Swiftravan is coming to get you!" Silverpaw bounded in the same exited air to her. "And guess what!?"
"That will be enough Silverpaw, you really should learn to keep your nose out of private matters." Swiftravan was more amused than angry. "Silvermoon Lonestar wishes to see you in his den."
"Silvermoon you may enter." Lonestar's gruff meow came from within the den, she walked through the curtain of lichen that concealed the leader. "Silvermoon will you become a warrior of BatClan?" Lonestar asked simply ignoring the surprised Silvermoon gave him. "Will you?" he asked again as Silvermoon licked her chest fur unconsciously.
"Y-yes, if that is what you wish...then yes." the silver warrior mewed taking it all in.
"Very well, I will call a Clan meeting, meet me outside."
"Let all cats old enough to catch their own pray gather beneath Fern Wing Rock for a Clan meeting!" the leaders voice echoed through the cave as he climbed upon the great fern covered rock as the Clan cats gathered beneath it. "Silvermoon step forward." the silver warrior shyly stepped forward all eyes now on her. "I Lonestar call upon my warrior ancestors to look upon this warrior. She may not be of this Clan nor any other but she has come to us to join as a member of this Clan. She already knows and has learned the ways of your noble code and I commend her to you as a full warrior of BatClan. Silvermoon, do you promise to uphold the warrior code and protect this Clan, even at the cost of your life?" he jumped down landing softly in front of Silvermoon.
"I-I do."
"Then by the powers of StarClan you will be now known as a member of BatClan, Silvermoon StarClan honours your fighting skills and bravery and we welcome you as one of us." Lonestar placed his muzzle on her head and she licked his shoulder. The rest of the Clan was silent, she had become a Clan member so suddenly, only a few chanted the new warrior's name and before long the rest joined in.
"Silvermoon, you are now ready to take on an apprentice." there was silence once again. "You will now mentor Silverpaw." Silverpaw stepped forward both excited and surprised looking from her farther to Silvermoon the she-cat she had just met. "Silvermoon you have showed yourself to be brave and a skilled fighter and although you have not been a member of this Clan for very long I know in my heart that you will do anything in your power to train her, keep her safe and teach her to become the warrior that this Clan needs so now I ask you to pass down all you know to this apprentice." mentor and apprentice touched noses, and as Silvermoon looked into her apprentice's she could see the excitement bubble in her eyes and she too felt the same, she had finally found where she belonged...
